Movies, Music, Books, Video Games, Computers, Surfing (the Internet, not the Water).
Music
Wolfsheim, Depeche Mode, Alphaville, Cocteau Twins, Camouflage, Motus, Erasure, Red Flag, Recoil, The Cure, The Smiths/Morrissey (naturally), Echo and The Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ian McCulloch, New Order, Joy Division, ABBA (yes, ABBA, a guilty pleasure), OMD, Blue Man Group, Venus Hum, Xymox (aka Clan of Xymox), A-Ha, Color Theory, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, U2, Human League, Crowded House, Heaven 17 (on occasion), Iris, INXS, The Beloved, The Sundays, This Mortal Coil, Cause and Effect, Pet Shop Boys, Electronic, Red Flag, Blue October (the synth-pop version) and a special thanks to the German band that started it all: Kraftwerk!
Movies
Way too many to list. Love many of the films by DePalma, Marty Scorsese, Copolla, David Fincher, Bryan Singer, Curtis Hanson, Tarantino/Rodriguez, Christopher Nolan, Takashi Miike, Mark Romanek, Guillermo del Toro, Ridley Scott (sorry, Tony, I never really got into your films...)the list goes on and on. What would I do without DVDs and Netflix? Also good: Hong Kong Category III films. If you're a sicko. I can watch Richard Donner's "Superman: The Movie" over and over again. Also, I helped contribute a prop to the film "Flight of the Intruder." It's in the scene where one of the pilots is rescued and they lower this yellow thingy down for him to sit on. I was sent indirectly by the film crew to Hickam AFB in Hawaii because the Public Affairs office I worked for (this was in the Navy, btw) was coordinating with the film's production people, so I had to drive to Hickam and get the prop. I finally got to see the film and when I saw the prop I yelled out, "Hey, that's the prop I picked up!" True story. I like high-tech stuff so my computer
Television
Reality shows. Smallville. Hell's Kitchen. Kitchen Nightmares (U.K. version). The 'F' Word. House. Daily Show/Colbert Report. 30 Rock. Seinfeld. Late Show with David Letterman. Heroes. The Terminator Chronicles. Bullsh@! with Penn and Teller. Family Guy. The Simpsons. Talk Show with Spike Feresten (Spike used to write for Seinfeld, so he's a funny guy...check out comedy for stoners...) If I had a television with no cable I'd also be watching my local PBS station's Saturday-night lineup of shows such as the travel program Globe Trekker and whatever British comedies are in rotation (As Time Goes By and My Hero are two favorites). With cable I'd add to the mix Discovery channels shows like Cash Cab (because I, for some unknown reason, house the answers to thousands of useless trivia questions in my brain), Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, and Mythbusters. Countdown with Keith Olbermann if I have access to MSNBC and probably O'Reilly on Fox a night or two a year (gotta take Bill O in small doses). Hannity and Colmes MAYBE if I'm drunk. Sorry Hannity fans, but the man makes me want to bang my head against the nearest wall. Also love The Soup with Joel McHale and a new favorite I stumbled upon, Human Giant.
Books
Stephen King, Jonathan Kellerman, Ray Bradbury and John Irving are my favorite writers of fiction. I like books about politics, books about pop culture, books about horror cinema (and cinema in general), I'm a nut for nutty conspiracy theories (not that I believe any of them...well, maybe a few), I'm a skeptic so naturally am a huge fan of James Randi ("The Amazing Randi") and Michael Shermer. I collect books from Creation Book's film series, as well as Headpress Books (many edited by David Kerekes, a great writer btw) and the Rough Guide series on books on cinema and pop culture. I like books on physics as long as there aint none of that math stuff in them. Me not smart with maths! Let's see, Al Franken makes me laugh out loud, Michael Moore, Greg Palast and Eric Alterman make me think, James Carville makes me crave Cajun food...I feeel like I'm giving an Academy Awards speech now...
Heroes
George Carlin, John Irving, James Randi, Penn and Teller...probably more if I give it some thought. YOU can be my hero.
Portland Community College
Portland, OR
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: In Progress
Major: General Studies
2004 to 2006
Glencoe High School
Hillsboro, OR
Graduated: 1986
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Journalism
Clubs: Writer for school newspaper.
1983 to 1986
Scott C. Smith is enjoying a day off from work. view more
About me: I started life as a baby and, over the course of several years, grew into a teenager, then a young adult, then an older adult, and now I am approaching middle age. My earliest memory is from the age of three. I started reading books when I was five or so.
I attended Glencoe High School in Hillsboro, Oregon and graduated in 1986. Not the greatest scholar in the world but I was an A/B student. I joined the U.S. Navy right after graduation, in July of 1986. I attended the Defense Information School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, from October 1986-April 1987 and trained as a military journalist. I served in the Navy from 1986-1992 and am a veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Post Navy I shifted to the computer industry and eventually became a software/hardware QA test engineer.
I am a classic introvert. My mouth doesn't move much at times, although I'm getting better at talking to people. I'm in my head a lot. I'm a loyal friend. I'm hard to get to know, but once you do get to know me you'll probably have a friend for life. I'm very shy. More outgoing via writing, so in person I tend to simply write notes to people or communicate via signal flags. I like cats AND dogs but prefer cats. I love books. I have hundreds of them. I love pop culture. I'm a sucker for reality TV. I have guilty pleasures that I may admit to here one day (okay, one is that I'm a fan of ABBA). I'm a computer nerd, in a good way. I used to be able to type 100 words per minute. I read 2-3 books at a time, slowly, savoring every word. I love music, although I'm a bit of a music snob and tend to stick with the same genre of music. It's served me well for over two decades!
I love all kinds of movies, art flicks, dramas, comedies, documentaries, Japanese horror, gore, splatter, Italian zombie movies. The gorier the better. Mainly I like the art of special effects -- I'll watch DVD documentaries that deal with how special effects are done for the movie. CGI is okay, but take a look at something like "Superman, The Movie" and see all that was accomplished via good old fashioned optical effects. I am also gearing up to resume writing for
Blogcritics! Check out their site when you can. You can also find my
archive here.
Who I'd like to meet: ...someday? Somebody special. Someone who can deal with my quirks. A nice Jewish girl. Well, at this point in my life a nice woman, period. Doesn't have to be Jewish. Jewish is a plus, but someone near to my age is ideal, someone who enjoys the same music I do and can sit down and laugh at a silly, stupid movie.
Or is it along the lines of, "I'd like to meet David Letterman?" I dunno. Actually, I almost got to meet George Carlin once. Back in 2001 or so I sent George an e-mail asking about putting some audio clips of his up on my web page. Imagine my surprise that he answered! We exchanged a few e-mails and I mentioned that I was taking a mini-vacation to Las Vegas and he invited me to be a guest at his stand-up show which was then at the MGM Grand Hotel, and to meet him after the show. Well, unfortunately, for various reasons the meeting never occurred, mainly due to the fact that I couldn't figure out where the guy was I was supposed to talk to that would let me backstage, and when I did find him George had left the building. Oh well. Also, one drunk night in Tokyo (ah, Tokyo, how I miss you...) at a club in the Roppongi district called the Lexington Queen (how I got in that night I'll never know) I met some of the band members of the group Faith No More (more like drunkenly said "hey you're that guy in that band!") So much for my brushes with fame. Oh, I said hi to Penn and Teller after attending one of their shows in Vegas. Teller spoke! Yes, he did. I had him and Penn autograph a ten spot which I sent back into the universe by putting it into a slot machine. Someone, somewhere, out in the world has that autographed Penn and Teller slice o' cash. You'll know it's them if you have it because Penn took some liberties with what was printed on said bill by crossing out some parts he didn't agree with...
Anyway, I'm hoping to be virtual pals with all the folks I've mentioned in my profile, should they happen to have a MySpace page.
Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test...
Advanced
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.
so you finally found a layout..and you're going to write about Iron Man? Maybe do an intro of the story cause I was a bit confused since I knew nothing about it going in..
