The short answer:

I'm a writer, not full-time. I'm trying to improve all that. I enjoy movies (my major was Film Studies) and books and art and RPGs and good food and travel and science fiction and fantasy. I live in Calgary where I work on many too many projects at once.

- Writing scripts. I just submitted a television pilot inspired by a Shakespeare play. I finished a draft for another sitcom as well, but I've got a whole pile of finished scripts that have yet to be produced, either for budgetary reasons or because I haven't found the right people. There's also a feature-length involving a renaissance astronaut, a blue alien, a puppeteer and the woman who is the personification of her childhood doll. Lots of short scripts too. Also, short stories and articles.

- Learning standup comedy. This is new. I started taking comedy writing classes to improve my screenplays but I rather enjoy the performance aspect of it. We'll see where that goes.

Photoshop, editing, screenwriting, singing

Big eyes: Kids used to call me The Alien.
Fedora and utility belt.

(a) Anything written by Neil Gaiman, Chuck Palahniuk, also: The Lies of Locke Lamora, The End, Fall on your Knees, Elle, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Ghost World, The Lord of the Rings, The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christ's Childhood Pal, Lizard Music, The Little Prince, anything by Terry Pratchett...

(b) Movies:
Pan's Labyrinth, E.T., The Lord of the Rings, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Wonder Boys, Amelie, Bound, Moonstruck, Blade Runner, The Wizard of Oz, The Graduate, Some Like it Hot, Boys Don't Cry, Heavenly Creatures, The Manturian Candidate (the original version), Last Night, Leolo, The Wrong Box, The Excorsist, The Maltese Falcon, The Bad Seed, The Neverending Story, Time Bandits, 12 Monkeys, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Brokeback Mountain, Fight Club, Cassablanca, Metropolis, M, Last Night, The Red Violin, Groundhog Day, Grave of the Fireflies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Alien, Contact, Moon, The Brothers Bloom, etc...
T.V.:
Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Dr. Who, Life on Mars (the U.K. version), Coupling, Community, Sherlock, Fringe

(c) Hawksley Workman, Sarah Slean, Serena Ryder, Janice Joplin, Eels, Sergei Prokofiev, Movie Soundtracks, Medieval and Renaissance music, Jazz, Klezmer... I've also been nicely surprised by music that I thought I wouldn't like.

(d) pretty much any Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese or Indian foods. Cherries. Grapes.

That's a difficult question. Anything I want to put down here I have survived without in the past. I'm quite adaptable.

Stories. I like to make up stories in my head. Also, other obvious stuff that healthy people think of all the time.

Working on a project or hanging out with my friends.

I'm very ticklish.

1) If you'd like to. If it's awful I won't reply but chances are it won't be awful.

2) If we already know each other. It would be like bumping into one another at a masquerade party.