Where do we begin here? Let's make a list of stuff I used to do for starters; I used to run a group that screened cult, foreign, and indie films, I used to be an intern for an anime magazine, I used to be on a college access comedy skit show and acted in random student film work (I was a director's best friend because I could check out cameras from the journalism department and they couldn't). My interests are varied and they all connect to a person who can be considered.... eccentric. *shrugs*

I have a very dry sense of humor that doesn't really convey itself well on the Internet. Or real life, for that matter. However, the fun is in convincing people that the most outrageous thing you're saying is the truth from time-to-time.

I go to a ton of movies, play video games like they're going out of style, have been to plenty of orchestral concerts, the opera, and Weird Al, play summer league softball (Though I'm not very good at it), jog on occasion, cheer very loudly for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and have been trying to write that great American novel. Or at least a pretty good one.

I have a BA in Journalism from Iowa State (That's right, I'm not a Husker, and I'm perfectly fine with that), and while my training was mostly geared towards newspaper writing, the job market steered me to directing the morning and noon news at a local TV station. I've been doing that for the better part of 3 years, getting up before God's even awake and having supper when most people are finishing up their lunch. I'm at the point where I want to move up in the world, but the unkind economy's set something of a roadblock. Like I said, I've been trained to be a professional writer, but despite some freelance work here and there, I'm a little rusty. Due to my schedule, my social life is pretty "Meh..." right now. Saturday's about the only day I can party like everyone else. I do some film critic gigs from time-to-time, and I mostly stick to my hobbies outside of working: Writing for fun, going to movies, playing video games, watching the occasional anime series that isn't complete dreck, watching the four major sports, and getting my outdoor time with playing softball. I should hide stuff and sell myself a little better, but if you're looking at this, odds are you're at my age where knowing exactly what you're getting is pretty important.

Movie knowledge. I'm like a portable version of the IMDb. I've learned how to work a 200-button news switcher like a remote. I'm pretty good at writing, though I suck at proofreading, so I'm sure you can find one or two examples of typos, bad grammar, etc. Hey, when you work with editors, you tend to get dependent on them. Other than that and video games (Which impresses no one), my talents are random and they just pop up on occasion without me knowing I had them. For example, I have the innate ability to make people hungry.

I'm a little aloof, shy, and don't make the best first impression. However, people who have given me a second go around stick around because I have a tendency to take the common and usual and make them unusually amusing in conversation.

Movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jacob's Ladder, Spirited Away, WALL-E, City of God,Ghostbusters, Apocalypse Now, Paprika, Major League (Snobs, watch it before you knock it).

Most recently, I've watched the first Tarantino movie I absolutely loved, Inglorious Basterds. Don't get me wrong, I liked most of his other work, but I think I only own and have the regular desire to watch Pulp Fiction. But, wow, I love me some slow-burn tension, and this movie has three extremely well done scenes of it. Also, I'm with the five other people who dug the crap out of The Sky Crawlers. It's Mamoru Oshii doing a Michelangelo Antonioni film with a lot of deliberate pacing and quiet characters whose emotions are mostly internal and expressed through the puff of a cigarette or how they pour their wine. I'm an introvert, and I find all the details of the characters' repressed emotions absolutely fascinating. Unfortunately, they sold the action movie aspects, ticked a lot of people off, and I don't think a lot of people would be into it anyway.

TV:Mystery Science Theater 3000, 24, Haibane Renmei, Texhnolyze, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace ("She was like a candle in the wind... unreliable."), Kino's Journey.

Books: The Great Gatsby, Sphere, Contact, Roger Ebert's Your Movie Sucks, Kino no Tabi (Essentially, the books Kino's journey is based on). I've been trying to work my way through War and Peace (Really, I am. I'm not just saying that to impress you). I'm a slow reader, so I consider it a "project," but you know, it's not often great works of literature have things like guys getting drunk, tying a cop to a bear cub, and throwing them in the river.

Music: Yoko Kanno, Oasis, Garbage, Foo Fighters, Yuki Kajiura.

I've been revisiting The Beatles thanks to Beatles Rockband. Also of note that the songs that most get in my head are songs with nonsense lyrics, such as Yoko Kanno's "Dreams in a Pie." "I skipped on the path that goes half the way nowhere to the other side of somewhere/All the clocks tell me it's quarter to never, or three minutes past forever...."

Food: Pizza, Perkins, and other rather common things. I'm friends with a cajun chef who is introducing me to more exotic things, like alligator voodoo deathrolls, but I'm generally simple in my tastes. I don't like having 50 things in a food where I don't know what I'm tasting. And smooth texture is important. Tapioca pudding, get the hell out!

1. Computer
2. Oxygen (Yes, in that order)
3. Car
4. Movie theaters (Or at least a good TV and DVD player)
5. Video games
6. Support from the people who matter most. I know it's low on the list, but I tend to know a ton of busy people (I think I know one person of the lazy rich, and they're a friend of a friend), and while they're there when I absolutely, positively NEED them, I usually have to work things out for myself on the minor things. It can be bad. It can be good. If I stopped everyone's lives because I had a problem, nobody'd ever get anything done.

Too many things. My mind flies at a thousand miles-per-second, so I've got a bunch of thoughts all hitting the door at once. I also have random songs nobody's ever heard of stuck in my head. Oh, and Mystery Science Theater 3000 quotes. "This always happens. People throw me out the window, tell me I'm the Puma Man, then leave...."

Sleeping, sorry to say. It's my hibernation day since I don't get much sleep during the week. My record is 16 hours, I believe.

I have Wii boxer shorts. Oh, and as I've hinted at earlier, I am ADHD. Never got the official seal stating this is my illness, but before the insurance company stepped in, said whatever I had was a pre-existing condition, and made me foot the bill for the help I had received, it was said it would be the most likely thing I had. Doesn't change much of my public life. I've seen and understood more 3-hour foreign movies than most folks, and I don't get wild and crazy much when I'm on a night on the town, but I can be a bit of a spazz behind closed doors.

You're funny, intelligent, can type in mostly complete sentences (My English sometimes goes to crap on online chat, so don't be too worried if you're not the best at it) have a cute-but-not-overbearingly-so personality, or if you haven't wanted to point and laugh with your friends at the weird man's profile. Hey, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't happen. I don't know, maybe you can dash all of these things I've listed and surprise me on who exactly would be right for me. A bit of unpredictability is fun now and then.