Yo~ My name is Jared. Think of your typical skinny white Computer Science dude, and then multiply him by art. You now have a concise base conception of who I am. Now then, straight to going on about myself at length!

I love nighttime because I get the world to myself, and my creative juices won't flow unless I have a night sky overhead. I will talk until the sun comes up if I don't notice the time. I want to be nocturnal, and will be forever bitter about 9-5.

Art rules. I will create until I die. In descending order of preference: Music, writing, graphic arting, photographing, video making, and acting are my outputs of choice. Maybe web design, too. Does web design count? I think web design counts.

The idea of having a monotonous, uninteresting life is something I find absolutely repulsive and I refuse to enter old age as someone who does nothing but work and watch TV.

Some psychologist did a study on eccentrics, and found that they tend to possess these characteristics:

"nonconformity, creativity, strong curiosity, idealism, happy obsession with hobbies, lifelong awareness of being different, high intelligence, outspokenness, noncompetitiveness, unusual eating and living habits, disinterest in others' company, mischevous sense of humor, nonmarriage, eldest or only child, poor spelling skills"

I can spell, but other than that, that's me, more or less. Thanks, Dr. David Weeks, for summarizing myself for me.

Warning: I am an incubus.

I like speed and heights. If I had to put the feeling into words, there's something really thrilling about situations where I could die if I were to stop paying attention for a second. I mostly work off urges by driving fast when nobody is around and sitting in precarious places.

Facts: I had seven lung collapses over the course of a year and my chest is scarred to hell as a result. I have a stupid fast metabolism. I know jujutsu. I was almost a professional racecar driver. I'm supposedly a fun drunk. I am related to a British prime minister (directly), Bono (slightly directly), and horse thieves (my parents steal horses for a living).

I've only seen two episodes of Doctor Who, but for some reason a lot of people who watch Doctor Who seem to like me.

Oh hey this is a dating site, so I guess it bears mentioning: I'm not here for relationships, as I'm pretty emotionally unavailable lately. I rarely date - the idea of dying alone is not tragic to me, as long as I led a creative, fulfilling life. My only purpose for being here is to find cool people and have good times. Like you. You're pretty cool, right? It's okay, you don't have to be humble.

Right now, I'm polishing off a degree in Computer Science and doing enough odd jobs to live comfortably.

All the while, I am wistfully aspiring to become an author so I can ditch everything to do with offices and salaries, and make my living writing books. Preferably in some mountains or on an island. Writing is my favourite thing to do, and my primary source of fulfillment. Defined characters and plotlines find their way into my head on a regular basis, so most of what I write is in short story form, but I also have a couple concepts that I want to turn into graphic novels and books.

If being an author doesn't happen, I will be happy being a coding monkey, but that won't stop me from writing for the rest of my life.

Music's also a pretty big component. I'm a drummer - percussion always stuck out to me because there's not quite any other instrument where the impact of your body is so intertwined in the sound you're making.

But lately my living space has not been drum-kosher, so instead I've been producing chiptunes music, and I play guitar on it live. I used to drum in a symphonic metal band and a punk band, and I've jammed to almost every genre of music under the sun. I play keys sometimes and I'm a passable vocalist. I like music.

Writing (and never finishing anything)
Music (drums, and guitar, and producing, and keys)
Video games (yeah, I'm full of accomplishments)
Philosophizing (and coming to conclusions I was unaware of that are centuries old)
Talking (and not stopping)
Photography (I like to pretend that I'm capturing souls)
Film (this means I capture twenty-four souls per second)
Racing (too costly to do lately and I miss it)

More specific things I rock at include poker, Rock Band, Smash Bros., resurrecting computers from the dead, Pokemon Puzzle League, and typing faster than a human being should. Also, everything.

"His hair's all over his face. How does he see?"

"Does this guy ever shut up?"

My jawline, eyebrows, and slight figure tend to get a lot of pointing-out, I guess.

As far as music goes, I enjoy a large variety of stuff. Most of what I listen to is rock, metal, and electronic, but I also dig a lot of post-rock, prog, indie, funk, and jazz, and a little of almost everything else.

Textual wall of bands:
Muse, Machinae Supremacy, 65daysofstatic, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, The Flashbulb, Silversun Pickups, Blind Guardian, Liquid Tension Experiment, Symphony X, blink-182, Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, Behemoth, BADBADNOTGOOD, Linkin Park, Ben Folds, Venetian Snares, Bodies of Water, Heavenly, Mastodon, dan le sac vs. Scroobius Pip, My Chemical Romance, Sigur Ros, Yes, Smashing Pumpkins, Them Crooked Vultures, DM Ashura, Edguy, Flametal, Iron Maiden, The Human Abstract, Led Zeppelin, Tokyo Police Club, Megadeth, Mouse on the Keys, Dream Theater, Mindless Self Indulgence, Summoning, The Offspring, Franz Ferdinand, Infected Mushroom, Shpongle, Loudness, Mother Mother, Chromeo, Incubus, Caravan Palace, Birdy Nam Nam, Have A Nice Life, and hundreds more
Lately, I'm rocking out to: Coheed's newest.

I don't read enough books:
House of Leaves, A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones), Watchmen, Brave New World, Headhunter, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Scott Pilgrim, Dune, American Gods, This Is Your Brain On Music
Lately, I'm reading: John Dies at the End - David Wong

Movies that are pretty cool include:
The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Primer, Wall-E, The Fountain, The Truman Show, Serenity, A Scanner Darkly, Lucky Number Slevin, A Beautiful Mind, Avatar, Sin City, Inglourious Basterds, Batman Begins, Donnie Darko, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Saving Private Ryan, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog (okay, it's a miniseries, deal with it)

You kids and your video games:
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Rock Band, Ninja Gaiden Black, Tales of Symphonia, World of Warcraft, Super Mario World, Pokemon, Doom, Knights of the Old Republic
Lately, I'm playing: Brutal Legend. \m/

Anime/manga for the fellow weeaboos:
Trigun, Elfen Lied, Death Note, Spirited Away, Mahou Sensei Negima, 5 Centimetres per Second, Spice and Wolf, Getbackers, Evangelion, Kanon, Liar Game, Full Metal Alchemist, Seto no Hanayome, Princess Mononoke, Cowboy Bebop, Dragonball Z, Tsubasa, Saiyuki
Lately, I'm weebing out on: Sword Art Online. It's pretty coo'.

Woefully short list of TV shows I like:
Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, Arrested Development, Top Gear, Breaking Bad, How TV Ruined Your Life, Firefly

Night. Music. Technology. Language. Vision. Freedom.

Incoming philoso-wank!

Existence;
superorganisms and superconsciousness;
matter evolution and how the universe is just a god trying to put itself (back?) together;
why so many cute girls on OKC are from California;
behavioral motivations;
melodies and rhythms;
likening everything to computers;
art;
the psychology of change, stress as a motivator;
systems of creation rather than gods;
entire universes, the characters within them, and the plotlines that tie them together;
how to extend my deadlines;
effective self-regulation;
the motivations and plausible path of technological advancement;
morality;
information existing as an abstract entity overlaying humanity;
freedoms;
artificial intelligence;
mechanical comprehension of semantics and connotation.

Most of this thinking occurs in the shower.

I take long showers.

Gallivanting!

One time, I had sex in a shower stall in residence. The bathrooms were communal for each floor - this was in the women's. After events were concluded, we proceeded to get clean. But just as I turn off the water, two girls come in together wrapped in towels. I hush up and let the one who actually belongs in the bathroom do the talking. As there's only two shower stalls and no path that doesn't cut straight through the people waiting to shower, the truth dawns on me:

I'm screwed.

So with a fresh nothing-to-lose attitude, I casually walked out of the stall and gave a salutatory "'sup?", to which they responded by making really loud screeching noises and sprinting out of the bathroom like a bad sitcom. Luckily, they took it in good humor; not so luckily, I didn't hear the end of it from my floormates for a while.

That was an arbitrary example, but the moral of the story is that I'm an open book. For the most part.

I also have a non-platonic crush on Neil Patrick Harris.

Okay, that's enough. Need to leave some mystery.

Things I am down for:

- Going to a show.
- Going for sushi.
- Playing video games.
- Arting.
- Taking pictures of cool places/things.
- Having a bowl.
- Jamming.
- Combinations of the above.
- Or suggest your own!