I'm a very creative person fascinated by all things dark, sombre and chaotic. I love to learn new things in almost every field of knowledge, and I'm particularly obsessed with the understanding of the inner physical workings of the Universe. Recently, I became extremely aware of these two traits of mine (creativity and this obsession to understand) and realized that these two where actually linked...

I am smart, creative, and kind.

Right now, my life is somewhat chaotic, yet I feel pretty comfortable with it. I currently work as a web programmer for a German company that brought its operation here to Colombia. I have 5 years of experience building software for the web, and I really enjoy it, definately due to this "creative vein" I believe defines me. At nights, I attend a local University pursuing a software engineering program which I will be graduating from this year (hopefully!).

The other thing I do on my "free" time is to work on starting my own business. I'm extremely interested in entrepreneurship, and I currently own a market research firm and I'm working on starting a new reaserch technology company and a web design company.

I'm also father of a beautiful 5-year-old girl and a gorgeous new-born baby. Now this is something I really enjoy!

I'm also an experienced guitar player. I own a gorgeous black B.C. Rich Warlock guitar which is my life, and I've played on several bands here in Colombia like Neurosis Inc and XIII Candles. Down here, those names are pretty big! Well, Neurosis at least. It's amazing how much energy you can percieve from the enraged crowd below!! However, I'm currently retired from all the touring-muscician way of life, although I still record some stuff home... hope to release it some day.

I like to think I'm a good guitarrist, although I'm not particularly interested in soloing (which most people think is being a good guitarrist). I'm more into composing and into rythmic accuracy...

I also think I am a very good writer, and a great father.

I believe I'm also a good listener since it's very easy for me to put myself in other people's shoes and understand immediately what they're talking about... it's one of my gifts - to intuitively understand other people.

I guess the first thing people notice is I like metal. I don't really know why that kind of music is so appealing to me; I guess it must be some kind of morbid fascination with all things dark, destructive and chaotic, which contrasts with the rather tranquil life I lead. But it is also a special aesthetic sensitivity, I believe, which lets me find beauty in what most consider to be foul and dire. In the words of a wiser man, "Art let's us gaze into the horro of existence without being petrified by the vision"...

I guess, after a while of talking to me, the first thing people notice is that I'm a good listener and a very light-hearted fellow, despite my dark obsessions.

Physically, I think what people first notice is my height (I'm 1.88 m, don't know how much that is in feet - about 6,2' I think) and my long wavy hair.

Books: "The Universe in a Nutshell" and "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawkings, "The Steppary Wolf" by Herman Hesse, Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", Albert Camus' "The Outsider" and "The Plague", Kafka's "Metamorphosis" and "In the Penal Colony", Nietzche's "The Antichrist", "El Otoño del Patriarca [The Fall of the Patriarch]" by Gabriel García Márquez, "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown, "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton and finally, God's "Bible" (just thought I'd throw in a little nihilistic humor).

Movies: The 13th Warrior, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Underworld, Blade, V for Vendetta, Willow, Labyrinth, Contact, Legend, Neverending Story, all Indiana Jones, First Knight, The Last of the Mohicans, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Patriot, The Lord of the Rings, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Star Wars, Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within, all X-men, all Spiderman, all Superman, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Tron, A Knight's Tale, all Batman, Saw, Seven, Hannibal... basically, vampire movies, horror movies, adventure movies, superhero movies, anything with swords or magic, fantasy movies... I also enjoy serial killer movies.

I don't know why, but I'm a freak for characters having weapons that are extensions of their own arms/hands (eg Wolverine, Freddy Krueger, Ripclaw, Shredder, Vega). I also tend to admire sinister antagonists such as Lord Voldemort, Sauron, Vader, Set, Dracula, etc, etc.

Music: Megadeth, Slayer, Judas Priest, Bathory, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Immortal, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Behemoth, Masacre (Col), Morbid Angel, Marduk, Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth, Gorguts, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Cancer, Obtained Enslavement, Deicide, Arcturus, Dismember, Ancient Rites, Profanatica, Typhon (Col), Mayhem, Burzum and me!

Aside from metal, I like dark, awe-inspiring classical music in the veins of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (probably my favorite piece of music from all time), Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and The Firebird, Beethoven's 5th symphony and his Moonlight Sonata, Tchaikovski's 5th symphony, "Nutcracker", "Swan Lake" and Bach's Toccatta & Fuge in D minor for Organ.

Food: Ajiaco (a colombian recipe for a chicken-based soup), MEAT!!! I love meat!! I also like seafood, specially Lobster and king crab.

Video games: Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Chronotrigger, Breath of Fire, Neverwinter Nights, Zelda, Lord of the Rings, Kingdom Hearts.

Metal, my guitar, a pen and a piece of paper, red wine and beer, Videogames and a PC with Internet access, a microphone and Cakewalk installed.

Music, video games, traveling, flying, what I'm writing and/or want to write, RPG's, physics.

Playing videogames with my daughter.

I was a happily married man!

You're intrigued...