If being a philosopher were as respected and lucrative a profession now as it were in ancient times, I'd be (as a song I heard once so eloquently put it) "flossin'." I'm constantly on a quest to learn and expand my mind, I spend a lot of my time on the internet and at the library reading old, dusty reference books for no reason other than the fact that they exist. I'm highly technically-inclined but have major creative aspirations (writing, music, film) and I tend to surround myself with people of the same mindset and goals, on the opposite end of the coin I've realized that a lot of people in my life (read: family) are outright parasitic and draining of any drive I may possess, so I'm in the process of trying to cut some people out of my life completely. Once you befriend me, I'm the most loyal person you'll ever meet and I'll go out of my way to do anything I can for you, but betray that trust and I'll deny you ever existed in my life at all. Is an "optimistic misanthropist" a thing? Because that's a pretty much spot-on description of me. I'm hopeful about the distant future but, in all honesty, can't stand most people I meet. I get the feeling the said misanthropy is mainly influenced by my surroundings, though. I don't have much in common with many people around here and many of the things I'm into could be considered "taboo."

Working a dead-end retail job while trying my hand at various creative passions that often seem equally dead-end. Why bullshit, right?

I am an information sponge. Once I know something, I never forget and if a particular subject interests me, I will research it to no end until I have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of it. That being said, I'm more of a listener than a talker, my philosophy is that people rarely learn new things by running their mouths.

How quiet I am, I usually won't speak unless I feel like I have something really important to say. (Unless the situation calls for talking on my part, like a date, for example.)

Books: Anything by Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Neil DeGrasse Tyson or Carl Sagan. Neuromancer by William Gibson is my favorite book of all time and I read it at least three times a year. Ender's Game, The Enemy of God, Angels and Demons, Deception Point, Riverworld, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Pattern Recognition, Altered Carbon, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Movies: 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, 300, Antichrist, A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, Black Snake Moan, Borat, Citizen Kane, Clerks, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Eraserhead, Event Horizon, Final Destination, From Dusk 'till Dawn, Ghost in the Shell, Grindhouse, Hard Candy, Kill Bill, Land of the Dead, Machete, Mortal Kombat, Night of the Living Dead, Pulp Fiction, Rampage, Reservoir Dogs, Resident Evil, Salo, Saving Private Ryan, Silent Hill, Sin City, Snakes on a Plane, Star Wars, Talladega Nights, Terminator, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Thing, The Departed, The Devils Rejects, The Grudge, The Lost Boys, The Matrix, The Mist, The Ninth Gate, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, The Ring, Transformers, Until the Light Takes Us, V for Vendetta, War of the Worlds

Music: 3 Inches of Blood, Abigail Williams, Aborted, Abysmal Gates, Agressor, Akercocke, Akira Yamaoka, Anaal Nathrakh, Apostasy, Arcturus, Arkhon Infaustus, Arsis, Arum, Ascension of the Watchers, Astriaal, Ava Inferi, Averse Sefira, The Axis of Perdition, Bathory, Behemoth, Belphegor, Borknagar, Burzum, Carcass, Ceremonial Castings, Code, Converge, Cormorant, The County Medical Examiners, Crass, Cryptopsy, DarkThrone, Daylight Dies, Deathspell Omega, Dissection, Emperor, Falkenbach, Fantomas, Fear Factory, Fen, Forgotten Tomb, Game Over, Goatwhore, Gorgasm, Gorgoroth, Grand Belial's Key, Gulaggh, Halford, Heaven and Hell, Hiems, High On Fire, Hypocrisy, Iced Earth, Immortal, In Aeternum, Iron Maiden, Judas Iscariot, Judas Priest, Katatonia, Keep of Kalessin, Khold, Killwhitneydead, King Diamond, KMFDM, The Kovenant, Kreator, Liturgy, Lord Belial, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Mastodon, Mayhem, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Mezzerschmitt, Midvinter, Morbid Angel, Nachtmystium, Nifelheim, Nine Inch Nails, Norther, Novembers Doom, Ocean, October Tide, Opeth, Orphaned Land, Paradise Lost, Protest the Hero, Psyclon Nine, Rage Against the Machine, Ragnarok, Rotting Christ, The Ruins of Beverast, Rush, Satyricon, Septic Flesh, (old) Sepultura, She's Gore, Shining, Sigh, The Sisters of Mercy, Skeletonwitch, Skinless, Slayer, Sodom, Stalaggh, Strapping Young Lad, Suffocation, Sunn, The Sword, Teen Cthulhu, Testament, Tiamat, Triptykon, Trollech, Ulver, Venom, Windir, Wolves in the Throne Room, Woods of Ypres

The Internet (How we ever got by without an endless supply of information at our fingertips is beyond me.)
Books
Metal
Conversation
Games
Movies

Pretty out-there, existential shit that nobody cares about.

Either working, hanging out with friends or just relaxing, depending on my schedule.

I'm pretty open about everything, if you want to know something, just ask.

You find yourself sick and tired of all the inbreeding mouth-breathers in the south and want to have an intellectual conversation.