Hi, my name is James. I'm having trouble thinking of how to do this part in paragraph format...so, lists!

I am:
- introverted
- intelligent
- friendly
- musical
- observant
- grammatically correct
- quiet (usually)
- a nerd

I like:
- cats (currently have three)
- most animals in general
- Oxford commas
- iambic pentameter
- foreign languages
- foreign countries (I've been to France and Poland)
- 42
- cool people
- reading
- writing
- discovering new music
- fooling around on my guitar
- video games
- video game music
- '90s cartoons
- more cowbell
- science
- psychology
- expanding my vocabulary
- making lists, apparently

I dislike:
- most arthropods (spiders, insects, etc.)
- rude people
- eggs
- when ppl type liek dis
- daylight saving time
- extreme dogmatism
- having nothing to do

I'm going to school Tennessee Technology Center in the Medical Office Information Technology program.

Also trying to improve my guitar skills - I seem to be getting slightly better but I'm still not that good. Or rather, I know a fair number of chords, but have some trouble putting them all together without screwing them up.

Singing mostly. I sang bass in my high school and college choirs. Like, low bass. Like, take however low you're thinking right now and go lower, and that's closer to me. No, not George Zimmer low (though I can fake it if I want to). Though my speaking voice doesn't sound abnormally low or anything.

And I'm great at video games. More on those in my "favorites" section.

I'm not bad with languages either. I took Latin in high school and am pretty good at learning to pronounce other languages, even if I can't speak them. Except for Gaelic. I can't make heads or tails of that one. Or Welsh, for that matter. I think the entire Welsh language looks like a typo.

I can also go for several minutes at a time without blinking if I concentrate and don't have air blowing in my face. Useless skills for the win!

I'm pretty tan, even though I'm not Middle Eastern or Hispanic or Native American. Incidentally, I don't see why others obsess over getting a tan. As the owner of one, I can tell you that they're way overrated.

Now that I've recently started wearing a goatee, I suppose you'll also notice that.

Books:
- Anything by Stephen King
- Lord of the Rings
- Harry Potter series
- Dune and its sequels
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (the sequels get progressively less interesting in my opinion)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- A Clockwork Orange
- Fight Club
- House of Leaves
- Prometheus Rising
- Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
- Video game novelizations
- Sci-fi/fantasy/horror in general

Movies:
- Fight Club
- A Clockwork Orange
- Dune (David Lynch version and the Sci-Fi mini-series)
- Men in Black
- All the recent Marvel superhero movies (Iron Man, Avengers, etc.)
- The Mist
- 1408
- Silent Hill
- Young Frankenstein
- Rebuild of Evangelion
- Let Me In (one of the best new horror films in my opinion)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Classic Disney films
- The Dark Knight trilogy
- Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit
- James Bond, especially the Daniel Craig films

Shows:
- Game of Thrones
- Breaking Bad
- NCIS/NCIS: Los Angeles
- The Mentalist
- Doctor Who
- Torchwood
- The Big Bang Theory
- Chuck
- The Neighbors
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
- Death Note
- Shin-chan
- Jeopardy
- Sherlock
- Elementary (no, it's not a Sherlock ripoff)
- Black Books
- Monk
- Person of Interest
- Community
- Dan Vs.
- The Good Wife
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Animaniacs

Music:
I lean mostly towards metal and rock. Also I'm always interested in introducing people to new music, so if any of these artists sounds unfamiliar but interesting, ask away!
- A Perfect Circle
- AC/DC
- Agalloch
- Akira Yamaoka
- Alcest
- Alexander Brandon
- Alice in Chains
- All Pigs Must Die
- Amon Amarth
- Atheist
- Between the Buried and Me
- Black Sabbath
- Blind Guardian
- Bloodbath
- Blue Öyster Cult
- Bobby Prince
- Burzum
- Coheed and Cambria
- Cold
- Consummatum Est
- Contaigeon
- Cryptopsy
- Cynic
- Daisuke Ishiwatari
- Dark Sanctuary
- David Bowie
- Dead Sea Surfers (RIP Aleister Tennyson Hobbs)
- Deathspell Omega
- Demilich
- Devil Doll
- Die Antwoord
- Dimmu Borgir
- Dire Straits
- Eluveitie
- Emperor
- Empyrium
- Finntroll
- Golden Earring
- Hesper Payne
- Hordes of the Morning Star
- Ihsahn
- Iron Maiden
- Jesu
- Judas Priest
- Katatonia
- Kayo Dot
- Led Zeppelin
- Lee Jackson
- maudlin of the Well
- Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses
- Moonsorrow
- Mortiis
- Muse
- Nails
- Nile
- Nine Inch Nails
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Obscura
- Opeth
- Orplid
- Phaleg
- Pig Destroyer
- Pink Floyd (RIP Syd Barrett and Rick Wright)
- Rammstein
- Reverend Bizarre
- Rush
- Sigh
- Slayer
- Storm Corrosion
- Tantric
- Tartar Lamb
- Tartar Lamb II
- The Angelic Process
- The Axis of Perdition
- The Beach Boys
- The Black Mages
- The Cranberries
- The Howling Void
- The Secret
- The Who
- Therion
- Toby Driver
- Tool
- Trent Reznor
- VNV Nation
- Woods of Ypres (RIP David Gold)

Food:
- Pumpkin pie
- Tea. I like tea more than coffee. I don't think I've had a single cup of coffee in over a year. But tea is great. Green tea, white tea, black tea; if it's made by brewing tea leaves I'll try it at least once.
- Pasta, though I don't care much for tomato sauce

And since I mentioned video games earlier, here's some I like:

- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Bayonetta
- BIT.TRIP
- Castlevania
- Cave Story
- Commander Keen
- Dark Souls
- Devil May Cry
- Doom
- Final Fantasy
- Half-Life
- Kingdom Hearts
- Legacy of Kain
- Mario
- Mass Effect
- Metal Gear
- Metroid
- Myst
- Penumbra
- Portal
- Quake
- Rage
- Resident Evil
- Scratches
- Shadows of the Damned
- Silent Hill
- Sine Mora
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Super Meat Boy
- The Binding of Isaac
- The Elder Scrolls
- The Legend of Zelda
- The Witcher
- Unreal
- VVVVVV
- Ys

I'll skip the "essentials" (food, water, etc.) since they're assumed already. In no particular order:

1. Friends
2. Music
3. My cats
4. Something to read
5. Video games
6. More music

The disconnect between objective reality and our subjective experiences?

I'd tell you, but the first rule is that I'm not supposed to talk about it.

Okay, you got me. I'm probably at a friend's house or at home watching reruns of Monk.

Ask, I guess?

MESSAGE ME IF

- You're not weirded out enough to have stopped reading by now
- You have good taste (or at least an open mind) in music
- You like to read books
- Liking video games and/or other nerdy things is a plus
- You're not a hateful/judgmental person
- You use proper spelling and grammar

PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BOTHER MESSAGING ME IF

- You don't like cats
- You don't do much reading
- You don't maintain your personal hygiene