I'm an introvert.

I'm taking it day by day, just trying to make it by like the next guy.

Music has meant a lot to me over the years. Nothing like listening to something really heavy to get you pumped or something mellow when you're down or just want to chill.

I love anime - the stories, the characters, the art style, and the way that the best anime can evoke strong emotions.

I like video games and own a 360, but I don't play a lot.

I'm interested in writing, photography, and film. Interested, as in I'd like to be doing these things.

I don't read as much as I used to, but I still enjoy reading a good book when I make the time.

I like card games like Setback, Rummy 500, and Texas Hold'em.

I try to keep up on news, especially on science and technology. My main sources are digg, arstechnica, google news, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report.

I lived in California for 2 years. I might do that again someday.

I run Zenwalk Linux on a 5+ years old Toshiba Satellite laptop that I got second hand from my mom. I could buy a new one, but this one's still got some life in it. I don't own a cell phone because I have no use for one. That's just how I roll.

I wouldn't consider myself a dork, but a bit of geek. Though, I'm not above writing "that's just how I roll," apparently. Twice.

Biding my time or wasting it. The truth shall be revealed in the end.

Bracketing up this profile and over-punctuating.

I imagine it's my hair. That's probably the thing I've received the most compliments for; after that it would be eyes, smile (when I do), and my butt. o_0 Well, a compliment is a compliment.

Music: I listen to a few different things. In the guitars and drums vein I like metalcore, melodic death metal, nu metal, gothic metal, industrial metal, alternative rock, etc. At least that's what most of the bands I listen to would fall under. My favorite CD right now is Viva Emptiness by Katatonia.

In another vein I like EBM, synthpop, futurepop, and trance. My favorite CD that would fall under this is Last Man Standing by Fr/action.

Finally, there's lounge music, downtempo, trip hop, and nu jazz. Favorite CD yet to be picked, but let's say Ki-Oku by Toshinori Kondo & DJ Krush for now.

Books: The Bourne series, Arkady Renko series, Robotech, Ice Station Zebra, The Towers of The Sunset, Red Badge Of Courage, Anthem, Job: A Comedy Of Justice, Soon I Will Be Invincible

Movies: Lord of the Rings, The Negotiator, 187, Vendetta, eXistenZ, Lone Hero, The Untouchables, Training Day, A Knight's Tale, Full Metal Jacket, Gattaca, Gladiator, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Great Sinner, Frailty

Foods: Pizza (preferably just a really good pepperoni pizza, I'm not really in to other toppings), orange chicken, pepper steak, roast pork lo mein

In the most literal sense: a reality to exist in, a habitat, food, water, clothing, air. Beyond that, strictly speaking, I'm not sure there's anything I could never do without. I suppose it depends on the exact nature of the question. What is one to understand as the outcome if they were deprived of some number of the six things they chose: depression, insanity, death? As far as I can tell, I'm neither insane nor dead.

If you weren't satisfied with that list, here's another: purpose, love, good stories (whether in the form of books, anime, movies, TV), music, a computer (preferably with Linux and high-speed Internet connection), and my glasses. I'm a visual creature, so I need them. Now I'm thinking about a man in a library with shattered glasses repeating, "It's not fair." Man that would suck.

Various things and nothing, the mundane and the profound - this and that, as it were.

I'm not your typical guy. In some ways this is good, in others, I suppose, not so good. Nothing I can do about that now but change, something easier said than done. I suppose it's not so much myself I would choose to change, but my circumstances; or rather change myself through changing my circumstances. Before I make myself sound any worse, I'm not a terrible person. I'm just not where I'd hoped to be when I was younger.

How many people are truly content with how they are? Are these people truly content, or living an unexamined life?

Sometimes I think ignorance could be bliss. I should start drinking, fuck any woman that I can convince to give it up, and just in general be a hedonistic, self-serving, narcisstic megolomaniac. Maybe that's not ignorance, but sociopathy. Could be a matter of degrees. Either way, that's not going to happen. Instead, I dream up stories, stories I need to start writing. If I'm lucky, what I create will help take me to a new place, a place where I'm better - or not, life can be like that sometimes.

Every other Saturday I work, so I go to bed early - for me anyway - that Friday night. The Friday on my weekends off usually end up the same as any other night, doing absolutely nothing, and "it's absolutely everything that I thought it could be".

My secret mountain base is nearly complete. Soon my armies will march across the world, conquering my enemies and taking their women; so you might as well get on board for the big win.

Oh, and I kind of like DDR, even though I haven't played in forever.

You want to, otherwise, don't. I mean, why would you message me if you didn't want to?