About Me

  • About Me: If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Lost, Smallville, Heroes, Studio 60, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Rome, Deadwood, Reaper, Sopranos, Weeds, My Name is Earl, Jericho, Entourage, Dexter, Journeyman, Generation Kill, John Adams, Firefly, Countdown with Keith Olberrman, Leverage, Sportscenter, PTI...and anything that happens to be good when i land on the channel.
  • Favorite Channels: ESPN, NBC, ABC, history channel, history international, sci-fi, G4, MSNBC, CNN...
  • Favorite Reruns: Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Dick Van Dyke, King of Queens...
  • Most Addictive Show: Modern Marvels...
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
  • Characters you relate to: Anthony Michael Hall's character in The Breakfast Club...
  • Favorite Theme Song: Anything by John Williams or James Horner...they're killer.
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Lockup...it's fucking addicting.
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Rome or Deadwood.

Books

  • Favorite Books: I mostly read comics and love 100 Bullets, The Avengers (in all its incarnations), Green Lantern, Spider-man, Fantastic Four, Batman, Superman, Fables and countless other titles. Check out my Gurulib at gurulib.com/sixfeetunderthegun.
  • Favorite Authors: Keroac, Vonnegut, Palahniuk, Azzarello, Bendis, Vaughan, Quesada, Salinger, Salvatore, Brooks, Willingham, Paolini, Lennon, Al Franken, Mark Waid, Jeph Loeb, Alan Moore, Frank Miller...
  • Favorite Genres: Comics, sci-fi, fantasy, history, political, philosophy, religion, biography/autobiography...
  • Favorite Characters: Drizzt, Captain America, Batman, Superman, Mitchell Hundred, Dizzy Cordova, Agent Graves, Cole Burns, Bigby Wolf, Jack of the Tales, Cyric, Pharaun...
  • Favorite Quotes: "thieves get rich, saints get shot and god don't answer prayers a lot."
  • Recent Reads: Green Lantern: In Brightest Day, When Religion Becomes Evil, Watchmen (for the 234897203984th time)...

Travel

  • Places I love: Jamaica, NYC, Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Point Pleasant, Asbury Park, Pittsburgh, Florence, any long stretch of road through any countryside.
  • Places I've been: A lot of places.
  • Places to see before I die: Rome.

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: I grew up in WV, so anything homecooked. Steak and potatoes, green beans, rolls, gravy...those types of meals are supreme. Tomato soup and grilled cheese is a very close second. I really have simple taste buds.
  • Favorite Dishes: Meat et potatoes, yo.
  • Favorite Desserts: I really don't have much of a sweet tooth, but anything with peanut butter is ok with me.
  • Favorite Drinks: I love some dang Kool-Aid. Newcastle Brown Ale.
  • Favorite Junk Foods: I love potato chips of all kinds, but I'm really trying to cut them back a little. Slim Jims are the best form of processed, conglomerate meat there is. Peanuts are amazing. Cheese puffs, no matter the brand. I seriously love junk food. I'm most likely shaving years off of my life because of it, but I'm all about enjoying what I eat. Fuck nutritional facts. Ok, that's not entirely true. The older I get, the more I pay attention to shit like that...sad.
  • Best meal ever: Turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, rolls...I love Thanksgiving-ish meals.
  • My Original Recipes: Peanut butter and jelly. Yeah, I invented that.
  • Favorite Restaurants: Steak n' Shake.
  • Foods I hate: Fuck tomatoes.

High School

  • School Name: Point Pleasant High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1998
  • Attended: 1994 - 1998

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Q
  • Nationality: Amurrrrican
  • Religion: Atheist, as far as I know.
  • Heroes: Both of my dads, John Lennon, Ric Flair, George Lucas (before Episode I), Keith Olberrman, Batman, Noam Chomsky, Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelly, Eddie Izzard, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Brian Azzarello, Bob Kane, Captain America, Tim Curry, Conan O'Brien, Rachel Maddow, Wolf Blitzer (simply because he has the coolest name known to man), Kevin Smith, Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger, the Python crew, etc....
  • Expertise: Bad decisions.
  • Industry: Internet retail.

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Q
  • Nationality: Amurrrrican
  • Religion: Atheist, as far as I know.
  • Heroes: Both of my dads, John Lennon, Ric Flair, George Lucas (before Episode I), Keith Olberrman, Batman, Noam Chomsky, Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelly, Eddie Izzard, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Brian Azzarello, Bob Kane, Captain America, Tim Curry, Conan O'Brien, Rachel Maddow, Wolf Blitzer (simply because he has the coolest name known to man), Kevin Smith, Christopher Nolan, Heath Ledger, the Python crew, etc....
  • Expertise: Bad decisions.
  • Industry: Internet retail.

Music

  • Favorite Artists: alphabetically (as of now) - 311, aaron sprinkle, afi, against me, agony scene, air, alexisonfire, alice in chains, alk3, amon amarth, arch enemy, arctic monkeys, as i lay dying, athlete, atreyu, avalanches, a7x, bad religion, badly drawn boy, bear vs. shark, THE beatles, beloved, ben folds, ben harper, between the buried and me, billy idol, bill joel, black eyed peas, bleeding through, bloc party, blues traveler, bob dylan, butch walker, cake, children of bodom, circa survive, clap your hands and say yeah, clutch, coheed and cambria, coldplay, comeback kid, common, converge, copeland, daft punk, damien rice, dark tranquility, darkest hour, dashboard, dave matthews, david bowie, dead poetic, dead to fall, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, deftones, devendra banhart, dimmu borgir, do make say think, dogs die in hot cars, donovan, doves, dre, eels, eisley, elbow, elliot, elliot smith, ELO, ELP, elton john, embodyment, embrace, eminem, eric clapton, erlend oye, extol, faith no more, fear factory, feist, finch, fiona apple, foo fighters, frank sinatra, franz ferdinand, from autumn to ashes, frou frou, further seems forever, gnarls barkley, GNR, gorillaz, graveworm, green day, guster, HIM (yes, i like them), hopesfall, hot hot heat, hot rod circuit, in flames, iron and wine, james taylor, jeff buckley, jet, jimmy eat world, joanna newsom, joe walsh, johnny cash, joy division, kaiser chiefs, katatonia, keane, keller williams, killswitch engage, kings of convenience, kings of leon, lamb of god, LCD soundsystem, living sacrifice, lovedrug, lynyrd skynyrd, magic numbers, massive attack, mazzy star, mc5, megadeth, metallica, mewithoutyou, minus the bear, modest mouse, mogwai, moonspell, muse, my chemical romance, nevermore, nick drake, NIN, norma jean, norman cook, nouvelle vague, oasis, outkast, pedro the lion, phantom planet, phoenix, pink floyd, postal service, pretty girls make graves, protest the hero, queen, queens of the stone age, radiohead, rage against the machine, ramones, razorlight, red hot chili peppers, richard ashcroft, richard cheese, rise against, RJD2, rose blossom punch, rush, samel, sarah slean, saved by grace, saves the day, scar symmetry, secret machines, shadows fall, sigur ros, silverchair (neon ballroom was excellent), siouxie and the banshees, slint, smashing pumpkins (ahhh, 8th grade), social distortion, soundgarden, starsailor, stereophonics, stone temple pilots, straylight run, sufjan stevens, sum 41, superdrag, strapping young lad, system of a down, taking back sunday, talib kweli, the arcade fire, the bionaut, the black keys, the bled, the bravery, the dandy warhols, the darkness, the datsuns, the decemberists, the dillinger escape plan, the faint, the get up kids, the hold steady, the juliana theory (but, not after 2000), the killers, the mars volta, the offspring, the rakes, the shins, the smiths, the streets, the strokes, thievery corporation, thrice, thursday, tom petty, training for utopia, turin brakes, U2, underoath, unearth, van halen, we are scientists, weezer, weird al, white stripes, wolfmother, yeah yeah yeahs, yo la tengo, zao...and the many many that i forgot (a.k.a. - etc.).
  • Favorite Albums: conceived in fire, rubber soul, white album, ...and justice for all, grace, O, where blood and fire bring rest, reroute to remain, moontraveler, the process of belief, damage done, plans, puritanical euphoric misanthropia, everything i touch falls to pieces, white pony, undeceived, king for a day/fool for a lifetime, three cheers for sweet revenge, the downward spiral, dreaming neon black, what's the story morning glory?, the bends, stay what you are, bad motorfinger, mellon collie and the infinite sadness, performance and cocktails, neon ballroom, emotion is dead, original pirate material, halfway between the gutter and the stars, artist in the ambulance, the optimist, the joshua tree, weezer (the blue album)...
  • Favorite Genre: metal, indie, straight up rock and anything acoustic...
  • Favorite Songs: beatles - for no one.
  • Favorite Lyrics: Your day breaks, your mind aches. You find that all her words of kindness linger on When she no longer needs you
  • Songs I hate: nu metal makes me vomit.
  • Guilty Pleasure: kelly clarkson (WHYYYYY?????)
  • Songs I repeat the most: anything Beatles...

Contact Info

  • AIM: whothehellisQ

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: star wars, indiana jones, anything ritchie, hughes, tarantino, aranofsky, raimi or jean-pierre jeunet. crash, brick, anything comic-oriented (okay, not everything...daredevil was balls), hitchcock, old movies with the duke, and anything that lets me look at audrey hepburn for an hour or more...
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "give ike back his guns."
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: anthony michael hall.

College

  • School Name: Marshall University