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Kyle

Quintessential Cacophony

About Me

I'm a digital artist working for EA Sports on their football titles: Madden NFL and NCAA Football. Care to know more?...just ask!

My Interests

Music..from listening to it to sittin' around playing it on my guitar, creating 3D artwork, animating, photography. I'm a big fan of the beach, camping, hiking, climbing...pretty much just being outdoors. Driving around with the top down and the doors off (...it's a Jeep thing!). Roadtrips...doesn't matter if it's a 4 hour drive to the hometown (this just turned into a 19 hour drive) or a 36 hour trip across the U.S. while crammed in a car; traveling and going to new places/seeing new things. Steelers football, baseball, homerun derby, biking, rollerblading. Partying, going to the bars (McArdle's...oh how I miss this bar!) and of course, beer...general rule of thumb, the darker and less like urine it resembles, the better!

I'd like to meet:

Genuine, honest, free-thinking folk. People who like to have a good time no matter what it entails and how much of an ass you may look like (prime example....Bar Christmas Caroling Crawl).

Music:

I'm really into live music (that's where you find out if a band can actually play)! Soul Coughing, Rage Against the Machine, Mike Doughty, Cake, DMB, Phish, Led Zeppelin, Tenacious D, Bob Marley, Matisyahu, O.A.R, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine, Flogging Molly, Audioslave, Nightwatchman, Beastie Boys, Citizen Cope, Trey Anastasio, Jazz Mandolin Project, Tristan Prettyman, Enormous D (aka Don McCloskey), Howie Day, Nirvana, Beck, Fith, Japhy Ryder, Pagoda, Desert Limousine, Pink Floyd, Green Day, G. Love, Fiona Apple, Harry Connick Jr, Rusted Root, Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Oysterhead, Korn, Mushroomhead, 311, Ben Kweller, Stone Temple Pilots, David Gray, Gorillaz, Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Primus, Parliament, Bloodhound Gang, Jack Johnson, Reel Big Fish, Distorted Penguins, Modest Mouse, Weezer, The Streets....

Top shows I've been to: DMB -2000.07.03 (fireworks at 3 rivers stadium during Two Step...rockin!), Rusted Root at Hartwood acres, Mike Doughty at Club Cafe...we were right up in his grill...literally..2 feet away from him looking up his nose...he stopped the show for us to get our seats!, Flogging Molly...the most intense show I've ever seen in my life!, Rolling Rock County Fair 2.0 (it was free and I got to see STP! Thanks Unger!), Jazz Mandolin Project with Jon Fishman on drums, a swanktified night with Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine, and finally...Cake at Point Park...for $1 (it's Cake...how can it not kick ass?!)

Movies:

All the "Jay and Silent Bob" flicks (i.e,...Kevin Smith's movies), Army of Darkness (and also Evil Dead 1 and 2), Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Idiocracy, Tim Burton's flicks, Napoleon Dynamite, Fight Club, High Fidelity, Grumpy and Grumpier Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Grandma's House, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Tommy Boy, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Batman (the 1st one), Goonies, Man In The Moon, Jesus' Son, The Boondock Saints, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Shrek, the Pixar flicks, The Motorcycle Diaries, the Back to the Future trilogy, and countless others...

Television:

Don't watch much TV, but when I do..the Sopranos and the Steelers!

Books:

in general: pretty much anything by Chuck Palahniuk and John Krakauer, Allen Ginsberg; Sheep In A Jeep, Melancholy Death of Oysterboy and Other Stories, Slanky, Confessions of a B Movie Actor, Confederacy of Dunces, Ham on Rye, Brave New World, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, The Divine Comedy,...and yes...the Harry Potter books...

Heroes:

Michael...you know, the Big Man, aka... the kid from Brooklyn!!