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About Me

i just finished my BFA in Theatrical Lighting Design. i love what i do. being able to provide the right effect for the right moment is what i live for. i fancy myself a lighting designer for the stage, be it in a theatre or concert venue, or a whatever... lighting is what i have wanted to do since i can remember... besides when i was five years old and wanted to be a marine biologist because i liked the ocean. not that i don't like the ocean - i love the ocean. when i'm not lighting something, chances are i'm scuba diving with Grand Bahama Scuba. i've been diving with them since i was eleven and i can't get enough of it.
since i seem to have gone off topic i think i'll keep on going - i'm a bit of a coffee fanatic, i can't get enough of the stuff. back in arlington, va where i grew up, there is a coffee shop called Murky Coffee , located in clarendon. if you are ever in the area i highly suggest you go and get a classic cappuccino, sit on one of the comfortable couches, and read the Style Weekly or OnTap. you might just feel like a new person.
i have a passion for photography like no other. check out my LOMOHOME to see what i've been shooting.

My Interests

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adopt your own virtual pet!lomography, carbon leaf, rock climbing, scuba diving, biking, going to concerts, theatre, lighting design, reading, drawing, building things, music, snowboarding, coffee, espresso, cappuchinos, being outside, sunshine, stars, star gazing, galaxies, astronomy, photography, close friends, midnight frisbee, sitting on roofs to get away from the world and collect thoughts

I'd like to meet:

open minded people with a passion for life and living it as fully as humanly possible.

Knife-Wrench!

Music:

311
The Aquabats
The Aquarium
The Ataris
Barenaked Ladies
The Be Good Tanyas
The Beatles
Belle and Sebastian
Better Than Ezra
Beulah
The Black Crowes
Blind Melon
Blur
Bob Marley
Brice Woodall
Brown Couch
Cake
Carbon Leaf
The Cassettes
Coldplay
Craig Kleemann
Daniel Lee
The Darkness
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
David Gray
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
Denison Witmer
DJ Shadow
Eddie From Ohio
The Eels
Elevator to Space
Eve 6
Fighting Gravity
The Flaming Lips
Flogging Molly
Garbage
Gin Blossoms
The Glengarry Bhoys
Godsmack
Goo Goo Dolls
Green Day
Guster
House of Pain
Iron and Wine
The Jayhawks
Jet
Jim's Big Ego
Jimmy Eat World
Kenin
Kenny Wayne Shepard
The Killers
The Kings of Convenience
Less Than Jake
Lionrock
Live
Los Straitjackets
Man O War
Mazzy Star, Metallica
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Minus 5
Moby
Mojave 3
My Morning Jacket
The National
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
Nirvana
No Doubt
The Offspring
Okkervil River
Old 97's
Only Midnight
The Pale Pacific
Pedro the Lion
Pet Shop Boys
Phantom Planet
Politics
Portishead
The Postal Service
R.E.M.
Prodigy
Queen
Radar Brothers
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Richard Cheese
Rufus Wainwright
RX Bandits
Ryan Adams
SEV
Seven Nations
The Shins
Simon and Garfunkel
Skillet
Sparklehorse
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
The Stereo
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Sublime
Sunday Morning La-La
Supertones
Tad Dreis
Train
Travis
U2
The Used
Van Morrison
The Wallflowers
Weezer
Welbilt
The White Stripes
Wilco
ZZ Top

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Movies:

Garden State, Man on Fire, Boondock Saints, Memoirs of a Geisha, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, A Knight's Tale, Singing in the Rain, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Newsies, The Princess Bride, Amelie, City of Lost Children, The Usual Suspects, The Big Lebowski, Snatch, Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels, Sin City.

Undoubtely there are more... but that's what popped off the top of my head.

Television:

The West Wing, House, Gilmore Girls, Scooby-Doo, Spongbob, The Fairly Odd Parents

Books:

The Book of Jhereg, The Book of Taltos, The Book of Athyra, Orca, Dragon, Issola. (all by Steven Brust) Anything Terry Pratchett

Heroes:

You

My Blog

Grilled Cheese Sammiches

i saw a car yesterday that was so dirty on the back window that you could write in it, and someone did. it made my day. it read: "I love Jessee, just as much as I love grilled cheese sammiches" in s...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:49:00 PST

Straw Juice in my Coffee

i did not wake up in time to get my usual cup of coffee before sound design today, so i had to go after, and i would like to think that this happened today for a reason. in stirring some sugar and ha...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:15:00 PST

My Buisness Cards

so yeah... there's two... but they're both pretty funnyBrittany Inventor of Post-its'What will your business card say?' at QuizGalaxy.comBrittany~ will teach you to ~Get out of Jail Free'What will you...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:03:00 PST

I am a Marker

--> START YOUTHINK.COM QUIZ RESULTS -->What kind of writing utensil are you?MarkerYou are insane. You need to see a shrink.Click Here to Take This QuizBrought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and perso...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:20:00 PST

Lomo

i just realized that i have not used my lomo in a very long time... or my yashica-mat... or any of my film cameras really... i've done some shooting with my new canon 30D :) but none of the good old f...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:42:00 PST

what the...

i just woke up from a really weird dream where whitehouse was smoking cigarettes in someone's house, only he wasn't supposed to be so to hide the smokey smell he was smoking into a box of dryer sheets...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:51:00 PST

Yashica Mat-124 G

i think i'm in love... with the Yashica Mat-124 G. medium format film is amazing...and there are now two new folders of Yashica Mat pictures on my LOMOHOME you should go and check them outone of the...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:31:00 PST

Raynor Scheine!

I met Raynor Scheine yesterday! yes, Raynor Scheine, say it outloud and it'll be a bit funnier. Probably one of his best known roles was Woodstock in Ace Ventura Pet Detective, but you can go to IMD...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:34:00 PST

Reaching New Heights of Greatness

i was just making a french press... boiled the water, ground the coffee, pulled the cup out of the cupboard to put the coffee in, put a spoonful of sugar in it, and placed it on the very little bit of...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:25:00 PST

Spiral

Spiral at Alley Katz is this coming saturday, April 15th. It is going to be a rockin' good time. Two bands that are near and dear to me, Waking State and Bridge are playing. Last year there was som...
Posted by PlaidLeaf on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:40:00 PST