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Top Hat Russ

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World!

About Me

I'm a thin, longhaired, artist with comic book and video game addictions. I am deeply in love with my wife Kersten. She is my angel. I've been involved with the Michigan Renaissance Festival since 1993 and I plan on working there for as long as I can.

My Interests

Art, especially fantasy/sci-fi art, comic books, movies and television, video games, City of Heroes/City Of Villians Rocks! I like doing things with my friends, hanging out. I like to try new things and go new places.

Music:

I'm a Hard Rock/Metal guy mostly but as a DJ I try and appreciate all kinds of music. Rap is still hard for me to get into. I realy dig gothic/industrial as Kersten continues to give me lessons in the classic goth stylings. Although alot of the newer rock coming down the pipe is very cookie-cutter, there is some really geat sounds out there, you just gotta find them!

Movies:

Man, talk about a hard thing to list! I love all kinds of movies!I love Sci-Fi/action films and if it has its origins in comic books I'll go see it. Batman Begins, Hellboy, the X-Men films, the Spidey films, anything superhero is gold for me. Superman Returns was magnificent. Transformers was amazing!I'm a Trekker, and Star Wars fan as well.The Lord Of the Rings Trilogy was brilliant, and if its a fantasy setting I'll go see it.If Kevin Smith has his name on it I'll run to the theatre to see it.Also if it has Vampires or Werewolves I'll be there! Pirates are great too!The only type of movie I am careful about reviewing before I see it are dramas. I don't like it in real life so I don't wanna see it on the big screen

Television:

ENTERTAIN ME! Trek, Smallville, Buffy and Angel, Battlestar Galactica, ER, Las Vegas, House, DRAWN TOGETHER!, Justice League Unlimited is Awesome!, CSI, and Law and Order: SVU. Farscape was great, and Firefly should have had more time. Love Burn Notice, Bruce Campbell is God. Who Wants To Be A Superhero. Miami Ink and L.A. Ink. Eureka. HEROES!!!!!! The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Family Guy!

Books:

Fantasy and Sci-Fi is my ambrosia! I'm a huge comic book fan as mny of you know so I'm always reading those. I love the Anita Blake series, especially the early ones, by Laurell K. Hamilton and her Merry Gentry series as well. The Harry Dresden Files by Jim Butcher are good. Lord of the Rings. The Old Dragonlance was some of the first fantasy I ever read, gotta love the TSR stuff. David Eddings is a God. Terry Goodkind is good. Also many of the White Wolf novels were great, especially Robert Weinberg. Harry Potter, we'll miss you. There's probably more I'll add later!

Heroes:

Stan "The Man" Lee, John Romita, Steve Ditko, John Buscema, Boris Vallejo, Jack "the King" Kirby, Bob Kane, Siegel and Schuster, Art Adams and many of the pioneers of the comic book medium.