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Solace

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About Me

I’m a College student studying commercial design in Minnesota. I'm an illustrator by trade so I spend most of my time sketching or abusing a Wacom tablet. I'm into most all types of art (with a few necessary exceptions) so I never out-grew comic books or those over-sized art collections you find at Barnes and Noble (You know, the kind that won't fit on a shelf). I'm opinionated and well-educated and I'm prideful of both facts. Empathy and realism are important aspects of any person to me, as is hopeless romanticism and the occassional need to set off fireworks late at night. I feel no shame in appreciating and admitting that I possess those qualities or that I waste far too much time watching Law & Order reruns. I'm secure in my own skin and I'm content with that, so I generally don't need a lot of other people to have a good time, but I won't deny that it helps. I like computers and video games and quite a few other "nerd" activities, but I blend it in daily with being a starving musician and aspiring tattooist, so the walking contradiction theory won't really offend me. I'll spare you anymore of life story though since I don't believe its that interesting. If any of you are actually still reading this and simply want to know the finer details though feel free to message me.

My Interests

Seems a somewhat generic and vague category, but: Music, movies, illustration, graphic design, web design, comic books, concerts, subjective fashion, tattooing, piercing commercial advertising, exercise, sleeping, women (see previous 2 interests), video games, philosophy, government and politics, medieval culture, and modern law.

Music:

I'm in to most every form of music, mainly rock and the local scene though. I also can't claim to have the largest interest in country, then again I don't seem to know anyone that does. Bands I like, in no particular order:
Sims, Atmosphere, American Head Charge, P.O.S, Cold, Killswitch Engage, Dessa, Brother Ali, Korn, Matchbox Twenty, Metallica, Disturbed, Green Day, Eyedea and Abilities, Sevendust, His Infernal Majesty, Non-Prophets, A Fire Inside, Cecil Otter, Nirvana, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Sage Francis, Immortal Technique, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Stone Sour, Hed (P.E.), Gingerjake, Mindless Self Indulgence, Smilin' Liar, Ant, Snoop Dogg, Marilyn Manson, DMX, the Green Mushrooms, Instant Legend, Tool, Alice in Chains, A Perfect Circle, Lupe Fiasco, Sublime, Maroon 5, Lost Prophets, Incubus, Finger Eleven, Richard Cheese, Flaw, Nine Inch Nails, CKY, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Soomon Burke, the horror music scene, and quite a few others that I won't take the time to list at the moment.

Movies:

Hackers, Underworld, Mallrats (and any other Kevin Smith film for that matter), The Nightmare Before Christmas, Liar Liar, Edward Scissorhands, Scooby-Doo 2 (first one was terrible), Spider-man, Spider-man 2, Cruel Intentions, Batman, Requim for a Dream, Harold and Kumaar go to White Castle, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Life of David Gale, Se7en, Saw, Friday the 13th part 2,3,and 7, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clockwork Orange, the Dead Poets Society, The Breakfast Club, Tombstone, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Crow, Resevoir Dogs, Fight Club, Interview with the Vampire, Aladdin, Kill Bill, Evil Dead, Pulp Fiction, Sleepy Hollow, Queen of the Damned, Death to Smoochy, Horror movies of all kinds, and so very many more.

Television:

Invader Zim, The Simpsons, That 70's Show, Law and Order, Family Guy, The fine people over at Comedy Central, Adult Swim (mainly for Futurama), CSI, The West Wing, and occassionally some general Cartoon Network.

Books:

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Good Omens and Sandman series, Stephen King's catalogue, Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, William Blatty’s Exorcist, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, H.R. Giger’s Necronomicon, Greg Pak’s Phoenix: Endsong, Straczynski’s Blood ties, Douglas Adam’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. Also, C.S. Lewis and Orson Scott Card.

Heroes:

Greg Cappulo,Jeff Hubbard, Nietzsche, Todd McFarlane, Jim Carrey, B.B. King, Jhonen Vasquez, Glenn Beggin, my father for putting up with me, and Ben down at the tattoo shop.