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jon

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships and Friends

About Me

I'm 20, I'm a student in Boston, and I have no real marketable skills, but I think I make a pretty bitchin' ham & cheese sandwich. My livejournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/subatomicmusket/

My Interests

reading; writing; artistic and creative development; video games; animation; comics and graphic novels; travel; mythology; whiskey; classic cinema.

I'd like to meet:

people who like to argue, and anyone who thinks they can take me in mario kart dd.

Music:

Queens of the Stone Age, early Metallica, Mike Doughty, Fall Out Boy, R.E.M., the Beatles, A New Found Glory, Bad Religion, They Might Be Giants, The Kinks, Cake, cKy, Talking Heads, DeVO, Gorillaz, Incubus, Head Automatica, Faith No More, The Decemberists

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, Super Troopers, Boodock Saints, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Addams Family, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Airplane!, Crash, Dr. Strangelove, The Rock, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Incredibles, Dead Alive, the Evil Dead Trilogy, Bubba Ho-tep, Shaun of the Dead, Airheads, Philadelphia Story, Silence of the Lambs, Murder by Death, the Maltese Falcon.

Television:

The Daily Show, Robot Chicken, Harvey Birdman, The West Wing, Family Guy... not huge on tee vee.

Books:

Watchmen, Alan Moore; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; The Stranger and essays by Albert Camus; The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon; Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce; Going Postal, Terry Pratchett; Can Poetry Matter?, Dan Gioia; The Odyssey, Homer; Edith Hamilton's Mythology; Nice Work, David Lodge; the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges.Poets I Enjoy: Robert Browning, Andrew Marvell, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, Robert Frost, Keith Douglas, Billy Collins, Langston Hughes, William Blake, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Carlos Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, William Butler Yeats

Heroes:

Henry Rollins, Albert Camus, Gary Larson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Gen. George S. Patton, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Chas. Addams, Gregory Peck.