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About Me

I make a living in a fairly non-traditional way. It is quite nice actually. Other than that I read, write, paint, and do other things that seem lame to most people. I am a liberal (and when I say liberal I don't mean liberal in the sense of say Bill Clinton, I mean way to the left of that.) who still prizes some material goods (Sorry but I love my Wii too much to live in a cave), and can be laughed at as a hopeless romantic. I enjoy finding out what makes people, nations, and other groups tick. I am other random things that people insert in here to be insightful and such.
I am currently working for my Masters in Political Science at the University of Connecticut, and no I have no clue what I'll do with it besides get another degree afterwards. Which is nice in a way, to get a degree for no real reason other than to receive an education.
It is funny, my first two years at this school were spent bemoaning how boring the area was, but since then I've discovered an area is only as interesting as you make it. The Middle of Nowhere CT has as many great places to explore as anywhere else, maybe more. All it takes is the constitution to take a right onto a street you've never seen, and keep driving until you end up completely lost and overcome by the beauty of the world around you. And after all of that, Uconn is stuck with me another two years.
If you use AIM and feel like IMing me, feel free to do so at IWFOffices

My Interests

Positive Expectation, urban and suburban exploration, photography, watercolors, France, Ring of Honor, Poker, The great movies, The absolute worst destructively stupid movies, Other strange things that should not be mentioned.

I'd like to meet:

People who either hate everyone for good reason, or love their fellow man. Anyone with passion for human rights, civil liberties and other pertinent topics feel free to contact me as well. People who don't ask why the picture in my profile looks like it was taken by surprise at 8 AM after having absolutely no sleep. The answer? Because that's the way the picture was taken! It is so much more honest to put your worst face forward instead of your best face.
Or people who like Bruce Springsteen.
Or people who would like to use Ultimatepokerbankroll.com because I love every one of you who signs up through us the most. If you need advice on internet poker, bonuses, rakeback or whatever, feel free to contact me.
But mostly people who like Bruce Springsteen. Of course if one of you can explain the spider hill, I'd also like to meet you.

Music:

Bruce Springsteen, Morrissey, The Toasters, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Pearl Jam, The Aquabats, Deep Purple, Peter Frampton, Fear Factory, Ministry, Bella Morte, Marilyn Manson, The Planet Smashers, Jello Biafra, 80s Metallica, Bob Segar, Joe Cocker, John Lennon, Blue Oyster Cult, Matthew Good, Desaparecidos, Rage Against the Machine, The Clash, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails, Wesley Willis, El P, Jackson Browne, Garbage, Arlo Guthrie, THe Moody Blues

Movies:

Dark City, Patton, Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Dawn of the Dead (78) Shadow of a Doubt, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, RoboVampire, LASERBLAST, The amazingly Awful Left Behind movies and other amazingly awful Christinan Armageddon movies, Casino, The Aviator, Hotel Rwanda, Mystic River, Nixon, JFK, Fort Apache, The Man Who Killed Liberty Vallance, Basic Instinct, Soldier of Orange, Starship Troopers, Robocop,

Television:

The Shield, The Sopranos, King of the Hill, Chappelle's Show, Babylon 5, Frontline

Books:

The Great Shark Hunt, Hell's Angels, SSHE, Rethinking the Korean War, The Meaning of Hitler, Seductive Poison: A Jonestowns Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple, The 9/11 Commission Report, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, Helter Skelter

Heroes:

Those who use the shift key while sending instant messages, and Jimmy Carter.