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Andy

I'm a nerd.

About Me

The descriptor above pretty much says it all. Well, I lie. But it says a lot. I am a gamer, an academic, and part-time... something-something?

My Interests

Gaming (tabletop, electronic, you name it), weaponry, reading, running, exercising, history (military history), chemistry, miniature modelling, soda.I would like to consider myself a pretty open-minded person, willing to try just about anything.

Music:

Nickelback, videogame/anime soundtracks, Evanescence (sometimes), Linkin Park, Seether, Weezer, Simon and Garfunkel, The Killers, Yoko Kanno, Rilo Kiley, The Bravery

Movies:

Fight Club, Terminator 2, Black Hawk Down, A Bridge Too Far, A Walk to Remember, Master and Commander, Band of Brothers (mini-series), Life as a House, Macross Plus: Movie Edition, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, The Boondock Saints, Grosse Point Blank, Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction, Momento

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, Gilmore Girls, Everwood, The O.C., Soldier of Fortune, Felicity, The History Channel, Arrested Development, Deadwood, Over There (?)

Books:

Black Hawk Down (...I guess Mark Bowden?), Empire Falls (Richard Russo), Prozac Nation (Elizabeth Wurtzel), Tanith series (Dan Abnett), Microserfs (Douglas Coupland), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), any of the Garth Ennis Punisher graphic novels (Born), 'Tis (Frank McCourt), Unintended Consequences (John Ross)

Heroes:

Are there heroes anymore? The late Dr. Carl Scott. Susan Berg. I owe both of you big.