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About Me

How to start?
I am probably the biggest nerd I know. I love Star Trek: The Next Generation, I play Magic: The Gathering, I roleplay ninety percent of my free time away and read/write for the rest. I love school, and I love Shakespeare. I have a hard time holding a conversation with anyone if it's not a debate or if it's not about school/homework assignments. My social life is almost non-existant outside of school.
Do I regret this? No. I've always taken pride in my nerdiness, and I probably always will.

My Interests

Magic: The Gathering
Books, especially those by Orwell.
Programming
Journalism

I'd like to meet:

Irvine Welsh, the brilliant man who wrote this:

"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday night. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons."

Music:

Alphabetically:
AC/DC
Alter Bridge
Audioslave
The Blue Man Group
Bush
Coal Chamber
Danko Jones
The Deftones
Disturbed
Everlast
Finger Eleven
Frank Sinatra
Godsmack
Guns N Roses
I Mother Earth
In Flames
James Blunt
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Cash
Korn
Led Zeppelin
Machine Head
Matthew Good
Mudvayne
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nirvana
Oasis
Orgy
Our Lady Peace (Clumsy and pre)
Pearl Jam
Pilate
Pink Floyd
Queen
The Raconteurs
REM
Sevendust
Soundgarden
Stabbing Westward
Staind
Stone Temple Pilots
System of a Down
The Tea Party
The Tragically Hip
Type-O-Negative
Velvet Revolver
Weezer
The White Stripes

Movies:

Again, alphabetically:
-28 Days Later
-A Few Good Men
-As Good As It Gets
-Apt Pupil
-Back to the Future Parts I-III
-Boondock Saints
-Born on the Fourth of July
-Canadian Bacon
-Capote
-Cellular
-Chasing Amy
-Clerks
-The Constant Gardener
-Crash
-Dazed and Confused -Doc Hollywood
-Dogma
-Dog Soldiers
-Earthsea
-Equilibrium
-Falling Down
-Fast Times at Ridgemont High
-Full Metal Jacket
-Good Will Hunting
-Hardball
-Highlander I-III
-Highlander: Endgame
-Home Alone
-Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
-Igby Goes Down
-The Island
-Judgment Night
-Kelly's Heroes
-Kung-Fu Hustle
-The Libertine
-Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
-Lord of War
-Mean Machine
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-Monty Python's Jabberwocky
-Munich
-Murder By Numbers
-Platoon
-Riding the Bullet
-The Ruling Class
-Saving Private Ryan
-Serenity
-Snatch
-Thank You for Smoking
-The Time Machine
-Trainspotting
-The Weather Man
-Willow
-X-Men
-X-Men II: X-Men United
-Zoolander

Television:

Once more, alphabetically:
-Clone High
-Criminal Minds
-The Colbert Report
-Corner Gas
-The Daily Show
-The Hour
-JAG
-Just For Laughs
-Law and Order: Criminal Intent
-Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
-Robot Chicken
-Star Trek: The Next Generation

Books:

And, finally, alphabetically:
-1984
-America: The Book
-Animal Farm
-An Inconvenient Truth
-Blindness
-Boiling Point
-Brave New World
-Down and Out in Paris and London
-Homage to Catalonia
-The Hunter's Blades Trilogy
-Shake Hands With the Devil
-Trainspotting
-The Picture of Dorian Gray

Heroes:

George Orwell
Stephen Colbert
Romeo Dallaire
The Tragically Hip
I Mother Earth
Al Gore
Jack Layton
King Louis XIV
Hugo Chavez
Irvine Welsh

My Blog

The Greatest Films of All Time (II)

Here it is, the sequel!!! And you know what they say about sequels. They're never as good as the first. Well, that's definately the case here: I'm doing movies numbered six through ten. (What a back a...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:55:00 PST

The Best Films of All Time...

...As According to Crann (Part One). Welcome, faithful readers, to another installment in what is quickly developing into an electronic journal of sorts for me (go figure).Today, I shall be listing&nb...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:20:00 PST

The Power of Suggestion

At this point in our lives, we should all know what the power of suggestion is. In Formula 51, the character Elmo McElroy (portrayed brilliantly by Samuel L. Jackson) uses it to peddle a placeb...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:49:00 PST

Rhyme Time

Crännicus: The four walls entertaining me are symbols of my contentment. says: Hey Kids Can Be The Most Ruthless People In The World. They Can Be Just, Supernaturally Cruel. just sent you a Nu...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:24:00 PST

A General Survey...

So, which of the following six is the biggest screen ham in Hollywood? To answer the survey, either send me a private message or post a reply here. Either works. Your choices are:&nb...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:33:00 PST

Life, According to Mr. Gates.

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He t...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:48:00 PST

The Benefits of Being Social

Humanity has been a social race since its earliest days, as ancient legends that have been passed down and intermingled with new twists, as well as cave drawings, have proven. This make...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:05:00 PST

Just An Idea I've Been Kicking Around...

Thanks to the suggestion from a certain friend of mine, I've been looking at writing another play to try and break the ice that has become the Sears Drama Festival. I've been flirting wi...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:06:00 PST

Something to Chuckle About...

I've got a brief page of chat logs, quotations from flicks that I find humorous, and what not for you folks to check out. I ask everyone involved first, so... It's not Candid Camera or anything. Cra...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:49:00 PST

The 05/06 Prom

Wow! A social gathering I actually enjoyed... now THAT is something. Good tunes, good times, good food, all around good folks. It was a pleasure to rock it out with the best graduating class to pass t...
Posted by Rock the Casbah on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:37:00 PST