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Kurt

Mad Hermit & Bizarre Mutant. But kinda likeable.

About Me

I'm old. Chubby. And balding. I'm pretty much okay with all of that, but living in a college town does tend to sting a bit every once in awhile. I work at a University library, supervising the evening circulation desk. I used to be able to get away with telling my collegiate aged friends, "Hey! I'm old enough to be your father...'s cooler younger brother! Be nice." Sadly, these days, it's more of a "You can call me 'Daddy', if you like." situation. The creep factor with that is just too much for me to handle, so I more or less play Mad Hermit, living with my adored Spouse-Cat and generally sticking to watching movies, reading, and drinking beer in the lounge right next door to where I live. Not much of a lifestyle, I admit, but the cat is really, really cute.

My Interests

Roleplaying games, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Masked Mexican Wrestler films, Godzilla movies, Monty Python, history, literature--especially Arthurian, Pagan religions, weirdness, the bizarre and just about anything that a Mundane would find frightening or disturbing.

I'd like to meet:

Well. Anybody with anything interesting to say, I suppose. 'Specially if they're NOT Russian. I get messages from Russian women desperate to marry me all the time. Apparently, I'm quite the rage in Siberia! Yep. "The Valentino of Vladivostok", that could be my destiny. Or...maybe not.

Music:

Geez. Everything from Sade to Rammstein. Depending on mood. Particularly fond of Garbage and Rob Zombie, but I love surf guitar too. NO Rap, Hip Hop, or Country! (except for selected Johnny Cash songs. You canNOT be even moderately cool and not appreciate something Cash did.) Music is background noise to me. It's what's playing while I'm reading. Doesn't mean much more than that to me.

Movies:

All Horror films, though I prefer genuine Monster movies to Slasher flicks. I'm especially fond of the old Universal Monsters, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Dracula etc. Godzilla Movies. All of them. SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!! Weird foreign flicks. David Lynch films. Film Noir. Odd comedies like "Triggerhappy", "Shakes the Clown" and even, goddess help me, "Young Einstein". I cannot stand movies that are full of CGI. Or are paced like a video game. Too old for that damn ADHD crap.

Television:

All flavors of Star Trek. Babylon 5. The new Battlestar Galactica. Twin Peaks. Profit. X-Files. Pretty much anything SF or Horror oriented.

My Blog

Not much to say, actually.

Heya. I don't normally post on this blog thingie. I do my online griping on LiveJournal which is open to friends only. If, for any bizarre reason, you'd like to read those entries, I'd be happy to a...
Posted by Kurt on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:50:00 PST