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Ron

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About Me

I'm the classic Type A personality: perfectionist and workaholic.I grew up in the VA suburbs of DC, went to college in the area, and work here. It's an exciting place to live if you enjoy politics and history like I do.In my free time, I like to go to the movies or meet up w/ friends or read a cheap SciFi novel or just browse through book stores.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Myself in five...er...10 years. Yeah. That'd be cool. Also, the Red Skull.

Music:

My musical tastes are a bit eclectic: Cool jazz from the late 50s and early 60s (e.g. "Kind of Blue," obviously, also "Ascenseur Pour L'Echefaud"); also, I still listen to 80s heavy metal (e.g. Metallica pre-Black Album, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer); And, i hate to admit it, but there is definitely a Top 40 station programmed on my car radio. Really, I can listen to about anything, but I have no tolerance for country music. Oh, yeah, duh, I really like Morrissey & the Smiths too.

Movies:

Some of my favorites are: Rear Window, High Fidelity, ST2-Wrath of Khan. I can watch these over and over. Oh, and I love a good horror movie. There's nothing like going to a theater and having the bejeezus scared out of you.

Television:

I don't really watch much television in my free time --- mainly because I canceled my cable subscription, which I did because I resented paying the cable company so much every month.I Netflix though, so I see a lot of movies and some television series. Right now I'm watching "Deadwood."

Books:

I spend a lot of my free time reading cheap fiction. Nothing too stressful on the mind and nothing more than a few hundred pages. Life's too short, and normally 50 pages into a novel I'm already figuring out how many pages remain and thinking about what I'll pick up next. Thanks for the short attention span, MTV. Lately i've been reading A LOT of star trek novels, but that's not all I read. Some of my favorite fiction authors are Donald Antrim (the 100 Brothers was really imaginative); Nick Hornby, but I think the quality of his writing is maybe falling off recently. I think that William Shatner is an outstanding sci-fi author...seriously!

Heroes:

Captain America. Flint. Batman. Optimus Prime.