My name is Nathan, obviously (it says so above the picture). But, here's what you might not know:
- I am an aspiring screenwriter/director attending the University of Texas at Arlington.
- I am currently working on a feature length screenplay about the second world war in the Aleutian Islands . I am a huge history buff when it comes to WW2, and I have been to Alaska once, so I feel I'm qualified to write this.
- I also write short films- both of my own design, and on spec for other student filmmakers.
- I am an aquarist (the hobbyist not the astrological sign), and I enjoy designing aquarium layouts and stocking and maintaining fish. Only freshwater, no breeding, nothing too horribly exotic, just nice looking stuff that I can keep up in my spare time. My coolest fish is a thirteen-inch Black Ghost Knife eel ... no, seriously, I have a huge black eel.
- I am a fan of cars, generally imports over domestic, more specifically cars that go sideways. My friendly and reliable automobile is a 2001 VW Jetta Wolfsburg Edition 1.8T, her name is Lola. I really dig the sounds turbochargers make.
- I love music but I can't play it... or dance for that matter. I'm hoping to pick up the piano one day. I usually listen to punk in the daytime and techno after dark... unless I'm not listening to either.
- I have a semi-recently acquired "Harry Potter" scar on my forehead. It hurt like a sonofabitch.
- I am a total nerd when it comes to video games. I actually used to work at a souless Gamestop , and surprisingly it didn't manage to sour me on gaming. I'm really into RPGs, like the Final Fantasy series, but never really have that much time to invest, so I just end up kicking ass in any number of frenetic action titles. Also, I totally can make you cry if you play me in Halo, or Initial D Aracade Stage.
- I think steampunk is the coolest science fiction genre ever created- Skygunner is still one of my favorite PS2 titles, and I am bound and determined to produce a quality steampunk film one day.
- I draw horizontal lines through my 7 's and Z 's at sporadic intervals, and I also have a bad habit of writing all my N 's as capital letters and all my t's as lower-case.
- I am a retired bartender, and though I dislike the industry now (and most bars for that matter), I still enjoy mixing and consuming drinks (and I'm not too bad with the flair).
- I believe that High Fidelity is the most underrated romantic comedy ever made, and that Ring of Red for the PS2 is the most underrated strategy game ever developed.
- I drink bourbon, straight, like any good southern gentleman should. And I'm talking the kinds of bourbons that come from former Confederate states, none of this Canadian Crown Royal bullshit, I mean Jack, or Jim, or Evan- you know, good ol' boys.
- One time I kicked a puppy over a house... just kidding, it landed somewhere on the roof.
- I read Playboy, I've been a subscriber since 2004 on the student special rate, and I don't have a problem telling people that. I think it is, hands down, the best magazine written for men, bar none, and I don't see anything chauvanistic or degrading about it. I'm also mildly obsessed with playmate Sara Jean Underwood.
- I've got family all over the... um, rural south. One really great branch out in the Texas hill country and a much smaller (recently acquainted) branch out in the Misery- I mean, Missouri farmlands. I'm still not sure how I fit into it.
- I have lived in New York City, and Brooklyn (when I was rather young), thus I am allowed to wear t-shirts that bear the names of those places... and the rest of you aren't*.
(* - unless you used to, or still do, live there)
- I also spent a lot of my childhood in Maryland, but when I say that out loud, it really doesn't sound very cool.
- I've got an older brother who's an artist, he's awesome .
- I've also got a younger brother, but he's really just a pain in the ass. Ha ha ha.
- I have a fantastic girlfriend named Monica, who I can't show off online because she's too cool (read: smart) to have a Myspace. But take my word for it, she's far too good looking and intelligent to be kicking it with a schmuck like me. I'm sure I'll be found out at any moment now.
- Most importantly, I have some of the best friends ever, period. And I'd much rather just be chill with them than waste excessive amounts of money at a noisy, overpriced, obnoxious bar or club. That's just how I roll.
AIM - HardluckXIII
Read how much I used to hate most of everything here: The Hardluck Life .
See my old photography junk here:
DeviantArt .
Current Favorite YTMND :
Bob Marley, Corporate Dynamo
Current Favorite Quotes:
"I hate bars that have a selection of like 500 different beers. If I wanted to feel like an idiot ordering from an overly-extensive and confusing menu, I'd drink wine. I'm a man who likes his beer in a red, plastic cup and served with a hint of ping-pong ball residue."
- Aaron Karo
"This is how it works, you peer inside yourself, you take the things you like, and try to love the things you took, and then you take that love you made and stick it into some- someone else's heart pumping someone else's blood, and walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed, but even if if does, you'll just do it all again."
- Regina Spektor 'On the Radio'
"Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and sweat and tears, and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job."
- James Woods
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
- Charles Bukowski
"At the rate of progress since 1800, every American who lived into the year 2000 would know how to control unlimited power. He would think in complexities unimaginable to an earlier mind. He would deal with problems altogether beyond the range of earlier society. To him the nineteenth century would stand on the same plane with the fourth--equally childlike--and he would only wonder how both of them, knowing so little, and so weak in force, should have done so much."
- Henry Adams (1907)
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