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Good day, my name is *****. I am a freelance videogame journalist. I write articles and reviews for videogame magazines and websites. Someday very soon I hope to net a fulltime job in this field. I am very proud of my four-year Bachelor's Degree in journalism.
I was born into a dysfunctional middle-class family of half Croatian/half Jewish descent (some mix, huh?). When I was four years-old, my parents had me enrolled in the Magnet Program for gifted children at school. My exceptionally high public school entrance test score had labeled me a genius and thus great things were expected of me from thereon out. Watch Malcolm in the Middle sometime and you'll get a small taste of what my life was like from kindergarden to highschool.
I mostly credit videogames for keeping me alive through my tumultuous existence thus far. From an early age, I developed an undwindling passion for the electronic arts, as well as reading and writing. I'm actually currently working on two videogames of my own creation, Avant-Garde and Toonageddon: East vs. West, as well as an original script for the former.
If you haven't guessed by now, I am the epitome of anti-mainstream. You drive a car, I walk and take public transportation; You listen to popular music, I listen to videogame soundtracks and 80s music; You watch Family Guy, I watch The Boondocks; You're bumping and grinding at some ecstacy club in Manhattan, I'm that creepy guy standing in the corner watching you while quietly sipping my drink. Oh wait, I don't go to clubs.
I am very geeky; I am unpredictable; When riled, I bite. Hard; I rarely put others before myself; I can be overly sensitive at times; I have a strange sense of humor. I don't buy into that "Do unto others" BS. I'm nice to people who deserve it. The better you treat me, the better I treat you. The same applies conversely. If you don't think you can handle any of this, then save us both the trouble and don't be my friend. Otherwise, thanks. :)

My Interests

Videogames, writing, reading, working out, anime, manga, ping-pong, pool, hanging out with friends, fantasizing.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's favorite movie, TV show and book are NOT Fight Club, Family Guy and Catcher in the Rye respectively.

P.S.- I'm no longer accepting friend requests from people I don't know unless I receive an introductory message first. Sorry, but there's too many spammers and hackers on myspace and I prefer to play it safe.

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Music:

The Black Mages, Nobuo Uematsu, Hellion Sounds, Stephen Kennedy, Sean Mustin, Jan Van Valberg, Noriyuki Iwadare, Tomoya Tomita, Kenichiro Fukui, Nories Miura, Isao Mizoguchi and various other independent artists who remix videogame music. Slipknot, Michael Jackson, Queen, Barry White, Rob Zombie, Modest Mouse, Chronic Future, Disturbed, John Williams.

Movies:

Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Ghostbusters, Star Wars: Episodes III-VI, Rocky series, Along Came Polly, The Fifth Element, Dawn of the Dead (the remake), Naked Weapon, The Rock, Spirited Away, Independence Day.

Television:

The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Lost, ER, Battlestar Galactica, Real Time with Bill Maher, NBC Nightly News, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragonball Z, Blue Gender, The Ugly Yet Beautiful World, Trigun, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

Books:

Beowulf, Grendel, Hunger, Love Hina, GTO, The Ultimate History of Videogames, Ender's Game, A Spell for Chameleon, The Midnight Club.

Heroes:

My uncle Jeff, Shigeru Miyamoto, Rocky Balboa, Bill Maher, V.

My Blog

Dream Journal- Babidi's Castle

I found myself in a city I'd never been in before. I look toward the horizon and in the distance is a very ominous, city-sized fortress that looks like it doesn't belong there. It's surrounded by a wh...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:59:00 PST

Ghost Rider

Just came back from seeing it with Scott. It was weird seeing a movie with him on a Saturday night seeing as how his working closing shifts at Blocbkuster for the past seven years prevented us from do...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:10:00 PST

Quiz for the ladies: Do you go for jerks?

I found this interesting little article on Yahoo this evening that tries to explain why so many women fall for bad boys. There's also a quiz at the end you can take to see, essentially, if you go for ...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:45:00 PST

One more reason why Fox News needs to die

John Gibson: Reporters Who Ignore Anna Nicole Smith To Focus On Iraq War Are 'Snobs'I did a doubletake when I caught eye of this article. I'm not going to say anything about it seeing as how the headl...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:52:00 PST

The phenomenon that is Second Life

Remember this screenshot I posted?Alright, I give. That guy in the ninja/samurai outfit is me gettin' my groove on in a free online PC game called Second Life (Think The Sims, but on an unfathomably h...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:27:00 PST

Moving right along

I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but I just cant stop telling everyone how absolutely fantastic I feel to be done with AG & WG! Lately I'm in an infinit...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:49:00 PST

When comedies frighten you....

I recently signed up for a trial version for Netflix. The first movie I decided to rent was a comedy by Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill). It's called Idiocracy. The movie was hailed ...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:19:00 PST

It's Super Bowl Sunday....and I don't care

So today is the so-called "Big Game." The day that gives jocks an excuse to get drunk and rowdy, hilbillies to act like....hillbillies and ad execs to charge companies $2 million for 30-second commerc...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:14:00 PST

Take the blasphemy challenge

A special treat for all of you atheists out there. Come on, don't be shy.Join the sinning :D
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:29:00 PST

You know you've spent too much time on myspace when....

You start having dreams about the people on it. And not just the people on your friends list either.So last night I had a dream that I was travelling around with a buncha people from myspace, mostly p...
Posted by Hopeful Ninja on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:29:00 PST