filmmaking (currently not going anywhere), drawing/painting(former cartoonist wannabe),video games (mostly RPGs), Glow Golf (it's miniature golf that glows in the dark!), TV on DVD (which really shouldn't count as a hobby)-Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Heroes (some older shows I like include Futurama, the Simpsons when they were excellent, Star Trek, the X-Files, Arrested Development, the Prisoner, Spaced, Firefly, Saturday morning cartoons of yore, and SCTV-but I don't watch much TV anymore)

Alien, Brazil (and most Terry Gilliam), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Lord of the Rings adaptations, the Indiana Jones movies, Sin City, Bride of Frankenstein, Blade Runner, Die Hard I- III, Amelie, Jason and the Argonauts, Ghost World, Jaws, the Jerk, Pan's Labyrinth, the Dark Crystal & Labyrinth, Harold & Maude, the Coen Brothers in general, Akira Kurosawa samurai stuff (Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress etc) Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz, Die Hard, Sergio Leone westerns (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, etc),the Wicker Man, Suspiria, Bubba Ho-Tep, Clockwork Orange, John Carpenter movies (the Thing, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China), or anything with Vincent Price or Christopher Lee in them...and an unbreakable love (which has withstood many slings and moments of doubt) for the original Star Wars trilogy (and some of the spinoffs. My favorite obscure character is Zuckuss).

All kinds of stuff. I usually just put something on while I'm drawing or what-have-you.

A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)

Anything by Philip K. Dick, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Silverberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula LeGuin, Terry Pratchett, Michael Chabon,etc. Also Tintin, Bone, Hellboy, Preacher, Calvin & Hobbes, Sandman, Lone Wolf & Cub, Usagi Yojimbo, E.C. Comics (like Tales from the Crypt), Peter Bagge, some superheroes, French comics, anything written by Alan Moore.

Currently reading:
Fluke(Christopher Moore)

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Outsider artists. Renaissance faires. Dusty old bookstores. Local theater. Neat old brick buildings. Cartoons and comic strips from the thirties and forties. Genuine eccentrics.

^I think this all sounds sort of pretentious and makes me seem cooler than I am.

Bosses. Marsupial moms. November through April in Western Washington. Sean Hannity. Arrogant hipsters (hippies are cool sometimes. I guess some hipsters are nice, but many of them are kind of smug and condescending). Carlos Mencia, aka the one comedian everyone can agree to despise. That puppy dog expression Zack Braff does sometimes. Tuna sandwiches. Maureen Dowd columns. Those shows on the G4 channel that make some former model who isn't funny the host just so even more frustrated guys will watch. Sports dads. That Nickelback song about being a rock star that makes my ears bleed whenever it comes on. The scene in 'Spider-Man 3' where Peter Parker starts playing the piano at the jazz club (what was that?!). The white gangstas who hang out on the front steps in front of my apartment being loud and obnoxious (I don't dislike rap. It's just that these guys are idiots who snicker when other people have to get by them). People who waste time complaining about trivial things that don't really matter.

I think I'm an okay enough guy. I recently moved, which has put a dent in my social life. I like to think I'm pleasantly dorky, but I may just be dorky. I couldn't really say.

I recently started posting on the http://www.socialanxiety.com sister site-username snickersnack. "Snicker-snack" is the sound the vorpal blade makes in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky".