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UPDATE (12.04.08):

So, as suspected, NaNoWriMo was an atomic bomb of Failure. However! It did get me back in gear writing-wise, so that's something, I guess. I'm now working on two different projects;

The first one is an historical fiction piece about a 'family' of Viking berserkers. A friend has called my description of it 'Shakespearean'. So, that's good, right?

The other story is about a male prostitute, a cyborg mad scientist, and a zombie apocalypse. Be prepared for sexual gratuity/perversity, transhumanism from Hell, and plenty of snark.

...What? Actually, I HAVE been called 'eclectic' before, how'd you know? =P

Anyway, new contest up; 'Dreamshell's Pick-A-Pic'. It's what it sounds like. Only difference is my pics are AWESOME. So go and enter that. Seriously. See if you can resist the urge to write after witnessing the kickassery of the pics I chose. It's not possible.

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...Who, me?

I'm just some guy (that's appropriately humble, right?). I'm fascinated by serial killing, but not an actual serial killer. Simply put, I'm a film and literature fanatic (I like music, too, but who doesn't?).

Here's some miscellania;

(Some) Favorite Authors:
H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh, Carlton Mellick III, China Miéville, David Wong, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Baxter, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, David Brin, Charles Bukowski, Mark Z. Danielewski, Ray Bradbury, Fyodor Doestoevsky, Kevin Dole 2, Clive Barker, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman

(Some) Favorite Movies:
The Abyss, Alien/Aliens, American Psycho, Big Trouble In Little China, Braindead (Dead Alive in the U.S.), Brazil, City of God, A Clockwork Orange, Dark City, Dawn of the Dead (both the original and the remake), Day of the Dead, Donnie Darko, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Event Horizon, Fellini-Satyricon, Fido, Fight Club, From Dusk Till Dawn, Ghost In the Shell, Gladiator, GoodFellas, The Great Yokai War, Hard Candy, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Ichi the Killer, Killing Zoe, Kontroll, The Last Temptation of Christ, A Life Less Ordinary, M, The Machinist, Memento, Night of the Living Dead, Office Space, Oldboy, One Hour Photo, Pi, Primer, The Professional, The Proposition, Re-Animator, Reservoir Dogs, Session 9, Sphere, Spirited Away, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Sweet Hereafter, The Thing, Trainspotting, True Romance, Videodrome

Favorite TV Shows:
Burn Notice, Dexter, Code Geass, Death Note, Fringe, Frisky Dingo, Invasion, Odyssey 5, Profit, Rescue Me, Strange World, Threshold, Twin Peaks (at least initially...), The Venture Bros.

Favorite Comic Book Writers:
Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman (again), Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Andrew Vachss, Brian K. Vaughan, Rick Veitch

Interests:
-Punk genres (cyber-, postcyber-, steam-/clock-, splatter-, diesel-, as well as their -prep counterparts, which focus on the same subjects, but put them in a more positive light), 80's/industrial music, ancient history, autumn/Halloween, bizarro fiction, body modification, extropianism, films and filmmaking, "horror-fi", illustrating, libertarianism, martial arts, the New Weird, (literary) postmodernism, trans-/posthumanism, urban fantasy, realism/magical realism/surrealism, serial killers, people and all aspects related to, weaponry, writing, zombies.

So, um, I guess read my stuff when I put it up? Yeah, that sounds about right.

"92% of American teens today are retarded enough to think that 92% of American teens today would die if Abercrombie & Fitch said it wasn't cool to breathe anymore. If you're part of the 8% that knows this is total BS and that putting up some dumbass 'statistic' about it in your bio is just a desperate act to fit in with your preferred niche, put this in your profile."