27 years old

Single

I am a 27 year old artist living in the suburban sprawl south-west of the city of Chicago. I create awards (plaques, trophies, acrylic pieces) for a living, mainly laying out text and manipulating graphics to work with the laser engraving process.

In my free time I enjoy reading, listening to music, going to concerts, traveling, and spending time with my close friends.

Art, Music, History, Typography, Psychology (particularly how art/design/color influence mood), Philosophy, The Paranormal (from a skeptic's perspective), Interior Design/Total Environments, Video Games (Xbox 360 & PC), Travel, True Crime

1349, Aborted, Aborym, Abscess, Abyss, Aeon, After Death, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Alas, The Amenta, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Anaal Nathrakh, Anal Cunt, Anathema, Angelcorpse, Anorexia Nervosa, Antaeus, Anthrax, Apocalyptica, Arch Enemy, Archeon, Arcturus, Asesino, Asphyx, At The Gates, Autopsy, Averse Sefira, Axis of Advance, Azarath, Bach, Bad Religion, Beethoven, Behemoth, Belphegor, Benediction, The Berzerker, Biohazard, The Black Dahlia Murder, Blood Has Been Shed, Bloodbath, Blutige Nacht, Blutvial, Bolt Thrower, Brain Drill, Brian Posehn, Broken Hope, Brujeria, Brutal Truth, Brutality, Burn the Priest, Burnt by the Sun, Byzantine, Cancer, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Cardiac Arrest, Catalyst, Cattle Decapitation, Centinex, Circle of Dead Children, Combichrist, Control Denied, Corrosion of Conformity, Council of the Fallen, Cradle of Filth, Crawl, Crionics, Crowbar, Cryptopsy, The Cult, Damageplan, Dark Funeral, Deaden, Death, Deeds of Flesh, Defecation, Defleshed, Deicide, Destroyer 666,
Dethklok, DevilDriver, The Devin Townsend Band, Devourment, Diabolic, Dim Mak, Dimmu Borgir, Disembowelment, Disfear, Disincarnate, Disinter, Dismember, Disrupt, Dissenter, Divine Empire, Divine Eve, Divine Heresy, Doom, Down, Dragon Lord, DragonForce, Drawn & Quartered, The Dust Brothers, Dying Fetus, Entombed, Estuary, Ex Deo, Excruciating Terror, Exhumed, Exit-13, Exmortem, Extreme Noise Terror, Fear Factory, Fleshcrawl, Fleshgrind, Forest of Impaled, The Forsaken, Funebrarum, Funerus, General Surgery, Ghost Brigade, Goatrot, Goatwhore, God Dethroned, Godflesh, Gojira, Goreaphobia, Gored, Gorefest, Gorgasm, Grave, Grip Inc., Hate, Hate Eternal, Hate Plow, The Haunted, Hecate Enthroned, Helmet, Hemdale, Human Remains, Hypocrisy,
Immolation, Immortal, Impaled Nazarene, Impetigo, Impiety, In Flames, Incantation, Insision, Internal Bleeding, Internecine, Iron Maiden, Jungle Rot, Kataklysm, Keep of Kalessin, Krisiun, Lamb of God, Leng T’che, Lethal Prayer, Leviathan, Life of Agony,
Living Sacrifice, Lock Up, Lost Soul, Lykathea Aflame, M.O.D., Macabre, Machine Head, Malevolent Creation, Marduk, Marilyn Manson, Massacre, Mastodon, Meathook Seed, Megadeth, Melvins, Meshuggah, Metallica, Mi’Gauss, Mindrot, Ministry, Misery Index, Misery Loves Co., Monstrosity, Morbid Angel, Mortician, Mortification, Murder Squad, Myrkskog, Mz 412, Naglfar, Nailbomb, Napalm Death, Nasum, Necrophagia, Nile, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Obituary, Old Man’s Child, Oppressor, Optimum Wound Profile, Origin, Pantera, Pantheon-I, Pestilence, Phobia, Pig Destroyer, Plague Bringer, Primus, Prong, Psyclon Nine, Psycroptic, Putrid Pile, Pyrexia, Rellik, Resurrection, Rotting Christ, S.O.D., Sadus, Sallah, Samael, Satyricon, The Senseless, Sepultura, Severe Torture, Sinister, Six Feet Under, Skinless, Slayer, Slipknot, Soilent Green, Static-X, Strapping Young Lad, Stravinsky, Stuttering John, Suffocation, Suicidal Tendencies, Sunn O))), Superjoint Ritual, System of a Down, Terrorizer, Testament, Thunderbolt, Today is the Day, Torture Division, Trauma, Tyr, Ugly Kid Joe, Unleashed, Unmerciful, Vader, Vehemence, Vintersorg, Vital Remains, Vomitory, Waco Jesus, White Zombie, Winter, X-Cops, Yattering, Zyklon

28 Days Later, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Fight Club, Shaun of the Dead, Frailty, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Metal: A Headbangers Journey, Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie, Sin City, Red Dragon, Batman: The Dark Knight

Classic Literature, Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Survivor, Lullaby, etc.), Nietzsche's "The Antichrist", Machiavelli's "The Prince", Huxley's "Brave New World", "A Clockwork Orange" "1984" "Animal Farm" "The Collector", The Satanic Bible, "The Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend" "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, And The Future of Reason" "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism" "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Told" "The Dark Side of Christian History" "The Encyclopedia of Hell" "The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers" "Our Dumb Century"