Todd Y.

Fugazi, New Model Army, Laurie Anderson, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Evens, Lungfish, The Beatles, The Dead Kennedys, Tom Waits, Saul Williams, Pink Floyd, Dead Prez, Crass, Consolidated, Nine Inch Nails, The Clash, The Doors, Leonard Cohen, Public Enemy, KRS-One, John Coltrane, Vox Populi, . . .

The Wheel of Time series, The Dispossessed, Illusions:the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Invisible Man (Ellison, not Wells), Uncle Tom's Children, Song of Solomon, Schizmatrix, Sandman graphic novels, The Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Samuel Beckett's plays, Shakespeare's tragedies and histories, and I could go on and on . . ., Shakespeare, Beckett, Robert Jordan, Richard Wright, Neil Gaiman, William Blake, Emerson, Thoreau, Sartre, Alan Moore, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Clive Barker, Philip K. Dick, Philip Larkin, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet, Kevin Smith, . . .

The Matrix trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy(extended versions), Videodrome, Boondock Saints, Henry V (w/ Kenneth Branagh), My Own Private Idaho, Willy Wonka (the Gene Wilder version -- sorry, Johnny), Fight Club, Serenity, Thank You for Smoking, Lots of Documentaries lately, . . .

Deadwood, Battlestar Gallactica, Rome, Oz, Firefly, Babylon 5, Sopranos, Weeds

Reading, Writing, Music (Listening and Performing), Acting, Directing, Role-playing Games, Card Games (parlor-type as well as Magic: The Gathering), PC games, Arguing, Philosophizing, Making People laugh, making people think, making myself laugh and think, . . .

Unaffiliated (though most people describe me as liberal)

Agnostic (recovering Catholic)

Shepherd University; Mashall University

Hedgesville High School

Vocalist for Vox Populi (punk band) ; founding member of The Rude Mechanicals Medieval and Renaissance Players