Paul Noble

Hackettstown High, Attended 1994 - 1997, Class of 1997

Pope John XXIII Regional High School, Hackettstown, Penn, Temple

University of Pennsylvania, Attended 1997 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, History

Interim Commander of the Occupying Forces

writing, film, being a smartass, commenting on world politics with americanized eyes, open mic stand up comedy

Catch-22, Deerslayer, The Spy, Godfather, Lady in the Lake, Long Goodbye, Red Harvest, The Best War Ever, Ender's Game, A Pocket Mirror for Heroes, Marx-Engels Reader, Dictionary, Thesaurus, DSM-IV, PDR, Edgar Allen Poe, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Chandler, James Fenimore Cooper, Immanuel Kant, Balthasar Gracian, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Shakespeare, Don DeLillo, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Philip K Dick, JRR Tolkien, Nick Hornby, Ian Fleming, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, James Ellroy, James Henry, Tim O'Brien, William Peter Blatty, Dashiell Hammett, Elie Wiesel, Evan Hunter, Joseph Conrad, Philip Roth, Dennis Lehane, James M Cain, Runyan, Pearl S Buck, James Thurber, Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, Wells, Ritchie, Westlake, Patricia Highsmith, Reed Arvin, Mark Bowden, Ruth Rendell, Marcus Aurelius, Assorted Narrative Histories, Ethan Coen's Gates of Eden

Hudsucker Proxy, Jesus' Son, anything by, Neal Labute, Coen Bros, Kubrick, Michael Mann, David O Russell, Gondry, Almadovar, P T Anderson, Wes Anderson, Inarritu, Fincher, Dr. Strangelove, Princess Bride, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Fight Club, High Fidelity, 24 Hour Party People, Adaptation, City of God, Heat

indie rock snobbery, hip hop with good lyrics/music, if by country you mean johnny cash and only cash- then yes, piano jazz trios, anything composed by Cookie Monster

the wire. sopranos. aqua teen hunger force. it's always sunny in philadelphia.

Leo

i'm that bottle rocket that got soaked, but still lit.
still flew.

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the
strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is
marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs,
and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy
cause. The man who at best knows the triumphs of high achievement and
who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his
place will never be with those cold timid souls who never knew victory
or defeat."

-- Teddy Roosevelt