Markwood

mass/art. SIM for life, motherfucker.

pro pixelfucker / folk hero / urban legend

theboysnight.com, repressed GD's everywhere, merrimack valley hardcore 1996

rock and roll, skateboarding, doing the art, comic books, real books, writing, yelling, anime, playing guitars, soccer, collage, people watching, sleep, coca cola, video games, self-deprication, violence for comedic effect

BOOKS: neuromancer, cryptonomicon, kavalier and clay, about a boy, high fidelity, neverwhere COMICS: appleseed, akira, dark knight returns, v for vendetta, watchmen, hard boiled, hellboy, grendel, popbot, channel zero, blue monday, jimmy corrigan, geisha

THE GOONIES, REPO MAN, MALLRATS, akira, buckaroo banzai, fugazi's instrument, x-men, x2, FLCL, G.T.O., komodo, anything with john cusack or godzilla. DIRECTORS: hal hartley, akira kurosawa, wong kar wai, guy ritchie

sugar, fugazi, quicksand, jawbreaker, idlewild, shotmaker, engine down, the mars volta, sunny day/fire theft, lifetime, kid dynamite, refused, at the gates, kerosene 454, bythegraceofgod, the haunted, q and not u, peter gabriel, the fucking champs, frail

i quit t.v.. i wasted too many perfectly good days watching it. but i used to like the simpsons, ed, and night court. night court was fucking awesome.

my life is pretty good, i suppose. i went to art school
for a little too long, but now i have a cool job making
art, so it paid off. i work for a videogame company, we're
making a fantasy game, so i get to make magic axes and
dragons and stuff like that. it's painfully dorky, but the
work is great fun. i used to be in the best rock band you
never heard, now i just go out to see my friends' bands
play. i used to write an awesome little zine, now i just
write long emails. i used to make art for fun, now... well
fuck, i make art all day, it's hard to stay motivated to
make art at night. but i'm trying to find the time,
because i tend to go crazy if i don't. earlier this year,
i was told 25 was old enough to live alone and be a crazy
old cat man, so i'm running with it. i live by myself with
my cat, moustache, who (incidentally) is fucking
hilarious. i have lived around the boston area all my
life, and in the city proper for the past eight years, i'm
about ready to move. i'm here for another few years (until
the game i'm working on ships), and then i'm thinking
chicago. i like it there, my kind of city. years of
chasing after indie rocker girls has left me with an
incredible knack for making mixtapes, i'll make you one if
you ask nice. i was sXe for ten years, now i smoke cigars
occasionally. i didn't get back into drinking or anything
harder, never really was my thing. i'll still hang out at
bars with friends, you sort of have to if you want to have
a social life. i like to think that i am equal parts
d.i.y. hardcore punk / skateboarder / and artist, though
i'm sure the percentages are not that even. i talk too
much. i write too much. i listen to heavy metal, and i'll
kick your boyfriend/girlfriend's ass to get next to you,
if need be.

[1] slightly jaded, down to earth kids who have paid their
dues and have their shit together. know who you are and
what you're about, and be sure to check your drama at the
door, thanks. i've had some success with meeting cool kids
on this thing, i'm hoping to continue doing so. drop me a
line, we'll figure it out. [2] aging skate rats who want
to join my posse of 21+ skaters. it's all about rolling
out and doing no-complies and bonelesses in a parking lot
at 3a.m.. [3] chicago kids. i think i'm moving there in a
few years, it'd be good to have some connections before i
touch down. [4] the female equivalent of a rickenbacker
330, preferably in jet black or red sunburst. i ask a lot,
i know. i want a girl who understands the importance of
fistfights in a healthy relationship. the dainty and
submissive thing is for suckers, i want a girl who will
punch me in the face if she thinks i deserve it. a rock
betty who doesn't fuck around. no weak women need apply.
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