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About
I'm a father of two who wages daily battles with words as an editor at a B2B publishing company. I also like to enjoy healthy doses of the rock, watch sports, play hockey, run, drink beer, read, work out, and occasionally play my guitar poorly. I also host a podcast, Completely Conspicuous, on which I share my views on news, music, sports, Dr. Pepper, etc.
Movies
Recent: Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Supremacy, Disturbia, The Lookout, Little Children, Blood Diamond, Little Miss Sunshine, Children of Men, Clerks 2, Half Nelson, The Departed. Classic: Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, Taxi Driver, The Godfather I and II, Raging Bull, Mean Streets, Strange Brew, Kingpin, Flirting With Disaster, A Fish Called Wanda, Slap Shot, Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Stripes, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Say Anything, Singles, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Do the Right Thing, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Music
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, MC5, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam, The Stooges, The New York Dolls, The Ramones, The Pixies, The Replacements, Husker Du, The Minutemen, Firehose, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, Bad Brains, Television, Talking Heads, The Police, Camper Van Beethoven, Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, The Tragically Hip, Sloan, The Pursuit of Happiness, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Urge Overkill, Screaming Trees, Afghan Whigs, the Twilight Singers, Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator, Alice in Chains, Prince, the White Stripes, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, Weezer, Big Black, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, PJ Harvey, The Pretenders, Parliament Funkadelic, The Breeders, Frank Black, Teenage Fanclub, Arcade Fire, Ben Folds, The Band, Death From Above 1979, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Metallica, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy. Afghan Whigs, Beck, Sleater Kinney, Sufjan Stevens, The Hold Steady, Mastodon, Iron Maiden, Johnny Thunders, The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, and plenty of others.
Television
SCTV, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Kids in the Hall, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Deadwood, Entourage, The Sopranos, Rescue Me, The Shield, 24, Nip/Tuck, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report.
Books
Recent: Thunder and Lightning: A No-B.S. Hockey Memoir, Love is a Mix Tape, Shame the Devil, The Namesake, The Watchmen, Fargo Rock City, Until I Find You. Classic: The World According to Garp, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, War and Peace (no really, I actually read it), High Fidelity, Killing Yourself to Live, The Game.
Activities
Playing with my daughters, running, writing, podcasting, reading, playing hockey.