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About
In college, I majored in fiction writing. I was also in a band called Sandpiper Air (and later, Citizens on Patrol); once, we shot a music video. Sometimes I still make music by myself.
Right after college, I wrote game reviews from home, worked as an actor, built websites, and worked in art toy retail.
Eleven months ago I moved from Chicago to San Francisco for a fresh start at a cool new job where I play games all day.
If you are still here, you might be looking for my work blog or personal blog/aggregation.
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Hump day time-waster Yesterday
Over at TIGSource, Derek just posted a link to Shift 3.
Shift 3 is the third in a series of neat little browser-based action/puzzle games. Each game appropriates both positive and negative space as platforms and obstacles. Once you have the knack of the puzzle physics, y...
Famicom cart customizations 3 days ago
Eagle-eyed Luke Plunkett over at Kotaku discovered My Famicase Exhibition, an online gallery of cartridges for made-up Famicom games. Each artist was apparently invited to dream up a video game, then create concept art to go onto his Famicom cart's label. Be sure to tak...
Footage from California Extreme 3 days ago
This weekend, we made it out to San Jose--barely--for this year's California Extreme, the classic arcade expo. Parkside Hall was crammed with video arcade and pinball machines spanning decades, including some contemporary machines (The Act, anybody?).
Set to the music of...
Video Games
Okami, Katamari Damacy, Guitar Hero, Wind Waker, Ocarina of Time, Taiko Drum Master, Gitaroo Man, Parappa the Rapper, Viewtiful Joe, Psychonauts, Alien Hominid, Geometry Wars, Crackdown, Viva Pinata, Trauma Center, Phoenix Wright, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Electroplankton, Astro Boy: Omega Factor, Typing of the Dead, Gabriel Knight, Tetris, Lumines
Movies
Alien, Aliens, Pi, Primer, Kairo, Tale of Two Sisters, Happiness of the Katakuris, Zebraman, Wild Zero, Battle Royale, Dark City, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine, Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, Last Life in the Universe, Spirited Away, Ghost World, The Man Without a Past, The Man Who Wasn't There, Tarkovsky's Mirror, The Return, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Tears of the Black Tiger: A Spicy Thai Western, Bloody Pit of Horror, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Wet Hot American Summer, Hot Fuzz, Rushmore, Hell House, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music, Devil and Daniel Johnston, Fearless Freaks
Music
M Ward, Julie Doiron, April March, Edith Frost, Archer Prewitt, Young People, The Unicorns, Mountain Goats, Grandaddy, Sparklehorse, Lali Puna, Matmos, Momus, Toog, Stereolab, Malajube, McLusky, The Gossip, Guitar Wolf, Wolfie, Tullycraft, Jetenderpaul, Havalina, Will Oldham, Okkervil River, Sea and Cake, Jenks "Tex" Carman, Wanda Jackson, Buddy Holly, Danielson Famile, Jai Agnish, No Doctors, Arcade Fire, Citizens on Patrol, Sandpiper Air
Recent Songs (VirbTunes) - see all
- Flight of The Conchords - Hiphopopotamus Vs. Rhymenoceros (feat. Rhymenoceros and the Hiphopopotamus)
- Screaming Trees - Change Has Come
- Flight of The Conchords - Hiphopopotamus Vs. Rhymenoceros (feat. Rhymenoceros and the Hiphopopotamus)
- Band Of Horses - Cigarettes, Wedding Bands
- pierre barouh - samba saravah
- Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
- Ennio Morricone - A Silhoutte Of Doom
- April March - Brainwash, Pt. 1
- The Causey Way - Suckers
- Fugazi - Burning
Television
Upright Citizens Brigade, Stella, Sifl + Olly, Da Ali G Show, Flight of the Conchords, Eerie Indiana, Game Center CX, Freaks and Geeks, Astro Boy, Sports Night, Big Love, Celebrity Poker Showdown, The Office, Family Ties, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Square One TV, Moral Court, Science Court, Home Movies
Books
Ghost World, David Boring, Jimmy Corrigan, Coraline, Wolves in the Walls, I Never Liked You, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Modern Coin Magic, Station Wagon Living, Joy of Cooking, Elements of Style, Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Post Office, Hot Water Music, The Pharmacist's Mate, Kitchen, Fortress of Solitude, Pop Surrealism, Everything Bad is Good for You, How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life, Sirens of Titan, the Bible, short stories, McSweeneys Quarterly Concern, Wholphin, Venus, Bitch, ReadyMade, MAKE: magazine, CRAFT:, Atomic Ranch, Juxtapoz, Giant Robot, GFW, EGM
Activities
Places
The Musee Mecanique in San Francisco, the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, the Anjelika Theater in New York City
Interests
the rock music, children's educational television programming, retro gaming, handheld gaming, gaming, comix, lowbrow, pop surrealism, digital distrubution, minute mysteries, eyeglasses, dulcimers, pet rats, t-shirts, pre-internet 1991-1994, magical realism, fantasticalness, calligraphy, my nib collection, learning to sew, oil pastels, horror make-up, liquid latex, non-flexible collodion, scar wax, prosthetics, doubles, doppelgaengers, duplicates, looming sense of dread, hypnagogic sleep paralysis, collective consciousness, memory and/or its unreliability, guilt, neurological disorders, cognitive linguistics, crafts, fabric shopping, action figures, 3-d, designer toys, plush, william kentridge, pre-christian gnosticism, WNUR, karaoke, sierra adventure, lucasarts adventure, videogames, arcades, pinball, live band karaoke, friends with you, urban vinyl, dehara, presspop, necessaries, blythe, poor pitiful pearl, infantilization, childhood, hypochondria, automatonophobia, r. buckminster fuller, space prom, space pr0n, space prawn, the "special interest" section
Let's Play
wii:
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tetris ds:
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clubhouse:
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Recommended Reading
1UP
colorriot
crown dozen
game|life
gamesetwatch
gr-sf
infinite lives
instructables
k10k
make: blog
mcsweeney's
roto forums
wonderland
Top Artists (VirbTunes) - see all
- Lali Puna - 450
- Grandaddy - 246
- M. Ward - 209
- Malajube - 201
- April March - 190
Feeds
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Retronauts
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NIce page :)
posted Aug 24
More Surreptitious Lens please Jen! it's awesome :D
posted Jun 17
allo. The Baxter has an awesome cast that really makes the movie. Peter Dinklage from The Station Agent really stole the movie though. He was in it for a bit but I dun know. yeah a great movie, i recommend it.
posted May 18
Wine & Puns. Honestly , what else is there? =D
posted May 12
nope, its Friends With You.
posted May 9
Little known fact: most zombies are pretty vain.
posted May 9
best movie EVAR. well. not ever, but its good. Very good! You have an amazing job. I don't play videogames nearly as much as I should anymore :(
posted May 7
Hey, thanks for the comment! Hello yourself!
posted May 1
armisen's penis's ears are burning.
posted May 1
I left consumating ages ago, so now we're just Virbfriends.
posted Apr 30
rawr.
posted Apr 28
Frank Nickels says:
Your site is awesome. I can't believe you know about "Primer" You've got good taste in Movies. Check out my site I have over 100 listed. Tell me which ones you like.
posted Oct 3