Hobbies

EverQuest and Star Wars: Galaxies

Taking up the better part of my time in the last year or so, has been EverQuest and that is one fine game, set in a mythical and fantasy genre... to see pics of this you can visit my guild gallery.  

Another, and much newer program eating up my time is the new Star Wars Galaxies.  The graphics in this game are Simply AMAZING.  Please enjoy a few of my most recent Screen Captures.

World of Darkness (WoD).

Was by and far my favorite game for the individuality of the group and the characters we played.

Arianna (Toreador), Claudia (Human), Calvin (Mummy), Christopher (Immortal), Roland (Immortal-Me), Kenny (Mage), Lynn Kai (Fae), Gabrielle (Vampire), Lester (Mage), Angelo (Angel), Kat (WereCat), Owen (Techno Mage)

Champions (Hero Games)

Currently I am involved in a campaign where I play Jackson Hammond (AKA Jack Hammer). He is a former Army Sergeant who suffered cancer and retired from the military on full pension and medical leave.  Upon a "White event" the world was struck with many meteors and some of the worlds population were "gifted" with powers beyond reason.  This strikes very close to comic book (Rising Stars) which was developed After this campaign was designed.

Some of our characters are now searching for a series of Mythological items and through a diligent search of the net i found a page that dutifully converts weapons of myth and legend into Champions items.  I modified the page a bit and brought the text Here for viewing.

Comic Books

Around my sophomore year in Highschool I was in a 7-11 convenience store buying myself a soda, and looking through the magazine rack for the newest Heavy Metal magazines, always trying to find an article or two in Metallica, when in the corner of my eye, I spot this Cool cover on a comic book.  It had this totally feral Wolverine on the cover surrounded by the pits of Inferno.  It was a comic called "What if..." and the byline was "The X-men had lost Inferno?"  I thumbed through it, and the art compelled me to buy it.  I went home, read through the comic like 10 times, and I was hooked.  I began buying comics left and right, and eventually subscribed in a comic shop to have my choices picked out each week.  I went on a mad buying spree.

In the beginning, I did not treat my earliest issues so goldenly, but I learned.  At one point, my room had Comic books lining the walls (of which I have yet to find the pictures I took), and it looked great.  Eventually, I bought boxes, learned how to store my comics, and have not stopped since.

My favorite comic, without a doubt, is X-Men.  Sure, the is Uncanny X-Men, and X-Men and soon to be a third title, but I like the whole shebang.  I like the mutant titles.  My favorite character, Colossus, was recently killed off, and since they have done their best to let you know, he Will not be coming back.  In the two issues since, there have simply been those types of remarks, placed neatly into the text of the story.

I'm also a pretty big Spawn fan, Fantastic Four (recently), and Spider Man.  I like some newer titles (Danger Girl, Battlechasers, Aphrodite IX).

Movies

Since as long as I can remember, I have wanted to work in film.  I look at the world as a director.  I do not watch a movie and pick it apart for its lack of science fact, but I look at a film and I pick it apart like a director.  I see how I would have shot the film differently.  I see how the scene may have looked better with this or that thrown in or taken out.

I read a book and one of the first things that begins forming in my head is the preview trailer the audience would see in the theatres.  I hear the music,   the announcer, and see the scenes.  From there, my mind moves forward into scripting, visualizing, casting and locating the perfect spots for this to be filmed.

Now I just need a chance.

My favorite movies range from Sci Fi classics (Star Wars, Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) to riotous comedies (10 things I Hate About You, Empire Records, Can't Hardly Wait, and American Pie).  I also like the Epic films like Braveheart.  There is no denying, this is one of the best films ever made.  It's factually accurate, but damn is it a good film.

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