Patrick
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Author, English Teacher, and Foreign Teacher Trainer |
| Location | Yangshuo, Guangxi, China |
| Introduction | Aspiring Novelist and Illustrator. I'm currently looking to publish my completed manuscript entitled "The Pantheon Project", a 130,000 word speculative fiction novel. I also teach English as a day job, as well as train teachers new to China and to TEFL in Yangshuo, China. |
| Interests | throwing things for my dog to chase, tackling my girlfriend, writing down snippets of inspiration on napkins, writing speculative fiction action scenes and place descriptions, world building, eating crabs, traveling to far away places, surfing, skateboarding, painting, illustration, writing, Asian things, cheese, blueberry muffins, and sitting in a parked car with the music turned up. |
| Favorite movies | The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Billy Madison, Rock n' Rolla, The Hangover, Monty Python, Transformers, Zoolander, 28 Days later, 28 weeks later, fight club, sin city, the departed, Shutter Island, Inception, pan's labyrinth, x-men, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, be kind rewind, the dark knight, children of men, harry potter, star wars, kingdom of heaven, ghostbusters, goonies, willow, jurassic park, shanghai noon, spider man, minority report, meet the parents, ferris bueller's day off, what about bob, hot rod, the manchurian candidate (the old school one with frank sinatra), the fountain, the hobbit (cartoon), indiana jones, back to the future, iron man, grindhouse, ninja turtles, the truman show, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, stardust, serenity, moulin rouge!, big fish, independence day, stargate |
| Favorite music | punk, reggae, ska, metal, rock, indie, The deftones, sublime, mad caddies, less than jake, slipknot, toots and the maytals, john williams, philip glass, asobi seksu, the muse, bright eyes, rilo kiley, modest mouse, bob marley, white stripes, gorillaz, sage francis, 311, bedouin soundclash, m.i.a., streetlight manifesto, coldplay, slightly stoopid, limp bizkit (old stuff), korn, rage against the machine, mighty mighty bosstones, shivaree, afro-celt sound system |
| Favorite books | Sci-Fi, fantasy, The Lord of the Rings, Dune, The faded sun trilogy, american gods, anansi boys, memoirs of a geisha,hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the eye of the world, robert jordan, neil gaiman, perdido street station, mistborn, the voyage of the jerle shannara, the bourne identity, wizard's first rule, ender's game, the shining, chronicles of the black company, strange omens, life of pi, a fire upon the deep |
What would you wear for camouflage if you were hiding in a gingerbread house?
Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon. You can't be too careful around those old women, man.