Name: thejuanupsman

Last Activity: 50 mins ago

Location: Hopkins, MN

Country: United States

Member Since: December 19, 2005

Number of Posts: 7576

Age/Gender: 42 / M

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Status: Married

Sexual Preference: Girls

Open To: Friends

Favorite Films: Being Julia
Chocolat
Freeway
Love Actually
The Night We Never Met
Pulp Fiction
Run Lola Run
The Salton Sea









TV Shows

Big Love
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Dexter
Grey's Anatomy
Heroes
How I Met Your Mother
Iron Chef
Lost
Oz
Poker After Dark
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos

Favorite Musician: Corn Mo

Heroes: Real

Raymond Abelmann
Johnny Cavin
Joe Gurnoe
Justine Keatley
Donald Marshall
Skip Olson
Chris Stewart
Joseph Norio Uemura


Literary

Door
Fitzchivalry Farseer
Huckleberry Finn
Friday
Elena Michaels
Hiro Protagonist
Rap
Shadow
Vlad Taltos
Rifkin Wanderer
Bruce Wayne

Favorite Authors: Kelly Armstrong: One of the few examples of literature featuring supernatural characters in a modern setting that I actually like. Plus she features female leading characters that are strong and independent but still feminine. That's hot.

Steven Brust: How can you not like books about a lovable assassin and his wise cracking flying rodent familiar? Funny, charming books. Especially the early Jhereg books.

Neal Gaimen: I love the way he makes me feel like I am rediscovering the fairy tales I loved as a child, yet there is a depth of character and richness of detail that appeals to a more adult reader as well.

David Gemmel: Gemmel makes me want to read the history his novels are based on. I like history but I don't often read it for pleasure. He compels me to do it more.

Robin Hobb: Nobody has ever created characters that I related to more or loved as much as the ones in her 3 trilogy set. Their trials were my trials, their heartaches mine, I loved as they loved and grieved as they grieved.

George R.R. Martin: His Song of Ice and fire is some of the finest writing I have ever seen. In any genre. Plus he edited and contributed to the Wild Card series which is a phenomenal series about what the world might be like if people really had super powers. It makes you rethink every comic you have ever read.

Will Shetterly. I think most of his books are just pretty good, but one of them, Witchblood is one of my favorite books ever. All 200 pages of it. If I ever win the lottery I'm going to try to pay Shetterly to write that promised sequel.

Neal Stephenson: Neal writes the only Cyberpunk I truly love. Others have written stuff I like. This I love. Plus Hiro Protagonist is the greatest name ever.

Mark Twain: The great American novelist and one of the funniest men ever.

Andrew Vachss: Nobody writes grittier crime fiction or better dialouge than Vachss. Plus he uses his writing to fund his real passion. Protecting abused and exploited children. Very cool.

Oscar Wilde: Even if he had not written one of the greatest English novels and one of my favorite plays I would love him just for the quotes. The man was an absolute genuis.

Likes: Bikes
Good food
Live music
Olfactory Ninjas
Pinochle
Poker
Reading

Dislkes: Donkeys
Drama
Gossip
Nags
People who insist on telling me about things they know I don't want to hear about.
Sycophants
Whiners

Lilies