In addition to being a full-time student at the University of Southern California where I'm a barista at the student-run coffeehouse, I'm the website administrator of a site called Massive Metal where I host my photographs and interviews of musicians and bands on tour. I'm also the lead vocalist and keyboard player for the progressive hardcore band For Glory and Empire.

I love making people laugh, being the center of attention, watching too much CSI, taking thousands of photographs, spending too much time on my computer, playing computer games, living in LA, playing ultimate frisbee, working at Ground Zero (the coffeehouse), getting tattoos, riding my bike, performing with my band, and a helluva lot more.

10 Years, Against Me, Ani DiFranco, Atreyu, As I Lay Dying, Bad Religion, Bleeding Through, Brett Dennan, Bring Me the Horizon, Chevelle, Chiodos, Darkest Hour, Dead to Fall, Death Cab For Cutie, The Donnas, Eisley, Eminem, Evanescence, Every Time I Die, A Fine Frenzy, Horrorpops, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Jimi Hendrix, Killswitch Engage, Linkin Park, Maria Taylor, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Misery Signals, Nine Inch Nails, Norma Jean, Otep, A Perfect Circle, Pink, Protest the Hero, Queen, Rachael Yamagata, Rage Against the Machine, Rilo Kiley, Rolling Stones, Skindred, Story of the Year, System of a Down, Thrice, Throwdown, Tiger Army, Tool, Trivium, Underoath, Unearth, Young Love

Fight Club, Into the Wild, The Neverending Story, Crash, Stranger Than Fiction, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Demolition Man, The Fifth Element

CSI, The Office, Friends, Heroes

1984, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Frost, Chuck Palahniuk, Mitch Albom, Philip Pullman (specifically the trilogy "His Darkest Materials"), Emily Dickinson