Born in 1967, I spent most of my life in Maryland before I moved to Hong Kong in late 2011. Perpetually 50 pounds overweight, I'm a non-smoker and a social drinker. Thankful to the forces of The Universe for my life, I'm not very religious now despite having explored various faiths as a young man. I worked in 3 record stores in a college town from 1987 to 1990 and those jobs gave me a lot of joy as well as a musical education. A film fan, I'm partial to the cinema of Hong Kong, especially Shaw Brothers titles. An Anglophile, I also gravitate to British films and music. My youth was spent on Marvel comics; Universal and Hammer horror movies; the magical work of Ray Harryhausen; the classic American films of the 1930s, especially ones starring Jean Harlow; Hanna Barbera cartoons; the music from the glory days of American AM radio; lousy TV reruns; Mego toys; and Godzilla films...