So This is Me

[jetpack_monkey]

So this post is largely for Vividcon folks who may be thinking to themselves, "Who was that exceptionally tall man with the vague resemblance to David Tennant?" Here's the facts:

Me. Hi.

My name is Nate. As of this last weekend, because fandom is like that, I can be called "Jetpack" with no ill effects. I blame jarrow. I'm a member of Apocalypse West. My girlfriend, echan, vids with the House of Torres. I made my first vid (a Angel & Spike crack!vid set to Wonder Boy by Tenacious D) in a demo version of Sony Vegas all the way back in 2004. Then I stopped for four years until I made the leap to a Macbook Pro in 2008. At that point I started vidding like a madperson. Everything except my VVC premieres can be found at MonkeysWithJetpacks.com.

I consider myself a student of film, although it's largely a self-education. I adore horror movies and musicals, science fiction novels, Doctor Who, Monty Python, monkeys with jetpacks (duh), great cinema, lord king bad movies, pointless banter about non-essential topics, PHP, Drupal, Gregory Peck's left eyebrow, and McFarland Books. I firmly believe that the real hero of the Evil Dead movies is the Chin and that After Hours and Josie and the Pussycats are highly underrated films. My slash goggles are set to high but I have no specific interest in slash -- I prefer gen or friendship. I don't have a lot of patience for the willfully ignorant. As a librarian's son, I have a tendency to exist in the extremes of massively organized and completely disarrayed, with very few in-betweens.

I'm learning that the most selfish thing I can do is fail to put my own needs first. I suffer from an inferiority complex about my superiority complex. I have the best friends in the world. No, better.

I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

Comments

[desertwillow.livejournal.com]

I have the best friends in the world. No, better.

Hell yeah I'm the best.

Glad you made friends at Vividcon

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

Nice bio! That seems oddly fun to do!

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

Hell, I don't know exactly what I want to do when I grow up, and I've already dumped over 100 grand into doing it.

I figure you're right on track.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

Growing up is overrated.

[lizbetann]

I am amused by that picture because it looks like it was taken from about your waist height. I wonder why? ;)

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Can't imagine. It's certainly not because a person roughly your height had one of my cameras at Disneyland nearly a year ago.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Soooo glad I got to meet you!

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Likewise! You were all sorts of neat.

I'm looking forward to meeting enough Horsechicks to make quorum at some point.

[valoise.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't really get to talk to you at VVC, but just wanted to say that I did like your premieres vids, especially Don't Stop Me Know. I bought you dvd and watched it a couple of days ago. The Dr. Whorrible Suite is fantastic! I'm kinda partial to humor in vids, this was great.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

I was glad to see more men this year at VVC; sorry I didn't get a chance to speak with you.

I will def. check out all your vids. :) I've enjoyed AW vids in the past, so I'll bet I have seen some before.

Raven