: About Me

Of course I'm Bob. You knew that. I'm also the following things:

1. Engaged to the most beautiful woman anyone has ever seen, Cadence.

2. An aspiring filmmaker with a bead on the movies that will help save the world.

3. A compulsive hobby-switcher, interested in everything from airbrushing to Zen gardens.

4. Kind of a nut; I think robots will take over the world some day, and that's just concern #1.

5. The luckiest man in the world, but no, I never gamble.

I write for fun, for profit, for what's right, and for my own satisfaction. My forms are essays, tutorials, and short fiction. I hold an associate's degree in nothing in particular and am working on my bachelor's at this very minute.

My passion is ...

Justice

I know too much about ...

Matt Groening cartoons and Star Wars IV through VI

My parents always told me ...

Behave.

My childhood ambition ...

To make movies. Great movies.

My favorite memory ...

Meeting my fiance, Cadence, in sixth grade math.

Why I write ...

To change the world.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The media. And I don't like what I'm hearing.

My first job ...

Ditch digging

My best moment ...

Realizing that everyone matters more than me. In a Buddhist, No Self way, not a self-deprecating way.

My inspiration ...

Cadence. She's also my sun, moon, and sky full of stars.

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: 9 (2009)

4 of 4

Warning: Spoilers are Afoot! I wanted to love 9. I really did. The brilliant art direction, the cautionary and compelling apocalyptic backstory, and the pedigree of an award-winning short (see "Shane Acker's '9' Short Film") all pointed to a work of genius in the making. Alas, the execution was lacking Acker's finesse and subtlety, making the flick kind of mediocre. The film starts with 9 - the titular character - waking up just after the extinction of the last human being. As he begins exploring, he meets 2, another like himself. Collectively, the style of the characters is called "stickp...

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