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I adore this song - I have no clue why, but it resonates with me. It inspires me when working and I find it helpful when it shows up on one of my playlists.

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I love my bitchin' Camaro. The experiences I've had in it, as well as the places I've traveled, inspire a lot of my writing.

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The Valve Hammer Editor is a map making program which works for any of Valve's games, from Half-Life to Half-Life Alyx. I work for hours making maps for this one game, Left 4 Dead, which is a zombie shooter inspired by Romero Movies of olde with much more action -- the first campaign is even set in Pennsylvania, the state home to much of zombie cinema. It goes without saying I have a soft spot for zombie media, too. Researching locations to translate into my maps has allowed me to become more conscious of the basic things around us that make up our environment -- from the wiring interlocking each house on suburban streets to the incessant chirping of cicadas in late summer. There's so much we take for granted which the program has forced me to confront lest my maps seem wrong.

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Kurt Vonnegut is, to me, the greatest writer of all time. His work manages to be both captivating and thought provoking, each story some of the few books I have bothered to power through my eye strain to read in their entirety -- a very prestigious reward.

I was introduced to him by my parents from at least two years old -- when my brother Kurt, who takes his name from him, was born. My parents frequently recited to me the transcript of his address to the graduating class of Bennington College in 1970, and before I had even read any of his work, I was familiar with his literary voice.

The first book of his I read, disregarding short stories like Harrison Bergeron, was one of his most acclaimed and influential novels, Slaughterhouse Five. I was inspired by the sentiment of so it goes, which I found a rare story moral which was unique and applicable to my own life, and from that moment on, was hooked on his writing.

I am inspired by his simultaneous bluntness and eloquent simplicity in his writing as much as I am the complexity of the subjects he satirizes and explores. I hope to push past the nonsense hammered into my head in lieu of college prep to find my own voice as he did his own.

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I really like this comic as it inspired me to reconsider how the medium really worked; comics aren't just funny pages or superheroes, but can actually contain funny and interesting characters in mundane, universally experienced scenarios.

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I grew up on the same issues of Mad Magazine that my father had as a child. This not only granted me precocious knowledge of the Nixon administration, but inspired my future endeavors in art.

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I adore the mysterious and surreal atmosphere in Lynch's films. They tread the line of comprehension, and are some of the most bizarre movies I have come close to understanding. His idiosyncratic voice in each of his projects motivates me to find a medium where I can do the same; establish my own unique tone.

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My brother, Kurt, has served as a major inspiration for a lot of my work. His sense of humor has rubbed off on me as mine has his.

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I have grown up in New England and the location serves as an anchor for a lot of my work. Not only does the region make frequent appearances in a lot of good horror which has inspired some of my writing, but its nature and clean air has allowed me to reflect by simply taking a hike.