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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

film list: Once Upon A Time In the West; Spring Summer Winter Fall Spring; Woman of the Dunes; After Life; Heaven's Gate; Breaking the Waves; City of Hope; Matewan; Exit Through the Gift Shop; Margaret's Museum.
book list: The Waves. Oh How Can I Keep From Singing; Middlemarch; To the Lighthouse; The White; Elizabeth Alone; The Dust of Everyday Life; The Cove; The Magic Mountain; Union Dues.