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:





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.