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Full
Name: |
Mason Tyler
Matthew Proulx |
| E-mail: |
mason@proulx.ca |
| D.O.B.: |
August
2, 1977 |
| Birthplace: |
Ottawa,
Canada |
| Fields
of expertise: |
Graphic
design, web production, music criticism, photography, Japanese
culture |
| Languages: |
English,
French, Japanese |
| Personality: |
inquisitive,
pragmatic, honest, lethargic, easy-going, calm, boyish, self-doubting,
passionate, rational. |
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Schooling: |
3rd year
graphic design student at Algonquin College. |
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Personal
Goals: |
Move to
New York City. Work for a progressive graphic design agency.
Visit Japan often. Travel to a different part of the world every
3 to 5 years...oh, and have a harem. |
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Likes: |
Goofing off, traveling,
intellectual conversation, stand-up comedy, Japanese language
and culture, manga, underground/alternative comics, writing,
video games, biking, animals, documentaries, indie films, punk
rock, garage rock, jazz, ragtime, drum & bass, Japanese
rock, 70's jazz-fusion, motivated and positive people (unlike
me). |
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Dislikes: |
Academia,
driving, privatization of culture, nu metal and new punk, bad
graphic design, drug culture, fundamentalists, aggressive business/marketing.
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Places
to be: |
New York,
Kyoto, Nara, Florence, Paris |
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Consumables: |
Wine, bloody
caesars, Mason's own bruschetta-tuna-melt sandwich, sun-dried
tomato pesto, donburi (Japanese fast-food rice bowl with
tons of toppings...especially katsudon and oyakodon). |
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Movies: |
Urusei
Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Porco Rosso, Lord of the Rings,
Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Empire Strikes Back, The Producers,
Akira, Being John Malkovich. |
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Comics
& Manga: |
Love &
Rockets, Eightball, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, Madman,
Anything by Rumiko Takahashi (Urusei Yatsura, Ranma, Inuyasha,
Maison Ikkoku). |
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TV: |
The Kids
in the Hall, Conan O'Brien, Mr. Show |
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People
I admire: |
My father
Rumiko
Takahashi (manga artist)
Hayao
Miyazaki (anime director)
Tamio
Okuda (Japanese rock musician)
Jaime
Hernandez (alternative comics vanguard)
Gene
Wilder (actor)
Sean
Cullen (comedian/improvisationalist)
Shiina
Ringo (Japanese pop/rocker gal)
Michael
Palin (comedian/fellow traveller)
Bruce
McCulloch (Kids in the Hall alumni)
Neil
Gaiman (author)
Stephan
Sagmeister (graphic designer)
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