about me

Greetings! My name is owen and this is my page

I've found that ascribing labels to people, including myself, is diminutive and not representational of their character. So, I'll instead define myself by how other people have defined me. I've been called a marshmellow, a teddy bear, and even "Alphonse Elric" by some. My ex-girlfriend says that I'm "a genuine, reliable guy that anyone is lucky to meet."

I can be somewhat erratic when it comes to what media I consume, but I mainly listen to scary dad music like King Crimson and Genesis. Checking my iTunes history shows I've been switching between The Knife, "Emerson, Lake, and Palmer", Beastie Boys, and bis like some kind of music psycho. I found out about this completely underground band called "T.V. Jesus" when I bought a random C.D. while I lived in Japan. And, another student introduced me to The Birthday Massacre before I left Japan. Oh! I also heard Handsome Boy Modeling School when I was in Chicago getting a visa for the time in Japan. I really get around --in person and in terms of music taste. I could go on forever about my favourite music, so check out the "music" section for my recommendations.

I'd say that I play video games, but I really just play indie horror games and whatever my ex-girlfriend wants to play with me. Some of the horror games I love to death are "Teocida" by Vikintor and pretty much any RPG Maker game like The Crooked Man. Other than that, I try to keep up with the current big releases but get bored of games super quickly. I do love old JRPGs to death and I'm currently trying to get through Xenogears and the Shin Megami Tensei catalogue. But, I usually just end up replaying Jet Set Radio Future and Mother 3 instead of playing other games. I gravitate to those two games since they both have wonderful music. Jet Set Radio Future is kinda cheating since it licensed music from legends such as Cibo Matto.

my hobbies

I've had an overactive imagination since I was a small owen, so naturally I've grown up as a creative person. I like to draw, but I haven't practiced my skills in a long time. Currently, I'm writing a novel! I've actually gotten right up to the very end of it, but I'm probably gonna refactor the entire story and eventually rewrite the novel. That's just how writing goes. Outside of art? I'm a programmer. It's been forever since I've practiced any programming, if this basic HTML website is any indicator, but I remember enough about it all. My favourite language is C++ because I'm a lunatic and my second favourite language is Python because I love math. (LUNATIC)

I'm an avid technology collector. I've got a big closet of old PCs ranging from the original Pentium 1 CPUs up to the Core 2 CPUs. These old desktops may be unreliable and slow, but I really do feel myself when I'm hunched over a motherboard tracing wires and shorting jumpers. I've also been collecting old video game systems just so I can dink around and mod them, but I do rarely play them. There was one time that I got mega sick and ended up marathoning Xenosaga 2 on one of these modded systems, but that game sucks. On the hand-held side, a person I met in Japan introduced me to collecting iPods and which ones to look out for. Collecting iPods in Japan was cheap as hell compared to eBay, so I bought a ton of them. If you find your old iPod: remember to power them on every once in a while. They'll pop if you don't at least load them up regularly.