My name is Zack. I am a sophomore at Florida State University studying editing/writ​ing/media.  I really, really, really like writing. Really! No joke. I do it often. Writing is a passion of mine and, the way I see it, there is always room for improvement.​ I love books. I love reading books, talking about books, smelling books, licking books, and having sultry relationship​s with books.  I'm also interested in photography.​ I'm nothing of a photographer​ myself, but I do like to dabble in it as a hobby from time to time. Cats are a big thing with me. I definitely like cats more than most animals (and people!). I have somewhat of an obsession with Iceland.


I am an interesting person.

I absolutely love learning about any and all cultures. I want to meet people from every corner of globe, particularly​, Icelanders. I do not want discourage anyone from contacting me, but I would prefer to meet people in my age group or older.

Also, if you are going to send me a friend request before talking to me, I'm just going to deny it. Sorry.
*I'm currently making an attempt at learning Icelandic so if any native speaker feels charitable enough, I would love to have someone help me along.

I read quite a bit, listen to music, try to teach myself how to play piano, try again and again to write something interesting (but you know how it is), and see the occasional film. I also try to cook as often as I can and ride my bike when the weather is right. I coffee and drink it often. I only take it black and the stronger and bitterer, the better.

Sigur Rós, Explosions In The Sky, Múm, Bob Dylan, Sondre Lerche, Broken Social Scene, Billy Joel, Daft Punk, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Why?, Destroyer, Fleet Foxes, Andrew Bird, Elliott Smith, The Beatles, Do Make Say Think, The Magnetic Fields, Margot and the Nuclear So & So's, Peter and the Wolf, The National, Yann Tiersen, Mark Mothersbaugh​, Dan Deacon, The Antlers, The Dodos

I also listen to quite a bit of classical music. Favorites there include (but aren't limited to) Arvo Pärt, Mendelssohn,​ Chopin, Rachmaninoff​, Schubert, & Bach

Amélie, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lost In Translation,​ Rushmore, When Harry Met Sally, Everything Is Illuminated,​ There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Blade Runner, My Left Foot, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 2 Days in Paris, Sunshine, The Reader, Revolutionar​y Road, The Brothers Bloom

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Arrested Development,​ Planet Earth, Seinfeld

Dave Eggers, Hubert Selby Jr., Jonathan Safran Foer, Brett Easton Ellis, David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, Philip K. Dick, Cormac McCarthy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Halldór Laxness

Also: I hate Chuck Palahniuk.

My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan.
~ Halldór Laxness

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.
~Kurt Vonnegut (From "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"​)

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
~Horace Mann