I'm Liz. I'm 21. My life revolves around my cats, my friends, my family, and the Internet. I only have a job to pay my bills, it's nothing I particularly enjoy. I'm young and I have a lot of time left - or so I'm told.

My favorite band of all time is the Misfits, but I was raised on Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. Want to know how I got so musical? Ask my sister, she left a set of 6 Elvis tapes in my headboard when I was 9, and it was all over from there. I'm the offspring of a set of United States Postal Service employees, half of which was a local race car driver for the brunt of my childhood. I grew up a few blocks away from Green Bay's illustrious Lambeau Field. I've gone through a few different things in my life that have made me stronger for living them, but I don't dictate my life by said things - let me just say that social anxiety disorder is a bitch, and my long term memory is still recovering from psychiatric medication I was on for many of my teenage years. My mother was convinced I was going to commit suicide at age 16.

I'm currently a student at Milwaukee Area Technical College's online Liberal Arts program, and have been writing and editing freelance for several years. When I'm asked why I decided to go to school, I don't exactly know - something about bettering myself and making my parents proud of me, I'm sure. I've been a contributor to Alternative Press Magazine for nearing a year, and have contributed to AMP Magazine in the past, as well. You can typically find my album reviews in AP on a bi-monthly basis, and on occasion I interview some sweet band for more information on what makes them tick. Most recently, I've been given the opportunity to write features for Wonka Vision Magazine, as well. When I started college, I was pursuing my Associate's Degree in Funeral Service - that's obviously changed quite a bit in the last few years. When I was young, I legitimately wanted to be a librarian. At this point, I'd like to write for the rest of my life, and before I get too old, befriend a band and go on tour, either tourmanaging, carrying equipment, or selling merch. In a band and want an overanalytical insomniac on your road crew? Get a hold of me. No, seriously.

The blood in my veins has been replaced by creativity, I'm convinced. I've been writing a novel since March and I attempt to create visual art by collage on a semi-regular basis. I've had many tattoos inked onto my skin, each representative of a stage or happening in my life at the time, whether or not I still love them as much as when I got them (yeah, like the casket I drew and got tattooed on me when I was 18 - baaad idea). Most of my artwork is done by Steve Jones and Adrian Valdez at Third Dimension Tattoos & Piercing in Green Bay, and my fairy sleeve and a few other pieces have been inked by Little Lisa at Titletown Ink, also in Green Bay. No, I don't have a pain complex. It just feels right.

I broke edge recently after somewhere around five or six years. I got a straightedge tattoo when I was 19, but people change, circumstances change. I don't regret it, I just don't feel the way that I used to anymore - that is allowed, you know. Feel however you'd like about it - just know I don't have trouble sleeping at night. I've tried being a vegetarian a few times - it's never really worked out for me because t-bone steaks prettymuch rule my life when they are offered to me. Don't talk to me in the morning before I've had some variety of caffeinated beverage, whether it's a french vanilla cappuccino or a Monster Energy Juice. I'm a slave to consumerism, what can I say?

I'm growing up. I'm a work in progress. I'm perpetually single and I don't know how my friends stand me sometimes, but life is what you make it, and I'm just trying to keep my days and my nights absolutely unforgettable.

God of War on PS2... oh, and of course, writing.

7 Angels 7 Plagues, 45 Grave, 100 Demons, A Life Once Lost, A Perfect Murder, AFI, The Acacia Strain, The Academy Is.., Acceptance, Alexisonfire, Alkaline Trio, The All-American Rejects, Andrew W.K., As I Lay Dying, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion, The Banner, Bedlight for Blueeyes, Ben Folds Five, Between the Buried & Me, Big Dumb Face, The Bled, Bleeding Through, Bloodlined Calligraphy, The Bouncing Souls, The Burning Season, Bury Your Dead, Caliban, Cannibal Corpse, Casey Jones, Cattle Decapitation, Chiodos, Circa Survive, Converge, Cradle of Filth, Cryptopsy, Cult of Luna, The Cure, Danzig, Darkest Hour, Day of Contempt, Dead Poetic, The Dear and Departed, Death in June, The Deftones, Depeche Mode, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Distillers, Eighteen Visions, Emery, Evergreen Terrace, Every Time I Die, Fall Out Boy, Fear Before the March of Flames, Foo Fighters, The Format, From Autumn to Ashes, Gratitude, Green Day, Gwar, Hatebreed, The Haunted, Head Automatica, Heavens, Heaven Shall Burn, Hellogoodbye, Himsa, His Hero is Gone, Hopesfall, Horrorpops, I Killed the Prom Queen, Integrity, Interpol, Iron Maiden, It Dies Today, Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, Journey, Lit, Lostprophets, Lucero, Marilyn Manson, Maroon, Martyr AD, Marvelous 3, Mastodon, Mest, Metallica, Misery Signals, Misfits, Most Precious Blood, Motion City Soundtrack, Motley Crue, The Mr. T Experience, My Ruin, Nightmare of You, Nora, Norma Jean, On Broken Wings, Open Hand, Pantera, Parkway Drive, Pinhead Gunpowder, Poison the Well, Rancid, Remembering Never, Rise Against, Samhain, Saosin, Scarlet, Screeching Weasel, Silent Drive, Sinai Beach, Since by Man, The Sisters of Mercy, Skid Row, Slayer, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Son of Sam, Sonata Arctica, The Spill Canvas, Stone Temple Pilots, Suffocate Faster, Suffocation, Suicide Machines, Terror, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Throwdown, Tiger Army, Tragedy, Transplants, Unbroken, Underoath, Unwritten Law, The Used, Walls of Jericho, Yesterday's Kids, Zao

40 Year Old Virgin, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, A History of Violence, American History X, The Amityville Horror, Billy Madison, Cabin Fever, Cars, Cheaper By the Dozen, Club Dread, Corky Romano, Cry-Baby, Dawn of the Dead, Death to Smoochy, The Departed, The Devil's Rejects, Dodgeball, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Edward Scissorhands, Elf, Evil Dead, Fear, Final Destination (1-3), The Fly, Friday the 13th Series, Goodfellas, The Good Girl, Grease, Haggard, House of 1000 Corpses, House of Wax (Vincent Price version), House on Haunted Hill, Jackass, Jackass: Number Two, Jarhead, The Last Man on Earth, I Eat Your Skin, Love Object, Mean Girls, The Nightmare Before Christmas, OfficeSpace, The Omen, Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, Pirates of The Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Psycho, The Ringer, Robots, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, A Series of Unfortuante Events, Serial Mom, The Shining, Slither, Star Wars Trilogy, Sugar and Spice, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1-3), X-Men, Zoolander

Airline, Drawn Together, Forensic Files, The Golden Girls, Grey's Anatomy, House M.D., The Munsters, The New Investigators, Nip/Tuck, The Office, Prison Break, Reno 911!, Six Feet Under, The Surreal Life

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis, My Story Vol. 1 - Damien Echols, Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut