Here are all the people/places/things that have helped/inspired me in some way or another in pursuing advertising design. Without these people I would... well, I still would have pursued it, but more than likely with substantially different results. So without further ado, appearing in no particular order:

Grayson "Grayscale" Lawrence, Matthew "Woelkbad" Woelk, Michael Lovitt, Brandy Starcrunch, Kara "Supergirl" Matheny, Matthieu "French Matt" Brajot, "Chael" Michael Chozick & Thewology, Russell & Kristen Chozick, Andrew Ostry, Lisa Christie, Mike "Coach" Gonzalez, Matt Camden, Ryan Rhodes, Pauly Sizzletits, David & Holly Shields, Jeff Davis, Al Grivetti, Bill Meek, Mark Todd, Tom Berno, Eric Weller, everyone at Oak Sanderson, Jeremy Gibson, Mike Curtis, Sega Dreamcast, Xbox, PS2, The Cheese Monkeys, Chuck Palahniuk, Brett Easton Ellis, Reverend Horton Heat, Mike Doughty, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pong, Jay & Silent Bob, cheese, Chuy's, Garcia's, Baby Joe's, Subway, penguins, robots, Tang®, Beowulf, The Simpsons, Sportscenter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Files, Spongebob, Llama cafe, the folks at Flashack Data Recovery (for when my hard drive crashed), and of course my family.