ABOUT ME

Who am I, anyway?

My name is Leo! I'm a 20 year old public policy student at Rutgers University, In New Jersey. I enjoy listening to music, playing my bass guitar, reading science-fiction and fantasy novels, and sleeping. This website is my main hobby at the moment, I host it myself and do all of the html and css work. I also love my cat! I dislike mashed potatos, Blink-182, and the Wizard of Suffering. If anybody wants to talk to me, send me an email at leowagz602@gmail.com!

What type of music do I like

I love upbeat music that makes you jump around: punk, hardcore, altrock, reggae, ska, goth, blues, classic rock 'n roll, dixieland jazz, etc. I also love classical music, especially on the pipe organ. Truly a lovely sound. I listen to other stuff too. Basically, I like any music somebody actually worked hard on.

What do you enjoy in a book

I love a book that makes me think, but not in a boring way. Speculative fiction is fun because it analyzes current trends and exaggerates them in a future setting, and it gets you thinking on the state of our current world.
I also enjoy books that are just plain ol' FUN! Action, interesting characters, and intrigue go a long way. A Song of Ice and Fire is a great example of this. (I need to put some book reviews on this site eventually).
If there's one book I could recommend to anyone, it would be The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny. Easily one of my top book series of all time.

Why did I make this website

I absolutely love the creative process of making one's own website. I first started back in 2019, when I got a book on HTML from my middle school's scholastic book fair. I soon made a phonograph themed website, leosphonographs.com. It was a simple affair, but it worked wonderfully, and I loved having my own spot on the web. Following COVID, I did little to update the website, and did not work on my HTML skills much, until around the time I got to college. I was sick and tired of social media, and its anti-human interface. I wanted a platform to express myself more freely. As a result, I came back to web design. I bought a small computer for $20 online, and set up this simple web server, and got coding! The old leosphonographs.com page was archived here as well. Since then I have been working on this site constantly. It's been fun, and I hope to keep it online for many years to come!

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