About Me
Name: John Hurst
That Name People Know Me By Online: Crowbar
Age: 25
Place of Residence:Marion, North Carolina
Contact Infortmation: sircrowbar[at]gmail[dot]com (Personal), johnathanhurst[at]gmail[dot]com (Professional)
Favorites
Music Genres and Bands: John has an undeniable love for Heavy Metal and all of its different subgenres. Favorites incude Megadeth, Iced Earth, Testament, Rage, Dream Theater, Blind Guardian, Manowar and Iron Maiden among many, many others. Outside the genre, he also enjoys an abnormal amount of Surf Rock such as the Red Elvises and Man or Astro-Man?, a fair amount Jazz, and other, more humorous, bands (Such as They Might Be Giants and the Aquabats.)
Video Games: Metal Gear Solid, Maniac Mansion, Mega Man 2, Street Fighter II, Final Fantasy 6, River City Ransom, Wing Commander 3, Doom, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night among a whole slew of others. Among genres, he has a slight obsession with vertical and horizontal shoot-em-ups such as Mars Matrix and R-Type, though he freely admits not being very good at them.
Other Games: Chrononauts, Bang, Zombies!!!, Settlers of Catan
Movies: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Evil Dead II, Six-String Samurai, Shaolin Soccer, Undead. More recently, Slither was an absolute blast to see in the theaters.
TV Shows: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Doctor Who. Currently, I'm enjoying a lot of Psyche.
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, George R.R. Martin
Comics(Online and off): Deadpool, Udon Comics' Street Fighter series, Marvel Zombies, Dinosaur Comics, Penny Arcade, PvP, Dr. McNinja
Other stuff he does: I'm the writer for an online comic called RIPtheSYSTEM, in conjunction with Tania Rutherford. You should check it out!
About Crowbar
Or more than you ever wanted to know about an icon of noone's generation...
The character Crowbar originally appeared in a friend of mine's, Trey Tackett, webcomic, as a representation of me along with other representatons of people. I've used the name online since late middle school (As a horrible pun to the name of my favorite character on "Mystery Science Theater 3000"), but I never actually did anything with it. When asked for something to use in the comic, I searched Google Images quickly, found a crappy sprite of the Crowbar from Deus Ex and sent it to him. Hilarity ensued. Somewhere down the line, he was actually drawn. From the drawing came the eyes supplied by another friend, Tanuki, and his power level was increased ten fold. Somewhere along the way, I drew my own version with a mouth and the thing I doodled most in college was born. Yay!
Crowbar basically appears whenever boredom occurrs, usually talking about the subject that is causing said boredom. Provided I have the time and someone willing enough to draw it, I have a one-shot comic issue planned... But that is a topic for another day!
Contrary to popular belief, he is not on speaking terms with Gordon Freeman anymore.
About the Site
This site has been developed completely from the ground up by John using PHP, MySQL, and a lot of notepad. The idea was to create a personal site that would not only be easy to maintain, but involve as little editing of the original files as possible once completed. Sure, there are third-party tools he could have used to do the same thing, but that takes all the fun out of it! Mostly, he's happy about getting a variation of Crowbar done in pure CSS alone.
The site is also designed to be very dialup-friendly and to work in most browsers. Having suffered through 14.4 kbps connections in an age where an ocean of people tsunamis you with YouTube links for videos that aren't even funny, I understand the pain all too well. Hopefully this site won't cause you that sort of grief.