HIV/AIDS education, music, dork-tastic gaming, poker, pool, pageants, pro wrestling. Guru of My Pet Virus called my love of pro wrestling and pageants proof that I'm a modern day Renaissance Man.
I'd like to meet:
Not sure, I've kind of had my celebrity-meetings fix, some of which I detailed in My Pet Virus. (A Make-A-Wish Foundation meeting with Depeche Mode at age 14, and a childhood encounter with Ric Flair.)
Also, most of folks I really want to meet are gone... such as Pedro Zamora, John Lennon and Ryan White. Death will eventually unite us all, won't it?
HOW TO JOIN THE MY PET VIRUS Book Club:
1. Take a picture of you (or your pet) with My Pet Virus
2. Post it on the Comments sectionPERKS:
1. Extra screening measures at the airport
Music:
..Synthetic Division now available on iTunes!I met Depeche Mode as my dying wish. You can hear the influence in my own music, which I perform under the name Synthetic Division. Here's a music video I made for a Synthetic Division I co-wrote with Kyle Wiggins:Synthetic-Division.com . You can also add us on MySpace .
To hear more and get our new CD, Get with the Programs, visit our site!
If you like the music add us !CHECK 'EM OUT, NOW:
Bella Morte , Engine Down , The Sane , Lauren Hoffman , Marci Geller , The Brides , In Tenebris , Valv (really cool Brazilian band)
YOU'VE HEARD OF, PROBABLY MAYBE: Depeche Mode, The Cure, Nirvana, The Smiths, Nitzer Ebb, The Doors, Sebadoh, The Go-Go's, Recoil, Camouflage, New Order, The White Stripes, The Cars, No Doubt
Bella Morte are an incredible band, and great friends. If you read my book, you read about them! They rock my world. You can watch me die in their "Earth Angel" video, one of the greatest covers of all time.
Movies:
I review movies as one-half of the Hemo2Homo Connection, along with the brilliant and also-living-with-AIDS Steve Schalchlin. Subscribe to my blog to follow the once-again active Ebert & Ropert of AIDS!
Recent reviews: Sweeney Todd , There Will Be Blood (reviewed especially for Shawn's fellow thinbloods, 21 (that card movie).
To see Shawn and Steve's review of The Hours, pick up a copy of My Pet Virus.
EXCITING NEWS: My Pet Virus is being turned into a screenplay! Who will play Shawn in the movie? Post a Comment and let him know.
Television:
Check out the program on PBS, A Closer Walk . It features one of my pals, Ethan Zohn, founder of Grassroot Soccer.
Ethan also won Survivor: Africa... but only because I didn't compete.Early in 2005 I launched BMTV: Bella Morte Television. The award-winning .. series, "BMTV News", features revealing clips on everyones' favorite band, Bella Morte. Check out BMTV!
Check out a BBC program that Gwenn and I appeared on in December 2005, called Living Positive .
Books:
I wrote a book. Get it. Read it. Feel it.
Heroes:
Darren Roth of CAMPUSPEAK
