The aesthetic arises from the realization that an effort is sharply at odds with an outcome. Tried to turn tragedy into triumph, but only turned laughter to tears."Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little..." Breaking the cycle of dissatisfication and fulfulling my highest potential by extinguishing the flame of self destruction and temptation that burns within me. Positive steps to achieving this include challenging myself intellectually by pursuing a PHD; inspiring myself emotionally by keeping company with only positive, genuine and loyal family & friends; empowering myself physically, mentally & spirtually by indulging in moderation, exercising, Muay Thai training. Some primal instincts should never be suppressed... especially fighting...if exercised with due diligence, good reason or intent of self preservation.
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************************* ROSE TATTOO, DEAN MARTIN, THE POGUES, THE REAL MCKENZIES, FLATFOOT 56, DROPKICK MURPHY'S, THE HEARTDROPS, YOUTH DEFENSE LEAGUE, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, DISCIPLINE, SUPERSUCKERS, THE MISFITS(old), THE STREETDOGS, THE QUAKES, TURBO A.C.'s, THE TRANSPLANTS, HANK III, THE METEORS, DEADBOLT, THE CRAMPS, MAD SIN, THE DEACONS, THE ATOMICS, INTOLLERANZA, THE ITALIAN DOGS, REACH AROUND RODEO CLOWNS, TYPE O NEGATIVE, MOTORHEAD, AMON AMARTH, UNLEASHED, ICEPICK, IGNITE, HAMMERLOCK, SCOTT BIRAM, AC/DC, The Dubliners, The Chieftains, The Cranberries, LENAHAN, Off the Boat, Black 47, The Tossers, Flogging Molly, SiX, Carnivore, Slayer, COC, Genitorturers, Cannibal Corpse, ROLLER, Sick Pleasure, Pittbull Farm, Böhse Onkelz, Rammstein, Laibach, Ministry, Danzig, Samhain, Fear, Circle Jerks, Agent Orange, The Vandals, GBH, DEAD BOYS, Mentors, English Dogs, The Exploited, The Buzzcocks, The Dickies, Ramones, MaccLads, Rezillos, CLOSE SHAVE, 4SKINS, Last Resort, Cock Sparrer, Cockney Rejects, The Blitz, The Business, Toy Dolls, Croyden Criminals, Lionheart, Klasse Kriminale, Condemned 84, Combat 84, Anti Heroes, The Bruisers, Forced Reality, Skrewdriver, SUDDEN IMPACT, CELTIC DAWN, Celtic Warrior, Dirlewanger, FORTRESS, Mistreat, Steel Capped Strength, NORDIC THUNDER , Patriotic Front, CHAOS88, Code13, Arresting Officers, Youngblood, W.A.Y., Anti Nowhere League, Minor Threat, Murphy's Law, Negative Approach, Slapshot, Cro Mags, Sheer Terror, Judge, Agnostic Front, Blood for Blood, Bad Religion, Clutch, Social Distortion, Rev Horton Heat, Rancid, The Sharks, Paladins, Los Straitjackets, Demented Are Go, Nekromantix, Hyperjax, Three Blue Teardrops, Long Tall Texans, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Jerry King & the Rivertown Ramblers, Kings of Nuthin', Lonesome Kings, The Mauraders, TOP DEAD CENTER, Junkrod Joe and the Cadillac Hearse, Quentin & the Barnstormers, The Ultra Kings, Headkick Rodeo, Call the Paramedics, Busted Knuckles, The Cheats, Judge Dread, Madness, KISS, Journey, Skynard, Chris Isaak, Stray Cats, Billy Idol, The Runaways, Blondie, Joan Jett, David Allen Coe, Hank Sr, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, Charlie Gracie, Robert Gordon, Patsy Cline, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin, Brenda Lee, Skeeter Davis, June Clark, Frank Sinatra, CONNIE FRANCIS, Peggy Lee, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Glen Glenn, Johnny Burnette, Bobby Darin, Curtis Lee, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Vee, Bill Haley & His Comets, DOO-WOP, DION AND THE BELMONTS, THE CRESTS, The Drifters, THE COASTERS, The Platters, The Penguins, The Del Vikings, The Duprees, THE SHIRELLES, The Bobettes, KATHY YOUNG & THE INNOCENTS, THE RONETTES, ROSIE & THE ORIGINALS, The Teen Queens, The Velvets, Darlene Love, Etta James, The Marvelettes, Little Eva, The Crystals, The Angels, The Dixie Cups, The Chiffons, The Shangri-Las, The Primettes.
Braveheart, Rob Roy, Good Will Hunting, Cinderella Man, Football Factory, The Notebook, The English Patient, Boondock Saints, Lock Stock, Gladiator, 13th Warrior, Frailty, Chopper,Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Michael Collins, Sixteen Years of Alcohol, Green Street Hooligans, The Transporter, Trainspotting, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Prozac Nation, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dawn of the Dead (the original), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead (the original), 40 Days and 40 Nights, Derailed, Closer, Shaun of the Dead, Bad Santa, Matchstick Men, Blue Velvet, Barfly(fucking hilarious, but may this never be my life!), Urban Cowboy, An Officer & a Gentleman, The Underworld, Any cool vampire flicks, Dogtown, The Outsiders, The Wanderers, Deuces Wild, Romper Stomper, Goodfellas, Casino, Heat, Dazed and Confused, Gone with the Wind, Taming of the Shrew (kinda autobiographical), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sabrina (Audrey and Bogie rawk), Dot and the Kangaroo (first movie to make me cry)...
ROME, DEADWOOD,THE SOPRANOS, UFC, PRIDE FC,& THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER. Everything else is MIND RAPE.
Favorite books/plays/poems include The Westies, Borstal Boy, The Prisoner Of Chillon, Dream-Land, A Descent into the Maelstrom, The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons, My Awakening, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, The Bell Jar, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn,Eaters of the Dead, Haunted, Hear the Cradle Song, The Notebook, The Lake of Dead Languages, Prozac Nation, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Catcher in the Rye,The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, Crime & Punishment, Anna Karenina, Heidi, Adventures on the Maggie Bee. I enjoy the works of the following authors: Sylvia Plath, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Carol Goodman, Nicholas Sparks, Chuck Palhniuk, Brendan Francis Behan, O.T. Gunnarsson, MáirtÃn Ó Direáin, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Tennessee Williams, George Orwell,& J. D. Salinger. I also dig classic novelists and/or poets such as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Seathrún Céitinn A.K.A. Geoffrey Keating, Thomas Moore, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lord Byron, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Rudyard Kipling, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Dante Alighieri, Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, Ovid, Homer, Virgil. European mythology & folklore of the Norse, Celts, Romans & Greeks.
My Parents first and foremost. My grandparents, Walter H. Lynch Sr. and Caterina Spina, R.I.P. "Elysian Fields knows perpetual spring and shady groves, with its own sun and lit by its own stars: solemque suum, sua sidera norunt."(Aeneid, 6.541) My friends that died too soon... David Jones, Eric Banks, Joe Rowan, Guy Asper, Gary Delp, Shane Rock, Jimmy Keating, Phil Juliano."The sad valley's restlessness, Nothing there is motionless- Nothing save the airs that brood, Over magic solitude... Over the lillies there that wave and weep above their stone cold graves. They wave- from out their fragrant tops, Eternal dews come down in drops. They weep- from off their delicate stems, Perennial tears descend in gems." L.F.D.Y.