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Fred

gothadrummer

About Me

I love to try and sometimes to be able to understand several points of view - even if I don't always agree with their owners - , ranging from extreme right to extreme left, ultra atheism to extremist faith, etc. I am kind of lukewarm, conventional and calm even though I sometime do things "loudly" for fun purposes =)

My Interests

- Playing music (drums mostly, learning how to sing, a bit of guitar and piano). I play in two bands on a regular basis : kawabunga (surfing ska punk) where I poum tchak and bla bla, and red cold seasons (oldschool a la comeback kid, raised fist, strife, etc.) where I beat and yell. I try to write emo/hardcore songs to play on my own, but after years and years all I have is riffs. - Parties, gigs, chicken dancing, true nutella instants - Having hundreds of projects even though I don't often finish them. Raaaaaaah - Seeking the perfect balance between wasp-o-mormon colours and rock'n'roll various flavours. I wish I was Elvis, but I look like Harry Potter.

Music:

Emo, rock'n'roll, hardcore, ska, punk rock, metal, soul/funk and other things (a few jazz, gospel, reggae...) sublime : Envy (Japan) : Marva Whitney : gorilla biscuits : Sinaloa : choking victims : At the drive in : satanic surfers : snot : cab calloway : comeback kid : The Jim Yoshi's Pile Up : old James Brown : old Get up kids : sky 7 (France) : Engine down : strife : life at these speeds : Short supply (rip, France) : Samiam : Seven storey mountain : minor threat : Chuck Ragan : burning heads (France) : current : seven hate (rip,France) : uncommonmenfrommars (3/4 American dudes in France) : toots and the maytals : Feist : The americas (USA, humboldt) : Thursday : Bobby byrd : The ditch (France) : Hot water music : Joe Jackson & the jumpin Jives : Boy sets fire : old bad brains : Amanda woodward (France) : Planes mistaken for stars : old hopesfall : Yage (Germany) : the beatles : Mihai Edrish (France, RIP) : Gantz (France) : Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings : dillinger escape plan : Kazan (France) : the locust : nostromo (switzerland, RIP) : rise against : old randy albums : strike anywhere : old mad caddies : old catch 22 : big d and the kids table : kid dynamite : raised fist : bananas at the audience (france) : nutcase (France) : danko jones (canada) : atom and his package : system of a down : zeke : rage against the machine : will haven : black rice : hk (France) : breach : refused : some blink 182 stuff : rites of spring : herman dune : kristofer astrom : jose gonzales : others I don't think about now...

Movies:

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fight club, Les tontons flingueurs, le cave se rebiffe, ne nous fâchons pas, (and French oldschool cool movies in general), Babel, 12 monkeys, lord of war, gattaca, Amelie, Lost in translation, sappy (gnan gnan) movies (with a limited amount of violins), etc.

Television:

Prison break and 24 (I'm stuck), Friends, Father ted (feck off!), Simpsons, South park, buffy the vampire slayer, groland; all the good traditional (or not) crap

Books:

- Barjavel : novels - newspapers and magazines like le canard enchaîné, National Geographic, Courrier International - Various (I'm really not a big reader): Mitch Albom, Marcel Merle, Pierre Hassner, Fabien Jobard...