I more than anything enjoy doing nothing. Especially if it involves some beer and a TV, but if I had to be doing something I would most want to be behind the board recording. I don't really care what I record, bands, people talking, good music, shitty music. It all has it's place. Theres just something about microphones that makes me happy. If needs to be recorded or forsees themselves doing anything strangely destructive in the near future (such as throwing TV's off of a rooftop, maybe the coolest noise that I've never recorded) let me know.
Other Audio Engineers and Bands that may be in need of an engineer for live shows or for the studio.
Anything that doesn't suck and unfortunately, most of it sucks. Good music transcends all genres. There is good jazz and shitty jazz. There is good rap and shitty rap. My favorite bands are the types that put out a new record every four or five years. Most of them do not have distinguishable verse chorus verse chorus form but one thing that I hate more than anything are bands that are trying to be different for the sake of being different. My favorites include, Tool, the Mars Volta, King Crimson (a little more than a lot), Modest Mouse, Faith No More, Bobby Bare Jr. and others. I also have a very strange unending love of death metal and chick rock. I love Deicide, and Tori Amos. I also love Cannibal Corspe and Sarah Mclachlan. If it's good I dig it. I fucking hate Linkin Park, Ashley Simpson, Twista, Jessica Simpson (although she is a much better singer than her worthless sister), Hoobastank, Jay-Z, The Game, pretty much any rapper that never extends beyond what he's done, what he's shot, what he's fucked, and what's he smoked and drank (which eliminates most all of them), I could go on for days. If it sounds like everyone else then it sucks. If you can predict what they are going to say the very first time you hear it, then it sucks. If it sounds like a cross between Creed and Linkin Park and someother ridiculous whore of a musician then it sucks. Demand More. Challenge muscians. Do not accept that you have to swallow the bullshit that is fed to you across the airwaves of corporate radio and Wal-Mart racks. Look harder. These are the voices of our time and I would prefer that they not be "corporate little bitches, each and every one of them!" Long Live Bill Hicks.
Johnny Dangerously (if you don't knnow what this is check it out), The Killing of Sweet Amore', Continually Reusable, Wo ist der Badezimmer, The Rise and Fall of the Sound Kitchen, Slow Dither Live in Sacramento (If you haven't seen this you haven't lived!) Everything is Meaningless except Tom Waits, Amusing, The Taming of Muggsy (the worlds most ferocious tiger), Carnal Country, Jesus is a Hell of a Poker Player, The Transformers Movie, Just add Water Milk and Rice, Everything will be allright once you're dead, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Soap Dispensors, I'm not doin that until theres a ring on my finger, What do I do once it stops bleeding, and How Stella got her Groove back.