Sewing, DIY fashion, painting, graphic design, music, writing, literary criticism, movies, screenwriting, astrology, my family history, my Scottish-Irish and Welsh heritage, Ibanez PGMs, Ampeg, Fender guitars, Taylor guitars, Spector and Fender basses, Jackson guitars, B.C. Rich guitars (NJ series and US made ONLY), Schecter guitars and basses, Rickenbacker guitars and basses, rack effects, Line 6 products, high end vintage guitars, guitar amplification, guitar history, guitar construction, amp mods.
I'd like to meet:
Paul Gilbert, Steve Morse, Marty Friedman (the man who inspired me to take up guitar), Jake E. Lee, Colin Moulding (possibly the most amazing bass player EVER, seriously), Steve Harris, John Taylor, Dio, Diana Gabaldon, David Van Landing, Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Ray Riendeau, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Mike Portnoy, Vivian Campbell, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Glenn Tipton, Rowan Atkinson, Camryn Mannheim, Mark Dacascos, CC Deville, Steven Strait, Josh Harnett, Drew Barrymore, Natalie Dormer, Hugh Grant, old friends from school, some of my new MySpace friends and some of my old Harmony Central friends, other DIY girls and artists, anybody capable of open-minded intellectual conversation. People who are quiet and appear to have no personality BUG ME!!!
Music:
*Cheap Trick*, The Cure, The Gathering, 311, Rush, Paul Gilbert, Mr. Big, Dethklok, The Steve Morse Band, The Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Queen, Blackmore's Knight, Gary Hoey, Vinnie Moore, Marty Willson-Piper, Al DiMeola, Yngwie, Blues Saraceno, Brian Setzer, Nuno, Jake E. Lee, Tony MacAlpine, Tony Iommi, Vivian Campbell, John Mayer, Kiss, Def Leppard, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Romeo, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Dio, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, OLD Metallica, Symphony X, Leaves' Eyes, Hammerfall, Nevermore, Racer X, Anthrax, Alice In Chains, Fight, Halford, Primal Fear, Megadeth, Marty Friedman, Accept, The Scorpions, Ratt, AC/DC, Evergrey, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, Testament, Rob Zombie, Crash Pad, Hoyt and the Hotheads, Shadowflag, David Bowie, The Cult, lots of 80's alternative, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, The Church, The Damned, The Smiths, Modern English, Dukes Of Stratosphear, XTC, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, some hair metal, Led Zeppelin, Styx, The Beatles, Cream, The Ramones, Steve Miller, Gordon Lightfoot, Joe Jackson, Jack Johnson, Ted Nugent, Bryan Sutton, Neil Young, The Runaways, King's X, Sex Pistols, Minor Threat, Winger, Everything, Filter, Jethro Tull, Big Wreck, The Smithereens, Jet, Switchfoot, Maroon 5, Beck, Muse, Rooney, Lily Allen, The Killers, Duran Duran, Franz Ferdinand, Opeth, Death Cab for Cutie, Interpol, She Wants Revenge, The Darkness, Nora Jones, Basia, Enya, Lili Haydn, Sarah Brightman (the Angel of Music), Bond, Clandestine, Seven Nations, Pearl Django, Ella Fitzgerald, Django Reinhardt, Alex Skolnick Trio, Doc Watson, Alex Beaton, bluegrass, Charles Lowery and Friends, celtic, my husband, Emily Jane Chappell, Donnie Honeycutt, Seth Boulton, a lot of classic rock, a lot of jazz, particularly guitar jazz (Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Larry Coryell, etc.).
Movies:
The Crow, A Clockwork Orange, Blade, The Vampire Journals, Subspecies (all), RV, Music and Lyrics, Planet Terror, Talladega Nights, Kung Pow, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Josie and the Pussycats, Under the Tuscan Sun, New Waterford Girl, Marie Antoinette, Be Cool, House of a Thousand Corpses, The Notorious Bettie Page, School of Rock, Phantom of the Opera, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Notebook, Wicker Park, Harry Potter (all), X-Men (all), Spiderman (all), Zhou Yu's Train, Lair of the White Worm, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lost In Space, Godzilla (most), Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, The Five Deadly Venoms, Crying Freeman, Freaky Friday (newest version), The Howling, The Howling 5 and 6, An American Werewolf in London, A Knight's Tale, Thirteen Ghosts, Airheads, Star Wars (mostly episodes 3, 4, 5, and 6), Universal Monster movies, Dog Soldiers, Snow White a Tale of Terror, Johnny English, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Willow, Men In Black (both), Evil Dead I and II, Army of Darkness, Lake Placid, Brain Candy, Tremors (all), Legend, The Stoned Age, From Beyond, Better Off Dead, The Vampire Lovers, The Wicker Man (both versions), Yellow Submarine, The Stoned Age, The Pink Panther movies, and my all time favorite, The Royal Tenenbaums. (I'm not much into "chick" movies.)
Television:
Invader Zim!!! Nip/Tuck!!! Metalocalypse!!! Robot Chicken, Family Guy, MXC, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Little Britain, Star Trek (original and Next Generation), The Practice, Law and Order, Dark Shadows, Lexx, Forever Knight, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Doctor Who (NOT the new series), The Wonder Pets!.
Books:
*James Joyce*, Diana Gabaldon, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf, Philip Larkin, H.P. Lovecraft, T.S. Eliot, Pearl S. Buck, Toni Morrison, Piers Anthony, Nancy A. Collins, Stephen King, Tabitha King...a lot of Realists and Modernists. Books on how to sew and make things, books on interior design.
Heroes:
GIR, Zim, Nathan Explosion, Ricky Bobby, Captain James Kirk, TJ Hooker, Denny Crane, Chili Palmer, Dr. Who, Luke Skywalker, Borat, Frank the Transporter, Lenny the guinea pig.