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Synthetic Romantic

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I'll be here...
I'll be waiting here...
I'll be waiting for you, so...
If you come here...
You'll find me...
I promise
Every night I burn, every night I scream your name ...
Everything's gonna be alright
Rockabye ....

I wanna dance with you ...


Who will be the King and Queen of the outcast teens?


With a face like this, I won't break any hearts
I try to stick to the plans, but something inevitably goes wrong along the way!
MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator"We held hands on our last night on earth. Our mouths filled with dust, we kissed in the fields and under trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves. It was empty on the edge of town but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river. So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and the shattered seasons lay, and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease. In our cancer of passion you said, "Death is a midnight runner." The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide. We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress. The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop. The few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime. I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall, but you made me realize that my ticket wasn't good for two. I rode alone. You said, "The cinders are falling like snow." There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence. Of blue and grey. Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of the city. The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon and the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines. Still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message. I cannot leave here, I cannot stay. Forever haunted, more than afraid. Asphyxsiate on words I would say. I'm drawn to a blackened sky as I turn blue. There are no flowers, no not this time. There'll be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find. I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you could I only speak, just how much this hurts me. I cannot stay here, I cannot leave. Just like all I loved, I'm make believe. Imagined heart, I disappear. Seems ... no one will appear here and make me real. There are no flowers, no not this time. There'll be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find. I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you could I only speak, just how much this hurts me. I'd tell you how it haunts me. I'd tell you how it haunts me. Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams. I'd tell you how it haunts me. Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams. You don't care that it haunts me. There are no flowers, no not this time. There'll be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find. I'd show a smile but I'm too weak I'd share with you could I only speak, just how much this hurts me. Just how much this hurts me. Just how much you ... " - AFI, This Time Imperfect MyGen Profile Generator
Don't hold me down, just hold me
Don't hold me down, just hold me
Don't hold me down, just hold me
DON'T HOLD ME DOWN, JUST FUCKING HOLD ME!

I like to write song lyrics. You can find them at http://captainwalruslyrics.blogspot.com/
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Iron Maiden - Different World

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My Interests

MUSIC appears to have replaced my soul. Watching films, reading books, rocking with mates, clubs and pubs and gigs (preferably of the alternative / rock variety), spending way too much time on the Internet... Computer gameage (to a lot lesser degree than I used to) Trying to learn / do new stuff and usually failing miserably (including learning musical instruments, keeping up to date with current affairs etc. etc.) ... Lyric writing ... DJing and being general piratical lackey for the UKC Rocksoc

I'd like to meet:


Men, Women, Things, Skeletons, Vampires, Pirates, Wenches, Faeries, Angels, Alternatives, Rockers, Metallers, Goths, Cybers, Punks, Grungers, Geeks, Singists, Axemen, Four Stringed Wonders, Beaters Of Drums, Keymasters, Classicalists, Writers, Poets, Artists, Dancers, Actors, Deviants, Drunks, Lovers, Sinners, Saints, Ladies & Lords & Gentlemen & Whores, and of course Gregor Samsa

From the Land of the Living or the Land of the Dead

The cast of characters (in no order of preference):

Jeff Buckley, Captain Jack Sparrow, Link, Slash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Cornell,
John Frusciante, Iron Maiden, Lestat , Natalie Portman, Tool, Bon Jovi,
Hayley Williams, W. Axl Rose, Steven Berkoff, Mike Patton, Ozzy Osbourne, AFI,
Bruce Dickinson, Amy Davidson, Dave Navarro, Guns N' Roses, Kurt Cobain, Eddie,
Pearl Jam & Soundgarden, Lauren Harris, Rage Against The Machine, Jon Bon Jovi, Guybrush Threepwood,
Richie Sambora, Andrew Eldritch, Avenged Sevenfold, Manny Calavera, Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Lindsay Lohan,
The Mars Volta, Steve Tyler, A Vampiress, Johnny Depp, Damien Rice, David Bowie, Gregor Samsa
Andrew Wood, Christina Scabbia, Ville Valo, InMe, Amy Lee, Dead Eye Duck, Rinoa Heartilly & Squall Leonhart

Anyone I forgot?

Bon Jovi - Dry County
The best song ever written! (The full 10 minute version is better though :p)

More Bon Jovi - Hey God

Gorillaz - El Manana

Music:

Basically a lot of rock, metal, alternative and punk, especially 80's and 90's hard rock and metal, and grunge ... always on the lookout for new stuff as well

Top 5 bands:

Bon Jovi
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Guns N' Roses
Iron Maiden

Classic Hard Rock & Metal:

Aerosmith
Jon Bon Jovi
Richie Sambora
Def Leppard
Alice Cooper
Queen
Metallica
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Queensryche
Pantera
Motley Crue
Van Halen
Skid Row
Led Zeppelin
Slash's Snakepit

Alternative & Grunge:

Soundgarden
Audioslave
Nirvana
InMe
Muse
Nine Inch Nails
Rage Against The Machine
Faith No More
Temple Of The Dog
Mother Love Bone
Chris Cornell
Queens Of The Stone Age
Marilyn Manson
Alice In Chains
Head Automatica
Placebo
Gorillaz
Skunk Anasie
Garbage

Just 'Rock', or Pop-rock if you'd prefer:

Foo Fighters
Live
Lostprophets
Bryan Adams
Nickelback
Stereophonics

A lil' bit of contemporary punk (some may call it emo or even pop ... I don't really care):

Taking Back Sunday
Green Day
The Offspring
My Chemical Romance
Alexisonfire

Beautiful things:

Jeff Buckley
Damien Rice

Some slightly indescribable prog stuff:

The Mars Volta
Coheed & Cambria
Tool

Gothicness:

AFI
Sisters Of Mercy
The Cure

Some nu-metal (Hey, tis how I got into rock music in the first place):

System Of A Down
Linkin Park
Papa Roach

And finally some of the new breed of hard rock and metal:

Velvet Revolver
Avenged Sevenfold
The*Ga*Ga*s
Killswitch Engage
Dragonforce
Bullet For My Valentine
Slipknot

Movies:

A few off the top of my head, I'll probably keep adding to this list as other ones occur to me:
STAR WARS (all 6 of them... I'm a bit of a fanboy)
The Fifth Element
The Butterfly Effect
Closer
All 4 Tremors (1st and 2nd are the best, 3 is the worst but still pretty good)
The Matrix Trilogy and The Animatrix
Pirates Of The Carribean 1 & 2 (But the first one is better)
Spiderman 1 and 2 (1 is better)
The entire James Bond series (with Brosnan, Dalton and Connery being the best actors, in that order ... don't know where to put Craig yet, he's definetly got potential though)
Resident Evil 1 and 2
Mission : Impossible 1, 2 and 3
Young Guns 1 and 2
Batman and Batman Begins
The Mummy & The Mummy Returns
Terminators 1, 2 and 3 (2 is the best)
Mulholland Drive
The Crow
Wicker Park
Leon
Finding Neverland
Collateral
Memento
Vanilla Sky
Minority Report
City Of God
Big Fish
Silent Hill
Underworld (just the 1st, the 2nd was disappointing)
Singles
Almost Famous
... and for some reason, I want to put The Pagemaster, so yeah :b (despite the fact I haven't watched it for years ... I need to remedy that)

Television:

Mostly just surf music channels, mainly Kerrang! MTV2 and Scuzz ... also Lost, Friends, The Simpsons, Scrubs, Doctor Who and Torchwood, Heroes, Only Fools And Horses, such comedy quiz shows as Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Have I Got News For You ... and of course all the stuff I used to watch like KNIGHTMARE (best TV programme ever!), Boy Meets World, and others which will come to me at some point

Books:

Star Wars series, Resident Evil series, James Bond series, Harry Potter series, Ben Elton - especially Dead Famous and Past Mortem, Daniel Handler - The Basic Eight and A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Animorphs series!
Computer Games What the hell, I figured this has every other type of entertainment media ... where's computer games?! (Again this is just off the top of my head ... more added as they occur to me)
Game series:
Final Fantasy series (FFVII = Best game ever. VI and VIII are also awesome. IX and X are very good too)
Legend Of Zelda series (Ocarina Of Time = Best Nintendo game ever ... although I haven't played Twilight Princess yet)
Super Mario series ( World and 64 are legends!)
Resident Evil series (GC version of original = awesome)
Metroid series (Prime 1 and 2 = fantastic)
Sonic The Hedgehog series (Sonic 3 + Knuckles = YES)
Monkey Island series ( 2 and 3 = comic adventure genius)
Star Wars series
Super Smash Brothers series
Starfox series (Lylat Wars!)
Banjo Kazooie series
Donkey Kong series
... and the Pokemon series was damn good back in the day, and you know it! :b

Other favourites:
Nintendo:
Goldeneye 007 (legendary!)
Perfect Dark
Eternal Darkness
XIII
PC:
Grim Fandango
Worms Armageddon
Diablo II
Sega:
Ristar
Flashback

Sony:
Silent Hill 4: The Room

Heroes:

Everyone and no one
Some of the people in the Who I'd Like To Meet section are a good start
Anyone who can make a difference
Websites This is a list of the other websites I use a lot, and my profile names on them:
LiveJournal - Captainwalrus http://captainwalrus.livejournal.com/
The Student Bar - Captain Walrus
http://thestudentbar.com/members/1396
Facebook -
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=505662491
Vampire Freaks - _Lone_Wolf_
http://vampirefreaks.com/_Lone_Wolf_
Dry County Bon Jovi fansite - The Walrus
http://www.drycounty.com/jovitalk/member.php?u=300
My other blogs
(most of them haven't been updated in ages):
My Blogger profile:
http://www2.blogger.com/profile/12910801397123397631
My Song Lyrics (still under construction:
http://captainwalruslyrics.blogspot.com/
The Mountain Cave Blog
http://behind-the-waterfall.blogspot.com/
Quote Of The Day:
http://paulsquoteoftheday.blogspot.com/
Let It Rock (Ultra Extreme Edition):
http://lirextreme.blogspot.com/
El Bloggo:
http://el-bloggo1.blogspot.com/

My Blog

First batch of 2007 retrospective majigs:

Numbero Uno:One of those "First sentence or so from first Myspace blog of each month" doohickeys. Although I'll add a section for my Livejournal blog as well, where they differ. With my own hindsight ...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:11:00 PST

Yo ho ho, but please no bottle of rum!

So, it's the first weekend of my three weekends in a row at home in Croydon, and it's turned into a bit of a wasted trip already ... mostly my own fault. Long story short, on Friday night I drank FAR ...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:52:00 PST

More phonelessness

Well, the phone insurance thing is pissing me off .... aside from deciding that I MUST have a daytime telephone number, which I don't now that I have no phone; it is also telling me that my insurance ...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:51:00 PST

Phoneless

Just to let everyone know, my phone seems to have died a spectacular death since last night. Seeing as I've got it insured, I'm gonna claim a new one, but I have fuck all idea when it's gonna arrive, ...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:31:00 PST

Home tonight

Lock up your daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins and sandwiches .... I make my epic return to Canterbury TODAY!
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:06:00 PST

Haircut sir?

I have given myself a haircut of sorts. I don't mean I've gone to a barber / hairdresser's, nor let my mum or some similar person trim it a bit ... I mean I've actually taken the scissors to my own ha...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:52:00 PST

Synthetic Romantic

Can it be that I've actually finished a new song for the first time in months? Yes, it seems so! The basic idea of this song is that it has a look at alternative forms of love beyond the traditional...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:36:00 PST

Metallica gig review

Metallica + HIM + Machine Head - Wembley Stadium, London - July 8th 2007First up, some thoughts about Wembley Stadium  I'm not sure quite what I thought of it! When I first walked up that ramp to get...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:34:00 PST

Hyde Park Calling review

Hyde Park Calling - 24th June 2007 The Answer  - Only knew a few of their songs beforehand (Under The Sky, Never Too Late, and the Sweet Emotion cover). They were pretty good, the lead guy has a...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:31:00 PST

Pearl Jam gig review

Pearl Jam - Wembley Arena - June 18th 2007 Idlewild  Bleh. Didn't really interest me in the slightest. The only point to note was that they were heavier than I thought they'd be. Apart from that, I ...
Posted by Synthetic Romantic on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:29:00 PST