Snowboarding, Basketball, Golf, Football, House and Trance Music, Photography, Film... since I bought a house... home repair/remodling/spending a fortune at Home Depot, although thats less an interest and more of an obsession.
Anybody who's cool... but especially people from my past... if you remember me from back in the day, say 'hi', even if its just to say... 'hi'
I love it all, even country because of the great song writing. It think I started as a Neil Diamond afficianado, then when I was 4 I liked Michael Jackson (and I'm sure he would have lovED me).
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From 2nd grade .. seeing a sexy lip-sync to Whole Day Off by my girlfriend at the time (we held hands at school), I pretty much listened to Oingo Boingo
exclusively until 4th grade (except for some stray months where I transformed myself into Simon Lebon while my friend became John and we airbanded to Wild Boys until the sun came up!)
and then I went through a Run DMC/Beastie Boys/Madonna phase
(I was always listening to the flyest rap tunes when I tugged the card-board out and busted out my straight from the movie Breakin' break-dancing moves).
My soccer mullet and I head-banged to Faith No More... I lived in France for 7th grade... so I missed out on Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction almost completely... luckily I was able to catch up thanks to BMG and Columbia House when I was in college. Still, while I was in France George Michael's hetero Godliness was an inspiration through puberty. Samantha Fox was the greatest singer in the world at that time...
although the most listened to song of 1987 was without a doubt, "Pump up the Volume, Pump up the Volume, DANCE, DANCE!". Metallica and ONE welcomed me back to California. MC Hammer was there to greet me too.
My first CD was Mariah Carey's debut album (God, didn't she look amazing in that Someday video ?). My second CD made me sweat 'til I bleed... is that dope enough? Indeed... Indeed I woke up to C + C Music Factory every morning for 3 months. After that I liked Jackal, "I felt the sun shining, DOWN on me... I love the thought of you coming... DOWN ON ME." ... then I finally got some stability in the form of Pearl Jam and U2 (no longer just that band who sang Sunday Bloody Sunday).
Pearl Jam, Nirvana and U2 carried me through high school (along with the Lakers) and then once I got to college the flood gates opened. Lasting impressions were Bob Marley,
Rage Against the Machine, Soul Asylum (I have no idea why), and "All I can say, is that my life is pretty plain, I like watching the puddles gather raaaainn..." I painted a mural the year Kurt Cobain died and moshed in my plaid shirt to everything from early techno to Counting Crows.
My first concerts were in college and included Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Green Day, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Sheryl Crow, the Indigo Girls, Dave Mathews Band (didn't actually get into the concert, but was within ear shot of it enjoying some hanky panky on the nearby golf course), Pearl Jam, and Pearl Jam.
By this time I no longer had my soccer mullet, but did have a shaved head and LOVED... INHALED, and however else you want to describe that bond you have with music where if anyone else talks about them you sort of get defensive because you're scared you can't express how much that music means to you......
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So yeah, in a nut shell, I'm really picky about my music and only listen to Oingo Boingo, Pearl Jam, and Sublime... oh yeah, and I just sorta kinda totally LOVE house/trance, although some of my DJ friends say my adoration for Tiesto is grounds for banishment from the world of electronica. The Just Be album. Check it out.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
LOTR Trilogy (Extended Editions)
Billy Madison
Donnie Darko
Tommy Boy
Dumb and Dumber
7
Mumford
anything with Milla Jovovich
When we Were Kings
Human Traffic
QUOTES:
- Nice one bruv, I said Nice one bruv, nice one bruv!, I SAID Nice on bruv, BRUVVVAAAAAA, Fuck off.
- Vader was trying to control outer space, Yoda was trying to explore inner space, and that is the fundamental difference between the good and bad sides of the force. FUCK i dont know were it comes from sometimes mate.
- THE MILKY BARS ARE ON ME!
- I'm quicker on the draw than Jesse James my son.
- BOOMSHANKA! An interception...
- Danny who love? What accident?
- But he can't scratch for shit, he just digs the fantasy man, GO ON MY SON!
- What's your name? What have you had? Reach for the lazers, SAFE AS FUCK!
Mall Rats
Swingers
The Matrix (the first 5 times I saw it)
Run Lola Run
True Romance
A Clockwork Orange
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Big Lebowski
The Boondock Saints
Office Space
The Professional
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Die Hard
Top Gun
Fight Club
The Hunt For Red October
Pitch Black
Moulin Rouge
V For Vendetta
Amelie
and just to piss some people off... Scarface is over-rated.
24
Lost
Da Ali G Show
Family Guy
My Name is Earl
Deadwood (Al Swearengen is hands down the greatest character in television history)
Entourage
Rome
The Sopranos
Big Love
and my guilty pleasures Ghost Whisperer (Jennifer Love Hewitt... so hot, want to touch the heiny!)
... and In a Fix (I love my Jennie!)
Most recently read book I would recommend to someone is Footsteps (Footprints?)of God. I read of lot of Koontz, perhaps too much because he's feeling a little formulaic to me... but I have liked the reads enough to buy the next book. I strongly suggest you DO NOT read State of Fear by Michael Crichton. Poorly written, lacked a likable character, and was therefore unsuspensful.
Lance Armstrong