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AtwoodTheGates

Is this really rock n' roll or a form of state control?

About Me

I play guitar in 2 Projects/Bands. My main one is Synesthesia, a progressive metal project. It is a project, not a band, I would like it to be one day but for the meantime gigs are a long way off. I will be working on the first Synesthesia album starting this year and I'm shooting to have it released in about 2 years; looooong way off. The other one is my death metal band, Egoist, we just started working but there should be gigs when we get some more songs down and a second guitarist, I also do vocals for this band. I would call it Melodic Technical Death Metal bla bla bla, but I really don't like those sub-sub-sub genre classifications. That is the musical side of me, as far as personality goes I'm usually branded as an asshole, so be it. I'm obviously a huge Ayn Rand fan, and an Objectivist as well (yes, all those who know what I'm talking about are probably sneering right now). I love talking philosophy so if you start talking about anything with me it could easily lead into that... width="425" height="350" ..

My Interests

Music, Guitar, Literature, and Philosophy (Objectivism)

Music:

Rush, Symphony X, Pain of Salvation, Devin Townsend/SYL, Queensryche, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Old Dream Theater, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night, Deep Purple, Van der Graaf Generator, Beyond Twilight, Dark Tranquillity, Freak Kitchen, Fates Warning

Movies:

Taxi Driver, Harold and Maude, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Jacob's Ladder, The Exorcist, Kinsey, Conan The Barbarian, Ghost World, Last Action Hero, Terminator 2, Napolean Dynamite, Sling Blade, Amadeus, Forest Gump, American Beauty, Drugstore Cowboy...and we shall'nt forget the great maserpiece MEATBALLS 2!

Television:

Strangers With Candy, The Young & The Restless, Da Ali G show, Seinfeld

Books:

All Ayn Rand!!!Of Human Bondage, 1984, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, A Clockwork Orange

Heroes:

Ayn Rand, Neil Peart, Daniel Gildenlow,Ritchie Blackmore, Devin Townsend, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Robert Fripp, Peter Sinfield, Finn Zierler, Mike Patton, Frank Zappa