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Russ

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About Me

I'm finally bored enough to work out something extra to put here. I'm just an average guy, reasonable education, no idea what I want to do with my life. My passion is in music, and I've been learning to drum since about August 2002.
Needless to say drumming is what occupies a fair bit of my time. I see learning to play an instrument as a lifetime commitment. Its like a game you can never "win" at. That's not to put it down in the slightest, but I think that if you reach a day where you believe you can actually learn nothing more then you shouldn't have taken it up in the first place. 'The sky is no limit' as i've come to saying.
What else...I'm still happy right where I am, even if it is near Croydon. My friends are one of the most important things to me, along with family; and at this point in my life I have some of the greatest friends I could ask for . By the way, i like drumming.

My Interests

Music, Socialising, Drumming, etc

I'd like to meet:

People, Preferably

Music:



Movies:

To name but a few of my favourites, in no particular order:

Television:

SPACED, Farscape, X-men, Family Guy, South Park, Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, Black Books, Clone Wars, X-Files, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Metalocalypse, American Dad, Futurama...not much else worth watching.....

Heroes:


Virgil Donati (Planet-X /Independant...)
Danny Carey (Tool/Volto...)
Dan Foord (Sikth)
Tomas Haake (Meshuggah)
Matt McDonough/Spug (Mudvayne)
Martin Lopez (Opeth)
Van Williams (Nevermore)
Dave Lombardo (Slayer)
Thomas Lang (Independant...)
Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Queens of the Stone Age/Foo Fighters/Tenacious D/Probot...)
Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle/Independant...) - Just about everyone in fact.
Mark Smith (ex-Throne of Nails...)
Sam Dunthorne (7th Floor)
Sikth - Amazing band, have influenced me highly.
Tool - Another highly influential and amazing band.
Soilwork - 'Stabbing the Drama' album is a remarkable piece of musicianship.
A Perfect Circle - Because they rule.
Nirvana - The reason I decided to listen to rock music, and then take up drumming.
Simon Pegg - Genius Comedy Writer.
Plus all the guys in my band, all my friends, everyone close to me.

My Blog

Let me sit right by your side, In This Light

I love my life at the momentAnd its mere days away from my 21st....a week of celebrating :)Things are good.Work is currently looking promising...a structural change in the business is going to open up...
Posted by Russ on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:45:00 PST

Meet me in outer space, We could spend the night; watch the earth come up

A lots been going on...and i don't have time to type it all up at the moment.I'll give my happy update soon, undoubtedly on a slight downer due to something or other happening at work, but what the ho...
Posted by Russ on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:29:00 PST

What's right, What's wrong, What's going on?

Right first up, beginning of this month I passed my 3 months probation at work. Had a small slightly informal meeting with my manager - she basically said she was happy she had hired me and thought i...
Posted by Russ on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:53:00 PST

I'm not so sure that this Silence will Speak, Anymore

Time for some more newfound lyrical brilliance.The new sikth album is a great start, given its all i've listened to for days."A question never left me through our days,Buried it all inside, For this m...
Posted by Russ on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:33:00 PST

I've wasted all this time...

Its about time I made mention of this Bug Eyes - Dredg Bring back those good ol' daysNothing feels right, nothing ever goes my wayI threw my future awayNow I walk alone out here in the cold...Wander...
Posted by Russ on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:16:00 PST

X-Men : The Last Stand

...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR- RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG- GGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH...
Posted by Russ on Mon, 29 May 2006 04:16:00 PST

...If I do, will I know, when I am there....

Feeling decidedly meh today. Last night had a good chat with someone told them properly what was going on and what i was thinking, and he was cool about it all. I could he was trying quite hard to be...
Posted by Russ on Thu, 25 May 2006 12:04:00 PST

Ohh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down, without you to guide them all to Zion?

You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and...
Posted by Russ on Sun, 14 May 2006 06:52:00 PST

Right in Two...

After a brash previous judgement, the tool album is growing on me, and Right In Two's lyrics seem to form some kind of meaning. angels on the sideline puzzled and amused why did Father give these h...
Posted by Russ on Mon, 08 May 2006 10:15:00 PST

But I'm still right here, giving blood and keeping faith. And I'm still right here.

" A groan of tedium escapes me, startling the fearful. Is this a test? It has to be. Otherwise I can't go on. Draining patience. drain vitality. this paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little ol...
Posted by Russ on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:51:00 PST