Nowadays I am messing around with this right here . I call it "The Belligerents". I play bass, guitar, drums (programmed, but you know) and sing...sort of. Either you like it or you don't. Most people just give me a blank stare. You can give me money, or nothing at all.
There was a time where I was singing in a band, MVA. You can check us out on MySpace at...
People that I know in the here and now and people that I haven't seen for a long time.
Primus, Tool, Floater, Mr. Bungle, Almost everything that Mike Patton has done, Led anything for sure, Jimi, Pink Floyd, SRV, Muddy, BB, Guns & Roses (Appetite for Destruction and some Lies only...fuck Use your Illusion I and II), Albert King, T-Bone Walker, John Lee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Cab Calloway, The Reverend Horton Heat, You Are Actually Reading This, Suicidal, Slipknot, Slayer, Pantera, late 90's death metal bands (you know they all sound the same), Nirvana, The Dead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System of a Down, Jane's Addiction, DRI, Frank Zappa, Buddy Guy, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Weather Report, Bob Dylan, Phish, Rush, Gwar of course, and Frank Sinatra.
Apocalypse Now!, American History X, Scarface, Casino, The Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, One Flew Over a Cuckoos Nest, Star Wars (1st three without revisions), The Great Escape, Deathtrap, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Austin Powers I, II, & III, Deliverance, Falling Down, The 1970's Wu-Tang Kung Fu series~My Top Three: 1) Ironman, 2) Method Man, and 3) Wu-Tang vs. Ninja (Look! I never really listened to the music version of the Wu-Tang Clan, I just know about these movies, but I am told that I should listen to the Wu-Tang Clan. But I just won't do it. Maybe it's just some sort of wierd principle I am adhering to that used to work for me but doesn't anymore, or maybe the Wu-Tang Clan is the most overrated group of musicians in the history of mankind. I don't really know if that is true, but I do think that the Wu-Tang Clan could be the Grand Funk Railroad of rap music. Yet there are those that swear they are great. I really don't get it.), Full Metal Jacket, The Exorcist, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2, Friday, Gandhi, ET, The Good...the Bad...and the Ugly, Why Are You Reading About the Movies I Like, Midnight Madness, Hamburger Hill, Me...Myself...and Irene, Crash, Hoosiers, Raging Bull, Schindler's List, Rocky, The Untouchables, New Jack City, The Indiana Jones series, Dolemite...Dolemite...DOLEMITE!
DON'T BELIEVE TV! TV LIES!
1984, Catcher in the Rye, All of big Willy Shakes work, Clockwork Orange, The Autobiography of Malcolm X spoken to and written by Alex Haley, The Dune Series, Steinbeck, Johnny Got His Gun (It should be noted that it's sad that most people remember this book [and movie] as the one Metallica made a video for...no offense to the band, but this book is far more important than that. (Sorry for condescending.)), The Lord of the Rings Series, The Odyssey, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wow...You Must Be Bored To Be Reading This List of Books, Walden, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, The Gonzo Papers and Generation of Swine by Hunter S. Thompson, Catch 22, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Animal Farm, the many overlooked and marginalized writings of Noam, The Corporation by Joes Bakan, and others I can't really remember but I read them so they must have be good.
My Dad. The man came here with nothing and worked his ass off so that my sister, my brother, and I could have a better life than he did.He succeded.