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Joe DeVinyl

Walking wounded.

About Me


A wonderful quote: Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two. ~Ambrose Bierce
For anyone who understands personality typing:
Introverted
Intuitive
Feeling
Adaptive
I believe that invincibility is a simple matter of getting up one more time than you fall down. I'd rather live one day as a lion, than one hundred years as a sheep.
I think that anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life, and love should not be one of them.
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
"In love the smallest distance is too great and the greatest distance can be bridged."
I'd rather listen than talk, because I can learn more from listening than I can from talking. The people I respect the most are the ones that decide to accomplish something and then go out and do it.
I survive all the difficult things in my life through a combination of stubborness, patience and a sense of humor. It's a rare occasion when I run out of all three.
I set high standards for myself and occasionally for others, as well.
I won't lie to you to get you to like me.
I need at least a few minutes of solitude every day, in order to stay sane. If you ask me nicely for something, I'm much more likely to be cooperative than if you demanded. I think that politeness counts.
I'm not easily shocked or offended and I sometimes take pleasure in shocking or offending others, particularly those who take themselves too seriously. I don't take myself too seriously.
I am loyal to a fault, so don't fuck with my friends, because I will step up to defend them.
I believe in karma and I have no problem with occasionally being karma's instrument. I think that revenge is best served cold. The best revenge a person can have upon their enemies is to live well and be happy.I don't think it's worth the time to argue with idiots...they can drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.I think that I am at heart an foolish optimist, but life has injected a large dose of cynicism and skepticism into my character.I'd rather hear the ugly truth than a pretty lie.I strive for a middle ground between realism and idealism in my life. I know how things are and I know how I wish they were. I don't confuse the two, though I'd like to bring them more into balance.Just because I'm standing in the corner and I haven't blinked in 10 minutes doesn't mean that I'm contemplating homicide/suicide. Then again, it doesn't mean I'm not. I'm a lot more friendly and approachable than people think I am. Sometimes I just forget to smile.


Accurate, except for the part about being a pacifist. I strongly believe in the the effectiveness and occasional necessity of calculated, premeditated violence.

You scored as PSG-1, You are one of the Best Sniper Rifles in the world. Made by H&K Germany, this selective-fire Sniper Rifle is used by Special Forces and the German Army. A Bull Barrel is already installed when it is sold. It is the most accurate selective-fire Sniper Rifle in the world; more accurate than the M21 and the M82 .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle made by Barrett. The PSG-1 is a legend and will be used for a while longer.
Grenade Launcher


78%

PSG-1


78%

M24 Sniper Rifle


72%

Combat Shotgun


47%

M249 SAW


41%

M4 Assault Rifle


38%

Ak-47


25%

Mac 11 Uzi


13%
What Gun would you Be?
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My Interests

My wife in a corset, my wife out of a corset, Russian Language and Culture, Bass Guitar, Travel, Art (Renaissance, Ancient Egyptian, Pin-Up, Dali, Escher, et al.), History, Some Fashion and Interior Design, Booze, Collecting sharp, hurty things, Tattoos, Piercings, Music (Gothic, Industrial, Psychobilly, some 80's), Booze, Physical Fitness, Nutrition, Photography (esp. B&W), Warhammer, Tiki Bars, BDSM, BDSM in Tiki Bars, Politics, Martial Arts (MMA), Old Cadillacs, Books of all kinds, Booze, Dancing, Convergence net.goth convention, Wave Gottik Treffen, DragonCon (next year?) Viva Las Vegas, Greek, Indian, Mexican and Japanese Cuisine. Unfortunately, I don't now, nor will I ever have enough time to indulge all the things that interest me. At least I'll never be bored.

Dislikes: Cutlets and peas (my boys know what I mean). Political ads on TV, people who create drama just because they’re bored, people who lack the courage to tell their friends what they need to hear vs telling them what they want to hear, heavy traffic of any kind, spermicidal lubricants, poorly informed reactionary conservatives, poorly informed reactionary liberals, judgmental people, typos, mispellings, Miss Tori Spelling and all her ilk, people who lie to me and think that I'm too blind to notice, people who can’t just shut up and enjoy a few moments of silence, weasel-like opportunists, whiners, muscle-flexing macho types, hot weather, people who lack manners, hypocrites, caviar, people who take themselves so seriously that they can’t laugh or take a joke at their expense and adorable shoes that hurt Asia’s feet. Oh, and Chuck Norris. Fuck Chuck.(Kudos to you if you caught the incorrectly spelt word.)

I'd like to meet:

Alive? Jello Biafra and Henry Rollins.
Dead? Oscar Wilde.

In general: Interesting, smart people with similar tastes and sensibilities. I enjoy hanging out with artists, techies, nerds or knuckle-dragging brutes who conceal high IQs and hearts of gold.

I place more importance on the quality of my friends than the quantity. I have quite a few good ones already, but I'm not opposed to making some more. I like people who have something to teach me or who can show me a point of view that I've never considered before. I am tolerant and non-judgemental and I prefer friends who are the same. I'm also the kind of person who can go without talking to one of my friends for weeks, months or even years, but then still pick back up where we left off.
If you're a racist, fascist, homophobe, bigot or religious zealot, don't add me. If you're a prevaricating, loud-mouth braggart, don't add me. I'm very happily married, so don't message me looking to hook up. It's not going to happen. This goes doubly for cam sluts. Don't even bother adding me.
If you're a lame, quasi-alternative band and are only adding me to post advertisements in my comments section, don't bother. The kinds of music I like are clearly listed in the music section of my profile.

Music:

Siouxsie and the Banshees, Creatures, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Mission, Fields of the Nephilim, Voltaire, Ex Voto, Corpus Delicti, Morbid Poetry, Rasputina, Christian Death, Lycia, Rosetta Stone, Bella Morte, Diary of Dreams, Fear Cult, Cruxshadows, Audra, Switchblade Symphony, Cranes, Mors Syphilitica, Peter Murphy, Joy Division, 45 Grave, Nosferatu, Genitorturers, More Machine Than Man, Ministry, Hanzel und Gretel, Razed in Black, Rammstein, Combichrist, DE/VISION, Umbra et Imago, Hocico, KMFDM, FLA, Das Ich, Assemblage 23, VNV Nation, Wumpscut, Laibach, Skinny Puppy, Rotersand, Electric Hellfire Club, Wolfsheim, Attrition, Kill Switch Klick, Flesh Field, Haujobb, Juno Reactor, Clan of Xymox, Covenant, In Strict Confidence, Leaether Strip, Android Lust, Blut Engel, 69 Eyes, Einsturzende Neubauten, Necromantix, The Spectres, Tiger Army, Horror Pops, Demented Are Go, Misfits, Cramps, Psychocharger, Social Distortion, Guana Bats, Mr Underhill, Babes in Toyland, STP, System of a Down, Oingo Boingo, Love and Rockets, Cure, Glove, Nina Hagen, Depeche Mode, Concrete Blonde, Jesus and Mary Chain, Dead or Alive, Mazzy Star, Portishead.

Free Cursors

Movies:


Russian Drama (a happy ending is where one person survives!), Cheesy Horror (particularly the old stuff, most particularly anything with Boris, Bela or Vincent), Old War Movies, Cheesy Kung Fu Films, Borat!, almost any sort of Historical Documentary, Fahrenheit 911, The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, Band of Brothers, Excalibur (1981 British Release, can you find the future stars?), Labyrinth, Neverending Story, the Dark Crystal, Legend, LOTR, The Princess Bride, Dangerous Beauty, Dangerous Liaisons, Quills, Immortal Beloved, Starship Troopers, Bladerunner, Johnny Mnemonic, Crybaby, Heathers, Beetlejuice, Four Rooms, Office Space, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Xmas, The Corpse Bride, Interview With The Vampire, Ravenous, Donnie Darko, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Crow, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Fight Club, American Beauty, The Mexican, Things to do in Denver When You're Dead, Memento, Butterfly Effect, Bubba Ho Tep, Shaun Of The Dead, The Village, Signs, Suburbia, SLC Punk, Keira-Freaking-Knightly,Dina Meyer(So hot and so tough!), Natalie Portman (Brains and beauty!), Tim Burton, Ed Wood, Jean Reno, Kevin Spacey, Steve Buscemi, Al Pacino, Robert Deniro, Michael Moore, Bruce Campbell (The King of B-movies!), Vhing Rhames, Asia Argento, Cary Elwes, Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron (Far too good-looking to be so amazingly talented), Milla Jovovich, Jennifer Tilley(Funny and gorgeous, a modern day Betty Boop!), Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchette (The Meryl Streep of her generation), Kate Winslett.

Television:

TV is usually what goes on in the background while I'm doing something else. My wife and I like to watch shows about true crime, the supernatural and travel. I watch CNN every once in a while to get the latest propaganda. A few shows I've recently enjoyed: CSI (Vegas only!), The Daily Show, The Colber Repoir, Gray's Anatomy, Monk and pretty much anything on Discovery and the History Channel. Oh, and Meerkat Manor is great!

Books:

I'll read just about anything that's put in front of me. I try to balance my reading habits between junk food (SF/Fantasy Fiction) and health food (History, Science, Art or anything in Russian). Authors: HP Lovecraft, Salman Rushdie, Gore Vidal, JRR Tolkien, Harry Harrison, Oscar Wilde, Robert Jordan, Pushkin, Chekhov, Michael Crichton, Jack London, David Eddings, Al Franken, Bob Woodward, Anne Rice, Neil Gaiman, RA Salvatore (and pretty much anything and everything set in the Forgotten Realms). Books: Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Blood, Germs and Steel, Thank You For Smoking, Anansi Boys, State of Denial, The Time Traveller's Wife, American Psycho, Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd, Eve of Destruction: The Untold History of the Yom Kippur War, Brazilian Jujutsu:Theory and Technique. I've been reading a lot of WH 40k fiction lately.

Heroes:

"Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota." Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away."

My Blog

Don't feed the psychos

  This is a semi-rant kind of blog that has two purposes: 1) to impart some of the wisdom that Ive gained in the last few years, especially this last one and 2) to help gel some of the thoughts ...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Mon, 08 May 2006 12:59:00 PST

Viva Las Vegas Top 10

  Yeah, I know, I'm running late with this thing. I've already written it and edited it in my head a dozen times, but I just haven't been able to make time to write it all out. So here, without ...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:05:00 PST

Fuck Pedro, Vote for Asia!

Greetings from Las Vegas!Asia is up for the final voting for pinupsfortroops. If you love us, or even just like us a little bit, you'll go and vote for her. Go to the pictures section at www.myspa...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:41:00 PST

Hot pinup chicks! Look here!

  As some of you may know, my muse and the most beautiful woman I've ever met, Asia DeVinyl, is in the running for the back cover of the new pinups for troops book.  Asia's support of the tr...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:06:00 PST

Global Personality Test

http://similarminds.com/global-adv.html According to this, I have no personality. I jest.  It seems pretty accurate.  If you actually know me, feel free to tell me what you think.   Adv...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:16:00 PST

Quote of the Day

President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953: "Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:02:00 PST

Green Ham and Eggs

  Green with envy? Taiwan boasts of transgenic pig as it eyes stem cell research TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -- Taiwan, home to the world's first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluor...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:06:00 PST

The biggest tool to ever live...

.....is running for Governor in Minnesota.  No, Jesse Ventura is still in retirement.  This guy is an even bigger tool.  He's a vampire from New Jersey.  I'm sure Voltaire knows hi...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:21:00 PST

Homicide

  After receiving the bulletin "I was killed" I googled "Joe was killed" and didn't find any really good ones, but I did find this, from 2000.  Some of these are funny, some of them are sick...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:31:00 PST

ABC Survey

A- AREA CODE YOU ARE IN RIGHT NOW: 703...you'd think that this would be next to Vegas, but, not. B- BIRTHDAY: In days of yore. C- CURRENT CRUSH: Don't hate, but I still have a crush on my wife. D- FAV...
Posted by Joe DeVinyl on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:53:00 PST