Beaches barefoot. Mountains booted. Hot sun. Cold wind. Nights out in strange places. Nights in in comfortable ones. Saturday afternoons at the footie. Cold beer on a hot day. A nice red wine on a restaurant terrace watching the world go by. Cooking. Spain. My Christine. Our children.
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Good God, how long have you got? Too many, too many.The list would never end, but current playlist includes:
Audioslave (Cornell is God)
System of a Down
DragonForce
Sepultura & Soulfly ( I have no allegiance either way, they're both my friends! Max & Igor, I love you both!)
Alter Bridge (Tremonti? Awesome.)
Black Label Society (I've just about forgiven them for the Bradford debacle last year. Get yourselves back - and I want guestlist motherfuckers....)
Skindred Pretty much on permanent rotation at the moment, absolutely fucking awesome!
Long term faves are:
Soundgarden (the best band in the history of the world. Ever.)
Pearl Jam
Alice in Chains
Mother Love Bone
Temple of the Dog
(in fact pretty much the Seattle sound - don't call it grunge, it's just rock, except Nirvana. Don't like 'em. Don't get 'em.)
The thrash "Big 4":
Anthrax (bring back John Bush)
Metallica
Slayer
Megadeth
Pantera
Damageplan (RIP Dime)
Chimaira
Arch Enemy
Trivium
Mastodon
and all the other metal stuff that's as heavy as fuck and makes you want to explode
The Wildhearts (lots of love to Ginger!)
and any other melodic music that not only rocks but makes me smile and gives me that warm fuzzy feeling inside!
Hardcore stuff:
Biohazard
Cro-Mags
Crowbar
Hatebreed
Helmet
Punk, from the Pistols through the present
Alt stuff like:
Tool
Coheed & Cambria
Faith No More
Janes Addiction (again, it's all rock)
Stoner stuff:
QOTSA
Fu Manchu
Clutch
Southern twang like the Supersuckers, motherfuckers...
and don't let me forget classic classic rock like AC/DC, Sabbath, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Van Halen Motley Crue and all that other late 70's early 80's music that got me into this shit in the first place!
Honestly, the list goes on forever (and even includes crazy shit like Mano Negra and Mozart(happy birthday you crazy motherfucker!))! As long as it's loud, rude and dirty, I'll give it a listen. Don't matter if it's slow and sludgy or fast and frenetic, it all pretty much sounds good to me......just as a final couple of words though, mySpace has opened up so many new bands to me, it's outrageous how many great unsigned and truly gifted bands there are in this community. Take some time to search and you'll unearth some diamonds. I know I have!
And anything sung in Spanish! Metal espanol siempre!
I like no-brainer, leave your intelligence at the door action fuck-ups. If it's Ukrainian Underground cinema, I'm not THAT interested. Honestly.
Oh. And Kevin Smith's stuff. It's about as close to intellectual viewing as I get. I know. You're thinking "Jay and Silent Bob are intellectual?". Don't get me started, I wasn't even supposed to be here today.....
Documentaries, but not "reality tv". Unless you count "Shameless" as reality?
Hunter Thompson.
Steven King.
Tom Clancy.
Dan Brown.
My parents. Hendrix. Chris Cornell.
My Christine, without whom I'd be nothing. She's made me the man I am today and I love her with all my heart, all my soul and every last shred of my being.