Let's see, where do I start? I love sushi, beer, eating out, dive bars, clubbing every few months or so, seeing DM everytime they come to town, music, reading, archaeology, geology, history, films, drives down PCH with an awesome soundsystem blaring, massage (i'm home schooled),hiking, running occasionally, martial arts (BJJ, submission wrestling, hapkido), the internet (what the hell did we do before the internet?), chasing Nico and Eva around, sushi at Sushi Dan's, Stella Artois, Mt. Lowe, Venice Beach, people watching, did I mention sushi?
ALL AND ANY REQUESTS FOR FRIENDS ADDS WILL BE DENIED UNLESS PREFACED BY SOME KIND OF CORRESPONDENCE!!! I'M NOT HERE TO WIN ANY POPULARITY CONTESTS!!!!! Any cool, openminded, friendly people. Especially electronica junkies like me...But please, don't add me just to inflate your friends count, thanks :)
Where do I start? I have loved music since as long as I can remember. My Mom got me a small boom box when I was a rugrat and I remember that thing changed my life. Since then the longest I have ever gone without listening to music is 2 months (basic training). Even then I would dream about music. My first love was and is 80's alternative/KROQ-type of music. I grew up on the likes of Depeche Mode (haven't missed a live show since I was 13), The Smiths, The Cure, New Order, OMD, Cocteau Twins, The Pretenders, U2, Adam Ant, Flock of Seagulls, General Public, Primal Scream, Psychedelic Furs, B-52's, This Mortal Coil, 10,000 Maniacs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Sundays, etc. I naturally progressed on to listen to electronica, namely house and trance. I first discovered Sasha and John Digweed and Orbital. From there I have gone on to mostly progressive DJ's like Paul Van Dyk (by far the Man), Tiesto (#2 in my book), Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules, George Acosta, BT, Sander Kleinenberg, etc. I'm not as familiar with house but still like it lots thanks to my trip to Europe.
I admit to being a film snob in that I only watch certain films these days. The boring, insultingly predicable films that clog up theatres I avoid. I actually prefer films where the bad guys win and the good guy dies. That is life. Let's face it. Don't kid yourself. My fav films of all times; Seven, Heat, Quest For Fire, Human Traffic, Blow, Platoon, Major Payne, any supercheesy old martial arts films (the kind where the actors fly through the air and throw guillotines at each other), PVD's Global, The Thin Red Line, Battle Royale, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, etc. Pretty much any films directed by Micheal Mann and David Fincher.
I just say no to TV but if forced I watch Discovery, TLC and the History Channel.
Used to read lots of fiction like Stephen King, Anne Rice and John Grisham but now I prefer to read non-fiction. My favs are Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, A People's History of the United States, Killing Pablo, Aztec and Aztec Autumn (historical fiction, technically). But my all time favs are The Stand by Stephen King and Dune by Frank Herbert.
Grand Master Chong S. Kim and all the teachers and students at Kim's Hapkido, Rigan and Roger Machado and all the teachers and students at Machado Jiujitsu, Rickson Gracie, my Grams, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin, Quentin Tarantino, Bill Hicks, David Fincher, Michael Mann, Martin Gore, Giordano Bruno, Uncles' Memo, Robert and Joe, Gahndi, Martin Luther King, Jr, all the men and women in the military overseas because that could have been me, and Mom, of course :)