Nifty Nick - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a twenty-two year-old ex-ASU engineering student. I live in a condo with three roommates in Tempe, AZ and work as an operations assistant at Guitar Center. I'm the second of six kids; numerous members of my family are here on Myspace.
You can check out my Livejournal at http://penguin_rock.livejournal.com .
1010 Things About Me (that's ten in binary)
-- I'm addicted to learning about and tweaking guitar effects, and related electronics. I'm considering pursuing electrical engineering to further my knowledge of guitar/pedal/amplifier circuitry and maybe begin building my own stuff someday.
-- It has nothing to do with an image problem, but I never wear hats, shorts, or sandals. Ever.
-- No matter what people say, I think California is the most beautiful state. I'm also longing to see Washington and much of the Pacific Northwest.
-- I was a competition speller throughout my schooling days. If you spell something wrong in front of me, I WILL let you know about it.
-- I'm going bald and I will openly talk about it.
-- I absolutely love cold weather, and it is extremely annoying to me to hear other people talk about how cold it is in a room.
-- People tell me that I snore... But I don't really know that.
-- My whole life, I have had a very profound and almost bizarre fascination with fire.
-- Green is my favourite color: my last name is Greenwood, I have green eyes, and I was born in March, which has St. Patrick's Day. The first book I learned how to read was Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham.
-- I firmly believe in the idea of Objective Truth, that we are real, and right and wrong DOES matter; that God is the Creator of our world and us, and that the Bible is the universal standard by which to base our morality.
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My Interests

Playing guitar, going to shows (to watch bands play, not to hardcore dance), writing poetry, involving myself at Grace Community Church in Tempe, AZ, riding my bicycle, developing my tastes for wine and dark beer, analyzing everything in existence, hookah and the occasional cigar, Gibson and Schecter guitars, Boss / ZVEX / Electro-Harmonix / Moog pedals, Seymour Duncan pickups, Mesa/Boogie amps, Chuck Taylors, In-N-Out Burger, RC Cola and Cheerwine soda, daydreaming a lot about being in a touring band someday, and CURRENTLY rocking pretty awesome manly sideburns.

I'd like to meet:

Dr. Robert Moog (now deceased), the creator of Moog synthesizers. I don't play piano or synth, but his contribution to furthering the purposes of electronics in music is fascinating to me.

Doug Van Pelt, editor of HM magazine. He and his team have helped shape my views on the implications of "Christian" music.

Simply put: if I don't know you personally, I will not add you as a friend. No point in having 500+ people on my friends list if I've never had a genuine connection with them. I'm not into getting as many people as possible to add me just to boost my ego and/or user statistics. But hey, I try not to be too close-minded about this. Drop me a line, send a message, or IM me (AOL nicktheantiheat) and I'd be glad to meet and discuss with you (I just won't add you to my friends list... yet). Have a pleasant and joyous time viewing my profile; I'm very proud of it. Thank you.

I WILL NOT ADD YOUR BAND NOR YOUR CLOTHING LABEL, SO DON'T ASK.
I understand the ability of the internet and Myspace as a powerful tool for promoting music, but I'm tired of sifting through 20+ band invites a week. Supporting the local music scene does not mean simply adding a ton of bands on one's profile.

Music:

Top Five Bands:
Thrice, The Smashing Pumpkins, Cave In, Botch, and The Dillinger Escape Plan

In Alphabetical Order:
Armor For Sleep, As I Lay Dying, At The Drive-In, Beloved, Between The Buried And Me, Bleach, The Bled, The Chariot, Coalesce, Coheed And Cambria, Converge, Curl Up And Die, Deftones, Every Time I Die, Failure, The Fall Of Troy, Fear Before The March Of Flames, Further Seems Forever, Hopesfall, Horse The Band, Hum, Isis, Joy Electric, Killswitch Engage, Life In Your Way, Mastodon, mewithoutYou, Mogwai, Norma Jean, Pelican, Shai Hulud, Sigur Ros, Sparta, Starflyer 59, Sunny Day Real Estate, Tool, With Honor...

Movies:

High Fidelity, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Band Of Brothers, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back To The Future, Dead Poets Society, Donnie Darko, Edward Scissorhands, Almost Famous, The Sandlot, Snatch, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Alien, Aliens

Television:

The Adventures of Pete and Pete is my favorite show of all time. I don't watch television anymore.

Books:

How Now Shall We Live? - Charles Colson
1984 - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Clear And Present Danger - Tom Clancy
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia (particularly The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) - C.S. Lewis
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Heroes:

Teppei Teranishi of Thrice and Dave Knudson of Botch are my guitar heroes.

My Blog

Answers For Myspace Thesis

Hello all. My good friend Tiffany Egbert (whom is listed in my Top 8) is finishing up her thesis on Myspace culture for her bachelor's in graphic design. She made a list of questions for p...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:42:00 PST

Life Movie Soundtrack...?

Your Life: The SoundtrackOpening Credits:"Decoys Like Curves" - Hopesfall (The Satellite Years) Waking Up:"Another Space Song" - Failure (Fantastic Planet) Average Day:"7th Inning Song Formation" - Ki...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:47:00 PST

Proper Restaurant Etiquette For The Uneducated

Note: I found this as a bulletin and thought it was so good that I decided to post it as a blog. This is 100 percent true! --NickServers are people too! The next time you're out eati...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:35:00 PST

Recent History: For My Friends From Texas

Lately a lot of people that I knew when I lived in Texas have been signing up on Myspace and adding me as a friend. It's hard to explain what has been going on in my life to every person individ...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:53:00 PST

HOW TO HAVE A DECENT-LOOKING PROFILE PAGE! PLEASE READ!

We all want to be seen and heard, and Myspace is a powerful tool that allows us to do so. Still, there are things one can do to make his profile more "professional" and less annoying to the casu...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:36:00 PST

I'm flattered!... No, really, I am...

Recently I've received some messages from a few ladies saying that my profile was "interesting" (yeah, right) and that they wanted to meet me and stuff, which I guess is cool. But let me be perf...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 02:45:00 PST

High School

Body: Hey kids, remember high school? Well it's survey time! NOTE: I'm doing this mostly for my Arizona friends who didn't know me back when I was in high school. Some of the answers may seem l...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:22:00 PST

Movies?

Notice how I took "Napoleon Dynamite" off of my movie interests. Because now I HATE that film. It's so hip, that it isn't hip anymore. Dang.
Posted by Nifty Nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Revisions to my profile.

A couple of new pics are now posted, one of them being another Halloween photo. I changed my music listing. I took off a ton of bands because, quite frankly, I don't listen to them as much anymore (Ri...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Friends on the Profile page

I'm not on Myspace all that much, but I'm consistently trying to do just one thing... Fix what friends appear on my Profile page. Believe me, I'm picky about who I add as friends, so please don't cr...
Posted by Nifty Nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST