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About Me

I have the best job at the best club in the world.I live for riffs. I love my rock n roll, metal, hardcore, punk, anything with a killer riff. Aside from riffage, I also love trash. B-grade movies, stupid comic books, mixed martial arts fighting and wrestling, old cartoons - basically everything you grew out of when you were still in High School. Oh yeah, and hawaiian shirts, you can do anything when you're wearing a hawaiian.

My Interests

Riffs! (I feel I may be repeating myself here!) Seeing bands, playing bass, eating hot chilli, drinking, watching mixed martial arts, B-grade movies, sleeping in, mexican wrestling masks and hawaiian shirts, PS2, working at Phoenix

I'd like to meet:

Riff worshipping rock pigs that can put me on to good new music, wrestlers, midgets, wrestling midgets.
Oh yeah, only try and add me if you know me or you're part of the Brisbane music community. I'm sick of random crap bands from other countries that I've never heard and never gonna see using me to bulk up their friends numbers to look good. Denied.

Music:

OK, here we go! AC/DC, Motorhead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Blacklist, Slayer, The Fireballs, Bloodbath, Municipal Waste, Georgia Satellites, Madball, KISS, Blood Duster, AIM, Bones Brigade, Exodus, Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, Ruptured Harmony, Van Halen/David Lee Roth, The Warriors, Rose Tattoo, The Dwarves, Alice Cooper, Martyr AD, Parkway Drive, Steve Earle, Dimmu Borgir, Henry's Anger, Comeback Kid, The Onyas, SOD, Puffball, Fuck...I'm Dead, Anthrax, Operation Ivy, Zombie Apocalypse, Guns N Roses, Charter 77, Overkill, Procedure 286, Creedence, Zeke, SixFtHick, Lamb Of God, Far, Dropkick Murphys, Dreadnaught, ZZ Top, Strapping Young Lad, Warped, Darkest Hour, System Of A Down, Mindsnare, Beanflipper, Severed Link....do I have to keep going? I love seeing live bands, I'll forgive dodgy songs if a band puts on a killer crazy live show. I do listen to other stuff, Primal Scream, NWA, Infected Mushroom, Abdominal, Pre_Shrunk and more. But don't tell anyone where I work, you'll ruin my image.

Movies:

Aussie movies and anything with monsters, muppets or midgets. Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter, Idiot Box, Brain Dead, Wild Zero, The Princess Bride, Big Trouble In Little China, Happiness, Hell Comes To Frogtown, Versus, Midget Mania Vol 2, Ong Bak, Duel, all the Evil Dead films, The Lost Boys, old Jackie Chan, Wayne's World, Willow, Bubba Ho-tep, Labyrinth, Cannibal Ferox, The Whoopee Boys, Trick Or Treat, The Muppet Movie, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Muppets Take Manhattan, most of Kevin Smith's films, The Big Steal, Toxic Avenger, Sin City, the Transformers movie, Cannonball Run, Baseball Bimbo's In Hillbilly Hell, Austin Powers, The Goonies and many, many more

Television:

Blackadder, Letterman, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Boston Legal (go Shatner!), Blokes World, Garfield, The Man Show, Scrubs, Happy Tree Friends, real fighting (Pride FC and UFC), fake fighting (ECW, WWE sometimes), Invader Zim, Looney Tunes cartoons...

Books:

Anything by Robert Anton Wilson or Frank Miller, Platinum Grit, The Name Of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Filler Bunny and all other Jhonen stuff, Private, Astro City, Garfield, most of Stephen King's books, Milk and Cheese, Batman, Metal Hammer & Terrorizer.

Heroes:

Doug Stanhope, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Batman, Alan Kalter, Dave Gannon, Bill "The Fox" Foster (R.I.P.) and the guy that gave me a copy of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.

My Blog

More Rocktober Madness!

Hot damn! The Rocktober goodness just keeps coming in Brisbane! When will it ever end? (Well, probably after the 31st. When Movember hits!)For starters, 4ZzZ's Radiothon is in full flight. If you have...
Posted by Hoops" on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:54:00 PST

The jury has found you guilty of being a redneck, white bread, chickenshit motherfucker

What a shit way to end a good night. Yesterday, I shaved my head.  Because I like my hair short.  I think it looks good. Today, I went and saw Toe To Toe play for the first time in about 8 y...
Posted by Hoops" on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:02:00 PST

Oi! Brisbane! Check out the awesome shit coming up this week!

Still recovering from last weekend and already another awesome week's firing up! Tomorrow night, Wednesday the 10th: Prog extravaganza when the awesome Arcane play at Phoenix: Inferno at The Step Inn....
Posted by Hoops" on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:52:00 PST

Hoops loves Jonah!

FIRST THINGS FIRST: MELBOURNE PEOPLE, I IMPLORE YOU, PLEASE GO TO THE EVELYN THIS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AND SEE JONAH MATRANGA!! OK, more on that later.  Let it be known that if I die now,...
Posted by Hoops" on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:04:00 PST

The Secret Life Of Hoops

Here's a laugh.  Ever tried doing a Google search on your own name?  I'm sure you probably have at some point.  If not, you can give it a shot soon, finish reading this first.Whether or...
Posted by Hoops" on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:20:00 PST

Hoops on a plane

I'm excited people.  Flying back to Melbourne next week for what is destined to be a landmark event in the pages of Melbourne's rich musical history. Dave Gannon (who, coincidentally, everyb...
Posted by Hoops" on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:26:00 PST

Further ramblings of a riff fiend...

Here's the latest.  Municipal Waste rocked my fuckin world the other week in Brisbane and then again last Sunday in Melbourne.  I was lucky enough to see them in both towns, even worked in a...
Posted by Hoops" on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:21:00 PST