I'm mostly here to promote the band.
I'm mainly interested in playing bass in Past Out
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who doesn't use a confusing handshake in their greeting.
Music:
Local VA Bands / Bands We've Played With! You Need To Check Them Out:
Jackmove , Backside Slappy , Ten Years From Now , Stuck Backwards , The No Talent Show , Ma-Shot-Pa , Seed Is , Control Council , Unabombers , One Third Dork , Heroes 4 Hire , Derelikt Red , Audio Strobe Light , Summer Nights , Maddhatters , The Sideline .
Punk is my latest music kick
Here are some of my favorites:
Propagandhi, NOFX, Lagwagon, Bad Religion, No Use For A Name, Millencolin, Big Wig, Me First and The Gimmee Gimmees, Auto-Pilot Off, Bouncing Souls, Strung Out, The Living End, Rancid, Distillers, Pulley, Anti-Flag, Rehasher, Jericho, From First To Last, The Special Goodness, The Forecast, etc...
Some great bands you should listen to:
Bubblemath Folio The Swellers Much The Same A Wilhelm Scream Ryan's Hope With Honor Straightaway
Double-Negative The Uprising Sidekick Protest The Hero The Aggrolites Subb Rule 22 Local Tough Guy After The Fall We Are The Union
Other Favs/Influences:
In no particular eclectic order: GWAR, Radiohead, Lamb, Wax Poetic, 4 Hero, Aimee Mann, Imogen Heap, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Erik Mongrain, Nick Drake, Bjork, Aphex Twin, most 80's music , Duran Duran, Mr. Bungle, Soul Coughing, Hepcat, The Slackers, The Specials, Bob Marley, early to mid 80's Thrash metal - my skateboard years- although I couldn't skate- (ie: MOD, SOD, DRI, early Anthrax, Cryptic Slaughter, earlier Suicidal Tendencies, etc.), I also used to listen to late 80's death metal when I was a rebellious teenager and angry for no reason: (Obituary, Athiest, Death, Exhorder, Carcass, etc.). I also like other genres like Acid Jazz, House & Trance, D&B, Jungle and some Break Beat but I really have to be in the mood for this stuff now. Lately.. been on a 70's music thing... Little River Band, America, Chicago (their 70's years), Hall and Oates, Player, Boz Scaggs, Yes, Bread, Christopher Cross, Styx, Electric Light Orchestra, etc.
For the best place to buy music, check out: Volume CD Exchange (New Location Near Lynnhaven Mall) in Virginia Beach
check out The Bedroom.. Guerilla Radio On The Net ! The Bedroom
Movies:
Sin City, The Fight Club, The Matrix, 11:14, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Memento, Donnie Darko, Dancer in the Dark, Amelie, Lord of The Rings 1-3, Jaws, Aliens, Serenity, The Butterfly Effect- Directors version, Run Ronnie Run, True Romance, Magnolia, Dobermann, Napolean Dynomite, Oldboy, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Naked Lunch, The Science Of Sleep, Team America- World Police, movie scenes featuring Christopher Walken (coolest actor of all time)
Television:
Fav Shows: Firefly (sadly only one season.. but yay for DVD), South Park, Lost, Cross Balls, Chappelle's Show, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, MXC, VH1 shows, Mr. Show with Bob and Dave, Tenacious D, Da Ali G Show.... usually things that make me laugh.
Books:
Fav Fiction:
Survivor by Chuck Pahlaniuk , The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer, A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick,
Fav Non-Fiction:
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
Heroes:
Trevor Dunn- amazing bassist... circa Mr. Bungle
Tom- creator of myspace...
