Spending time with my girlfriend, playing music (guitar, piano, bass, drums), transcribing music, photography (check out some of my photography in the "Photo Gallery" blog) , cooking, NASA/space program (especially the Apollo program), trains, being lazy, and...um...well now I'm too lazy to think of more.
No one in particular...
Playin A Little Guitar.....Mostly... (Sorry for the horrible video quality!)
Tearin My Guitar A New One
More Tearin
Me playing a little piano...(The sound may be a little quiet.)
Music from the Shining Scribes.(The band I was in before I moved to Austin.)
Music is and has always been my life. It controls me...
Rock/Alternative, Heavy Metal, Music from the 80's, Jazz and Blues/Texas Blues, Older R and B, New Age/Contemporary Piano, Classical - Beethoven is my favorite composer but when it comes to piano, nobody can touch Chopin!
I hate Rap and today's R and B and have liked a few Country songs - but not Country as a whole.
There are way too many bands to list and I like too many bands to have a favorite.
As far as guitarists go, Eddie Van Halen was God to me growing up and I'd say he still holds God-like status. I love Buckethead! Although being raised by chickens in a chicken coop has made him a little um, "unique", he is just a bad-ass guitarist period... I also love Tony Macalpine, Warren DiMartini, Paul Gilbert, Eric Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Monte Montgomery blows me away and has opened me up to a whole new style of playing. Of course there are many other guitarists I really like but these have probably been the most inspiring.
On the guitar, I have always pretty much played rock and heavy metal. Guitar-wise it's what I've grown up on. I've also studied clasical guitar.
The guitar for me has always been about the energy - cranking it up real loud, kickin on the distortion and playing as fast as I can. (check out the video section). The piano is where I get all wimpy and sensitive.
I've recently completed my little home studio here in the back room. I am currently trying to master all the recording equipment and will post ideas on my Tabtrick Studios MySpace Music page.
I don't have a favorite genre, nor do I have a favorite movie. But I do love horror flicks. The more blood and guts the better!!!
95% of what I watch is educational crap - things I have an interest in and want to learn more about. But I also enjoy sports (football, baseball and hockey). I've never much been into drama or sitcom shows but some of the shows I like are: Cheers, South Park, Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, Jackass, Boston Legal, MXC, Metal Mania (80's & 90's metal videos). This show actually serves a dual purpose - enjoyment for me and a constant source of jokes about me for Marcie. Y'know, something we can both share together. That's important in a relationship. I also watch The Sopranos, The Wire, Big Love, Deadwood and Rome to name a few. I'm sure there are more but that's what comes to mind at the moment.
I've never really been into fiction type books. There are just too many "real" things I have an interest in and want to learn more about.
My grandmother, for her beauty and strength.
Dr. Wernher Von Braun - designer of the Saturn V rocket and the reason we beat the Russians to the moon.