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Faded Grey , Music, Singing, Writing Lyrics, Sound Engineering (Recording/Mixing/Mastering/Production), Band Promotions, Going To Local Shows and Supporting Good Bands, Football (Bills), NASCAR, Racing Stock, Hockey (Sabres), Baseball (Yankees), Working Out (lifting and cycling), Being Outdoors, Video Games (if an 1hr a week when I have time), Pro Wrestling and WWE (Not fake, just predetermined with a script. Have taken way to many bumps to prove that one), Fishing w/ my Uncles, Hunting (like 1 or 2 times a year), Hanging Out With Friends, and of course Drinking.
Not sure really...Anyone into music and anyone that is generally a cool person, I like meeting new people all the time.Chris Daughtry - HomeThe All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight
Incubus - Anna Molly
Fall Out Boy, Incubus, Chris Daughtry, All-American Rejects, Bayside, The Academy Is…, Hoobastank, Our Lady Peace, Staind, Boys Like Girls, Cartel, Panic! At the Disco, The Spill Canvas, Dishwalla, Lifehouse, A Perfect Circle, 30 Seconds to Mars, Yellowcard, Fuel, Plain White T’s, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Sick Puppies, Jimmy Eat World, Killswitch Engage, Breaking Benjamin, Tool , Paramore, The Working Title, 3 Doors Down, The Used, Alterbridge, Bad Religion, Coheed and Cambria, Something Corporate, Quietdrive, Thursday, Angels and Airwaves, Aerosmith, U2, The Calling, Ben Folds, Rascal Flatts, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Boston, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Gin Blossoms, Howie Day, Pink Floyd, Goo Goo Dolls, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Sour, Matchbox 20/Rob Thomas, Third Eye Blind, Sevendust, Bush, The Beatles, The Offspring, Mute Math, Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra
…and bands that are local or indie(though some have become pretty big as of late)…The Underwater, Every Avenue, Select Start, The Demos, Vice Grip, Draffin, The Hoodies, Out of Line, Cry to the Blind, Spiral Staircase, The Shattering Moon, The Wild Stallions
…but I listen to any style of music out there and pull influences from all over the place.
LOTR Series (anything where a billion things are killing each other is ok with me), Waiting, Jurassic Park, X-Men Movies, Spider Man Movies, Blade Movies, Music DVD's.
Football (GO Bills!), WWE, NASCAR (yeah, this is as redneck as I get), FUSE, MTV2 (only on Rock countdowns), ESPN (1, 2, News and Classic), Family Guy, American Dad, Aquateen Hungerforce, and Comedy Central.
I don't really read anything for fun, so these are the books I am reading now excluding the 14,000 tech manuals I am forced to read every day. Practical Recording Techniques (Bruce/Jenny Bartlett), Modern Recording Techniques (David Huber), The Rock and Roll Singers Survival Manual (Mark Baxter), The Craft of Lyric Writing (Sheila Davis), Music Business Handbook (David Baskerville), The Audio Pro Home Recording Course (Volumes 1-5), and anything else I find about recording techniques or music.
Aaron Lewis (Staind), Maynard Keenan (Tool/APC), Brandon Boyd (Incubus), Raine Maida (OLP), Miles Kennedy (Alterbridge), Jim Kelly, My Dad.