Writing, listening to, and playing music, drums especially. In my spare time, when I feel inspired, I like to write as much as I can, especially at 3 am. I like to study all forms of drumming and percussion, even though I'm self taught. I love Star Wars so much, just ask me, and you'll understand. I love Final Fantasy, mainly 7 and 8, but 7 is still the absolute best video game of all time. I doubt I'll get friend requests from females now after bragging about those, but whatever.
I'd like to meet:
Any of my music/drumming/writing heroes.
Music:
Music is what keeps me alive. Although my list of artists I listen to is pretty diverse, I listen to mostly rock, mainly metal, progressive rock, and hard rock. Progressive metal, Power metal, Black metal, Death metal, Melodeath, Thrash metal, NWOBHM, NWOAHM, Grindcore, all works for me. I also love classical music as well. Some techno on the side once in a blue moon Jazz also. Emo Sucks. Screamo Sucks. Pop/punk sucks. Rap Sucks. R & B Sucks. Bands i like are as follows, in some sort of order, and I will try to be brief. After much deliberation and mental anguish, I have updated and re-arranged my top bands list, sanity be damned. But oh well, here it is, the top 10's are back:
1)Dream Theater
2)Opeth
3)TooL
4)Tie: MuDvAyNe / Nightwish
5)In Flames
6)Emperor
7)Dimmu Borgir
8)Iced Earth
9)Tie: Pantera/Slayer
10)Shadows Fall
I also tend to enjoy...
1349
30 Seconds to Mars (1st album only!)
36 Crazyfists
A Perfect Circle
Aerosmith
AFI
After Forever
Alice in Chains
Amon Amarth
Anthrax
Arch Enemy
Arcturus
At the Gates
Barry White
Beethoven
Behemoth
Billy Joel
Black Label Society
Black Sabbath
Blind Guardian
Borknagar
Breaking Benjamin
Cannibal Corpse
Celtic Frost
Chevelle
Children of Bodom
Chuck Berry
Coal Chamber
Cold
Coldplay
Cradle of Filth
Cryptopsy
Damageplan
Danny Elfman
Dark Tranquility
Dave Matthews Band
David Bowie
Deep Purple
Death
Deicide
Demons and Wizards
Devildriver
Disturbed
Dragonforce
Drowning Pool
Elton John
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
Enslaved
Evergrey
Fates Warning
Fear Factory
Final Fantasy soundtracks
Firewind
From Autumn to Ashes (old)
Fuel
Goatwhore
Genesis
Godsmack
Gorgoroth
Handel
Hate Eternal
Immortal
Into Eternity
Iron Maiden
Ihsahn
Jet
John Williams
Kenna
Killswitch Engage
Kreator
Lamb of God
Leaves Eyes
Liquid Tension Experiment
Manowar
Marilyn Manson
Mastadon
Mayhem
Megadeth
Meshuggah
Metal Church
Metallica
Michael Kamen
Morbid Angel
Mors Principium Est
Motley Crue
Mozart
Muse
Mushroomhead
Napalm Death
Nevermore
Nile
Nobuo Uematsu
Ozzy
Pain of Salvation
Peccatum
Phil Collins
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Powerman 5000
Project 86
Queensryche
R.E.M.
Reveille
Rob Zombie
Rhapsody
Rossini
Rush
Satyricon
Scars of Tomorrow
Seether
Sevendust
Shostakovich
Sinergy
Six Feet Under
Skindred
Skinlab
Slipknot
Soilwork
Soulfly
Spineshank
Staind (old)
Star Wars soundtracks
Static-X
Stratovarius
Stravinski
Symphony X
System of a Down
Testament
Tiamat
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Crown
The Darkness
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
The Haunted
The Who
Trivium
Twisted Sister
Tyr
Vader
Venom
W.A.S.P.
White Zombie
Yes
U2
Zyklon
and the list goes on and on and on and on and on........
You are Mike Portnoy! You like to take charge of
what you do. You are arguably the head of the
band, and you direct just about everything.
You have Obesessive Compulsive Disorder when it
comes to making lists of your favorite music
and movies. You only like the best. You have
been a Tama drum lover since you were a wee
lad. Your favorite restaurant is Taco Bell.
You aren't Canadian.
Which member of Dream Theater are you?
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You're Kenny Blankenship! You're the clown of the
group who just tries to have fun.
Which MXC Character are you?
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Movies:
Yea, I'm a self confessed movie buff. Somehow, my top 3 movies of all time are trilogies. And then after that, alphabetical.
**All Star Wars movies (All except Episode II, Return of the Jedi being my #1 favorite)**
**The Indiana Jones Trilogy**
**Back to the Future Trilogy**
A Few Good Men
All Dream Theater DVDs
Apollo 13
Armageddon
Batman 1 and 2
Clue
Crybaby
Death Becomes Her
Donnie Darko
Edward Scissorhands
E.T.
Forrest Gump
Ghostbusters 1 and 2
Good Burger
Gremlins (both)
Hook
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Identity
Jaws
Jurassic Park
Last Action Hero
Labyrinth
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
My Cousin Vinny
One Hour Photo
Pirates of the Caribbean
Rocky
Rocky II
Rocky III
Rocky IV (The best one)
Saw
Saw II
Speed
Spiderman 1 and 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (all 3)
Terminator 1 and 2
The Addams Family (both)
The Alien series
The Bone Collector
The Day After Tomorrow
The entire Nightmare on Elm Street entity
The Fugitive
The Goonies
The Princess Bride
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Sandlot
The Shawshank Redemption
The Sixth Sense
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Usual Suspects
What About Bob
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Working Girl
X-Men 1 and 2
I like pretty much anything by Steven Spielberg, or Tim Burton and most anything with music done by John Williams or Danny Elfman. And holy shit, Signs was the worst movie.....ever.
Television:
Frasier
The Price is Right
MXC
Seinfeld
Who's Line is it Anyway?
House, M.D.
Family Matters
Spongebob
WWE Raw
Family Guy
Headbanger's Ball
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Wildboyz
Viva la Bam
Family Feud
Supermarket Sweep
All in the Family
The Cosby Show
SNL
Beat the Geeks
Win Ben Stein's Money
Mr. Wizard
Uranium
Super Sloppy Double Dare
Wild and Crazy Kids
Ren and Stimpy
Doug
Chapelle's Show
Everybody Loves Raymond
Judge Judy
Fear Factor
the Yankees
I love the 80s, 90s.
I don't really watch TV that much anymore.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
I hate Oprah.
Books:
I really wish I read more too. I used to when I was younger, but I feel like every time I try to pick it up again, I get bored and never finish it. If anyone else can convince me otherwise, nothing else will be written here.
Heroes:
Drumming Heroes:
Mike Portnoy
Danny Carey
Matt McDonough
Nick Barker
Carter Beauford
Joey Jordison
Dave Lombardo
Carl Palmer
Jaska Raatikainen
Vinnie Paul
Martin Lopez
Chris Adler
Jason Bittner
Gavin Harrison
Writing Heroes:
Andrew Schwab
Maynard James Keenan
John Petrucci
Chad Gray
Musical Heroes: Mike Portnoy, Ihsahn, Mikael Akerfeldt, Steven Wilson
Random Heroes:
John Defalco 11.0
Spider-man
David Letterman
Wolverine
Johnny Depp
Brendan Freeman
Tarja Turunen
The Undertaker
Kazaalite
Lee Matthews
Cathy Schmidt
Vic Romano
Kenny Blankenship
Captain Tenneal
Guy LeDouche
The MXC Impact Replay
Kenny Blankenships Painful Eliminations of the Day
Psychobabble
Mr. Benedict from Last Action Hero
The Produce Posse
Tama
Paiste
Ken Jennings
Marco Hietala
Joe Rogan
Jeff Foxworthy
Larry the Cable Guy
Bill Engvall
Ron White
6 Flags
Fred Meyer
Faith Meyer
Maddox
Freddy Krueger
Bill Murray
Han Solo
Indiana Jones
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Pizza Hut
Quiznos
Southern Comfort Vanilla Spice Egg Nog
Yankees
anti-red sox fans
pretty much all fast food
Peter North
and I'll think of more as i go along.
How evil are you?
