Music:
My favorite band is The Beach Boys. Weezer, The Rentals, NOFX, Blink 182, Bouncing Souls, Descendents, U.S. Bombs, Sublime, Bad Religion, Green Day, She Wants Revenge, Cake, Eminem, Guttermouth, Reverend Horton Heat, Blondie, Buddy Holly, Taking Back Sunday, All-American Rejects, Bowling for Soup, Wheatus, Kinnie Starr, Lorna Vallings, My Chemical Romance, Offspring, Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, Michael Jackson, Prince, Foo Fighters, Dieselboy, David Bowie, Overseer, Johnny Cash, Plain White T's, THE DEDICATION, No Use for a Name, Hot Hot Heat, The Used, Jimmy Eat World, Less Than Jake, H.I.M., The Faint, Soft Cell, Devo, Flyleaf, The Cure, The Presets, Depeche Mode, Bent, Zero 7, Type O Negative, System of a Down, Metallica, Live, Nirvana, Postal Service, Telepopmusik, Esthero, Slipknot, Muse, Radiohead, Coldplay, Boomkat, DJ Miko, Massive Attack, Mirwais, Crystal Method, Gram Rabbit, Ladytron, Pulp, Mono, Hooverphonic, Portishead, Alkaline Trio, 311, Nightwish, Authority Zero, Enya, Modest Mouse, Matt Nathanson, Daniel Bedingfield, Damien Rice, Heatmiser, The Ramones, Rob Zombie, Stray Cats, Box Car Racer, Rancid, Operation Ivy, Velvet Underground, The Beatles, Brian Setzer, Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, Del Shannon, Paul Anka, Billie Holiday, Etta James, ABBA, Ace of Base, Skunk Anansie, The Verve, Rolling Stones, Shiny Toy Guns, The Clash, Squeeze, Janis Joplin, Cyndi Lauper, Heart, K's Choice, Furslide, Black Lab, Cari Howe, Sean Murray, Andreas Johnson, Beck, The Temptations, The Crystals, The Ronettes, John Lennon's solo stuff, Squirrel Nut Zippers, any big band music especially Benny Goodman, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Dashboard confessional (before he sold out). I love classical music and opera, especially "The Phantom of the Opera", "Les Mis", and "Jekyll & Hyde", Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Khatchaturian, Orff, Saint Saens, Bach, Bizet, Menotti, Puccini, Verdi, Strauss (Richard and Johann Jr.), Wagner, Schumann, Rossini, Delibes, Faure, Debussy, Bernstein... Some of my favorite orchestral/operatic works are: Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Samson et Dalila, Carmen, La Favorita, La Cenerentola, La Clemenza di Tito, Othello, Rigoletto, Beethoven's 9th, Pathetique, Bach's Mass in B Minor, Mozart's Requiem, Barber's Agnus Dei, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Pathetique, Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsodies, Chopin's Polonaises and Etudes. I love film, tv, game score composers such as: NEAL ACREE, John Barry, John Williams, Howard Shore, Basil Poledouris, Hans Zimmer, Jerry Goldsmith, Patrick Doyle, Nino Rota, Bruce Broughton, Alan Silvestri, Wojciech Kilar, Trevor Jones, Randy Edelman, Vangelis, Zbigniew Preisner, Michael Kamen, John Debney, Danny Elfman, the list goes on and on...
