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Lyris HUNG

Rockin' Like Dokken

About Me



I am a murderer....I mean musician. Pay me and I will slaughter those near and dear to you. Um... I mean I will play pretty songs for you...yeah. Stabbing....err....ahem, PLAYING MUSIC is one of my favorite things to do....

You can keep an eye on me here, though my website is currently under construction:

www.lyrishung.com

Yeah... you need to hear this. Fucking metal. Click on it, damnit.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT HUNG

My Interests

making music, creating sounds, unusual and unique musical instruments, effects pedals, gadgets and computers, Classical mythology, food, Chinese folk art, pirates, linguistics and etymology, architecture, comic books, fantasy and sci-fi, drawing, Renaissance costuming, leather accoutrements, arcade games (GALAGA!), MMORPGs, card games, religious history, anthropology and genetics, martial arts, tattoos, rocking out with various extremeties out.... phew.

I'd like to meet:



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Music:

In absolutely no particular order: David Bowie, Arch Enemy, Queen, Behemoth, Mastodon, Pantera, the Police, Meshuggah, Peter Gabriel, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Strapping Young Lad, Testament, Necrophagist, Guns 'n' Roses, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, In Flames, Genesis, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Judas Priest, Iggy Pop, Lamb of God, Opeth, Beethoven, Johnny Cash, Rachmaninov, Rush, Dvorak, Ella Fitzgerald, Bach, R. Strauss, Yes, Brahms, Elvis Costello, Prince, The Cure, Tool, BTBAM, Laurie Anderson, Public Enemy, and way too many more to list.

Movies:

Brazil, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Princess Bride, Star Wars, History of the World Part. 1, The Ring, Secretary, Shaw Brothers' kung fu movies, anything Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Fantasia, City of Lost Children, Bound, Aliens, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Vertigo, The Birds, Silence of the Lambs, V for Vendetta

Television:

I don't watch TV except on very rare occasions.

Books:

An Exaltation of Larks, She Captains, the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy, Candide, The Hours, Gray's Anatomy, Written on the Body, The Iliad, Naked, The Name of the Rose, Ender's Game, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Giving Tree, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

My Blog

better late than never... an old review of SEM

Going through some old shit, I found this review of a Slanty Eyed Mama performance back in 2006 at Pomona College.Click here for the reviewIn related news, I am slowly... very slowly... finishing up t...
Posted by Lyris HUNG on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:46:00 PST

the ultimate metal violin

'Allo friends! Just wanted to share an exciting development with y'all (exciting for me, anyway).  I've just uploaded the pics of the finished violin and case custom-made for me by Erich "Me...
Posted by Lyris HUNG on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:28:00 PST

dolphins and death metal

So, Hawaii was awesome, as expected.  Slanty Eyed Mama rocked the GirlFest 2006 stage with lots of other awesome performers, including X-Factor and United By Sound.  Yeah, that's a picture o...
Posted by Lyris HUNG on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:35:00 PST

HUNG, Slanty and more!

HUNG is on the road taking the midwest by storm!  We are in the middle of our tour, hitting Detroit with two shows and then out to Danville, IL and Cleveland, then back up towards NYC. Slanty Eye...
Posted by Lyris HUNG on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:29:00 PST

HUNG SONGS ARE UP!

Aw, yeah!  The songs are up at http://www.myspace.com/hungrocks and they're fuckin' awesome.  Check it out and join the friends list if you like what you hear!  You can also visit http:...
Posted by Lyris HUNG on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:03:00 PST

HUNG music coming soon!

My band, Hung, has just finished recording our demo tracks and will be mixing them this week.  I'll get them up as soon as possible, hopefully by this weekend!  You can check them out here:&...
Posted by Lyris HUNG on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:26:00 PST