Music (KEYWORD METAL), drinking and partying, comedy of all sorts, the National Hockey League (that's ice hockey), namely the Toronto Mapleleafs, snowboarding... that's about it!
Zack De La Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, Brad Wilk
Any of my favourite guitarists, it would be great to meet Chuck Schuldiner but well, I can't because he's dead which is a real shame. But there are quite a few good living guitarists that I wouldn't mind meeting, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez would be awesome. Any other musicians that I enjoy the work of. Basically just anyone that can sit down and talk about music for hours and hours, those are the kind of people I enjoy hanging around.
(I have actually met some decent people of the music variety. Mark Palfreyman, bassist/vocalist from Alarum was at the Deicide gig, so I couldn't resist going up and saying hi haha. And then Ralph Santolla was hanging around later on... THEN at Festival of the Dead in '07 I met Jason Mendonca, guitarist/vocalist frontman extraordinaire from Akercocke. YEAH. Funny story about getting my Dawn of Azazel CD when I saw them supporting Behehmoth in '07 as well... oh and HOW COULD WE FORGET forget Internal Augmentation and Mud Letter Pie! I've met them. They're pretty good and shit...)
And in conclusion, I want to meet YOU. If you're interesting. Don't be a stranger, hit that add button if you want.
Here's a bit of support for a good mate of mine
Just to make it easier for you, here's a list of what Last.fm determines to be my "top artists". I'm not entirely sure I agree with these charts sometimes, but anyway, here you have it:
But wait, there's more!...
!!!, 1349, 3 Inches of Blood, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Against Me!, AIR, Airbourne**, Akercocke*, Alarum*, All Shall Perish, Amon Amarth*, Anaal Nathrakh, Anarion, Anata, Anathema, Anorexia Nervosa, Anthrax, Aphex Twin, Apollo 440, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Ash Grunwald*, Astriaal*, At The Drive-In, Atheist, Audioslave (who are OBVIOUSLY not as good as the other band featuring 3/4 of the same guys, but they still can play a good tune) Ayreon, Basement Jaxx*, Batrider*, Battles, Beck (but NOBODY is as much of a Beck fan as my good friend Milburn), Behemoth**, Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five, Ben Kweller, Birds of Tokyo, Björk, Black Label Society, Bloc Party, Blood Duster**, Bloodbath, Blue King Brown**, Bluejuice*, Bob Evans*, Brutal Truth, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Celtic Frost, Children of Bodom (old stuff ONLY, seriously what the fuck happened there?), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah*, Cog*, Cold War Kids, Cradle of Filth, Cream/Eric Clapton, Cryptopsy* (nothing after "Once Was Not", please!), Cursive, Custom Kings*, Cut Off Your Hands*, Cynic, Dallas Frasca*, Dark Tranquillity*, Darkthrone, Dawn of Azazel**, Death (R.I.P Chuck), Decapitated (R.I.P Vitek), Deep Purple, Deicide*, Dethklok, Dimmu Borgir, DragonForce (cheesy? Yep. Awesome? Yep!), Dream Theater*, Dungen*, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eddy Current Suppression Ring*, Elliott Smith (R.I.P), Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Fear Factory (older stuff is best but newer goes alright), Feist*, Fleshgore*, Flight of the Conchords (for their mad binary solo), Foo Fighters (overrated as FUCK by people that don't know shit about music but I won't hear a word against them, they have some AWESOME songs), Frenzal Rhomb*, Fu Manchu, Fuck...I'm Dead**, Fugazi, Gil Scott-Heron, Gorerotted, Gorguts, Gospel of the Horns*, Gotye*, Grinspoon**, Ground Components**, anything made by the Homestar Runner website (TROG-DOOOOOOOR!), Iggy Pop*, Ihsahn, In Flames* (older stuff particularly, Come Clarity SUCKS), Insision, Internal Augmentation (they may be mates, but they're still freakin awesome so check em out, they're in my top friends), Iron Maiden* (of course), Isis, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, John Frusciante, John Petrucci, John Wesley (both in and outside of Porcupine Tree, his work is incredible) Josh Pyke*****, Judas Priest, Kaiser Chiefs*, Karnivool*, Katatonia (BOTH ERAS), King Crimson, KISS*, KMFDM, Kora*, Kreator, Krisiun, Kyuss, Lamb of God, Laura Marling, Led fucking Zeppelin (and let's face it, there are two kinds of people in the world. Those who like Led Zeppelin... and deaf people)... Lily Allen*, Lior, Liquid Tension Experiment, Loren & the Grow Your Owns**, M. Ward*, Malevolent Creation, Mach Pelican**, Mammal*, Manngard, Mastodon*, Mayhem (but they're fucking crazy hahaha), mclusky, Megadeth, Melt-Banana, Melvins, Meshuggah, Metallica (of course, but again, old school is good school), Merzbow, MGMT, Michael Barker, Michael Franti/Spearhead*, Monstrosity, Morbid Angel, Mud Letter Pie (again, sure I know him personally but he wouldn't be in this list if he sucked, so, yeah, top friends, check out Jesse's music it's awesome), Mudhoney, Muse*, My Bloody Valentine, Naglfar, Nailbomb, Napalm Death, Nasum, Necrophagist, Nile, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Nocturnal Graves*, Oasis (they were my childhood favourites, I STILL have "What's The Story" on a cassette my neighbour taped for me woot!), Okkervil River*, Old Man River*, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Operator Please*, Opeth, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Oren Ambarchi, Origin, Pantera, Pestilence, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Pnau, Pod People, Porcupine Tree*, Portal*, Portishead, Powderfinger*, Psycroptic**, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine* (WHAT'S THAT? I'VE SEEN THEM LIVE? OH YEAH!), Rammstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Regina Spektor, Regurgitator*, Richard Cheese (for a bit of a laugh), Richard Hell and The Voidoids, Rise Against, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rudely Interrupted*, Rush, Sepultura, Shellac, Sigh, Silverchair**, Silversun Pickups, Slayer*, Sleep, Sleep Parade*, Slint, Spank Rock* (I danced onstage with them and about twenty other people at Pyramid Rock 07, FUN TIMES), Sparta, Spawn of Possession, Squarepusher, Steve Vai, Suffocation, Sunn O))), Symphony X, System of a Down, That 1 Guy**, The Amenta**, The Basics*, The Beatles, The Berzerker*, The Black Keys, The Blood Brothers, The Bronx, The Cat Empire**, The Chemical Brothers*, The Crystal Method*, The Doors, The Fratellis, The Fumes*, The Furor*, The John Butler Trio****, The Killers*, The Living End*** (GREAT live band, two of those three times I've seen them costed me NOTHING), The Mars Volta*, The Mountain Goats*, The Music* (gotta love that bandname), The Offspring ("Americana" was the first album I ever bought, still a classic), The Panics, The Polyphonic Spree, The Rolling Stones*, The Smashing Pumpkins*, The Stooges*, The Streets, The Waifs, The White Stripes*, The Whitlams, that is a lot of fucking bandnames beginning with "the", These Arms Are Snakes, Terrorust**, Tim Hecker, Timmy Curran*, Tool*, Tori Amos, Tucker B's*, Type O Negative, Vader, Van Halen, Vanishing Point*, Vital Remains, Violent Femmes, W.A.S.P., Whitehorse, Wolf & Cub***, Wolf Eyes, Wolfmother****, Xavier Rudd*, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yngwie Malmsteen, You Am I*, Zyklon, ... *takes breath*
I know most people put a band per line, but if I did that, my page would be huuuuuge, so no!
*And by the way, the stars are bands I've thankfully had the chance to check out their awesome live shows. My god, they can play. Multiple stars means multiple times I've seen them. As you probably didn't bother noticing, the ever-amazing Josh Pyke holds the record with a whopping five shows - that's Falls 06-07, Hi Fi Bar 07, supporting JBT at Festival Hall 07, Pyramid Rock 07-08, and BDO 08. He does totally rule. And JBT and Wolfmother are runners-up with four times each. There are some bands on that list that aren't starred that should be. Satan, where are you when I need to sell my soul?
I don't do a lot of movies, but when I do, I fucking enjoy them. Some people might say that I'm more interested in "weird" movies and yeah I guess they are a bit weird, but they're also great. My favourite movie ever is Pink Floyd - The Wall, followed closely by Donnie Darko... and then, umm... Sweeney Todd, School of Rock, The Simpsons Movie IS THE SHIT! The Virgin Suicides, The Illustrated Family Doctor, Sin City, He Died With a Felafel in His Hand (thanks Jacko), Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Kenny (now that's a fucking cracker), Almost Famous, Garage Days, Friday series, Half Baked, The Naked Gun series, Star Wars, Minority Report I like a fair bit, Doom, The Sum of All Fears, The Hills Have Eyes, House of 1000 Corpses. That'll do for now... no wait, better round it off with Pirates of the Caribbean, that's a classic too. And Austin Powers... jeez I like more movies than I thought... oh, let's not forget BASEketball... that'll do!
I do like my TV, and this list proves it: Family Guy, American Dad, Skins, Good News Week (WELCOME BACK but R.I.P The Sideshow), Flight of the Conchords, Metalocalypse, The Glass House (RIP), Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, Little Britain, That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Armstrong and Miller Show, Catherine Tate (yeah pretty much British sketch comedy rules!) Drawn Together, Beavis and Butthead, Stripperella, The Chaser's War On Everything/CNNNN/The Chaser Decides, The Osbournes, The IT Crowd, Sick Tricks, Prison Break, 24, Shameless, Daria, Thank God You're Here, Spicks and Specks, Wilfred, SOS, Arrested Development, RocKwiz, Black Books, Scrubs, Happy Tree Friends and Friends/SOS Animated, Harvey Birdman: Attorney-At-Law, Quads!, The Daily Show, bro'Town, The Mighty Boosh, (Old) Pizza, South Park, Chappelle's Show, Futurama, Rage, JTV - basically I usually dig comedy and music-oriented stuff, although I can be a sucker for those big-budget action shows as you might see, yes, Prison Break & 24 I'm addicted to!
Don't read as much as I used to, but I did enjoy Tom Clancy's stuff, Matthew Reilly, he's good... OH, Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal and Grindcore! Easiest book to read ever, it's got everything I want to read about!
"Well they're real Dickens!" "You want what you cannot have... jealousy. You want what is not yours... JEALOUSY!" "Everyone is different. No two people are not on fire." "So as the Romans say, Veni, Vidi, Vol-au-vent, let's have a fuckin' par'-ay!" "Skwisgaar Skwigelf, taller than a tree..." "Look up to the moon, whistle up a tune..." "We will have a real cool time."BUT WHAT I REALLY NEED IS SOME KINDA MEGA PICTURE DOWN HERE OF ALL MY FRIENDS. ALL OF THEM. BECAUSE THEY HAVE MADE ME WHAT I AM TODAY, AND I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT THEM.