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Kerri (SWST)

Kill your TV.

About Me

MyGen Profile Generator I love listening to music; in fact, it borders on obsession. Most of my friends don't enjoy music as passionately as I do, so I'm always up for talking tunes with those who do. I'm forever interested in discovering new music and turning on others to it. Live music is my lifeblood; there is nothing quite like it.I have lots of hobbies, including traveling, reading, cooking/baking, needlework, outdoor activities and a lot of other things that would take up too much room to list.I'm also a huge sports nut. I'm crazy for football, baseball and hockey. I'm a die-hard Boston fan and a card-carrying member of Red Sox Nation. It was a dream come true when they FINALLY won the World Series in 2004, and now they have done it again in 2007! Go SAWX! And how about those Patriots? A run of three out of four Super Bowls. I haven't missed any of the parades :D. I'm hoping we have another one to go to in February!

My Interests

See *About me*

I'd like to meet:

Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Edison or any other inventor. I'm fascinated with people who create that way.

Music:

I'm mostly a rock fan, but I also enjoy classical, jazz and anything with tasty harmonies. Some of my favorite groups are: Led Zeppelin, Alice In Chains/Jerry Cantrell, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Bass Communion, IEM, Blackfield, Floater, Riverboat, Haale, John Wesley, Comes With The Fall, Nine Inch Nails, Pelican, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden/Chris Cornell, Saul Williams, Seventh Seal, Nirvana, Red Sparowes, Riverside, Dust For Life, Black Market Radio, Fosterchild, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Revolve, Second Coming, Metric, Emily Haines, Failure, Neil Young, CSN, Opeth, Metallica, Kyuss, Megadeth, Meshuggah, The Mars Volta, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Beatles, Yes, Lacuna Coil, Hatebreed, Hurt, Isis, Matthew Good, The Dresden Dolls, Autolux, Octane, The Black Keys, Radiohead, Portishead, Aphex Twin, Zakk Wylde/Black Label Society, Queens of the Stone Age, Tori Amos, Rage Against the Machine, Black Sabbath, Jeff Buckley, The Beach Boys, Oren Ambarchi, Klaus Schulze, Katatonia ... I could go on and on.

Movies:

Favorite movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I still laugh out loud when I watch it. I also love the Godfather, and the Godfather Part II, Nobody's Fool, This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Requiem for a Dream, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Caddyshack, The Full Monty, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Dead Poets Society, Accidental Tourist, A Midnight Clear, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star Wars (the original trilogy), The Matrix, and a ton of others.

Television:

"Turn off your television. Go do something."

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole. This is my favorite book, hands down. Read it. You will guffaw.

Heroes:

My parents, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Beethoven.

My Blog

Haale

So, last year, I went to the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee, where music pretty much goes on 24/7. During one of the four hot and steamy days, I was wandering the grounds and happened upon one o...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:08:00 PST

Nine Inch Nails, yeah, get GHOSTS I-IV...just do it.

Ok, I'm no music critic, just a simple fan. I LOVE this new album, that is all. I've been waiting for Trent Reznor to put out an all-instrumental album for quite a while, and the wait was so incredibl...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:48:00 PST

The Maynard wine...

So, earlier this year, my good friends Karen, Anna and Brandon surprised me with a bottle of Primer Paso (2005) red wine produced by Maynard James Keenan of Tool/A Perfect Circle/Puscifer at his Arizo...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:36:00 PST

Porcupine Tree!!! HOLY SHIT!!!

Let me just say that this band has moved quickly up my favorites lists. I've been a fan for only a few months, but I'm not utterly obsessed and the obsession shows no signs of abating anytime soon. I ...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

Alice In Chains Acoustic...WOW

Alice In Chains is sprinkling in only four acoustic shows while in tour with Velvet Revolver the summer/fall, and I was incredibly fortunate enough to witness the first one at the Rave in Milwaukee on...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:45:00 PST

TOOL!

This is a bit overdue, but I've been a busy girl of late. I've had three more Tool shows since Bonnaroo and they were all fricken great. I'm really sad to see this leg of the tour end, as I fear it wi...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:56:00 PST

Dammit, Oprah, you blew it...

I don't watch Oprah all that much, because, I don't watch a lot of TV, and frankly, she annoys me most of the time. Still, I was intrigued when I saw a teaser for her show about "dialogue" on the "rea...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:12:00 PST

Bonnaroooooo!

Ok, now that I've recovered from a 13-hour drive back from TN (a good third of it through thunderstorms and torrential rain), and I'm somewhat able to breathe after the dustbowl that was Manchester, h...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:43:00 PST

Les Claypool!!!

Les Claypool is the man, that is all. I got to see him last night at the Electric Factory in Philly, and it was friggin' AWESOME. That man is master at the bass. What he does with it is otherworldly. ...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:41:00 PST

Man of Steal

So yeah, this one took a while for me to be able to write for a multitude of reasons. It's hard to keep trackOf your many facesSavior or slayerDo-gooder or despotShaman or charlatanLover o...
Posted by Kerri (SWST) on Wed, 30 May 2007 11:42:00 PST