The Midnight Rider profile picture

The Midnight Rider

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

About Me

• Hi, my name is Tim. I'm 33 years old, was born in Michigan and raised in Orlando, Florida, where I have lived for many years. I received my degree in Visual Communications from the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale and I cultivate my passions in art, design, photography, and music, using them all to compliment and bring joy to my life.
• I work as Production Coordinator at a local design/print shop by day and am the drummer of my band 4th Wall Broken by night.
• I'm a voracious reader and my favorite pastimes include drumming, illustration, photography, writing, literature, movies, and music. When I'm not cultivating these passions, I love spending as much time with my girlfriend, family and friends as I can.
• I am a former Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, having served a four-year tour of duty as a Combat Photo Jouranist in 2nd Marine Division stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. I subsequently travelled both domestically and abroad to 17 countries on various humanitarian assistance and joint training operations. Being a Marine challenged me far beyond the limits of what I thought I was capable of and I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to have not only served my country, but to have also traveled the world and seen it as many will never get to. Please join my Myspace group: Rock the Troops
• Other things I love in life: performing, live music, theatre, technology, dining out, traveling, throwing parties, billiards, archery, and spacewalking. Hey, it could happen someday! ;) The unrelenting geek in me collects rare foreign and domestic currency and poignant headlines of our time. I also love to keep up on current events and often refer to my art and photography library when I need some creative inspiration.

My Interests



• My Interests: Music, Live Concerts, Drumming, DW, Zildjian, Dining Out, Theatre, Galleries, Museums, Science, Writing, Drawing, Painting, Action, Sci-fi, Drama, Classic Movies, Summer Blockbusters, Roller Coasters, Throwing Parties, Photography, Reading, Computer Graphics, Internet, Web Design, Technology, Fiction, Reference Books, Archery, Billiards, Walks around Lake Eola, Dancing, Fits of uncontrollable laughter!, Horseback Riding, Animals (especially bunnies!), Fashion, Spending time with family, My nephews, Good friends, Late nights rehearsing and collaborating with the band, songwriting, Meeting new people, Traveling, The pride of accomplishment, and partying with the guys and gals. Yep, that's about it.

I'd like to meet:


• I have the best family in the world, friends for life, and a loving girlfriend. I just want to meet a good live-in chef or "cooking slave" because one can eat take-out and left-over cold pizza only so many times a week! ;)

Contact me for tasty cold pizza recipies:

EMAIL TIM: [email protected]
EMAIL TIM's BAND: [email protected]

If I Stay recorded live at Universal CityWalk® by Doug Neville

If I Stay recorded live at Trizzy's by Jeremy Palko

Video by: Jeremy Palko | Add to My Profile

4th Wall Broken performing live at Captain Hiram's

Add to My Profile | More Videos

Music:

• Favorite bands: Rush, Coldplay, Radiohead, Dream Theater, U2, Anberlin, Angels & Airwaves, All-American Rejects, Submersed, 30 Seconds to Mars, Depeche Mode, Quietdrive, Avenged Sevenfold, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Spyro Gyra, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snow Patrol, Oasis, The Cure, Lenny Kravitz, Sound Garden, My Chemical Romance, The Killers, The Police, Fleetwood Mac, Avenged Sevenfold, and Foo Fighters.

• Favorite drummers: Neil Peart, Dave Weckyl, Joel Rosenblatt, Dave Grohl, Mike Portnoy, Thomas Lange, and Garrett Whitlock.

• Favorite songwriters: Chris Cornell, Gavin DeGraw, Sting, Tracy Chapman, John Legend, and Paul Mahoney.

• Favorite compsers: Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmanonov, John Williams, James Horner, and Jerry Goldsmith.

My Band:

Show Schedule (updated 4.18.08):
• 4.18.08 Universal CityWalk®
• 4.24.08 Mahoney Acoustic @ Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 4.25.08 Universal CityWalk®
• 4.26.08 Universal CityWalk®
• 5.01.08 Mahoney Acoustic @ Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 5.02.08 Dexter’s Lake Mary
• 5.03.08 Dexter’s Lake Mary
• 5.30.08 McWells Restaurant and Bar
• 5.31.08 Private Event
• 6.13.08 Dexter’s Winter Park
• 6.20.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 6.21.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 7.18.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 7.19.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 8.29.08 Dexter’s Winter Park
• 8.30.08 Dexter’s Lake Mary
• 9.06.08 Pence-Molloy Wedding
• 9.12.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 9.13.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 9.19.08 Dexter’s Lake Mary
• 9.20.08 Dexter’s Lake Mary
• 9.26.08 Dexter’s Winter Park
• 9.27.08 McWells Restaurant and Bar
• 10.03.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 10.04.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 10.24.08 Dexter’s Winter Park
• 10.25.08 Dexter’s Lake Mary
• 11.21.08 Dexter’s Winter Park
• 11.22.08 McWells Restaurant and Bar
• 12.05.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 12.06.08 Captain Hiram’s Resort
• 12.12.08 Dexter’s Winter Park

For more information about my band and our show schedule, Click here

Movies:

• The Godfather, North By Northwest, Vertigo, Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, Gladiator, Troy, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Fight Club, Memento, Ben-Hur, Braveheart, The Abyss, The Lord of the Rings Tilogy, The Sting, Empire of the Sun, Amadeus, Leon: The Professional, For Your Eyes Only, Legends of the Fall, The Summer of '42, The Star Wars Saga, Superman, Minority Report, Shine, The Red Violin, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Sin City, Unforgiven, Tombstone, Heartbreak Ridge, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, The Exorcist, Heat, The Matrix Trilogy, Full Metal Jacket, Scarface, Dances With Wolves, The Way We Were, National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Real Genius, The Breakfast Club, Kingpin, Office Space, Wicker Park, The Notebook, Finding Neverland, C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, V for Vendetta, Lucky Number Slevin, Silent Hill, Pulp Fiction, The Prestige, M. Night Shyamalan's complete works, Transformers, Peter Jackson's King Kong, National Treasure, Cloverfield, August Rush, and looking forward to Iron Man coming this Summer and especially Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull coming this Memorial Day!

Television:

• My TV hardly leaves SPIKE TV! C.S.I., The Most Amazing Videos, Rock of Love 2, Star Trek TNG, Who's Line is it Anyway?, almost anything on the Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, or the History Channel, Planet Earth, Man vs. Wild, Modern Marvels, Extreme Engineering, Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, How It's Made, Mythbusters, The MostXtreme on Animal Planet, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Books:

• The Godfather (Mario Puzo); The Sword of Shannara (Terry Brooks); The Icewind Dale series (R.A. Salvatore); The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Prey, The Sphere, Jurassic Park, The Lost World (Michael Crichton); Meg, The Trench, Meg: Primal Waters, Goliath, The Loch, Domain (Steve Alten); Beast (Peter Benchley); The Prydain Chronicles (Lloyd Alexander); Lord of the Flies (William Golding); Robota (Doug Chiang); The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives (Mark Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata); Gray's Anatomy (Henry Gray); The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Riley Smith); Art of the Western World (Wood, Cole, Gealt); Awaken the Giant Within (Anthony Robbins); Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak); Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein); The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien); The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis); National Geographic magazine, Modern Drummer, the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, and the Bible.

Heroes:

• My former drum instructor, John Campese, who inspired me to no end. Salvador Dali, John Williams, M.C. Escher, Rene Magritte, Widget and Pickle, the inventor of the question mark "?", Edgar Allen Poe, my guardian angel who saved me more than once, Little Debbie, my nephew Preston, Steven Spielberg, my friend Joe who died way too young but not before inspiring me, anyone who laughs at my jokes, Sigmund Freud, Steve Alten, R.A. Salvatore, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Salvador Dali, Rembrandt van Rijn, Alex Ross, Drew Struzan, my Mom, George Lucas, The cursive letter "L", the inventor and proprietor of Pei Wei, Joa, the girl who stole my heart , and most importantly, Jesus.

My Blog

Vote for 4th Wall Broken for the 2008 Best of the A-List Local Bands Contest!

Vote for 4th Wall Broken for the 2008 Best of the A-List Local Bands Contest!Last year, thanks to all of our great fans, 4th Wall Broken was among the top ten local bands on the WESH 2/ CW18...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:19:00 PST

See my band at Captain Hiram’s Resort this weekend!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND TO TO RSVP >>...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:26:00 PST

Our new song: Where Angels Only Know

Where Angels Only KnowWe just finished mixing our new song, entitled Where Angels Only Know. It is now on our band profile, so please take a listen and let us know what you think.It is dedicated to al...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:00:00 PST

Article about my band in the Hometown News

Central Florida band brings passion for music to local venuePosted: 2007 Aug 31 - 01:27By Tamara DourneyEntertainment writerOrlando might not bring to mind immediate images of rock stars he...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST

69 reasons to love (or hate) me...

69 reasons to love (or hate) me:1. What are your initials? TAP (hey, it's better than SAP)2. What is your favorite thing to wear? Black T-shirt, Lucky jeans and Converse. None of my friends know that,...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:25:00 PST

This story is inspiring to no end... (updated)

Paul Potts sings the operatic piece, Nessun Dorma, on Britain's Got Talent: A happy ending to this story, Paul Potts won the series finale grand prize on June 17th, 100,000 British pounds (a...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:27:00 PST

Meet our Captain!

Hey everyone,Somethine really cool happened this last Friday night after our show at Captain Hiram's. It was late and we were all really hungry and, if you have ever been to Sebastian, you know that t...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:41:00 PST

We might as well dance...

We might as well dance...   This was written by an 83-year-old woman to her friend. The last line says it all:   Dear Bertha,   I'm reading more and dusting less. I'm sitting in the yar...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:14:00 PST

Drum Diagram

This is a diagram I made of my current drum set-up. ..> Drums: Drum Workshop Emerald Burst Satin Oil (5-piece maple) Hardware: Drum Workshop 7000 and 5000 Series Cymbals: Zildjian A Custom, ...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:48:00 PST

Add my band's new banners to your profile!

Add my band's new banners to your profile!Want to display or share my band's new banners? Please do! Simply copy the entire HMTL code within the text windows below each desired banner and then paste i...
Posted by The Midnight Rider on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:08:00 PST