..Bad Traits: Biting off more than I can chew, extreme indulgence, rude demanor.
Good traits: Loyalty, ability to ignore & discard stupid people easily.
Photography, films, westerns, gretsch & gibson guitars, tattoos, comic books, rock climbing (So-cal's got cool mountains.. who knew?), scuba diving, newcastle beers, Sake, myspace's music pages....
Creative people.... those that can either challenge or amuse me. I make people laugh easily, but the other way around is a lil tricky.
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The Clash, Metronomy, Johnny Thunders, New York Dolls, The Flaming Lips, Rancid, AC/DC (childhood heroes), Lars Fredriksen & the Bastards, Danzig, DeVotchKa, The Misfits, The U.K. Subs, Dead 60s, Iggy & The Stooges, The Ramones, The Killers, Mindless Self-Indulgence, She Wants Revenge, Dead Kennedy's, Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, Queen, Danny Elfman, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Le Tigre, Kiss (Ace Frehley years), Rolling Stones (Exile on Main St. - the best CD ever), Bob Dylan, White Stripes, Stereophonics, Metallica, Judas Priest, Beastie Boys, Tenacious D, Megadeth, Eminem, The Who, Motley Crue, Joy Division, New Order, Muse,The Cardigans, Guns N Roses, Pink Floyd, Springsteen, Reverend Horton Heat, Cheap Trick, Bad Religion, Rose Tattoo, Henry Rollins, Black Flag, Elvis, Nine Inch Nails, Ladytron, Oakenfold, Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Deftones, Weezer, Van Halen, Ozzy (we share the same birthday) & many more...
25th Hour
8MM
A Clockwork Orange
A History of Violence
After Hours
American History X
Bad Lieutenant
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
Boogie Nights
Carlito's Way
Casablanca
Chinatown
Clerks I & II
Collateral
Dawn of the Dead
Day for Night
Day of the Dead
Dead Man
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
Equilibrium
Evil Dead 2
Face/Off
Fight Club
Five Easy Pieces
Gimme Shelter
Goodfellas
Heat
High Plains Drifter
Insomnia
Irreversible
Itchi The Killer
Last Tango in Paris
Little Miss Sunshine
Lords of Dogtown
Manhunter
Memento
Million Dollar Baby
Naked Lunch
Night of the Living Dead
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Performance
The Prestige
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Ramones R.A.W.
Reservoir Dogs
Road House
Robocop
Scarface
Sin City
Spider-Man 2
Streetcar Named Desire
Superman I & II
Taxi Driver
Terminators 1, 2.. 3 was alright
The Deer Hunter
The Exorcist
The Godfather parts I & II
The Maltese Falcon
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Thing
The Usual Suspects
This Is Spinal Tap
Traffic
True Romance
Videodrome
X2
INFLUENCES:
Directors: Scorsese, Kubrick, Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Tarantino, Romero, Michael Mann, Christopher Nolan, Clint Eastwood, David Fincher, Abel Ferrara, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez.
Actors: DeNiro, Nicholson, Pacino, Robert Downey Jr., Christian Bale, Ed Norton, Nicolas Cage, Gary Oldman, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi
The Boondocks, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, The Shield, Superfreinds reruns
Crime Novels, The Black Dahlia, Watchmen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dark Knight Returns, Hellblazer, V for Vandetta, Marvel's "Civil War" shit got me back into reading comics in a major way, Rum Punch, Split Images, AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (best Bio on AC/DC), Guitar World.. & The Dirty Joke Book.
No one is to be put on a pedestal... including me.