Metal, Travel, History, German,.....damn, this all sounds so familiar...like i've already been over this...
Odds are, probably not you. If you're some Myspace webcam slut trying to sell your site under the guise of a legitimate profile, kindly fuck-off and die. I'm here to meet Metalheads and Travelers around the world...thats all really. Theres a few people from the past i was happy to meet up with again, and a few i regret ever having contacted again. I like the fact i can keep in touch with some of my hostelling pals from various nations i met up with through the years. Outside of that, I can't really say too much more.
Most forms of Metal. Iron Maiden (my all-time favorite), old Metallica, Helloween, Slayer, Selpultura, In Flames, Helloween, Scorpions, Primal Fear, Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, Darkthrone (i got drunk with Fenriz on my first trip to Norway!!!), Emperor, Hypocrisy, Motorhead, Morbid Angel, Kataklysm, Einherjer, Amon Amarth, Korpiklaani, Stormwarrior, Unleashed, Cradle of Filth, Armored Saint, Dissection, Destruction, Carcass, Arch Enemy, Japanische Kampfhorspiele, Misfits, Social Distortion, Lynyrd Skynyrd, At the Gates, ....and all kinds of brutal shit!!!
The big lebowski (a documentary of my life, changed just enough so they wouldn't have to pay me royalties!!!), Saving private ryan, Braveheart, Spinal Tap, Patton, most of the Monty Python stuff
FUCK T.V.!!!!! brain rotting idiot box!!!!
The icelandic sagas, anything pertaining to military history (Shelby Foote is the best in my opinion.) lots of guide books (lonely planet, let's go, etc.) Neil Gaiman, Robert Burns, E.A. Poe, Hunter S. Thompson, Douglass Adams, and a whole host of others.
uuuhhh...well, "hero" is a bit of a misnomer, but there are several people i hold in very high regards and have perhaps influenced me in various ways. They are as follows (and in no paticular order):
Kevin Hamlet and James Hofmann: 2 dudes who are living the dream that I'm proud to know. Goddamn RIGHT!!!
James Shelberg U.S.M.C.: Fucking AWESOME to have you home safe!!!
Stefan,Ryan,Spencer,Steve(cheers to the old daze!!) Dave,Jeff,Nolan,Greg,and all the fuckin metalhead lunatics still slugging it out in the trenches of the Mobtown Underground!!!
Steve Harris (thou art my god!!!),Bruce Dickinson,Cliff Burton, Markus Grosskopf, Lemmy, Leon Wilkinson,William Wallace,Rob Roy McGregor,Shelby Foote, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, J.E.B. Stuart, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln, Clan Armstrong, Clan McDonald of Glencoe, Clan McGregor (for producing Rob Roy and such wonderful Baseball gloves) Clan McLeod of Skye, and a whole host of other Highlanders, Lowlanders and Border Reivers.