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Steve

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About Me

At this time, I'm 5'10", roughly 185 lb. My main hobby is doing on-air radio traffic reporting for Clear Channel Tampa once a week. I'm VERY open-minded, am a bit chatty at times and sometimes say "politically inappropriate"/crude/off-the-wall things, but I figure that's just me - no need to change...besides, I'm too old to, heh heh. I work as an electrical engineer in St. Pete as my day job, and get to a ton of concerts, primarily death metal, but sometimes hit the conventional shows as well...I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Low
Level 2 (Lustful) High
Level 3 (Gluttonous) High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) Very High
Level 7 (Violent) Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) Low
Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test /b
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You are Agnostic
You're not sure if God exists, and you don't care.
For you, there's no true way to figure out the divine.
You rather focus on what you can control - your own life.
And you tend to resent when others "sell" religion to you. What's Your Religious Philosophy?

My Interests

Radio work (traffic reporting for 970WFLA, 1250WHNZ, and 610WIOD). Music collecting (primarily vinyl records), mainly metal but do like industrial, "hard alternative", indie rock/punk etc.

I'd like to meet:

People that are interesting, and have a wild streak like mine. Also I'm looking to start getting on the "being a dad" tip but not too big into having to be married, kinda like Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed.
What metal band are you?
Iced Earth
You are Iced Earth! Your music stems from classic heavy metal with slight thrash roots. You love melody in your music, and you definitely love adding the element of fantasy with reality when you write your songs. Rhythm speed, heaviness, and melody are what you're all about!

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Music:

Death metal, thrash metal, power metal (oh heck, all metal) and a bit of everything else. I go through phases where I become a big fan of a group, then buy everything they put out, including the import singles for the B-sides. The music that influenced me the most has been from Concrete Blonde, Ozzy Osbourne, Living Colour, Joe Satriani, Megadeth, Motorhead, Napalm Death, Slayer, Ministry, W.A.S.P., Jane's Addiction and Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks in the past, and the newest groups I've become interested in have been ones like Trivium (til they started aping Metallica), Between the Buried and Me, Dark Tranquillity, My Dying Bride, System of a Down, Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Lacuna Coil, Tori Amos, Doro Pesch, Opeth and Goatwhore, and I'm REALLY digging the new Dax Riggs album. I also got hooked on newer Jeff Beck and Cowboy Junkies material as well recently, they rock a lot harder as they got older.

Movies:

Primarily interested in gory horror films and off-the-wall, over-the-top comedies. (Though Bloodsucking Freaks was a little overboard)Just finished a phase of renting a ton of movies that were originally rated X, just to see what the big deal was back then.The best of the ones I just rented was BLOOD FOR DRACULA, which was also rated X, but was really good - I really felt sympathy with the Dracula character!And of course, I'm a HUGE Grindhouse fan, I think I'm one of the ten people who saw it at the show...twice! And I bought both soundtracks!

Television:

Crime shows/forensic (Law & Order SVU, Cold Case Files), sports and music-related programming. The main channels viewed on my TV are ESPN, VH1, VH1 Classic, USA and A&E.My houseguest Steve T. also got me addicted to That 70's Show and According to Jim.

Books:

Read the new Bruce Campbell book a while back. Still read any math-related books when I see them.Tried reading The God Delusion, but I'm still on page 93 after 6 months. Too much like a lecture...

Heroes:

My parents, for raising me to be as level-headed as they are. Ozzy Osbourne was a hero until his TV show made him look silly...though hell, I still buy anything the man commits to vinyl, CD, etc....even that crappy Black Rain, LOL!

My Blog

The vacation went great!

Hey everybody!If I haven't reached you in a while, I was in Wisconsin for the last 5 days visiting my sister and her kids while her husband was off hunting.  I'll be catching up with you in the n...
Posted by Steve on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:46:00 PST

I'm half Irish, but don't have their bad luck!

I am astonished!I went to the dentist today to have 2 more fillings done - it brings my count to 9, I think (I would have had 13 if I still had my wisdom teeth).  At work, I had received the new ...
Posted by Steve on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:03:00 PST

Busch Gardens and Family pictures!

Hello there,My sister Lisa was here from Oct. 21 - 27 with her three children Tristan (he'll be 8 on Friday), Nicholas (who just turned 7 two days ago), and Molly (who was 3 back in May).  Her hu...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:08:00 PST

I finally understand the true meaning of irony...

...and not in a "that's not irony, that's what happened" sense.So today I went to the South Branch Library in Pinellas Point (WAY down there, 66th Ave. S. in St. Pete) to take the Mensa test at 1:00pm...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:21:00 PST

Damn, I seem so wishy-washy based on this...

http://images.quizfarm.com/1110084125questionmark.jpg">> You scored as agnosticism. You are an agnostic. Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possib...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:50:00 PST

MY MAILBOX IS CURSED!!!!!!

I don't get it - is it hexed?In May 2004, I had the driveway paved, and used my Home Depot gift card from my birthday to get a new mailbox (green, my favorite color, natch) to replace the rusty old wh...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 06 May 2006 10:32:00 PST