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Nick

Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

About Me

Nothing too interesting here. I'm a Blackbelt/state champion in Olympic Tae Kwon Do, and a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I'm also your basic metalhead musician who is in deep, endless love with his guitars. I love hanging out with my girlfriend, Kelly, and MMA IS THE BEST SPORT EVER!
What metal band are you?
Opeth
You are Opeth! You are very poetic with your lyrics, and your music flows like a waterfall. Your emotions change from angry to sad very quickly. Some people don't like you because you can sound too depressing. You're one of the best metal bands in the world, and you worship your fans!

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Name: Nick Attanasio
Birthday: July 10th
Birthplace: Santa Cruz
Current Location: Aptos
Eye Color: Uhm... I thought it was brown but I've been told differently
Hair Color: Darkish...
Height: 5'10 or 11, depending who you ask lol
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right handed, left legged. Weird.
Your Heritage: Italian
The Shoes You Wore Today: I didn't
Your Weakness: Mirrors
Your Fears: Bees (shut up Aaron)
Your Perfect Pizza: Really good bread, and some cheese
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Blue belt or higher in Jiu Jitsu
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: "lol"
Thoughts First Waking Up: "Hm... am I waking up for work or school?"
Your Best Physical Feature: I don't plan on keeping this body for long, so I don't care
Your Bedtime: 8 hours before something, or whenever Kelly and I get off the phone
Your Most Missed Memory: How can you "miss" a memory? If you can't remember it, it didn't happen
Pepsi or Coke: Neither
MacDonalds or Burger King: Burger King
Single or Group Dates: Eesh, um... depends who the group is with.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: I don't remember having either
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Cappuccino (Italian)
Do you Smoke: Noes
Do you Swear: Hehe ummm :-p
Do you Sing: Only in music class
Do you Shower Daily: I try. Sometimes I miss a week or two.
Have you Been in Love: Yep
Do you want to go to College: I'm in college
Do you want to get Married: Someday
Do you belive in yourself: Nope
Do you get Motion Sickness: Depends on the motion
Do you think you are Attractive: LOL No.
Are you a Health Freak: Sorta, I used to be better about it.
Do you get along with your Parents: Yep
Do you like Thunderstorms: I like looking at them, screw getting rained on though.
Do you play an Instrument: Guitar, bass and I'm trying to learn piano
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Nope
In the past month have you Smoked: Never smoked in my life
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Same as ^
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yep
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yeah
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: This question is on every quiz, NO! Who cares anyways??
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Sushi is the greatest food ever
In the past month have you been on Stage: In a way...
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Does a shower count?
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: Never
Ever been called a Tease: Pfft, no
Ever been Beaten up: Hah, me? :-p
Ever Shoplifted: I have too much respect for working people
How do you want to Die: Some way that I'll be remembered forever. It'll be painless too, yeah definitely that.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Psychology, being in a touring metal band would be SICK but I don't think that's going to happen
What country would you most like to Visit: Italy, then Sweden and Finland for the music
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Something pretty
Favourite Hair Color: Something natural
Short or Long Hair: Longer than mine
Height: Shorter than me
Weight: Less than me
Best Clothing Style: Depends how good looking they are. Heh heh, alllll-right!
Number of Drugs I have taken: Zero
Number of CDs I own: "Own" heh.... 12ish
Number of Piercings: Ouch, none
Number of Tattoos: None, don't plan on it either
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Kicking that guy in the state championships that messed up my foot.
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My Interests

I love my girlfriend, Kelly. I'm very interested in that :-p. I also love guitar, martial arts, and the occasional get-together with friends.
What`s your pimped out ghetto thug weapon?
The Car Key
You're in to brutally ripping apart people's faces with keys while they're down. No one knows how you got the key, cuz you're too much of a thug to own anything you'd need a key for. Oh well.

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I'd like to meet:

I'd love to meet Alexi Laiho, the worlds most insane guitarist. I would also kill to meet Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Michael Amott (OH WAIT, I DID!!), the guys from Opeth (OH WAIT, I DID THAT TOO!), and one of these days I'd like to meet Jesus, provided that He's happy with me. That may be a bit too much to ask considering all my idols are death metal musicians. Hmm.I'd also like to meet Royce Gracie, here's why .. width="425" height="350" ..

Music:

Mmmm, my favorite section! Most of you won't know these bands, but here goes anyways: Children of Bodom (as seen below), Opeth, Arch Enemy, At The Gates, Bathory, Blinded by Faith, Cacophony, Carcass, Demoniac, Dream Theater, Emperor, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, Guns 'N Roses, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, In Flames (only their first few albums), John Petrucci, John Lennon/The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Meshuggah, Metallica, Megadeth, Nightwish (stfu), Norther, Old Man's Child, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani. I also love Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and Chopin. Without those geniuses we wouldn't have THESE geniuses!Children Of Bodom Lyrics Children Of Bodom Music Video Codes Music Video Codes by ..

Movies:

Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Death to Smoochy, Snatch, Kill Bill 1&2, Hero is one of my all-time favorites, most Monty Python movies, all Norm MacDonald movies (Dirty Work, Screwed), um... there's more but I don't think anyone really reads this anyways.

Television:

Kelly got me into The Office. I also love House, MD and many of the MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) shows, with PrideFC (RIP) being the top.

Books:

Anything by Ernest Hemmingway. Um... I loved "A Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren, everyone should own a copy of that book for sure.

Heroes:

My dad for sure (RIP). Definitely God. I also deeply respect REAL musicians, musicians who know what they're doing and don't write crap music just because it "sounds good". Knowing 3 chords and how to strum something doesn't make you a musician, so theres my formal and very intentional middle finger to most, (if not all) punk and pop bands. Real music is thought about and slaved over and contstantly adapted to create a complicated array of emotion and thought so that when you hear it, it can change your mood on a whim, or hypnotize you trying to keep up with the complicated arrangements and odd timing. We can all learn something from bands like Opeth and Dream Theater. *clears throat* So yeah, theres my off-topic rant for this section.

My Blog

Children of Bodom!!!

Oh man, what a show!! Let me start off by telling you a little about my day before the concert. I woke up at 4am to go to work, and stayed until 4pm. If a 12 hour shift isn't bad, it was on the busi...
Posted by Nick on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:32:00 PST

Arch Enemy!!!

Amazing. These guys are geniuses!! I just got back from seeing the band "Arch Enemy" who came all the way from Sweden to America to dazzle us with their absolutely amazing energy and their incredible ...
Posted by Nick on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:42:00 PST