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I never wanted to become
Someone like him, so secure,
Content to live each day just like the last,
I was sure I knew
That this was not for me,
And I wanted so much more,
Far beyond what I could see
So I swore that I'd
Never be someone like him
So many years have passed
Since I proclaimed
My independence,
My mission,
My aim,
And my vision, so secure,
Content to live each day like it's my last
It's wonderful
To know that I could be
Something more than what I dreamed,
Far beyond what I could see
Still I swear that I'm
Missing out this time
As far as I could tell,
There's nothing more I need
But still I ask myself,
Could this be everything?
Then all I swore
That I would never be
Was now, so suddenly,
The only thing
I wanted
To become
To be someone just like him.
(From "Octavarium," Octavarium, Dream Theater)
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Dream Theater
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Todd Snider
Joseph Childress
OSI
Days of the New
Blake & The Family Dog
Liquid Tension Experiment
Yellow Matter Custard
Seer
Dormlife
Vincent's Ear
The Champagne Charade
Barenaked Ladies
Amanda West
Stephen Trask
Rush
Nirvana
Earth Eatz Dog
Porcupine Tree
Dominici
The Trailer Park Troubadours
Led Zeppelin
Rage Against the Machine
Ben Harper
Gregory Douglass
Alice in Chains
Young Royals
Spoon
Green Day
Leo Kottke
The Dresden Dolls
Tim Reynolds
Marcus Eaton
Van der Graaf Generator
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Eagles
King Crimson
Pain of Salvation
The Who
Let Go
Katatonia
Bjork
A Perfect Circle
Cowboy Mouth
Bobaflex
Pain
Frank Zappa
Terry Bozzio
The Beatles
Marillion
Pink
Godsmack
No Doubt
Van Halen
Kansas
Metallica
Pantera
AC/DC
Iron Maiden
Johann Sebastian Bach
P. D. Q. Bach
Billy Joel
Herbie Hancock
Chris Cain
Opeth
The Black Crowes
Alter Bridge
Creed
Kasey Chambers
Dave Matthews Band
System of a Down
Musical Theatre
Shows I've drummed for:
Anything Goes (PCS)
Side Show (KOB)
Guys and Dolls (KOB)
Li'l Abner (KOB)
Footloose (PCS)
Mame (SVRT)
Jane Eyre (PCS)
Charlie Brown (AAT)
Oliver (AAT)
Pippin (MCT)
42nd Street (AAT)
Honk! (AAT)
How to Succeed...(AAT)
CATS (PCS)
Annie (AAT)
Seussical (AAT)
A Chorus Line (AAT)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (AAT)
Wind in the Willows (AAT)
Urinetown (AAT)
Les Miserables (PCS)
West Side Story (AAT)
Hedwig & The Angry Inch (PP)
Side Show (LPRT)
Princess & The Pea (SSC)
Anything Goes (AAT)
Helen of Egypt (UCSC)
CURRENTLY:
Insignificant Others
Coming soon:
The Rocky Horror Show (ATC)
Severance
Fight Club
Stranger Than Fiction
Conspiracy Theory
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Requiem for a Dream
The Bourne Series
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Usual Suspects
Chasing Amy
One Flew...Cuckoo's Nest
Amelie
American Beauty
Lethal Weapon series
Die Hard series
Payback
The Game
Hamlet (Branagh's & Zeffirelli's)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
This is Spinal Tap
The Evil Dead
The Fifth Element
Braveheart
The Terminal
Python - Holy Grail
Dogma
The Breakfast Club
Concert DVDs & Docs:
DT: SCORE 20th Anniversary
DT: Live Scenes from NY
DT: Live at Budokan
Portnoy: Drumavarium
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes
If I had cable...
MythBusters
Battlestar Galactica
24
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe series (The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, etc.); Wm. Shakespeare's Hamlet; Noah Levine's Dharma Punx and Against The Stream; Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Choke (I'm about to read Rant, then Lullaby).
John Lennon