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Rat Bastard

Rat Bastard: Neither Rat nor Bastard? Perhaps an Opossum? Discuss.

About Me

I'm a musician, mad social scientist, and your basic run-of-the-mill seeker of adventure.

I'm going to be incredibly lazy and simply point you to my livejournal HERE . Granted, I almost never actually update the thing. However, if you really want to, you can contact me via my AIM screenname: NeitherRnorB.

As far as music goes, I have a fledgeling metal project called Lust Like Cancer and I am one of the guitarists for the gothic/industrial/metal fiasco known as Synthetic Nightmare . Also, if you dig into my past, you might find a little rock relic called dead new year .

I also DJ on Monday nights for Sacrosanct at Rocks and on Thursdays for Grinder at Fallout.

My Interests

movies, music, philosophy, sociology, psychology, cultures, subcultures, and much more.

I'd like to meet:

people who kick ass!

Music:

a massive and eclectic mix of industrial (Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Einsturzende Neubauten), EBM (Front 242, Covenant, Aghast View), synthpop (Colony 5, Neuroactive), goth (Faith and the Muse, Fields of the Nephilim, The Sisters of Mercy), post-punk (Joy Division, The Chameleons, Killing Joke), punk (The Damned, Misfits, Bad Religion), deathrock (The Deep Eynde, Cult of the Psychic Fetus, The Brides), metal (Voivod, Iron Maiden), and anything else that I happen to like (The Faint, The Thought Industry, Concrete Blonde, Faith No More).

Movies:

Delicatessen, Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Conan the Barbarian, Requiem for a Dream, Go, SLC Punk, Highlander, The Bride with White Hair, Attack the Gas Station, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Ghost Dog, Dr. Strangelove, Battle Royale, Santa Sangre, The Seventh Seal, Fight Club, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Pulp Fiction, Sin City

Television:

Carnivale, Lost, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, The Brak Show, Invader Zim, Firefly, Angel, Profit, Wonderfalls

Books:

The Boomer Bible (RF Laird), Weaveworld (Clive Barker), The Sandman (Neil Gaiman), The Earthsea Cycle (Ursula K LeGuin), Pattern Recognition (William Gibson), The Diamond Age (Neil Stephenson), Battle Angel Alita (Yukito Kishiro), Top Ten (Alan Moore), Preacher (Garth Ennis), The Antichrist (Nietzsche), Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert Heinlein), Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert Heinlein), A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin), Dune (Frank Herbert)

My Blog

Survey that I stole from a buncha people...

1. Join the Military or the Mob?Depends upon which military vs. which "Mob". In general, I'd probably lean more towards military. At least, I usually wouldn't have to worry about my own comrades possi...
Posted by Rat Bastard on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:05:00 PST

Pics from the Infernal Masquerade!

I've linked some pictures from the Infernal Masquerade (see my last blog post for details) on my LJ, so here's the link (because I can't seem to get the thumbnails to work in myspace): http://rat-bast...
Posted by Rat Bastard on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:09:00 PST

A Brief Jaunt Through Nightmare-Land

The latter half of last week was insane. In fact, it was so insane that I'm actually making a blog post about it. Huzzah! It all began on Wednesday night. I gave Doug a ride to Mars Bar so t...
Posted by Rat Bastard on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:25:00 PST