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Alex "The Alex" Dye

If you're headed to the grave, you don't blame the hearse. You can't take the effect and make it the

About Me

I don't know many people that wouldn't tell you that they like to listen to music, if you asked them what their hobbies were. At the same time, I don't know many people that take it to quite the level that I do.. I spend a very large portion of my time acquiring, studying, learning, practicing, etc., all kinds of music. Outside of the obvious things like friends, and making a living (hope to be merging that one with music soon,) it's pretty much my life...

My Interests

Things. Ooo, also, stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is at peace with themselves and the world. And anyone who wants to be, but just needs a little help.

Music:

AFI, Albert Hammond Jr., Alkaline Trio, ARCADE FIRE, ARCTIC MONKEYS, Ash, At The Drive-In, baby champ, Babyshambles, Battles, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Ben Folds, Beulah, Bloc Party, Blur, Brendan Benson, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Cannonball Adderley, Caspian, Charles Mingus, The Clash, COCONUT RECORDS, Cold War Kids, David Bowie, Dick Dale, Dinosaur Jr., The Direct Method, Dirty Pretty Things, THE ELECTED, Electric Light Orchestra, Eve 6, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, Feist, The Flaming Lips, Flight of the Conchords, FOO FIGHTERS, The Get Up Kids, God Is An Astronaut, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Good, The Bad, and The Queen, Graham Coxon, Green Day, The Hives, The Hold Steady, Husker Du, ISLANDS, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, John Coltrane, John Williams (Composer), John Williams (Guitarist), Kings of Leon, LED ZEPPELIN, The Libertines, Mae, THE MARS VOLTA, Meat Puppets, Menomena, MILES DAVIS, Minus the Bear, MODEST MOUSE, Mogwai, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, MUSE, NADA SURF, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, NIRVANA, No Doubt, OASIS, OK Go, *OZMA*, The Pillows, THE PIXIES, Portishead, The Postal Service, Queen, THE RACONTEURS, Rage Against The Machine, The Ramones, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, Red Sparowes, Reel Big Fish, THE RENTALS, The Replacements, RILO KILEY, Rooney, Saves the Day, The Sex Pistols, The Shins, Slint, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Stars, The Stone Roses, THE STROKES, Styx, SUBLIME, The Subways, Teenage Fanclub, Tegan and Sara, Tenacious D, Thelonious Monk, Third Eye Blind, This Will Destroy You, Tubeway Army, TV On The Radio, Twenty Mule Team, THE UNICORNS, Vampire Weekend, Van Halen, The Vaselines, The Velvet Underground, THE VINES, *WEEZER*, THE WHITE STRIPES, The Who, Wolfmother, Zebrahead

Movies:

Star Wars, Fight Club, Kill Bill, Lord of the Rings, Spaceballs, Anchorman, Back to the Future, Spirited Away, Spider Man, Brain Candy, The Matrix, Ace Ventura, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, South Park movie, Dumb and Dumber, Me, Myself, and Irene, Bill and Ted, Donnie Darko, Ninja Turtles, X-Men, and many more (I think this is the hardest section to really think of everything I like)

Television:

Heroes, Lost, Flight of the Conchords, The Office, 24, Family Guy, Futurama, Football, Kids in the Hall, That 70's Show, The Simpsons, Trigun, Scrubs

Books:

Anything Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Orson Scott Card's Ender/Bean sagas

Heroes:

Rivers Cuomo, George Lucas, Jim Carrey, Jimmy Page, Daniel Brummel

My Blog

Music to be played at my funeral:

I just want to get this down on "paper" while I'm thinking about it..I've decided to write an instrumental post rock album (no words, only atmosphe...
Posted by Alex "The Alex" Dye on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:14:00 PST

Top 40 Favorite Drummers

Yes indeed, it's time to continue the series.  After this I will do vocalists, then update them all and combine them into one superpost.  Top 40 this time, here goes!1. Dave Grohl - Nirvana2...
Posted by Alex "The Alex" Dye on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:04:00 PST

The Rentals

Warning:  This is a pretty long read, but very interesting, I think!Tonight I had one of the most amazing concert experiences of my life.  I'm still a little pumped up, I have to get this al...
Posted by Alex "The Alex" Dye on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:34:00 PST

My 25 Favorite Bassists

Been meaning to do this for a while, again, just my personal favorites.1. Daniel Brummel - Ozma2. Flea (Michael Balzary) - Red Hot Chili Peppers3. Krist Novoselic - Nirvana4. John Paul Jones - Led Zep...
Posted by Alex "The Alex" Dye on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:29:00 PST

My 25 Favorite Guitarists (Updated 6-5-07, 30 favorite)

Yes, it's a ripoff of Spencer's blog..  Eh, so what.  :-P  His was the best guitarists, however.  Mine is only my favorites, my opinion only.  Just for fun.1.Rivers Cuomo - We...
Posted by Alex "The Alex" Dye on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:27:00 PST