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DeathMaster

Desk by Day - Death by night!

About Me

What better way to get to know me than listening to Deathmaster Radio! Live! Online! Right Now!

My Interests

A good laugh, hearing/telling a good story, 78's and LP's, graphic novels/comic books, philosophy of the mind, political/educational phiolosphy, theology, situationalists, silent films, Buster Keaton, Katamari, the Chruch of the Subgenius, pin-ups, burlesque, the subtle art fo the tease, latex, absinthe, commentary tracks on porno dvds, Technological Science Fiction (no faires and elves!), Latino history/culture, and day dreaming.

I'd like to meet:

People with similiar interests. People who have lived, can tell a good story, and don't mind sharing. Drunks. People who don't fit in naturally. People who are just doing what they're doing because it makes them happy.

Music:

The Roots:
80's metal (Iron Madien, Posion, Twisted Sister - Randy Rhodes Rules!), 80's speed metal (old Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer (any year)), All of the major Guitar Gods of the 80's and 90's (Paul Gilbert, Ronnie Le Tekro (TNT), Yngwie Malmsteen, Vernon Reid). Devo, Judas Preist, Testament, Anthrax. Geto Boys, Public Enemy, Eric B and Rakim.

New Sh*t:
Slipknot, The Streets, Drum 'n Bass (AK1200, Dieselboy, DJ Dara), The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, The Deadly Snakes, The Eels, Manic Hispanic, Ozamatli, DJ Shadow, DJ Spooky, Refused, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Sigur Ros, John Zorn

All Time:
Jaques Brel/Scott Walker, Raymond Scott, Stuff Smith, Andrew Bird, The Pogues, Shane Macgowan, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Johnny Cash, NIN, Oasis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, R. Crumb and his Cheapsuit Serenaders, The Et Cetera String Band, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, The Smiths, The Violent Femmes

Movies:

Back to the Future, Conan the Barbarian, War Games, Ghostbusters, Clerks, The Matrix, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Star Wars (excpet ep. I), Orgazmo, Nightmare before Christmas, Ed Wood, Boogie Nights, The Royal Tenenbaums, Re-Animator, Crumb, Hellraiser I, Freaks, Any Buster Keaton films.

Television:

Arrested Development, Cowboy Bebop, Family Guy, The Simpsons prior to season 9, Seinfeld, South Park, The Muppet Show, Looney Toons, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Attack of the Show, The Boondocks

Books:

All-time:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Acme Novelty Library (by Chris Ware), The Arsenic Lullabys, Anything by Thomas Frank, The Sandman Comics (Niel Gaiman), America the Book, Any H.P. Lovecraft

Current Reads:
Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means by William T. Vollmann
The Last Season by Phil Jackson

My Blog

Tighty-whities

Life is sometimes amazingly random. For example, I spent the last week in Anaheim, California. Never been there, never had a reason to go but last week I got a call from a friend to make a not unsubs...
Posted by DeathMaster on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:50:00 PST

A joke by any other name....

Those of you who know me may or may not be aware that one of my goals in life is to come up with an original joke. Not a variation of a joke one but a wholly original joke. It's a pretty hard thing to...
Posted by DeathMaster on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:49:00 PST

O is for Omar

So Ive decided to take B's advice and write more frequently. She says I have quite the knack for it and I figure I should try to justify my own internal self-satisfied smirk by actually producing some...
Posted by DeathMaster on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:46:00 PST

The Scar

Well I know some of you have been waiting for the story behind the scar on my face. In fact, I would bet several of you had decided that I was not man of my word and had decided not to post the story....
Posted by DeathMaster on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:24:00 PST

Long Story, short...coming soon

I know I promised you guys the story behind my scar after the 10th. However, it's been busy around here so I haven't gotten to it yet. I will though. Right now I'm working on coding my band's web site...
Posted by DeathMaster on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:10:00 PST