space, spirituality, I create REALLY bad visual art when I'm bored at work, I have sang for a few rock bands over the past ten years (Deliriom, Fiend, Lupus, Wake Up Call, Mind Core, and a short lived project with Scott, Josh, and Brandon that I called Iada but none of the other guys knew that I called us that), I play the guitar and enjoy experimenting with effects, I fiddle around with the bass every now and then and can hold my own when it comes to root notes, I can play the drums (I'm no badass though), I am teaching myself my way around the keyboard, I write songs, some of those songs have been recorded and will be available to you soon under the name Typhoid Orchid, I am a poet and have been since 7th grade, my fiance rocks my world and is probably the coolest human being I have ever met, you can check her awesomeness out by clicking on her avatar below, she's #1 on my top 8, one of the many things that is so attractive about her is that even though we come from different worlds she tries to understand how I think and she tries to experience things that I am in to, the same goes for me, I didn't think I would ever enjoy a live musical but I did, I like to talk about politics as long as the other person participating in the conversation doesn't get offended easily, some mottos that I live by is "Don't take yourself so seriously" and "There are different names for the same thing", I am analytical to a fault and I cannot let something go if it doesn't make logical sense to me, I have tattoos, I enjoy the whole process of getting them and will no doubt get more, I enjoy looking at other people's tattoos, I think the human body is beautiful, I love Red Bull and cheap vodka but I'm a Screwdriver man at heart, I enjoy console/computer based RPGs (Final Fantasy 7, Arc the Lad, Dragoon), I freaking love coffee, I am a vegan, I support animal rights, I like to lift weights, run, and practice Yoga to stay fit, I am interested in different cultures in the US and around the world, I practice meditation but not near as much as I would like, this is making me uncomfortable because I don't normally have to think about myself this much, in fact, I don't really like it so I'll finish this later, ...anything burlesque and absurd (some people call it porn, I call it art), I support Barack Obama for president in '08, I support gay rights, hell... I support all rights that don't harm others, I think enforcing drug laws are a waste of time, money, and other valuable resorces and therefor should be abolished, I am against the death penalty, I believe the war on drugs is pointless, I support most aspects of the war on terror, I believe in free healthcare for all with emphasis put on prevention and personal responsibility, I'm not sure how we should go about achieving this so I also support finding a way,
Any and all artists, people that dont take themselves too seriously
311, Beck, Bright Eyes, Coheed and Cambria, Damien Rice, Dave Mathews Band, Death Cab for Cutie, December, Deftones (and yes, there is no "the" in front of the name), Dixie Chicks, dredg, Easy Star All Stars, Feist, Flaming Lips, Gods Speed You! Black Emperor, Incubus, Kittie, Korn(first four albums), Live, Mad Season, Mudvayne, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Norma Jean, Pearl Jam (my first euphoric musical experiance), Pinback, Pink Floyd (hands down the greatest rock band of all time), Portishead, Primus, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, REM, Sigur Ros (the begining of something wonderful), Smashing Pumpkins (Gish through MATIS), SOAD, Stone Temple Pilots, Taproot (first album), Team Sleep,the Faint, The Mars Volta, the Postal Service, TOOL (a multimedia gift), Tori Amos
A Beautiful Mind, American Beauty, Boondock Saints, The Butterfly Effect, Cindarella Man, Closer, Creepshow, The Departed, Donnie Darko, Edward Sissorhands, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Equlibrium, Fight Club, Forest Gump, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, Labrinth, Ladder 49, Little Miss Sunshine Once Apon a Time in Mexico, One Eyed Jacks, Matchstick Men, Memento, Moulin Rouge, Pi, Pirates of the Caribein II, Pleasantville, Rent, Saved, The Score, Suicide Kings, The Terminal, Young Guns,
Biography Channel, Conan O'Brien, Da Ali G Show DOG the Bounty Hunter, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, History Channel, King of the Hill, Lost, M*A*S*H, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Reno 911, Scrubs, South Park, The Daily Show, The O'Reily Factor, The Simpsons, The State, Upright Citizens Brigade
1984, The Audacity of Hope, The Book of Thomas, Catcher in the Rye, Flowers for Algernon, Interview with the Vampire, Nausea, The Red Pony, Tale of the Body Thief, The Vampire Lestat, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Robert Cook (for Giving Gina something pretty to look at), H. R. Giger (for showing me the beauty in darkness), Salvador Dali (one of my favorite eccentrics), Joel-Peter Witkin (copy my link to his ste), Talisha Brantly (for giving Typhoid Orchid the time of day), Adam Jones (a multi media gift), Chet Zar, Alex Gray (for paintng what has been in my head for years), Camilla Grace, Jeff Jordan, Peter Howsen (for making creepy fucking cool), David Cross (one of the most underrated comidians of our time), Mitch Hedburg, Dane Cook, Brian Posehn, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bill Hicks (another dead hero),The 14th Dali Lama, Gandhi, Paul Gonea, Jonathan Reid (for showing me what's under my feet), Jason Davilla, Jesus (the man, not the myth), David Blaine (for believing we can all do it), Elvira (for making campy goth chicks sexy), Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando (he brought method acting into the mainstream), Steven Hawking, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Timothy Leary (tune in, drop out), Henry David Thoreau (for showing us how to live deliberately), David Cox (for saving me from the unforgiving arms of the sea)