Sawyer

I'd like to meet:

Don't talk to me if you have a problem with being called on your BS.

I'd like to meet anyone who's not a bumbling moron. Oh yeah, and leaping gnomes. Come to think of it, pirates are pretty cool too. Maybe I could find a few of those.

No club whores, no ghetto rats, no punk ass wannabe "gangstAAAs."

If you're cool, then drop me a note. If you're "cool," then don't. I like cool people, but I can't stand "cool" people. Stop being clones!

Music:

Here is some original music recorded for a college music project in 1996, remixed in 2008, and then remixed again shortly after that to "I Can't Go For That" by Hall & Oates. Feel free to distribute, but don't alter. And no, I don't think I'm a rapper. It was just a fun one-time thing.

The file 2008 Remix
is licensed to the public under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States license.

The file I Can't Go For That Remix
is licensed to the public under the Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States license.

View pdf file of Saved By Grace lyrics .

Music I like:
Anything performed with inspiration, skill and creativity....which pretty much excludes almost all Top 40. But go ahead and keep bowing to commercialism and saturation marketing by swallowing everything that MTV tells you you're supposed to like!

But if you want specifics, here goes:

Update: Although there are some well-deserving and talented older rap artists, the current pathetic state of the rap industry and the illiterate criminal ghetto rats that plague it have caused me to loathe any and all things remotely connected with it. So I removed all the rap from my list.

80s music, AC/DC, Aerosmith (Before 1991), Al Green, Alice Cooper, Anthrax (With Joey Belladonna), Arturo Sandoval, Audio Adrenaline, Audioslave, Bar-Kays, Bela Bartok, Billy Idol, Black Sabbath, Blood Sweat And Tears, Blue Murder, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Mintzer, Bobby McFerrin, Boston, Bride, BTO, Bullet Boys, Cake, Cannonball Adderly, Carl Orff, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Chicago, Chick Corea, Christafari, Christian McBride, Claude Debussy, Corrosion Of Conformity (With Pepper Keenan), Crystal Lewis, Curtis Mayfield, Dave Weckl, DC Talk, Dead Kennedys, Def Leppard (Nothing after Hysteria!), Digital Underground, Dime Store Prophets, Dio, Disciple, Distillers, Dokken, Doobie Brothers, Earth Wind And Fire, Eric Johnson, Evanescence, Fleming And John, Frank Sinatra, Franz Schubert, Frederic Chopin, Gary Moore, George Thorogood, Great White, Guardian, Guns N' Roses (Not Axl's current "I'm pretending it's still the same band"), Gustav Mahler, Hector Berlioz, Holy Soldier, Idle Cure, Iron Maiden, Isley Brothers, James Brown, Jars Of Clay, Jeff Healey Band, Joe Satriani, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Joshua Redman, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, King's X, Kix, Kool And The Gang, Krzysztof Penderecki, L7, Led Zeppelin, Lee Morgan, Living Colour, Lunachicks, Luther Vandross, Maria Schneider, Maynard Ferguson, Megadeth, Midnight Star, Miles Davis, Misfits, Modest Mussorgsky, Morris Day And The Time, Motley Crue, Muffs, Nouveaux, Ohio Players, Out Of Eden, Ozzy Osbourne, Paquito D'Rivera, Parliament/Funkadelic/George Clinton...Whatever incarnation you want to call them, Pat Metheny, Peter Frampton, PFR, Phil Woods, Pink Floyd, Plumb, Poncho Sanchez, Precious Death, Primus, Prince, Queen, Queensryche, Ramones, Rob McConnell, Robert Cray, Ruben Blades, Rush, Sade, Sam And Dave, Sammy Hagar, Scorpions, Sevendust, Sisters Of Mercy, Sixpence None The Richer (Before the crossover), Skid Row, Spin Doctors, Steve Smith, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sting, Stuart Hamm, Suicidal Tendencies, Take 6, Ted Nugent, Thad Jones And Mel Lewis, The Eagles, The Kry, The O'Jays, The Police, The Whispers, Third Day, Tito & Tarantula, Tito Puente, Tony Bennett, Van Halen, Velvet Revolver, Whitesnake, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, World Wide Message Tribe, Wynton Marsalis, and any others that make good music!

Movies:

...And Justice For All, 12 Angry Men, 12 Monkeys, 1941, A Bronx Tale, A Christmas Story, A Few Good Men, A Fish Called Wanda, A History Of Violence, Airheads, Airplane!, Airplane 2, Alien, Aliens, American History X, Analyze This, Anchorman, Animal House, Annie Hall, Austin Powers, Back To School, Bad Medicine, Bananas, Batman Begins, Better Off Dead, Big Trouble In Little China, Borat, Braveheart, Bullets Over Broadway, Carlito's Way, Casino, CB4, Cheech And Chong's Next Movie, Christine, City Slickers, Class Act, Clear And Present Danger, Coming To America, Conspiracy Theory, Corsican Brothers, Crimson Tide, Crossroads (NOT the Booby Spears one), D.C. Cab, Dawn Of The Dead (Original AND Remake), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Deal Of The Century, Detroit Rock City, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Doctor Detroit, DodgeBall, Dog Day Afternoon, Easy Money, Enemy Of The State, Even-numbered Star Trek movies, Falling Down, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Fear Of A Black Hat, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Fletch, Fletch Lives, Forget Paris, Four Rooms, French Kiss, Friday, From Dusk Till Dawn, Full Metal Jacket, Funny Farm, Gang Related, Ghostbusters, Good Will Hunting, Goodfellas, Grand Canyon, Grosse Pointe Blank, Groundhog Day, Gung Ho, Half Baked, Harlem Nights, Heat, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Jaws, Joe Dirt, Johnny Dangerously, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Land Of The Dead, Liar Liar, Little Shop Of Horrors, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Love Potion No. 9, Major League, Making The Grade, Man On Fire, Mars Attacks!, Memento, Meet The Parents, Men In Black, Midnight Run, Minority Report, Mo' Better Blues, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Murder In The First, My Cousin Vinny, Napoleon Dynamite, Needful Things, Next Friday, Night Of The Living Dead, Night Shift, Ocean's Eleven (Remake), Office Space, Old School, ORIGINAL Star Wars Trilogy (Before Lucas butchered them), Pacific Heights, PCU, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Phantasm II, Planes Trains And Automobiles, Police Academy, Police Academy 2, Primal Fear, Private Parts, Pulp Fiction, Purple Rain, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Rain Man, Raising Arizona, Ravenous, Real Genius, Reservoir Dogs, Risky Business, Romancing The Stone, Say Anything, Scarface, Serenity, Serpico, Shallow Hal, Shaun Of The Dead, Sixteen Candles, Slap Shot, SLC Punk, Sleepers, Sleepwalkers, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Spies Like Us, Strange Brew, Suckers, Suicide Kings, Summer Rental, Summer School, Swingers, Tales From The Hood, Talladega Nights, Taxi Driver, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Addams Family, The Addams Family 2, The Best Of Times, The Big Hit, The Blair Witch Project, The Blues Brothers, The Breakfast Club, The Cowboys, The Deer Hunter, The Departed, The Fifth Element, The Firm, The Fisher King, The Freshman, The Game, The Godfather Trilogy, The Golden Child, The Great Outdoors, The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains, The Mask Of Zorro, The Matrix (First one only!!!), The Music Man, The Naked Gun Trilogy, The Negotiator, The Pentagon Wars, The Princess Bride, The Professional, The Rear Window, The Return Of The Living Dead, The Right Stuff, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Stand, The Substitute, The Survivors, The Terminator, The Terminator 2, The Thing, The Truman Show, The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer, There's Something About Mary, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, This Is Spinal Tap, Three Amigos, Three Kings, Throw Momma From The Train, To Be Or Not To Be, Tommy Boy, Top Secret!, Trading Places, True Romance, Twilight Zone The Movie, Uncle Buck, Undercover Brother, United 93, Used Cars, Vacation, Vegas Vacation, Very Bad Things, Volunteers, War Games, Wayne's World, Wise Guys, Yellowbeard, Young Frankenstein, and a bunch of others I can't think of right now...

Television:

NO reality shows or "let's brainwash the American public into thinking cops can do whatever they please--and innocent people don't need rights" cop dramas.

Seinfeld, WKRP In Cincinnati, Firefly, SpongeBob Squarepants, Lost, Brainiac, The Dog Whisperer, Dirty Jobs, South Park...eh, the list goes on.

Books:

The Bible (God), I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Athe15t [had to disguise the word to avoid stupid keyword advertising on MySpace!](Norman Geisler/Frank Turek), The Bodyguard of Lies (Jack Kinsella). I really like The Stand (Stephen King) too. That was the first book I read cover to cover outside of school.

Heroes:

Jesus.John Coltrane, Dave Foxx, Kramer, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino (because of his acting, not because hip-hop culture is on this Scarface bandwagon), Guido Orefice, and Oscar the Grouch--he calls it like he sees it.