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Michael

Thrash Librarian

About Me

I play bass in Abysme and sing for Necrolysis
I'm one of the DJs at Metal Night at the Smiling Moose.

My Interests

Watching movies. Buying records. Drinking beer. Watching the Steelers. Organizing metadata. Talking about Heavy Metal and Horror Movies.

I'd like to meet:

Librarians, gore freaks, metal heads and punks.

Music:

Carcass, Brutal Truth, Riot, The Queers, Caustic Christ, General Surgery, Impaled, Emperor, The Endless Blockade, Absu, Hatred Surge, Tumor Feast, Knuckle Scraper, Wadge, County Medical Examiners, Infest, Tygers of Pan Tang, Kreator, Mayhem, Destruction, Girlschool, Man Is the Bastard, Savage, Screeching Weasel, Sodom, Hellnation, Voivod, Raven, Exodus, Discharge, Slaughter, Capitalist Casualties, Darkthrone, Krokus, Spazz, Brody's Militia, Slayer, Electrohippies, Crossed Out, Repulsion, Bathtub Shitter, Cryptic Slaughter, No Comment, etc.

Movies:

The films of George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Martin), Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2, New York Ripper, City of the Living Dead, The Beyond, House by the Cemetary), Dario Argento (Suspiria, Tenebre, Deep Red, Cat o' Nine Tails, Bird with the Crystal Plumage), Umberto Lenzi (Eaten Alive, Cannibal Ferox, Nightmare City), Ruggero Deodato (Jungle Holocaust, Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park), Nathan Schiff (Weasels Rip My Flesh, Long Island Cannibal Massacre, They Don't Cut the Grass Anymore), Bob Clark (Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Death Dream, Black Christmas), Ray Dennis Steckler (Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, The Chooper, The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters, Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Dead Alive, Lord of the Rings series), Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eaten Alive), Wes Craven (Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes), Jim Van Bebber (Deadbeat at Dawn, Manson Family, My Sweet Satan), Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Nekromantic 2, Schramm, Der Todesking), Nacho Cerdà (Genesis, Aftermath), Edward D. Wood Jr. (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls, Sinister Urge), Amando de Ossorio (Tomb of the Blind Dead series), Fred Vogel (August Undergound), Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs, Color Me Blood Red, Wizard of Gore, Gore Gore Girls), and Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects)...and many more...

Television:

The Pittsburgh Steelers/Penguins, The Food Network and Comedy Central, but I don't have good cable and football season is only 5 months long, so PBS and the Simpsons mostly.

Books:

Lord of the Rings, Dune, Clive Barker, HP Lovecraft. Anything about Zombies...

Heroes:

2006 Pittsburgh Steelers, 2007-2008 Pittsburgh Penguins, Lemmy Kilmeister, Low-zero budget filmmakers.