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Merrick

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About Me


What can I say about myself, I am complicated, dramatic, loyal, creative and so many more things. My heart belongs to music. I cannot imagine a day without it. I am a bonafide movie geek. I can spend hours talking about all the movies I have seen. I even love B movies. I watch a lot of forgein flicks as well. Once I get started with another movie geek on the subject we tend to monopolize the night trying to top one anothers movie list. I love trying to stun people. I get mine served to me to but it makes for a fun night out.
I am on here to talk to people and get to know a lot of different people. If you like to talk about music, shows or movies go a head and send me an email. I love meeting new people. I am not here searching for mister right.
I recently gave up eating meat. I never thought I would be a vegetarian but I did. I am happy with the results of this decision it taught me that I can be very disciplined.I love writing and enjoy spending a lot of time alone. I observe the world so I can write about it with a pen and paper (the old fashioned way!).
I love my job it is the greatest place in the whole world! I work for Bleeding Edge. I help design these little girls. I am pretty proud of the job we do. We have the greatest dolls and action figures ever! You can check them out by clicking on the Bleeding Edge link. Let me know what you think? I might have links to my job but I am a real person.
As for my true love music, there are so many reason why I can't live with out it. Music can instantly take you back into time. One minute you are driving along listening to Nirvana on the radio then in a flash you're 16 in High School listening to Jed the fish announce Kurt Cobain was found dead due to a gun shot wound to the head, then Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name comes on and you are transported back to the very first time you heard that song. For me listening to The Cures Disintigration for the first time was the moment my heart belonged to music. I have been going to shows since I was 15yrs old. There is nothing like seeing a live band. My list is pretty long but I will list some that I am very proud of. NIN at the Palace Theatre in 1994, Rage Against the Machine at the UC Riverside Barn, Beastie Boys Palace Theatre in 1994 (with Beck opening) Quicksand's last ever real show as headliner. The very first Warped Tour with Sick of it all, Quicksand, Sublime, No Doubt, L7 etc... Radio Head at the Palladium opening for none other than Soul Asylum, seeing Joe Strummer at Hootenanny, Rage Against the Machine's LASTshows at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, Tool at the Ventura Theatre in 1994 and last but not least seeing Nirvana ( I only saw them once... but I saw them).
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Music:

I love all types of music. Here are a few in random order: Social Distortion, Tiger Army, Rancid, Horrorpops, Necromantix, Bad Religion, X, The Clash, Ramones, Gorrilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, The Smiths, Morrissey, U2, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Ben Harper, Bob Marley, White Zombie, Smashing Pumpkins, Billie Holiday, Sara Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Ray Vaughn,Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Creedence Clear Water Revival, Doors, Flaming Lips, PJ Harvey, Drop Kick Murphys. Flogging Molly, Hepcat, Buzzcocks, Operation Ivy, Madness, Specials, Haven, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Misfits, Metallica, Puya, Deftones, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers,Bouncing Souls, Against Me! Billy Brag, Roger Meret and the Desasters, Shack Shakers,The Stranglers, Radiohead, Elastica, Oasis, Suede, Supergrass, Blur, Doves, Concrete Blonde,Placebo, Dandy Warhols, Sunny Day Real Estate, Pavement, Weezer, Far, Thursday, At the Drive in, Mars Volta, Sparta, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, Bauhaus, London After Midnight, NIN, APC, Tool, Distillers, Eeels, Dresden Dolls, The Arcade Fire, The Dears, Rise Against, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, Boogie Down Productions (KRS One) Beastie Boys, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, LiLa Downs, The Roots, Tricky, Roni Size, Dr. Octagon, The Gorillaz, Massive Attack, NWA, Public Enemy, Elton John, Beatles, Ryan Adams, Interpol, BMRC, The White Stripes, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Lorretta Lynn, Elvis, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, The Damned, The Cramps, The Kinks, Muse, Killers, Franz Fernidad, Urban Dance Squad, 311, No Doubt, Sublime, Pixies, Nick Cave, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Love & Rockets, Mazzy Star, Killswitch, My Ruin, The Start, Sia, Lacuna Coil, Sons and Daugthers, Against Me, Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, Primus, Prong, Dink, Head Automatica, GlassJaw, Urge Overkill, VHS or Beta, Oingo Boingo, Cursive, Collide, BOA (UK) Happy Mondays, Jimmy Cliff, Save Ferris, Tsunami Bombs, Alkaline Trio, Blazing Haley, Calavera, Dead Kennedys, Pennywise, Cadilac Tramps, Bjork, Siouxie, Antony and the Johnsons (a voice so beautiful he made me cry the first time I heard him sing.) The list really can go on and on....
This is awesome!!! To get the full effect of the video pause my music, watch closely.
Before you watch the movie, read the instructions below (and turn on your sound)... This is a car advert from somewhere. When they finished filming the ad the people who made it noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist.The ad was never put on TV because the unexplained ghostly phenomenon frightened the production team out of their wits.Watch it and about halfway look and you will see the white mist crossing in front of the car then following it along the road... Spooky!

Movies:

My favorite movie of all time hhhhhm... can't do it. I really love musicals The Wizard of Oz, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rocky Horror Picture Show, American Pop, Velvet Goldmine, I love movies... (who doesn't) Ghostworld, My Own Private Idaho, Basketball Diaries, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Fast times at Ridgemont High, High Fidelity, Say Anything, Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Hackers, Urban Cowboy, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Babyboy, Higher Learning, Like Water for Chocolate, Rock the Cradle, Il Postino, Life is Beautiful, Il Postino, Amelie, Alice in Wonderlad, Hook, Pirates of the Caribean, Don Juan de Marco, Stand by Me, The Outsiders, Swingers, Rounders, Cry Baby, Star Wars, LOTR, The Never Ending Story, Labryth, Dark Crystal, Willow, Legend, City Of Lost Children, Bread and Roses, Motorcycle Diaries, In the Time of Butterflies, Frida, Chocolat, Ed Wood, The Notebook, Devil in the Blue Dress, La Confidential, Murder in the First, Shawshank Redemption, Reality Bites (I really love this movie Wynona Ryder and Ethan Hawk) Beettle Juice, The Crow, The Crow City of Angels, Amereican Warewolf in Paris, Underworld, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Bram Stocker's Dracula, Swing Kids, Stictly Ballroom, Best in Show, O' Brother Where Art Thou, Trainspotting, Snatch, Lock Stock, Crash, American History X, Romper Sromper, Boondock Saints, House of Spirits, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Mermaids, Spanglish, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Superstar, Brown Sugar, Friday, The Hours, Deadman Walking, (Sean Penn is the man) The 25th Hour (Edward Norton...Hot), Sid and Nancy, Backbeat, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway,SOS, Walk the Line, Kinsey, Closer, Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia, True Romance, Love and a 45, The Big Lebowski, In the Company of Wolves, Cabin Boy, Batman, Batman Returns, Star Wars 4,5,&6 Donnie Darko, Punch Drunk Love, Radioflyer . The list is endless.

Books:

I wish I could read a lot more than I do. My ten favorite books are Pedro Paramo By Juan Rulfo and Sopihe's World By Jostein Gaarder (it gives a detailed account of the history of Philosophy with a little sub story) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Ezquivel, History of Beauty by Umberto Eco and Myan Prophecies by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell, Merrick by Anne Rice, House of Spirits by Isabel Allende, One Hundred Years of Solitude By Gabriel Garcia Marquez, On the Blue Shore of Silence by Pablo Neruda and The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe.Also a Book called The Forest for the Trees " An Editor's Advice to Writers" By Betsy Lerner.

Heroes:

Tony

My Blog

Zombie Make Up

Tips and Recipes! From Zombie Pub Crawl! Here is the official makeup checklist! Liquid Latex, Base Makeup (fleshtones, grey, maybe some green), Zombie makeup (yellow, green, red, grey, flesh), Fake Fl...
Posted by Merrick on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:35:00 PST

Never Away

They say " You are always running away". I try to leave this place, start over. No matter what I do I end up here. I run away and all the places that I find I hear the same voices. I see the same face...
Posted by Merrick on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:40:00 PST

That Day Has Come

Some said that I was searching in vainothers told me to give upSome thought I was chasing a ghostbut my heart told me thatoneday...I would see you againI never gave up no matterhow many dead ends I hi...
Posted by Merrick on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:37:00 PST

A Night of Peace

As I lay next to you I see you are restless. She is haunting you again, I watch as you try to convince her ghost to stay with you. There is so much sadness in your heart it reminds me that I never wan...
Posted by Merrick on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:55:00 PST

Tribute to El Battalion De Los San Patricios

Ruben Navarrette Jr. THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS The story of los San Patricios St. Patrick's Day is a good time to look back through history and pay tribute to my favorite band of Irish rogues. My Mexic...
Posted by Merrick on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:32:00 PST

Til Then...

So many reasons why I wish I was still a kid. drifting, through this life I wonder who I am. I know I wish the impossible so many reasons why I am a dreamer I believe that one day I will rest my tired...
Posted by Merrick on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:00:00 PST

Kindred Spirits Trapped

Kindred spirits. I wonder now if that is true... Must not have been. You would have fought to keep us alive.   Kindred hearts split in half.   Kindred souls lost, but now found. Whole, but...
Posted by Merrick on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:18:00 PST

All That Remains

There was once an empty place in my heart it knew not pain nor sorrow passion nor hate it just was...   You came along and planted a garden. At first the seeds would not grow. My heart rejected e...
Posted by Merrick on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:26:00 PST

You took the Best Part of me

  My muse has left my thoughts are scattered I feel lost no more more words to describe my love no words to express my pain...   You took it all from me even my words the ability to expres...
Posted by Merrick on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:18:00 PST

This Love is Tragic

Whisper to me softly, let me hear those words. they haunt me I stare off into nothing My eyes glazed with sorrow my heart beats with pain I try to think of tomorrow but I am stuck in yesterday... Ever...
Posted by Merrick on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:36:00 PST