I partake in listening to various types of music, watching various movies and tv shows, and reading various books. You can see exactly what types of the aformentioned media I enjoy in the proceeding sections. I'm into old videogames, mainly NES/SNES and other older systems. In my opinion most of the best video games ever were made prior to 2000.
I'm a huge pro wrestling fan and my favorite promotions include IWA-Mid South, CZW, ROH, Chikara, and PWG. Some of my favorite wrestlers include Chris Hero, Super Dragon, Jushin Liger, Mick Foley, Hayabusa, Raven, Necro Butcher, Alex Shelley, Mike Quackenbush, Jack Evans, and Delerious.
I love traveling and going on road trips. Let me sleep on your couch and maybe I'll visit you. Unless you live in a completely boring place.
When I feel social I like to people watch at clubs and bars, provided they aren't overpopulated with assholes. Even if there are assholes there people watching is still fun.
List of other random interests-
libertarianism , abandoned houses/buildings, going to rollerderby games, urban exploration, making up recipes only I could like, photography (see "About Me" section for samples), bad weather, world history, crossword puzzles, looking up weird stuff on wikipedia, red wine, dark beer, collecting odd things, going through car washes
I'd like to meet:
You. Unless of course you suck. Then I don't want to meet you. Because I don't associate with people who suck.
NO I WILL NOT ADD YOUR SHITTY BAND!
Music:
All of the bands listed, I like. However not all the bands I like are listed. Links mark local artists I endorse.
Absu
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Anthrax
Agalloch
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Aghast
Apotheosys
Asphyx
Borknagar
Blackwatch
Blind Guardian
Bolt Thrower
Boston
Burzum
Candlemass
Carcass
Eric Clapton
Clutch
Combichrist
Confessor
The Crown
Current 93
Dargaard
Daylight Dies
Dead Can Dance
Death
Death in June
Defleshed
Depeche Mode
Dimmu Borgir
DRI
Dissection
Dreamscapes of the Perverse
Dropkick Murphys
Duran Duran
Enslaved
Falkenbach
Faith No More
Feindflug
Flogging Molly
Frexon Zo
Front Line Assembly
Glissade
Goatwhore
GWAR
Haemorrhage
Helloween
Hypocrisy
Impaled
Iron Maiden
Iced Earth
Impaled
Impaled Nazerene
Judas Priest
Katatonia
KMFDM
King Diamond
Kreator
Legion of the Fallen
Lisa Gerrard
Leng T'che
Lord Gore
Lords of Acid
Lost Horizon
Manowar
Megadeth
Megaptera
Metallica
Ministry
The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud
Municipal Waste
Morbid Angel
My Dying Bride
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
Naglfar
Nevermore
Nile
Nirvana
Nokturnal Mortum
The Offspring
Opeth
Ordo Equilibrio
Ozzy Osbourne
Otyg
Tom Petty
The Pouges
Puissence
Raison d'Etre
Rayen Belchere
Red Harvest
Repulsion
Root
Samael
Satyricon
Sepultura
Sigh
Simon and Garfunkel
Sisters of Mercy
Slayer
Soulpreacher
Suffocation
Suicidal Tendencies
Testament
Therion
Vader
Vintersorg
Vivaldi
VNV Nation
WASP
Wehrwolfe
Wesley Willis
White Zombie
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Movies:
I have a Netflix membership that I abuse the hell out of. Anything that's horror or war related, politically incorrect, violence-filled, or just outridght bizzare tends to tickle my fancy. Some examples include-
The Big Lebowski (greatest movie ever made)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Seven
Office Space
Event Horizon
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Great Escape
Sleepy Hollow
Downfall
Das Boot
Wet Hot American Summer
Die Hard Trilogy
Preadator
The Machinist
Terminator I/II
Grosse Point Blank
Re-Animator
Zombi
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (live only)
The Descent
Quills
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Metropolis
May
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Things to do in Denver when You're Dead
The Seventh Seal
True Romance
Cube
Snatch
The Goonies
Way of the Gun
Fight Club
Evil Dead Series
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Feast
Various movies by-
Chan Wook Park
Akira Kurosawa
Peter Jackson
Alfred Hitchcock
Takashi Miike
Michael Mann
The Coen Bros
Quentin Tarrintino
John Waters
Television:
Cartoons-
South Park
Transformers (original series only)
The Brak Show
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Sealab 2021
The Simpsons
Family Guy
Other Shows-
Penn and Teller's Bullshit
The Young Ones
Lost
Carnivale
The X Files (older)
24
Six Feet Under
Weeds
Nip/Tuck
House
anything interesting on The History and Discovery Channel (though I don't have cable) and PBS
Books:
Working across the street from the library is fun. I typically go through two books a week and I'm always looking out for new stuff to read. As far as fiction goes I like horror/suspense books, crime thrillers, and contemporary satire. Some of my favorite authors include-
Michael Chrichton
JG Ballard
Craig Clevenger
William Burroughs
Brett Easton Ellis
Maxx Barry
Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman
Chuck Palahniuk
H.S. Thompson
Stephen King
Jeff Long
William Christopher Baer
Robert Crais
Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child
Some of my favorite classical authors/philosophers-
Chaucer
Machiavelli
William Blake
John Milton
Edgar Alan Poe
John Stuart Mill
I love reading about history - mainly WWII and anything war related, mythology, early US history, and anything macarbe or unusual.
Words of Wisdom "A girl calls and asks, 'Does it hurt very much to die?' Well sweetheart, I tell her, Yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living."
-Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
"I guess there's just two kinds of people: MY kind of people, and assholes. It's rather obvious which category you fit into. Have a nice day."
-John Waters, Pink Flamingos
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
-Neil Gaiman
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
-Soren Kierkegaard
"Kill one or a hundred. You only hang once."
-Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo
"After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures."
-Peter Kurten
"And force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst."
-Starship Troopers
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill
"You don't become the king of the deathmatch by knowing all the moves. You become king of the deathmatch by kicking out of all the moves. By denying pain. Denying suffering. Hoping you can kid yourself just long enough...."
-Mick "Cactus Jack" Foley, 8/20/95
"We must make an idol of our fears and call it god."
-Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal
"It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; To sit on a rock in the forest and ask of himself, who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?"
-Carl Sandburg
"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
