Tim - ProfilesArchive

About Me

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I play guitar and sing in my progressive metal band Cellar Door .
My version of "Gemini" by John Petrucci @ the CIA 2/2/07
My name's Tim... I live in an amazing house in Encino (which, let's be honest, I probably don't deserve) with my two best buds.
I made a myspace page where I could just put together little songs for fun by recording a bunch of guitar tracks myself. If that sounds like something you would want to hear, click here .
I like complicated music with actual thought put into it, meaning progressive metal, jazz, and classical make up 90% of my listening. I'm addicted to music theory and guitar chops.
I also really love sports, all sports, but really nothing comes close to my love for hockey, which I've been playing and watching since I was pretty damn young. GO KINGS!!
"Melancholic music is very uplifting. Why? Because it's a shared experience. In contrast, I find music that is artificially happy or very joyful to be very depressing." - Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree
I have the best friends ever.

My Interests

I'm interested in all the best things in life... meaning, guitars, obscure surrealist painters from the 1930s, progressive rock/metal, poker, Wikipedia , Irish literature from the early 20th century, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings, the Los Angeles Dodgers, travelling, beer, laughing, girls, and getting to know new people. I like philosophy and wondering about things that I'll never figure out.

I'd like to meet:

Already met 'em.

Cellar Door - "Critical Mass" from B.B. King's 11/6/06

Music:

I love many, many different types of music although I mainly gravitate towards metal, progressive rock, jazz, and classical. I used to try and list every artist I listen to, but that got lame so here are some of my absolute favorites:

Dream Theater
John Petrucci
Tool
Children Of Bodom
Meshuggah
Al DiMeola
Steve Vai
Dave Brubeck
Rush
Liquid Tension Experiment
Circus Maximus
Zero 7
Frederic Chopin
Venturia
Marty Friedman
Lamb of God
Pain of Salvation
Tony MacAlpine
Winds
...and much, much more.

What I listened to last week:
(click for more info or to become my Last.fm friend!)

Movies:

What The [Bleep] Do We Know?
Waiting
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Sin City
Memento
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Jackie Brown
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Donnie Darko
Unforgiven
Rounders
Swingers
Rocky
Defending Your Life
High Fidelity
Closer
Taxi Driver
Fight Club
Amadeus
Groundhog Day
Lost In America
The Last Samurai
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Tombstone
Leon (The Professional)
The Empire Strikes Back
Garden State
Airplane!
Top Gun
Any movie that has Albert Brooks in it

Television:

ENTOURAGE, Seinfeld, Futurama, Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Twilight Zone (the original B&W series), Around The Horn, Pardon The Interruption, basketball, football, hockey, and that about does it.

Books:

Favorite book: "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka. I also love anything written by Abbie Hoffman, Alexandre Dumas, or James Joyce... also the "Redwall" series by Brian Jacques, "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller.Reading is good for you. Expand your mind.

Heroes:

- JOHN PETRUCCI -

- MIKE PORTNOY -

- JAMES LABRIE -

- JORDAN RUDESS -

- JOHN MYUNG -

- TODD BERTUZZI -

- CHE -

Not pictured: My dad

My Blog

The new NHL commercials are freakin' hysterical

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Posted by Tim on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:16:00 PST

I'm going backstage to meet John Petrucci... again!!

Elliot and I just got 4th row tickets to the G3 concert with John Petrucci, Joe Satriani, and Paul Gilbert... and we also have backstage passes... which means that I am going to be meeting my absolute...
Posted by Tim on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:50:00 PST

Kings trade Craig Conroy for some loser and a bag of pucks

I hope we know what we're doing...LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Kings traded center Craig Conroy to the Calgary Flames on Monday for center Jamie Lundmark, a fourth-round pick in this year's NHL en...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:36:00 PST

I'm in NYC...

...until the 30th. And then I move into the new house with Bo and Elliot! And now, I am tired. See all you guys when I'm back in LA... have a great holiday!
Posted by Tim on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:25:00 PST

Upcoming Cellar Door shows

Hey everyone... so Cellar Door will be playing a couple more shows before we find a new singer (our old one inexplicably quit) and record our demo. The first one is the B.B. King's battle of the...
Posted by Tim on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:03:00 PST

David Eckstein is the '06 World Series MVP

I've got his jersey too... hell yeah! That's my boy!ST. LOUIS -- David Eckstein took his mom to dinner at the White House, made a believer of Barry Bonds and got married at Walt Disney World.To ...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:08:00 PST

Vegas, baby, Vegas

So I am back from Vegas (for my 21st) after going pretty much nonstop for the last 48+ hours. We partied hard, we gambled harder, and somehow found time to take some pics along the way, although...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:33:00 PST

beer, Cuba Gooding Jr., and whizzing on the Ducks logo

Last night was yet another fuckin' awesome hockey game... Bo, Jacob, Sean and myself trekked down to the "Honda Center" in Anaheim (no more Arrowhead Pond) for the Kings vs. Ducks opener to support ou...
Posted by Tim on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:32:00 PST

Dodgers win the craziest game I've ever seen

Wow... I just finished watching the Dodger game on Prime Ticket... unbelievable. They win 11-10 in the craziest, most awesome baseball game I have ever witnessed in my life. Not only did t...
Posted by Tim on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:33:00 PST

my car has been broken into... again

Un. Fucking. Real. Goodbye stereo, my CD collection, school backpack, goodbye golf clubs, and this time, goodbye dashboard. They took everything. I can't get to school th...
Posted by Tim on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:28:00 PST