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About Me

I am METAL INCARNATE!!!! Or not, but close enough that it doesn't really matter anyway. I like real metal, not that whiney shit the kids listen to these days, whoever "the kids" are, and whatever they're listening to. I wouldn't know, I don't go out enough, listen to the radio or watch music TV. They're never Metal enough to satisfy my neverending hunger for Metal. Fortunately I'm too Metal to care.

Other than Metal I am interested in spending time with my beautiful girlfriend Rachel (AKA bunnygirl) , computers (hardware, gaming, music programming), guitars, tabletop wargaming (Warhammer 40K, Mordheim), movies, books (almost entirely sci-fi, though I'm told I'll grow out of it, which is seeming less likely after 16 years) and general internet crap (like this crap right here).



My Interests

Warhammer 40,000 - Orks, Space Marines, Imperial Guard and SQUATS!

Computers - hardware, gaming, internet, Fixing them.

Music - (V)etal (especially true, power, stoner, industrial, doom), industrial, electro, dark drum & bass, nerdcore hip-hop.

Books - mostly sci-fi (the harder the better), comic books, mangas, Warhammer fiction.

Movies - sci-fi, animé, martial arts, action, horror, gore/splatter, comedy, b-movies.

TV - selected sci-fi and comedy. And cartoons, lots and lots of cartoons.

I'd like to meet:

Brighton people who are into 40K! I need more opponents so I can develop some vague tactical ability and my armies don't all have to die to a (superhu)man/ork/squat. Plus then I might have some incentive to get on with painting the hordes.

Music:


Annihilator, Front Line Assembly, Falconer, Blind Guardian, D-Rok, The Shizit, Ugly Mus-Tard, Black Label Society, Dio, MC Frontalot, Noise Unit, Devin Townsend, Skinny Puppy, Cyberaktif, White Zombie, KMFDM, Down, Pride And Glory, Intermix, Satanic Industries Inc., Iced Earth, Lordi, Black Sabbath & Ozzy, MC Chris, Two, Jackyl, Drain (STH), Synaesthesia, 1000 Homo DJs, Mampi Swift, Ohgr, Lollipop Lust Kill, Andy C, Diamond Head, Fear Factory, Iron Saviour, Aphrodite, Demons & Wizards, Lamb Of God, Motörhead, Ugly Kid Joe, DJ Hype, Punky Brüster, Dillinja, Sterile Noiz Klan, Carcass, Nicky Black Market, Ganja Kru, Pro-Tech, Kyuss, Body Count, Sir Mixalot, Type-O-Negative, Iron Maiden, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Insane Clown Posse, Zyklon, Ministry, Sugar Ray, Dragonforce, Cypress Hill, Nevermore, Samael, John B, Manowar, Led Zeppelin, Aphex Twin, The Chaos Engine, Biohazard, Napalm Death, Harvesters Of Death, Autechre, Electric Wizard, Ice T, Squarepusher, Dog Eat Dog(ma), Morbid Angel, Kilgore (Smudge), Red Snapper, Nailbomb, Alec Empire, Mad Capsule Markets, Halford, Moonspell, Cannibal Corpse, Krokus, Luciferion, Baddd Spellah, Rabbit Junk, Kreator, Raging Speedhorn, Groovemonster, The Doors, Misery Loves Co., Atari Teenage Riot, Finntroll, Human Waste Project, Guns 'n' Roses, Turisas, The Young Gods, Hammerfall, Nebula, Corrosion Of Conformity, Children Of Bodom, Megadeth, Deathboy, Kill II This, Lords Of Acid, Concorde Dawn, Puncture, Beastie Boys, Schoolly D, Chemlab, Weird Al Yankovich, At The Gates, Death Piggy, Entombed, Clutch, Grip Inc, Metallica, Godflesh, Pitchshifter, Pantera, Skindred, Brujeria, Presidents Of The United States Of America, Sepultura, Death Angel, Vehemence, Crowbar, Green Jellö/y, Deicide, Martyr Complex, Wumpscut, Clawfinger, Gravity Kills, Wizard, Bong Ra, Pist.On, Dub War, Revolting Cocks, Machine Head, Sonic Mayhem, Gong, Virii, Slayer, Cathedral, Snake River Conspiracy, Meshuggah, Pissing Razors, David Bowie, Anthrax, Colostomy Grab Bag, Genetic Selection, Cancer, Front 242, Overkill, Tongue Depressor, Rammstein, Goteki, Sneaky Bat Machine, Pigface, Nevermore, Static-X, Celtic Frost, Rhapsody, Meat Beat Manifesto, Goretorture, Death, Snot, Prong, Yngwie J Malmsteen, Busta Rhymes, Gamma Ray, Cylob, Galactic Cowboys, Luca Turilli, Freudstein, Velvet Acid Christ, Tool, Cheech And Chong, Die Krupps, Tenacious D, Soundgarden, Optimus Rhyme, Anal Cunt, Bolt Thrower, Skyclad, Photek, Curve, The Fucking Champs, Damageplan, Sonata Arctica, Vehemence, Pro-Pain, Floodgate, Y2Khai, Apocalyptica, Cancer, Shizuo, Bruce Dickinson, Arkam Assylum, Rahzel, Cubanate, A Perfect Circle, Cradle OF Filth, Danzig, Fight, System Of A Down, Nine Inch Nails, Onyx, Steel Dragon, Wraith, ZZ Top, Ramesses, Sourvein, Black Element, Nevermore, Synbiote

Movies:


Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (I watched this about 10 times before seeing it in the cinema, and about another 30 afterwards. I love this movie!!!). Clerks and Mallrats are also pretty damn good.
Circuitry Man I & II
Johnny Mnemonic
Ghost In The Shell I & II
Gunhed
Vampire Hunter D & Bloodlust
They Live
Appleseed
Strange Days
Max Headroom
Shaolin Soccer
Armour Of God II (Operation Condor)
Predator I & II
Team America
Serenity
The Punisher (both versions, but especially Dolph Lundgren's)
The Legend Of Fong Sai Yuk I & II
South Park The Movie: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Beavis & Butthead Do America
Soylent Green
The Drunken Master
The One
Baseketball
Cannibal The Musical
Logan's Run
Heavy Metal & Heavy Metal 2000
Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead (Original), Day Of The Dead & Land Of The Dead
Death Race 2000
Clerks
Princess Mononoke
Robot Jox
Half Baked
Friday, Next Friday, Friday After Next
Mallrats
Spawn
Little Nicky
Screamers
How High
Dude Where's My Car
Mad Max I - III
Aliens I-IV, Alien Vs Predator
Terminator I-III
Robocop I-III, Prime Directives
Equilibrium
Starship Troopers I & II
6th Day
Dogma
Toxic Avenger
Rush Hour I & II
Bill & Ted I & II
Joe Dirt
Spirited Away
Hell Comes To Frogtown
Cheech & Chong (especially Up In Smoke, Next Movie, Nice Dreams)
V For Vendetta

Television:

TV mostly sucks in this country, but fortunately they make good shows abroad we can import. Of course this means you can't actually watch them on the TV, but nevermind. I love cartoons, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy and a whole bunch of other crap.


Metalocalypse
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Frisky Dingo
Korgoth Of Barbaria
The Venture Brothers
Sealab 2021
12 Oz. Mouse
Squidbillies
The Brak Show
Invader Zim
Beavis & Butthead
Tom Goes To The Mayor
Perfect Hair Forver
Bubblegum Crash/Crisis
Space Above And Beyond
Nathan Barley
Jam
Brass Eye
Space Ghost Coast To Coast
My Name Is Earl
The IT Crowd
Dr Who
South Park
Family Guy
American Dad
The Simpsons
Futurama
Celebrity Death Match
Monk
Psych
Perfect Hair Forever
Violence Jack
Ghost In The Shell: Standalone Complex
AD Police
Dominion Tank Police
Galactic Pirates
The Mighty Boosh
Peepshow
Space Above And Beyond

Books:

Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds
Ringworld cycle - Larry Niven
Soul Drinkers trilogy - Ben Counter
Eisenhorn trilogy, Ravenor series - Dan Abnet
Johnny The Homicidal Maniac - Johnen Vasquez
Pollen & Vurt - Jeff Noon
Excession, Use Of Weapons, The Algebraist, Feersum Endjinn & Against A Dark Background - Iain M Banks
Janissaries Trilogy - Jerry Pournelle (& others)
The Mote In God's Eye, The Moat Around God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
All of the Tales Of Known Space - Larry Niven
Dune series - Frank Herbert
Rim, Mir & Chi - Alexander Besher
Burning Chrome, Count Zero, All Tomorrow's Parties, Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Difference Engine - William Gibson & Bruce Stern
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Complete DR & Quinch - Moore/Davis
V For Vendetta, The Watchmen - Alan Moore
Warhammer 40,000 - Rick Priestley & Andy Chambers
Storm Of Iron - Graham McNeill
The Redeemer - Debbie Gallagher & Pat Mills
Deff Skwadron - Gordon Rennie & Paul Jeacock
Fire Warrior - Simon Spurrier

Heroes:

Dimebag Darrell
Jeff Waters
My Mum & Dad
Devin Townsend
Zakk Wylde
Ronnie James Dio
Ozzy Osbourne
Chuck Norris
Bill Leeb
Rhys Fulber
..

My Blog

Supporting Hatebreed, and headlining our own show!

Well well, everyone's favourite Death Metal band Cast The Bones are now supporting Hatebreed at the Concorde 2 on the 23rd April, so the day before what was originally gonna be my first gig with the b...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:22:00 PST

iPod Trauma

Had a bit of a traumatic time last night when my Nano froze up on me.  I plugged it into the cradle when I got home like every evening, and it detected fine and went to the Do Not Disconnect scre...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:02:00 PST

damnit

Bollocks, forgot to take a lunch break.  Now I'm hungry, and all I have is an apple.  And it meant I missed out on reading more of Friday!  AAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!Ah well, at least I booked so...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:47:00 PST

Last.FM

Dunno if everyone knows about this site or not, but it seems pretty cool.  Basically, you pick a band you like and it plays you tracks by bands that other people who like that band like.  So...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:36:00 PST

Gigs

Well, an exciting month coming up next month.  Going to see Annihilator, my fave metal band (or at least one of the top 3, there are too many awesome bands to have a favourite), for the first tim...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:57:00 PST

American Gothic

Been watching American Gothic recently, a horror/supernatural series from back in the mid-90s that I used to watch as a kid.  Very addictive. Bascially it's set in this small town in the American...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:03:00 PST

Working from home (or not, in my case)

Well I tried out working from home yesterday.  Took a while to get it all set up right, but after a few hours tinkering it was all fine.  The VPN worked a lot faster than I expected, even re...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:44:00 PST

Guitars

Currently thinking about getting a new guitar, as my current Warlock feeds back way too much and since we might be playing live soon, it'd be good to have a decent guitar anyways.  Now at first I...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:33:00 PST

Politics and shit

Well unless you're somehow completely oblivious to the news (wish I was, it's fucking depressing), you'll have heard some of this debate about whether we should have a separate English parliament.&nbs...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:51:00 PST

No good news without bad...

Hrm, well moments after my jubilation at finding out Falconer are playing I got a text from Rachel.She said that Bagus, our rat, died while she was asleep.  He's been in a bad way for a few month...
Posted by |\/|0|\||-`/ on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:13:00 PST