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About Me

I play guitar for Thrash-Metal band VALIOMIERDA. I am into all kind of stuff: guitars, records and tape trading(man, that makes me sound old), reading, cooking, art, history, anthropology, cheesemaking (I ran an artisinal farmstead cheesemaking op for a few years...Hail the Goat Cheese!). Also into ice climbing, treking, mountaineering and camping. Love spending time in the Southwestern deserts. I am also an "ordained minister" with the universal life church(which has no belief other than freedom to determine your own beliefs) so let me know if you want me to preside over your funeral:)
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My Interests

Hanging with my girls, playing guitar in VALIOMIERDA, collecting punk and thrash records, and hanging in the mountains of colorado. Also like collecting tattoos from Matt at Your Flesh in Durango and Lee, Mike and Alisha at Twisted Sol in Denver. I like all kinds of stuff, from playing shows, playing with my daughter, DiDi, hiking the mountains, going to art museums, drinking coffee, cooking, reading and laying in bed till the last possible minute with my beautiful wife,Christine.

I'd like to meet:

Seriously...I'm always into meeting others with open minds especially those who share my love of punk/HC/crust.

Music:

I love all punk, especially early crust and crossover: Discharge, Disorder, Antisect, Doom, Sacrilige UK, Deviated Instinct, Accused, DRI, Septic Death, Unseen Terror, Crass, Conflict, Extreme Noise Terror, Heresy, Concrete Sox, His Hero is Gone, Tragedy, Hellbastard, Hellshock, Napalm Death, Crucifix, English Dogs, Kaaos, Mob 47, Severed Head of State, Amebix, Anti-Cimex, Final Conflict, BGK, Broken Bones, Blitz, Attak, Exploited, Icons of Filth, G.B.H., Health Hazard, Instigators, Ripcord, Iron Maiden, Negative Approach, Reagan Youth, MDC, Misery, Rattus, Sepultura, Riistetyt, Protesti, From Ashes Rise, Subhumans, Sore Throat, Slayer, Totalitar, Disfear, Rudimentary Peni, Possessed, The Freeze, Attitude Adjustment, Necros, you get the picture...

Movies:

Here are some old flyers mostly from Denvoid, but some from Michigan, Chicago, etc.

Television:

The Wire!!, Deadwood, History Channel, Anthony Bourdains No Reservations, but really, most TV is crap.

Books:

Right now: Sit Down and Shut Up, Punk rock commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex and Death by Brad Warner.The Sound of the Beast: A history of Heavy Metal, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Baea, A Cooks Tour by Anthony Bourdain, Dharma Punx by Noah Levine, The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk and Burning Britain by Ian Glasper. JRR TOLKEIN!! I'm a big fan! Almost anything from Umberto Eco, Books about ancient history, anthropology, culinary history, music history and the occasional fiction thriller, Cussler, Dan Brown, etc.

Heroes:

Anyone willing to stand up for what they believe in and take action.