Drumming for THE MEATMEN, WOLFBAIT, SUPERCHRIST, WASTELANDER, and RED SWAN; two bass drums; hording drums; upsetting people by the amount of drums I have; HEAVY METAL; HISTORY; LANGUAGES; a post-apocalyptic world modeled after the Mad Max trilogy; Turkic peoples; Finno-Ugrians; North Africa; hill-folk; bibles hollowed out for whiskey flasks; Siberia; diving knives strapped to thighs; Celtic Britain; Amazons in loin-cloths; DRUM AND CYMBAL ENDORSEMENTS; Eurasian steppes; Hungarian women who could curse my family with generations of lycanthropsy; Ireland; Irish women who are trouble; Mongolia; bad encounters between children and wild animals; Scandinavia; being a public embarrassment.
My great, great aunt, Billie Burke, who played Glinda the Good Witch in _The Wizard of Oz_. Phil Lynott and Brain Downey of Thin Lizzy would be bitchin' to meet too.
THE MEATMEN, WOLFBAIT, SUPERCHRIST, WASTELANDER, RED SWAN, The Clash, The Who, *THIN LIZZY*, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Mael Mordha (Irish doom metal), Danzig (nothing past _Danzig IV_ though), JUDAS PRIEST, Blue Öyster Cult, TestAmenT, Deep Purple, Omen, Faith No More, KISS, Saxon, W.A.S.P., Iron Maiden (with Paul Di'Anno and Clive Burr on drums), Megadeth, DIO, AC/DC (with Chris Slade on drums), Motley Crue (circa _Too Fast for Love_), Kyuss, Slough Feg, Overkill, Cirith Ungol, Devil Lee Rot, Sabbat (British), Brocas Helm, Nachtmystium, Ted Nugent, ZZ Top's first six albums, anything with a heavy Celtic shuffle.
The Mad Max Trilogy, Stripes, Caddyshack, Blood Diner, Just Visiting, The Dark Crystal, Conan the Barbarian, Young Frankenstein, Critters I and II, Warlock, Pumpkinhead, Dune, Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, Wizards, Fire and Ice, V For Vendetta, The Wicker Man (1973), ZARDOZ -- which has decided my costume for Halloween '08! I could totally pull this off! AND FINALLY, someone's making movies for me! This is going to be über bitchin'!
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Bros., Camp Lazlo, Mork and Mindy, Silver Spoons, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show, most NOVA programs -- especially Nov. 2007's Master of the Killer Ants.
NON-FICTION: Justin II; The Viking Way; The Long-Haired Kings; Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; The Rise of Western ChristendomFICTION: Winesburg, Ohio; Spoon River Anthology; the Conan series by Robert E. Howard; Michael Moorcock's Elric saga; H.P. Lovecraft; anything by Gogol
Phil Lynott, Mad Max