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Chokeslam Hero

May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out. - Irish Toast

My Interests

Music:

Rock, Techno, Trance, Triphop, Dreampop, Nerdcore, Chiptunes

Movies:

Zulu, The Wicker Man (original), Headwig and the Angy Inch, Fight Club, Twelve Angry Men, RHPS, Supertroopers, K-PAX, Watership Down, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas etc. I watch alot of movies, I'll list more as they come to me.

Television:

Battlestar Galactica , Heroes, Jericho, Weeds, Deadliest Catch, One Piece (not the crap on CN), Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Venture Bros. There was some other ones, but they escape me right now.

Books:

*I'm finally reading again!*

Road to Dune - Unread
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad - Finished
Dune: The Machine Crusade - Finished
Dune: The Battle of Corrin - Finished
Dune: House Atreides - Finished
Dune: House Harkonnen - Finished
Dune: House Corrino - Finished
Dune - Finished
Paul of Dune - Unread
Dune Messiah - Finished
Children of Dune - Finished
God Emperor of Dune - Finished
Heretics of Dune - Finished
Chapterhouse: Dune - Finished
Hunters of Dune - Finished
Sandworms of Dune - Currently Reading

My Blog

Mead Mishaps

Well, today I thought I'd get off my ass and get cracking with the meadmaking. I planned on making 3 gallons of a modified version of Joe's Ancient Orange. Mainly, using real wine yeast instead of bre...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:14:00 PST

Wait, Im an adult now?!

I'm 27 years old. I have an Associates Degree in Health Sciences for Massage Therapy. I have and pay bills and, until recently, had a mortgage. I enjoy playing with my computer and reading articles ab...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:19:00 PST

New mead batch - Sack

Well, I was bored today and had about 10 pounds of honey lying around, so I took a trip to the homebrew store and got some yeast and supplies for another batch of mead.This batch is 5 gallons of strai...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:07:00 PST

Back in the mead game.

I’ve finally started another batch of mead, after about a year hiatus from brewing. The reason being that we had just moved and I wasn’t in a meadmaking mood. All that has changed with my ...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:52:00 PST

Leap Year!

Leap Year! I was going to say something spiffy about it, but it's early in the morning and I can't think of anything.Convocation was last weekend and while I'm sure that there's plenty to say about it...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:43:00 PST

Merry christmas

Oh snap! It's christmas again. Hope everyone gets the gifts they are sniffing for. Nothing much else to say, is there.Time to break open some mead and get to merrymaking!
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:40:00 PST

Hang drums

I want one of these but I hear that to get one you get to jump though a hell of a lot of hoops....
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:26:00 PST

So....youmacon 07?

So, near the end of last simester, I was walking down to the office to pick up my finiacial aid refund check when I noticed a very small flyer taped to the wall. What caught my attention was the bold,...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:15:00 PST

My page is full of shit, am I cool yet?

So, I've rearranged a bunch of crap and added/removed some. Recent additions include a music player so now you can see exactly how better my taste in music is than yours. I've also began reading some ...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:30:00 PST

Oldschool Chicago Commercials...or...Oh Shit, Nostalgia Bomb!

If you grew up in the Chicago area in the 80s and 90s, you're sure to remember these classic local commercials. This is the stuff we were shown inbetween Saturday morning cartoons.The first one is for...
Posted by Chokeslam Hero on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:29:00 PST