I may not be a materialistsic man, but damnit, I am still a man! ...so I like nice cars
I can always dream
My interests seem to be a devotion to my plethora of changing interests. lol.
I happen to believe that the world around us is knowledge. So a main interest of mine would have to be just gathering as much of it as possible... and music! anything that may have to do with it....including my band:
I'd like to meet:
any band I have not yet met already, cool people.^ ^ muhammed suicmez... again!^^^ These guys embody the undiluted & unfiltered sound of pain and hate, spiked with a dash of obsession. TODAY IS THE DAY is a trip through insanity.
Ian MacKaye
anyone else that peaks my interest. see "Heroes"
Music:
hell yeah! Music consists of a very large chunk of my life.
I like pretty much every type of music (even if it is new, old, mainstream, or underground), but Hardcore, and almost any type of Metal are my favs. along with regular Punk, Emo, Alternative, Classical, and techno/electronic, etc. waaaaaaay too many individual bands to list all.
Anybody that thinks any form of extreme music is evil or just noise is a pinata full of manure. People like extreme music for the same reasons they like action movies or going on roller coasters. It is every aspect of music amplified, a high dosage of general music. It is honest, catchy, technical & complex, dirty, and pure. It has passion, soul, edge, and above all, power... a driving force. This abundance of "substance" is why my type of music is described as "heavy". Most people listen to the music that is now popular because people dont want to actually think about their music anymore, they just want to have some white noise on in the background while they hang out, gossip at partys, or go to the gym. Most of it is just catchy, and that's it. And since heavy music is not easily digestible, it becomes increasingly foreign to them. Major labels are only
concered in what sells... what will make them rich. So if you say "They're making money, so they must be doing something right!", then you are completely full of shit.Attn. Everyone: Download Soulseek (www.slsknet.com), a file-sharing program that is really great. And if you feel like seeing just what I exactly have on my computer, look for the user "bootscraper"
I don't listen to Radio except 89.7, 88.9, 106.9, and the local college station, 91.7 WMSE. And WMSE's best block is Wednesday nights from 9-midnight w/ Laura.A chunk of my favorite music I appreciate because of lyrics that are easy to relate to. It's not just sharing the same views, thoughts & ideas. It's also about the delivery, getting that feeling that makes you want to say "He said it the exact same way I would have liked to have said it"... I love music, no mattter what genre, that I can connect with. It's great when you understand a song, but it is magic when a song understands you.
Movies:
AdaptationEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (almost anything Charlie Kauffman writes is good)
The Truman show is a metaphor for real life in a few ways, or at least mine *shrugs*
^^ while obviously being fiction, Canadian Bacon parallels exactly to current events and politics more than any other movie. Same with V for Vendetta (this is a future closer than you think)The Big Lebowski , Dream with the Fishes, GOODWILL HUNTING , Falling Down (Every man dreams of this type of war with society from time to time), Bill Maher: I'm Swiss , Crossroads (fuck you, NOT the Brittany Spears ver. I'm talking about the one from the 80s with Steve Vai and The Karate kid), City of God , Human Nature, Fight Club, Bulworth (prime example of how a leader dies after that leader speaks).House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and most other martial-arts films, no matter how cheesy they are.SLC Punk!, Dillinger, The Filth and the Fury, Yellow Submarine, Farenheight 9/11 (yes, parts were biased, but valid points are made.), GoodFellas , Saved!, Tommy, Scarface, Walk the Line, Man on the Moon, Pink Floyd The Wall, Bush's Brain, Contact, Big Fish, Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction, Mr. Holland's Opus, Ben Hurr , Lord of the Flies, The Thing, Love Liza, Purple Rain, PhilladelphiaJames Bond Series, The Matrix Series, the Star Wars series, all M. Night Shyamaian films
Airplane!, TALLEDAGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY Team America: World Police, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy , Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Scrooged, Groundhog Day, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, School of Rock , The 40 Year Old Virgin, This Is Spinal Tap , and Jackass the movie (and many other big-name funny films),Amadeus , 50 First Dates, Punk: Attitude , Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000, The Island, Donnie Darko , That Thing You Do, Pi , The Time Machine, A Clockwork Orange, The Notebook, American History X, Forrest Gump , Love and Sex, Forget Paris, Hacking Democracy (Everybody should watch this at least once), The Witches of Eastwick, Thirteen, Urban Cowboy, Running on Empty, The Wizard of Oz, Sid and Nancy, All We Are Saying , Simone, Valmont, Munich, When Harry Met Sally, Syriana , Valmont, ABOUT SCHMIDT , Babel, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE ("...a loser is someone who's so afraid of winning, they don't even try" awesome movie), A Beautiful Mind
Television:
Real Time with Bill Maher
C-SPAN channel
C-Span 2
Penn & Teller: BULLSHIT!
The Colbert Report
the Daily Show with John Stewart
The Henry Rollins Show on IFC
Wonder Showzen
Da Ali G Show
For the most part, however, I think TV is corrupt. But since I have DirecTV, I usually have it locked on the Discovery Times Channel, The History Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, History International, or any other interesting program.
I LOVE Auto Racing, but HATE Nascar.... so speed channel is on often too... mainly F1 racing
I also enjoy watching UFC and PRIDE Fighting now and then... that shit is about as close to a Street Fight as you can get
Books:
I really enjoy reading, but never do. I really have to train myself.Currently reading:
Everyone needs to read this book:
Tuesday's with Morrie
The 5 People you meet in heaven [I suppose Mitch Albom is a pretty alright writer]
As a Man Thinketh... (I live by this now. Thank you Aunt Cathy!)
Moby Dick
The Da Vinci Code
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Bomb
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
Magazines: Revolver, Alternative Press, Outburn, Relix.
(Boo to Hit Parader and Circus. Super Boo to Rolling Stone)
I love The Onion
Heroes:
ALL MY HEROES HAVE FAILED ME!! hahaha, jk!
The bands and friends around me that continue to inspire me. As well as the following:
Charlie Kauffman (portrayed by Nicolas Cage). More of a "MIRROR" at times though rather than "heroe". haha
...as well as JD played by Zach Braff on SCRUBS (The inner-monolauge running through his head, the same first name, relationship with management and mentors @ work, EVERYTHING. Pure coincidence?? I think not)
The Greatest musician that ever lived (besides Mozart), Muhammed Suicmez... the sole-writer, composer, arranger, producer, lyricist, guitarist, and vocalist of this band:Steve Austin
...and Chris Dabari [Today Is The Day was pretty much the soundtrack to my last winter, the low-point in my life]Stephen Colbert
THE DUDE!
Larry, the most misunderstood man on the planet!
Thomas Jefferson, Sam Adams, and most the peeps here^^
Jacob Bannon; artist, vocalist & lyricist for Converge, owner of Deathwish records
Bill and Ted
^^^ Erik Rutan, member of Morbid Angel, frontman to Hate Eternal, and renowned metal studio producer
^^^ Andy Kaufman looked at life as one big joke, for that he was way ahead of his time
^^ musically, Frank Zappa was as well
Chuck Schuldiner (RIP), History's most influential artist to the genre of death metal
Long before the gangsta-rappers, or even the punks, Johnny Cash was the first badass
Mozart
Stossel represents investigative journalism at its best
^^ In the same passionate light of Johnny Cash or Neil Young, Jeff Buckley (RIP). He represents an stripped acoustic version of Steve Austin or Trent Reznor to me
anybody who believes in a cause so much (save brainwashing), that they are willing to die for it. No bullets can penetrate the tree of reform that feeds off the blood of martyrs.
