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MELOTIA IN MOTION :: WEBISODE #5
I am Australian. I am a Scorpio. Like everyone else in LA, I am a musician. I am the singer/guitarist for a band called MELOTIA. Our website is www.melotia.com and our MySpace page is myspace.com/melotia . Since the age of 15 I have been playing in bands and over the past 10 years I've learned a thing or two about what makes a band "work". A little about me - I play guitar, piano, drums, bass and I sing. I live mostly for music. I love writing it, I love recording it and I especially love performing it. I was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. I moved to Hollywood two years ago to be the next biggest thing, like the other 5 million musicians in Hollywood. I have a Degree in Computing Science and I am a qualified Graphic Designer. I'm not stupid. I read a lot. I write a lot. I exercise a lot. I surf a lot. I used to go snowboarding a lot. I don't drink much and I've never done any drugs (and never will). For the most part, I dedicate my life to music. I listen to music A LOT. I think a lot of bands are fucked. And I think a lot of bands are awesome. If I think something sucks, I'll tell you. I work hard and play hard. I tend to be quiet around people I don't know. I like to be alone. But I also like the company of good people. I'm an honest person. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. I don't bother with people who are full of shit. Fake people bore the shit out of me. If you live in Hollywood, you probably feel the same. And if you don't, then you're one of the fakers. I don't perceive myself to be better or worse than anyone else on this planet. I am not perfect and I don't always get it right. But I learn from my mistakes. Against all odds, I am trying to do the best with my life. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I fail. And sometimes I don't care. But I never give up...

My Interests



Music, Guitar, Singing, Recording, Performing, Reading, Writing, Drinking, Partying, Thinking, Snowboarding, Questioning, Working, Playing, Emailing, Breathing and Sleeping

I'd like to meet:


I am not good at "meeting" people so you'll have to meet me. My door is open to pretty much anyone. Having said that, I don't really know many people and I tend to spend a lot of time by myself. You will never hear me drop any names because I don't know anyone famous and don't really care to. I am not sexist, racist or homophobic. If you are, don't bother talking to me. I don't judge people by the way they look. I tend to gravitate towards honest people with real ambition. I don't like lazy people. I don't like fake people. And I really don't like people who try to tell me what to do. I like people who know how to have fun, but who also want to do something extraordinary with their life. You only get one life, so make it count and have a fucking ball while you're at it!!

Music:

In no particular order - Metallica, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, Papa Roach, Deftones, HIM, Shadows Fall, Coldplay, Drowning Pool, System Of A Down, Taking Back Sunday, Bleed The Dream, Ben Harper, Pantera, Rancid, Machinehead, Slipknot, Bad Religion, Snuff, Pennywise, Rollins Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, AC/DC, Alice In Chains, No Use For A Name, Strung Out, The Descendents, Black Flag, Incubus, Face To Face, Linkin Park, Godsmack, The Mars Volta, Bodyjar, Grinspoon, Sevendust, Eighteen Visions, Green Day, The Beastie Boys, Primus, Rage Against The Machine, The Ramones, Ben Folds, Tomahawk, Tool, Silverchair, A Perfect Circle, Vast, Thursday, Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory and probably about 6 million more that I can't be fucked typing right now....

Movies:

If you don't like Robert Deniro, don't talk to me :) I'm not that fussy when it comes to movies. I tend to watch more documentaries.

Television:

Fucken Sucks

Books:

Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Michael Moore, Henry Rollins, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hunter S. Thompson, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Dan Briody, Bob Woodward, Alexander Pushkin, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and many more!

Heroes:

My Parents

THESE ARE SOME BANDS THAT I GIVE A FUCK ABOUT...

My Blog

06-JUN-2008: Ambiguous

Ambiguous06-JUN-2008What goes on in my mind is a strange phenomenon. Just when I think that I've figured myself out, I realize that I haven't. The very few people that truly know me will tell you that...
Posted by RD on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:42:00 PST

10-APR-2008: No One Accountable

No One Accountable10-APR-2008I got home this afternoon to find water gushing violently from a water main outside the front of my house. An ocean had developed in the base of my driveway. As I walked t...
Posted by RD on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:24:00 PST

16-MAR-2008: Random Ramble

Random Ramble16-MAR-2008My weekend was pretty good. We played a show at The Knitting Factory and although we played the midnight slot, we still had some diehards there who made it all worthwhile. I ha...
Posted by RD on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

03-FEB-2008: The Human Way

The Human Way 03-FEB-2008The recent death of actor Heath Ledger was an event that definitely upset me to a certain degree. Obviously I did not know the guy personally. Before I continue, I would like ...
Posted by RD on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:13:00 PST

10-JAN-2008: Augmentation I & II

Augmentation I & II 10-JAN-2008It's been an unbelievably busy few weeks. Melotia is now busier than ever and I couldn't be happier about it. It looks like some truly exciting developments will com...
Posted by RD on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:01:00 PST

14-DEC-2007: On The Road Again

On The Road Again 14-DEC-2007Ripon CA 1:22PMI'm on the road again. Two months of LA life and I was ready to get the fuck out of there again. We're out on a short tour right now. We just played Ripon l...
Posted by RD on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:05:00 PST

18-NOV-2007: The Age Of Ignorance

The Age Of Ignorance 18-NOV-2007I've been living in a bit of a haze over the past few weeks, months perhaps. I write a lot, but even lately my writing has suffered. It's almost as though the words are...
Posted by RD on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:18:00 PST

02-OCT-2007: Coming Home

Coming Home02-OCT-2007I haven't written a lot since we got off tour. Usually I write every day. Coming home is hard on me. I say home, but I don't consider LA to be home. I've experienced too much neg...
Posted by RD on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:26:00 PST

16-JUL-2007: Life To Lifeless

Life To Lifeless 16-JULY-2007Sometimes it is hard to know exactly what to say and when to say it. Timing is everything. Some people are lucky enough to have their numbers line up through life. Others ...
Posted by RD on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:38:00 PST

20-JUN-2007: Busy Is An Understatement

Busy Is An Understatement 20-JUN-2007I have no real good excuse as to why I have not been writing. My life has been full of frivolous problems for the past week and a half. The band reached a high abo...
Posted by RD on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:35:00 PST