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Eric the Red

I am the king, an evil king, who dreams the wickedest of dreams

About Me

I'm big into music. I like to listen to it, play it, attempt to make it, etc. I play guitar better than the average joe on the street, but I'm no virtuoso, I just like to jam. I graduated from NMU in December 2006 and am now a chemist living in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I love a good IPA. I live in my own apartment on campus, and enjoy my solitude a lot. If you want to know any more, just ask, or just mosey on through all the stuff I got posted on here, and in my blog and shit. And feel free to IM me anytime. And lasty, I'm awesome.
My AIM screen name is The Grim Emperor.
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." ~Kurt Vonnegut.
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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Eric
Birthday: 8/23/82
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Current Location: Sheboygan, WI
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'9"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Mostly Irish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Converse Chuck Taylors
Your Weakness: Too nice sometimes
Your Fears: Snakes
Your Perfect Pizza: I like sausage
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Drop 20
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol
Thoughts First Waking Up: I'm usually just really thirsty
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes, maybe. Or hair. I dunno.
Your Bedtime: Varies
Your Most Missed Memory: A Cedar Point trip a few years ago
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: Burger King
Single or Group Dates: Neither
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Black coffee
Do you Smoke: Occasional cigars
Do you Swear: No fucking way
Do you Sing: When I'm alone or drunk enough
Do you Shower Daily: Yeah
Have you Been in Love: I thought I was, but probably not
Do you want to go to College: I graduated Dec. 06
Do you want to get Married: No
Do you belive in yourself: No
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: No
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: Guitar
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: Cigars
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: No
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Yes
Ever been Drunk: Many times
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: More or less
Ever Shoplifted: Yes
How do you want to Die: Taking anyone that asks stupid questions like this with me
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Wealthy
What country would you most like to Visit: Ireland
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue
Favourite Hair Color: Red (natural or dyed)
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: Doesn't matter
Weight: Not obese
Best Clothing Style: Whatever, although I do have a thing for leather, fishnets, g-strings, and boots to say a few.
Number of Drugs I have taken: Weed a handful of times and acid once
Number of CDs I own: Somewhere around 400
Number of Piercings: 2, ear and septum
Number of Tattoos: 2, tricep and back of neck
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I try not to regret things
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Your Deadly Sins


Lust: 80%
Sloth: 60%
Envy: 40%
Gluttony: 20%
Greed: 20%
Pride: 20%
Wrath: 20%
Chance You'll Go to Hell: 37%
You'll die from overexertion. *wink* How Sinful Are You?
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My Interests

Playing guitar, listening to tunes, cold brew, movies, poker, an occasional fine cigar, attractive women, cursing, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Cool people and sexy ladies would sum em all up. If you are one of those, then lucky you.

Music:

Black Metal: The Abyss, Arcturus, Azaghal, Azrael, Behexen, Black Trinity, Borknagar, Burzum, Carpathian Forest, Dark Funeral, Darkthrone, Deathspell Omega, Dissection, Dodheimsgard, Drudkh, Emperor, Enslaved, Fog, Forgotten Tomb, Goatwhore, Green Carnation, Hate Forest, Horna, Isengard, Judas Iscariot, Leviathan, Mayhem, Nachtmystium, Opthalamia, Satyricon, Ulver, Vintersorg, Von, Xasthur

Death Metal: Angelcorpse, Athiest, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Centurian, Cryptopsy, Death, Gorguts, Hypocrisy, Immolation, In Flames, Incantation, Krisiun, Monstrosity, Morbid Angel, Mortem, Mutilated, Napalm Death, Obituary, Opeth, Pestilence, Repulsion, Rottrevore, Sadomasochism, Soilwork, Suffocation, Summon, Zyklon

Thrash: Annihilator, Atomizer, Avenger, Bestial Warlust, Coroner, Deceased, Destroyer 666, Destruktor, Exhumed, Gospel of the Horns, Grenade, Hellhammer, Kreator, Megadeth, Metallica, Morbosidad, Nifelheim, Nocturnal Fear, Sabbat, Sadistik Exekution, Sauron, Slayer, Sodom, Testament, Toxic Holocaust, Urgrund

Doom: Agalloch, Anathema, Antimatter, Bethlehem, Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Neurosis, November's Doom, October Tide, Primordial

Other Metal/Hard Rock: Bathory, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Brand New Sin, Danzig, Down, Dio, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Nothingface, Ozzy, Pantera, Pride and Glory, Sevendust, Venom, Rob Zombie

Power/Prog: Avantasia, Dream Theater, Genesis, Kamelot, Liquid Tension Experiment, Marillion, Mullmuzzler, Seven Witches, Spock's Beard, Stratovarius, Symphony X, Tiles

Classic Rock: America, Alice Cooper, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pink Floyd, Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band, George Thorougood and the Destroyers, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Country: Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, The Highwaymen, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Sr.

Other/Guilty Pleasures: Alice in Chains, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Jerry Cantrell, Green Day, Guns and Roses, Kid Rock, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, MXPX, New Found Glory, Nirvana, The Offspring, Pearl Jam, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rush, Slash's Snakepit, Soundgarden, The Starting Line, Tool

For shits and kicks I listed a bunch of my favorite metal albums and put them up against each other head to head until I cranked out a top 50, here's how it looks:

1. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

2. Ulver - Bergtatt

3. Enslaved - Mardraum

4. Destroyer 666 - Pheonix Rising

5. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness

6. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse

7. Immolation - Close to a World Below

8. Opeth - Still Life

9. Anathema - Judgement

10. Kamelot - Karma

11. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

12. Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

13. Megadeth - Youthanasia

14. Enslaved - Hordane's Land

15. Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity

16. Opeth - Blackwater Park

17. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

18. BLS - Sonic Brew

19. Vintersorg - Till Fjalls

20. COC - Deliverance

21. Drudkh -Autumn Aurora

22. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

23. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

24. Forgotten Tomb - Springtime Depression

25. Carcass - Heartwork

26. Death - Symbolic
27. Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
28. Ozzy - No More Tears
29. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
30. Sodom - Persecution Mania
31. Dio - Holy Diver
32. Burzum - Filosofem
33. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
34. Metallica - Master of Puppets
35. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
36. Kreator - Endless Pain
37. Nifelheim - Servants of Darkness
38. Bethlehem - Dark Metal
39. Slayer - Reign in Blood
40. Angelcorpse - The Inexorable
41. Venom - Black Metal
42. Darkthrone - Plagueweilder
43. Incantation - The Infernal Storm
44. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
45. Sentenced - North From Here
46. In Flames - The Jester Race
47. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
48. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
49. October Tide - Grey Dawn
50. Krisiun - Black Force Domain

Note, most of the work compiling this list was done while under the effects of alcohol. At anytime the ordering anywhere in here could easily change, since it's so hard to compare different types of metal. I just thought it would be fun to match albums up one night while I had a buzz on, and the next few times I found myself buzzed up at home, I worked on it. All in all it is a pretty solid list of 50 amazing albums. Also, there's a lot I haven't heard that could very well be up there, of course. And one more, it's just metal, it's hard enough comparing different types of metal, but then trying to throw great non metal albums would be insane!

Movies:

300, Ace Ventura, Animal House, The Back to the Future series, Beerfest, Beverly Hills Cop, The Big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, The Boondock Saints, Braveheart, Caddyshack, Canadian Bacon, Casino, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Coneheads, The Crow, Death to Smoochy, The Devil's Advocate, Dodgeball, Dogma, The Devil's Advocate, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Friday Night Lights, Gettysburg, Ghostbusters, The Godfather, The Godfather II, Gods and Generals, Goodfellas, Groundhog Day, Hardcore Porn, Insomnia, James Bond movies, Loaded Weapon 1, Lost in Translation, Major League, Mallrats, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 2 and a Half, Naked Gun 33 and a Third, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Road Trip, Rules of Engagement, Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Senior Trip, Sgt. Bilko, The Shawshank Redemption, Strange Brew, Super Troopers, Thank You for Smoking, Tommy Boy, UHF, Wayne's World, Wet Hot American Summer, among others
I am a big fan of these actors:
And these Stand-up Comedians

Television:

My top two:

I also like these shows: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Drew Carey Show, Family Guy, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Metalocalypse, Mythbusters, Numbers, Scrubs, That 70s Show, televised sports and poker.

Books:

I'm a big Stephen King fan, and also enjoy Vonnegut and Poe a lot.

Some of my favorite books are 1984 by Orwell, The Dark Tower series by King, Door to December by Koontz, Lord of the Flies, I can't remember the author, and Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. I've also read a few poker strategy books.

Heroes:

Pffft, my biggest hero is myself.

My Blog

My 2008 plan

I was watching Last Comic Standing last night, funny show, but it made me realize something.  In my mind, I'm funnier than most people they chose to move on.  I gave some thought about going...
Posted by Eric the Red on Sat, 24 May 2008 07:48:00 PST

How to improve football

As I was watching Randy Moss dancing around and acting like a fag after scoring a TD last night, I realized a way that football could be improved:  fighting.Look at hockey.  All the players ...
Posted by Eric the Red on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:01:00 PST

Rock and Roll

As I was driving into work the other day I was thinking about the music world (Not unusual).  Most notable the crap that passes off as rock these days.  The thing that got me on this thought...
Posted by Eric the Red on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:23:00 PST

2007 Survey

2007!!! Where did you begin 2007?At a bar on Ford Road whose name I'm blanking on.What was your status by Valentine's Day?SingleWere you in school (anytime this year)?No.Did you have to go to the hosp...
Posted by Eric the Red on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:44:00 PST

Life update

Well, last time I posted on here was the night before I had to return to work after a 4 day weekend.  I was not too excited about it.  Well, I should be fair.  I don't neccessarily hate...
Posted by Eric the Red on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:48:00 PST

Happiness is never needing an alarm clock

Seeing as I had four days off and a long train ride to think today, the concept of my job was on my mind a lot...first, let me throw some math out there...I work 84 hours every to weeks.  Well, t...
Posted by Eric the Red on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:37:00 PST

I have officially coined a new term, this is my worldwide announcement

Yesterday while telling some stories of the happenings in my life since I moved to Sheboygan (I'm back in Livonia for the weekend) I mentioned how I coined a new term, one which made my friends chuckl...
Posted by Eric the Red on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:51:00 PST

Everyone posts song lyrics, so I'm posting poetry

I've been reading a lot of Yeats lately.  I like this poem.  Thought I'd share: I will arise and go now, and go to InnisfreeAnd a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles madeNine bean-r...
Posted by Eric the Red on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:29:00 PST

The waiting is the hardest part...

I'm bored.  So I'll post something. I went to a job interview over in Wisconsin last week.  They said I'd hear back from them sometime this week.  So I'm just kinda waiting......
Posted by Eric the Red on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:41:00 PST

Nostalgia

I just finished watching a movie.  PCU actually.  The first time I saw that movie I was in my senior year of HS.  I was visiting NMU for the weekend to see if I might wanna go there and...
Posted by Eric the Red on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:10:00 PST