Screaming, singing, dictating, conversing and making weird noises.
Writing poetry, lyrics, songs, scripts and stories.
Playing and listening to (live) music
(Genres of choice: Rock, metal, blues/folk, noise and dance)
Animals (Puffins, Turtles, Piglets, Cows, Ducks etc.)
Sports (Eight-Ball, AFL, Basketball, Netball)
Family, friends, freaks and fall-outs.
Life, love, spirituality, philosophy and the Universe.
Evolution, logic, astrology, anthropology and psychology.
Shopping, fashion, movies, magic and myspace.
Art, theatre, musicals and contemporary dance.
Mentoring, acting, filming, producing, photography and filing.
Serial and mass murder, politics, conspiracy theories and the paranormal.
Swimming, taking a shower... sex and taking a dump.
Symmetry, tattoos, high tide, new-age theories and equality.
I am a very peaceful person and do not tend to dislike things and have tried to relinquish hate from my being, but there are definately still some things that annoy me, and that short list is as follows...
Stupidity, Stripclubs, Car-lovers, 3-chord punk-rock and bigotry.
Pretentious hippies, Emo-haters and Emos, hardcore homies and Jocks.
Abortion, rape, anti-depressants, pollution and reclusive people.
People (especially bands) who are not demonstrating their true-potential, including unpolished production on recordings, poor performance and unprofessionality.
Hypocrisy, apathy, chores and hitting my head.
When people talk to babies and the disabled, like they will understand better, if they talk slowly and high-pitched like a fucking moron.
Classroom conformity, drug raids, Junkies, stealing (This includes downloading music) and The Smashing Pumpkins.
I'd like to meet:
The lady I fell in love with.
Music:
I currently listen to more music than I would want to put here, but to accommodate any interest, I will supply 3 blocks of favourite artists: 1st block – My all-time favourites, 2nd block – Regular listens, 3rd block – general appreciation.
- Andrew W.K.
- Birds Of Tokyo
- Coal Chamber
- 311
- Dope
- Papa Roach
- Sepultura
- Karma To Burn
- Dave Matthews Band
- Air
- Alien Ant Farm
- The Bird
- Bjork
- Blues Traveler
- Bulb
- Collective Soul
- Crash Test Dummies
- Dead Letter Circus
- Deftones
- Devildriver
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Disturbed
- Dixie Chicks
- Dream Theater
- Drowning Pool
- Eminem
- Evanescence
- Faith No More
- Fall Out Boy
- Fear Factory
- Five Star Prison Cell
- The Follow
- Godsmack
- Gojira
- Gomez
- Green Day
- Ben Harper
- Headkase
- Hed PE
- Ill Nino
- Incubus
- Iota
- Michael Jackson
- Japunga
- Jimmie’s Chicken Shack
- The John Butler Trio
- Karnivool
- The Kidney Thieves
- Kill II This
- Korn
- limp bizkit
- Live
- Living Colour
- Lump
- Machine Head
- The Mark of Cain
- Metallica
- Mudvayne
- Muse
- The Music
- Napalm Death
- Nickelback
- Oasis
- One Minute Silence
- Panic! At the Disco
- Pantera
- Pearl Jam
- A Perfect Circle
- Powerman 5000
- Primus
- Prince
- Queen
- Rage Against The Machine
- Rammstein
- Seether
- Sevendust
- Sikth
- Silent Partners
- Silverchair
- Skindred
- Slipknot
- Soulfly
- SpineShank
- Staind
- Static-X
- Stone Sour
- Suns Owl
- System Of A Down
- Tenacious D
- Tension
- Third Eye Blind
- Tomahawk
- Tool
- Devin Townsend
- The Used
- Steve Vai
- White Zombie
- Aborted
- Aerosmith
- Alice In Chains
- Aluer
- Tori Amos
- Fiona Apple
- Arcane
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Jimmy Barnes
- The Beatles
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Blunt Object
- The Butterfly Effect
- Chimaira
- Phil Collins
- Cryptopsy
- Dead Letter Opener
- Devolved
- Diola
- Eskimo Joe
- The Follow
- Function Cease
- Guster
- Hatebreed
- Hollow
- Hootie & The Blowfish
- In-cyde
- Ink
- Billy Joel
- Kid Rock
- The Killers
- Killswitch Engage
- Kittie
- Lamb
- Lamb Of God
- Linkin Park
- Liquid Tension Experiment
- Lynchmada
- Massive Attack
- Meat Loaf
- Alanis Morissette
- Nine Inch Nails
- No Doubt
- Nux Vomica
- Opeth
- Orgy
- Preference
- The Presidents of The United States of America
- Prodigy
- Puddle of Mudd
- Razel
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Refused
- Xavier Rudd
- A Secret Death
- Sick Puppies
- Skunk Anansie
- Snot
- Regina Spektor
- Spin Doctors
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Sunk Loto
- Testeagles
- This Collision
- SpineShank
- UB40
- The Verve
- The Young Poisoners
- Yuri
I have come up with a list of my favourite songs in that I have discovered an epic quality about them and find that it is complete from start to finish, feeling the emotion as a cloud of inspiration within my chest and the need to crank the volume without fail and/or tell everyone in the room how good it is...
(Note: All listings are arranged in order of favourites if not in alphabetical order)
- "Drive In Drive Out" by Dave Matthews Band.
- "I Dreamed I Died" by Devildriver.
- "Land of Confusion" and "The Sickness" by Disturbed.
- "Sing", "Another Day Goes By", "Now Is The Time" and "What about..." by Dope.
- "Vampires" by Godsmack.
- "Downeaster (Alexa)" by Billy Joel.
- "What You Want" by John Butler Trio.
- "30" and "34" by Karma To Burn.
- "Coming Undone" and "Y'all wanna single" by Korn.
- "Forever may not be long enough" and "Mirror Song" by Live.
- "Teardrop" by Massive Attack.
- "First Time" by The Mark of Cain.
- "Determined" and "Not Falling" by Mudvayne.
- "Someone that your with", "Because of You" and "Side of a Bullet" by Nickelback.
- "Cinnamon Girl" by Prince.
- "Inquisition Symphony" by Sepultura.
- "Waffle" and "Seasons" by Sevendust.
- "Bland Street Bloom" by Sikth.
- "The Door" and "Madman" by Silverchair.
- "Before I Forget" by Slipknot.
- "Layne" by Staind.
- "Sillyworld" and "Through Glass" by Stone Sour.
- "Angel's Son" by Strait Up/Sevendust.
- "Hypnotise" and "P.L.U.C.K." by System Of A Down.
- "Eulogy" and "The Pot" by Tool.
- "Canada" by Devin Townsend.
- "Sex and Religion" and "Survive" by Vai.
- "Stereo" by The Watchmen.
- "Really In Love" and "Totally Stupid" by Andrew W.K.
- "Flowing" and "Use of Time" by 311.
My Favourite Albums are defined in status by my acknowledgement that every song is equally as kick-ass as the last, with a journey and a stong theme presented throughout...
"The Wolf"
by Andrew W.K.
"Dark Days"
by Coal Chamber
"Life" and "Group Therapy"
by Dope
"Getting Away with Murder" and "The Paramour Sessions"
by Papa Roach
"14 Shades of Grey"
by Staind
"Roorback" and "Roots"
by Sepultura
"Wild, Wonderful, Purgatory"and "Almost Heathen"
by Karma to Burn
"Come What(ever) May"
by Stone Sour
"This is This"
by The Mark of Cain
"V" and "Throwing Copper"
by Live
"All the Right Reasons"
by Nickelback
"Astro-Creep 5000"
by White Zombie
"Words from the Exit Wound"
by Napalm Death
"Sehnsucht"
by Rammstein
"Broke"
by Hed PE
"Absolution"
by Muse
"Toxicity"
by System of a Down
"Musicology"
by Prince
"Black/Self-titled"
by Metallica
"Awake"
by Godsmack
"Wisconsin Death Trip"
by Static-X
"Riot Act"
by Pearl Jam
"Sunrise Over Sea"
by The John Butler Trio
"Collective Soul"
by Collective Soul
"Far Beyond Driven"
by Pantera
The curiousity to understand my influences as a vocalist are to notice the kinds of vocalists I listen to, and the best voices in my opinion belong to:
Bradley 'Dez' Fafara
of Coal Chamber and Devildriver
Edsel Dope
of Dope
Jacoby Shaddix
of Papa Roach
Corey Glover
of Living Colour
Aaron Lewis
of Staind
Nick Hexum
of 311
Corey Taylor
of Slipknot and Stone Sour
John Popper
of Blues Traveler
Chad Kroegor
of Nickelback
Lajon Witherspoon
of Sevendust
Justin Hill
of Sikth
Serj Tankian
of System of a Down
David J. Matthews
of Dave Matthews Band
Max Cavalera
of Sepultura and Soulfly
Philip Anselmo
of Pantera and Superjoint Ritual
Chad Gray
of Mudvayne
Maynard James Keenan
of Tool
Brandon Boyd
of Incubus
Eddie Vedder
of Pearl Jam
Matthew Bellamy
of Muse
Jahred
of Hed PE
Movies:
I find it to be a difficult question when asked what my favourite movie is, as I feel that I cannot compare a comedy to a drama in order to facilitate an answer, they simply are just too separate an entity, and have thus compiled my favourite films according to genre, then also listed some other worthy mentions to characteristically depict my viewing pleasures:
Action: Die Hard
Adventure: King Kong
Anime: Howl's Moving Castle
Childrens: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Comedy: Freddy Got Fingered
Documentary: Travelling Birds
Drama: Cinderella Man
Horror: In the Mouth of Madness
Thriller: The Usual Suspects
- The Acid House
- Almost Famous
- American Beauty
- American Movie
- Back to the Future 1,2 and 3.
- Bad Santa
- Baseketball
- The Beach
- A Better Way to Die
- Beverley Hills Cop
- Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
- The Blair Witch Project
- TBWP2 (Book of Shadows)
- Blow
- Blown Away
- Boogie Nights
- Braveheart
- Brewster's Millions
- CB4
- A Clockwork Orange
- Collateral
- Coming to America
- Con Air
- Dawn of the Dead (Re-make)
- Dazed and Confused
- Demolition Man
- Dogtown and Z-Boys
- Elf
- Encino Man
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Fight Club
- Finding Nemo
- Forrest Gump
- Good Will Hunting
- Groundhog Day
- Hard to Kill
- The House of Flying Daggers
- Hot Shots 2
- The Incredibles
- Inside Man
- Interview with the Vampire
- Kickboxer
- Kill Bill Vol.1
- A Knight's Tale
- Liar Liar
- Mallrats
- Man On the Moon
- The Matrix
- Natural Born Killers
- Nick of Time
- Pirates of the Carribean
- Point Break
- Primal Fear
- Pulp Fiction
- Ray
- Rockstar
- The Running Man
- Saving Private Ryan
- Saw
- A Scanner Darkly
- Shallow Hal
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Sin City
- Sleepy Hollow
- Snakes on a Plane
- Son in Law
- Spirited Away
- Star Wars
- Steel Dawn
- Taking Care of Business
- Team America
- Terminator 2
- Titanic
- TMNT
- True Lies
- Twelve Monkeys
- Twins
- Under Seige
- Vanilla Sky
- Way of the Dragon
- White Men Can't Jump
- 300
I hope to see myself as an Actor one day, taking advantage of my abilities in this field, and here are some faces that inspire and entertain me...
- Jack Black
- Jim Carrey (Who after watching "Man on the Moon", I would consider to play me in a movie about my life)
- Christian Bale
- Tom Cruise
- Johnny Depp
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Robert Downey Jnr
- Chris Farley
- Will Ferrel
- Michael J. Fox
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Michael Keaton
- Eddie Murphy
- Bill Murray
- Keanu Reeves
- Richard Pryor
- Kevin Spacey
- Christopher Walken
- Bruce Willis
I also feel I would make a pretty good Director one day and would like to write and direct my own movie, these are some of my favourites:
- Ron Howard
- Peter Jackson
- Stanley Kubrick
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Kevin Smith
- Stephen Spielberg
- Quentin Tarantino
- Robert Zemeckis
Television:
Society's babysitter, who is taking on parenting roles more and more each day, who we trust and obey without so much a question.
A question that could lead us to finding specifics within it’s role, the specifics that could actually enhance our lives without actually adversely affecting us.
May we learn from TV without taking every word as fact, and may it entertain us without taking away the enjoyment of living our own lives and creating our own drama.
If you are able to make your life more exciting than the script that is presented within the programs you watch, then make the decision to go out and exact wondrous change on the universe, because the universe needs our stories and eventful settings to inspire the development of compelling television and movies.
My all-time favourite program is the epic 100 hours of
Dragonball Z/GT and as follows are the other programs I have enjoyed in no particular order...
- The Simpsons
- House
- The Sopranos
- Summer Heights High
- Early Edition
- Law and Order
- Teenage Mutant Ninja
. Turtles
- Drawn Together
- Family Guy
- Adult Swim
- Invader Zim
- Pimp my Ride
- Gilmore Girls
- WWE Raw
- Futurama
- Sesame Street
- The Office (U.S. Version)
- Saturday Night Live (circa Norm McDonald)
- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
- Celebrity Poker Showdown
...plus a few more.
Books:
As a child, I never found books to be of great company and not unlike today, kids are less likely to read a book and more likely to be able to recite every advertisement on TV.
I now own an extensive collection of books mainly centred around Spirituality, Politics and true crime, and similarly to music I am reading them all at once, picking up whatever book suits my mood at the time.
The Dictionary (Complete and Unabridged Edition) is my all-time favourite book.
I am a firm believer that one word fits one intention to describe perfectly, and without an extensive vocabulary we fail to communicate properly what we truly mean.
The Celestine Prophecy changed my life from an early age and gave me many philosophies to look at the world openly and constructively.
I attribute a lot of my intelligence and many of my strengths to using the ability to notice energies that are in line with mine to then achieve a very focused response.
I also enjoy reading books by Michael Moore, The Latham Diaries and True Crime literature.
Heroes:
Quite an exclusive list is those that are my idols. I look at their words and thoughts that have inspired, motivated and saved me from places I'd otherwise still be stuck in/at.
Also included in this list are my mentors, those that have been instrumental in my development and mental health towards discovering the perspective I now hold, the focus of my intentions and the stability to enable a path of individual worth and purpose.
- Andrew W.K.
- Edsel Dope from Dope
- Sully Erna from Godsmack
- Bill Hicks
- Richard Pryor
- Bruce Lee
- Tom Green
- My mother Wendy
- Rodrigo Minamontalvo
- Gererd Fleming
- Paul Stewart
and my wonderful girlfriend Tessa.
ps. I get major anxiety, tummy aches, claustrophobic, depressed, self-absorbed and sad.
I realise life is intense and my mission within it is even more intense.
Within this organic mechanism, I enact my destiny and achieve the goals I was born to develop...
"Actions speak louder than words!"
You Are 84% Grown Up, 16% Kid
Your emotional maturity is fully developed, and you have an excellent grasp on your emotions.
In fact, you are so emotionally mature - you should consider being a therapist!
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