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Dave

You're never too old to burn to death in a fire

About Me

Currently living in Denton, TX with my awesome girlfriend Valorie and our amazing little daughter Morrigan. I go to the University of North Texas where I am gradually working toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art focusing on Drawing and Painting. I play guitar in a metal band. We're called Benevolence. Check us out.
I read an awful lot about an array of topics. My girlfriend and I acquire books faster than we can read them. I like to self educate and I constantly ask questions and go looking for answers. Check my interests for a sampling of all the stuff I'm interested in and study.

My Interests

Music: METAL! in all its glorious facets, early-mid 90s alternative/grunge, classical, random selections from other genres that jump out at me as particularly creative; art: ancient art, religious art, and sci-fi/fantasy/horror art; religious and philosophy studies: theology, apologetics, comparative religion, religious and spiritual symbolism, metaphysics, mythology, esoterica, magic, thelema; Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings is the best book ever written by one man, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice In Wonderland; Science Fiction: Star Wars, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov; Horror: H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, zombie movies, The Scary Stories books and the awesome illustrations by Stephen Gammell; Dracula, Frankenstein, and other classics; ...more later

I'd like to meet:

Most anyone really, but particularly people into music (particularly metal), art, philosophy, theology, and other expressive and/or intellectual-type pursuits. I'm not really here to see how many people I can add, but I'm happy to add people who share interests and/or have something to say. I'm much more likely to give you an add if you actually interact with me some.
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Music:

Alice in Chains Amon Amarth Arch Enemy Bach Bat Castle Beethoven Behemoth Blind Guardian Boards of Canada Borknagar Jerry Cantrell Collective Soul Counting Crows Cradle of Filth Crimson Moonlight Dark Tranquillity Death Decapitated The Decemberists Demons and Wizards Dimmu Borgir Dragonforce Dream Theater Danny Elfman Emperor Evergrey EXTOL Iced Earth Iron Maiden Led Zeppelin Lengsel Live Living Sacrifice Megadeth Metallica Morbid Angel Mozart My Dying Bride Necrophagist Never Dead (rip) Nevermore Night of the Wrecking Ball Nile Old Man's Child Opeth Origin Ozzy Osbourne Pantera Pearl Jam Pink Floyd Joe Satriani Savatage Saviour Machine Sisters of Mercy Slayer Smashing Pumpkins Soundgarden Stavesacre Stone Temple Pilots (old) Strapping Yound Lad System of a Down Testament Third Day Tool Tourniquet Type O Negative Vader Vintersorg Virgin Black Winds Zao Zyklon

Movies:

The Lord of the Rings, Braveheart, Edward Scissorhands, The Fountain,The Crow, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Passion of the Christ, Gladiator, Matrix Trilogy, Aliens Series, Lady in the Water, Unbreakable, Signs, Hero, 13th Warrior, Sleepy Hollow, Dawn of the Dead (2004), The Evil Dead Trilogy, Star Wars, Hellraiser series, Ghost in the Shell, Dumb and Dumber, Fight Club, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Pi, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Requiem for a Dream, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure & Bogus Journey, Pink Floyd the Wall, Big Fish, Beetlejuice, Reservior Dogs, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, True Romance, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Big Lebowski, Indiana Jones series, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, The Boondock Saints, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Akira, Romero's "Dead" series, The Exorcist, Kill Bill, Labyrinth, Dogma, Princess Mononoke, 12 Monkeys, Memento, Shaun of the Dead, Spirited Away, Alice in Wonderland, PIXAR films, X-men and X2 (X-men 3 was an atrocity), The Fifth Element, Napoleon Dynamite, Detroit Rock City, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Bubba Ho-Tep, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Horror movies in general, Any movie in which I get to see Gary Oldman act. more to come,

Television:

The Simpsons, Futurama, Metalacolypse, Family Guy, My Name is Earl, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Invader Zim, Scrubs, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Cowboy Bebop, Headbanger's Ball, Mr. Show, Lost, Spongebob Squarepants, The Young Ones, Firefly, PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, Cops and other police chase/stupid criminal shows (but I don't know why), recently started watching old episodes of The Twilight Zone, that's some cool stuff.

Books:

I read a lot, so this is by no means a comprehensive list.
My longstanding favorite is Lord of the Rings. Other favorites include CS Lewis, HP Lovecraft, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, the Bible
Lately I've been reading: Dragonlance Chronicles; God, Guns, and Rock n' Roll by Ted Nugent.

Heroes:



My Blog

Matt Barlow is back in Iced Earth!

and here's what I think about it:Read the article
Posted by Dave on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:54:00 PST

My latest article: Giuliani Strategy for Preventing Terrorism

Check out my latest article.  A satirical piece on the honorable Rudy Giuliani's domestic policies.Read it here!...
Posted by Dave on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:33:00 PST

A couple of new articles posted

I've got a couple of new articles posted.The first is a paper I wrote a few years ago about pyramids from around the world and some of their important religious and spiritual symbolismPyramids: Man's ...
Posted by Dave on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:51:00 PST

Heavy Metal Religion

This is a research paper I wrote for an anthropology of religion class.  Please read it and let me know what you think. If you like it, share with your friends.http://www.associatedcontent.com/ar...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:06:00 PST

Ron Paul sets single day fundraising records

When I went to bed last night, Ron Paul's donations for the quarter looked like this:Tonight, it looks like this:...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:58:00 PST

The Founding Fathers, Ron Paul, and our New Hope

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Posted by Dave on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:08:00 PST

Ron Paul, television, the Internet

I grow increasingly frustrated with mainstream television's coverage of the Ron Paul campaign. He is consistently painted as a wacky fringe element with wacky fringe element supporters. He is const...
Posted by Dave on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:05:00 PST

Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve

Learn about Ron Paul...
Posted by Dave on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:52:00 PST

This about says it all.

I'm not leaving any commentary on this one because I don't feel I really need to at this point.  The War on War...
Posted by Dave on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:31:00 PST

Who benefits

If you've looked at all the global warming scares, threats, news stories about how global warming is affecting Shiva's ice penis, and those poor stranded polar bears, you may be noticing that a lot of...
Posted by Dave on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST