I make pretty music.
I make pretty pictures.
I make pretty disturbing phone calls in the middle of the night.
I make pretty much everyone confused.
That is the complete truth, except for everything I just said.
I've decided to stop defining this - It could go a couple ways, either it's extremely long and I'll forget a lot of things, or it could be concise and not really show me as a person. My favorites change by the day, or hour, depending on what I'm listening to/watching/reading. Plus, I'm constantly finding new books/bands/movies/etc. and am always up for suggestion. So if you really want to know, just ask. I'm serious. Just ask.
Fun people. Musicians. Artists. Someone who can sit me down, shut me up, and teach me ten things I didn't already know.
Some projects I am/was involved in:
Ten Thousand Dollar Ego - recording our debut album. we call it "Circus Funk", a hybrid post-punk/funk/experimental project - weird, wild stuff!!
Winterspell - featuring former Dream Theater members, recording our debut album - blackened death metal
Noiseland - looking for a singer (do you have what it takes?) - hard rock/grunge
Sisterblind - I recently left this band, but I'm on the "Six Pack" EP, slated to be released late spring/early summer '08 - old skool punk at its finest!
Here's a pre-production demo of "Dark Angel Sword" from the forthcoming Winterspell album:
Horror movies... ranging from the all time classic Nosferatu, to the Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi era, 60s/70s psychological horror (Psycho, Rosemary's Baby) to the 70s slasher flicks (Texas Chainsaw Massacre!!), 80s stalker horror (Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th), Evil Dead / Army of Darkness, Gore Flicks, Zombie Films!!! and some of the newer stuff coming out - The Devil's Rejects, Silent Hill (go see it! it was absolutely incredible) etc.
But I also enjoy a good comedy. Mel Brooks is a genious, and Blazing Saddles is my all time favorite movie! Also, Monty Python stuff, Cheech & Chong (of course), National Lampoon, anything Harold Ramis wrote and / or directed (Stripes, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters), the Kevin Smith movies (my dad lives down the road from Quick Stop / RST video... I go there every time i visit him), and of course, This is Spinal Tap.
Kung Fu movies - Bruce Lee and Sonny Chiba (obviously), and Kung Fu!!
Giant Monster Movies (HELP!!! GODZIRRA IS ATTACKING THE CITY!! WE MUST FIND MOTH-U-RA TO SAVE US!!)
Movies you have to think about, or are just done very well - Fight Club!! Momento, Sin City, Death Race 2000 (there's just something about David Carradine that's just... great, for a lack of adjectives), and anything done by Quentin Tarrantino.
And ANYTHING Tim Burton does is fine by me (especially when Danny Elfman does the score - the Absolute GREATEST when it comes to film scores)
The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Robot Chicken, The Critic, The Tick, The Angry Beavers, Sponge Bob, Rocko's Modern Life, Duckman (whoever decided that George Costanza should have his own cartoon should be given a freaking medal), Invader Zim, and my latest obsession, The Boondocks.
As far as non cartoons go, Distraction (greatest game show EVER), The Man Show (Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla, not those other guys), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Tales from the Darkside (did anyone release them on DVD yet?) and of course, Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Anything Chuck Palahniuk writes, Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy (they did an excellent job on the movie), music biographys, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), The Divine Comedy (Dante!), and Comics - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee (both Johnen Vasquez), Lenore (Roman Dirge), Battle Pope!!, and the Superhero comics, like The Tick, Spiderman, and X-Men (although I'm not sure what happened to the tiny collection that I had).
Roast Beef, Red Onion and Horseradish; Ham & Swiss; and the old standby, the Italian Hero.