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A D P

THE FURY OF NEGATION IS UNPARALLELED

About Me


Soon-to-be Grad Student at SIUC. Media Engineer. Music/Entertainment Enthusiast. Guitarist/Lyricist. Wacky Summbitch.
The Bands:
Ex-Bassist for External Bliss, 1995; Sunshine Boy and the Skinny Dippers, 1996; as well as Minus Blindfold and Tripfist. RIP: 1996-1998.
Ex-Guitarist for Trade-Off RIP: 1998-1999.
Various unorganized jam sessions with random people and solo style while attending college; 1999-2003.
Guitarist/Lyricist for Bloody Phallus, 2001-Present.
Guitarist/Vocalist/Lyricist for studio project, I Still Burn, 2004.
Ex-Vocalist for Controlled Uprising, 2004; currently called Lasting Vengeance, check them out.
Ex-Guitarist/Vocalist/Lyricist for Synthetic Earth. RIP: 2004-2006. We fucking ruled.
Lyricist/Rap Vocals, aka Jake Blaze, 2004-Present.
Currently compiling lyrics and music for next most hateful project.
Uncle of Owen Reed and Meredith Diane Russow - my sister's kids.

My Interests

Music - mostly metal, thinking and learning, writing, guitar, food and beer, shitty jokes, my computer, collecting shit, entertainment culture, other intelligent life forms, SciFi, artifacts, fossils and nebulae, natatoria, bowling, black shirts, tattoos, cartoons, football, baseball, porn, channelling my hate to productive, contemplating my passion for the dichotomy of art and technology, plotting to facilitate my absorption of a multitude of bizarre encounters and locations

Movies:


Dragnet, Spaceballs, Indiana Jones, Die Hard, 3 Amigos, Shaun of the Dead, Team America, Anchorman, V for Vendetta, The Toy, Hellboy, Nightmare Before Xmas, The Addams Family, The Stupids, Alien Quadrilogy, Sin City, 12 Monkeys, Vacation, Singin' In the Rain, Grease, Run Lola Run, Doom, cheezy Sci-Fi and horror, Wes Anderson stuff, porn, and many more...

Books:

"This Is Your Brain On Music" by Daniel Levitin, LOTR/Hobbit, Lord of the Flies, Star Wars, anything Hunter S. Thompson, DaVinci Code, Brave New World, Animal Farm, The Cat in the Hat, Audio textbooks, Bloody Skull Comix

Heroes:

My Dad and Grampa, "Pa" - for work ethic, respect and ultra-manliness
Shredders - Machine Head, Anthrax, Metallica, Jimmy Page/Led Zep, Lamb of God, Napalm Death, DIME, Megadeth, VOD, Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, Unearth and many more...

My Blog

Defining Influences: Thrashtastic Bastards

Without Scott Ian and Robb Flynn, I would not be the person I am today. I would probably suck more. Dave Mustaine too, I wanted to solo like him back in the day.After seeing Machine Head/Megadeth/Heav...
Posted by A D P on Sun, 06 May 2007 02:33:00 PST

Take Shelf 2: The Rematch

ALL FREE SHIT FROM WORK!!! HAHA! This shit would cost an assload!Included: all necessary cleaning products for moving out of my apartment, lots of expensive medications, some snacks, soap/deodorant, ...
Posted by A D P on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:21:00 PST

Die Anzahl vom Tier

I know I post a lot of stupid blogs. Here's another one. I now have 666 friends.Evil and stuff.
Posted by A D P on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:53:00 PST

Suburban Hitch Hiking

After a lacrosse game yesterday at the Sears Center in Hoffman Estates, 2 of my friends and I were waiting for a cab for our ride back. Out of nowhere, my friend Sean starts asking people "Do you have...
Posted by A D P on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:10:00 PST

Vista

I'm using Vista at a friend's house and have no idea. Lame. Buy a Mac, don't be whack.
Posted by A D P on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:00:00 PST

Sodium Diethylaminopropyl Cocoaspartamide

Here is a quick fix of what I do 8 hours a day. These are the ingredients of some hair dye. Written in tiny ass print on a shitty stupid box. I'm going postal from this shit. I have to maintain databa...
Posted by A D P on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:00:00 PST

No Fear Tour

The gig: He Is Legend, Chimaira, DragonForce, Killswitch Engage.2 sold out House of Blues shows (Sat & Sun). I see Sunday. He Is Legend is ok - they do a Nirvana cover which is good.I then meet Matt D...
Posted by A D P on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:53:00 PST

Fucking Monstrous

Metal for the Masses Tour - Scar Symmetry, Into Eternity, Dark Tranquillity, The Haunted. I heard of this show in January and wrote it in my calendar back then. Today I realize that I cannot miss thi...
Posted by A D P on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:14:00 PST

Take Shelf

The 'Take Shelf' is the spot at work (although not really a 'shelf') where shit goes when vendors don't want their shit back. Once a week, we attack it like savages. I did pretty good this week. Majo...
Posted by A D P on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:19:00 PST

Noobs

Haha. LOL. LMFAO. Etc.Sitting at Buffalo Wild Wings in Carbondale. I order 24 wings with 4 different sauces (planning for multiple meal/snacks). The guy next to me asks, "Are those the wings?" I'm du...
Posted by A D P on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:14:00 PST