Music:
Member Since: 5/14/2006
Band Members:
Influences: First and foremost are the Beatles. They set the standards that we musicians live by today. Then the next most influential artists were the ones that inspired the Beatles - mainly Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers and Carl Perkins. Then the British Invasion: The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, The Zombies The Who and the Monkees. After that came metal: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Kiss and Rush. And the guitarists: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Van Halen, B.B. King. Not to mention Pink Floyd, Grand Funk Railroad, the Temptations, Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, AC/DC, the Eagles, Bad Company, Todd Rundgren, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Smokey Robinson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Queensryche, Dream Theater. Today I like Green Day, the Barenaked Ladies, All American Rejects, Los Lonely Boys, Maroon Five, The Killers, Matchbox 20, Fall Out Boy and Bowling for Soup (not the band, just bowling....for soup, and golfing for bananas and swimming for meat.) And my new favorite band - OK GO.My favorite books start with anything about the Beatles. Currently reading Beliefs That Changed the World, History of Western Civilization Vol. 1, Blackwater The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. And re-reading The Beatles Anthology and Beatles Gear. Just finished: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Here, There and Everywhere - The 100 Best Beatle Songs. A Hard Day’s Write, Starry Night - How to Skywatch in the 21st Century, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (the Book) A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Also the latest (and last) Harry Potter book (and loved it). Other faves include: The Godfather, anything by Stephen King, Anne Rice or Clive Barker. Don’t Know Much About Mythology, Don’t Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth C. Davis. The DaVinci Code. Loved the Ishmael books by Daniel Quinn (thanks Aryck) - so much I believe they should be required reading by high school students. Also various classics: Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, A Tale of Two Cities, Lord of the Flies or anything by Edgar Allen Poe. Also loved The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein and the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.My favorite movies are A Hard Day’s Night (of course) and The Godfather (the best movie of all time), Quintin Tarantino films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill 1 and 2. and Deathproof. Also Natural Born Killers (which he wrote) and True Romance (which he also wrote). And the Robert Rodriguez films El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spy Kids, Dusk to Dawn, Sin City and Planet Terror! I also love the Pixar films Toy Story 1 and 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo and (especially) The Incredibles. Steven Speilberg films like Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List. The Tom Hanks films: Big, A League of Their Own, Forrest Gump and That Thing You Do! The Coen Brothers’ Hudsucker Proxy, Raising Arizona and O Brother Where Art Thou. The Matrix Trilogy. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Team America, Orgazmo and the South Park movie by Trey Parker. Also the four Living Dead movies by George Romero and the subsequent films inspired by G.R. Most notably Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and Shaun of the Dead. The rock films: Spinal Tap, The Commitments, The Rutles - All You Need is Cash, The Temptations, School of Rock, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny (Jack Black rules!!!), I Walk the Line and Ray. And most recently: Crash (a must-see), 300, The Simpsons Movie, Hot Fuzz.My favorite TV shows include The Simpsons, South Park, 24, The Shield, Desperate Housewives, American Idol, Flight of the Conchords and - the funniest show on television today - My Name is Earl. And Heroes. And The Universe on the History Channel. Past favorites include Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the inspiration for the names of my last two bands) MASH, Soap, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, WKRP in Cincinnati, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Gilligan’s Island, Benny Hill, Bugs Bunny and the Flintstones. Most programming on the History Channel or the Discovery Channel. HBO shows with George Carlin (GC for President!), Dennis Miller, Chris Rock, Eddie Izzard or, more recently, Lewis Black. Real Time with Bill Maher.Pet Peeves:
People in front of me who drive below the speed limit (especially when I’m running late for work). George W. Bush (and the people who think he’s the bee’s knees), conspiracy theories, consumerism, the FBI, the CIA, the FCC, the IRS, the NRA, and the RIAA for suing children and grandmothers for "illegally" downloading music because they’d rather we pay $20.00 for a CD with one good song and ten shitty ones. Anti-abortionists that murder pro-choicers, Paris Hilton, religious extremists, anti-religious extremists, election-time commercials and people who yell out Freebird at our gigs.
Sounds Like: OK GO - HERE IT GOES AGAIN
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