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Johnny The Cat

Absynthe makes the heart grow fonder....

About Me

What is there to say? I like to learn new things. I soak up knowledge like a sponge. Umm, I'm a good friend to those deserving of it. I love sharing information and I would love to teach. The plan is to go back to school and eventually go on to do that. Some people say I'm too serious, but I really enjoy a good laugh and having a good time. I just don't find certain things as funny as other people do I guess. I'm more open than I used to be that's for sure, but there are a lot of times that I'm still really shy. Especially when it comes to new people. I get really self-concious. I'm also not that talkative in person, but for some reason when it comes to writing I can't stop....oh yeah. And I fix Blackberries. See? Told you I can't stop.

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My Interests

Music, playing drums and any other percussion such as mallets, etc, guitar, bass, piano/keys, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, recording and audio engineering etc., pool, Scotch, watching movies, hanging out with friends, reading books, playing video games (I'm really picky with that one though), bike riding, martial arts, food (too bad I can't really cook though), playing devil's advocate and being a general nuisance :P

I love animals too, especially cats. Dogs are great, but I only like certain kinds like Labradors, long-haired German Shepherds, and of course my friend Dana's dog Chipper. He's a mutt, but he's the cutest dog in the world.

I'd like to meet:

Well first of all, I MET DAVE LOMBARDO FROM SLAYER!!!!!

Shit, there are so many people! A few of them have passed on, like John Lennon, George Harrison, Elliott Smith, Buddy Rich, Nick Drake, and Johnny Cash (my mom met him, goddamn!). The ones still alive that I would like to meet are the obvious ones for me: Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Steve Smith, David Gilmour, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mikael Akerfeldt, Peter Lindgren, Martin Lopez, Gene Hoglan, Karl Sanders, George Kollias, Fat Mike, Maynard, Danny, Adam and Justin from Tool, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Quentin Tarantino, Actually you know what? I think it would be pretty damn cool to meet Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman as well, considering they've been fundamental in making some of my favorite all time movies. Kinda just makes sense don't ya think? And I would LOVE to meet Weird Al Yankovic. That would be a blast!

.....ohhhhh. Who would I like to meet on here? Anybody who isn't superficial, shallow, militantly ignorant or closed-minded.

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Music:

I like all kinds, from the mellowest folk music to the most extreme death metal and grindcore.

The Big Five:
The Beatles
Rush
Pink Floyd
Opeth
Tool

Abigail's Ghost
AC/DC (Bonn Scott)
The Age of Electric
Alice In Chains
The Allman Brothers Band
A Perfect Circle
April Wine
Belly
The Beta Band
Blackfield
David Bowie
Terry Bozzio
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Cult
The Cure
Coldplay
Cream
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Deftones
Dire Straits
EELS
Five Man Electrical Band
Foo Fighters
Fu Manchu
Giant Squid
Golden Earring
Goo Goo Dolls
The Grapes of Wrath
Grayceon
The Guess Who
Guns n' Roses
George Harrison
Heatmiser
Hum
Imogen Heap
Jethro Tull
Kyuss
The Machines
The Mars Volta
Matthew Good Band
Moby
Modest Mouse
The Monkees
Neutral Milk Hotel
Oblique Rain
Peach
Placebo
The Police
Popol Vuh
Porcupine Tree
Primus
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Red Sparowes
REM
Saturnia
Steve Miller Band
Stone Temple Pilots
Soundgarden
Supergrass
Supertramp
The Tea Party
They Might Be Giants
UFO
Van Halen
Vital Information
The White Stripes
The Who
Stevie Wonder
Weird Al Yankovic
ZZ Top

Johnny Cash
Leonard Cohen
Jim Croce
Nick Drake
Richie Havens
Harry Hibbs
Tommy Makem and The Clancy Brothers
Bert Jansch
Jeff Mangum
Aimee Mann
Don McLean
Roger Miller
Beth Orton
Elliott Smith
Trevor Tchir
Tom Waits
Hank Williams
Bob Dylan

Agalloch
Amon Amarth
Amorphis
Anthrax
Arch Enemy
At The Gates
Aurora
Bathory
Behemoth
Behind The Scenery
Betrayer
Bloodbath
Bolt Thrower
Candlemass
Carcass
Clad In Darkness
Concept
Corrosion of Conformity
Darkane
Dark Funeral
Dark Tranquillity
Dead of Winter
Death
Decapitated
Deicide
Dimmu Borgir
Dio
Emperor
Flotsam and Jetsam
Fuck!...I'm Dead
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
Illogicist
Immortal
In Flames
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Katatonia
Kalmah
Killing Addiction
Leng Tch’e
Mastodon
Megadeth
Misery Index
Moonspell
Morbid Angel
Mors Principium Est
Motorhead
Napalm Death
Nevermore
Nile
The Ocean
Omnium Gatherum
Pantera
Pig Destroyer
Runemagick
Shadowgate
Slayer
Swallow The Sun
Therion
Thine Eyes Bleed
Vader
Yyrkoon

All
Bad Religion
Black Flag
Butthole Surfers
Dag Nasty
Dead Kennedy’s
The Dead Milkmen
Descendents
DOA
Dogmeat BBQ
Fugazi
Greenday
Good Riddance
Guns ‘n Wankers
Millencolin
Minor Threat
Nirvana
NOFX
No Use For A Name
Pennywise
Propagandhi
Screeching Weasel
The Ramones
The Riverdales

Bach
Beethoven
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Chopin
Aloke Dutta
Grieg
Brij Bhushan Kabra
Manikrao Popatkar
Rachmanonoff
Ravi Shankar
Shivkumar Sharma
Tchaikovsky
Vivaldi
Wagner

Count Basie
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Benny Goodman
Buddy Rich

NF Locals:
Duane Andrews
Joey Bennett
The Commie Ninjas
Dank Eating
Jenny Gear
Chris Kirby
Mind The Gap
Mojo Pin
Rayfield
.roundelay
STN
Trailer Camp
Without Judgement

Movies:

"A Hard Day's Night", "Help!", "Yellow Submarine", "Imagine", "The Beatles' Anthology", "Head", "Rejected", "The Pianist", "Elephant Parts", "UHF", "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", "American History X", "This Is Spinal Tap", "Titus", "Coffee and Cigarettes", "American Pop", "The Wall", "Immortal Beloved", "The Last Samurai", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Interview With The Vampire", Bram Stoker's "Dracula", "The Royal Tenenbaums", "The Virgin Suicides", "Ghostbusters", "Ghostbusters 2", "Scrooged", James Bond (the classics, all the new ones are awful, except for Casino Royale. That fucking rocked. Finally a new one that lives up to the classics.), "Labyrinth", "Fight Club", "Gangs of New York", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "Rio Bravo", "Nosferatu" (both the original and the Herzog remake), "The Black Cat", "Sleepy Hollow", "From Hell", "Benny and Joon", "Edward Scissorhands", "BeetleJuice", "Corpse Bride", "The Nightmare Before Christmas", Indiana Jones Trilogy, "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", "Life of Brian", "Forrest Gump", "South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut", "Sid and Nancy", "Battle Royale", "Pulp Fiction", "Reservoir Dogs", "True Romance", "Four Rooms", "Kill Bill", "Halloween", "Saw", "Devil's Rejects", "Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", "Red Dragon", both "Ju-On" and "The Grudge", "Life of David Gale", "High Fidelity", etc.

Television:

I don't watch a lot of TV these days, but some shows that I do really enjoy are "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", "The Simpsons", "South Park", "The Trailer Park Boys", "Frasier", "The Hour", "The X-Files", "The Hillarious House of Frightenstein", "The Whisky Trail" (mmmm, Scotch), "CSI", "Jeopardy!", "Family Guy", "The Monkees, "A and E Biography", Biography channel, VH1's "Classic Albums", and of course, my favorite show of all time, "The Muppet Show".

Books:

There are a lot. Here are the ones that stand out:
Everything by John Lennon, Edgar Allen Poe and Lewis Carroll, "Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road", "Travelling Music", "Merely Players", "Life of Pi", "The Trial", "Complete Prose of Franz Kafka", "Darker Than The Deepest Sea: The Search For Nick Drake", "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime", "The Wars", "The Fountainhead", "Anthem", "Atlas Shrugged", "The Unconcious Civilization", "Junky", "Queer", "Naked Lunch", "The Wildboys", "My Education", "The Favorite Game", "Elliott Smith and The Big Nothing", "Frankenstein", "Lord of the Flies", "Lord of the Rings", "The Audio Dictionary", "Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal", "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", "The Wheel of Time" series, The original 5 Vampire Chronicles, "Collected works of E.E. Cummings", "Perfume", "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat", "I Me Mine", "Beatlesongs", "The Complete Book of Chinese Medicine", "The Drummer's Studio Survival Guide", "The Complete Book of Shaolin", "Midnight's Children", "9/11", "Contents Under Pressure", "Rhythm And Light", "Murther And Walking Spirits", "Dance of Days", "Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time", "One Hundred Paintings: Dali", "Emergency! First Aid For Home Recording", "Lateral Thinking". Blah...

Heroes:

Amnesty International, United Way, Habitat For Humanity, U.N.I.C.E.F, Oxfam, and any other charitable organization that helps the less fortunate and truly makes a difference. And kudos to you if you've given money or food to a homeless person, or a busker on the street. That could be you someday.

My Blog

To Download or Not To Download?...bear with me?

WARNING! The following opinions expressed herein may unduly and unintentionally offend some readers...or on the other hand, you may feel your opinions are justified by what I am about to say. Either w...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:43:00 PST

Concerts

Just a quick blog entry to say "Wooooooo!! Lots of fucking concerts this year!!"So far for the spring we have Giant Squid, Grayceon, Unexpect AND Porcupine Tree lined up. And that's just the spring! C...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:54:00 PST

Hey Mister Bass Man

So the eternal quest for truth continues. Since I'm not making any progress with that, I might as well post a blog about yesterday evening's audition for a bass player. Hahaha. Meet Mr. Joe Hedley. Se...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:13:00 PST

Writing new acoustic material...here's a sample

Ok, so I'm finally back into a writing phase again. You can't force these things or they just turn out all wrong. Anyways, hopefully I will have some material recorded soon and a new My Space Music pr...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:37:00 PST

Falling Snow

Falling Snow "The water pours its embracing arms around the stoneDecay drips from the unquiet void where the ice forms, where life endsThe stone is by the crimson flood, swallowedThe red tide beyond t...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:18:00 PST

What are your picks for 2006?

What are your favorite albums of 2006?My choices were fairly easy to make considering how much I love a few of these albums, especially the first 2. They were no brainers. By no means would I have the...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:23:00 PST

RIP John Lennon and Dimebag Darrell

Hey, just wanted to send out a reminder to people that today is the anniversary of the day that not just one, but TWO fantastic artists were taken away from us far too soon. Always some fucking idiot ...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:51:00 PST

RIP Skittish

So my guinea pig passed away today. I'm not feeling too good about that. I'm not one to post a blog like this pouring out my feelings, so that's about all I can say, other than I'm feeling like a piec...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:36:00 PST

What temperament are you?

Wow! This is so true. Incomplete, but fairly accurate nonetheless.You Have a Melancholic TemperamentIntrospective and reflective, you think about everything and anything.You are a soft-hearted daydrea...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:10:00 PST

Obsessed With Drums - Here's My Layout

Ok so it's blog time again. I'm kinda bored and lazy, so I decided just to show off my drums. Well, not really show them off, but you know. This is what I've been up to, and into. Anyways, I think I ...
Posted by Johnny The Cat on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:27:00 PST