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.
