The new band is complete, and I couldn't be more pleased. The new squad is referred to henceforth in all court documents as WOEBEGONE. As in a woebegone shack(very similar to our practice space). I can't wait to play this heavy shit in front of some rabid hungry folk. Oh yeah, about me, I absolutely love kickass cartoons more than anything, except music, but that's a given when you're dealing with my breed of human. Music feeds you, soothes you, keeps you warm, makes you cold, makes you laugh, cry, sing and scream. It is the only thing sustaining existence on this rock of earth. Good (I emphasize GOOD, dammit) movies make me smile, too. My favorite place to visit is the zoo. Any zoo will do. I have a small army of Les Pauls(two customs, a studio, and a classic) that usually do my talking for me, and they speak thru a Randall half-stack because RANDALL STILL KICKS ASS!
I'd like to meet:
More half-human felines!
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Music:
TOOL, KMFDM, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Mudvayne, Garbage, Otep, Nine Inch Nails, INXS, Soulfly, Godsmack, Deftones, Drill, System of a Down, Coal Chamber, Static-X, Pantera(R.I.P. Dime), Artificial Joy Club, Meshuggah, Drain STH, Alice in Chains, Def Leppard, the Kidneythieves, White Zombie, ORGY(!), Slipknot, Snake River Conspiracy, Sevendust, Chimaira, Fear Factory, Stone Temple Pilots, Jeff Beck, Gary Hoey, little bit of Satch, little bit of Vai, Puscifer, Mastadon, Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Down, SRV, KWS(and most other blues guitar players with three names), Buddy Guy(nobody gets out of tune as cool as Buddy), Live, a whole host of local folks that have been and will be, and all points in between. This ninja's heart beats fastest, however, to the pulse of nasty electronica. Prodigy, Orbital, the Crystal Method and Lords of Acid come to mind.
Movies:
Hackers(no.1 all-time fav), Fifth Element(no.1 1/2 all time fav), Final fantasy VII:Advent Children(this one just kinda jumped up there!), any Aliens/Predator series, the first three Star Wars, Dazed and Confused, The fucking Exorcist(!), The Matrix Trilogy,Resident Evil (Milla again!) Altered States, Fight Club, Gunmen, 007 (Sean and Pierce ONLY!), any good anime movie(akira comes to mind, as does Armitage III and Bastard!! and countless others), Highlander, DieHard, Pulp Fucking Fiction, or any other kung fu/ninja/barbarian/medival/cyberpunk/futuristic flick out there. Also any movie with a great mindfuck/twist of fate(the Usual Suspects, for example) really gets me going.
Television:
Not particularly fond of watching actual television, I rather prefer dvd box sets. No cliffhangers for weeks at a time, no friggin' commercials. Perfect for those of us without Tevo!
Books:
In no particular order: Darklore Vol.1; Neverwhere(ooh!); The Guitarist's Bookshelf; Jurassic Park; New Aeon Magick: Thelema Without Tears; Everybody Smokes in Hell; LSD:My Problem Child; Springblade; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Stairway to Heaven:Led Zeppelin Uncensored; The Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge; Brain Droppings; Transfigurations; Fahrenheit 451; The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Psychic Sciences; the Ways of the Samurai; Poison Elves: Requiem For An Elf, Traumatic Dogs, and the Desert of the Third Sin; Calvin & Hobbes:Something Under the Bed is Drooling; The Gallery of the Far Side 3; The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Gilgamesh; The Art of the Ninja; Trainspotting; Stupid White Men; Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them; and lastly(cuz I can't think of anything else) Crazy On a Ship of Fools, an almost endless story I've been writing on since before I got out of high school, that will probably never see the light of day.
Heroes:
My Father & Mother(crazy, CRAZY people), Jimmy Page, Adam Jones and TOOL in general, Albert Hoffman(the Creator), Tim Leary, Hattorri Hanzo, Yoda, Sascha Koneitzko(Kreative Assassin), Amir Derakh, Dimebag "Forever Stronger Than All" Darrell, David Gilmour, Syd Barret, Kirk Hammett, Trent Reznor, Danny Lohner, Aaron North(and pretty much the rest of NIN, past, present, &future),Praga Khan, Bob Marley, Hunter S. Thompson, the Predator(for my dreads), and live music has always been pretty inspiring to me. You'll notice most of my heroes are dead folk, because we live in a world where good men are murdered and little demons run amok.
