Music, movies, gaming...
I'd like to meet:
Martin Walkyier, Jon Oliva, any of my friends from forums and such.
Music:
Metal is my favorite style of music(primarily thrash and power metal, absolutely no grindcore/brutal death metal), though I also enjoy some hard/classic rock, a few punk-ish bands(especially ones with Irish/Celtic elements), and alternative country/Americana, plus a smattering of classical.Metal bands:Savatage/TSO, Jon Oliva's Pain, Circle II Circle, Blind Guardian, Skyclad, Sabbat(UK), Rage, Falconer, Wuthering Heights, Grave Digger, Iced Earth, Running Wild, Gamma Ray, Heathen, old Metallica, old Testament, Aria, Kipelov, Metal Church, Mekong Delta, Exodus, Helloween, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson, Judas Priest, Halford, Black Sabbath(all eras), Dio, Ayreon/Star One, Threshold, Vicious Rumors, (Morgana) Lefay, Angel Dust, Nocturnal Rites, Tad Morose, Wolfen, Forbidden, Ilium, Firewind, Hammerfall, System of a Down, Communic, Scariot, Mithotyn, Elvenking, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Dissection, Immortal, In Flames(old), Dark Tranquility, Norther, Children of Bodom, Callenish Circle, Annihilator, Sacred Blade, Angra, Queensryche(old), Jag Panzer, Symphony X, Voyager, Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Powermad, Shadow Gallery, Sanctuary, Nevermore, Eldritch, Atheist, Cynic, Watchtower, Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Atlain, Exciter, Anthrax, Toxik, Xentrix, Realm, Alice Cooper, Ozzy, Warlock/Doro, Manowar, Accept/UDO, Dream Evil, Helstar, Destiny's End, Rob Rock, Axel Rudi Pell, Riot, Aina, Chastain/CJSS, Gargoyle, Hawk, Virgin Steele, Evergrey, Arch Nemesis, Psychotic Waltz, Fates Warning, Masterplan, Guardians of Time, Vectom, Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, Memento Mori, Nightwish, Ancient Rites...and many many more.
Non-metal bands:Jethro Tull, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, The Pogues, Neck, Amadan, New Model Army, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keene, Chris Knight, Chuck Berry, Mark David Manders, Marty Robbins, Hank Jr, Blue Oyster Cult, Ten, Magnum/Bob Catley, Steeleye Span, Horslips, John Fogerty/CCR, various classical stuff...
Movies:
Big Trouble in Little China, The Crow, Blade trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Matrix trilogy, The Killer, Tremors, Evil Dead trilogy, Fist of Legend, V for Vendetta, The 13th Warrior, Conan the Barbarian, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Suspiria, Cube, Dog Soldiers, X-Men/X2, Spiderman 2, Return of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead(original AND remake), Cure, Once Upon a Time in China, Batman Begins, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Desperado, Star Trek:First Contact, Darkman, Versus, Oldboy, Zatoichi series(originals and remake), Pitch Black, The Thing(1984), Alien/Aliens, They Live, Predator, Screamers, The Devil's Rejects, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow 1-2, Underworld 1-2, Hero, Casino Royale, Rio Bravo, Just Your Luck, Abbott and Costello movies...
Television:
The Shield, 24, Law & Order(all varieties), Homicide:Life on the Streets, Have Gun Will Travel, Marshall Dillon, Outer Limits(original), Twilight Zone(original), Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, Firefly, Star Trek(TNG and DS9), Tales of Zatoichi, The Equalizer, Highlander, Forever Knight, Columbo, Fawlty Towers, Are You Being Served?, Alias, WWE and TNA.And reality shows suck.
Books:
LotR trilogy, Keith Laumer's Bolos stuff, Karl Edward Wagner's Killer, Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive In, most stuff by Robert R. McCammon, Michael Moorcock, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard...
Heroes:
William Barret Travis, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and the other defenders of the Alamo, or for that matter anyone who fought for a cause they believed in regardless of their odds or the risk.
