Politics; Music; Sports; Sudoku; Crosswords; Languages
I'd like to meet:
Gordon B. Hinckley ; Arnold Schwarzenegger ; Bill Gates
Music:
My first real infatuation with music was at 7, when I claimed I was "sick" for two days so I could stay home and listen to Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. I've been into music ever since, listening to KRUX in Tucson, KRIZ and KUPD when I lived in Phoenix, DC101 in DC, and Rock 99, X-96, KCGL, KRCL, and KBER in Salt Lake City, 107.5 The End in Seattle, and KROQ in Los Angeles. I've now moved back to Phoenix and I listen to 103.9 The Edge and KUPD, when I'm not listening to XM Satellite Radio stations, Boneyard, Squizz, Ethyl, Fred, or Lucy. I've also played in a number of bands over the years, the three main ones being: UHF ; Drool ; and Psonic Prophet . Bands that I have enjoyed through the years, listen to now, or were otherwise influential on the bands I've been in, even in the most tangential sense, include those listed below. I'm fully aware that many of the bands set forth below would be mortified to be on the list with some of the others listed there, but I readily admit that I'm eclectic to an extreme (code for: I like what I like and have liked what I have liked and I don't apologize). In any case, while I may not listen to all of these bands now, they played an important role in my life and I enjoyed them at one time, at least enough so to include them here: 10cc; 311; 3 Doors Down; 30 Seconds to Mars; A Perfect Circle; Abandoned Pools; Abba; ABC; AC/DC; Adam Ant; Adema; Aerosmith; AFI; Aha; Alan Parsons Project; Alanis Morrisette; Aldo Nova; Alice Cooper; Alice in Chains; Alien Ant Farm; Alkaline Trio; All American Rejects; Alphaville; Alterbridge; America; American HiFi; Angelo Badalamenti; Angels & Airwaves; April Wine; Argent; Armageddon; Asia; Ataris; Atreyu; Audioslave; Audiovent; Auf Der Maur; Avenged Sevenfold; B-52s; Babylon AD; Bachman Turner Overdrive; Bad Company; Bananarama; Bang Tango; Bangles; Beach Boys; Beck; Belly; Ben Folds Five; Benedictine Monks; Berlin; Better Than Ezra; Big Audio Dynamite; Big Country; Big Head Todd & The Monsters; Billy Idol; Billy Squire; Black Label Society; Black Sabbath; Blindside; Blink 182; Blondie; Blue October; Blue Oyster Cult; Blur; Bob Welch; Bon Jovi; Boston; Bow Wow Wow; Bread; Breaking Benjamin; Breeders; Britny Fox; Bryan Adams; Bryan Ferry; Buggles; Bullett Boys; Bush; Cake; Candlebox; Carpenters; Cat Stevens; Catherine Wheel; Charlie Sexton; Cheap Trick; Chemical Brothers; Chevelle; Chimaira; Cinder; Cinderella; Circle of Power; Coal Chamber; Coheed & Cambria; Cold; Coldplay; Collective Soul; Concrete Blonde; Cowboy Junkies; Cracker; Crash Test Dummies; Cream; Credence Clearwater Revival; Creed; Crosby Stills Nash & Young; Crossfade; Crowded House; Crystal Method; Culture Club; Cyndi Lauper; Cypress Hill; Dada; Danielle Dax; Danzig; Dark New Day; Dave Edmunds; David Bowie; Days of the New; Dead Kennedys; Dead Sixties; Deadsy; Death Cab for Cutie; Deep Purple; Def Leppard; Default; Deftones; Depeche Mode; Devo; Dinosaur Jr.; Dire Straits; Dirty Looks; Dishwalla; Disturbed; Divinyls; Dokken; Don McLean; Dragon; Drivin ‘n’ Cryin; Dropbox; Drowning Pool; Duran Duran; Eagle Eye Cherry; Earshot; Echo & The Bunnymen; ELO; ELP; Elton John; Elvis Costello; English Beat; Enigma; Enuff Znuff; Enya; Eurythmics; Evanescence; Evan's Blue; Eve 6; Everclear; Everlast; Everly Brothers; EZO; Faith No More; Fall Out Boy; Fastball; Faster Pussycat; Filter; Finch; Flash in the Pan; Fleetwood Mac; Flesh for Lulu; Flock of Seagulls; Foghat; Foo Fighters; Foreigner; Frank Zappa; Free; Fuel; Garbage; Gary Numan; Gene Loves Jezebel; General Public; Gin Blossoms; Goanna; God Lives Underwater; Godsmack; Golden Earring; Goo Goo Dolls; Gordon Lightfoot; Gorillaz; Grand Funk Railroad; Great White; Green Day; Greg Kihn; Guns 'n' Roses; Hawthorne Heights; Head East; Heart; Helmet; HIM; Hole; Honeymoon Suite; Hoobastank; Hooters; Horslips; Howard Jones; Human League; Husker Du; Huxton Creepers; Icicle Works; Incubus; Interpol; INXS; Jack's Mannequin; James Gang; James Taylor; Jane's Addiction; Jars of Clay; Jawbox; Jefferson Airplane; Jefferson Starship; Jerry Cantrell; Jesus & Mary Chain; Jesus Jones; Jethro Tull; Jimi Hendrix; Jimmie's Chicken Shack; Jimmy Eat World; Joan Jett; Joe Jackson; Journey; Joy Division; Judas Priest; Julian Cope; K's Choice; Kansas; Kate Bush; Killer Dwarfs; King Missile; Kingdom Come; Kings X; KISS; Korn; LA Guns; Lacuna Coil; Led Zeppelin; Lene Lovich; Lenny Kravitz; Lightning Seeds; Limp Bizkit; Lincoln Park; Lit; Live; Living Colour; Lloyd Cole & The Commotions; Lostprophets; Loudermilk; Love & Rockets; Love/Hate; Love Spit Love; Loverboy; Luscious Jackson; Lush; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Madness; Mamas & Papas; Matthew Sweet; Marcy Playground; Mark Bolan/T Rex; Matisyahu; Meat Puppets; Megadeth; Men at Work; Men Without Hats; Meshuggah; Metallica; Michael Schenker Group; Midnight Oil; Ministry; Missing Persons; Moby; Modern English; Monster Magnet; Moody Blues; Mother Love Bone; Motley Crue; Mudvayne; Murderdolls; Muse; My Bloody Valentine; My Sister's Machine; Ned's Atomic Dustbin; Neil Young; New Order; Nickelback; Nik Kershaw; Nine Inch Nails; Nirvana; No Doubt; Nonpoint; OAR; Oasis; Off Course; Offspring; Oingo Boingo; OMD; Orgy; Our Lady Peace; Outfield; Ozzy; Pantera; Papa Roach; Pat Benatar; Pat Travers; Paul McCartney & Wings; Pearl Jam; Pennywise; Peter Frampton; Peter Gabriel; Peter Murphy; Peter Schilling; Pink Floyd; Pixies; Planet P Project; Plimsouls; Poison; Porno for Pyros; Power Station; Presidents of the USA; Primus; Prince; Prodigy; Prong; Psychedelic Furs; Puddle of Mudd; Queen; Queens of the Stone Age; Queensryche; Quiet Riot; Raconteurs; Radiohead; Rage Against the Machine; Rammstein; Ramones; Rancid; Ratt; Red Hot Chili Peppers; Red Rockers; REM; REO Speedwagon; Reveille; Rick Derringer; Rick Springfield; Rise Against; Robert Plant; Robin Trower; Romeos; Roxy Music; Runaways; Rush; Ryuichi Sakamoto; Saliva; Santana; Saosin; Sarah McLachlan; Savatage; Scandal; School of Fish; Screaming Trees; Seahags; Seether; Semisonic; Seven Mary Three; Sevendust; Sex Pistols; Sheryl Crow; Shinedown; Silverchair; Simon & Garfunkel; Simple Plan; Sinead O'Connor; Sisters of Mercy; Sixpence None the Richer; Skid Row; Sky Cries Mary; Slaughter; Slipknot; Sloan; Smashing Pumpkins; Smile Empty Soul; Smithereens; Sneaker Pimps; Social Distortion; Soil; Something Corporate; Souixsie & The Banshees; Soul Asylum; Soul Coughing; Soundgarden; Spacehog; Sparks; Split Enz; Stabbing Westward; Staind; Static-X; Steel Breeze; Steve Miller; Stone Roses; Stone Sour; Stone Temple Pilots; Steely Dan; Steppenwolf; Story of the Year; Stray Cats; Styx; Sum 41; Surf Punks; Suzanne Vega; Sweet; Switchfoot; System of a Down; Taking Back Sunday; Talk Talk; Talking Heads; Tantric; Taproot; Tears for Fears; Temple of the Dog; Ten Years; Tesla; The Alarm; The Babys; The Beatles; The Cars; The Church; The Clash; The Cranberries; The Cruzados; The Cult; The Cure; The Donnas; The Doors; The Eagles; The Fixx; The Go-Gos; The Guess Who; The Hives; The Kingbees; The Knack; The Monkees; The Police; The Postal Service; The Pretenders; The Raspberries; The Records; The Romantics; The Shins; The Smiths; The Specials; The Stabilizers; The Stranglers; The The; The Three O'Clock; The Tubes; The Used; The Vapors; The Vines; The Who; Therapy?; They Might Be Giants; Thin Lizzy; Third Eye Blind; Thomas Dolby; Thomas Newman; Thompson Twins; Three Days Grace; Three Dog Night; Thrice; ‘Til Tuesday; Tim Curry; Timbuk 3; Toad the Wet Sprocket; Toadies; Todd Rundgren; Tom Petty; Tommy Tutone; Tone Loc; Tool; Tora Tora; Toto; Trapt; Triumph; TrustCompany; Tygers of Pan Tang; Type O Negative; U2; UFO; Van Halen; Vandenberg; Vangelis; Velvet Revolver; Vertical Horizon; Veruca Salt; Violent Femmes; Wall of Voodoo; Wang Chung; War; Warrant; Warrior Soul; Weezer; White Stripes; White Zombie; Whitesnake; World Party; X; XTC; Yellowcard; Yellow Magic Orchestra; Yes; Zebra; ZZ Top
Movies:
American Beauty ( script ); BladeRunner ; Donnie Darko (requires flash) ; Stargate ; The Hunt for Red October ; Dave ; The Jacket ; Total Recall ; Garden State ; Office Space ; Breakfast Club ; Sixteen Candles ; Rocky Horror Picture Show ( lyrics ); Matrix ; O Brother, Where Art Thou (script)
Television:
Jeopardy; Sopranos; X Files; Lost; Star Trek TNG; Law & Order; SNL
Books:
Book of Mormon ; Leadership and Self-Deception ; Most anything by Ayn Rand and Anne Rice ; Stephen Donaldson 's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant; Orson Scott Card (particularly the Ender series); Tom Clancy ; J.R.R. Tolkein , of course.
