Attempting to live life, being one with nature, music, writing poetry, playing keyboards, spending time with my daughter, keeping the demons at bay, the photography of Peter Lik, the art of Alex Grey, sleeping (my long lost friend), playing video games (Elder Scrolls: Oblivion has consumed my waking moments), and my latest one: conforming to society and starting a myspace page, signifying that I no longer have any integrity whatsoever....
My maker.
Video of the whenever: "Terminus (Where Death is Most Alive)" by Dark Tranquility. This video has the greatest video effects I have seen. Technology truly has come a long way.
My top five favorite and influential bands:
RIP Cliff Burton
METAL: Alice in Chains (RIP Layne Staley), Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Arch Enemy, Ayreon, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Brand New Sin, Carnivore, Celtic Frost, Children of Bodom, Danzig, Dark Tranquillity, Dead Soul Tribe, Demons and Wizrds, Dream Theater, Elvenking, Evergrey, Fates Warning, Guns N Roses, Into Eternity, Isis, Iron Maiden, Jag Panzer, Judas Priest, Katatonia, King's X, King Diamond, Kreator, Leaves' Eyes, Machine Head, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Monster Magnet, My Dying Bride, Nevermore, Nightwish, O.S.I., Ozzy Osbourne, Pagan's Mind, Primus, Queensryche, Rammstein, Sanctity, Sentenced, Sepultura, Sonata Arctica, Strapping Young Lad, Stratovarius, Stream of Passion, System of Down, Therion, Rob / White Zombie.
Non-Metal: Aerosmith, A Perfect Circle, Blue Man Group, Buckethead, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Credance Clearwater Revival, Devo, Enya, Echobrain, Enigma, Jimi Hendrix, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rush, Joe Satriani, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Sisters of Mercy, Smashing Pumpkins, Spock's Beard, Tom Waits
Bands I've discovered on MySpace: SHREDMILL!!!- killer local metal band, 7th Son (also local), Seduced by Suicide, Tiamat, Clad in Darkness, Paradise Lost, Lake of Tears, Bloodbath, October Tide, Anathema, Mercenary, Tristania, and Finntroll (Trollhammeren!!).
New albums for 2007: Iced Earth - "Framing Armageddon" due out September 11th, Metallica - produced by Rick Rubin (due out 2008 actually) Amorphis "Silent Waters" August 29th, Arch Enemy "Rise of the Tyrant" September 25th, Ayreon - sometime this year, I think...
You scored as Progressive Metalist. Progressive metalist!!! You like bands like Pagan's mind and shadow gallery, you think long songs are great and good in quality.
Progressive Metalist
Heavy Metal/Old School
Power Metalist
Funeral Doom Metalist
Black Metalist
Thrash Metalist
Death Metalist
Non-Metal
So far this year: Grindhouse, Pirates: At Worlds End, 300, Last Mimzy, Reign Over Me, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, Mr. Brooks, Transformers, Simpsons, The Kingdom, Superbad, Eastern Promises, We Own the Night, 30 Days of Night
All time: Pink Floyd's The Wall, LOTR Trilogy, Star Wars saga, Indiana Jones trilogy, Sin City, Memento, The Prestige, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill series, Braveheart, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Conan the Barbarian, Sling Blade, This is Spinal Tap, Tombstone, Anchorman, Requiem for a Dream, Natural Born Killers, Beetlejuice, Fight Club, Children of Men, and can't forget Spaceballs ("They've gone plaid!!").
Open your minds and your eyes will follow- TURN OFF YOUR TV!!!! It is the poison god machine.
Lately I've been reading the psychological works of Carl Gustav Jung, but I also enjoy Lord of the Rings trilogy, Dragonlance series, anything by H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Area 51 series by Robert Doherty. There are a lot of books I want to read, but am too proficient in laziness.