Here is the part where I write down a bunch of activities that I've been into at some point in my life, or thought about getting into, in order to impress people I used to know but now have no contact with. Strangely, no one puts "obsesively updating my MySpace page" as an interest.
I am into motorcycles. Specifically Japanese and European standards and sport-touring bikes. I ride a Honda Hawk 650, Honda VFR750, and a Suzuki V-Strom 650. Simultaneously. Cruisers suck. Inline-four sportbikes suck. If you feel differently, you are wrong.
I'm into metal, rock, etc. I like going to local shows, but I don't wear "the uniform" so people probably think I'm someones dad. At my gooey center is an extrovert, but he's wrapped in an awkward, introverted candy shell. So I usually go to the Ottobar, nod/bang my head as appropriate, drink a few beers, and go home.
I have a cat named Wingnut. He's pretty cool. I found him in the trash. My wife has two cats. We also have a dog now, which is both completely awesome and a complete pain in the ass. We are now officially crazy pet-people. It just sorta happened.
I'm also into home improvement... It's become an honest-to-god hobby. I've taught myself how to re-wire my house, relocate radiators, solder pipe, knock-down load bearing walls, and all kinds of other dangerous shit that I probably needed a permit for.
When not working on my house, or tinkering with/riding my motorcycles, I enjoy amateur taxidermy, falconry, and jealously hording my riches. I used to be into running and yoga, but I'm just too damned busy for that lately.
Music
I am into True Metal. I oppose False Metal in all its forms.
Metal Bands I'm into:
Einherjer, Immortal, Arcturus, Emperor, Finntroll, Ghoul, Forgotten Woods, Dying Fetus, Drudkh, Turisas, Windir, Thyrfing, Bolt Thrower, Master's Hammer, Bal Sagoth, Cradle of Filth, Anorexia Nervosa, Nokturnal Mortum, Chaos Opera, Sodom, Holy Moses, Lamb of God, Black Dhalia Murder, Slayer, Exhumed, Vital Remains, Necrophagia, Suffocation, Zyklon, Lord Gore, Ephel Duath, Sigh, etc. Oh, and of course Dethklok! :)
I'm also into:
Hard-to-classify rock: Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Clutch, Mastodon, Lacuna Coil, The Gathering, Type-O Negative, etc.
Punk: Old stuff like The Templars, Subhumans, Exploited, Crass, Rudimentary Peni, etc. That happy, whiny shit makes me want to murder people.
Some Aught-pop is tolerable, too, The Vines, the Shins, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, etc. I don't dislike new stuff just because it's new, but most new stuff really either a) sucks and/or b) is completely derivative of some better band from the 70s or 80s.
Metal/Industrial (Do the kids call this Darkwave?), stuff like Frontline Assembly, Early Skiny Puppy, new Mortis, Houjobb etc. Don't tell anyone, but I dig KMFDM's earlier stuff.
Goofy stuff like The Aquabats, Oingo Boingo, Devo, The Residents, Voltaire, Zappa, TMBG, etc.
Of course, all kinds of 70s and 80s pop, New Wave, etc is great, too. Talking Heads, The Kinks, David Bowie, Wire, Gang of Four, etc.
I also sometimes dig synth pop like Joy Division and New Order, even if that technically makes me gay.
"Classic" rock like Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, the Beatles and thier ilk are my sworn enemies. Death to them all. And that Wilco guy, too.
I've also been listening to a lot of Cake lately.
Of course, you probably listen to all kinds of awesome stuff that I've never even heard of. I am suitably impressed.
Movies
They Live, Robocop, Big Trouble in Little China, Class of Nuke'em High, Bad Taste, Street Trash, Basket Case, Re-Animator, anything with zombies, The Corporation, Serenity, Triumph of the Will, Open Water, Lost in Translation, Adaptation, Idiocracy... all kinds of others, too, but they aren't coming to mind at the moment.
Television
I don't watch television. Except that I recently became hooked on House. And Dexter. And Metalocalypse. And Battlestar Galactcia. And Heroes Season 1 was okay. And I liked Six Feet Under, Firefly (RIP), Deadwood, etc. And if Marisa has it on, I'll sometimes watch The Gilmore Girls, or as I like to call it: "Hot Mother-Daughter Action." (Shut up, it has good dialogue.) But other than that, I hate television.
Books
I really liked the Hyperion series. Currently reading "The Sparrow", which is about Jesuits in space. I think. I just started it. Mostly I read bad horror and science fiction. That or Harper's magazine, though I find it incresingly difficult to masturbate to.
Heroes
I've been in a really bad mood lately, but these have cheered me up immensely... vvvv
About me:
*** Preface to Myspace users... Myspace sucks! Look me up on Facebook instead!!! ***
Greetings. I have avoided predators and starvation for 30 years and counting. If were a caveman, I'd be like, really old and successful.
According to MySpace I have friends, which I must say came as a surprise to me.
I have a fabulous job in which I design HVAC and plumbing systems for hospitals, laboratories and commerical buildings. Basically this means that I know a whole lot about all the crap inside of buildings that keeps people from being too hot, too cold, burning to death, or drowning in their own refuse. All the stuff you never even think about, you thankless jerks. I know it's hard to imagine, but this is far more boring and more of a pain in the ass than you think it is.
Don't believe me? Know that I have books with tables that list the heat rejection rates in BTUs/hr for various kinds of farm animals. I also know precisely what volume of air should be exhausted per minute from a morgue. I actually had into go into a morgue once to measure something, so my job isn't all that bad. Some dude's liver was on the scale and everything. Rightous.
I live in Baltimore, MD. I have a house that I'm in the process of destroying from the inside out.
I'm married to a wonderful girl named Marisa who is okay with the fact that I play with swords and motorcycles and listen to Death Metal.
By caveman standards, life is actually pretty good now that I think about it.
Who I'd like to meet: Tony Randall. That son of a bitch owes me $20.
I'd also like to go back in time and witness Ben Franklin's invention of the Frankenstein. I'd take the place of his hunchbacked assistant, John Adams.
Seriously, I'd like to meet anyone local who rides motorcycles and isn't a squid. I need some riding buddies!
