Popularity is a Socially Transmitted Disease's Interests
General
Zombies and zombie movies, classic horror films; playing Castlevania video games; filling my brain with useless (but interesting) knowledge; filling my gut with good food and good beer (mmmm, Guiness); hanging out with my girl, my friends and my family; listening to my records backwards; reading weird books; watching even weirder films; enjoying the comic genius of Dane Cook, Mitch Hedberg (RIP), Stephen Lynch and George Carlin (RIP); the art of Gustave Dore, J.C. Leyendecker, Alphonse Mucha, Carlos Schwabe, Frank Frazetta, Jim Lee, Brom, Paul Bonner, Mike Mignola, Eric Powell, Tim Sale, James Jean, Gris Grimly, Simon Bisley, Adam Hughes, Ashley Wood, Ben Templesmith, Bill Sienkiewicz, David Bollt, Dave Hartman, Derek Hess, Sean Galloway, etc.; collecting comic books and all sorts of collectibles, esp. Hellboy, BPRD, and The Goon (yeah, so I'm a geek...); wishing I was a stormtrooper; doodling and scribbling on paper to make junk my friends call "artwork"; shooting my Ruger .357 magnum; fighting the good fight, badly.
Music
An eclectic mix of genres that include, but not exclusive to: Alkaline Trio, Danzig, The Misfits, Samhain, Deathstars, Type O Negative, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, Dethklok, old school Metallica, Slipknot, Amon Amarth, Gojira, Haste the Day, Himsa, All That Remains, Shadows Fall, War of Ages, Demise of Eros, Killswitch Engage, Bullet For My Valentine, In Flames, Trivium, Lamb of God, Demon Hunter, Atreyu, Senses Fail, CKY, Rancid, Transplants, Rise Against, Suicide Machines, Tsunami Bomb, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Social Distortion, Weezer, Dropkick Murphys, The Code, NOFX, Sublime, 311, Dillinger Escape Plan, Biffy Clyro, Armor For Sleep, Black Maria, Straylightrun, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Matt Nathanson, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Enya, etc.
Movies
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, To Kill a Mockingbird, In Cold Blood, No Country For Old Men, Munich, The Jacket, L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, Iron Man, The Dark Knight (RIP Heath Ledger), Hot Fuzz, 300, V for Vendetta, The Crow, Pan's Labyrinth, Night of the Living Dead, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Evil Dead series, Fight Club, Memento, Blow, Usual Suspects, Romper Stomper, Grosse Pointe Blank, Mallrats, Made, Reservoir Dogs, Ed Wood, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Batman, Batman Returns, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the original Star Wars Trilogy, the Indiana Jones Trilogy, Edward Scissorhands, From Hell, Hellboy, Phantoms, Pulp Fiction, Sin City, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Spider-Man Trilogy, etc.
Television
True Blood, Futurama reruns, Metalocalypse, Venture Bros., Family Guy, American Dad, South Park, old X-Files, Deadwood (RIP), Rome (RIP), Sopranos (RIP), Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Attack of the Show! (Olivia Munn = sooooo hot), Ninja Warrior, The Colbert Report, No Reservations, Ultimate Fighter, etc.
Books
"Heartsick" by Chelsea Cain, "Heart Shaped Box" by Joe Hill, "The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King, "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon, "Darkwerks" by Brom, "Fear Nothing" & "Seize the Night" by Dean Koontz, "In Search of Dracula" & "Dracula:Prince of Many Faces" by Radu Florescu & Raymond T. McNally, "Dracula" by Bram Stoker, "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed" by Patricia Cornwell; "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown; "Baltimore, or the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire" by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden, anything by William Butler Yeats; "The Lord of the Rings" & anything else by J.R.R. Tolkien; anything by Edgar Allan Poe; comics and graphic novels, including Todd McFarlane's "Spawn"; "The Crow" by James O'Barr; "Sin City","300" & "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller; "The Coffin" by Phil Hester & Mike Huddleston; "Hellboy", "BPRD" & anything else by Mike Mignola; any book by the kick-ass team of Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale, esp. "Batman:The Long Halloween"; "Sight Unseen" by Robert Tinnell & Bo Hampton; "Pride of Baghdad" by Brian K. Vaughn & Niko Henrichon; "Locke & Key" by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
Heroes
Vlad the Impaler, Jack the Ripper, Rasputin, Attila the Hun, Lucifer...ya know the lot. ;)
Popularity is a Socially Transmitted Disease's Blurbs
About me:
"Popularity is a socially transmitted disease." - me
"He who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'." - Nietzche
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." - Seneca
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." - Oscar Wilde
"If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil."
- Ralph Nader
"You'll find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." - Obi-wan Kenobi
"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not its assimilated conformists." - Abbie Hoffman
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Dom. Helder Camara
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." - Dante
"Religion is for people afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for people who have already been there." - Anon.
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Who I'd like to meet: My hero, Frank Frazetta.
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anytime jeffy!!!!!!!!!! =) proly wont be on for a while though so dont be upset if you dont hear from me for a while, the computer crashed at home and now i gotta look into a new one... blahhh more money going to the big W lol... how are you liking that acer though, i was looking at that and im thinking hey hey i want this! haha
Hey Jeff...I miss all you guys so much...I wish I was back with everyone! How have ya been? Thanks 4 the b-day reminder! I'm not gettin any younger ya know ;)
I know you're not big on pics, but I loved this one and thought of you. Hope you have a great birthday and a superbly drunken party! Sorry I can't be there to see it! Have a few in my honor.. lol.
Thank you so much for taking care of me this last week! You are such a sweetheart! Valentine's Day was so much better than I thought it would be. I can't wait until I am better and we can go to Biscotti's! hehe. I just wanted to say thank you for being such a sweetheart, and for being alllll mine!
