David Couper

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has learnt that trying to play Dream Theater bass lines make it physically much easier to play the lines of other bands, hint hint!Mood: rockin rockinat 12:04 PM May 18 view more

  • David Couper

  • 27 / Male
  • Brisbane, Queensland, AU
  • Last Login: 7/7/2009

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Interests

  • Music

    My top five, whose musicality and lyrics I resonate with best:
    Pain Of Salvation
    Dream Theater
    Opeth
    Nevermore
    Into Eternity

    The cream of the immediate next-tier:
    Angra
    Adagio
    Ayreon
    Between The Buried And Me
    Children Of Bodom
    Coheed & Cambria
    Dominici
    Emerson, Lake & Palmer
    Enchant
    Evanescence
    Extreme
    Faith No More
    the Flower Kings
    Fragile Vastness
    Peter Gabriel
    Genesis
    The Haunted
    Incubus
    Iron Maiden
    Jethro Tull
    Kamelot
    Kansas
    King Crimson
    Lacuna Coil
    Liquid Tension Experiment
    Yngwie Malmsteen
    the Mars Volta
    Megadeth
    Meshuggah
    Metallica
    Nightwish
    Mike Oldfield
    Pantera
    Pink Floyd
    Planet X
    Porcupine Tree
    Queen
    Queensrÿche
    David Lee Roth
    Rush
    Joe Satriani
    Sevendust
    Shaaman
    Slipknot
    Soilwork
    Soulfly
    Spock's Beard
    Strapping Young Lad
    Symphony X
    System Of A Down
    To-Mera
    Tool
    Devin Townsend Band
    Transatlantic
    Type O Negative
    Uriah Heep
    Steve Vai
    Van Halen
    Vanden Plas
    The Who
    Within Temptation
    Yes
    Frank Zappa

    Aussie acts: Baby Animals
    John Butler Trio
    John Farnham
    George
    Delta Goodrem
    Jennifer Will Drown
    the Living End
    Love Outside Andromeda
    Kate Miller-Heidke
    Noiseworks
    Powderfinger
    Silverchair
    Southern Sons
    1927
    (and locally)
    Arcane
    Chrissy Bowden
    Neath
    Sequoia
    Sky Pi

    Classical:
    Mozart
    Mussorgsky
    Stravinsky
    Vivaldi
  • Movies

    TBA
  • Television

    House M.D.; Futurama; Family Guy; Sliders; 24; Cosmos by Carl Sagan; Arrested Development; Numbers
  • Books

    Aczel, Amir ENTANGLEMENT
    Aczel, Amir CHANCE
    Aczel, Amir FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM
    Aitkin, Don WHAT WAS IT ALL FOR?
    Ali, Tariq THE CLASH OF FUNDAMENTALISMS
    Aristotle THE POLITICS
    Asimov, Isaac A CHOICE OF CATASTROPHES
    Asimov, Isaac ASIMOV'S NEW GUIDE TO SCIENCE
    Bageant, Joe DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS
    Bolles, Edmund Blair GALILEO'S COMMANDMENT
    Bova, Ben THE STORY OF LIGHT
    Brockman, John THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS
    Bryson, Bill MOTHER TONGUE
    Byrnes, Michael AUSTRALIA AND THE ASIA GAME
    Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi THE GREAT HUMAN DIASPORAS
    Chomsky, Noam DETERRING DEMOCRACY
    Chomsky, Noam FAILED STATES
    Chomsky, Noam HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL
    Chomsky, Noam FOR REASONS OF STATE
    Clark, Manning A SHORT HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
    Clarke, Arthur C. GREETINGS, CARBON-BASED BIPEDS
    Clegg, Brian INFINITY
    Clegg, Brian LIGHT YEARS
    Clyne, Michael AUSTRALIA'S LANGUAGE POTENTIAL
    Craven, Greg CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CONSTITUTION
    Davies, Paul GOD AND THE NEW PHYSICS
    Davies, Paul THE GOLDILOCKS ENIGMA
    Darwin, Charles THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
    Dawkins, Richard THE GOD DELUSION
    Dawkins, Richard THE SELFISH GENE
    Dawkins, Richard UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW
    Dawkins, Richard THE BLIND WATCHMAKER
    Dawkins, Richard THE ANCESTOR'S TALE
    Dawkins, Richard CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE
    Dawkins, Richard RIVER OUT OF EDEN
    Day, Phil D. PLANNING AND PRACTICE: SELECTED QLD ESSAYS
    Deutsch, David THE FABRIC OF REALITY
    Dewdney, A.K. YES, WE HAVE NO NEUTRONS
    Diamond, Jared THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE
    Diamond, Jared GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL
    Diamond, Jared COLLAPSE
    Fearn, Nicholas ZENO AND THE TORTOISE
    Flannery, Tim THE WEATHER MAKERS
    Freud, Sigmund THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS
    Fukuyama, Francis AFTER THE NEOCONS
    Gleick, James FASTER
    Gleick, James WHAT JUST HAPPENED
    Gould, Stephen Jay DINOSAUR IN A HAYSTACK
    Gould, Stephen Jay I HAVE LANDED
    Gould, Stephen Jay THE LYING STONES OF MARRAKECH
    Gould, Stephen Jay LIFE'S GRANDEUR
    Gould, Stephen Jay QUESTIONING THE MILLENNIUM
    Greene, Brian THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE
    Greene, Brian FABRIC OF THE COSMOS
    Griffith, Jeremy A SPECIES IN DENIAL
    Hamnett & Freestone THE AUSTRALIAN METROPOLIS
    Hawking, Stephen A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
    Hawking, Stephen THE UNIVERSE IN A NUTSHELL
    Hawking, Stephen ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
    Hawking & Penrose THE NATURE OF SPACE AND TIME
    Hitchens, Christopher GOD IS NOT GREAT
    Hitchens, Christopher THE PORTABLE ATHEIST
    Holmes, Hannah THE SECRET LIFE OF DUST
    Jerome, Fred THE EINSTEIN FILE
    Kaku, Michio VISIONS
    Kaku, Michio PARALLEL WORLDS
    Kaku, Michio PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
    Kierkegaard, Soren EITHER/OR
    Kruszelnicki, Karl PIGEON POO, THE UNIVERSE AND CAR PAINT
    Kurzweil, Ray THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES
    Kurzweil, Ray THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR
    Kusek & Leonhard THE FUTURE OF MUSIC
    Levy, David H. THE BIG IDEA
    Locke, Elsie TWO PEOPLES, ONE LAND
    Machiavelli, Niccolo THE PRINCE
    Maddox, Marion GOD UNDER HOWARD
    Magueijo, Joao FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT
    Man, John ALPHA BETA
    Margolis, Jonathan A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW
    Mau, Bruce MASSIVE CHANGE
    McKnight, David BEYOND RIGHT AND LEFT
    Moore, Michael DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY
    Moore, Michael STUPID WHITE MEN
    Moore, Patrick COUNTDOWN!
    Morris, Desmond PEOPLEWATCHING
    Nietzsche, Friedric BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
    Obama, Barack THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
    Onfray, Michel THE ATHEIST'S MANIFESTO
    Penrose, Roger THE ROAD TO REALITY
    Pickover, Clifford WONDERS OF NUMBERS
    Pinker, Steven THE BLANK SLATE
    Pinker, Steven HOW THE MIND WORKS
    Pinker, Steven THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT
    Pinker, Steven WORDS AND RULES
    Plato THE REPUBLIC
    Rees, Martin BEFORE THE BEGINNING
    Ridley, Matt THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE
    Sachs, Oliver MUSICOPHILIA
    Sagan, Carl BROCA'S BRAIN
    Sagan, Carl PALE BLUE DOT
    Sagan, Carl COSMOS
    Sagan, Carl BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
    Sagan, Carl THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD
    Sagan, Carl THE DRAGONS OF EDEN
    Saul, John Ralston ON EQUILIBRIUM
    Singer, Peter WRITINGS ON AN ETHICAL LIFE
    Singer, Peter ONE WORLD
    Smolin, Lee THREE ROADS TO QUANTUM GRAVITY
    Smolin, Lee THE TROUBLE WITH PHYSICS
    Suzuki, David THE SACRED BALANCE
    Thorne, Kip BLACK HOLES & TIME WARPS
    Thouless, Robert H. STRAIGHT AND CROOKED THINKING
    Tillett, Peter CONSIDER THE HEAVENS
    Warwick, Kevin I, CYBORG
    Waugh, Alexander TIME
    Webb, Stephen OUT OF THIS WORLD
    Weis, Rene THE YELLOW CROSS: STORY OF THE LAST CATHARS
    Williams, Robyn ASIMOV'S ELEPHANT
    Zimmer, Carl EVOLUTION
    Zubrin, Robert THE CASE FOR MARS

    Fiction:
    Adams, Douglas THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
    Adams, Douglas THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
    Adams, Douglas LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
    Adams, Douglas SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
    Adams, Douglas MOSTLY HARMLESS
    Asimov, Isaac I, ROBOT
    Asimov, Isaac THE CAVES OF STEEL
    Asimov, Isaac THE NAKED SUN
    Asimov, Isaac THE ROBOTS OF DAWN
    Asimov, Isaac ROBOTS AND EMPIRE
    Asimov, Isaac PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION
    Asimov, Isaac FOUNDATION
    Asimov, Isaac FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
    Asimov, Isaac SECOND FOUNDATION
    Asimov, Isaac FOUNDATION'S EDGE
    Asimov, Isaac FOUNDATION AND EARTH
    Banks, Iain M. THE ALGEBRAIST
    Bear, Greg FOUNDATION AND CHAOS
    Berendt, John MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
    Cervantes, Miguel de DON QUIXOTE
    Chaucer, Geoffrey THE CANTERBURY TALES
    Cook, Robin MORTAL FEAR
    Dickens, Charles THE CHRISTMAS BOOK VOLUME ONE
    Dostoevsky, Fyodor CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
    Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
    Dumas, Alexandre THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
    Dziemianowicz et al. 100 GHASTLY LITTLE GHOST STORIES
    Earls, Nick ZIGZAG STREET
    Faulks, Sebastian BIRDSONG
    Golding, William LORD OF THE FLIES
    Grisham, John THE PELICAN BRIEF
    Homer THE ILIAD
    Homer THE ODYSSEY
    Huxley, Aldous BRAVE NEW WORLD
    Keneally, Thomas THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH
    Llosa, Mario Vargas AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER
    Marquez, Gabriel Garcia CHRONICLE Of A DEATH FORETOLD
    Melville, Herman BILLY BUDD, SAILOR & OTHER STORIES
    Miller, Arthur DEATH OF A SALESMAN
    More, Thomas UTOPIA
    Orwell, George ANIMAL FARM
    Poe, Edgar Allan THE COMPLETE TALES AND POEMS OF
    Priestley, J.B. AN INSPECTOR CALLS
    Roy, Arundhati THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
    Rushdie, Salman THE SATANIC VERSES
    Russell, Willy EDUCATING RITA
    Shakespeare, William - all

    various texts and references books, too many to bother listing
  • Heroes

    TBA

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Brisbane, Australia
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Body type: 5' 9" / Average
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Zodiac Sign: Cancer
  • Smoke: No
  • Occupation: Retail, musician

Blurbs

About me:

Progressive metal singer, guitarist, bassist, also play keys and violin. Independent candidate for the Federal Senate '07 and Brisbane Lord Mayoralty '08. Until recently a cafe manager. Philosopher and futurist. Cricket and soccer man.

Who I'd like to meet:

On the music front, anyone who enjoys progressive rock and heavy metal with virtuosity and a little bit of conceptualism thrown in. Brilliant lyrics are particularly important, and I'm always amazed at how the best English lyrics are written by Swedes...

On the political and philosophical front, anyone who has had enough of the underperforming politicians at all levels of government, and who is truly concerned about the fate of humanity and the planet.

Comments

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  • Jun 30 2009 12:53 AM

    Hey Dave, how's everything? Heard about your big Swedish trip/audition, gotta say, I'm pretty jealous, is Daniel as awesome in real life as I've imagined?

    Dude, if you're free this Saturday night, Arcane will be playing the Globe Theatre, should be mega.

    Peace,
    -M