Hmmm, well, one might say music. I mean, I've listened to music since I was a baby. I hear stories of how I would sing in my crib and dance and everything, like Stevie said "you can feel it all ooooveer" (Sir Duke yall). I have also wanted to check out acting, like maybe taking an acting class. Whether it be method or actual acting, I have always been fixated with portraying feelings of a character and personifying a figment of somebody's imagination. I also want to be in a horror movie and get killed...yeah I know, there are probably some deep-rooted psychological issues as to why, but who cares, it'd be cool! Oh, and a little "puff, puff, pass" every now and again...usually a lot of agains...with a minimum time-frame. I am also interested in the paranormal and supernatural. I'd like to ghost chase more and investigate other reputably haunted places in the future. I don't know, maybe it's part of my morbid facination with death...or the unknown.
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Music
Hmm, lemme give you the short list (as time goes on, it'll grow)..........
Rock: Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden, Incubus, The Dissociatives, Silverchair, Modest Mouse, Local H, Mudhoney, CKY, Foo Fighters, Porcupine Tree, Muse, The Dandy Warhols, Chevelle, P.O.D., Filter, Stone Temple Pilots, The Shins (big ups to Jarad for introducing me to their music), Mastodon, Clutch, Mudhoney, Veruca Salt, Letters To Cleo, Deftones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Cold, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Hole (Okay, I can't stand Courtney Love, but I can't front, some of their songs are actually okay), Toadies, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Sparta, At The Drive In, The Mars Volta, Sleepercar, Screaming Trees, Weezer, Auf Der Maur, Smashing Pumpkins, Eels, System of a Down, Jane's Addiction, and am a devoted fan of the group Kingbathmat...BUY THEIR CD!..........Also...Buy Casket Salesmen (sup Phil and Nate...when we smokin out in your trailer again??)...more great music!!!!!
Hip-Hop: Little Brother, Cannibal Ox, Kidz In The Hall, A Tribe Called Quest, Project Blowed, Aceyalone, Big L, Biggie, 2Pac, MC Breed, Souls of Mischief, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Hieroglyphics Crew, Living Legends crew, Nas, Gangstarr, Jeru the Damaja, Little Brother, Gravediggaz, Cypress Hill, Dr. Octagon, KMD, Kurious, The Beatnuts, Sat-N-Smooth, Ice Cube (early 90's), NWA, Above the Law, Big Pun, Leaders of the New School, Busta Rhymes, Murs, Mic Geronimo, Black Moon, Smif N Wesson, The UMC's, Heltah Skeltah, Originoo Gunn Clappaz, OC, Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan (and most of their solo material), Killarmy, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, MC Eiht and Compton's Most Wanted, DJ Quik, Choclair, Geto Boys, Jiggmastas, Loot Pack, Alkaholiks, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg(early stuff), The Game, certain Swisha House (chopped and screwed), De La Soul, Black Sheep, Ice-T (older stuff, pre-New Jack City), Outkast, Black Eyed Peas (only their first album, pre-Fergie), the Roots, Common Sense, The Pharcyde, Abstract Rude, Dilated Peoples, Mos Def & Talib Kweli (Blackstar and solo), Brand Nubian, Diamond D and the Psychotic Neurotics, Chino XL, Esham, The Nonce..........
R&B/Soul: Musiq Soulchild, Amel Larrieux (and Groove Theory), Angie Stone, Donell Jones, Macy Gray, Erykah Badu, Glenn Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Minnie Ripperton, Stylistics, Chi-Lites, Delfonics, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, SWV, Mary J. Blige, Amerie, Vivian Green, D'Angelo, Bilal, Teedra Moses, Raphael Saadiq, Musiq Soulchild, Angie Stone, Glenn Lewis, Donell Jones
Man, there is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more to list in all my favorite genres...later though........................................
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Movies
Horror movies are number one. Halloween, The Exorcist, The Omen, The Amityville Horror, Phantasm, The Fog, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Witchboard, The Prophecy, Children of the Corn, Salem's Lot, Fright Night (many more, but you know how your mind goes blank trying to think all of this up??).....a lot of independent movies Clerks (one of my all-time faves), Dazed and Confused, Serial Mom (just about any of John Waters' later made movies [post-Hairspray]), character studies, even some obscure movies, but not too obscure (I gave Julian Donkey Boy a chance and that movie just sucked). Comedies like Friday, and and how can I forget Shaun of the Dead...one of my ALL-TIME favorite movies!? Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (I was in outer space every time I saw that movie...just like grandma...haha!) Action films like Boondock Saints...bad ass movie! Drama's like Blood In Blood Out, Boyz In The Hood, Menace II Society, New Jack City...I really can't list all the movies, but as time goes on, I'll add titles at my leisure.
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Television
Scrubs...and shows that come on Discovery, History Channel, Travel Channel, Food Channel (IRON CHEF!!!) I also like to watch shows that involve the paranormal/supernatural.
Books
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Heroes
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Layne Staley (Alice In Chains), Jimi Hendrix, Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)...I'm sure I have other heroes, but most of them are dead. God bless the dead.
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About me: Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan...named Heraclio Rodriguez, Jr. (but I go by Erac, pronounced like "air-wreck)...relocated to Texas in 1999. Lived in the Rio Grande Valley (Harlingen) and moved to Houston in 2001. Still in Houston and you see, I like to create music as well. I have just a little semblance of knowing how to pick up a guitar and strum it as well as a knack for trying to sing (in different styles I might add)...I grew up hip-hop though and will die hip-hop...but I've been rapping for so long and making beats, it's time to move on...well okay, I'll still do it but I'm concentrating more on other music to create now. My influences are ALL over the map, but I will tell you, early 90's rock (grunge...gosh, I hate that word too!) and late 80's early 90's rap have become formidable as a pallet for me to create my own music. Yes, that means heavy Nirvana, Alice In Chains, A Tribe Called Quest, Project Blowed influences...and that's naming like, .00001%...yes I believe that is right. So as I was saying, well, yeah, I'm really into music. Oh, and I am of Mexican descent, although you wouldn't know it by looking at me because of the Irish and German heritage in my bloodline as well. If anybody ever sees me on AOL Instant Messenger as sevenbesideyou7, feel free to holla at me...I'll be much obliged to engage in a conversation. Later bruthas and sistas.
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Who I'd like to meet: Anybody...especially those interested in making music. You don't have to be a virtuoso (I'm far from it) just a genuine passion for it. And if you're not into music, well that's okay too. I am trying to become less misanthropic as I age...hey, I've always gone against the grain.
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