music, movies, art & graphic design, computers (Go Macintosh!), guitars and audio gear, goth & horror
Music
Nightwish, Mercyful Fate, The Damned, Iced Earth, Rancid, The Ramones, The Dictators, Big Country, Kiss, Black Sabbath, Manowar, Judas Priest, Rob Halford solo, The Misfits, Madonna, Motorhead, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, The Minutemen, Black Flag, The Monkees, Blondie, Husker Du, Danzig, Raging Slab, Hushed, Hour Past, B-Move Extras, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr, The Louvin Brothers, The Killers, lots of Euro-Metal & 70's Soul
Movies
Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, Hammer Horror, most of Tim Burton's work, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Independence Day (greatest bad movie ever made), Paths of Glory, The 13th Warrior, Clerks, Serpico, Cruising, 12 Angry Men, THX1138, Grapes of Wrath, Oxbow Incident, Fail Safe
Television
The new Battlestar Galactica, History Channel, The Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, Twilight Zone, Uranium (I hope Julia get's fired), HBO's Oz and Rome, The Daily Show, Chris Noth period Law and Order, That 70's Show, Everyone Loves Raymond, The Original Star Trek and Star Trek DS9
Books
Lord of the Rings, the Bounty Trilogy by Nordhoff & Hall, anything by Kazuo Ishiguro, Rudyard Kipling, HG Wells, Henry Rollins
Heroes
Frank Serpico, Johnny Ramone, Gene Simmons, JRR Tolkien, Handsome Dick Manitoba
About me: I'm the founder of By Blood Alone, Portland Maine's only goth/metal band. I work in the printing industry. I'm married to the lovely and talented Michele and we live in a house with our two cats, Smudgie-Cat and Mr. Grimace. We watch a lot of movies, go to see bands play and work on our art.
Who I'd like to meet: Peter Jackson so I can tell him how much his movies of Lord of the Rings sucked! Other than that, most of the people I would like to meet I already know.
hey John - hope you can catch Fifth Freedom on the 4th of July at Spring Point Tavern in South Portland - plus you can see the fireworks from nearby! - John Koutny ~Earthrise Productions~
Prog Greetings John (and all the By Blood Alone Family) -- thank you for the CD -- it PROX! I have it ripped and it's already been playing on the station. I'll give it some significant air time!!! Tune in at your Progleisure - www.ProgRockandMetal.net.
Great show the other night John. It's the first time I've had a chance to hear the new material. Great playing and tone per usual :) Hopefully we can share the stage again sometime in the near future before BCH heads into the dark abyss of the recording studio.
