Music......staying in......listening to music.....going out......seeing live music......wine......DJing music for the people........women........evaluating music........and song (guess that fits under music eh?)
Music
- OF ALL TIME.......Massive Attack, The Clash, Beastie Boys, Killing Joke, (pre-Black Album) Metallica, early Cure, PiL, The Jam, The Specials, The Who, Tool, The Stooges, Kraftwerk, Run DMC, Bad Brains, Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, Subhumans, Kyuss, Prince, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Jesus & Mary Chain, Celtic Frost, Cream, The [Southern (Death)] Cult, New Order, Slayer, Coil, The Buzzcocks, Quicksand, Motorhead, Partisans, James Brown, Husker Du, Jane's Addiction, Bauhaus, Underworld, Conflict, Sevendust, Refused, Blondie, Misfits, Bolt Thrower, Sisters of Mercy, Nausea, Skinny Puppy, At The Drive-In, Meat Beat Manifesto, Venom, Ministry, Deftones, Psychic TV, Crass, Public Enemy, The Prodigy, Nothingface, Front 242, Social Distortion, Carcass, Snot, Absolution, Demon Speed, The Melvins, Basement Jaxx, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Roni Size, The Cramps, Vision of Disorder, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM.......................................................................................................................
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- -RECENTLY....... The Faint, The Rapture, Norma Jean, Bloc Party, Lamb of God, The Bravery, Scissor Sisters, !!!, Radio 4, BRMC, The Raveonettes, Gerling, The Hong Kong, Instruction (RIP), Whitey, Unearth, The Blue Van, TSAR, The Kinison, Benzos, Paradise Boys, Every Move a Picture, Swayzak, Swarm of the Lotus, Kasabian, The Current, Apartment, Snow Patrol, bloodsimple, Firekills, Postal Service, theSTART, Death From Above 1979 (RIP - soo sad..), The Ordinary Boys, The Waiting Hurt, Cazals, White Rose Movement, Tommie Sunshine's remixes, Audio Bullys, Editors, Hard-Fi, The Cloud Room, Mylo, He Is Legend, The Picture, Trivium, Beans & Holy Fuck, Hopewell, Every Time I Die, Arctic Monkeys, Cut Copy, The Primms, Test Icicles (R.I.P.??), Whitey, Black Cobra, The Infadels, Erol Alkan (the DJ & the remixer), Jacknife, She Wants Revenge, Torche, From First To Last, Forward Russia!, Lair of the Minotaur, The Presets, The Ark, Black Angels, Chimaira, Wolfmother, Vitalic, Sighlo, MSTRKRFT (DJs, album & remixes - oh my!), Evil Engine 9, Soulwax, Hot Chip, Lesbians On Ecstasy, Foreign Islands, Justice, Rory Phillips (the DJ), Simian Mobile Disco, DJ Mehdi, Shiny Toy Guns, Hostility, Uffie, BoysnOI!ze, The Gossip, SebastiAn, DJ Mehdi, Melleefresh, Rocket, Motor, Jesu, Klaxons, ShoutOutOutOut, Gallows, Para One, Digitalism, Mr. Oizo.........................
Movies
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Team America: World Police ("America....FUCK YEAH!!"), Walk The Line, LOTR, Usual Suspects, The (1st) Matrix, Swimming With Sharks, Evil Dead II, all Monty Python films, Quadrophenia, High Fidelity, 5 Deadly Venoms, Dogma, Prospero's Books, Empire Strikes Back, The Professional, Flying Guillotine, Shaun of the Dead, Requiem For A Dream, Sin City, Caligula, The Fashionistas, Turk 182, The Taking of Pelham 123, Snatch, Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (from which my dog got her name)
Television
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Heroes (Save the Cheerleader...), Reel Time w/Bill Maher, Entourage, The Shield, 24,Countdown w/Keith Olbermann, Lost, Love Monkey (it's like watching a white guy tell my life story..'cept my life story's waaay better!! - & still going!!), South Park, Family Guy, The Boondocks, The Simpsons, American Dad, Metalocalypse, Sealab 2021, Aqua-Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, The Sopranos ("Don't Stop..."), How I Met Your Mother (Doogie Howser Rules!!!), Tough Crowd (RIP), Angel (RIP), "The Alternative" on VH1 Classic (I've never seen a lot of those videos!!) ..........................................................................................................................
GUILTY PLEASURES: The Surreal Life (it's like a car wreck - you just can't turn away!!), American Idol (cuz Simon says all the things that I'm too nice to say but NEED to be said!!)
Books
The Art of Happiness, The Art of War, Siddhartha, American Psycho, Animal Speak, A&R, Trash, The Art Of Getting Over...
Heroes
Martin Luther King Jr., The Dalai Lama, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons........and last but not least......John "Buttman" Stagliano (....and if you don't know.....now you know......)
Temple University
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Partying, Music, Playing Guitar in Starkweather
1987 to 1990
University Of Arizona
Tucson, ARIZONA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Skateboarding/Underage Drinking/Peyote
Clubs: The "This Fuckin' Place Is Too Damn Hot!" Club
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I am an Artist Manager & Music Industry Consultant (JUGGERNAUT MGMT), journalist (DISORDER MAGAZINE UK), occasional music showcase panelist / judge / mentor, & I am a DJ - "I am what I play" (UNSTOPPABLE PERFECT / LEWD)....... I started way back in history as a DJ & Program Director/GM of my H.S. radio station (The Hill School in Pottstown, PA)........went to Temple University in Philly & played 2nd guitar for the groundbreaking metalcore band STARKWEATHER ......... then worked as the alternative/import/indie music buyer for three music retail chains - TOWER RECORDS, J&R MUSIC WORLD, & HMV........I was then hired by the (sadly now defunct) Chicago "industrial/electronic" label WAX TRAX! RECORDS in 1992 (working with artists like UNDERWORLD, KMFDM, JUAN ATKINS, AUTECHRE, SUPA DJ DMITRY (of DEEE-LITE fame), SISTER MACHINE GUN, CUBANATE & others) shortly before they declared bankruptcy & were bailed out by TVT RECORDS, where I worked for 13 years (before they became a hip-hop label)......while at TVT, I ascended to the level of Senior Director of A&R, and signed & worked very closely with SEVENDUST, NOTHINGFACE, JUST JACK, VISION OF DISORDER, IGNITE, TSAR, STILLSUIT, DAYINTHELIFE, PORTABLE & others ........ left TVT in the beginning of 2006 (13 years is a long time)....... I'm always out..........seldom home......... don't sleep much.........have a superhuman liver.............. and constantly have a really cool soundtrack playing in the background as I walk the earth like Caine from "Kung Fu"........... I also broil a mean steak & stir-fry up a mean......um.....stir-fry............and if you wanna go out & hear songs by the artists listed to the left in the music section, come check me DJ sometime.....
Who I'd like to meet: Fun people who don't judge others for being themselves ...........
the Dalai Lama..........
Bands who don't suck (& MOST OF YOU BANDS REALLY SUCK btw...).............
Russell Simmons........
People I've lost touch with over the years...........
Scarlett Johannson..........
Dr. Rockso (HEE DOES COOO-CAAAAINE!!!).......
Belladonna (no, NOT Joey Belladonna!!!).................
Ava Cowan.........
Keith Olbermann......
......and this fireman.....
.................NOTE: ......... If I don't actually know you, send me a message before asking to be added as a friend
