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Music
16 Volt Acumen Nation Adam Ant Android Lust Apoptygma Berzerk Assemblage 23 Art Of Noise The B-52s Babyland Bad Religion Bauhaus Beck Bi God20 Bile Billy Idol Chemlab Chris Connelly Colbalt 60 Collide Combichrist Covenant C-Tec Cubanate Curve The Cure Cyanotic The Damage Manual Daniel Ash Dead or Alive Depeche Mode Dessau Devo Die Krupps Die Warzau Dismantled Error Excessive Force Fishbone Flesh Field Foetus Front 242 Front Line Assembly Funker Vogt God Module Hanzel Und Gretyl Hate Dept. Hellbent Hellsau Helmet Hocico Icon of Coil Imperative Reaction Jello Biafra Jesus Jones Joy Division Juno Reactor Kevorkian Death Cycle Killing Joke KMFDM Laibach Lard Left Spine Down Live Lords of Acid Love and Rockets Mad Capsule Markets MC 900Ft Jesus mdfmk Meg Lee Chin Melvins Mesh Midnight Oil Ministry Moby More Machine Than Man Morphine Murder Inc. My Life With The TKK Negativland New Order Nine Inch Nails Ohgr Oingo Boingo Panzer AG Peter Gabriel Pet Shop Boys Pig Pigface PJ Harvey Placebo Pop Will Eat Itself Prick Primus Public Image Limited REM Rammstein Recoil Red Hot Chili Peppers Revolting Cocks Ruby Rx Schaft Schwein Seabound Sheep On Drugs Sister Machine Gun Sisters of Mercy Skinny Puppy Slick Idiot The Smiths Souixsie & The Banshees Sow Suicide Commando The Birthday Massacre The Epoxies The Sex Pistols They Might Be Giants Tones On Tail Tori Amos U2 Underworld VAST VNV Nation Ween White Zombie Wumpscut xlover XTC Zombie Girl
Movies
In no particular order...
2001: A Space Odyssey The Big Lebowski Ghost World The Blues Brothers Planet of the Apes High Fidelity UHF A Fish Called Wanda Better Off Dead Unbreakable Star Wars Iron Giant Blade Runner Das Boot The Shining Falling Down Escape From New York The Prophecy Raiders of the Lost Ark Memento Nightmare Before Christmas Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Brazil 1984 12 Monkeys Transformers: The Movie The Breakfast Club Ferris Bueller's Day Off Running Man Robocop Alien Top Secret Ghostbusters Tron Memento Omega Man Logan's Run The Incredibles A Christmas Story Lawnmower Man Total Recall Terminator Pulp Fiction Fifth Element Sin City Equilibrium Pan's Labyrinth Thank You For Smoking Art School Confidential Oldboy Metropolis The Fountain Perfume
...and probably many I'm forgetting...
Directors:
Tim Burton
Terry Gilliam
Stanley Kubrick
The Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
David Lynch
Television
The Office My Name Is Earl Lost Heroes Hell's Kitchen Simpsons Family Guy Twilight Zone Seinfeld Late Night With David Letterman Futurama Star Trek (TOS) The Daily Show The Colbert Report Sledge Hammer!.. Looney Tunes Curb Your Enthusiasm Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends Penn and Teller's BULLSHIT!
About me: How would I describe myself? Well, I think easy-going liberal non-PC intellectual rabblerouser pretty much covers it. I am also a dyed-in-the-wool introvert, so constant socializing and yakkin' on the phone is not high on to-do list. I generally fill the time most people waste on idle chit-chat with thought, which I believe gives me a leg up on the competition as far as meaningful conversations go.
Politics are VERY important to me. We live in a dangerous time where are freedoms are being eroded by the enemies of democracy (read: our current administration, the Bush Crime Family). Hopefully you recognize that this is exactly how fascist regimes begin: imaginary threats from outside invaders are used as justification for stripping away your rights as citizens of this country. Just reading Orwell's "1984" if you need some obvious parallels...
I like to think of myself as somewhat of a foodie, but honestly my palate is woefully underexposed due to growing up in a meat-and-potatoes family. I really need some help gettin' educated! However, I would not say I'm TOTALLY helpless, as I can and HAVE actually cooked my fair share of meals. (That cilantro salmon the other night came out pretty damn tasty if I do say so myself...)
I guess the oddest thing about me is I don't believe in acting my age. I still enjoy cartoons, comic books and video games just as much (probably more!) than when I was a kid. People often mistake me for being up to 10 years younger than I actually am, and I think a lot of that is simply attitude. I refuse to act like a boring adult who has the dead-end job/marriage, 2.5 kids, house out in the suburbs and does nothing but go to work and watch TV everyday. Life is about new experiences and learning new things. If you couldn't guess, I get bored easily!
Music is a huge part of my life. I used to play clarinet and saxophone in high school, and now current dabble a bit in keyboards. I love going to shows and listening to live music. My favorite bands tend to reside in the industrial genre--which is an extreme, obscure, experimental and abrasive form of music. In fact, most would be hard pressed to call it as such, but there's something about atonality, dissonance and non-organic sounds that really float my boat. On the selfish side of things, I also dig the fact the shows are cheap and generally intimate affairs (read: SMALL). Some other stuff I like: New Wave, Britpop, Punk, Goth, Shoegazer, Synthpop, Techno, "Alternative" (back when the word meant something) and many others.
A few other artistic pursuits I indulge in: photography (just invested in high-end prosumer camera/lens combo), writing (short stories, poetry, album reviews, interviews) and drawing (the occasional doodle). I also like to play with Photoshop and mess around in webdesign.
Religion: I grew up religious, and took many philosophy and religion courses in college. I guess you could say that I've always been search for some underlying meaning to reality, or some kind of unifying force or consciousness that holds it all together. Recently I've been reading a lot of pro-atheism books, particularly Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion." Because I have always been a very literal-minded and rational person, I'm leaning more and more towards the idea that there really is no "God" with a capital "G." Any sort of serious examination of the Bible reveals too many glaring contradiction, as well as a deity that seems to take pleasure in torturing and killing his creations. Science and evolution do a more than adequate job of explaining how we got here and why we behave the way we do--at least much more so than an ancient, retranslated book based on myths predating its own religious movement.
I guess that covers me in a nutshell. If you are one who takes astrology seriously, I can tell you now that I fit most of the Virgoian traits to a tee.
Miscellany:
Has man-crush on:
Raymond Watts of Pig, Schaft, KMFDM
Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist/Icon of Coil/Panzer AG
Long-standing lust object:
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Toni Halliday of Curve!
.. Grammar Nazi
.. Rationality Uber Alles
Who I'd like to meet: I'm always up for meeting interesting, intelligent and thoughtful people. We don't have to agree on anything, but please have a coherent rationale for what you believe! I'm always willing to be proven wrong and learn something new.
If you are liberal, we will probably have a lot in common as far as morality and spirituality goes. If you are artistic, I will likely admire you for your talent! It's the closest thing we have to magic in this world.
Just in case any females are reading this (HA!): I like (in no particular order) STYLE, confidence, informed opinions, well-formed eyebrows, boots, a quick wit, great taste in music, technological-savvy, curviness, a warm smile..being adventurous, well-read, untanned, an appreciator of fine dining, creative, liberal, socially-conscious, silly and seductive.
I've been dyeing (sp? that never looks right) my hair red off and on for the last year now, though I guess you can't see it too vividly in a lot of pictures, so yeah that's the color I like now! Anyhoos thanks Mr Dee Emm
All the stickers (mdfmk, wax trax, kmfdm, obama, and apple) survived.
Anyway, on Nov. 13th, that happened. My leg is healing after breaking in the accident. It still hurts and I don't really like being a gimp, but I don't really have a choice until February. There's the back story to the pictures.
yeah even though we tend to have different favorites, my dad and I actually click on the way we think about music a lot. He was playing the crow soundtrack, too, cuz he thinks the TKK song on it is just like the bee's knees or something. But that's about it.
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