User:XizorBlackSun
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FAVORITE BANDS
Local Bands: Live Alien Broadcast, Colouring Lesson, Fidel, Laughing Colors, All Mighty Senators, Mary Prankster, Rezin, Buzz Poets, Rebel Amish Radio, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, The Ernies
Metal: Opeth, Dan Swanö, Devin Townsend, Kotiteollisuus, Bloodbath, Katatonia, Amorphis, Rapture, Sonata Arctica, Edge Of Sanity, Another Life, Vintersorg, Strapping Young Lad, Diabolical Masquerade, Impaled, Vehemence, Immortal, Hypocrisy, Dimmu Borgir, Crotchduster, Mushroomhead, Farmakon, Scar Symmetry, Windir, Odyssey, Avantasia, Arch Enemy, Nevermore, Viikate, Tool, The Duskfall, Judas Priest, Arcturus, Stam1na, Clutch, Thyrfing, Nuclear Assault, Morbid Angel, Dark Funeral, Emperor, Novembre, Otyg, Dio, Coroner, Moonsorrow, Iron Maiden, Infestdead, Kreator, Prong, Testament, Hollenthon, Slayer, Green Carnation, Killing Joke
Progressive Rock: Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Nightingale, Riverside, Camel, Marillion, Pink Floyd, Pineapple Thief, Tom Nouga
Brit Rock: The Cure, The House Of Love, New Model Army, The Ocean Blue, Kitchens Of Distinction, The Mission UK, Echo And The Bunnymen, Franz Ferdinand, Ride, The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Smiths
Alternative Rock: Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Velocity Girl, Tenacious D, Faith No More, Lush, Interpol, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Strange Boutique, The Sisters Of Mercy, Jane's Addiction, Peter Murphy, Sugar, Ministry, Mr. Bungle, Primus, Grandaddy, Oingo Boingo, New Order, General Public, Muse, Garbage, Fantomas, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Juliana Hatfield, VNV Nation, The Lemonheads, Poe, Meat Puppets, A Perfect Circle, Skinny Puppy, Belly, My Bloody Valentine, Poole, Portishead, The The, James, The Ditty Bops, Nitzer Ebb, Weezer, The Judybats, Hey Mercedes, The Pixies, KMFDM
Punk: JFA, Misfits, Minor Threat, The Exploited, Fugazi, Cro-Mags, GBH, Dead Kennedys, D.I., Samhain, Agent Orange
Ska: The Planet Smashers, The Pietasters, The Toasters
Rock: Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Police, Sting, Peter Gabriel, William Shatner, The Cars
Rap, Reggae & Hip-Hop: 2 Skinnee J's, Run-DMC, Bob Marley, Doug E. Fresh, Das Efx, A Tribe Called Quest, Matisyahu
MOVIES
Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Indiana Jones, High Fidelity, Tim Burton films (Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow), The Fifth Element, The Big Lebowski, Evil Dead II, Office Space, Blazing Saddles, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Napoleon Dynamite, Young Frankenstein, Aliens, Weird Science, Dazed And Confused, Shaun Of The Dead, Wes Anderson films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), Evolution, Fargo, the Hellraiser series, Serenity, American Psycho, Best In Show, Dune, Clerks, The Terminator, What The Bleep Do We Know?, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Team America, Fight Club, Predator, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Planes Trains &; Automobiles, Better Off Dead, Uncle Buck, Harold &; Kumar Go To White Castle
TELEVISION
Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, CSI: Miami, Reno 911!, The Daily Show, Family Guy, Stargate: Atlantis, Robot Chicken, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Firefly, The Dead Zone, Monk
BOOKS
"Lamb: The Gospel Accoring To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" and "Practical Demonkeeping" (Christopher Moore), "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" (Douglas Adams), "Good Omens" (Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman), "High Fidelity" (Nick Hornby), Collected works of (H.P. Lovecraft), "American Gods" (Neil Gaiman), "Get In The Van" (Henry Rollins), "Cabal" Clive Barker, "Whipping Boy" (John Byrne), "Big Trouble" (Dave Barry), American Gods" (Neil Gaiman), "If Chins Could Kill: Confesions Of A B-Movie Actor" (Bruce Campbell), "The Regulators" (Stephen King), "American Psycho" (Bret Easton Ellis), "Fight Club" (Chuck Palahniuk), "Private Parts" (Howard Stern), the "Harry Potter" series (J.K. Rowling).
HEROES
All my heroes are musicians... Dan Swanö (Nightingale, Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath, Odyssey, Pan-Thy-Monium, Infestdead); Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield); Devin Townsend (Devin Townsend Band, Strapping Young Lad); Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth, Sorskogen, Bloodbath, Katatonia)
ABOUT ME
I'm a music fanatic — could you tell? I immerse myself in it, listen to it constantly, read about it, research it, study it. It's ingrained in my entire being. live Rob Gordon's obsession (bonus points if you get the reference). I can go record shopping/browsing and spend hours upon hours just looking at CDs and vinyl. I typically venture out to local shows and national-act tours at least three or four times a month, if at all possible. And I'm equally comfortable hanging out in a dive bar seeing a metal band, or going to Wolf Trap to catch a concert on the lawn.
I like being around creative people. I love to laugh — I think I'd rather be doing that than (almost) anything else. I appreciate all different kinds of humor, especially dry, goofy, and sarcastic humor. I seek absurdity. I'm a movie buff, and I enjoy collecting them as much as watching them. I enjoy spending time in darkened movie theaters or my darkened living room, watching a great film. My NetFlix queue has been getting way out of hand lately. Occasionally, I get inspired to write my own movie reviews. I also have a photographic memory when it comes to movie quotes... especially if they make me laugh. My speech tends to be peppered with them when I'm around friends with similar tendencies.
Other things about me: At the moment, I'm slogging it out as a web design grunt in the trenches of a large, non-technically-oriented company. In my spare time, I'm filling my brain with as much knowledge and music as possible. I like to stay up really late at night — there just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do. I like sitting in coffee shops with friends until 6am after a great show talking, laughing and drinking an obscene amount of coffee. I listen to a ton of different styles of music, though I listen to Metal the most (to be fair, though, I don't fit the stereotype of your typical metalhead). And I collect music — my music collection would definitely kick your music collection's ass in a fight. I even have to keep the genres separated, in case the metal decides to get rowdy. I play guitar, I write code, I read a lot of books, I watch a ton of movies, I play video games, I sing in the car (badly). I'm learning the trials and tribulations of being a relatively new home-owner. I've embarked on a quest to finish viewing all of the AFI's Top 100 Films in the next year or two. I'm over thirty and I still shave most of my head regularly. I enjoy listening to Howard Stern, and I love offensive comedy. I love road trips to the beach, and hanging out on the sand reading a great book. I rarely drink alcohol. I have a 26" long scar on my leg. I think Thai food kicks ass. I have three eccentric cats. I don't smoke. I love surround sound. I collect gargoyles and skulls and bats and spooky things. I can quote you any line from any Star Wars flick verbatim.
