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Favorite Genres of Metal:

Black, DOOM, glam, Hair, metal-core, NWOBHM, thrash

Location:

Sunset Park

Job / Company:

Studio H

Favorite Bands:

AC/DC, Acid Mothers Temple, Battles, Black Sabbath, Bleeding Through, Blood Brothers, Boris, Brian Eno, Darkest Hour, Miles Davis, Dillinger Escape Plan, Drive Like Jehu, Electric Wizard, Every Time I Die, Faith No More, Fear Before The March Of Flames, Foo Fighters, Fugazi, Gallows, Glassjaw, Guns N' Roses, Helmet, Iron Maiden, Jawbox, Joy Division, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Metallica (Kill, Puppets, Lightning, Justice), Minor Threat, Misfits, Municipal Waste, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Norma Jean, Priestess, Quicksand, Refused, Sex Pistols, Slayer, Snapcase, Sonic Youth, The Cure, The Smiths, The Stooges, The Sword, Witchery

Favorite Movies:

I will watch and re-watch A Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall, Back To The Future, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Harold And Maude, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, The Man Who Fell To Earth, No Country for Old Men, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, Spinal Tap, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi, Taxi Driver, The Big Lebowski, There Will Be Blood, The Shining, Trainspotting, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Wings Of Desire. Nothing beats the look and feel of films from the 60s and 70s, I'm always up for watching films from those times. I also love 70s and early 80s horror like Alien, Army of Darkness, Carrie, Dawn of the Dead, Eraserhead, Evil Dead, The Exorcist, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Omen, Phantasm and Tourist Trap (Eric, we gotta schedule a viewing soon!).

Interests:

Listening to and playing rock music, going to shows, taking pictures, comic books, writing, and getting all extreme on the elliptical at the gym.

Favorite Video Games:

Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk

Favorite Books:

I like character-driven, depressing yet funny and/or somewhat optimistic stories such as A Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, Death in Venice, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, No Exit, On the Road, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Portnoy's Complaint, Watchmen, and most work by Brian Michael Bendis, Ray Bradbury, Dave Eggers, Neil Gaiman, Ken Kesey, Chuck Klosterman, Alan Moore, Arthur Nersesian, and Philip Roth.