Favorite bands :
Nirvana, Tool, A Perfect Circle, The Doors, Karnivool, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, Isis, Red Sparowes, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Queens of the Stone Age, The Who, Foo Fighters, RATM, Black Light Burns, Interpol, Editors, Arctic Monkeys, Black Sabbath, Deftones, Godsmack, System of a Down, Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Filter, Norma Jean, Jawbox, Black Flag, Dinosaur Jr., Kyuss, Eagles of Death Metal, Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Failure, The Jesus Lizard, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, anything else involving Mike Patton, Melvins, Chevelle, and others.
Favorite guitarists :
(Biggest influences rather than favorites, not necessarily in order):
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Matthew Bellamy (Muse), Adam Jones (Tool), Billy Howerdel (A Perfect Circle, Ashes Divide), Jerry Cantrell (AiC), Aaron Turner/Michael Gallagher (Isis), Michael Einziger (Incubus), Tony Iommi (I shouldn't even have to say), Robby Krieger (The Doors), James Hetfield (Metallica)
Favorite bassists :
Don't really play the bass, but I really appreciate a band in which the bassist drives the songs: Justin Chancellor (Tool), Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Christopher Wolstenholme (Muse), Carlos D (Interpol)
Favorite books :
Steppenwolf, Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), Dark Tower series (Stephen King), Dune (Frank Herbert), The Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks), Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Michael Azerrad), Heavier Than Heaven (Charles Cross)
Favorite tv :
The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, Seinfeld, South Park, The Office (BBC and US), Are You Being Served?, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Dexter, Californication
Favorite movies :
About A Son, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead II, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Indiana Jones trilogy (and the fourth one, I guess), Star Wars, Fight Club, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Se7en, Memento, Pulp Fiction, The Seventh Seal, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy At The Gates, Meet Joe Black, etc. etc.
Well...I'm a drummer first and foremost (started in seventh grade, but unfortunately only became motivated around my sophomore year in high school), but I bought a guitar in December of 2006 and have been trying it on my own since then. I've been singing for about two years now, and I'm trying to combine all of this with GarageBand.
I'm also a Chinese major, which has slowly been taking over my life during the past three years.
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