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Music

I’m really big into classic rock and I’m a fan of pretty much any band that falls into this genre or any offshoot of rock (50s rock and roll, 60s bubblegum pop, psychedelia, surf, and folk, 70s hard rock and punk, 80s hair metal, 90s pop). The band that started it all was The Monkees. I was a huge fan in my early teens after seeing the biopic Daydream Believers, and despite swearing I would never love another, The Beatles eventually took over. From there, I got into The Who, who (ahahahaha) are still my favourite band, mainly because I listen to other artists as well. Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Aerosmith, The Doors, Def Leppard, and The Rolling Stones are all pretty awesome too.

I’m a rather musical person. I’ve played keyboards since I was little and we had an old keyboard that would play “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”, guitar since the Nesmith-inspired Monkee days, harmonica on a whim during the Beatle era, and drums since bearing witness to the madness that is Moon the Loon. I rather suck at all of those except drums, which I’m (kind of) okay at. Besides Keith Moon, my other favourite drummer is Alex Van Halen, but I also enjoy playing John Bonham’s stuff.

Television and Movies

In terms of television, I’ve been into older shows for much longer. I can’t remember how long I’ve been watching The Brady Bunch and Three’s Company. I guess they started it all, so when I was watching those shows I would see commercials for other old shows. One day I happened to see Happy Days; it was the episode where Chachi wanted to join a gang but Fonzie talked him out of it. Anyway, I thought the show was really scary, but the little kid was cute. And so from there came Charles in Charge with Scott Baio. In terms of newer shows, I like That ’70s Show (no surprise there), The Simpsons, and Dead Like Me. I didn’t really watch any current TV until the late ’00s, when I got into Lost, which is a pretty awesome show as well.

Again with movies, my favourites are all either old movies or movies about the past. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Help!, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (yes, that one), Tommy, and Wayne’s World all fall into the former category and my two absolutely favourite movies fall into the latter: Almost Famous and Forrest Gump. I quite like watching all the good old classic movies so that I can understand all the pop cultures references about them, but even moreso I love watching bad old movies, usually horror ones. They’re much funnier than the supposed “comedies” that come out these days.

Reading and Writing

I don’t do a lot of novel reading because most of my time is spent on the computer, but that’s about all I did as a child. I have a long list of books I’d like to read “some day”, mostly all dealing with aliens, time travel, or something equally scientific and freaky. I also like writing, as you may have deduced, but I absolutely hated English class.

Art

I like drawing, photography, and filmmaking, but I don’t do much of them. I’ll doodle if I have a paper and pencil in front of me, but this doesn’t happen very often. I’m more inclined to draw little pixel people in Paint (how’s that for alliteration?). I like taking pictures and would like to do it a lot more. I mostly take pictures of flowers and other macro photography, because I think it’s easy to make it look good. I also love taking pictures of the sky, but I don’t get out much, so all my sunsets look the same taken out my bedroom window. I love everything to do with filmmaking — writing, directing, acting, and editing. I tend to try to do all of these things at once though, so it usually doesn’t turn out, so I try to stick to editing.

Other Stuff

I also like green hats, fonts, Davy dancing, lucid dreaming, concerts, groupies, Flight of the Conchords, people falling down, Callum Blue, Mitch Hedburg, Paul Nicholas, Pattie Boyd, The Sims 3, triangular sideburns, songs with my name in it, Wikipedia, old school Pokemon, blogging, Catch-22, nitpicking writing, and ducks (it’s a love-hate relationship).