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First off, don't mistake me for the trope
Took the name of the Gunslinging, King-of-Vampires, WWII vet thanks to an ability to impersonate said vampire's Voice Actor Crispin Freeman ( and not much else).
likes:
Anime and Manga (prefer slice-of-life, fantasy and the occasional love-comedy)
Music (mostly hard pop-rock, 80's metal and Alternative Metal)
- AC/DC (does anyone ever need justification to like AC/DC? They are what they are, you may or may not like them)
- Aerosmith
- Airbourne ([1]
 ) (not as good as AC/DC, but a good substitute)
- Alice In Chains (favorite of the grunge-era)
- Alter Bridge
- Anarchy Club
- Anthrax (As unusual as it is, they're my favorite member of the Big Four)
- Art Of Dying
- Audioslave
- The Beatles
- The Black Crowes ([2]) (I'm probably the only person on the entire wiki who likes them)
- Black Sabbath
- Deep Purple
- Def Leppard
- Disturbed (made that page myself)
- I could probably fan over them here, but I think the article speaks for itself (I wrote 90% of it).
- Dokken
- The Doors
- Faith No More
- Flyleaf
- Grateful Dead
- Green Day (I've found them catchy; unlike most pop groups you see today, they can actually write a song)
- Guns N' Roses (one of my absolute favorites, including the nu-guns stuff; I actually liked Chinese Democracy, thankyouverymuch)
- Halestorm [3]
- Iron Maiden (they're somewhere in my top 3, #1 on certain days)
- Judas Priest
- Lamb Of God
- Led Zeppelin
- Marilyn Manson
- Motörhead
- Mötley Crüe (for the same reason for AC/DC being listed: They're rockin')
- Mudvayne ([4]) (In particular, Ryan Martinie. Also Hellyeah)
- Nirvana
- Negima! J Pop
- The Offspring
- Our Lady Peace [5]
- Pantera (And by extension, Down, Damageplan and Hellyeah)
- Pearl Jam
- The Police
- Queen
- Radiohead
- Rush
- Skid Row
- Slayer (second favorite Big Four).
- Slipknot (the death of their bassist and regular listens to Iowa made me realize, they're actually pretty good. Besides, their haters are much dumber than their fanbase)
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Soundgarden
- Stone Sour [6] (they're definitely more than just an extension of Slipknot. I probably like them more (Corey Taylor's talent-level seems to jump with this band))
- System of a Down
- Testament
- Three Days Grace (catchy pop riffs, Gontier has a good voice, and they're a post-grunge band who doesn't sound like Creed)
- The Who
- 3 Doors Down ([7]) (first rock group I got into, so they get a mention)
Video Games (partial to action and fighting but I tend to get easily addicted to RPGs)
As you may be able to tell, I like the PlayStation 3. I own a Wii as well, but own or plan to buy many titles from it. The only thing I play of the PC is Team Fortress 2.
Western Media (I've seen many of these, and liked few of them. What you see here I find significantly good)
Suggested and/or launched:
- Apocalypse Maiden: Probably my favorite trope I've launched; during YKTTW, someone suggested the title because it would make a great metal band name.
- Arrow Catch: I didn't write this one unfortunately (but I supplied the picture).
- Art Of Dying
- Badass Long Robe
- Blade Across The Shoulder
- Camera Fiend
- Circus Index
- Demon Slaying
- Disturbed
- Dokken
- Geffen Records
- Knighting: I had quite a bit of help with the research on that one.
- Magic Dance
- The Mars Volta: I hate the band, so this is rather ironic; I created the page out of hatred for the band. The ultimate revenge, really * Evil Laugh* .
- Michael Bublé: I don't care for his music, but the Canadian Music section (and the Jazz section in Musicians) needed this. Two birds with one stone, really.
- Mötley Crüe
- One-Hit Kill: My first and most popular trope... except I didn't even write it.
- One Last Smoke: This is such an extensively well-known and old trope that I almost feel honored to have been the one to YKTTW it.
- I indirectly helped to shape Perishing Alt Rock Voice, but unfortunately its sister trope Stuttering Wail and Emo Whisper never got launched. And yet we have Nose Yodeling...
- Playstation All Stars Battle Royale: Sort of; someone else created the page for Title Fight before the game had gotten its official name, which a turned into a redirect in favor of the page I'd written. I didn't directly lift anything from the old article, but I kept the main point.
- Post Grunge
- Reprise Records
- Rockumentary
- Slipknot: To be honest, I intended that one as Snark Bait; I was hoping to get a laugh out of watching it get flamed to hell, but it seems to have developed a small pool of editors... and I've grown to care for it (the article, not the band).
- I take that back. I've grown to care for the band.
- Sniper Rifle: I didn't write this one either, and I've always found it unsatisfactory.
- Soundgarden
- Skirts and Ladders
- Stance System
- Stroke The Beard
- This Index Is On Fire: My other favorite.
- Three Days Grace
Stuff I did:
- I'm responsible for the massive genre-folderization overhaul in the Musicians section (which took nearly a week straight of research). Jazz, Blues and Reggae got added later by others. Credit also goes to Xaris for initiating it and making several further contributions afterwards, and Dracula On A Bike a contribution. No one else helped.
- To this day I still monitor the thing like a hawk. I don't think there's a page on it I haven't at least visited yet.
- I created The Ocean Group section on Stargate City (along with the film section), but Omega Metroid split it off into its own page.
- I categorized the Canadian Music index by Province.
- I started a few trends with Musicians articles:
- I came up with using hot tips to take note of related groups. The system we had before would have a single artist under a bullet, then a secondary artist beneath them in another bullet. Obviously that does nothing for types like Mike Patton and Dave Grohl, who have multiple side projects (unless you want to list Tenacious D or Queens of the Stone Age under Nirvana). As far as I'm concerned, we should abandon that bullets system entirely, except for rare cases of band members without any kind of solo career getting pages to themselves (X Japan for instance).
- I'm the one who started making floatboxes on the side to list a band's influences (That Other Wiki doesn't do that, so we one-upped them in that field). I first did it on Disturbed's article, them moved onto Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slipknot. Take a look around; you'll probably see other articles doing the same (Tool, Linkin Park, Mudvayne.
- I used the same logic in making floatboxes on the side of articles to list related acts, since the hot tips system explains nothing. This one isn't as popular, but I did do it for about a dozen pages, with others occasionally popping up using the same idea.
- I didn't start this, but I kind-of popularized folderizing Musicians pages. Again something I did first with Disturbed, I did it later with Metallica and Slipknot. The most common categories are Music, Videos, the band members personal lives and sometimes lyrical concepts split from music. I first saw this being done on the Coldplay article (but someone seems to have reverted it, sadly).
( You probably don't want to read these. Go ahead and move along)
Pet-peeves
Vandalism
Everybody does this *]], so you may as well to. Have at'er * God, am I desperate for contact...
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