25-year-old male from New Jersey, USA. Music fan, PC gamer, college graduate with a degree in communication, wannabe computer geek. When I'm not troping, I'm usually playing PC games, surfing Youtube randomly, listening to music, playing guitar, or occasionally reading books.
I'm
Straight Edge and proud of it. I've never done drugs or alcohol in my life. Never even been curious about them. I wouldn't tell anyone else how to live their lives, but staying clean and sober is one of the best things I've ever decided to do for myself. I've seen the way some of my friends have acted while under the influence; I want absolutely none of that.
I have a
Youtube channel
. It's mostly music.
Stuff I like:
Music
Video Games
Live Action TV
Film
Literature
Web Original
Western Animation
I have major
Hype Aversions to the following:
- The Sopranos
- Mad Men
- Breaking Bad
- Radiohead
- Whatever generic indie rock is currently being hailed by Pitchfork Media and NME as the greatest thing that ever happened to music.
- All anime & manga.
- Call of Duty. The entire franchise. (I do own Black Ops and played a little bit of it but didn't see what all the fuss was about).
- Juno. Call me crazy, but I think movie dialogue should consist of things real people would actually say, rather than meta-attempts at being clever on the part of the writer.
- Family Guy, and, to a lesser extent, most other "mature", irreverent animated comedy shows.
- Gears of War. I played the first game when it was originally released and didn't see the appeal. It was just a bunch of cardboard cutout, testosterone-overdosed, tough-guy Marine types fighting their way through a paper-thin (and short) plot. For this reason I haven't played the second or third games at all.
And now to
complain about stuff I don't like:
- Arcade Fire. Maybe it's just because indie rock generally isn't my thing (see the above), but I honestly don't understand what's so great about them. And yes, I have listened to their music. It sounds incredibly bland to me.
- Halo. Boring run-and-gun singleplayer with a storyline that had potential in the beginning but ran out of imagination by the end of the trilogy. The only reason anyone seems to care about it is the multiplayer, which is not enough for me to forgive it.
- Metal. Too macho for me.
- Grunge in general. It was just a more polished and commercially friendly summary of what was great about 80s and 90s college rock and post-hardcore, but not nearly as interesting. Also, I find grungy angst to be Narmful.
- Gears of War. I couldn't decide if it should go here or in Hype Aversions, so I put it in both places.
- Coldplay
- U2. Their first few albums were good, but since The Joshua Tree they've been the most self-important, self-righteous band in rock history. Every single thing they do, both musically and non-musically, has to be huge. They don't know how to be subtle or modest. They're the musical equivalent of a kid on the internet who types in ALL CAPS.
