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| Introduction | I'm a 19 year old College Student! |
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| Interests | I'm mainly interested in classical music, some of the non-raucous jazz music, some 50's and 60's rock and pop music, but don't care much for the current crap. I play keyboard instruments (only for the fun of it), mainly the organ. I have been known to dabble with pianos, but they're a bit too painful on the fingers for me, these days. I don't care for synthesisers, though; there's too much fiddling to set up and change the sort of sounds it's going to make, you don't just sit down and play music on them. And I don't really care that much for fake instruments, especially non-keyboard instruments being faked on a keyboard, and anything that really needs the mechanical accoustics of the real instrument (e.g. even a straight, truly HiFi, recording of a real piano is a completely different experience from sitting at a piano, feeling it resonate, and each note reacting against each other, even against the strings of the ones not being played, as well as effect of the room around it; never mind a completely fake simulation). I really only like the organ sounds on an organ, even though the electronic organ is quite different from a pipe organ (I think it's, now, an instrument in its own right). I don't make much use of their attempts to emulate traditional instruments; apart from the sound being too different from what I want to hear, they don't sound like the real thing, and many of them were never meant to be played by a keyboard. |
| Favorite movies | 1.Pineapple Express 2.Mulan 3.Team America 4.40 days and 40 nights 5.One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest 6.Die Hard 7.Persepolis 8.Out of Sight 9.Hope Floats 10.The Cider House Rules 11.Shoot ‘Um Up 12.The Good Girl 13.Dangerous Minds 14.Pan’s Labyrinth 15.Apocalypto 16.To Kill a Mockingbird 17.Romeo and Juliet And that one movie where Michael Cera plays a awkward teenager |
| Favorite music | 1. All Around Me- Flyleaf 2. The Anthem- Good Charlotte 3. In The End- Linkin Park 4. Here Without You- 3 Doors Down 5. Halfway Gone- Lifehouse 6. When I Come Around- Green Day 7. Ocean Avenue- Yellowcard 8. Seventeen Forever MetroStation 9. She Will Be Loved- Maroon 5 10.Wont Go Home Without You 11.What About Now- Daughtry 12.Havent Met You Yet- Michael Buble |
| Favorite books | 1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 3. The Bible (Various Contributors) 4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton 6. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling 7. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 8. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams 9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 10. A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey And the rest of the top 100 are: 11. Dirt Music by Tim Winton 12. 800 Horseman by Col Stringer 13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 14. Zhaun Falun by Li Hongzhi 15. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling 16. Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space by Dav Pilkey 17. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 18. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis |