My first attempt at this is incorrect now, so time to repeat.

[JCC]

Alright, well, I did my introductory thread a while ago, and since I have nothing better to do, and since I've changed quite a bit since then (and will most likely continue to change, be on the lookout for a repeat of this in about another three months once I've looked at this thread and with an air of disgust thought to myself 'Is that really me?'), I have decided to fill out my introductory survey AGAIN for all of you. I spoil you people, I truly do.

1. What do you do? (Hobbies, job)

I don't do anything as a job, because I'm too young (13), but I do want a job, and will have to search for one as soon as I come to a reasonable age. But as for hobbies, literature and music, really. Also I spend rather a large amount of my time being cynical and debating things that I have no knowledge about, so substitute knowledge for big words in the hope that people will think I'm far outclassing them and that I should be declared victor and high ruler of the debating art.

2. Where are you from?

A little town called Dudley.

3. Who is your favorite author?

There are so many to choose from, so I'll copy my list from my myspace.

George Orwell
Horace Walpole
HP Lovecraft
JRR Tolkien (though he is rather long-winded at times)
James Barclay
Anthony Horowitz (the Alex Rider books are simple, but entertaining, and he does a good job of writing Midsomer Murders, considering the amount of original murders)
Oscar Wilde
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Frederick Nietzsche
Richard Dawkins

4. What are your favorite films?

This is always getting updated, but my current list on Myspace are these cinema gems:

This Is England
American History X
Donnie Darko
The Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
Road to Perdition
Phantom of the Opera
300
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Matrix Trilogy
Amadeus
Groundhog Day
Frankenstein & Bride of Frankenstein (old black and white)
Back to the Future
The Shining
The Crow
Psycho (Bernard Hermann did a great job with the music)
Sleepy Hollow
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer
American Psycho
Equilibrium

5. What music do you want played at your wedding?

I have no idea, probably something slow and romantic, mainly to please whichever lady I'm imprisoning myself with.

6. At your funeral?

'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen, or 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead' (with lyrics changed to bastard for gender reasons)

7. This IS a gothic website, so... how do you want to die?

Old and happy, I have no time for cliched teen angst death wishes like "I want to die in a pulsating pool of inner turmoil swirling around my dismembered corpse" or any of that rubbish. I want to die in my rocking chair, watching telly and passing wind at inopportune moments.

8. What kind of casket would you want?

One that says "He will be sorely missed (Ps: Interpret as: Thank God the bastard's dead, let's drink!)" (Crying at my funeral will be punishable by pointing and laughing, I don't want my funeral to be those depressing ones with people in black suits crying as they reminisce of days gone by. When I'm dead, I want people to be happy about my life. So no depressing crap.

9. What's your FAVORITE outfit?

Anything that's comfortable, clean, and has some sort of band reference (lack of band reference is lack of direction and purpose, and must be remedied accordingly).

10. What's one thing you miss about being a little kid?

Nothing, I'm still technically a little kid. I found my Power Rangers - Lost Galaxy - Return Of The Magna Defender video about a week ago, and decided to watch it today just for laughs. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, the cheesy punchlines and sometimes bad acting just added to that experience of going back to the ghost of childhood past. It was awesome. Need to find more Power Rangers videos around the house, there are so many childhood memories and spiritualistic ideas about robotic animals that I must take from that glorious saga.

[JCC]

11. What's your favorite band?

Brace yourselves, my evergrowing, vast and unrelenting list of bands I listen to, again, straight from MySpace:

Classical/Composers

Carl Orff
Nox Arcana
Philip Glass
Camille Saint-Saens
Shostakovich
Richard Wagner
Chopin
Kenji Kawai
Immediate Music
Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastien Bach
X-Ray Dog

Acoustic/Folk

Vin Garbutt
Jake Thackray (he's awesome)

Folk Metal

Turisas
Finntroll
Korplikaani
Kampfar
Moonsorrow
Primordial
Tyr
Wintersun
Svartsot
Falkenbach

Comedy

Stephen Lynch
Tenacious D
Corky and the Juice Pigs
Amateur Transplants
Dr Demento

Doom Metal, Symphonic Metal, Gothic Metal, Post-Metal and Sludge Metal

Isis
Red Sparrowes
Jesu
Neurosis
Mistress
Mastodon
Cult of Luna
Kylesa
Electric Wizard
Paradise Lost
Opera IX
Moonspell
Sunn O)))
Earth
Boris
Lacuna Coil
Epica
Draconian
My Dying Bride
Cathedral
Anathema
Isole

Experimental/Other/Avant-Garde

SikTh
Messer Chups
Secret Chiefs 3
Estradasphere
John Zorn
John Eric Kaada
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Kaada/Patton (is totally mind-blowing)
Fantomas
Lovage
At The Drive-In
Unlimited Pineapple Club
Mr Bungle
Polar Bear
The Mars Volta
The Network
Ulver
Daughters
Ruins
Tomahawk
Corrision (like a techno remix of a punk song that someone who likes industrial remixed again to have more distorted riffage)
Psyopus
Faith No More
Tom Waits
Peeping Tom
The Melvins
General Patton Vs The X-Ecutioners
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Anything else by Mike Patton that I failed to mention.

Death Metal & Grindcore & Deathcore

Frightmare
Napalm Death
Vomitorial Corpulence
Preschool Tea Party Massacre (As Cool As Stealing Prosthetic Legs is an awesome Hip-Hop track too, this band kick ass)
Brain Drill
Death
At The Gates
Cannibal Corpse
Ghoul
Behemoth
Arch Enemy
Insomnium
Necrophagist
Charger
Cryptopsy
All Shall Perish
Grotesque
She Said Destroy
Spawn of Possession
Jet Black Horror
Skinless
Obituary
Morbid Angel
Deicide
Children of Bodom (early)
General Surgery
Carcass
Repulsion
Autopsy
Bolt Thrower
Entombed
Atheist
Malevolent Creation
Immolation
Cephalic Carnage
Nile
Suffocation
Apoc Death
Dying Fetus
Hate Eternal
Melechesh
Rotting Christ
Akercocke
Amon Amarth
Vader
Goatwhore

Black Metal

Behemoth
Burzum
Carpathian Forest
Nattefrost
Enthroned
Secrets of the Moon
Derelict Sermon
Lurker of Chalice
Immortal
I
Emperor
Peste Noire
Helheim
Gorgoroth
Venom
Satyricon
Celtic Frost

Rapcore

Body Count
Rage Against The Machine
Zebrahead
Nonpoint

Punk & Hardcore

Ignite
The Adicts
Converge
GBH
Dillinger Escape Plan (before Miss Machine)
Black Flag
Minor Threat
Dead Kennedys
TSOL
Rubber City Rebels
Discharge
Gallows
Authority Zero
Dead Kennedys
The Exploited
The Oppressed
The Casualties
Paint It Black
The Business
Sick Of It All
Sham 69
Hatebreed (Moshcore)
Dropkick Murphys (not the latest stuff)
The Clash
The Jam
Wednesday 13 (Only some. I don't care whether you approve, 'Morgue Than Words' is a damn catchy track)
Angry Amputees
Prong
Rise Against
Refused
The Ramones
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Newtown Neurotics
Spizzenergi
Paint It Black
The Misfits
Bad Religion
Samhain
Iggy and the Stooges
The Germs
FEAR
Gorilla Biscuits
MC5 (Punk or Garage Rock, it's hard to really make a distinct choice)
Social Distortion
Circle Jerks
Government Issue
Mike V And The Rats
Oingo Boingo
Suicidal Tendencies
The Dead Boys
Strike Anywhere
The Descendants
The Buzzcocks

Ska & Pop Punk (I realise they're basically unrelated)

Assorted Jellybeans
The Browns aka The Motherfucking Browns

Heavy Metal

Motorhead
Iron Maiden
Danzig
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Dio
Rainbow
Judas Priest
Pantera
Damageplan
Chrome Division
Saxon
Metal Church
System of a Down
Accept
U.D.O

Industrial (and Industrial Rock/Metal, which isn't the same thing)

Throbbing Gristle
The Kovenant
:Wumpscut:
Deathstars
Rob Zombie
Anaal Nathrakh
Combichrist
Unheilig
American Head Charge
The Berzerker
Mushroomhead
Static-X (some songs are alright)
Skinny Puppy
Saposmitz

J-Rock

Moi dix Mois
Maximum The Hormone
Nightmare
MALICE MIZER
UVERworld
Dir En Grey
Akeboshi
Vidoll
Gazette
MUCC

Metalcore

Trivium (Before The Crusade)
Chimaira
Lamb of God (and Burn The Priest)
36 Crazyfists
Unearth

Power Metal

Alkemyst
Altaria
At Vance
Athlantis
Axenstar
Balance of Power
Biomechanical
Black Symphony
Blind Guardian
Crystal Eyes
Desdemona
Dragonforce
Dream Evil
Dreamaker
Dreamtale
Edenbridge
Edguy
Eidolon
Fairyland
Firewind
Forefather
Freedom Call
Genius
Hammerfall
Heraldry
Highlord
Holy Knights
Iced Earth
Ilium
Insania
Jag Panzer
Jorn
Landguard
Logar's Diary
Lost Horizon
Majesty
Mercury Tide
Metalium
Mystic Prophecy
Nightmare
Power Quest
Rough Silk
Seraphim
Sigma
Steel Dragon (actually a fictional band made for some Disney movie or something, but they produced some quality Power Metal for the soundtrack)
Stramonio
Tad Morose
Thunderstone
Thy Majestie
Virgin Steele
Vision Divine
Visions of Atlantis
Wolf Cry

Progressive

Opeth
Another Life
Symphony X
Dream Theater
Andromeda
Allen-Lande
Pain of Salvation
Pink Floyd
Yes
Porcupine Tree
To-Mera

Rap

Dalek
Busdriver
Cannibal Ox
Immortal Technique
Aesop Rock
Aceyalone
Roots Manuva
Public Enemy
Cypress Hill
Dan the Automator
X-Ecutioners
Deltron 3030
Rahzel
Skepta
MF Doom
Dangerdoom
Madvillain
RA The Rugged Man
Supernatural
Danger Mouse
Roxorloops
Faith SFX
NWA
Eazy E
Frog One
J-Live
Juggaknots
Quasimoto
Younger Madderz

Rock

Muse
We Are Scientists
Oasis
Five Horse Johnson
Three Days Grace
3 Doors Down
Default (some)
Foo Fighters
Seether
Silverchair
Alter Bridge
Drowning Pool
Powerman 5000
The Strokes
Godsmack
Breaking Benjamin
Endless Vertigo
Audioslave
The Outline
Roger Waters
Faith No More
Seventh Son
Host


Classic Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, other old stuff

Johnny Cash
David Bowie
Rod Stewart
Jimi Hendrix
The Smiths
Yardbirds
Led Zeppelin
Cream
Blue Oyster Cult
Guns 'n' Roses
Eric Clapton
Toto
The Doors
Others that I can't remember

Jazz, Blues & Soul

Miles Davis
Ray Charles
Charles Mingus
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Albert Ayler
Sun Ra
Corinne Bailey Rae
Marvin Gaye

Techno

Bodylotion
Neophyte
Angerfist
Stunned Guys
Hot Rod Herman
Chris Vrenna
Men of Steel
Venetian Snares
Saposmittz (Also in Industrial, there's just too much Techno and too much Industrial in their songs to put them in the one genre)

Thrash Metal & Post Thrash, Deaththrash etc.

Voivod
Herratik
Slayer
Metallica
Overkill
Evile
Anthrax
Megadeth
Onslaught
Blood Tsunami
Mendeed
Municipal Waste
Exodus
Terror
Lair Of The Minotaur
Vio-Lence
Sabbat
Tankard
Strapping Young Lad

Viking Metal

Enslaved
Ensiferum

Pop (and Pop Rock for the sake of argument)

Regina Spektor
Out Of The Grey

My musical tastes, until rather recently, were incredibly straightforward. It was 'Metal. Everything else sucks. Metal metal metal. Yay for metal. Kill for metal'. Now I feel that my musical horizons have broadened dramatically to the point of me not being able to tell people what music I like, because they expect genres, and I can't do that. There is no such thing as a good or a bad genre. There are only good or bad musicians that fall into a genre.

12. What kind of education do you have? What is/was/will be your major?

I'm in secondary school at the moment, Year 8. I have no clue at all what I'm going to undertake as far as degrees and courses after my school education, because there's so much I want to take. My 'short' list so far is as follows:

English Literature
Film Studies
Drama
Religious Education
Business Studies
Political Science
Philosophy
Psychology

And I doubt that any of those will be very beneficial to the job I end up getting.

13. Why did you join?

Because I wanted to be like "Hey, I read books and listen to rather complicated music, I'm gotheeeeeMickey Mouse Klub, open your doors and embrace me!". What can I say, I change at a rapid pace (I have a yearning to learn, all I do through life is learn and make dirty jokes, then do more learning. As they say, you live and learn, then die and forget all the sodding things you learnt).

[JCC]

14. If the first 13 questions didn't give it away. What is your gender?

I am of the male variety. But I'm also a feminist (equal rights would probably be the best way to say my philosophy on the man/woman divide, but everyone knows that equal rights is a term and not an action or a decision, feministic opinion is of far more value).

And now, I end with the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray by a highly intelligent man that I could only hope to be as cynical and pessimistic as, Oscar Wilde. Again, from my myspace.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.

To reveal art and conceal the artist is the artist's aim.

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt, without being charming. This is a fault.

Those who can find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.

The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.

Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril.

Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

All art is quite useless.

(Ps: Sorry for the triple post, but my egotistical rantings take up a rather large amount of space, one which your message boxes do not accomodate)

[Aaroneet]

Amazingly detailed introduction. Welcome back.

[JCC]

Originally Posted by Aaroneet

Amazingly detailed introduction. Welcome back.

Heh, if you're going to do it, you may as well do it right.

Thanks.

I genuinely was never aware of how large (maybe too large) my musical tastes are, they seem vastly oversized when I post them on here.

[Corpsey]

You dick. I went through that list twice and couldn't see Tool on your list of favourites. *tsk tsks*

Welcome and that insane introduction will be remembered well.

[JCC]

Originally Posted by Corpsey

You dick. I went through that list twice and couldn't see Tool on your list of favourites. *tsk tsks*

I've never really listened, due to a combination of people who like Fallout Boy frequently having Tool on their myspace music list (which is why I don't think they'll appeal to me), and also because their name sounds like a metaphor for a penis (and I've had too much of that since disclosing that I sort of like Whitesnake).

[Minyaliel]

I absolutely agree with your tastes in classical music and classical rock (although Nox Arcana definitely is not classical music, it's more on the darkwave side). I didn't see any goth bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, which makes you deserve a big "shame on you" badge, but I'll be kind and let it pass. Have you ever listened to the music of Ravel, Debussy, Satie or other classical impressionist music? Let me recommend it to you if you haven't - wonderful music.

[JCC]

Ah yes, I forgot to put in a Goth Rock section:

Goth

Siouxsie And The Banshees
The Cure
Joy Division
Bauhaus
Danse Society
Theatre Of Hate
The Sisters Of Mercy
Southern Death Cult
Sex Gang Children
Alien Sex Fiend
Christian Death

As for Nox Arcana; I went by what is most obvious to me from their music. I sense more classical music in their songs than anything else, so that's my self-classification of them.

[NightWolf]

Welcome to Gnet.

[dreamydancer]

:O

I never understand how people can listen to that many bands. I probably only truly listen to less than fifty bands. But you enjoy a vast variety so that's nice unlike some friggin' indie kids on myspace with a neverending list of bands that all sound the same.

Welcome, darling.

[biohazard]

Welcome to g-net once more. I looked through the list and I could not see one band that I like from that, I was mainly looking for Chimaira, Dark Tranquility, In Flames, and Children of Bodom.

[Splintered]

Bloody 'Ell.
Just by your music, I like you.

What's your favourite book by Richard Dawkins?
I'm more of a fan of his new work with The God Delusion.

[JCC]

The only actual book of his I've read is The Blind Watchmaker, I've only read extracts from other books, The God Delusion looks good though.

Once you seperate the goodness from the waffle (waffle is the main component of the Blind Watchmaker, takes perseverence), the book is great. The first few chapters, are unfortunately quite an undertaking to get through.

@Biohazard: Chimaira and Children of Bodom are in there, I think.

[honeythorn]

Hello again, and once more I have to say that you live scarily close to me ( I am in shitty stourbridge ) and what a broad and vast musical array you have!

[schoolsucksletsanarky]

Originally Posted by JCC

Industrial (and Industrial Rock/Metal, which isn't the same thing)


Mushroomhead

I wouldn't quite put Mushroomhead under industrial, they are very very experimental.

[SKULHEDFACE]

TOOL should never be lumped in with the likes of Fall Out Boy ever. NOT EVER.

Nice introduction, very...long.

[JCC]

I'd say they're Industrial Metal, though I don't like them much anymore.

That's a massive bump, by the way.

[HumanePain]

But since this is a quality thread (as measured by how much it contributes to the community in terms of music and literature alone!), we don't mind the bump.

[Steppenwolf]

Originally Posted by JCC

I've never really listened, due to a combination of people who like Fallout Boy frequently having Tool on their myspace music list (which is why I don't think they'll appeal to me), and also because their name sounds like a metaphor for a penis (and I've had too much of that since disclosing that I sort of like Whitesnake).

Hehe , Im glad Im not the only one thinking that about Whitesnake .
Fantastic to have you here , you give me again hope that not the younger generations are just bullshit who watch telly and play PS .
Welcome anyways .....

[JCC]

Originally Posted by HumanePain

But since this is a quality thread (as measured by how much it contributes to the community in terms of music and literature alone!), we don't mind the bump.

My tastes in everything have changed a lot since this thread though, it's way outdated.

Feel free to leech off the partial greatness all the same, just ignore the rubbish that went into shaping the later perfection.

[Geoluhread]

I see you've mentioned Equilibrium in your favorite movies.

I love that movie...!!

[$haDe]

Wow.... It was a year ago.


It IS a 'massive bump'.


Sleepy Hollow is a good movie with hidden message all over but the last part was too... gore ?

[gothicusmaximus]

Originally Posted by SKULHEDFACE

TOOL should never be lumped in with the likes of Fall Out Boy ever. NOT EVER.

You're right, Tool sucks in a far funnier way than Fall Out Boy does.

[Bat Attack]

Richard Dawkins was going to do a talk at our school once, but he couldn't make it or something, so we had some crappy one instead by believers.