I have playlists, "soundtracks", for some of my fics now.

I have a Facebook, in case anyone wants to add me as a friend. My name on there is Stephen Strong, from Sedgwick, Maine. And even if you can't find me then, just search my other email "Spogger1@yahoo.com".

Also a MySpace if that's easier.

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About the author

Name: Stephen Strong

Location: Maine (eventually I'll be living in Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico for a few months; being eighteen has its perks as well)

Age: 18

Sex: Male

So, I've been on this site for a while, but over that time I've deleted several stories that failed massivley IMO, as most things do from our newb days. But now I've got several stories I'm very happy with. What can I say that improved of my past newb stories? Everything, basically. (you can detect some newbishness in Halo 4: Vicarious War, and My Son The Heretic, but stories before that were terrible).

Note: I am defiant of the official canon of the Sangheili (Elites) culture in Halo, and I will rarely ever follow it (e.g. the "new" naming structure, and how they would never get medical help because they would consider it a "dishonor to their blood". They're apparently superstitious of their blood, believing it to be their warrior's essence. You can find the information at Halopedia, under the Sangheili article). I will occasionally follow it accurately (not the new naming structure, and it having to do with the states they live in, that's just ridiculous and confusing), but I usually alter the original to my own form, or I just make up my own, which I enjoy doing, hits my creative side.

That's all I need to say, because I know there's people willing to correct me, which I appreciate, but since I follow my own philosiphies of canon, I don't need the help. I am fully aware of the accurate canon.

Update 11/12/09: I just noticed that all three one-shots "The Nurse Who Loved Me", "He Delivers", and "Terminal" end in suicide. One reviewer commented on how I write those stories like an ancient Greek tragedy artist, which I guess is partially true. In "Nurse", it was a man who had a terminal disease, and was going to die anyway; basically euthanasia; personally I believe in it if someone does not want to live in pain over a horrible disease such as cancer, but I'm not hear the discuss something like that. In "He Delivers" the person who committed suicide was simply...troubled, to make an understatement, but to generally just show what was with the character without revealing too much. Same with Terminal. The theme was, death leads to more death. Someone significant in the character's lives were lost, and they couldn't bear the pain, and ended up "joining them" or "returning to them", and "will meet them again someday".

The way people deal with pain has always fascinated me, and I sympathize to people who commit/want to commit suicide. I don't endorse suicide, god no, but I don't object against it either...in most cases. It's easier for us people who have something to live for to say "Don't do it", as opposed to someone who, literally, has nothing to live for anymore. We don't feel their pain. If their entire family is wiped out; or that they have this horrible, killer disease which is causing massive amounts of pain that cannot be ignored by the first or second party, or even the third party.

Heh, my ideas would be deemed "dangerous" by some people, but I guess that's the price we have to pay for individuality and free-thought.

Ti Amo

What I'm happiest with now is my Ti Amo series (currently, date August 25th, 2009; "Ti Amo" is the only story of the "Ti Amo Series" released). I have several ideas to be released soon enough. The most prominent, the conclusion of the main Ti Amo story. You see the original Ti Amo doesn't have a "real" ending, rather, something drastic happens to a character, then that character decides to go on his/her own for a while, and winds up meeting a new person on his/her travels, and they strike up a conversation, which soon comes up with the new person telling his life story. Que the end of Ti Amo, then its semi-sequel, which details the new character's life; and eventually leads back to the present in the Ti Amo universe, and the final conclusion(s).

Ti Amo: Silent Hill Parallel: Currently in draft, is an alternate reality short story of Ti Amo, where Stone and Sedena find themselves trapped in the demonic town of Silent Hill. Since the Silent Hill games were based off the main character's past, this story will reveal Stone's dark past in full light (of course, some of it has to be revealed in the original Ti Amo, so when a certain revelation comes to light in Ti Amo, I will then announce the release of Ti Amo: Silent Hill Parallel.)

Ti Amo: Verno's Story: In Ti Amo I briefly mentioned a Sangheili musical artist that had been murdered by a Covenant believer (Chapter 22, in the begining), but he actually turns out to be alive. Verno was taken to the hospital after the incident, where they revived him, though he was badly injured, crippled. When he comes to, he tells the doctor he wants to feign death, to protect him and his family (wife and son) from further attacks. The story details his struggle of living in secrecy, dealing with his handicap (he loses mobility in all limbs, though he recovers his arms, he will be wheel chair bound for life), and stresses his family members endure to help him. It has nothing to do with any of the original Ti Amo OCs, and is a side story, with the basic premise and moral of Ti Amo.

I have one more Ti Amo short story idea in my head, not yet drafted, but is so sensetive plot wise I can't release the idea yet. Though soon enough, once plot juiciness flows from the text to your eyes in Ti Amo, I will release details.

My Son The Heretic

08/25/09: Many people have been concerned of the path MSH is taking, what with the lack of updates lately. Well, to be honest, it won't be worked on for a long time. I'll keep trying, see if inspiration comes to me to finish it, but I'm not sure. I do have a semi-sequel and full sequel in mind, the semi-sequel a series of short stories after MSH, and leading to the sequel. And even those are on thin ice. I don't want to disapoint fans of MSH, and I always didn't like it when people left stories unfinished, but this one is just so blind to me I can't make a definite conclusion.

Noob sides: it contains review whoring, which I'm actually ashamed of now. It only shows petulance.

The Chiefology Crusade

Well what to say on this? It's a crossover of South Park and Halo. Not the whole "the kids are sucked into the Haloverse zomg!", but rather the game is just a game to them, but due to many crazy situations, revolving around Cartman, the Haloverse eventually comes to Earth (or partway). Now, like an actual SP episode, I'll be mercilessly bashing everything I can think of in this story, whether it's a popular videogame franchise, or a popular machinimator ;)

The Nurse Who Loved Me

This story was based off a cover song by "A Perfect Circle" of the same name (originally written by "Failure"), and since I typed out the whole thing in one night in a mad rush, it's riddled with typos and other errors, I have yet to fix that -_- The reason why it's so full of typos (or was as soon as I export and replace the chapter /insert date here/), is because, well as I said before, I typed in a mad rush in one night. It must have taken atleast two to three hours, I was up till eleven if I remember correctly. Anyway, I liked writing it, it was a nice exercise, and I got the use the song I was addicted to at the time XD

Forerunning (Fallout 3 crossover)

I'm not sure of this story, I had a good spark when I first wrote it, but it just fizzled out as quickly as it came. Ah the curse that comes with the blessing of being a writer -_- It's still a story I have in my mind somewhat and I may return to it, but at this rate I'm not sure.

Halo: Combat Dissolved (RvB characters based in Halo trilogy)

I have so many ideas for this I can guarantee its completion, it's just I randomly find the inspiration to write it, well, randomly. I can have it on hiatus for two months, then write two new chapters in less than a five-day week. So many ideas, and it will go through all three games. The first few chapters are newbish, very much, and I actually get queasy when I go back and read them, but I'm more proud of later chapters.

RvB: Eragon Evolved

Title says it all, Red vs. Blue finds itself in Alagaesia. This one I'm a little of unsure of as well. I obviously can't go through every little detail of every book, so I'll have to skip some scenes. But I'm generally finding random inspiration for this story like I do with Combat Dissolved. I have to say, I like the jokes in this one a little more than the ones in Combat Dissolved. Executed more properly.

Halo 4: Vicarious War

First of all, I'll be honest. At the time of its release, I was addicted to the song "Vicarious" by progressive metal band Tool, and wanted an excuse to put it in a story title, so this came up. It's evolved into a huge, confusing crossover, and I'm not really sure where this is headed either. I do have huge ideas (one for a shaky sequel), but I have yet to find inspiration to continue writing them. I might eventually finish it, but again, not sure.

He Delivers

A one-and-a-half shot I wrote down in the middle of the night, because I couldn't get the idea out of my head, and I knew if I only woke up to finish it the next day, it wouldn't be the same as fresh. So yeah, sad story. Something to make people think as well.

Terminal

One shot I came up with randomly when I just woke up one morning. I was thinking about how in official Sangheili culture, doctors are viewed as scum. ANd I thought "there's bound to be some doctor brave enough to make a stand against the warriors' ignorance". A scene with a doctor extracting blood of one Sangheili patient and a visitor, pretending to annoy them, came to my head. But when he finished, he injected the blood of the patient's into the visitor's neck, then performed the same to the patient. That scene is featured in the story, but there's more plot to it than just a disgruntled doctor tired of abuse and heckling. That is a factor, but there's more.

Other crap :)

Fav movies (as many as I can think of): Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, SiCKO, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Big One, The Future of Food, Super-Size Me, America: From Freedom to Fascism, Pulp Fiction, Planet Terror, Death Proof, Reservoir Dogs, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Intermission, LORT 1, 2, and 3, Dreamcatcher, An Inconvenient Truth, The 11th Hour, City of God, King of California, Stardust, The Big Lebowski, Pink Floyd The Wall, National Treasure 1 and 2, Smokin' Aces, The Da Vinci Code, 3:10 to Yuma, The Bourne (all of 'em), 30 Days of Night, Children of Men, Naked Lunch, Across the Universe, Kill Bill, Rush Hour, The Fifth Element, Crash, For the Bible Tells Me So, Skid Row, Crank, Batman Begins, 10,000 BC, Sweeny Todd, Hancock, I Am Legend, Hellboy, Rage Against the Machine: Live at the Grand Olympic, The Dark Knight, Erik the Viking, 1408, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Wag the Dog, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (amazing soundtrack as well), A Clockwork Orange, Be Kind Rewind, Inglorious Basterds, and...well that's enough...for now.

Fav books/short stories: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck), The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway), The Pit and the Pendelum (Edgar Allen Poe), Dreamcatcher, The Stand, Suffer the Little Children, The House on Maple Street, The End of the Whole Mess -- Stephen King, A Clean and Well Lighted Place, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Killers -- the other following, Ernest Hemingway, The Green Mile (King), Eragon, Eldest, Brisngr and soon fourth Inheritance book (Chris Paolini), The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe), Night (Elie Wiesel), The Dark Tower series (King). That's it...for now.

Vidya games: GTA III, VC, SA, VCS, and IV. Halo 1, 2, and 3. Black, Resident Evil 4 only (RE 5 soon), Gun, Gears of War, Age of Empires (all), the Sims 2, Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, 007: Everything or Nothing, Jak 1 and 2, Manhunt 1 & 2, Metal Gear 3, Max Payne 1 & 2, Mercenaries 1 and 2, True Crime: Streets of LA, and I'll think of more.

Music,

Metal:

Tool, particularly Lateralus, Parabol/Parabola, The Grudge, Vicarious, Stinkfist, Ticks & Leeches, Disposition/Reflection/Triad, Wings for Marie/10,000 Days(Wings pt. 2), Opiate, Jambi, Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman)/Rosetta Stoned, Hooker With A Penis, Intension/Right in Two, (-) Ions/Third Eye, Bottom, Prison Sex, Sober

Puscifer, particularly Queen B, Dozo, Vagina Mine, Momma Sed, Drunk With Power, The Undertaker, Trekka, Indigo Children, Rev. 22:20 (Dry Martini Mix), World Up My Ass (Allen Moulder Mix)

Godsmack, Particularly Straight Out Of Line, Whatever, Speak, Serenity, I Fucking Hate You, Bad Magick, The Enemy, Spiral, Re-align, Time Bomb, Asleep (Acoustic), Greed, I Stand Alone, Hollow, No Rest for the Wicked, Mama, Running Blind (Acoustic), Keep Away, Touche (Acoustic), Voices (Acoustic)

Disturbed, particularly Rise, I'm Alive, Ten Thousand Fists, Down with the Sickness, Deify, Stricken, Darkness, Fear, Voices, Hell, Indestructible, Perfect Insanity, Inside the Fire, Stupify, Violence Fetish, Overburdened, Fade to Black (Live Metallica cover), Darkness, Believe, Intoxication

Staind, particularly Pardon Me, It's Been Awhile, Open Your Eyes, Epiphany, This is It, The Way I Am, Break Away, Save Me, Tangled Up in You, Schizophrenic Conversations, Paper Jesus, The Corner, All I Want

Stone Sour, particularly 30/30-150, Through Glass, Omega, Bother, Come What(ever) May, Hell & Consequences, Socio, Zzxyz Rd., Inhale, Get Inside

Rishloo, particularly their whole album "Eidolon". I need to get their other ones DX

Alternative/Grunge:

Alice in Chains, Particularly Grind, Heaven Beside You, Bleed the Freak, I Know Somethin' (Bout You), Man in the Box, Rotten Apple, Right Turn, Brother, Got Me Wrong, Don't Follow, Nutshell, We Die Young, Dirt, Would, Angry Chair, Rooster, Down in a Hole, Iron Gland, Confusion, Sunshine, Black Gives Way To Blue, When The Sun Rose Again, Check My Brain.

Audioslave, particularly Like A Stone, I Am the Highway, Your Time Has Come, Be Yourself, Doesn't Remind Me, Original Fire, Man or Animal, Cochise, Show Me How To Live, Out of Exile, The Curse, Hypnotize

Chris Cornell's: Euphoria Morning, particularly Sweet Euphoria, Pillow of your Bones, Wave Goodbye, When I'm Down, Follow my Way, Steel Rain, Moonchild

Chris Cornell's: Carry On, particularly Arms Around Your Love, Safe and Sound, Scar on the Sky, You Know My Name, Killing Birds, Your Soul Today

Chris Cornell's: Scream, particularly Never Far Away, Long Gone, Scream, Two Drink Minimum (it was kinda generic and lame because Timbaland worked with Chris)

Danzig, particularly Long Way Back from Hell, Mother, 777, How the Gods Kill, Thirteen, Twist of Cain, Dirty Black Summer, Blood and Tears

Helmet, particularly Milquetoast, In the Meantime, Unsung, Biscuits for Smut

Live, particularly Life Marches On, What Are We Fighting For?, Pillar of Davidson, The Dolphins Cry, Run to the Water, Dance With You, White, Discussion, Heaven, Face & Ghost (The Children's Song), Out To Dry, Lighthouse, Lightning Crashes

Pearl Jam, particularly Nothingman, Better Man, Black, Jeremy, Daughter, Corduroy, World Wide Suicide, Immortality, Indifference, Breath, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town,Nothing As it Seems, Thumbing My Way, Love Rain O'er Me (cover of The Who), Masters of War (Live cover of Bob Dylan), Down, Yellow Ledbetter, Don't Gimme No Lip, Undone, Footsteps, Strangest Tribe, Drifting, Wishlist, Brother, Amongst The Waves, The End, Just Breathe, Unthought Known

Soundgarden, particularly Hand of God, 4th of July, Limo Wreck, Slaves and Bulldozers, Flower, Hands Allover, Bleed Together, Incessant Mace, Hunted Down, Rusty Cage, Burden in my Hands, Tighter and Righter, Never the Machine Forever, Tycobb

Stone Temple Pilots, particularly Interstate Love Song, Plush, Sour Girl, I Got You, Adhesive, Lady Picture Show, Heaven and Hotrods, Big Empty, Transmissions From a Lonely Room, Bi-Polar Bear, Where the River Goes, Sin, Wicked Garden, Sex Type Thing, Creep, Still Remains

U2, particularly Bullet the Blue Sky, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Running to Stand Still, With Or Without You

Velvet Revolver, particularly Get Out the Door, Illegal i Song, The Last Fight, Fall To Pieces, Gravedancer, Big Machine, Do It For The Kids, Superhuman

A Perfect Circle, particularly Gravity, Judith, Weak and Powerless, The Noose, Vanishing, Pet, 3 Libras, The Hollow, Imagine, What's Going On, Passive, Orestes, 3 Libras (acoustic), Fiddle & The Drum, Blue, The Nurse Who Loved Me, Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm of the War Drums, Peace, Love & Understanding

Fuel, particularly Falls on Me, Leave the Memories Alone, Forever, I Should Have Told You, Last Time, Slow, Halos of the Sun, Knives, Sunburn, Bittersweet, Wasted Time (G-Mix), Scars in the Making, Gone

Radiohead, particularly Just, House of Cards, Karm Police, No Surprise, High & Dry, Lucky, Fake Plastic Tree, The Bends, Street Spirit (Fade Out), You

Classic Rock (oldies in general, 1960s-retro sounding modern bands)

Pink Floyd: Money, Us and Them, Comfortably Numb, Hey You, The Great Gig in the Sky, Brain Damage/Eclipse, Take It Back, Welcome to the Machine, Wish You Were Here, Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky, Is There Anybody Out There?, Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 & 2), Atom Heart Mother

Led Zeppelin: White Summer/Black Mountainside (Live), Stairway to Heaven, Hey Hey What Can I Do?, Dazed and Confused, Rock & Roll, Thank You, Tangerine, That's The Way, Black Mountainside, The Rover, Ramble On, Black Dog, Going to California, Battle of Evermore

The Eagles: Desperado, Best of my Love, Waiting in the Weeds, Midnight Flyer, Hotel California, Ol' 55, How Long?, Take it Easy, Seven Bridges Road (Live cover of Steve Young), Long Road Out of Eden, Lyin' Eyes, Tequila Sunrise

Bad Company: Easy on my Soul, Shooting Star, Feel Like Making Love, Ready for Love, Rock Steady, Seagull, Bad Company, Hey Hey, Whiskey Bottle, Silver, Blue, and Gold, Wild Fire Woman, Deal With the Preacher, Running with the Pack

Jim Croce: Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Time in a Bottle, Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels), Dreamin' Again, I Got a Name, Box #10, Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy), Which Way Are You Goin'?

Neil Young: Rockin' In The Freeworld, Powder Finger, The Painter, No Wonder, Ordinary People, No Hidden Path, Old Man, Heart of Gold, Far From Home, Cowgirl in the Sand, Harvest Moon, My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) ((Live))

The Beatles: I Am the Walrus, All You Need is Love, Revolution, Let it Be, Come Together, Help!, Hey Jude, Blackbird, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Get Back

Boston: I Think I Like It, Smokin', Rock n Roll Band, Feelin' Satisfied, Hitch a Ride, More Than a Feeling, Long Time, Don't Look Back, It's Easy, Don't Look Back, Something About You,

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Simple Man, Tuesday's Gone, Sweet Home Alabama, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, Free Bird, Whiskey Rock-A-Roller, Call Me the Breeze, Three Steps, What's Your Name?

CCR: Fortunate Son, Susie Q, I Put a Spell On You, Born on the Bayou, Effigy, Down on the Corner, Lookin' Out my Back Door, Up Around the Bend, Lodi, Green River, Who'll Stop the Rain?, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

Jethro Tull: Aqualung, Cross-Eyed Mary, A Christmas Song, Teacher, Sweet Dream, Locomotive Breath, Farm on the Freeway, Beggar's Farm, Bouree

Nazareth: Beggar's Day and Rose in the Heather, May the Sunshine, Love Hurts, Hair of the Dog, Broken Down Angel, Vancouver Shakedown, Gone Dead Train

Aerosmith: Angel, Cryin', Dream On, Sweet Emotion, Dude (Looks Like a Lady), Hangman Jury, Same Old Song and Dance, Seasons of Wither, Last Child, Don't Wanna Miss A Thing

Carlos Santana: Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile), Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways, Oye Como Va

Deep Purple: Woman From Tokyo, Smoke on the Water, Lazy, Strange Kind of Woman, Black Night, Demon's Eye, Fireball, Highway Star

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Mary Jane's Last Dance, Refugee, Learning to Fly, Into the Great Wide Open, The Waiting, Free Falling, Running Down a Dream, You Wreck Me

The Who: Won't Get Fooled Again, Babo O'riley, Eminence Front, Long Live Rock, Who Are You?, Magic Bus, My Generation, Behind Blue Eyes, Let's See Action, Bargain, Love Rain O'er Me, I Can See For Miles

Hootie and the Blowfish: Let Her Cry, Running From an Angel, Hannah Jane, Only Wanna Be With You, Hold My Hand, Time, Drowning

James Taylor: Fire and Rain, Mexico, Sweet Baby James, How Sweet it is (To Be Loved By You), Carolina on my Mind, Walking Man, You Can Close Your Eyes, Country Road, Shower the People

The Allman Bros. Band: Ramblin' Man, Southbound, Soulshine, Back Where it all Begins, Goin' Down the Road (live), Melissa, Jessica, Statesboro Blues, Midnight Rider, Blue Sky, Win, Lose or Draw, Change My Way Of Living, All Night Train, Sailin' Across The Devil's Sea

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band: Katmandu, Turn the Page, You'll Acompan'y Me, Against the Wind, The Fire Inside, Night Moves, Old Time Rock & Roll, Main Street, Still The Same

ACDC: Back In Black, Sin City, Rock n Roll Ain't Noise Pollution, Highway to Hell, For Those About to Rock, TNT, Shoot To Thrill, Thunderstruck, You Shook Me All Night Long, Gimme A Bullet, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Hell's Bells

ZZ Top: Old Man, Waitin' For The Bus, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Hot, Blue & Righteous, (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree, Brown Sugar, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, La Grange, Bedroom Thang

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Find the Cost of Freedom (CSNY: Deja Vu/Live), Living With War (CSNY: Deja Vu/Live), Let's Impeach the President (CSNY: Deja Vu/Live), Shock and Awe (CSNY: Deja Vu/Live), Carry On

Other

Ray Charles: (Jazz/Country singer, Pianist) Unchain my Heart, Georgia On my Mind, Ain't that Love?, Lonely Avenue, You Don't Know Me, I Can't Stop Loving You, Yesterday (Beatles cover), Them That Got, Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin', Mess Around

Stevie Ray Vaughan Blues Guitarist (greatest in the universe), Singer: Willie The Wimp, Pride N' Joy, Tin Pan Alley, The House is Rockin', Crossfire, Ain't Gone N' Give Up on Love, Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix Cover, instrumental alteration)

Eddie Vedder, Into The Wild (solo album, based off film): Rise, Hard Sun, Society, Long Nights, Guaranteed, End of the Road, Setting Forth, No Ceiling

Great Big Sea (Newfoundland shanties): Ordinary Day, Seagulls, Old Black Rum, Recruiting Sergeant, Mari-Mac, Rant and Roar, The Night that Pat Murphy Died, Lukey's Boat, Sea of No Cares, Clearest Indication, Scolding Wife, French Perfume, Barque in the Harbor, A Boat Like Gideon Brown

David Mallett (Folk Singer): Red, Red, Rose, Didn't Nobody Teach You?, Like Me Without You, Artist in Me, Slow Dance, Angel Standin' By

Rage Against the Machine (Rock/Rap, political) Bulls on Parade (Live at the Grand Olympic), How I Could Just Kill a Man (Cypress Hill cover), Fuck Tha Police (live), Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox (live, poem by Allen Ginsberg), Sleep Now in the Fire, Darkness (Of Greed), Kick out the Jams, Calm Like a Bomb, Bombtrack, Fistful of Steel, Take the Power Back (live and studio version), I'm Housin' (Live, at the Grand Olympic Auditorium), Pistol Grip Pump, Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nothin' to Fuck With, Ashes In The Fall

The Nightwatchman/Tom Morello (Singer/guitarist Modern Folk Rock, political)...to make this short, here are his two albums which are FUCKING AMAZING!! One Man Revolution (2007), The Fabled City (2008). I highly recommend both.

Bob Marley & The Wailers (Reggae/Rock) Redemption Song, Burnin' & Lootin', Trenchtown Rock (Live), Jame Live, Africa Unite, No Woman, No Cry (live), Buffalo Soldeir, Three Little Birds, Get Up, Stand Up, Jammin', Stir It Up, One Love, People Get Ready

ASHES dIVIDE (AlternRock) The Stone, Ritual, Deframed, Stripped Away, Sword, Danial Waits (Danny Lohner Remix), Forever Can Be, Too Late

Asian Dub Foundation (Drum & Bass, Tech Hip-Hop/Punk) Burning Fence, Target Practice, Living Under the Radar (Ghostplane), Bride of Punkara, Stop the Bleeding, Son Of a Bush (Live, Feat. Chuck D.), Memory War, Oil

Anti-Flag (Punk Rock) You'd Do the Same, Turncoat, Red White & Brainwashed, You've Got To Die For the Government, Fuck Police Brutality, Kill the Rich, No More Dead, Bright Lights Of America, Go West, Post-War Breakout, Rank-N-File

Bad Religion (Punk/AlternRock) Sorrow (Acoustic), The Empire Strikes First, New America, New Dark Ages, Recipe for Hate, Infected, Before You Die, Honest Goodbye, Sorrow, Let Them Eat War, Beyond Electric Dreams, All There Is, Atheist Peace, Los Angeles Is Burning, God's Love, Overture/Sinister Rouge, Social Suicide, Kyoto Now!

Gordon Lightfoot (Folk Rock) Bitter Green, Summer Side of Life, Sundown, Pussywillows, Cat-tails, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, The Wreck of the Edmundfitz Gerald, Carefree Highway, If You Could Read My Mind, Early Morning Rain

Kenny Wayne Shepherd (Blues/Rock Singer/guitarist) Aberdeen (Cover of Bukka White), I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime) (Cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan version - Cover cover of Howlin' Wolf), Riverside, Blue On Black

One Day As A Lion (Zack De La Rocha solo project) (Rap) Wild International, Ocean View, Last Letter, If You Fear Dying, One Day As A Lion

Rise Against (Punk Rock) Swing Life Away, Chamber The Cartridge, Injection, Paper Wings, Black Masks & Gasoline, Like The Angel, Any Way You Want It, To Them These Streets Belong, Prayer of The Refugee, Roadside, From Heads University, Long Forgotten Sons, Audience of One, Re-Education (Through Labor)

Neutral Milk Hotel (Nu Folk) The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1, King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 1 & 2, In The Aeroplane Over the Sea, Two-Headed Boy, The Fool, Holland, 1945, Oh Comely

Lacuna Coil (Gothic Metal, NOT emo) Swamped, To Myself I Turned, Spellbound, Heaven's A Lie, Enjoy The Silence, Daylight Dancer, Aeon, The Gost Woman and the Hunter

Street Sweeper Social Club (Rock/Rap): 100 Little Curses, The Squeeze, Somewhere In the World It's Midnight, Good Morning Mrs. Smith, Promenade, Fight! Smash! Win!

Solar Fields (Ambient, Electronic): Sol, Sky Trees, Discovering, Das Bungalow, Cosmic Dessert, Mirror's Edge Theme Remixed

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (Assassination of Jesse James OST): Rather Lovely Thing, Another Rather Lovely Thing, Song For Bob, The Legend Of Jesse James, ((((All Things Beautiful))))

Apocalyptica (Cello Rock): The Unforgiven (Metallica Cover), Path, I'm Not Jesus (Feat. Corey Taylor), Ruska, Faraway (I've officially titled this Ti Amo's theme song), Distraction, Nothing Else Matters (Metallica Cover), Conclusion, Romance, Fade to Black (Metallica Cover), One (Metallica Cover), From Out Of Nowhere (Faith No More Cover), Grace (Feat. Tomoyasu Hotei), Deathzone, Farewell

Nine Inch Nails (Industrial): 1,000,000, Letting You, Discipline, Closer, Mr. Self Destruct, A Warm Place, Hurt, Heresy, Survivalism, The Great Destroyer, Capital G, The Hand That Feeds, The Day The World Went Away, Somewhat Damaged, Starfuckers, Inc. , Just Like You Imagined, The Wretched

Marilyn Manson Industial: Irresponsible Hate Anthem, The Beautiful People, The Reflecting God, Personal Jesus, Mobscene, The Fight Song, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These), (S)aint, Disposable Teens, This Is The New Shit, 1996

Several Hit Wonders

Metallica: One, Fade To Black, Ride the Lightning, The Unforgiven, Turn the Page, ...And Justice For All

Nirvana: All Apologies, Come As You Are, Heart-Shaped Box, Dive, Anuerism, Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Pennyroyal Tea, About A Girl, You Know You're Right

(One Hit) Styx: Crystal Ball

Living Colour: Pride, Leave It Alone, Song Without Sin, Cult of Personality, Open Letter (To A Landlord), Holy Roller

The Rolling Stone: Paint it Black, Dead Flowers, You Can't Always Get What You Want, Street Fighting Man, Gimme Shelter, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Sympathy For the Devil

REM: Losing My Religion, It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), Me In Honey, Man on the Moon, Supernatural Superserious, Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Until the Day is Done, Houston, Orange Crush, Half A World Away, Drive, Man-sized Wreath, Hollow Man, Accelerate

Sevendust: Disease, Black, Broken Down, Separate, Skeleton Song, Prodigal Son, The Past

Faith No More: Midlife Crisis, A Small Victory, Easy, Midnight Cowboy, Land Of Sunshine

Depeche Mode: World In My Eyes, Sweetest Perfection, Personal Jesus, Policy of Truth,

The Ramones: Blitzgrieg Bop, Commando, We're A Happy Family, Pet Cemetary (Single Mix), Pinhead, Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill OSTs): Silent Hill, Promise, You're Not Here, Rain of Brass Petals, Hometown, Room of Angel, Your Rain, Waiting for Yoy (Live), Tender Sugar, Cradle of Forest

Jane's Addiction: Been Caught Stealing, True Nature, Strays, Superhero, Wrong Girl, Suffer Some, Whores

Overseer: Slayed, Supermoves, Doomsday, Never

Noriyuki Asakura (Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven OST): Echigoya's Estate, Bamboo, Limestone Cavern, Cemetery, Ronin Village, Gohda Castle, Tenrai Fortress

Portugal. The Man: People Say, Work All Day, Guns & Dogs, Mornings, Colors

Seven Mary Three: Cumbersome, Water's Edge, Lame, Oven, My, MY, Without, Settle Up

Screaming Trees: Sworn & Broken, Julie Paradise, Ocean of Confusion, Butterfly, Dying Days, More Or Less, Witness, Shadow of the Season, All I Know

TV: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, King of the Hill, the Simpsons, South Park, Bones, Lie To Me, House

Fav quotes (Serious)

"There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes" -August Stringberg

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare

(Talking about Bob Marley) "...he believed that you could cure racism and hate, literally cure it, by...injecting...music and love into people's lives. When he was...scheduled to perform at a peace rally...a gunman came into his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage...and sang. Somebody asked him...'why?'. He said 'the people...who are trying to make this world worse...are not taking a day off. How can I...light up the darkness?" -Will Smith as 'Robert Neville' in I Am Legend

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth, and sun, and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown.” -Walt Whitman, 1819—1892

“What's wrong with our children?—adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children not to be violent while marketing and glorifying violence...I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.” -Marian Wright Edelman 1939—

“The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.” -Emma Goldman, 1869—1940

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884—1962

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children...This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross.” -Dwight Eisenhower, military leader, president of the United States, 1890—1969

“The best way to get the sons of bitches is to make people laugh at them.” -Molly Ivins, 1944—

“The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” -Jim Hightower, 1943—

“I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. Media is the video war game. Our mission is to make dissent commonplace in America.” -Amy Goodman, 1957—

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." -Mahatma Gandhi

"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." -David Brin

"It's ironic that in your childhood there's things that influence the choices you make, the places you go, what you dislike or what you gravitate towards; and it's usually those kind of things are determined by the people closest to you. They play a big role in how you turn out, that's the thing that's least looked at because you don't see that as being an influence, you look at the outside sources. Like when I was ten I was in a car accident and so I've always had this limp and always felt this way about driving; although it might go beyond that, it might be something that has to do with a relative. It's just those kind of fear based reactions are how you deal with people, any time you covet those hidden motivations. This particular song ('Judith' by A Perfect Circle) brought out those coveted dynamics, exposed them, you can stare at them...letting it go." -Maynard James Keenan, lead singer and song writer of A Perfect Circle, Tool, and Puscifer.

“A good friend of ours said that if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War Two that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on would have been hung to death and shot - and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be. But the challenges that we face, they go way beyond administrations, way beyond elections, way beyond every four years of pulling levers, way beyond that. Because this whole rotten system has become so vicious and cruel that in order to sustain itself, it needs to destroy entire countries and profit from their reconstruction in order to survive - and that's not a system that changes every four years, it's a system that we have to break down, generation after generation after generation after generation after generation... Wake up.” -Zack de la Rocha, singer for Rage Against the Machine, during live performance of 'Wake Up'

Fav funny quotes

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals." -Tommy Lee Jones as 'Agent K' from Men in Black (may not be exact)

"We move forward to stay where we are." -Me, imitating George W. Bush

"You're trying hard to put food on your family." -GWB

"Far be it from the American president to get to decide who leads what country...I made up my mind that Saddam needs to go." -GWB

"Rarely is the question asked, 'Is our children learning?" -GWB

"Where wings take dream." -GWB

"Well there's egg and bacon. Egg, sausage and bacon. Egg and spam. Egg, bacon, and spam. Egg, bacon, sausage and spam. Spam, bacon, sausage and spam. Spam, eggs, spam, spam, sausage and spam. Spam, spam, spam, egg and spam. Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, and spam." -cook in the Monty Python "Spam" Skit.

"I have three kids and no money. Why can't I have no kids and three money?" -Homer Simpson

"Doh!" Homer Simpson

"You know me. Occasionally I''ll be corky...I'll-be-corky? Albuquerque!" -Homer Simpson

"I can't believe how easy it is to get cigarettes in this country!" -Homer Simpson while putting a hand gun in his coat, revealing a submachine gun and some ammo inside.

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling, there are rules." John Goodman as 'Walter' in The Big Lebowski

(After trying a deep fried banana) "The monkeys must never find out." Bill Doutrive in King of the Hill

"Who Would Jesus Bomb?" -the sticker on my laptop lid

"Were all those real words? Cause I made up a word the other day, 'Farniserus', I still don't know what it means yet." -Randy Hicky of My Name is Earl

Other random quotes

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least." -Walt Whitman

"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof." -Walt Whitman

"You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things." -Walt Whitman

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing." -D. H. Lawrence

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not." -Eric Hoffer

"I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction." -Ian McKellen

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself." -Sir Richard Francis Burton

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." -Thomas Jefferson

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." -George Bernard Shaw

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire

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