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About Me

Hallo, I'm Gi, and I make stuff. I make silly videos for posting on the intarwebs, as well as bloggings, and lyricisms/bass playings in a post-emocore band that's...err...in between names right now. I'm a vegetarian, striving to be vegan, and I'm also Straight Edge. I'm a Communications major at UMBC in Maryland. I'm a socialist, and I'm into political activism (Pro-Choice, Pro-Gay Rights, Pro-Socialized Healthcare, Anti-Iraq War, Anti-Censorship, Anti-Oil, yaddayadda). I live in Claiborne, a village of less than 200 people. I have recently stopped watching TV after realizing that I could buy the few shows I watch on DVD. I also like reading books, my favorite authors being Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Palahniuk and Rollins. Actually, Henry Rollins is kind of my favorite everything, he's my hero.
I'm a conversationalist, I like to talk to people, I'm not judgemental, and I'm trying to witness as many different points of view as I can before I go, so, give me a yell.


Also: these bands are amazing, listen to them.

A Fire Inside
My Chemical Romance
Green Day
+44
Rise Against
Mindless Self Indulgence
Coheed and Cambria
The Distillers
Fugazi
The Ramones
CKY
System of a Down
Bright Eyes
The Cure
Rancid
Dead Kennedys
Joan Jett
Rage Against the Machine
Dropkick Murphys
Rites of Spring
Andrew WK
MC Lars
Silverstein
Chiodos
30 Seconds to Mars
Freezepop
The Medic Droid
The Moldy Peaches
The Killers
Regina Spektor
Sublime
Tiger Army
Minor Threat
The Explosion
Gnarls Barkley
mc chris
The Offspring
Aphex Twin

My Interests

Coffee, Making Music, DIY Ethics, Claymation, Not watching TV, Veganism, Working out, Religious/Spiritual debates, Tattoos, Zine makery, Independent film and Film Festivals, City Living, Bonfires, Straight Edge and Straight Veg, Reading Books, Going to shows (especially small local punk and emocore shows), Socialism, Activism, Skateboarding, Bicycling, Good Conversations, revolution., Also, Puppies.

Music

Ok, alright, look. SoF/8SD/Gi's music THING has been majorly overhauled.

, -We are currently NOT operating under a name, just for the sake of consistency.

, -Jack and I have been busting out demos left and right. We might not have a name, but we're actually working harder than ever.

, -We maybe...MAYBE...MIGHT be playing the Allday fest in Trappe on July 28th, if we can get the set ready by then, and if the guy running it lets us in.

, _Tentative Schedule of Events_

, Summer 07-Writing Songs, Recording Crap Garageband Demos, Honing Set

, Fall 07- Playing Gigs in St. Mikes, Easton, and Baltimore

, Winter 07/08- Recording the EP at Target Studios in Newark

, Spring 08- Record Release

, Keep a Weathereye out, peoples. Much Love.

Movies

Boondock Saints, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, V for Vendetta, Orange County, The Princess Bride, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Wedding Crashers, The Village, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, SLC Punk, The Birdcage, Rocky Horror, 8 Mile, the 25th Hour, Fight Club, Death to Smoochy, Both Spider-Man Movies, Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Rob Roy, Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, Midnight Cowboy, Rent, any other films that glorify NYC, Brokeback Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, and More recently, Snakes on a Plane, Little Miss Sunshine, and Pan's Labyrinth. CKY videos are my guilty pleasure.

Television

TV, in anything more than minimal qualities, without a balance of books, good movies, and independent media, will blind you to your own capability of thought. That being said, the occasional brilliant bit of storytelling slips through, but so rarely that it's more time effective for me to buy the DVDs. Check it out., -Venture Brothers, -House, -Slings and Arrows, -The Boondocks, -Mission Hill, -Jeeves and Wooster, Yeah. That's it. No lie.

Books

The Works of WiIliam Shakespeare, The Works of Chuck Palahniuk, Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins, DEMO by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez, Beck by Harold Sakuishi, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.