dreadman

When it comes to introducing yourself, which we are obligated to do during all sorts of strange circumstances, I rarely know what to say. I mean, how do you summarize yourself in that short amount of time. We're talking seconds when it's casual, a minute or so infront of a group and a painful amount of time when meeting your girl- or boyfriend's parents, and when you first meet that guitar you've been eyeing it'll take a lifetime.

The first time I played a guitar I was eleven years old. A friend of mine taught me the first notes to Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water". Now at 33, I play the guitar almost every day and still don't know how to introduce myself, but I'll give it an honest try.

I'll listen to anything that moves me. So, to give you an idea of what I mean and hopefully what sort of person I am, here's an explanation: Lascia ch'io pianga (G.F. Händel), They Can't Take that away from Me (B. Holiday 1957 studio version), Take a Load off Annie (The Band), Death of a Clown (The Kinks), Runaround Sue (Dion and the Belmonts), Mr. Jones (Counting Crows), The Wicker Man (Iron Maiden), Caribou Lou (Tech n9ne), The Only (Static X), Night of the Vampire (Entombed), Monster Mash (Bobby Pickett), Chick Habit (April March, France Gall's French 1964 verision good too), 12 steps (USCB allstars), Santeria (Sublime), Pretext (Raised Fist), Wake Up (From Mass Effect 3), Depech Mode's and Daft Punk's earlier work, The Minibosses... and I realize that I could keep going like this for a very long time.

However, I've recently noticed that I tend to follow the seasons (fall, winter etc...) in my musical choices, though this whole season thing has nothing to do with holidays -- religious, commercial or otherwise.

By the way, a few years ago I got some notes on a German study in psychology (it was written in English) showing how x-mas related music can cause aggressive behaviour. Funny, huh?

Well, I guess this gives you a decent idea of me. Might be worth mentioning that I'm Swedish, I work hard and friggin love life. Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from my Friends" paints a good picture of that last comment.

Later, guys.

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/Dreadman