Colin's Favorites
Here are a few of
my favorites. Yes, many of them are all alphabetized.
I'm just a
bit CDO (that's OCD, but the letters are in
the right order).
Activities and Interests:
God, my
awesome youth group, guitar, drums, studio recording, home recording,
live sound, playing for the High School/Jr. High bands, speakers,
compressors, gates, reverb, delay, amplifiers, subwoofers, tweeters, mixer
consoles, disc golf, web design, game development, graphic design, pc
gaming, messin' with Swarbrick, Hot Pockets, The
Pen
Music:
Question any of
my tastes in music and expect a lecture. My vocabulary of
amazing bands is constantly expanding, and I can argue for any of my
tastes from a very opinionated musicians perspective. I am
familiar with a huge range of rock music from classic 60s-80s stuff as
well as a lot of modern stuff. As much as I love all of the
amazing classic rock music, especially Aerosmith, Boston
and Foreigner, most of the time I prefer to listen to
modern music. Depending on my mood, I listen to everything
from instrumentals (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani) to soft rock
(Anberlin, Lifehouse), punk rock (Relient K, New Found Glory), alternative
rock (Pearl Jam, RHCP), standard modern rock (Earshot,
Shinedown, Daughtry), nu-metal (Chevelle, Disturbed, Korn), and
metal (Killswitch Engage, Avenged Sevenfold). By an immense,
grand canyon of a margin, my favorite band of all time is
Alter Bridge. The band consists of three former members of
Creed (Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, Scott Phillips) in addition
to former Mayfield Four singer/guitarist Myles Kennedy.
Together they are an incredible musical talent that has gone so far
since their former hindrance known as Scott Stapp. Mark Tremonti
is my favorite guitarist, and general musician in
fact, of all time (and I am familiar with all the classics like
EVH, Satriani, Vai, Clapton, Slash, etc and the modern ones like
Malmsteen). He not only writes most of the music and lyrics
for Alter Bridge and sings backup vox for them, but he is an
absolutely ridiculous guitar player. For further proof, look
under my links page for some Tremonti videos and sites and then go
listen to ANY of Alter Bridge's songs. In particular, listen
to "Ahavo Rabo Taco Salad," an instrumental song done by
Alter Bridge for Total Guitar Magazine. Tied for
second place position are Shinedown (all of their songs are incredible, but
their ability to write and sing amazing ballads is unbelievable) and Tool
(especially their more recent stuff from 10,000 days and Lateralus). I am
also good friends with the guys from The Stillpoint Band (note the About Me
page), and they are great musicians with a huge heart for God. I am also
friends with a former guitarist for Dallas rock band Rustik, who deserves to be
known SO much more than they are. Take a look at both.
3 Doors Down, 10 Years, 12 Stones, 30 Seconds to
Mars, AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Afters, Alice In Chains, Alter Bridge,
Anberlin, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, A Perfect Circle,
Apocalyptica, Atticus Finch, Atreyu, Audioslave, Avenged
Sevenfold, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bad Company, Beatles, Black
Stone Cherry, Blind Melon, Blindside, Blue Öyster Cult, Bon Jovi,
Boston, Breaking Benjamin, Bryan Adams, Building 429, Bullet For
My Valentine, Bulletproof Messenger, Bush, Cake, Chevelle, Chris
Cornell, Cinder Road, Collective Soul, Creed, Creedence Clearwater
Revival, Crossfade, Daughtry, David Cook, David Crowder Band, Day
of Fire, Decyfer Down, Default, Demon Hunter, Dire Straits,
Disturbed, The Doobie Brothers, Dokken, Dommin, Drowning Pool,
Eagles, Earshot, Eighteen Visions, Eric Johnson, Evanescence, The
Exies, Falling Up, Finger Eleven, Fireflight, Flobots, Flyleaf,
Foghat, Foo Fighters, Foreigner, Fozzy, Fuel, Grand Funk Railroad,
Guns N' Roses, Heart, Hurt, Incubus, Institute, Jack Johnson,
Jason Mraz, Jet, Joe Satriani, Joe Walsh, Justin Caldwell, Kansas,
Keane, Kid Rock, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Kutless, Led Zeppelin,
Lenny Kravitz, Lifehouse, Linkin Park, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mat
Kearney, The Mayfield Four, MercyMe, Mountain, Muse, My Chemical
Romance, New Found Glory, Nickelback, Nightwish, Nirvana, Number
One Gun, Opeth, Papa Roach, Paramore, Pearl Jam, Peter Frampton,
Pillar, Queen, Red, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Rev Theory, The
RHCP, Relient K, Rise Against, Royal Bliss,
Rustik, Saliva, Sammy
Hagar, Sanctus Real, Santana, Seether, Senses Fail, Sevendust,
Seventh Day Slumber, Shinedown, Sixx AM, Skillet, Soundgarden,
Smashing Pumpkins, Staind, Steely Dan, Stellar Kart, Stevie Ray
Vaughan, Steve Vai, The
Stillpoint Band, Stone Temple Pilots, Staind, Styx, Submersed,
Sweet, Switchfoot, System of a Down, Tantric, Taproot, Theory of a
Deadman, Thousand Foot Krutch, Three Days Grace, Tobymac, Tool,
Trapeze, Trapt, Trust Company, Under the Flood, Van Halen, Weezer,
Whitesnake, The Who, Within Temptation, Yes, ZZ Top
Movies:
Usually I'm a sucker for the stupid/funny movies that don't
require me to think at all, but sometimes I can really get into the
complicated, thriller/suspense/mystery whatever type movies
too. I don't watch many movies, especially in theatres, and I
never spend time really analyzing a movie and thinking about how the
plot fits together. I say if you can't just go see a movie and
enjoy it (regardless of your expectations going into it), you just
shouldn't be watching movies and making me miserable with your
over-examinations. Thank you and good night.
Fun With Dick and Jane, The Mask, Bruce Almighty (notice a Jim
Carrey theme?), Christmas Vacation, Night at the Museum, Harry and the
Hendersons, Airplane, Spaceballs, Madagascar 1 and 2, Men In Black, Deja Vu,
United 93, What About Bob?, Elf, The Producers, The Butterfly Effect, Bourne
Movies, National Treasure movies, Transformers, Get Smart (but the old show is
SO much better), Happy Gilmore, Swing Vote, Accepted
TV Shows:
I don't really have
many TV shows that I usually try to make a point of watching.
These are a few of the ones that I do, plus a few that I could just
watch over and over again if they happen to be on.
24, Chuck, Dirty Jobs, Fresh Prince, Fringe,
Futurama, Hell's
Kitchen, House, Monk, Mythbusters, Whose Line is it
Anyway
Games:
I am a devoted PC gamer (better graphics, sound
and controls). I really don't play games that often these days, but
every couple of months I will work on my Oblivion profile for a while or do
some online COD or something.
Bioshock, FEAR Combat (I love
the single player too... but it's freaking scary and most of the time I
can't handle it), Oblivion, Morrowind, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars,
Assassin's Creed, Brothers
In Arms, Call of Duty Series, Company of Heroes, Splinter Cell Series,
Portal, HAWX, Fallout 3, Unreal Tournament 3
Books:
I really don't read much. Usually when I
do I will just read the latest Fader magazine, some book on recording
techniques, Guitar Center catalogs or a software manual. Of course I do
some reading for school related stuff, but it's not really something that I do
in my free time. Other than the Bible, a lot of my favorites were forced
reads that were actually very interesting, particularly the ones that I read
with my Bible study group.
The Bible, UnChristian, MaxQ,
Flyboys, The Pursuit of Happyness (intentionally spelled incorrectly)
Here's something a bit controversial.
I have admittedly read the first in the Twilight series and started the second
one. While I think the author has some serious issues to work out, I
must admit that it held my attention and was a pretty quick and interesting
read. Can't say that I'll be finishing all four, but you never know.
Quotes:
Some of these will not make sense unless you
know the people involved and were there to witness them. In general, I
just like to collect random things my friends, family and teachers said to
post to my Facebook page. Send me an email for explanations...
-I don't think men should wear ties. It's like a big arrow and
look what it's pointing at! ~Bobby Pruitt
-El hombre esta seguro. Daniel's translation: are you sure he's a man?
John: Tyler you're so extremist. You realize that isn't a good thing?
Jonny: It's a good thing you're not Islamic!
Kyrsten: I'm a vampire on Facebook
Tyler: You're not hot enough to be a vampire
-I highly recommend it. It's a great way to start the day. ~Jason
-Just think, it won't be too long before you can drink and then you'll be able
to deal with this family. ~My grandma
-John Robinson stole my shoe! ~James Dykhoff
-Yeah, what's up with that? Was he dropped on his head or something? ~Chase
-[Looking at a picture of Brandon] Yeah, that's what Colin would look like if
he went off to war. ~Liz (my sister in law)
-One thing I can do this summer to honor the women in my life is to shave
regularly so they don't get attracted to my mustache. ~Jonny
-It's time for the flashlight batteries. ~Tyler
-MoooOOOOOOoooooooooooovvaaaaaa. ~Tyler
Other Favorites:
Coca-Cola, Coffee, Jim Carrey, Brian
Regan (awesome comedian), Ultimate Ears headphones, Dunlop picks (Jazz III),
Line 6 Tones, Fender Guitars, PRS Guitars, Parker Guitars, Scam School, Ask A Ninja, Creative X-Fi sound cards, Logitech mice and keyboards, AMD processors,
Nvidia SLI, Google Chrome, Duct Tape see links page for more
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