About

Well, what can I say? I suppose I'm pretty much your every day normal kinda' guy, just with a few exceptions. If you haven't looked over the other parts of my profile, I'm deeply into any genre of music that ends in "Metal." Folk Metal, Heavy Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Power Metal, I love it all! I can't say that I'm primarily in one genre or anything, but I just love any kind of Metal. I do spend some time listening to people's Metal stations on Winamp, writing down bands I think sound good, downloading an album or two, and seeing whether I like it or not. So, my list of bands is every growing. If I had to choose, my favorite form of Metal would have to be Melodic Death Metal or Symphonic/Symphonic Black Metal. Although, sometimes I just get into that heavy mood, and all I listen to is Death and Black Metal. To name a couple, my favorites are Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth. Yes, I know, commercially popular blah blah blah. Oh well, they rule! I guess now that I'm done talking about music, I can move on to that other thing I like to talk about.

If you look at my selection of books, you can see that I'm really into theology and things like that. I lost count of how many different books I've read that deal with religion or spirituality in some way. It's just something I love to learn about. I love to read about anything paranormal: ghosts, aliens, anything! I also love to read about, well, just certain people. From my list, Helter Skelter is the story of Charles Manson, which I'm sure some of you know. No One Here Gets Out Alive is a really good book on Jim Morrison, who I think is just an all around brilliant mind. And The Long Hard Road Out of Hell is a Marilyn Manson biography. I know how a lot of people feel about what he does, and frankly, I really don't care. True, he is no where near Goth, but what he does and who he is, I feel, is still very interesting, and I love his book. I hope to buy his newest one soon.

Aside from sitting in my room, listening to Metal, and reading books, I am an all out computer nerd. I primarily focus on web-based programming languages, such as XHTML, Java, PHP, MySQL, and the such. I do know a little bit of other programming languages like C++ and Visual Basic, but not much at all. I plan on pursuing a career in Web Development, and at the moment I own and manage quite a few sites. I'm working on getting my web design company up at lethaldesigns.net, but haven't really had the time lately, or the funding. At the moment, I am in the works on MetalMausoleum.com, which if you can't tell, is a Metal website. It's not for news, but will develop into an in-depth Metal community. It's got some really nice features which I developed myself, and am still looking for people to help with updating and maintaning the database of bands. At the moment, I have 1400+ bands in the database, and really need to get their profiles done. If you're interested, either contact me here on MySpace, or on my site. My username on MetalMausoleum.com is DarkWinterSun.

Reading back over all of this, it seems as if I have absolutely no social life, which is really not the case. Ever weekend I'm not working with my dad doing construction, I'm out with friends, doing whatever. Usually we'll go see a movie or something, and then go out to eat. Every now and then, we throw a big drinkin' party, and we do that instead, which is always a good time. Every few months or so, a good concert will come around to New Orleans and I'll drive down there with a few friends to go see it. Once in a while something really good comes to Atlanta and we'll drive there. I guess I'm done proving my social life.