Info on the Doomster
Status on the Doomster: Currently rancid
How he got his moniker : He played WAY too many hours
of DOOM when it first came out. One day, one of his friends observed
that him playing Doom was like a hamster running in a circular cage.
Metaphorically, he had become a DOOM Hamster. Thus the name Doomster.
Thoughts of the moment : There will be no hockey season will there?
Movie & TV (Tivo) stuff
Best Actress IMO : Jody Foster - great in "Silence of the Lambs"; not so great in "Nell"
Best Actor (contemporary) : Ed Norton or Johnny Depp, both versatile actors
Favorite Actress IMO : Winona Ryder (and she was framed!)
Best line from the movie "Reality Bites" : Troy: "You've reached the Winter of Our Discontent"
Last movie seen in the theater : I, Robot
Sci-fi movie that borrowed from "Blade Runner" and "Terminator" that turned out pretty good.
Last movie seen on video/DVD :
Grosse Point Blank
Mediocre; not one of Cusack's better films
Proud member of the Tivo community - HDVR-2 upgraded to 240Hrs
TV Shows Worth Watching: CNN Crossfire, "King of the Hill", Sex and the City by Sarah Jessica Parker, anything interesting on Discovery or Learning Channel.
Best Line from "King of the Hill" : "I wanna go to a party school, yeah, Chico St."
-- Connie
Music stuff
Last concert: Van Halen reunion, HP Pavillion.
Only 1/3rd of the set was pre-Hagar VH songs, which sucked. Needless to say, Hagar still pales in comparison to David Lee Roth.
Albums currently playing in my CD player:
Cheap Trick - The Hits of Cheap Trick
The Specials - Skinhead Girl
Great White - Great Zeppelin
Lillix - Falling Uphill
Bob Marley - One Love: Very Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers
Further Seems Forever - How to Start a Fire
Toasters - Hard Band For Dead
If I were going to a deserted island, these are the 10 albums I'd take w/ me:
"Appetite For Destruction" - Guns N Roses
"Nevermind" - Nirvana
"Violent Femmes" - Violent Femmes
"Van Halen" - Van Halen
"1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour" - Green Day
"Houses of the Holy" - Led Zeppelin
"Lovedrive" - Scorpions
"The Great Radio Controversy" - Tesla
"Live Thru This" - Hole
"Yield" - Pearl Jam
PC Games stuff
Currently addicted to playing: Port Royale
Other PC games in the pipeline :
Railroad Tycoon 2
Season Ticket Baseball
Modern Day Opiate of the Masses : DOOM, DOOM 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake II, Railroad Tycoon
PC Games that were ground-breaking : MULE, Wasteland, Simcity, DOOM
A comment about 7 Cities of Gold : have rereleased 7 Cities of Gold with making it Politically Correct? I wanna wipe out the Indians without being punished.
Books and other related stuff
Last book read : SS/GB by Len Deighton
-- a good alternative history fiction about an English detective trying to solve a murder in an England conquered by Nazi Germany in 1940.
Other books read in the last few months:
SALT by Mark Turlansky
Favorite authors : Clancy, Wouk, DeLillo, Irving (John), Hemingway
Books in the queue : The Fourth Hand - Irving, The Aardvark is Ready For War - Blinn, The Year of Rice and Salt - Robinson, Tender Is the Night - Fitzgerald
Magazines subscribed to : Reader's Digest, National Geographics, National Review, Business 2.0, Consumer Reports, Maxim
Advice on Computer Magazines : Avoid PC Computing - it's a shill for Microsoft. I have yet to hear them badmouth ANY of Microsoft products
SPORTS (and outdoors)
Favorite NFL team : 49ers (since 1977 -- and the 2004 team is playing like the 77 team)
2nd Favorite NFL team : Arizona Cardinals
Favorite NFL Player of All Time : Ronnie Lott, #42, FS, SF 49ers. So tough that he had the doctor amputate his broken pinky finger on his left hand so he wouldn't miss the next game.
Favorite Baseball team : San Francisco Giants
Favorite NBA team : Golden State Warriors -- I'm a masochist
2nd favorite NBA team : New Orlean Hornets
Favorite NHL team : San Jose Sharks of course
2nd favorite NHL team : Ottawa Senators
Once in a Lifetime : France Wins the World Cup. "France Wins!" -- now there a phrase you don't hear often
Favorite Lure when fishing for Black Bass : Rapala CD-7,
painted like a small rainbow trout
Places I want to fish at : Siberia for Rainbow Trout; New Guinea for Peacock Bass; off the Pacific for Marlin. Now that's fishing.
Misc.
Things I Want to See/Do Before I Die :
1) Angkor Wat
2) The Giants win a World Series!
3) The Sharks win a Stanley Cup
4) The Warriors win the O'Brien
5) Read Joyce's ULYSSES
6) Be able to play Dire Strait's "Sultan of Swing" on guitar
Pet Peeves:
1) Slow drivers in the passing lane who won't move over to let you pass
2) Drivers who think the commuter lane is in effect on weekends
3) Condescending people
4) Phat Hussies