Birthday:

November 27

Age:

Location

orlando

Favourite music

the bedlam in goliath

Favourite books

the shining

Favourite movies

the fountain

Favourite tv shows

the office

Favourite quotes

"It’s just a matter of circumstance. I grew up playing punk rock music and that was what I liked besides traditional salsa. When I came to this country, I never took music in English seriously. My dad was listening to The Beatles, and to me it was nice, but it sounded like a joke: “Oh how cute. They’re singing in English.” I’m sure it’s the same way people feel when they hear a Spanish song. English music never spoke to me or inspired me like salsa music did. Then I heard Black Flag. I started hearing all these punk bands and I felt a direct connection instantly. Even though that was my first introduction to digging English, and I played it for years. It was only a matter of time before I fucking got bored of the same five or six chords. I was like, “What’s this? Reggae music?” Through punk music I found all these other things. Slowly but surely, reading about all my heroes I found out The Clash and Public Image Ltd. were really into dub music. I was like, “What the fuck is dub music?” I did my homework and got into that realm and found it had the same fire as Caribbean music and I started exploring from there. Electronic music. Classical music. Whatever it is. Your tastes just start growing. I guess some people don’t get bored. Some people can just listen to the same music they were listening to since they were 15 and it works for them. I can’t imagine I’ll be playing The Mars Volta music forever. At some point I’ll get tired and bored of writing this kind of music and I’ll have to move on to something else. Living in the 21st century, we have so many music movements to be inspired by. I don’t see the point in fixating on just one form of music. When people label our music as “prog” or “progressive” or whatever the fuck it is, I just see it as some sort of cultured music. It’s varied. Our interests are varied. What I want to do is all over the place and I’m trying to hold it together with a common thread so something else comes out. Years from now I might just want to play an accordion." - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez "Sleep. Those little slices of Death. How I loathe them." - Poe

To get to work/school I

Bike