a little "about me"

Well, i figure it's time i start blogging again. My name is Brett. I am a freshman at Purdue University, enrolled in the college of engineering. It's the tits. I play bass, and hope to someday form a band of sorts. I firmly believe that the last three decades have been the best to have lived in history. the 80's, 90's, and 00's are all totally awesome in my book.

Musically-
i enjoy most forms of music, but in particluar-
Punk [AFI, Bad Religion, the Offspring, NOFX, Anti-Flag, Against Me!]
Ska[Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, Goldfinger]
Hardcore[Dead Kennedys, the Unseen, Black Flag, Aus Rotten]
Metal[Winds of Plague, the Devil Wears Prada, Between the Buried and Me]
80's Metal[Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica]
Grunge [Nirvana, Alice N Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam]


Cinematically-
i enjoy a wide assortment of movies.
anything by Stan Kubrick [Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange]
things on punk culture [Punk's Not Dead, American Hardcore, SLC Punk!]
Horror [Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Alien]
Stuff from the 80's[The Breakfast Club, Top Gun, First Blood, Terminator, Predator]
Quentin Tarentino's [Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill]
Frank Miller's [300, Sin City, The Spirit]
Seth Rogan's [Zach and Mirri Make a Porno, Knocked Up, Superbad, Pinapple Express]
Edward Norton's [American History X, Fight Club, Incredible Hulk, Pride and Glory]

Literaturally-
Dystopian [1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Farenheit 451]
works of Noam Chomsky
and anything in relation to Anarchism or Marxism

I'm pretty far left on the liberal/conservative social scale.
i'm an advocate of/firm believer in-
gay marriage
the legalization of cannibis
a woman's right to choose
eliminating the social class system.