About

Hey. You. Yeah, you. The one poking around my About page with some inane curiosity about who I am. Yeah. You in the chair... Hi!

So, my name's Lou. I'm from this wonderful paradoxical city called Sacramento, CA. Before that, I lived in Redding, CA. If you know of Redding, you then know why I'm not living there anymore. If you don't know what Redding is like, consider yourself lucky.

I live with my wonderful wife Eryn in a normal little house with a shit-ton of animals/pets. She apparently has a never-ending desire for little fuzzy/furry/feathery/scaly creatures.

I'm one of those creative-types that everyone seems to enjoy for one reason or another, because I know a bit about a lot of stuff. Not trying to sound egotistical, just stating facts. And now, a list of stuff I like/do.

Web design? Yep, done it (even professionally for a time).

Music? Bass, guitar, drums.

Recording? I've had my fair share of time in the studio, on both the musician and engineering side of the glass window.

Play in a band? A handful, even did booking/promotion.

Graphic design? That too.

Photography? Obsessed.

Geeky webvernet happenings? I'm pretty hip on that shit.

Tech support? Yeah. Both paid and unpaid... Parents... pfft...

About the only creative type of things I'm horrible at is drawing, painting, I'm sure I'm pretty horrid at sculpting or pottery. More will be added to the list of things I'm horrible at as I figure them out (including sheetrock repair).

I do, however, play bass in a band called Low Flyer. Or at least, I did. Up until the other day. I have no clue anymore. Sad, huh? Either way, we have some pretty fun songs up there that I'll probably never get to play live again, which is pretty depressing.

I have the worst time waking up, doesn't matter what time of day, waking up is just the most miserable thing that can happen in a day. The worst part is, despite the fact that getting kicked in the nads may feel worse, that happens once in a very rare while, as opposed to waking up, which happens every day. It's unavoidable.

I have a pretty unhealthy obsession for Family Guy. Been watching it ever since the very first episode aired on FOX after the Super Bowl way back when, and have been hooked ever since. True factoid: I can come up with a Family Guy quote or scenario for almost any real-life situation I find myself in. Eryn can attest to that, and it drives her insane. Because yes, I'm that much of a geek.

I keep intending to actually learn PHP and MySQL, but never find the time or motivation to get to it. One of these days.

I listen to a lot of different types of music. Mostly metal, hard rock, and whatnot, but I'm a huge fan of good European power metal (Dragonforce, Stratovarius, etc), operatic/progressive metal like Opeth, My Dying Bride, etc, indie hip-hop like the much missed Bionic Jive, MC Lars, MC Chris, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, and current indie hip-hop phenoms FLOBOTS (if you haven't heard them, go get their album "Fight With Tools"!).

My musical heroes are people like Les Claypool, Peter Steele, Tori Amos, Stu Hamm, Stuart Zender, Dirk Lance, Neil Cicierega/Lemon Demon, and a bunch of other people I can't think of at 6:30am after being up all night.

I Twitter a LOT.

I'm pretty damn good at Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Not the best, but I can definitely throw down on Expert to a pretty decent level. If I played nearly as much as my brother in law, I'd probably be a huge amount better.

I have a spring-loaded light-n-sound lightsaber sitting on my desk--it's on top of my never been opened "Night-time Peter and Lois" Family Guy toys. You know, the BDSM ones--"The safety word is 'banana'."

I've forgotten like five different interesting things that should've gone in this list. Yeah, I know, I'm tired.

Did I mention that I stay up WAY too late just because I don't like sleeping? Well, correction. I love sleeping... I just hate not doing something because of sleeping. And I hate waking up.

I have a Darth Tater Mr. Potato Head toy on the left side of my monitor. On the right side is my never been opened talking Peter Griffin dashboard decoration toy thingy.

I smoke. Yeah, I know... Eh, it's probably the one thing--other than the Internet and video games--that I'm addicted to.

I think that pretty much covers all the random important shit about me. Time for a smoke. :D