User:Davin Bacon

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Contents 1 About Me: 1.1 In His Own Words 1.2 Hobbies 1.3 Musical Interest 1.4 Films that I Enjoyed 1.5 Novels and Books That I Have Enjoyed 2 Other Important User Information: 2.1 Normalised Parts of Me 2.2 Adopted Biases 3 Internet Stalking Made Easy: 3.1 Message Boards 3.2 Social Networking Sites 3.3 Weblogs 4 Wikipedia: 4.1 My Contributions to Wikipedia 4.2 Addiction? 4.3 Other Important Matters

[edit] About Me:

[edit] In His Own Words

Not much to be said. If you are interested in contacting me, add me on msn at DavinBacon@hotmail.com

[edit] Hobbies

Coca-Cola, guitar, keyboard, cyber space, blogging, watching films, reading, conspiracy theories, Rubik’s cubing, pop culture, history, psychology, C#, HTML, Wikipedia, Beautiful Ground, Smoking Area, Youtube, Last.FM, 1990s, travail knowledge, science fiction, my computer, wiki-hopping, politics, foreign culture, Music, File-Sharing/LAN Parties, Star Wars, Inside Jokes, and other shit.

[edit] Musical Interest

Radiohead, The Beatles, The Clash, Ravi Shankar, Joy Division, Thom Yorke, Bob Dylan, Sigur Rós, Eric Clapton, The Stone Roses, The Dave Matthews Band (sue me), Rapid Eye Movement, The Flaming Lips, The Wallflowers, The Verve, U2, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Nancy Wilson, Depeche Mode, Explosions In The Sky, Devendra Banhart, Ub40, Mogwai, New Order, Underworld, The Smiths, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, U. N. K. L. E., Drugstore, The Sonic Youth, Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Cream, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Pixies, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, M. Ward, Talking Heads, Al Stewart, British Sea Power, Beck, The Spencer Davis Group, Richard Ashcroft, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Country Joe and the Fish, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Led Zeppelin, Venus Hum, Tom Waits, The Queens of the Stone Age, The Sex Pistols, The Animals, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pink Floyd, Iron and Wine, Muddy Waters, Rufus Wainwright, Billy Preston, Spaceman Three, Don Mclean, Blue Öyster Cult, Ben Harper, Neil Young, Nick Mason, Of Montreal, Rick Wright, Nine Inch Nails, The Stone Temple Pilots, The Grateful Dead, Blind Melon, Tears for Fears, Billy Corgan, The Mamas and The Papas, The Blue Man Group, Nirvana, The Cranberries, Oasis, Pearl Jam, John Mayer, The Pet Shop Boys, The Counting Crows, Marcy Playground, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Doors, The Polyphonic Spree, Van Morrison, B.B. King, Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, Brian Eno, The Allman Brothers Band, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Crazy Horse, The Mars Volta, Modern English, Björk, Sufjan Stevens, Morrissey, The Happy Mondays, Sam Beam, Robert Plant, Polly Samson, Michael Andrews, Mogwai, Paul McCartney and Wings, Mystic Roots, Arlo Guthrie, George Harrison, John Lennon, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bobby McFerrin, Bush, Bright Eyes (sue me), Badly Drawn Boy, The Ministry of Sound, Gary Jules, Blues Traveler, Unified Theory (Blind Melon and Pearl Jam), Tool, The Proclaimers, Cat Stevens, The Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Folds Five, Animal Collective, Beulah, Blur, The Wailers,, Collective Soul, Sublime, Illuminations, The Fifth Dimension, Soft Machine, Portishead, Mick Hucknall, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Michael Simpson, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Zombies, The Deftones, Jefferson Airplane, Conor Oberst, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Peter Tosh, Jethro Tull, Primus, Chris Isaak, The Doobie Brothers, Charles Brown, John Lee Hooker, The Residents, Yes, Funkadelic, The Who, King Crimson, Nick Oliveri, The White Stripes, Mick Jones, Living Color, Jerry Harrison, John Dawson, Jon Carin, Stephen Morris, Talk Talk, Five for Fighting, Ziggy Marley, P.J. Harvey, Tripping Daisy, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ricky Nelson, Ringo Star, Regina Spektor, Korgis, José Gonzalez, Belle and Sebastian, London Symphony Orchestra, Seals and Crofts, The Solid Rock Choir, Ian Stanley, Soundgarden, Boyd Tinsley, The Arctic Monkeys, Ian Curtis, David Byrne, Placebo, The Black Crowes, Janis Joplin, Marc Seales, Ernie Watts, Ian Brown, Steely Dan, James Blunt, John King, John Squire, Johnny Marr, Kansas, Don Felder, Don Henley, Donald Fagen, Donna Summer, Ed Roland, The Edge, Ed Roland, Frances McKee, Frank Black, Grace Slick, Ian Anderson, The Strokes, Jim Gordon, Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, Jack Johnson, Gerry Rafferty, Sly and The Family Stone, Tracy Chapman, A Flock of Seagulls, Jerry Garcia, Cedric Bixler Zavala, Chris Frantz, Chris Lowe, Colin Greenwood, Dan Vickrey, Darby Slick, David Byrne, David Immerglück, Phish, Wilco, David Gilmour, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Mercury Rev, Elvis Costello, CAKE, Moby, Frank Zappa , Paul McCartney, Buddhist Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery, Weezer, Warren Zevon, Gnarls Barkley, Billy Joel, Michel Stipe, Bobby Freeman, Robert Cray, The Graham Central Station, Paris, Greg Kihn, Consolidated, Eric Johnson, Dire Straits, Joe Satriani, Adam Duritz, Anthony Moore, Barry Clarke, Bob Ezrin, Bob Weir, Bobby Sheehan, Dido, Crowded House, The Stray Cats, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Tapeshaper, Uriah Heep, Gogol Bordello, Ten Thousand Maniacs, The Kingston Trio, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Paul McCartney, Buddhist Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery, Derek and the Dominoes, La bamba and the Hubcaps, Eighteen Pieces of Soul, Dead or Alive, Dixie Blood Mustache, Dressy Bessy, The Essex Green, Musique Pub, The Unicorns, The Vines, Frosted Ambassador, The Gerbils, High Water Marks, Major Organ and the Adding Machine, Marbles, The Minders, The Music Tapes, The Olivia Tremor Control, Orchestre Fantastique, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't, Secret Square, The Sunshine Fix, Ulysses, Von Hemmling, American Revolution, Bablicon, Fablefactory, Great Lakes, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Icy Demons, The Instruments, The Ladybug Transistor, The Late B.P. Helium, M Coast, Marta Tennae, Midget and Hairs, My First Keyboard, Synthetic Flying Machine, Thimble Circus, Visitations, Miles Kurosky, Isabella Monteiro The Apples in Stereo, Black Swan Network, Chocolate USA, Circulatory System, Keane, Tori Amos, The Section, Ari Hest, Howie Day, Jon Brion, The Willowz, Carlos Santana, Damian Marley, Dave Matthews, David Gray, Gary Numan, Interpol, Ladytron, Louis Armstrong, M83, Michael Andrews, Simply Red, Ray LaMontagne, T-Bone Walker, Men Without Hats, The Doves, Jenny Lewis, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, and Rufus Wainwright, Zero-Seven, Goldfrapp, Gordon Thomas Sumner, John Cale, America, Jeff Buckley, the Decemberist, Super Furry Animals, Delays, The Monochrome Set, James, The Boo Radleys, Dinosaur Jr., The Veils, Brakes, Galaxie 500, The Rutles, and there are so many more artist. If you really care to find out what I am currently listing to check out my last.fm account: http://www.last.fm/user/Davin_Bacon/

[edit] Films that I Enjoyed

Lost In Translation, Meeting People is Easy, The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time, Pulp Fiction, The Doors, The Manchurian Candidate, V for Vendetta, Fail-Safe, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Sideways, Star Wars (all six, sue me), Solaris (my favorite science-fiction of all time), The Terminal, Slaughter-House Five, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Suburbia, Waking Life (my favorite animated film), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (eight great short films), Baraka (a film without dialogue), Where the Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Breakfast With Hunter, Bowling for Columbine, Zero Hour, Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), Vanilla Sky (my all-time Favorite Film, American remake of Abre los ojos), Donnie Darko, Sin City, Requiem for a Dream, Ben Hur, Spartacus (the original, the new one sucks), Gandhi, Apocalypse Now, Gladiator, The Patriot, Un Coeur en Hiver, Ju Dou, Red Sorghum, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Metropolis, Why We Fight, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Cast Away, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Silent Running, Dave Gormans Googlewhack Adventure, The Empire of the Sun, Two Thousand and One, Blade Runner, Copland, Xiu Xiu, Spun, K-Two, The Fountain, Trainspotting, Drugstore Cowboy, The Salton Sea, Permanent Midnight, The Constant Gardener, Cruel Intentions, A Clockwork Orange, City of God, Jonny Got His Gun, Natural Born Killers, Blow, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Twenty-four Hour Party People, Bitter Harvest, A Home at the End of the World, Abyss, Disco Pigs, Proof, Malcolm X, Primal Fear, Rain Cain, Benny and Joon, What Dreams may Come, One Flew Over the Chuckoo’s Nest, Blue, What About Bob?, Once Were Warriors, Fearless, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Fisher King, Twenty-Eight Days Latter, The Motorcycle Dairies, Tranation, Life Beyond Earth, Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant (has to do with a semi-columbine situation), Igby Goes Down, Heathers, The Good Girl, Mysterious Skin, In Search of America, The Shawshank Redemption, Asylum: A Film By Peter Robinson, Instinct, The Usual Suspects, On the Edge, Respiro, Wonderland, Meantime, Orphans, Chattahoochee, Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, Jacob’s Ladder, The Man Who Wasn't There, Reservoir Dogs, Bottle Rocket, Garden State, Open Water, The Butterfly Effect, I for India, Lying, Dreamland, I Step Through Moscow, The Lost Boys, Maniac, The Wall, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Avalon, The Breakfast Club, Crossroads, Ghost in the Shell, Hackers, Tron, A Sound of Thunder, Slacker, Cube, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, Lost Highway, Living in Oblivion, The Last Seduction, Joshua Tree, Battle Beyond the Stars, Dune, The Last Man on Earth, Flight of the Navigator, American Blackout, Un chien andalou, Images, Vertigo, I Heart Huckabees, Lost Boys of the Sudan, Wonder Boys, The Emperor's Club, Finding Forrester, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, It Runs in the Family, Lawrence of Arabia, Illusion, Dark Side of Oz, The Killing Fields, The African Queen, Apollo Thirteen, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Being John Malkovich, The Man Who Wasn't There, Adaptation, The Devil's Arithmetic, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Pi, Good Bye Lenin!, Brick, Girl, Interrupted, The United States of Leland, The Science of Sleep, Life as a House, Suicide Kings, Breaking Away, Nineteen Sixty-Nine, The Graduate, Paradise Now, The Utopian Society, Young Winston, The Dot and the Line, Good Will Hunting, The Squid and the Whale, Stroszek, Munich, I will add more to this list latter.

[edit] Novels and Books That I Have Enjoyed

Nineteen Eighty-four, Half Breed, Door Number Three, Animal Farm, Cats Cradle, Fountain City, Game of Life, Solaris, Battlefield Earth, Johnny Got His Gun, The Fountain, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Down and Out in Paris and London, Trainspotting, Porno (not pornography, it’s the sequel to Trainspotting), Kingdom of Fear, The Doors of Perception, Catcher in the Rye, Player Piano, Time Quake, Sirens of Titan, Fahrenheit Four Fifty-one, In the Days of the Comet, The Dai Vinci Code, Beyond Good & Evil, The Communist Manifesto, Mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty, A Talent for War, Ancient Shores, Eternity Road, Moonfall, Infinity Beach, Deepsix, The Engines of God, Chindi, Omega, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Polaris, Seeker, Robinson Crusoe, The Cay, Timothy of the Cay, Prometheus Rising, The Sound of Thunder, Dune, Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, The Fortress of Solitude, The Time Traveler's Wife, Against the Tide, Judas Unchained, Pandora's Star, Dune Messiah, The Earth Abides, V for Vendetta, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Simulacra, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Xenocide, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse Dune, The Reality Dysfunction (Parts 1 and 2), The Nuclear Train, Game players of Titan, Darwin's Radio, Singularity Sky, Non-Stop, The Fifth Head of CerberusTao Te Ching, The Bhagavad Gita, The Golden Rule, The Upanishads, The Analects, The Republic.

[edit] Other Important User Information:

[edit] Normalised Parts of Me

By no Choice of My Own:

• Born of the Western World
• Capitalist
• Citizen of the United States of America
• Male
• Publicly Educated
• Seventeen Years of Age

[edit] Adopted Biases

I am, by Choice:

• Addicted to Music
• Agonistic
• Anti-War
• Amateur Musician
• Facebook Member
• Mildly Anti-Capitalist
• Myspace Member
• Pacifist
• Sober
• Socialist
• Socially Withdrawn

[edit] Internet Stalking Made Easy:

[edit] Message Boards

• Beautiful Ground
• Smoking Area
• Radiohead’s Official Message Board

[edit] Social Networking Sites

• Last.FM
• Myspace
• Facebook

[edit] Weblogs

• Weblog I
• Weblog II

[edit] Wikipedia:

[edit] My Contributions to Wikipedia

• The Death of Sir Francis Bacon
• Fear Itself: an Outer Limits Episode
• Final Exam: an Outer Limits Episode
• Glitch: an Outer Limits Episode
• Glyphic: an Outer Limits Episode
• The Grid: an Outer Limits Episode
• Identity Crisis: an Outer Limits Episode
• In Another Life: an Outer Limits Episode
• In the Blood: an Outer Limits Episode
• In the Zone: an Outer Limits Episode
• John C. Riley’s Filmography
• The Joining: An Outer Limits Episode
• Josh: an Outer Limits Episode
• Monster: an Outer Limits Episode
• Nightmare: an Outer Limits Episode
• Player Piano: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Only Living Boy In New York: Song by Simon and Garfunkel
• Relativity Theory: an Outer Limits Episode
• Richard Cory: Song by Simon and Garfunkel Based on a Poem Written by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Rite of Passage: an Outer Limits Episode
• Trivia Section for Sigur Rós
• To Tell the Truth: an Outer Limits Episode
• Untitled #1 (A.K.A. Vaka): Sigur Rós Single and DVD

[edit] Addiction?

As of now, I have what I would call a healthy addiction to this encyclopedia, others may disagree. I scored a 671.285947 on the Wikipediholic Test. Seems I am safe for now.

[edit] Other Important Matters