Vital and Non-Vital Stats
Name: James A. Spairana
Born: 04/26
Died: Not Quite Yet
Height: ~5'6"
Weight: ~175 lbs.(Erhm. . .tends to yo-yo a bit)
Online Aliases: Paragon(GameFAQs Message Boards), Broken Carbomb(Half-Life: TFC)

Residence: Upstate NY (SUNY Albany during the school year)

Job: Supermarket Cashier (Currently on a leave of abscence so I may attend school)

Food Likes: Pepsi, General Tso's Chicken, Crab Rangoon, Pizza (especially the 
Buffalo Chicken Pizza at I<3NY), Bacon-Cheeseburgers, most other fast food

Food Dislikes: Most meat aside from chicken and some forms of beef, Coca-Cola

Entertainment Likes: Music (listening to and playing myself), Video Games, online 
arguing. . .uh. . .'s about it. . .(yes, I'm a very diverse individual)

Entertainment Dislikes: Sports(watching or playing), most movies and TV shows, 
non-Rock music

Religious Affiliation: Passive Atheism


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Favorite Video Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, Summoner, Final Fantasies 6-9, Lufia 2, 
Secret of Mana. . .and more

Favorite TV Shows: Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Invisible Man, The Drew Carey 
Show

Favorite Music Groups: Alice In Chains, Dust For Life, The Clay People, Econoline 
Crush, Opeth, Pitchshifter, Tiamat
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 Other Likes: Bowling is pretty fun. . .erhm. . .
Other Dislikes: Being annoyed (doesn't happen often), going to class, social 
phobia, Getting Large Objects Dropped On Head

E-mail Addresses: showtime@partlycloudy.com (this one's more active), 
lionheart_143@hotmail.com (erhm. . .i rarely check this one) 
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OK. . .now for some less. . .structured. . .info. =P

I've been teaching myself to play the guitar for not quite a year now, and in my 
humble opinion, I'm doing fairly well.

As far as equipment goes, I started with a Squier Strat Pack, but upgraded a bit. 
I now have a Fender Roc-Pro 700 amp, though I'm still using the Stratoclone (with 
its crappy intonation (sp?)).

Rather than go through every riff I can play, here's a general idea of what I'm 
capable of:

¤Power Chords 
¤'Shifting' Power Chords, a la Alice In Chains' "God Smack" 
¤Licks which don't require much hand movement, a la Nirvana's "All Apologies", 
Alice In Chains' "What The Hell Have I" and "Heaven Beside You", and Nobuo 
Eaumatsu's "Searching For Freinds". 
. . .
OK, so it doesn't look like much, but that's a whole lot of riffs. =P

I just recently started writing some simple riffs and licks of my own. . .I try 
to stay away from just using straight power chords, and I don't follow music 
theory or "what's right" in terms of riffing. Chromatics are technically 'wrong', 
but I use them. A root-fifth-tenth power chord is technically 'wrong', but it 
still sounds cool. 


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OK, more info about me. . .

Um, to be continued.