Personal Information

Real Name

Nick

Age

Age 20 to 29

About Me

I'm a composer/musician/producer/brewmaster/athlete from Spokane, WA.
I love to create music in general and play metalgaze/post-metal guitar in particular. Writing music for me serves two purposes. It is cathartic and blissful at once. If I have any negativity, I can expel it with my music. If I'm feeling happy/grateful/blissful, I can express that with my music too. That's the composer/producer/musician part.
When I'm not messing with my music, I brew beer in general and Dark Amber/Stout in particular. I love this kind of beer because it reminds me of Autumn, my favorite season. Making it myself always fills me with the good kind of pride and on some level, a connection with nature. That's the brewmaster part.
I also love ridiculously long bike rides. The last one I did was a century, (100 Miles). For me, this gets rid of a lot of stress and after a while, becomes a sort of Zen meditation experience. After the 80th mile, your mind is pretty clear and you're not worrying about your job/bills/any other drama.
I try not to worry about money, but my hobbies/lifestyle are very expensive, so I really care a lot about my job as polling firm manager because it enables me to do the things that make life worth living. So I find myself working, a lot. That might change once I find myself a decent Sugar Mamma! (Just kidding 'bout that last part... Maybe :) )

Favorite Music

Metal: Emperor, Opeth, Jesu, Wolves in the Throne Room, Ulver, Alcest, Katatonia, Agalloch, Dissection, Dark Tranquility, Death, Nile, Samael, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, (Old) Metallica, Pantera, (Old) Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, The Pax Cecilia, Unearth, Underoath, August Burns Red, Iron Thrones
Pop/Rock: Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Depeche Mode, The Fray, U2, Coldplay, Gavin Degraw, Snow Patrol, The Verve, Klimt 1918, AFI, Band of Horses, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, The Cure, Counting Crows, Pearl Jam, Dashboard Confessional, Interpol, The Killers, Dropkick Murphys, Dead can Dance, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Glasvegas, Jimmy Eat World, Led Zeppelin, Matthew Ryan, New Order, Joy Division, Sigur Ros, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Yellowcard
Classical: Paganini, Vivaldi, Vitali, Brahms, Chopin
Dance: Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Above and Beyond, Chicane, Delerium, Andain, DJ Sammy, Motorcycle, Assemblage 23, Pride and Fall, VNV Nation, 4 Strings, Ian Van Dahl

Favorite Books

Anything by Anne Rice, HP Lovecraft, Ayn Rand, Edgar Allen Poe, Shirley Jackson, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Richard Matheson, JS Lefanu, Frédéric Nietzsche, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis...
The Bible, The Koran, The Prose Edda (Norse Myths), anything on Dark/Middle age history, roman history etc...
The House with the Clock in it's Walls, Scary Stories to tell in the Dark. I first fell in love with books when I started reading scary stories as a kid. I still love those books today.

Favorite Movies

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Crow, The Last of the Mohicans, Fight Club, Braveheart, Gladiator, The Fountainhead, The House on Haunted Hill (1959 version, NOT THE REMAKE! Old scary movies were so much more fun! I find new ones to be a combination of gross, depressing and/or just soul crushingly evil, sad and empty, but definitely NOT SCARY), Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Cruel Intentions, Amelie, American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction, Young Guns I & II, Eastern Promises, The Godfather I & II, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Casablanca, Sin City, 300

Gender

Male

State

Washington

Country

United States

MySpace Address

http://www.myspace.com/nicholasschwartze

History

Member for

2 years 41 weeks