Some Stuff About Me - The Narcissist Page

Hail there... I doubt anybody would be interested, but here's the story of my life:

30/04/1978 - Rúben Joás da Silva Pereira was born (at this time still with short hair) in Porto, Portugal, on a sunday at high noon...

1978-1982 - Sucking, drooling, pissing... the works...

1983 - The first ambitions to grow long hair begin...

1984-1990 - Primary school, prep school... the usual

1991 - First serious attempt to grow hair fails due to paternal disapproval...

1992 - Metallica is listened carefully for the first time, causing a major turn in the life of young Joás...
         - First computer of the 8086 family acquired (386sx/25Mhz).

1993 - Several attempts to grow long hair were made, but never reaching the shoulders...
          - Interest in guitar playing was fatally initiated...
          - Appreciation to other metal bands like Megadeth and Sepultura began.
          - Interest in computer programing in Pascal and C++ initialized.

Spring of 1994 - Yet another try to grow hair began...
                             - First serious contact with an acoustic gguitar and the concepts of guitar playing...
                             - Knowledge on how to play a basic guitar song acquired, involving the learning of the incredibly boring "Come As You Are" by Nirvana.

Summer of 1994 - Hair length reaches the shoulders.
                              - On late July a Santana C-102 acoustic guitar is acquired...
                              - Rúben's appearance starts to be the one of a typical Metalhead wannabe...

Autumn of 1994 - Hair reaches a near-metalish length.
                              - Improvements on guitar playing techniques are made swiftly; short original tunes are composed.

Winter of 1994/95 - First full length guitar song learned ("One" by Metallica).
                                      - Luis Miranda suggested the creation of a Thrash Metal band, that was initially baptized as "Mercyless" (later renamed to Death Line)...
                                      - Hair regretfully falls at a lame barber shop...

1995 - Black starts to be the only color wore.
          - The hair growing quest restarts.
          - First major metal concert attended on the 16th of April (Megadeth in Cascais).
          - An agreement to play temporarily on a pop band with a lame name is made.
          - In September, Rúben wears a non-black color for the first time in 8 months, at his brother's wedding.

Winter of 1996 - A dark metallic red Jackson PS-2 electric guitar is purchased, along with a Samick 10W amplifier.
                              - The 386sx/25Mhz processor is upgraded to 486sx/25Mhz, and one week later to 486dx2/66Mhz...

Spring of 1996 - Hair reaches an acceptable length once again.
                              - Rúben is nicknamed "Rúben C" for his C++ programing skills...
                              - First major disappointment in life - Rúben was left speechless for several hours when he saw Metallica with short hair on the photos of "Load"...

Summer of 1996 - Hi-school finished with an average of 15 (out of 20).
                              - First concert performed with the pop band with the lame name...
                              - Rúben gets in the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, on Informatics and Computing Engineering, with the lowest average possible that year (12.8).
                              - First Metallica concert attended in the 20th of September at the Restelo Stadium in Lisbon.

Autumn of 1996 - The nickname "Sepultura" is attributed in universitary praxis...
                              - Rúben in forced to wear a white t-shirt for the first time in 12 months at a praxis session...
                              - Driving license obtained.

Winter of 1996/97 - Hair length is around 46.15cm (18.183in)...
                                      - Discovery of the wonders of Internet and IRC - nickname Desecrate adopted.

1997 - Nothing special happened.

1998 - Hair is longer than half a meter (19.7in).
          - New computer acquired, Pentium 133Mhz.

1999 - First concert performed with Death Line.
          - Rúben inherits a car - a 1974 Toyota Corolla.

2000 - Death Line breaks up.
            - A Zoom 9150 Valve DSP guitar effects processor is acquired.

Longest measurement made in January'99 indicated hair length at around 58.5cm (23.05in).
Longest loose hair found in June'98 measured 59.7cm (23.52in).

My emails:

ei96033@fe.up.pt

moraisjoaquim@netc.pt

wolfshade_@hotmail.com

My URLs:

http://www.desecrate.f2s.com/ - Desecrate's Home - my main page

http://www.oocities.org/wolfshade_/ - Metal & Personal pages

http://www.oocities.org/desecrate_/ - Dark & Evil pages

http://www.fe.up.pt/~ei96033/ - My scholar related pages (in Portuguese)

Guess what?

And This is it for now... In case you're interested, here's an MP3 of a song I made - "Roaming In Darkness"... And also, here's my "interpretation" of the Toccata from "Toccata & Fugue In Dmin" by the great Johann Sebastian Bach (I didn't feel like tuning down my guitar, so I played it in Emin)... These MP3s were recorded in a bit of a hurry, so this is not very perfect, but i added some cool fx with the computer... Let me know if you like them...

I visited this page

times, just to complement myself...

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