Ray Van Horn, Jr.
- Age: 38
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Taurus
- Zodiac Year: Dog
- Occupation: writer/music journalist/mtg title processor
- Location: Taneytown : Maryland : United States
About Me
Ray currently writes for multiple music journals including Metal Maniacs, AMP, Pit, Hails & Horns, Angst and Impose. He does a monthly metal column for AMP entitled "Death From Below." He also writes for websites such as Music Dish.com, Rough Edge.com, Metal Injection and others. He also contributes to Whole Lotta Album Covers with his comrades Bob Vinyl, Metal Mark and TaoTeChuck. Find our link in the Friends section... In the past Ray has been a regular contributor to Legends, Caustic Truths and Loud Fast Rules magazines, as well as Pivotal Alliance.com, Live4Metal.com, Maelstrom.nu and Inside Metal.net. He is also a former hockey analyst for The Hockey Nut and was briefly a beat writer for a local newspaper. Ray is the author of the thriller novel "Mentor," available through Publish America. Ray was also recently interviewed at About.com. Link: http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/rayvanhornjr.htm
You're going to the moon! What did you forget to pack?
Phone # to my life insurance agent.
Interests
- Pursuit of peace
- establishing a deeper relationship with the higher entity...writing
- music
- movies
- cartoons
- art
- animals
- hockey
- football
- history
- hiking
- travel
- Renaissance...am open to new experiences for the most part
- I feel like one should strive to get the biggest quality of life before checking out
- which means enrichening yourself with other cultures and points of view...knowledge is power
- cliche but true.
Favorite Movies
- Star Wars...need I say more? If my life wasn't smothered with writing and music
- it'd be hovered around movies. Other favorites: Citizen Kane
- Casablanca
- The Virgin Suicides
- Rebel Without a Cause
- the original Dawn of the Dead
- the first Halloween
- A Clockwork Orange
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Woodstock
- American Beauty
- A Christmas Story
- Gladiator
- Monsters
- Inc.
- Nosferatu and too many more to even scratch the surface.
Favorite Music
- Aside from writing
- music is my life. I am most fond of metal
- punk and hardcore as I primarily write about those genres
- but I am deeply into other genres: alternative
- old-school rap and R&;B
- funk
- classical
- jazz
- world
- Celtic
- drum
- electronica/techno
- 50s RNR
- psychobilly
- rockabilly
- Texas swing/bop and so on. It would take me a good hour to list most of my favorites
- but suffice it to say I've got much covered with 1800 CDs. Despite my metal roots
- Prince will always reign supreme in my mind as the greatest musician and guitarist of this generation.
Favorite Books
- Le Morte d'Arthur - Sir Thomas Mallory; The Autobiography of Malcolm X; Fight the Power - Chuck D; The Shining - Stephen King (the master who inspired me to write); On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony; Buried Alive
- The Biography of Janis Joplin - Myra Friedman; Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow; Catch-22 - Joseph Haller; Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer; By Bizarre Hands - Joe R. Lansdale; To Die for the People - Huey P. Newton
- The American Night - Jim Morrison
- Watchmen - Alan Moore
- Sandman series - Neil Gaiman
- The Wisdom of Confuscius
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| The Metal Minute | |
|---|---|
| Whole Lotta Album Covers | bob_vinyl Metal Mark taotechuck David Amulet |
