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Hi. I'm Izzy Rankin; songwriter of (fantasized) hit songs such as "Coming Through" and I demand things to be AWESOME!!!

Born in the AWESOME winter of 1985 and I've been black ever since. I played violin for 10 AWESOME years and started teachin' myself how to play when I was 14. After I high school graduation, I switched to guitar full time. I had always tried to sing, but I didn't start to get really AWESOME until mid-2005.

I've been writin' songs ever since I played my first power chord. Songwriting is like any other AWESOME skill. The more you do it, the more AWESOME you get at it.

"You could probably take the most original bands of their time and, ya know, their only playin' what they've heard in their record collections. They might have a more eclectic record collection than you had, but my record collection consisted of the Beatles, the Stones, T. Rex, David Bowie, and lots of greatest hits, and that's what I used to listen to. I'm fuckin' asked about fuckin' extra tracks on a fuckin' Pink Floyd bootleg from 1972. I don't fuckin' give a shit. I'd rather listen to 'I Am The Walrus' 20 times in a row." - Noel Gallagher, Definitely Maybe Documentary

AWESOME bands/musicians I listen to: Busta Rhymes, Guns N' Roses, Megadeth, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen, Journey, Pillows, Van Halen, Scorpions, Al Di Meola, Peter Gabriel, Bush, Weird Al Yankovic, Wu-Tang Clan, Mr. Big, Queensryche, B'z, Alcatrazz, ABC, Canibus, Foo Fighters, Paul Gilbert, The Wallflowers, Boowy, Killing Joke, The Jam, Eric Martin, Heaven And Hell, Rainbow, Teenage Fanclub, Rick James, Velvet Revolver, Papoose, Oasis, The Hives, Airbourne, XTC, Course Of Empire, The Verve, Kasabian, F1-B, Love Battery, Talk Talk, INXS, Soundagarden, Catherine Wheel, The Galvatrons, Elvis Costello, The New Pornographers, Attic Lights, The Style Council, Elbow, Locksley, Voxtrot, Cee-Lo Green, The Murder City Devils, The Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins, Prince