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Rod

Stay positive and love your life....

About Me

I was the rhythm guitarist in the band Sevendeadly, currently exploring some new music options, and I am also a graduate of Otterbein College with a degree in marketing. I was a captain on Otterbein's track team, and I ran the 110 and 400 hurdles and anchored the 4x400 relay. Currently, I am involved with music, and I work at Alliance Data doing collections, and I have the most wonderful girlfriend in the world! I'm playing semi-pro football for the Columbus Fire, which is a blast. So basically, life is good...

My Interests

Music, track, volleyball, football, tattoos, beer, being a certain someone's personal rockstar ;) ...and that's pretty much my life!

I'd like to meet:

anyone who's into good music and good times...

Music:

My favorite stuff to listen to includes 311, Saliva, TRUSTcompany, Breaking Benjamin, Fuel, Lostprophets, STP, Guns n' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Van Halen, Disturbed, Sevendust, 3 Doors Down, and most other stuff that enters the realm of hard rock/heavy metal. I've recently started getting into some stuff like Cartel, Fall Out Boy, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Jack's Mannequin. Can't forget to mention the local stuff like Introspect, one7one, Cleverin/LoveSick Radio, Noise Auction, Semisextile, Caption, Bullet Jones, and pretty much everyone we've ever had the pleasure of sharing a stage with. It's the guys from those bands who are my biggest influences and inspiration...

Movies:

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Television:

Nip/Tuck, Grey's Anatomy, anything Food Network

Books:

Anything by Tom Clancy or Coach K

Heroes:

My parents, Troy Smith, James Dumas, Kenyon Martin, Chris Duhon, all the guitarists and musicians mentioned above, most musicians I have been able to play alongside, and most of the athletes I have been able to compete against during my career.

My Blog

Reflections

Good afternoon...haven't posted one of these for a while.  Hope everyone is doing well now that the weather is getting nicer!  I'm doing very well, Kimberlee and I got moved into our own pla...
Posted by Rod on Wed, 16 May 2007 12:36:00 PST

Potholders

    Hey there to everyone, it has definitely been a while since the last post.  I am still alive and kicking, and I must say that life is good.  No band as of yet, but I've be...
Posted by Rod on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:30:00 PST

June 29, 2006

What's up everyone...I know it has been a while, but things have been busy for me.  I am glad to say though, that I am doing MUCH MUCH better than the last post I had on here.  There have be...
Posted by Rod on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:19:00 PST

March, 2006

Hey all...just checking in to say what's up...hasn't really been a fun month for me...normally I'm not one to bitch, but it's just pretty much sucked...I quit my job cuz I thought I was going to get a...
Posted by Rod on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:57:00 PST

January 3, 2006 Happenings

What up everyone- So I might have said that life was crazy before, well it only got a thousand times crazier since my last post on here...haha.  It's all good though, I couldn't be happier with l...
Posted by Rod on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:45:00 PST

Latest and Greatest

Whats up everyone- Life has been absolutely insane since the last one of these I posted...I got a job, quit it, moved into a new apartment, went to Ireland, and I'm still playing with Sevendeadly ever...
Posted by Rod on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Graduation eve

Twas the day before graduation, and all through the house...ok no.  I can't really believe that this is happening tomorrow...I really am old now!  Anyhoo, just thought I'd write to say ...
Posted by Rod on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New happenings

So, here I am 3 weeks from graduation. I don't even know what to think about that one. Sevendeadly is doing great, we will be at Victory's every Tuesday starting June 21. We were supposed to play t...
Posted by Rod on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sevendeadly info

Check out myspace.com/sevendeadly to hear a couple cuts off our new demo, and also to get our show information!
Posted by Rod on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST