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Samnation

I can play the key-tar like a motherfucking riot.

About Me


"anarchist reactionary running-dog revisionist
hindu muslim catholic creation evolutionist
rational romantic mystic cynical idealist
minimal expressionist post-modern neo-symbolist
armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist
deconstruction primitive performance photo-realist
be-bop or a one-drop or a hip-hop lite-pop-metallist
gold adult contemporary urban country capitalist"
--Neil Peart
This is me playing at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, with Gabriel James at his CD release show:
Check out more of Gabe's stuff here .

I play guitar in Sirens of Titan, a local rock/metal band. We're doomy, but we swing, dammit. We have a brand new album for sale. Go here to hear (and buy) us:
www.myspace.com/sirensong
Or here:
www.sirensoftitan.org
I also do solo folk stuff. Go here for that:
www.myspace.com/samrhode

My Interests

Finding clever ways to recycle the tritone. Finding not-so-clever ways to eat a burrito (hey, I just want the damn thing in my digestive tract.) Hoping that the original Black Sabbath will still manage to do something new and cool before they die. In a similar vein, hoping Jesus actually existed and will come back and give me the GI Joe aircraft carrier my Mom would never buy me. In an entirely dissimilar vein, breathing the smoke from scented candles and wondering why exactly this is supposed to be better than real air.

I'd like to meet:


This guy!

Music:

Sirens of Titan (everyone loves their own brand, right?), Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Clutch, Living Colour, Mars Volta, Mr. Bungle, Bob Dylan, Springsteen, Midnight Oil, Fates Warning, Dexter Gordon, Sleep, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Neko Case, Ryan Adams, Loudon Wainwright (NOT his no-talent kids, though), Tom Waits, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dan Bern

Movies:

Grosse Point Blank, First Blood, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, Pi, Closer, Apocalypse Now, anything by the Coen Brothers, ditto for Stanley Kubrick, ALMOST anything by Kevin Smith (I'm lookin' at YOU, Mallrats!), Star Wars

Television:

The Office (US, Brit), 30 Rock, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Aqua Teen, Nova, Austin City Limits

Books:

Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Jonathon Franzen, Umberto Eco, Philip Roth, Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, C.S. Lewis, Norman Mailer, A.S. Byatt

Heroes:

Your Mom's Mom.

My Blog

What Would Springsteen Do?

This is becoming a valid question, as it relates and pertains to the same statement, one usually applied to Jebus Kriste himself-ness. Ol' Bruce has released another great album, "Magic." On my damn b...
Posted by Samnation on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:55:00 PST

Finally saw Mike effin' Patton!!!

Yep, I saw the legend himself, in his hip-hoppity "pop" incarnation, Peeping Tom. The show was at Trocaderos, a new, fairly hip-hoppity club in it own right. I did see Patton once before, with Tomahaw...
Posted by Samnation on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:54:00 PST