About Me

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I used to play bass in Towpath. I sang in Rotten Fruit Of Terrorism and in the short-lived Slit Throat. Was a professional wrestler in Southern Ontario for about a year. Was trained by Jamie Jackson and L'Artiste who is now known as Referee Dave Linton. Learned everything I know about wrestling from the All Knighters. Ran Midget Room Records. Released the They Live - "We Sleep - Demo 1996" 7" and a Slavestate Discography CD-R. Am working on turning that into Midget Room Media Trust . I'm always out videotaping bands in Pittsburgh. Will be working on DVD releases in the future. For the past year I have been videotaping roller derby practices for the Steel City Derby Demons. I taped their exhibition bout in January 2007. It will be my last event to tape for them as I have accepted a job with Carnival Cruise Lines in the audio/visual department. I will be doing videos of the passengers and will live on the ship. I'm leaving Pittsburgh at the end of February to hang out in Buffalo for a week or so. I should be starting my job in Miami around the beginning of March.
IM: midgetroom
This is the video I shot for The Motorpsychos, I have switched to a Quicktime file. Left-click and click "open in new window."
If you don't have Quicktime, click here to download.
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Rotten Fruit of Terrorism - First Show

This was at Asbury Alley(where we always played) opening up for Exit Wound from Toronto. RFOT was myself on vocals, "Brutal" Mike Gifford on guitar, "Skinny" Dave Vincent on bass, and John Smith on drums.
Recommended websites:
In order to trim down my friend's list I took all the bands off my list except for a couple. I'm not adding bands anymore or most things that aren't real people, so don't ask me to add your band. If your record label page is the only MySpace page you have, I'm keeping it but I'd rather just have your personal MySpace page if you have both. Here are links to the MySpace pages for all the bands and labels that used to be on my friends list plus more bands I like:
Faster Pussycat , Weekend Warriors , The Resistoleros , Dropdead , Amps II Eleven , Corpus Dei , Murphy's Law , Submachine , The Transonics , Antiseen , The Trailer Park Tornados , Team Chocolate , Suicidal Tendencies , Devil's Advocate , Shitloads of Fuck-All , Miracle At Rich , Legendary Hucklebucks , The Radio Beats , Agnostic Front , Plastered Bastards , The Short Dark Strangers , Irwin , All Things Ordinary , Apartment 213 , 108 , The Science Fiction Idols , The Erotics , ThirdxParty Records , Darkbuster

Snakeland Destroyed

Witness the destruction of Snakeland, Towpath's favorite place of worship. I taped this on Hi-8 almost 7 years ago now. It has a couple of pre-demolition interviews with Dan Schulz and a mysterious Towpath fan from the East Side. Then I journeyed down to the Riveside Sea to get an exclusive post-demolition interview with Towpath drummer, the Creature From The Riverside Sea.

Watch Me Get Choke Slammed!

I'm the one who jumps off the top rope.
About my Top 8:
The first 3 don't change. I used to try and put up the newest to my friends list as the last four, but it's getting too big to try and find people, so I'm not bothering with that anymore. I'll probably just change the rest around randomly.
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1

My Interests

Likes:
Ideas, ADCFTW, Ayn Rand fiction and non-fiction, beer, laissez-faire capitalism (no government influence on the economy and no business influence on the government), classical liberalism, (small-l) libertarianism, individual rights, pro-wrestling, videotaping live music, jager.

Dislikes:
All political parties including third party pointlessness, fascism, censorship, out-of-control government, mercantilism, people who chainsmoke and try to give me health advice, people who push their religion on others, psychological projection, whiskey and most hard liquor.

I'd like to meet:

I do not accept band requests, but feel free to add my record/music/video label as a friend:

Midget Room Media Trust

Music:

Punk/Hardcore: Turbonegro, AntiSeen, Infest, Voorhees, The Donnas, Spazz, Citizens Arrest, Nina Hagen, 9 Shocks Terror, Betty Blowtorch, Code 13, Youth Of Today, The Pist, The Meatmen, Gorilla Biscuits,Butt Trumpet, Ramones, The Mentors, Fast Times, Fear, Agnostic Front, Floorpunch, Apartment 213, 7 Seconds, The Accused, Suicidal Tendencies, Gito Gito Hustler, D.R.I., S.O.D., M.O.D., Dropdead, Negative Approach, Mucky Pup, J Church, Minor Threat, Crucial Youth, Siege, Ludichrist, Dead Milkmen, Sloppy Seconds, Extreme Noise Terror, Discharge, Los Crudos, Screeching Weasel, Municipal Waste, Darkbuster, Blood For Blood,

Glam Metal: Metal Shop/Metal Skool, Guns N' Roses, Faster Pussycat, Motley Crue, Dangerous Toys, Cinderella, Vains of Jenna, Skid Row, L.A. Guns, Junkyard,

Metal: Twisted Sister, Slayer, Death Angel, King Diamond, Kreator, Anthrax, Annihilator, 3 Inches Of Blood, Sanctuary, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Valient Thorr, Lawnmower Deth, Old Lady Drivers, Murderdolls, Klown, W.A.S.P., Venom, Coven, Terrorizer, Piledriver, Ozzy Osbourne, Death, Viking, Hirax, Godflesh, Blessed Death, Cliff Burton era Metallica, Megadeth

Country: Johnny Cash, Hank Williams III, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Sr., Charlie Daniels Band, Hayseed Dixie

Classic Rock / Arena Rock/70's glam: Ted Nugent, Dr. Hook, Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs, Rush, Cheap Trick, Sweet, Radio Stars, T-Rex

Hip-Hop/Rap: Shakkazombie, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Nice 'N Smooth, X-Clan, Run-DMC, Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, Biz Markie, Whodini, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, Dream Warriors,

Pittsburgh Bands: Motorpsychos, Plastered Bastards, The Cheats, Short Dark Strangers, Hellbound Honkies, The Science Fiction Idols, Half Life, Behind Enemy Lines, Radio Beats, Lucid Music, Caustic Christ, Warzone Womyn, Brain Handle

Buffalo Bands: Towpath, John Valby, Zero Tolerance, Slavestate, Motherbirth, Strongballs, Cannibal Corpse demo when Chris Barnes didn't growl the whole time, the first 2 Goo Goo Dolls albums, Baphomet, Grotesque Infection, Slugfest, Support, Split Decision, Project C, Beyond Death, Mayhemisis, Immortal Terror, No Reason, Jungle Stud, Panzer, Yuppie Transvestite Zombies From Outer Space, Tyrades, Blowtops, Bloody Hollies, Irving Klaws, Door #3,

Miscellaneous: Dir en Grey, Red Elvises, Devo, 2 Skinnee J's, Negativland, Servotron

RUSH lyrics

Movies:

River's Edge, Dellamorte Dellamore, Donnie Darko, Evil Dead, On The Waterfront, Cecil B. Demented, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Requiem For A Dream, They Live, The Believer, House of Sand and Fog, Death Wish, Being John Malkovich, Welcome To The Dollhouse, The Aviator, Summer Camp Nightmare, Sleepaway Camp, Tombstone

Television:

Heroes, Law & Order, SNL

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, Fargo Rock City, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Ayn Rand, Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, Elmore Leonard, Oscar Wilde, Chuck Palahniuk, Brett Easton Ellis , Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Ludvig Von Mises.

Heroes:

Robocop, Charles Bronson, John Rambo, "Dirty" Harry Callahan, Frank Serpico

My Blog

Moving back to Pittsburgh on Saturday (8/23)

I've been in Buffalo about a month now since I left the cruise ship. I'm going back to my old job doing valet parking. I'll be living up in Mt. Washington. I'll try to get out to do stuff, tape bands ...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:44:00 PST

Awaiting debarkation

I'm sitting in the crew bar waiting to get off the ship. We usually can walk off just showing ID around 8:30. I didn't know it was a big hassle to leave when signing off. I had to be up for immigratio...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:33:00 PST

Things I never want to hear again

Now that I am leaving the Carnival Fun Ship, these are some things I hope to never hear again: Let's hear it for the red team!I'm too sexy for my&We're gonna dance the YMCA!You must have the best job ...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST

It like Buffalo first

I am flying into Buffalo on Monday. I should get in around 6 PM. It was a little cheaper than Pittsburgh. I could have bought a ticket through Travelocity for $140 on Friday. I was told I could get a...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:34:00 PST

Projects

I'm going to try to keep myself busy by taking on some projects of my own, just for fun. While I do work a lot of hours, the free time I do have is spent on the ship, where I don't think there is muc...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:07:00 PST

In the Gulf of Mexico, this is for Buffalo friends

I'm still working on the cruise ship, this humongous leviathan, that at times feels like a slavestate. People don't always realize, with the crew, that they live and work on the ship, with no time le...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:40:00 PST

Bought myself a laptop today

I went and bought a laptop today. I had hoped to save more of my money, but this will make it easier to get online. I will at least be able to type stuff up and read stuff when I'm offline, instead o...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:13:00 PST

I feel like the Crocodile Hunter the last couple days

I at least know what it's like to be his camera man.First I went swimming with Stingrays in Grand Cayman. The first one came up against me when I wasn't looking. I just thought it was someone kno...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:00:00 PST

One more thing about Cozumel

At the video store, one of the guys behind the counter had long hair and a shirt with an unreadable black metal band logo. I asked him about the band but don't rmember the name. He spoke no English, b...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:49:00 PST

Yesterday in Cozumel

I was back in Cozumel yesterday, filming the Catamran tour again. I was supposed to be on call and then have a few hours off, but that changed at the last minute. Still, the manager edited for me, and...
Posted by Rob-Bob on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:31:00 PST