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The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla

"This station is non-operational."

About Me

Me. An abridged timeline:

1977: born
1987: discovered Guns N' Roses
1989: first guitar
1995: graduated high school
1999: graduated college
2001: Sam Adams
2005: Rooftop Suicide Club
2007: Married to Brooke
2008: Nature/Nurture

My Interests

Guitars, pedals you plug guitars into, and tube amplifiers that make big noises.

I'd like to meet:

All of the great and talented musicians that have influenced me and provided me with hours upon hours of music, and before the advent of downloading made sure my paycheck never stayed in my wallet for too long.

Music:



Movies:

The usual shit: Fight Club, 28 Days Later, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Funky Monks...I'm such a sucker for music documentaries.

Television:

Project Runway, Family Guy, Simpsons

Heroes:

Robert Evans for producing one of the most surreal and psychotic autobiographies I've ever read, and Bill Hicks for being Bill Hicks.

My Blog

A stunned silence, a hearty Facepalm.

A recent non-conversation in the elevators where I work...Scene: A woman, about middle aged, gets on at the 4th floor (I am on my way to the 8th). She presses 5 (remember this, it's important to the r...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:18:00 PST

A My Chemical Romance review so good it deserved a reposting.

I posted this review at least a year ago but I came across it again tonight, and it still makes me laugh out loud:Nobody knows why Queen worked. Maybe it was the '70s. Maybe it was Freddie Mercury's m...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:56:00 PST

God Bless America (or: New Lows in American Consumerism)

I have no idea how this one slipped past me, but some googling and a trip over to doritosthequest.com proves that this isn't a joke...Mountain Dew flavored Doritos. Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ.After 8 ye...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:13:00 PST

Dear Adobe,

Why did you decide to default to the marquee tool on startup in photoshop cs3?You guys never cease to amaze me with your endless run of bad design/usability decisions. I'd love to hear a compelling re...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:13:00 PST

Bad software makes baby jesus cry (pt. 2)

I'm often anywhere from curiously amused to downright punch a nun in her vagina angry when I come across weird design or user interface flaws/omissions in software I use every day. Take Photoshop and ...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Thu, 29 May 2008 06:31:00 PST

Bad software makes baby jesus cry (OR: avoiding work with Myspaces blog feature)

Computers are great. They are do things that make your life easier, they have the internet on them (and subsequently free porn...which I guess also makes them digital porno magazines), you can play ga...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Fri, 16 May 2008 08:07:00 PST

Rooftop Suicide Club (2001 - 2008)

This is for anyone who misses the bulletin...After 7 years as a band (2 of which I've been a member), RSC is going to call it a day. Eric made the decision to leave the band earlier this week and with...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Fri, 16 May 2008 07:06:00 PST

Yahoo, we hardly knew ye.

So it looks like Yahoo might give in to Microsoft.It seems to me that msn search is shitty enough, we don't really need a second one that has a Yahoo logo on the top of it.Personally, I gave up on Yah...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:16:00 PST

Why oh why oh why...

Why is it that the guy who fills the soda machine in the office is always doing it right at lunchtime when people...I dunno...want a fucking soda?I hope he's doing it on purpose to be a jerk to us lam...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:57:00 PST

It sucks, but the drugs are pretty good.

I had my appendix out Sunday. Let me explain...I woke up around 6am Sunday morning with a really bad stomach ache, nothing like I'd ever felt before. Having been sick the past few days I tried to make...
Posted by The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:06:00 PST