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Busta Armov

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Retired LA Derby Dolls head referee. Sometime CG technical director, sometime biker, sometime mad scientist in training. My natural super power is the ability to accelerate the effects of entropy on any type of mechanical device or home electronics.
DAYUM! This is so cool. First bout for both ladies.

My Interests

All-Girl Roller Derby, long distance motorcycling, animation, shooting pool, science-fiction books, hard rock, technotoys I can't afford, machine shop tools.

I'd like to meet:

More of the kind of people I already know.

Music:

Deep Purple, Rage Against the Machine, Out of Your Mouth, Buckcherry, Loudness, Zep, The Datsuns, G&R, Rob & White Zombie, Insane Clown Posse, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Van Halen, Golden Gods, Blinddog Smokin', Popa Chubby, Gara Moore, Ian Moore, Faith No More, Joe Bonamassa, Mike Zito, Ozzy, Peer Gunt, Ulrich Roth era Scorpions, Spinal Tap, SRV, Tea Party, Uriah Heep, Wolfe, ZZ Top, Aerosmith, AC-DC, Alice Cooper, Alice Bowie, David Bowie, Sabbath, Buddy Guy, Creem, Hendrix, Extreme, POD, Foghat, Hardknox, Henry Rollins, Dio, Motley Crue, KWS, Kid Rock, KISS, Marilyn Manson, Rainbow, Robin Trower, Skid Row, Yngwie.

Movies:

Once upon a Time in the West, all Sergio Leoni films, Warner Bros. and MGM theatrical animated shorts, Terminator, Total Recall, Outland (with Sean Connery), Blade Runner, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Office Space, Shaolin Soccer, The Big Lebowski, Demolition Man, Fifth Element, Hudson Hawk, Bedazzled (both versions), Friday, The Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, Chaplin, Keaton, Jackie Chan, My Man Godfrey, African Queen, El Diablo, The Matrix, Cats Don't Dance, Iron Giant, Ant Bully, Shrek, Outlaw Josie Wales, Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, Chinatown, The Emporer's New Groove, Pixar films, PDI films, the Tim Burton Batmans, Batman Begins, both Willie Wonkas, Edward Scissorhands, Python's Meaning of Life and Life of Brian, Spirited Away, Kill Bills, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Blade, Brazil, Army of Darkness, Buckaroo Banzai, The Atomic Bomb Movie

Television:

The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Mythbusters, Modern Marvels, Black Adder, Star Treks, Red Dwarf, The Simpsons, Futurama, Dave The Barbarian, Invader Zim, Junkyard Wars, That 70s Show, Angel, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Wonder Falls, Chapelle's Show, South Park, Pinky and the Brain, Titus, The Tick, Brisco County, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, McGuyver, Fairly Oddparents, Family Business, Stripperlla, Trippin The Rift (which I worked on), Andromeda, Get Smart, Coyboy BeBop, Trigun, Fooley Cooley, A Wish for Wings That Work, Married With Children

Books:

Asimov, Niven, Pournelle, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, Stephen Baxter, Frederick Pohl, Neil Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Stephen Baxter, Connie Willis, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series, Vernor Vinge, Terry Jones

My Blog

Were not in Kansas anymore...

I have a hard time explaining roller derby culture to outsiders. For me, the real world is like the black and white scenes in The Wizard Of Oz, and roller derby just hits your senses with the oversatu...
Posted by Busta Armov on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:21:00 PST

Tough Cookies Fought The Law and the Law Lost, 45-39

 February 16, 2006THE DOLL FACTORY, Los Angeles - The Tough Cookies have been making good on   their "COOKIES '08" campaign promise in the second game of the LA   Derby Dolls 2008 seaso...
Posted by Busta Armov on Sat, 03 May 2008 06:03:00 PST

Reality Check

A couple of things occurred to me after watching some of the LADD skaters on "Rock of Love II" and reading the blog posts about that show. There's a bird sitting on my shoulder whispering in my ear, "...
Posted by Busta Armov on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:57:00 PST

The Hammered Rabbi

Conversations tend to turn weird at derby parties. Especially parties like the LA Derby Dolls Prom. This is not about one of those NSFW conversations that make you want to poke your ears out with ice ...
Posted by Busta Armov on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:46:00 PST

Sirens seize LADD 2007 Championship

Sirens seize LADD 2007 Championshipby Busta ArmovDecember 8, 2007THE DOLL FACTORY, LOS ANGELES - The Sirens took the LA Derby Dolls 2007 Championship   home in a tight race and squeaky last minut...
Posted by Busta Armov on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:34:00 PST

Sirens crush Tough Cookies 55-24

Sirens crush Tough Cookies 55-24 by Busta Armov November 17, 2007 THE DOLL FACTORY, LOS ANGELES - There was no indication in the first quarter, that the Sirens were destined to take the Cook...
Posted by Busta Armov on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:47:00 PST

Naming Roller Derby Plays

Been awhile since I added a new one to the list. But here it is:Flying Below The Radar: What a jammer does when she's skating so low to the track that skaters don't see her when they look back for her...
Posted by Busta Armov on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:10:00 PST

"Like a hot knife through butter"

I really hate cliches. I hate everyone lacking for a good analogy/metaphor for someone going fast through the pack with little effective opposition, besides the "hot knife through butter."So I was dri...
Posted by Busta Armov on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:18:00 PST

Women's roller derby is the greatest sport...ever

...and being a ref for a women's roller derby league is one of the greatest non-paying jobs a geek can have.What's not to like? Young women in short skirts and fishnets skating around fast enough that...
Posted by Busta Armov on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:58:00 PST

Old lady on skates

I'd say women's roller derby folk are pretty interesting. The skaters, the support crew and even the fans.   By contrast, ordinary people seem kind of....less luminescent.   Case in point....
Posted by Busta Armov on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:50:00 PST