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=Ok Abacus=

aka. the Prince of the Southside.

About Me

My name is Sam Patrick Joseph Famolaro. I'm the lead singer/rhythm guitarist for the band Coersion (www.myspace.com/coersion). Much like my beloved Buffalo Bills, I have a mediocre offense, bad timing, and I'm know for getting dumb penalties in critical situations. I just recently found out that I take my coffee the same way as Harvey Kietel in Pulp Fiction. I like my job because I get to drive a forklift. My away messages never states what I'm doing or where I am... and I like it that way. Tuna and Avacado sushi can turn my day around instantly. I know more about the New York Yankees than you do. I play my guitar way too loud. If I could, I'd buy all my shirts from the Salvation Army. If I could eat Zebb's Original Wings everyday... I wouldn't, cause I'd get sick of it, but they are fantastic. I really enjoy that purple 50 Cent Vitamin Water, probably because It tastes like Grape-A-Saurus Rex Kool-Aid... I also really like Dinosaurs. I melt cheese on most of my food. I like the background vocals better than the lead vocals in precisely 73.6% of all the music I listen to. I wish I had that big huge pack of multi-colored sharpies. I make really good mixtapes... If you want one, lemme know. My car is a piece of shit. I've read all the Calvin and Hobbes comics. If I could be any Power Ranger, I'd be the green one, but i'd much rather be Godzilla. I try to read alot of books, but lately it's hard to find time. One of these days I'm gonna buy a bulldog and name him Thurman. I like Les Pauls, Strats, SG's, and a few selected Telecasters. Code Red Mountain Dew is better than the regular Mountain Dew. I haven't truely enjoyed listening to a love song in six years and I haven't written one in five. I get angry when people compare me to musician/singers that I hate, So... If you plan on saying "Hey! You sound like______" that blank better be filled w/ someone legit. I'm not remotely as angry or bitter as I sound, it's just late and I'm tired. I have a friend named Jenny Lewis and she will forever be my partner in crime. 1)New York Yankees 2)Buffalo Bills 3)Buffalo Sabres. Fuck the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots. AIM=sampatrickk

My Interests

this is a very broad thing to describe, my interests...I like tons of shit, fuck this catagory.

I'd like to meet:

Barack Obama, Ben Folds, Don Mattingly, Elliott Smith, Rivers Cuomo, Thurman Munson, Eddie Vedder, Bradley Nowell, Jon Stewart, Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher, Giada De Laurentiis, Bode Miller, Chuck Norris

Music:

the Academy is..., Acceptance, Alanis Morrisette, Angels and Airwaves, Alice in Chains, the All-Star Champs, An Angle, Aqualung, the Arcade Fire, Army of Me, As Tall As Lions, Athera, Bayside, Beastie Boys, the Beatles, Beck, Ben Folds (Five), Ben Harper, Better than Ezra, Billy Joel, Black Crowes, Blink 182, Blues Traveler, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Bon Jovi, Boys Night Out, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Buffalo Springfield, Bush, Cake, the Cars, Cartel, the Clash, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Collective Soul, Counting Crows, Creedance Clearwater Revival, the Cure, Cursive, Dashboard Confessional, DataRock, Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, Days Away, Dead to Me, Death Cab for Cutie, Deciding Tonight, Deftones, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Dispatch, the Doors, Duran Duran, the Eagles, East Avenue, Elefant, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Eve 6, Everclear, Fall Out Boy, Fenix TX, Finch, Fischerspooner, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Further Seems Forever, The Get-Up Kids, Glassjaw, the Golden Gate Dilemma, Goldfinger, Gomez, the Goo Goo Dolls, Gordon Lightfoot, Green Day, Greene Reveal, Guns n' Roses, Guster, Hard-Fi, Head Automatica, Heatmiser, the Honorary Title, Hootie & the Blowfish, Hot Water Music, Incubus, Interpol, Jack Johnson, James Taylor, Jay-Z, Jets to Brazil, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jim Croce, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Eat World, John Mayer, the Junior Varsity, Jurassic 5, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, the Killers, Kings of Leon, Led Zeppelin, Less than Jake, Lit, Live, Long Beach Dub All-Stars, the Loved Ones, Lustra, Mae, Mastodon, Matchbox 20, Matchmaker, Mest, Metallica, Method Man, Minus the Bear, Missing Peace, Modest Mouse, the Morning Of..., Morrisey, Motion City Soundtrack, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Nas, the National, Neil Young, New Found Glory, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, NOFX, Northstar, the Notorious B.I.G., Now Hiring Losers, O.A.R, Oasis, Oblique, the Offspring, Operation Ivy, Our Lady Peace, Panic! at the Disco, Paul Simon (and/or Garfunkel), Pavement, Pearl Jam, the Peasantry, Phantom Planet, Pink Floyd, the Pixies, Plain White T's, +44, the Police, the Promise Ring, Queen, the Raconteurs, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redman, Reel Big Fish, R.E.M., Rooney, the Roots, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Saves the Day, Say Anything, Semisonic, Shades Apart, Silversun Pickups, the Sleeping, Smashing Pumpkins, Smoking Popes, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Something Corporate, Soundgarden, Soul Asylum, Soul Coughing, Spacehog, Sparta, Spoon, Stereocycle, Stone Temple Pilots, Straylight Ray, Stroke 9, the Strokes, Sublime, Sugarcult, Sum 41, Sunny Day Real Estate, Taking Back Sunday, Temple of the Dog, Tenacious D, 3rd and Long, Third Eye Blind, 311, Thrice, Thursday, Toadies, Tonight the Riot, Tool, TV on the Radio, the Used, U2, Van Halen, Vapor Aevum, Vendetta Red, the Verve, the Verve Pipe, the Wallflowers, Weezer, the Who, Wilco, Wolfmother, Wolf Parade, Wu-Tang Clan, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and my boys at Dewbass Records. I'll probably remember something else later...

Movies:

the Prestige, Se7en, Fight Club, Big Fish, Resevior Dogs, Punch-Drunk Love, Boondock Saints (that's just for you, Kevin), Tommy Boy, the Sandlot, the Wizard of Oz, Momento, Pulp Fiction, 61*, the Shawshank Redemption, Road to Perdition, Rocky I-IV, Saving Private Ryan, American Beauty, 12 Monkeys, Donnie Darko, Snatch, King Kong v. Godzilla (no fuckin' joke man...)

Television:

Mystery Science Theater 3000, It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia, Entourage, Family Guy, Sportscenter, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, the Simpsons, Seinfeld, Hogan Knows Best (that's right bitches, Whatcha Gonna Do!?!?!), the entire YES network, My Name is Earl, The Food Network, Cheaters...cause Joey Greco is no joke, and any time the edited versions of Goodfellas, Scarface, Casino, Showgirls, or Fight Club is on cause that shit's hilarious.

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk will write circles around any writer I can think of, go read "Survivor" and "Lullaby" right now. I have a Stephen King fetish as well but not trash like "It", the good stuff he wrote under his pen name... primarily "Desperation." Also, at the moment I am totally engulfed in "The Theories of Life" by ViSalcrates... It's a stimulating read, I recommend it highly.

Heroes:

My Grandpa (R*I*P), Jay Wilhelm, Adam Nolan, Mike Tees, Don Mattingly, and of course... Kevin "K-Slam" Ennis

My Blog

the Boy Who Cried Wolf (the Ballad of...)

"the Boy Who Cried Wolf (the Ballad of...)"      coersionworking title: "new relationship/long-term relationship/multiple partners"music: coersion     ...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:33:00 PST

Every Story has a Villain...

"Every Story has a Villain"      coersionworking title: "Klaatu Barada Nikto"music: coersion         lyrics: s.famolaro It seems that y...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:19:00 PST

The Legend of Cheeks: Part 1

.:The Legend of Cheeks:.                            Once upon a time, in the far-o...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

the Queen and the Pawn

"the Queen and the Pawn"      coersionworking title: "Every Oasis Song Has the Same Chord Structure"music: coersion         lyrics: s.f...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

Drowning in Stereo

"Drowning in Stereo"      coersionworking title: "Not the Same (as the Ben Folds' song Not the Same)"music: coersion         lyrics: s....
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:49:00 PST

Welcome to the New Midwest...

So, the Coersion mini-tour to Ohio was a rousing success. Not only did we get to play some amazing shows, we also got to hear some amazing bands and meet some great people. Big thanks are in order to&...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:23:00 PST

Epitaph for the Broken-Hearted

"Epitaph for the Broken-Hearted"       coersionworking title: You Tellin' me to Beware (Cause' I'll tell you where to Be)music: coersion     &nbs...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:13:00 PST

I am Jack's Little White Lies

"I am Jack's little White Lies"     coersionworking title: Gordon Bombay and the Spiders from Marsmusic: coersion        &nbs p;  &...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:55:00 PST

8.12.2006

On August 12th, 2006, I left my job at FYE and got in my car. Now, I'm a very impulsive guy and at that moment in time, I really wanted to hear "Cast No Shadow" by Oasis. So, I turned to look for my g...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:11:00 PST

Last Tango in Brooklyn

I ripped the idea of posting song lyrics that I've written off of the lead singer of Vapor Aevum. This is a new song, it's not on our new EP, but I really like it. If you wanna hear it, call me and I'...
Posted by =Ok Abacus= on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:29:00 PST