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karim

...to celebrate the fact that we've seen the back of another black day.

About Me

it has been before, so it shall be again.
Summer Slaughter 2008
The Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm, Vader, Cryptopsy, The Faceless, Despised Icon, Aborted, Born Of Osiris, Psycroptic & Whitechapel
06/20 : Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
06/21 : Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
06/22 : Louisville, KY @ Headliners
06/23 : Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place (The Black Dahlia Murder, Despised Icon & Whitechapel)
06/24 : Albany, NY @ Northern Lights
06/25 : Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
06/26 : New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
06/27 : Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
06/28 : Sayerville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom ( Infest 2008 )
06/29 : Richmond, VA @ The National
06/30 : Spartanburg, SC @ Ground Zero
07/01 : Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
07/02 : St. Petersburg, FL @ Janus Landing
07/03 : Pensacola, FL @ American Legion Post 33 (The Black Dahlia Murder & Despised Icon)
07/04 : San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
07/05 : Houston, TX @ Meridian
07/06 : Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
07/07 : Odessa, TX @ Dos Amigos (The Black Dahlia Murder, Despised Icon & Whitechapel)
07/08 : El Paso, TX @ Club 101
07/09 : Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
07/10 : Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
07/11 : Los Angeles, CA @ House Of Blues
07/12 : Bakersfield, CA @ The Dome
07/13 : San Diego, CA @ Soma
07/14 : TBA
07/15 : San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
07/16 : Reno, NV @ New Oasis
07/17 : Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
07/18 : Seattle, WA @ Studio 7
07/19 : Spokane, WA @ The Big Easy
07/20 : Boise, ID @ The Big Easy
07/21 : Salt Lake City, UT @ The Avalon
07/22 : OFF
07/23 : Denver, CO @ Cervantes Ballroom
07/24 : Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
07/25 : Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave
07/26 : Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
07/27 : Sauget, IL @ Pop's
07/28 : Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
...yub nub FTW.

My Interests

tattoos, bad ideas, records, otters, RPG's, freetime, V8, wasabi peas, toys, talking animals, Holdiay Inn Express, burning bridges, 7-11, gossip, Clint Eastwood, owls, Jeff Soto, Pushead, Jeremy Fish, Blackie Ice

I'd like to meet:

dogs that sleep on their backs...

Music:

Sisters Of Mercy, Múm, pg. 99, Bolt Thrower, In Control, Satyricon, Integrity, Screeching Weasel, David Bowie, Tear It Up, The Smiths, Khanate, Nick Cave, The Sounds, Neko Case, Dead And Gone, VNV Nation, Cro-Mags, American Nightmare, Ruination

Movies:

Harakiri, Le Samourai, Detroit Rock City, Big Lebowski, For A Few Dollars More, Office Space, The Princess Bride, Spirited Away, Aliens, People Under The Stairs

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cops, Mythbusters, Adult Swim, Dexter

Books:

Haruki Murakami, William Golding, Kurt Vonnegut, H.P. Lovecraft, Chuck Palahniuk, Yukio Mishima, 'You Can't Win', 'White Line Fever', 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families', The Watchmen

Heroes:

Paul Kagame, Sophia "Ma" Spirelli Petrillo Weinstock, Lemmy, Frankenstein, Cujo

My Blog

show/tour schedule...

A (semi-complete) list of every show I've worked since I started touring in 2003 can be viewed in by blog or by CLICKING HERE.-----So far in the year of our lord two thousand and eight...Black Dahlia ...
Posted by karim on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:39:00 PST

www.theofficialkarim.com

...yeah i did it. www.theofficialkarim.com up and running - blog, zine, tour journal, hogwashcry about it....
Posted by karim on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:28:00 PST

5-7-5...

finding random haikus about yourself online... amazing.internet's back up some larry tried to steal itmust have been karim(Bill Smiles) couch dude in dekalb hair like dirty robin's nestnot quite black...
Posted by karim on Mon, 15 May 2006 02:46:00 PST

proof i have the tightest friends ever...

oh god i fell ssoouuulll ttrrraaiiinnn all my friends are dead run, forest, run man i have such sweet ups and then i air guitar like this god i have nice arms straight edge i found tha...
Posted by karim on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:21:00 PST

OC to Chicago in 68 hours...

so after 3 snowstorms (in New Mexico & Texas), a closed road, 1 flipped semi, 1 jacknifed semi and 1 flipped trailer blocking 3 different roads, being trapped in New Mexico, a trip ...
Posted by karim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

thanks...

Martyr AD, Haste the Day (and Peter), Amaranthus, All Will End, LT & Jak Prints/Strhess, The Howards, Tyler Springfield, Dave Allison, Julia, Dave Above This Fire, Steve Map Maker, Brooke @ Stick It T...
Posted by karim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fuck little kids...

some little asshole stole my cell phone in Brunswick, GA today and we spent 45 min getting it back and had to go to the projects and give some lady $5 to get it back... but now i have all homeboy's li...
Posted by karim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fifty dollars...

i won 50 bucks on a scratch off ticket today at a 7-11 in New York. fuck everyone that thinks gambling is stupid. Vegas, here i come.
Posted by karim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my 7-11 adventure...

alright so i was in the 7-11 down the street from my apartment last night. some dude comes in goes up to the register pulls out a gun and goes "give me the money". the clerk goes "what are you selling...
Posted by karim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i'm going to fight my neighbor...

my neighbor across the street like to take all of his clothes off, stand right in his window and jerk off. he does it like every other night between 2 and 4 am. it's gotten to the point where i'm so u...
Posted by karim on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST