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Brooks

ROCK AND ROLL

About Me

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Watch me not pay attention in a sweet interview...

My Interests

WHAT I LIKE TO DO:
Johnny Boom-Boom And The Men Who Control the Weather =Life-alteringly brutal Rock and Roll

Big $$$ Trillionaires =Hip Hop

The Rat Kings =Solo "Video Game-esque" Techno

stYgmata handjob =Hardcore Mall Pop Duo

The Concentrating Man =A Short Film by Matthew Graves

The Chauffer =A Short Film by Matthew Graves

Little White Lies =A Short Film by The Graves Bros.

The Carmel Creep =A Short Film by Nathan Graves

Poptastic Planet (Coming Soon!)

I'd like to meet:




Music:

Radio: MNPR 89.3FM The Current.
Do not read all of this or you'll die: The Mars Volta/At the Drive-In, Ken Andrews (Failure/Year of the Rabbit/Replicants/On), Autolux, Tool/A Perfect Circle, Radiohead/Thom Yorke, Queens of the Stone Age/The Desert Sessions, Mike Patton (Tomahawk/Mr.Bungle/Fantomas/Lovage/Faith No More/Peeping Tom), The Melvins, Glassjaw / Head Automatica , Wired All Wrong/Matt Mahaffey (aka Self), Mindless Self Indulgence , Wes Borland (BigDumbFace), System of a Down, The SubHumAns, The Police, Stevie Wonder, The Foo Fighters/Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins/Zwan/Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Mew, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin/AFX, Alicia Keys, Bjork/The Sugarcubes/Gling­Gló, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, The Ramones, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Coheed & Cambria, Katamari Damacy video game soundtrack, Beck, Plaid, The Deftones / Team Sleep , Sigur Røs, Azure Ray, The Postal Service/Rilo Kiley/Death Cab For A Cutie, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Devo, Hum, Yes, The Blood Brothers, Fred and the Savages, Stone Temple Pilots, Lamb of God, Christina Aguilera, Traindodge, A Tribe Called Quest, Blonde Redhead, The Decendents, Miss Janet Jackson (if you're nasty); Halloween, Alaska; Atmosphere/DJ Abilities/Eyedea (Oliver Hart), Incubus, Weezer, The Misfits, The Flaming Lips, Veruca Salt, Far/Jonah's OneLineDrawing, Pink Floyd, TLC, The Pixies, Meshuggah, Ben Folds Five, Static X, Billy Joel, Kentucky Gag Order/The Belles of Skin City, Kid Dynamite/None More Black, Loretta Lynn, The Highwaymen/Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings/Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, SMB stands for Screaming Monkey Boner (er..Screaming Mechanical Brain), Daiquiri, Rush, The Dead Kennedys/Jello Biafra/The No WTO Combo, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks/Pavement, Chaka Kahn, Mark Lanegan/The Screaming Trees, Outkast, The Violent Femmes, No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, White Zombie, Bad Religion, SWV, Fear, Jawbox, The Beastie Boys, Primus/Col. Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains/Frog Brigade/Oysterhead, Soul Coughing, Spacehog, Elastica, Metallica, Justin Timberlake, Marilyn Manson, Edie Brickell, Sublime, The Beach Boys, Prince, Michael Jackson, The Distillers, Cypress Hill, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, The Talking Heads, Cibo Matto, µ-Ziq, the Chemical Brothers, Crotchduster, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stone Temple Pilots, Jane's Addiction, Lauryn Hill, Blind Melon, AFI, Rancid, The Ejected, MONG HANG!, The Casualties, Self-Evident , Align, Clair de Lune , A Summary Execution, Manic Euphoria , Schizophrenic Dream , Cinnamon Airplane , Handsome Bishops, Big Money Trillionaires , The Burning Hell / The Spring Breaks , Wetlesbian , The Grass Party , Johnny Boom-Boom & the Men Who Control the Weather , The Flahertys, Premium , The Hawaii Show , The Rat Kings , ASS , Jena Berlin , Cockeye Dunn, THE BLOODY STOOL BAND !, Tub Ring , 3-2-1 Activate, The Super 8-Bit Brothers...the list does not go on...except Nickba ...and The Slain (Fist!)...ahh...that reminds me of Quazar. How did I forget QUEEN!? The Vice Squad, Violent Society, The Varukers, The Boils, The Life And Times/Shiner, Story Of The Sea, All The Way Rider, Dropping Daylight, Foxy Shazam, Dog Fashion Disco, Retard-O-Bot

Movies:

Akira, Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars, Anchorman, Ghostbusters, anything Wes Anderson, I 3 Huckabees, The Big Lebowski, Zoolander, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Batman 1, 2, & 5, Sin City...

Television:

TV

Books:

V is for Vonnegut: The Sirens of Titan; Breakfast Of Champions; The Slaughterhouse Five

Heroes:

Dick Cheney and Nate Dogg, and lately anyone involved in "Yacht Rock"

It's so...so SMOOTH

UNICO!!!

My Blog

New blog!

I'm gonna write one...
Posted by Brooks on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:29:00 PST

Hello, Everything!

This [][square][pusher][] album IS great! Also, I just acquired My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless"FINALLY.And Deerhoof's "Friend Opportunity"Brilliant. Bloody Brill. You: Go listen now! Now, I say!...
Posted by Brooks on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

I just got Year Zero!

I just got Year Zero! I just got Year Zero! I just got Year Zero! I just got Year Zero! I just got Year Zero! I just got Year Zero! I just got Year Zero! I just got Year Zero! I just got Year ...
Posted by Brooks on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:59:00 PST

ken andrews, parties, plane tickets, and more...

At Gravey's birthday party at our house Saturday, John Wheeler busted my lip with a Nintendo Power Glove. Now I am staying home from work.Yesterday I took some mystery pain killer and drank a few beer...
Posted by Brooks on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:57:00 PST

je mop les floors avec l' ungrateful pan handler...

...a storm cloud is brewing. and he really threw my 30 cents back at me as i crossed the street. jerk. i never give bums anything. ever. it's gonna be gravey's birthday party tomorrow. he's not a jer...
Posted by Brooks on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:49:00 PST

New Blog!

So, I haven't blogged in awhile. Eleven months. Well, a lot has happened. My band, The Men Who Control The Weather, released a CD entitled "We Own The Skies", my roommates' bands released CDs (Cass...
Posted by Brooks on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:47:00 PST

Happy 2006.

Did 2005 end with a bang or did 2006 start with a bang? Let's take a poll...
Posted by Brooks on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:56:00 PST

NINE INCH NAILS pt.2

metroConnections sent me on a delivery this morning of 36 gift baskets to the fat cats up in corporate (Cargill). They are apparently staying at the 601 Graves (Le Meridien) hotel. So as I walk in thr...
Posted by Brooks on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:20:00 PST

I just deleted 12 angry MySpace friends

Because their bulletins annoyed the fuck outta me. Watchit! On another note: THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE & SUPPORT OF JOHNNY BOOM BOOM AND THE MEN WHO CONTROL THE WEATHER!!! LAST NIGHT WAS A BLAST!!!
Posted by Brooks on Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:28:00 PST

Yeah So Someone Just Tried To Break In To My Car Ten Minutes Ago.

Does the title give away the ending? They got nothing, those imbeciles. Thanks to Cass - who was sitting in his car behind mine, smoking a cig and listening to talk radio - "Excuse me, I live here," s...
Posted by Brooks on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST