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Sparky

Some will sell their dreams for small desires, Or lose the race to rats, Get caught in ticking traps

About Me


Metal, Jager, Natty Boh beer , sarcasm, hangovers (sometimes due to Salmiakki Koskenkorva) , not knowing what day it is, read it: www.globalresearch.ca , wishing I knew how to skate so I could play ice hockey, HORNS UP!!! randomness, (I drink too much) SPARKS ! ESP guitars (thanks for the freebies guys!!!), RELAPSE !!!! food fantasies, TABASCO!!! looking forward to traveling out West once again, BURGERSUB.ORG - for all your murder map needs, (self-imposed) sleep deprivation, did I mention Metal?

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." --- Hunter S. Thompson (R.I.P. man!)



My Interests

Metal and Hardcore, females, guitars, going to shows, Ottobar , all beer, pheer.com , Jager, LIQUID METAL - XM 42 , Taco Bell, SMN Metal news , Redskins, Ravens, Capitals , Orioles, poutine , the green love, "red lights", FEED AN ANIMAL!!! Click here!!! , road trips, surfing for porn, Vans, 921 Graffix , absinthe, Waffle House , touring (which leads to ----) sleeping on random floors in various locations in N. America and Europe (and SE Asia/Australia next year), Lambgoat , M.I. artist Greg Houston's page , maps (esp. Google Earth) , spanking naughty girls ;p , SoBe No Fear , learning about history and how it affects the present, BLABBERMOUTH , going on the swings at the park, Fungus - XM 53 , Halo 2, the Vaults of Erowid , natural disasters, Relapse Records , Chef Boyardee ravioli and Ramen noodles (yuuuummmmmaaaaaaayyyy!!!!), Punknews.org , listening to sports broadcasts on the radio, Pollstar , Quebec (esp. Montreal!!!), Babel Fish language translation , Mountain Dew, glassphalt , Pilsner Urquell , green tea, WASABI!!! In 'n' Out Burger, HERSHEY BEARS , White Castle, my good friends Vic and Perc, collecting beer bottle caps and show flyers during my travels, NHL HOME ICE - XM 204 , memetics, finally visiting all the Lower 48 (I got you S. Dakota!), etc......



SOME VIDS FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!!!


MISERY INDEX - "COLOR OF BLOOD" - recorded live at Club Tochka in Moscow, Russia 2/18/08



MISERY INDEX - "Conquistadores" - From the 2006 RELAPSE Records release "DISCORDIA"


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MISERY INDEX - short clip of "RETALIATE" - Tuska Fest in Helsinki, Finland 6/30/07



MISERY INDEX - "Pulling Out the Nails" - recorded live at Party.San Fest in Bad Berka, Germany 8/13/04


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MISERY INDEX - "The Great Depression" - From the 2003 NUCLEAR BLAST Records release "RETALIATE"


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BLAST FROM THE PAST!!! (in my Dying Fetus days, springtime 2000) - Whadya do when your van breaks down on the NY State Thruway south of Albany, you get towed to a truckyard, and are waiting to get that always awesome 150 MILE tow to Queens to play the gig that night? Why, make a video, of course!!!



I'd like to meet:

This guy (wait for it...wait for it...hahaha)...


And, someone to drink some ABSINTHE (now legal in the US of A!) with me, anyone who can get us a gig in ANTARCTICA!!! And, all you beautiful people out there!!! Hit me up on AIM at s/n MDMetalman2. Or, better yet, come out to one of the shows listed below and say "HELLO!!!"



All upcoming shows...


6/21 - Westminster, MD - BOB FEST - w/ ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, DARKNESS FORTEOLD, VENOM OF GOD, EASTWIND - this is Bob's annual Metal BBQ party - starts at 4pm - hit me up for more info!!!


7/2 - Washington, DC - Bobby Fisher Memorial Bldg. - w/ BATTLEMASTER, TRIAC, CONDEMN THE INFECTED - located at 1644 N. Capitol Street NW - show runs 6-10pm!!!


7/16 - Louisville, KY - Lundr Haus (house show) - w/ PLAINWORDS and WURMCRAFT - located at 913 McKinley Ave.


7/17 - Indianapolis, IN - Casa del Kotex (house show) - w/ THE DREAM IS DEAD, SLOW MOTION ENSLAVEMENT - located at 913 N. Drexel Ave.


7/18 - Urbana, IL - Central Illinois Metalfest - Canopy Club - w/ MALEVOLENT CREATION, MONSTROSITY + many more!!!



Relapse Records Contamination Tour!!!

ORIGIN, MISERY INDEX, and ABYSMAL DAWN

7/21 - St. Louis, MO - Rockstar Nightclub
7/22 - Fayetteville, AR - The OPO
7/24 - Dallas, TX – tba
7/25 - Victoria, TX - Sun Valley Ranch
7/26 - Austin, TX - Red 7
7/28 - El Paso, TX - Chics
7/29 - Farmington, NM – Gator's
7/30 - Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts
7/31 - San Marcos, CA - Jumping Turtle
8/1 - Hollywood, CA - Safari Sam's
8/2 - Oakland, CA - The Metro
8/3 - Portland, OR - Satyricon
8/4 - Roseburg, OR - Riversdale Grange
8/5 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
8/7 - Salt Lake City, UT - Club Vegas
8/8 - Colorado Springs, CO - Black Sheep
8/9 - Lawrence, KS - The Jackpot

More shows to be announced! Stay tuned for news!!!



Music:

Slayer, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Brains, From Ashes Rise, Suffocation, Helmet, Nile, Van Halen, Crotchduster, Iron Maiden, Sick of it All, Oranges Band , Terrorizer, the Police, Napalm Death, Flogging Molly, Swarm of the Lotus, Hatebreed, Municipal Waste, At the Gates, Tragedy, Fugazi, Converge, Mike Patton, the Cars, Triac, Morbid Angel, Madball, Cephalic Carnage, Swallow the Sun, Bad Religion, Rotten Sound, Trephine, Aquabats, Unsane, Magrudergrind, Steely Dan, Darkest Hour, Neuraxis, Hackensaw Boys, the Red Chord, Mastodon, Black Dahlia Murder, Yuppie Pricks, Battlemaster, Intronaut , Jawbox, Quicksand, Rush, At the Drive-In, the Refused, Beastie Boys, Kingston Wall, Propaghandi, Vomitory, Dying Fetus, Envy, Judas Priest, Texas is the Reason, Human Remains, Deceased, HORSE the Band, Iron Christ, Guns 'n' Roses, Rise and Fall, Baroness, Misery Index (shameless self-promotion ha ha), and on and on and on.....

Movies:

Animal House, Red Dawn, Apocalypse Now, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Ghostbusters, Jacob's Ladder, TRON, Poltergeist, Jaws, Gumball Rally, Meet the Feebles, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Wild Zero, the Stoned Age, Spinal Tap, 24 Hour Party People, Slapshot, Crossroads, movies with Godzilla and friends, the Stoned Age, any Cheech and Chong, both Bill and Ted's movies, Waiting, Before Sunrise, Ronin, Slither, Dog Soldiers, Borat, Chopper, the Shining (check out this trailer , gives a lil different perspective on this classic flick!!!), Breakfast Club, METAL: A HEADBANGER'S JOURNEY ...

Television:

NHL NETWORK!!! NHL Center Ice package!!! TRAILER PARK BOYS is still a fave. Oh yeah, and METALOCALYPSE rules!!!! MYTHBUSTERS is rad!!! DEADLIEST CATCH - best reality show on TeeVee!!! DOG FIGHTS!!! CITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD!!!

Books:

Ted Nugent Condominium, Banned in DC, Dance of Days, Guitar Grimoire Scales and Modes , Hit Men , This Business of Music , War and Peas , Michelin European Road Atlas

Heroes:

The NATTY BOH Man!!! All hail Mr. Boh!!!

My Blog

Check out the inty I just did for Torganon.com website! Life, music biz, tour stories, etc!!!!

Hey all! Jeremy at the website www.torganon.com (and http://www.myspace.com/torganon ) sent us an inty back in May that I just finished a coupla days ago. He's gonna post in on their site soon. D...
Posted by Sparky on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:31:00 PST

All-time M.I. show and countries/places visited lists (updated 6/3/08)

Howdy! So, I'm looking through my phone bills and there's data transfer charges from Lichtenstein on there (?!?!?!?). It's possible we passed through there on the way from Switzerland to Italy back in...
Posted by Sparky on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:24:00 PST

Time to make some METAL!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings fine people! I'm writing from just outside of Salem, Mass., which is just north of Boston, and we're here for the express purpose of making some Metal!!! We're in the process of tracking the...
Posted by Sparky on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:14:00 PST

Near-death experiences, Europe, recording the new M.I. album (not necessarily in that order)...

HEEYYYY!!!! So, 'bout that time again, time for that big ole jet airliner to take me and my compatriots so far away, though, after having made the trip across the Pond several times in the past ten ye...
Posted by Sparky on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:11:00 PST

M.I. European tour pics on Flickr (new photos added 5/13/08)...

Greetings fellow lifeforms! Our bassist Jason recently created a page on Flickr to display a rack of pics that were taken during our recent tour in Europe. There's five pages worth of photos uplo...
Posted by Sparky on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:20:00 PST

47 days, 28 shows, 20 countries, thousands of kilometers...

and ZERO venereal diseases later, back home in Charm City. Cheers!sparky
Posted by Sparky on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:11:00 PST

One week in Europe to go...

Hello my friends! Hanging out in the Asian part of Istanbul, Turkey at the moment, leaving for Croatia within the hour. This will be the most daunting trip of the tour, as we have to cross the Serbian...
Posted by Sparky on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:53:00 PST

Hanging out in Slovakia, unexpectedly...

Hello good people! It´s about 20 after 2 in the afternoon here in Kosice, Slovakia, and we are waiting for some paperwork to arrive from Prague so we can once again attempt to cross the Ukranian borde...
Posted by Sparky on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:40:00 PST

Eastern European tour begins...

Hello good people! Still in Finland, had a great time here over the past several days. Special thanks to everyone who has given us places to stay and showed us a good time during our visit. But, now i...
Posted by Sparky on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:36:00 PST

Europe so far....

Greetings from England! Played Manchester this eve, smallest show of the tour, apparently a lot of people from here made the trip to Hellfest in France. I certainly don't blame them, as the line-up wa...
Posted by Sparky on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:55:00 PST