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Flood Damage

About Me

Flood Damage is me, Michael Rose, and I am Flood Damage. Thus it has always been and always will be. I find like-minded individuals to make musical chaos with and play live sometimes. People dance and laugh and try to retain their sanity. You should come, and we'll be friends.

Flood Damage is beloved by music fans, porn stars, criminals, lawmen, lame people, non-lame people, sex superstars, virgins, dead people, live wires, celebrities, hermits, cat lovers, baby kickers, heroes, villains, mayors, Mayans, ghosts, ghostbusters, and probably you too.

I'm also a theatrical artist... you know the type, pretentious as hell, always writing stories and plays, rockin' songs, manifestos, trying to get people to notice them. Nothing but trouble, those types.

My undergrad degree was in Theatre/English meaning I know how to spell things on stage.

I want to be the world's first rock star, playwright, actor, author, pro-wrestler, porn star -- all at once, of course.

Sometimes I pee when I laugh, or vice-versa.

I like kittens.

Flood Damage is now spreading the chaos down in southern Illinois. Featuring juice box giveaways, chaotic square dancing, and more noise than you can shake a stick at (unless it's a really big stick). MP3s, writings and all sorts of other wonderful stuff can be found at the main site:
http://www.gerbilprobe.com

I think that pretty much covers it.


What am I listening to?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/6/2004
Band Website: www.gerbilprobe.com
Band Members: Michael A Rose
Aaron Michels (live guitars - Minot) Mycle Stein (live guitars - Carbondale) Craig (live percussion)
Influences: Music: Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, Pigface, Foetus, Melvins, Coil, Big Business, KMFDM, Prick, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Cop Shoot Cop, Firewater, Dillinger Escape Plan, Johnny Cash, Head Wound City, The Countdown, Portishead, Tub Ring, Mindless Self Indulgence, Screaming Mechanical Brain, Tomahawk, VNV Nation, Evil Mothers, Killing Joke, 16 volt, Anti Pop Consortium, Celtic Frost, King Missile, Atreyu, The Agony Scene, Dimmu Borgir, Lords of Acid, Beck, Type O Negative, Bile, System of a Down, Fantomas, Meg Lee Chin, Captured by Robots, Thrones, ... industrial, experimental, punk, metal, techno, blues, rap, radio static, voices in my head
Movies: Dark City, American Beauty, A Clockwork Orange, American History X, Being John Malkovich, Hellraiser, House of 1000 Corpses, The Ring, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Seven, 8MM, countless short films, cartoons, and porn clips on the internet.
Television: The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, WWE Raw, ECW, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Venture Bros, that one channel where they always show some kind of surgery when you're flipping by it with the remote.
Authors: Mark Z Danielewski, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Klosterman, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Christopher Moore, Dave Barry, Dave Eggers, Carlton Mellick III
Playwrights: Samuel Beckett, David Ives, Eric Ehn, Eric Overmyer, Christopher Durang, Jean-Claude Van Itallie, David Lindsay-Abaire, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Miller
Books: A Child Again by Robert Coover, House of Leaves, Fast Food Nation, America: The Book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, God's Debris, Candide by Voltaire, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Magazines and Manifestos: Bizarre, Other, Too Much Coffee Man, Outburn, Industrial Nation, Giant, Sync, The Believer, Tastes Like Chicken, Hitch, The Onion

Heroes: That guy that sells shoelaces on the corner and yells at the moon about stealing his pants. I love that guy.
Sounds Like: Foetus, Nine Inch Nails, Razed in Black, Pig, Evil Mothers, Prick
Record Label: Gerbil Probe
Innervenus
Underground Inc.

My Blog

Passive Aggressive vs. Impulsive Persuasive

Go to my blog. Please? Word. Anyway...I love it when I come across examples of smarmy, not-quite condescending enough to get mad at, but still vindicating speech and text in real life. This site, Pass...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:49:00 GMT

Finally, blogging again... come visit...?

A Return to FormI've been having minor revelations lately, and I think it's time to start sharing them with the world again. I haven't blogged in quite some time, so please forgive me, dear reader, if...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:23:00 GMT

Mike Eats Music: The Dillinger Escape Plan: Ire Works

Not sure why I'm posting this exactly, but I just wrote a review for Amazon on the new Dillinger Escape Plan record. Here it is, if anyone cares.Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works(5 STARS)Expectations ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:15:00 GMT

Spend more time being possessed.

Massage.Exactly what I needed. I went in for a professional massage today, and for the first time in three weeks I don't feel like my neck is about to get up and walk away after giving me a good heart...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:44:00 GMT

An open letter to you, our esteemed customers!

DEAR SIR OR MADAM:Greetings. It has come to my attention that you are interested in our fine product or service, the Michael A Rose blogsperience--. Please be assured that our customer service team (c...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:14:00 GMT

Urban Animal Part II: Money, Power, Cheesecake

As many of you know, I've recently begun work at the Noble Fool Theatre in Chicagoland. Although I've only been here a few days, I'm enjoying myself immensely. The people here are rockin', the shows a...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:39:00 GMT

a copious amount of aardvark semen

A journey starts with a single step... of course, a move starts with a single box flap being taped shut unceremoniously and possibly the first large piece of furniture dropped on your foot, or maybe i...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:34:00 GMT

If Quilly filled it out, it’s gotta be good.

God I hate these surveys. Why do I keep filling them out? Perhaps in the hope that some of my friends will be bored enough to read my answers, smile knowingly, and leave comments that pertain to speci...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:24:00 GMT

The Great Lemon-Lime Challenge! (Now with illustrations!)

The effort that went into this was ridiculous. So please... check it out and leave comments. Enjoy! (And let me know if you like the format!)
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:58:00 GMT

The Absurdist Freaks Out: Job Hunting in Comic Book Form

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Posted by on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:45:00 GMT