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Rich

I am here for Friends

About Me

I picked up guitar at age 11 or so and have been a music fanatic ever since. I have played in the Gizmos, The Unclaimed, Thee Fourgiven, The Tommyknockers, The Alter Egos, The Egomaniacs, The Excessories and a number of other short term bands. You can see more about me at me geocities page - and My Space is being a dick about linking to my geocities address so here it is: www.geocities.com/iamrichcoffee

And I am married to the most wonderful and beautiful woman in the world and we have the cutest and sweetest dog in the world!

My Interests

R'n'R, food, politics, comic books, philosophy....

I'd like to meet:

I am not here to "collect friends", but I would love to hear from people who know me, know my music or even know the music that I love.You can see more about the music I dig at my music blog

Music:

The Hellacopters, MC5, Stooges, Alice Cooper (the band), Jimi Hendrix, Turbonegro, New York Dolls, Ramones, Sonics Rondevous Band, Monster Magnet, Blue Cheer, the Nomads, the Flamin' Groovies, The B Movie Rats, David Bowie, Roky Erikson, the Cramps, Grand Funk Railroad, Backyard Babies, Motorhead, Black Sabbath, 60's & 70's Rolling Stones, Blue Oyster Cult, Faces, Sweet, Mott the Hoople, Miracle Workers, Neil Young, Deep Purple, the Who, the Dictators, etc, etc....Big Loud Noisy Guitars!

Movies:

r'n'r movies and b-movies...russ meyer, hershell gordon lewis - the usual.... R'n'R High School, Barfly, CHUD - that kinda stuff....

Television:

the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, House, Bones, Alias, Criminal Minds, Americal Idol (i know, i know...), Survivor, CSI, What Not To Wear and Food TV.

Books:

Bukowski, Kerouac, the Beats, r'n'r bios, horror, Anthony Bourdain, etc

Heroes:

Melanie Coffee, Jimi Hendrix - that's about it!

My Blog

not around much any more

For those who haven't noticed, I don't come to My Space much anymore. After the spamming debacle, i was ready to cancel all of my accounts but instead i more or less ignore them. I pop on once in a wh...
Posted by Rich on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:37:00 PST

land of the absurd-mobiles

I remember living in Indiana and reading about all the Californians who were buying SUVs even though they had no real need for them, since they lived in a land with wonderful weather (as opposed to No...
Posted by Rich on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:09:00 PST

Happy 6th of July!

Happy 6th of July! Thank goodness that we made it through another celebration of the creation of gunpowder!I have never been a big fan of holidays in general, and the 4th of July in particular. Most h...
Posted by Rich on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:18:00 PST

The strangest song ever on a TV commercial?

The strangest song ever on a TV commercial? OK, I literally stopped in my tracks years ago when I heard "Search and Destroy" by Iggy & the Stooges being used on a Nike commercial and I still can't get...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:19:00 PST

continuing my atheistic ramblings - the afterlife

To me, the concept of an afterlife is just feeding the ego of the religious..why is what makes you ..you.. so important that it should live forever? People are understandably afraid of the unknown and...
Posted by Rich on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:04:00 PST

on atheism

I am a regular reader of Internet Infidels (http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=3975400..post39754 00) and I find it interesting that many of the contributors tell of very difficult ..deconversion...
Posted by Rich on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:56:00 PST

life gets in the way

I haven't been able to spend much time on My Space lately since I've been blocked at work and am busy at home, so don't feel slighted if i haven't been in touch on here. I will try to spend a bit more...
Posted by Rich on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:50:00 PST

microwave popcorn sucks!

I've always hated microwave popcorn (and insist on popping it fresh from kernels at home) and thought that they all just smelled like chemicals. Obviously, it is all chemicals, but now we find out tha...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:25:00 PST

On The Road special edition

Uncensored 'On the Road' to be published LOWELL, Mass. - Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" will be published in its unedited original scroll version by Viking Press, which published the Beat Generation cl...
Posted by Rich on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:29:00 PST

things i will never understand - a rant

Bush still has around a 33% approval rating. Who are these people? I understand the ultra-rich who appreciate his tax cuts, but that only accounts for 1% or so. Are the rest the Rapture Ready people w...
Posted by Rich on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:50:00 PST