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adam

what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius: m

About Me

"rock 'n' roll is so great, people should start dying for it. you don't understand. the music gave you back your beat so you could dream. a whole generation running with a fender bass." - lou reed
that pretty much sums it all up. if you want to know more, just ask.

My Interests

T-tops, V8s, rear-wheel drive.

I'd like to meet:

future bandmates and winning lottery tickets.

Music:

pretty long but still incomplete list: new bomb turks, dead milkmen, humpers, bob burns and the breakups, gang war, scott "deluxe" drake, neil young, tough & lovely, jerry reed, annihilation time, B-52's, pagans, the bangs, kill-a-watts, motorhead, gotohells, ZZ top, gaza strippers, trashies, frank zappa, stooges, electric eels, mind controls, low budgets, dead boys, bon scott-era AC/DC, john lee hooker, carbonas, mose allison, MC5, joe walsh, nathaniel mayer, jetty boys, busy signals, suicide kings, cococoma, shitbirds, styrenes, mummies, dead kennedys, les sexareenos, guns 'n' roses, oblivians, turbonegro, johnny thunders, elmore james, fe fi fo fums, midnight evils, motley crue, death of samantha, go-nuts, muddy waters, devil dogs, lou reed, CCR, reds, joneses, ulcers, rolling stones, harvey danger, thee flying dutchmen, cheap trick, robert gordon and link wray, dirtbombs, them wranch, lazy cowgirls, teengenerate, tearjerkers, violent femmes, runaways, hentchmen, cherry valence, artful dodger (the '70s band, not the techno group), KISS, lords of altamont, coachwhips, amps II eleven, gaunt, royal pendletons, spaceshits, pansy division, marshall tucker band, cracker, gordon solie motherfuckers, humble pie, faces, amazing royal crowns, church keys, catholic boys, river city rapists, bulemics, andy G and the roller kings, pretenders, pack, compulsive gamblers, crime, archie bell and the drells, joe tex, american soul spiders, fastway, cynics, brothers of conquest, blue oyster cult, dirtys, drags, ramones, tesla, fireballs of freedom, van halen, anal cunt, catheters, WASP, alice cooper, knights of the new crusade, mexican blackbirds, lord high fixers, skid row, murder city devils, radio birdman, quadrajets, riverboat gamblers, sonics, velvet underground, jud jud, soul asylum, tight bros from way back when, sons of hercules, revelators, gospel swingers, columbian neckties...is that enough?

Television:

it's always sunny in philadelphia, family guy, NASCAR.

My Blog

10/12/08: rockin road trip

to celebrate gas being 2.54 a gallon, i took a road trip. all times approximated:7pm: meet some people in mentor, OH.8pm: cruise to steak 'n' shake in willoughby, OH...4 crown vics, a marauder, 2 mar...
Posted by adam on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:34:00 PST

obligatory top albums of 2007 list:

it's taken me awhile to compile this, because i couldn't remember anything good that came out in this past year, but then i remembered that there was actually a good bunch of stuff that came out. than...
Posted by adam on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:16:00 PST

12/2/07: record shopping!!!

i hadn't been to my mind's eye in a realllllllllly long time, something i regretted. my success rate is generally sky-high at this store versus other record stores, both in finding things i've otherwi...
Posted by adam on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:16:00 PST

new bomb turks (6/29/07 @ravari room): a poorly-written review

having heard that this place was beachland tavern small and no presale tickets would be offered, i got to the ravari room at 7pm after a brief excursion to used kids (record store). and since i know t...
Posted by adam on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:15:00 PST

4-26-07: a day in downtown painesville (photo blog)

on april 26th, i went downtown (painesville, that is) to watch something historic take place. ya see, the property at the corner of US-20 and state, site of the gage house (known to most as brunner-ni...
Posted by adam on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:39:00 PST

BEST OF 2006: yes, i'm a music snob

ah yes, it's the time of the year where i compile a list of records that gave me the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie-woogie flu. i do this because i think you care, but in reality i bet nobody does. ...
Posted by adam on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 02:25:00 PST

get up, spit, take a step, and call your shot

the hour is getting late, brothers and sisters. (collectively and independently) swing against the pervasively bitter submissionary position. cry foul! shame on you weary, jaded hipster-types so self-...
Posted by adam on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:37:00 PST

cameraphone asshole: v3.0 (and it's huuuuuge)

okay, this blog's a big 'un, because i took lots of pictures and i'm bored. but nobody else has anything better to do, so check this shit out and leave me comments!!!first couple pictures are from feo...
Posted by adam on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:10:00 PST

how i wasted the last 10+ years:

since the VC's broke up, i've really been thinking that for the last 10 years, most of the people i've met and that i know are through being in bands or in "the music scene" in general. i mean, i do o...
Posted by adam on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:07:00 PST

cameraphone asshole, part 2!!!

well, since my last blog was popular, here's another one for yas...getting right down to business, on august 24th, vista cruisers v1.0 (or "vista cruisers classic" as igor called it) practiced for the...
Posted by adam on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:44:00 PST