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BEN ROD

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMIN! DON'T DREAM IT, BE IT !

About Me

COOL MUTHA' FUCKA'

My Interests

MUSIC AND MAYHEM !!!

I'd like to meet:

HOT GUYS AND GIRLS FOR HOT TIMES!!!

Music:

Rock and Roll and all genres in between. I pity the fool that only listens to one kind of music!

Movies:

The Last American Virgin, Rock and Roll High School, Purple Rain, Detroit Rock City, anything by John Hughes, Valley Girl, The Exorcist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Foxes, Brokeback Mountain, Anything Batman, Anything Spiderman, Anything animated, and Anything with music. Oh yeah and anything with nudity, duh!

Television:

Gene Simmons Family Jewels, The Simpsons, The Flintstones, Family Guy, American Dad, City Confidential, History Channel, all the music channels (Fuse especially) and CBS soap operas, (The Bold and the Beautiful, As The World Turns), what can i say i love the drama. Sesame Street and anything PBS.

Books:

Anything non-fiction, biographies, history, and such. Anything by George Orwell. The World According To Garp, Kiss-Beyond The Mask, The Dirt, The Holy Bible, and any and all comic books and magazines!

Heroes:

Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Nikki Sixx,Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Wendy O. Williams and The Plasmatics, The Ramones, The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Alice Cooper Group, The New York Dolls, Aerosmith, Queen, Phil Lynott, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Cher, Donna Summer, Otis Redding, James Brown, Sly Stone, Prince, Michael Jackson, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Benny Hill, The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, Henny Youngman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Benny, W.C Fields, Mae West, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Not Ready For Prime Time Players, SCTV and anybody else worth a damn! Jim Henson and Sesame Street, Morgan Freeman and The Electric Company, ZOOM and all things PBS for teaching me English! It's true! My biggest heroes Mom, Grandma and Grandpa. Awwww.....sniff sniff. And you!

My Blog

MARILYN MANSON AND FAITH HILL

THOSE OF YOU THAT KNOW ME WELL KNOW THAT I REALLY LIKE GOING TO CONCERTS, I DON'T CARE IF IT'S HANNAH MONTANA, PATTI LABELLE OR....FAITH HILL. AFTER HAVING CAUGHT THE MARILYN MANSON SHOW AT THE VERIZO...
Posted by BEN ROD on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:29:00 PST

ACE FREHLEY @ THE HOUSE OF BLUES IN DALLAS

THE SPACEMAN IS BACK. ACE FREHLEY AND HIS BAND CAME AS CLOSE TO HOUSTON AS THEY WERE GONNA GET SO I MADE THE TREK TO DALLAS TO SEE HIM AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES. LET ME TELL YOU I WAS AS IMPRESSED WITH TH...
Posted by BEN ROD on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:35:00 PST

THE GRAMMYS

FINALLY THE GRAMMYS DID NOT SUCK! MY LATEST OBSESSION, AMY WINEHOUSE, WON FIVE GRAMMYS INCLUDING BEST NEW ARTIST AND RECORD OF THE YEAR. KANYE WON BIG IN THE RAP CATEGORIES AND HERBIE HANCOCK STUNNED ...
Posted by BEN ROD on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:48:00 PST

VAN HALEN: AND THE CRADLE DID ROCK!

  JUST GOT BACK FROM THE VAN HALEN SHOW WITH DAVID LEE ROTH BACK BEHIND THE MIC AND LIKE EVERYONE AT THE SHOW I'M SURE THE NIGHT WAS BITTERSWEET, ON THE ONE HAND SEEING ROTH BACK WITH THE VAN HA...
Posted by BEN ROD on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:16:00 PST

STEVIE WONDERS HOUSTON FANS

MOTOWN'S RESIDENT MUSICAL GENIUS STEVIE WONDER PLAYED HOUSTON'S TOYOTA CENTER TUESDAY DECEMBER 4TH, 2007 AND SHOWED WHY HE IS STILL A VIABLE FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. APPEARING WITH A TOP NOTCH BACKI...
Posted by BEN ROD on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:17:00 PST

ALICE COOPER, STILL THE KING OF SHOCK ROCK

HALLOWEEN CAME EARLY FOR HOUSTON MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 22, AS THE ORIGINAL SHOCK ROCKER ALICE COOPER CAME TO TOWN TO GET EVERYONE IN THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON. ALICE COOPER IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE OR...
Posted by BEN ROD on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:23:00 PST

ARROWFEST 2007 HITS THE BULLSEYE....SORTA

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, WHEN LOCAL RADIO STATIONS CALL IN ALL OF THEIR FAVORS AND ASK BANDS ON THEIR HEAVY ROTATION LISTS TO MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN THEIR ANNUAL FESTIVALS. I NEVER REALLY GET TO C...
Posted by BEN ROD on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:54:00 PST

INTERPOL, COOLER THAN COLD

A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE INTERPOL SHOW LAST NIGHT AT THE VERIZON......IT ROCKED! INTERPOL IS PROBABLY THE BEST DRESSED BAND OUT THERE THESE DAYS. THEY MAKE YOU WANT TO GO OUT AND ROCK A FINELY TAILORED...
Posted by BEN ROD on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:14:00 PST

COOL MONKEYS AND HOT QUEENS

 WHAT DO THE BRITISH BAND THE ARCTIC MONKEYS HAVE IN COMMON WITH AMERICA'S QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE? NOTHING REALLY EXCEPT A RATHER ODD DOUBLE BILL TOGETHER AT THE VERIZON THEATER. STRANGE TO...
Posted by BEN ROD on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:40:00 PST

TONY BENNET LEAVES HIS HEART IN HOUSTON, TEXAS

WHAT AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO HAVE FINALLY SEEN A CONCERT BY AN ARTIST THAT FRANK SINATRA CALLED HIS FAVORITE SINGER! MR. TONY BENNET, A REAL SINGER'S SINGER. I ALMOST MISSED THIS ONE, THINKI...
Posted by BEN ROD on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:16:00 PST