Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate

Murphy’s Law used to be the opening act for many of the Beastie Boys early shows (and by early, I’m refering to when the Beastie Boys were still a punk/hardcore band, and not a hip-hop group)… Jimmy G, the front man of Muphy’s Law walks the walk and talks the talk… He’s a great front-man and one of my favorites. He steps up from backstage about 1 minute in… New bands should take note; its not what you sing, but how you sing it…Anyone that can sing a song about a Care Bear and make it this rad deserves a gold star.

I’m sure alot of you remember the ‘Fight for Your Right” video by the Beastie Boys, the original line up of Murphy’s Law was there there partying and making a scene with the Beastie Boys during the making of their video.. This ML video reminded me alot of that Fight for Your Right video..

-these guys are still touring, so if you get a chance to see them, don’t miss it.

Laticia from Consolidated just sent this over!

Im so excited! Cant believe I got to do a board graphic for these guys.

Ill be sure to post some full size pics of the graphic I did for Consolidated when I get them!

Captains log…. Star-date, June 25 2009

DUMONT:

First, you better recognize.

Transformers- The Movie: the only real Transformers movie ever made. A story so timeless, it rivals any Shakespearean classic. Enter Unicron, a villain so fuckin evil, that even bad guys were like “that guys doing some fucked up shit…”.

Transformers_ The Revenge of the Fallen:

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Came back to my office from lunch and this greeted me:

Nice typo!

Man, did the sight of that free poster tube get me excited. Inside, rested the latest offering from one Mr. Aaron Draplin at the DDC out in Portland – a fairly large, career-spanning poster with everything he’s done. Holy crap! Over 1,000 (1,112 to be exact) bits and pieces. 

I pulled the poster out, and got it up on the wall STAT. If you notice, it’s hanging on a piece of black foam core i’ve been using to block the window into my office. Orange – 1, Black – 0.

You can get into the real filth of my office if you like, here:

Sorry for the blurred out spots. That stuff is the future, you see, and it would really mess you up bad if you saw it now.

Here’s it up close and fishy:

Thank Gary indeed.

I’ve always hated Michael Jackson’s music. I’ve always hated pop / dance b.s. music ever since I was a kid. Even when MJ did that collab with Slash, that song sucked in my opinion. The only good thing MJ did for me musically was inspire some of these gems
Yo, ding dong, man, ding dong, yo

and of course, you cannot forget the song the paramedics were singing as they tried to revive the pedophile.
beat it!

Paddock is pretty beat up about the whole situation though. He wore his white glove and red leather jacket today and was crying a little bit when he came into work this morning. I’m not sure if he’ll get over it.

my opinion does not reflect the opinion of Rome SDS (just most of us)

Well, as we all knew, or as I knew…Shawn Dumont, designer extraordinaire, crumbled under the influence of big tobacco. Whether it was their influence in the movies as we’re told at the beginning of every film now, or Shawn’s lack of cable television at his house that would have allowed him to really soak in those “really makes you think” TRUTH commercials, he smoked, and now he’s getting a lower back henna tattoo, that will hopefully last for a good part of the summer. (See old blog post).

Anyway. We decided at first on a Rose tattoo, but I feel like there’s some leeway. So if anyone has an idea of something more humiliating we can ink on him, please email them over to Ron AT romesnowboards.com.

Hey Shawn, let’s go swimming! There’s going to be a ton of people there….you don’t want to go…why not man…. oh…oh yeah…

(yeah, that’s a Zune tattoo, unless you’re Bill Gates you’re probobly unware of what that is…)

This clip doesn’t have one lick of dialogue in it, yet it speaks volumes. From one of my all time favorites, Rushmore.

WE'RE HOMELESS!

moved outta the chicken coop this weekend

put everything I own in storage

and moved into the back of my truck

Roadtrip June 21, 2009 – whenever

It’s hard to believe this was 30 years ago.. take note

And another from the Bad Brains.. Some of the East Coast’s finest.