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• About destructomaximo
  DestructoMaximo does not exist. He is the secret rattle of the trees that echoes in your mind and reverberates in your soul. He is the bird on you shoulder that whispers songs no one has heard before into your ear. He is sitting right next to you. He is making this up as he goes…
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• Top 10 Movies of All Time

  

  Written by destructomaximo 136 Comments
  Last Updated:: March 30, 2009

  To be honest, I’m most comfortable when I’m writing about old NES titles and beer. Although I am a musician and I’ve studied music from classical to Jazz to rock to blues, the differing opinions on the matter make it tough to publish my opinions on it, you brats are brutal. Worst of all is writing about movies. I watch a LOT of movies…crap movies. I love 70’s kung-fu and 80’s slasher flics. I am not a film critic, I never studied the ins and outs of cinematography, and I sure as hell don’t consider my self an expert. You can understand my anxiety when Zero asked me if I’d pen a top 10 movies. The conversation went something like this (the following is slightly dramatized for effect): “WTF? Top ten movies based on what?” “Whatever you want.” “Whatever I want? That’s like trolling for angry nerds” “Whatever, man. You ARE an angry nerd” “So I’m starting an argument, this is an argument list.” “Is there any other kind of list?” “Right on…”

  So here you have it. DestructoMaximo’s top 10 movies of all time. Ever. Without question.

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• Top 10 Most Underrated Bands

  

  Written by destructomaximo 89 Comments
  Last Updated:: February 18, 2009

  There are so many great bands, past and present, who never quite get the recognition they deserve. Some attain moderate success in the underground or blogosphere, but just can’t crack the mainstream. Thanks to the digital music revolution, I’m sure you have all heard of at least a few of these bands. A lot of the music here is familiar, but because of a band’s “scene” or preconceived notions they have been massively neglected by the populous. I love music, and could write about crap I like/write every day, but reading about unknown bands (or bands whose names conjure grimaces) can be painful. It hurts to learn. I am prepared to be berated by negative comments, but I ask this: After you anonymously slam this list, PLEASE include your own top 10 underrated bands list so I (we) can all see what we are missing. Consider this list the first comment, I guess.

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• Top 10 Reasons Old-Wizard Sucks

  

  Written by destructomaximo 71 Comments
  Last Updated:: February 9, 2009

  ‘Sup A-Holes? Every day, through several channels, we are told how much you hate our little corner of the interbutts. We are reminded daily that we are the electronic dingleberry of the world wide web. We are the digital pimple on the pixilated face of the gaming culture. I have to say, we really don’t mind the rampant farting in our general directions; in fact, we bask in its stank. However, just to let you Klingons know we hear you, here are the top 10 reasons OW sucks the big one.

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• 2008 Brew Review

  

  Written by destructomaximo 19 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 22, 2008

  So this is a slight deviation from the previous two posts. As an avid beer drinker and sporadic (and largely unsuccessful) brewer, I wanted to share some of my favorite new (*or new to me) brews from this past year. Last year the wife and I took a month off and drove from merry New England to California and back again on a spiritual quest for local beer around this great country. We had no GPS, no computer, and no pre-planned maps of where we might end up, except our final destination: the Snowmass Chili and Brew fest in CO. If yo have any local favorites near you, or recommendations for a fellow beer geek, please post them in the comments.

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• Mail Bag: December 15th, 2008

  

  Written by destructomaximo 17 Comments
  Last Updated:: December 15, 2008

  This week DestructoMaximo answers a lengthy email from one of our long time readers, Vintage Junkie:

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• Top 10 Things I Like, By DestructoMaximo

  

  Written by destructomaximo 27 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 20, 2008

  Since web lists are completely self-serving, narcissistic, and most times downright troll-ish, I thought I’d finally stop beating around the bush. Instead of the normal OW list explaining off our opinion as fact, I thought I’d make an honest list: Top 10 Things I like, by Destructo.

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• Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Vote

  

  Written by destructomaximo 11 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 11, 2008

  A couple of days ago Zeromage released the Top 5 Reasons Not to Vote. In this post, DestructoMaximo responds to that article with the Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Vote.

  It’s the prime of the political season and everyone is going ape-shit over who their going to vote for and why. What causes this exaggerated mania? There are many reasons. Everywhere you look in modern mediums of communication, you hear about the presidential election like we are approaching the apocalypse. You are being force fed canards about how important it is to vote and how your vote “counts”. In this brief list, we will go through the reasons why not to vote, and how this over-exaggeration for having to vote is not the God given privilege of being “civically responsible”, but the animal herd trying to express it’s identity in it’s banality.

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• The Beer Guide For Nerds Part 2: Porter

  

  Written by destructomaximo 9 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 10, 2008

  History:

  Strong, heavy, and stout. These were three words associated with porters who worked the streets, docks and rivers of England and Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Men who were the strongest and lifted the heaviest also craved the strongest and the heaviest when it came to their beer. They brewed with only the darkest roasted of the malts, which created the menacingly dark color of the mysterious brew. (more…)

• The Beer Guide For Nerds: Part 1

  

  Written by destructomaximo 17 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 27, 2008

  True nerds, as we all know, are not solely stuck on Star Wars and algorithms. A nerd wants to understand every single particle of their universe. This superhuman thirst for knowledge sometimes comes at the expense of social interaction. How can we be expected to want to engage in conversation with people who don’t know the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, let alone how to develop either before they decide to open their loud mouths? Although I digress, there is a method to my mentioning thirst and mouths, and that is beer. I brew my own beer, and when I do so it looks more like a high school chemistry class than a kitchen. There are sterile gloves, lab coats, Pyrex beakers and graduated cylinders, gas burners, thermometers and hydrometers, and three glorious ingredients that, through several stages of reactions, produce the fruits of man’s greatest scientific experiments: beer, my friends, beer.

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• Top 10 American Bands Revisited

  

  Written by destructomaximo 6 Comments
  Last Updated:: August 21, 2008

  Earlier in the week we posted up our Top 10 American Bands list and naturally we received many emails from both people who loved it and hated it. Although we just posted a Mail Bag a couple of days ago, we wanted to take the time to respond to a particularly annoying email we just received from one of our more useless readers (although not as annoying and useless as Gamer Muzz). For some reason this guy hates all of our music lists, and yet he still comes back and reads every single one. Not only that but he emails us about every single one too. So we figured it was time to give him the attention he’s been craving for so long:

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