REVOLVER WEEK IN REVIEW: 6/06 TO 6/13/2008

If you’re familiar with the little seven-day recap we post every Friday, then you’ve come to expect that you’ll be treated to the mellifluous bloguese of Revolver Executive Editor Brandon Geist. Well, he no here.

Brandon is in Tennessee with the one and only Metallica, interviewing them for their upcoming cover feature in Revolver. And I’ll tell you man, Geist, he’s the calm, quiet, cool type (yes, we’re aware that when he finally does snap, no one is leaving the office alive), but as he prepared for his journey to music city, the motherfucker was both visibly nervous and positively giddy at the prospect of interviewing his heroes. I love seeing people get like that: that feeling of wonder and anticipation that comes from interviewing a band you love is why we all got into this business in the first place.

Here's Brandon's empty desk:


Sad Desk

Other than Brandon getting to have his magical make-a-wish moment with James Hetfield, the week at Revolver HQ pretty much sucked monkey cock. We’ve speculated that it was the absence of editorial assistant Val McQueen that wacked the orbs of our little cosmos out of alignment, but who really knows what malignant force could have caused the following series of misfortunes?


Val! Come Back!

We totally pissed off an advertiser that is, of course, no longer an advertiser.

Managing editor Ian Wheeler-Nicholson made his wife cry.

SAD IAN

I locked myself out of my house and couldn’t wake up my wife for more than an hour and a half. My car battery also died.

An entire division of our company was nuked.

Design director Josh Bernstein got so frustrated while designing Revolver’s tour program for this summer’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival that he kicked a copy machine and gave me the finger.

Angry Josh

Slipknot insisted that we use a blurry photo of them in said tour program.

Actor Paul Newman announced that he has lung cancer.

Well, there were two moments of sunshine in our otherwise cloudy week: Death Angel lead vocalist Mark Osegueda popped into the office for a Revolver “Dressed to Kill” shoot, and as a result, Photo Director (and RevolverMag.com sex-advice columnist) Rebecca Fain, a lifelong Death Angel acolyte, got to have her make-a-wish moment too!


Happy Fain

And speaking of make a wish, here’s a happier Josh Bernstein with the class of special-needs sixth graders that he’s very kindly been teaching how to draw comic books for the last month. Good going, Josh: Way to give back and do something really meaningful. I bet you think I’m just being a dick, but I’m serious. Dead serious. Like Tim Russert.

Happy Kids