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[thebrokenart]

Just messing around… creating new vector art with the GPK motif. Adobe Illustrator art created for a friend.

[paradiseisinthemind]

OFFF Barcelona 2022 - Design Festival

NFT exhibition, David Milan, Nicole McLaughlin, Baugasm (Vasjen Katro), Shane Griffith, Roger Lima, White Noise Lab, Grif Studios, Timothy Goodman, Musketon, Stuart Langfield, Marcel Ziul, State Studio, DixonBaxi, Refik Anadol, David Carson

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Less Than Jake | Less Than Jake / Pepper headlining tour | Jannus Live at St. Petersburg, Fl | 2/28/2017

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Chris Demakes and Roger Lima from Less Than Jake (TW: Sexual harassment/SA/stalking)

PART 2: In 2011 I attended Warped Tour and was invited to come hang out at the BBQ. Less Than Jake had a bar set up backstage and were playing bartender. Chris was completely wasted and stumbled over to me and said “I’m getting desperate here, will you bl*w me?” and my response was “um…what? Excuse me!”. He repeated himself and I told him now, so he stumbled off. Later I saw him taking a couple of girls who looked barely legal onto the bus with him. The following year I attended one of their shows and ran into a friend of mine at the bar after the show. Chris and Roger were hanging out as well as some other friends and fans of theirs. Drinking and shooting the shit.  The four of us plus my friend’s friend hung out for a little bit after before they invited all of us to come see them the following night. My friend and I ended up going but when we got there things were kind of off. We were sitting at a bar and Chris approached us. He took my friend to go chat alone and he made her think he was interested in her. For months she and I didn’t talk and then I finally found out what happened. Chris convinced her to cut me off and that he was in a relationship with her up until he ghosted her.  She was devastated. We started talking again and she told me everything about how manipulative he is. She apologized and I forgave her. Sometime later we were at a bar on a trip and were playing on our phones when we stumbled across a whole post about Chris on the now defunct website The Dirty. Whoever posted it was talking about how gross and creepy he was. We left a comment that only said #MeToo. That was the last time I went to one of their shows. Later I started hearing rumors that Chris had spread about my friend through a mutual friend. I told her that Chris was telling everyone that she slept with him and she swears up and down that never happened. I believe her because Chris is known to lie a lot.

Occasionally they played a festival I was at and I would stay far away from the stage during their set and actively go out of my way to avoid them especially Chris. At pretty much all these festivals as soon as he caught wind that I was there he’d come find me somehow. If people were around he would hug me and act like we were bff. When no one was around he would say really disgusting things to me like he “wanted to have unprotected buttsex with me”. No matter what it was blatantly obvious he was making me uncomfortable. The last time I was at a festival they played I thankfully did not run into any of them but saw them doing a meet and greet from afar. One of my best friends walked by their table and flipped Chris off during this. I love her for that! Now years later I am strongly thinking that Chris was salty after I rejected him at Warped Tour 2011 so he went around saying I did something that never happened. This would explain why Roger started avoiding me after that. I have not and would never do anything with Chris or Roger. Less Than Jake, mostly Chris and Roger remind me of those creepy frat dudes in college that thought they were cool. Like "let's throw a keg party and try to score with chicks" but come off extremely creepy. Also things like Chris telling people he hooked up with girls that rejected him and starting gross rumors.

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Chris Demakes and Roger Lima of Less Than Jake (TW: SA, harassment, stalking)

PART 1: When I was growing up, I had it kind of rough at home and at school so I would use music as an escape in my room.  One day during my freshman year I had been listening to the local radio station and they were playing 'Johnny Quest Thinks We’re Sellouts' by Less Than Jake and I was immediately hooked. This radio station kind of picked what they wanted to play instead of playing whatever the actual single was. Fast forward to 2003 and I go see Less Than Jake for the first time at a local venue and think they’re great. I met both Roger Manganelli and Chris Demakes after the show and got my Borders and Boundaries cd signed by them. At the time I thought Roger was nice but thought Chris was strange.  The following year they returned, and they invited my friends and I out to a tiny hole in the wall bar after the show. I was the only one of age. During our hangs at the bar Roger paid extra special attention to me and wanted a picture with me. He put his arm around me and pulled me close to him and touched the side of his head to mine. Afterwards my friends kept calling him Uncle Raj and I didn’t know why until much later. They thought he was creepy.

I don’t remember exactly when he gave me his AIM screen name and email address wanting me to keep in touch. It was probably end of 2003 or early 2004 but he found my MySpace. This was really when things started getting weird. He had added me from his other band Rehasher’s MySpace account and in the middle of the night he would slide into my DMs while he had been drinking and/or smoking. At one point I had the song 'The Science Of Selling Yourself Short' on my MySpace profile because it was one of my favorites at the time. One night he slides into my DMs asking me to remove the song so he "could masturbate in peace". At the time I didn’t see all the red flags or realize how inappropriate he was starting to get. I was kind of excited that someone was showing interest in me because I definitely wasn’t cool during my school years. He made me feel like I was part of the cool crowd. As time went on, I was getting instant messages on AIM from him saying that I should do porn, I should strip, saying he wanted to get me a toy because he wanted to see me use it, etc. He’d frequently ask for nudes, but I was hesitant because I’ve always been really uncomfortable with my body. During this time Roger was living with his girlfriend and he told me he had to wait until she was sleeping before he could talk to me. He also liked to randomly say that he was horny and loved blowjobs. Looking back now I would have blocked him and never gone to see them play again. A former friend of mine, who was visiting, and I went to 3 of their shows in 2006. Chris gave her his number, somehow convinced her to send him nudes and then he ghosted her. At a show in 2007 (I think) they were doing the wheel of fortune thing and I won a cereal box with their logo on it. They told the crowd it had a giant d*ldo inside. I was mortified. Thankfully it was just a t-shirt, guitar strings, a shot glass and a couple other little things. During the show I was drinking and drank a little too much. Before I left, I went to go say goodbye to Roger and found both him and Chris outside the bus. They started making comments about my breasts and saying they were fake. They’re not and I told them that. After I said they’re real they both touched my breasts. I never consented to this and couldn’t have with how much I had drank. Never in a million years (at that time) would I have thought they would do that to me.

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Mike Herrera Hour – #224- Less Than Jake – Chris Demakes, Roger Lima Chris Demakes and Roger Lima join the podcast this week.