What I listened to Today....Prologue

I've decided to chronicle what i'm listening to in the car on the way to work everyday. What I hope to do is to re explore all of the bands that I will be seeing at the Burning Fight show in May. I'm not going to listen to bands that I didn't listen to at the time but rather i will revisit what I actually did like.

The bands I'm going to revisit are:

Damnation A.D.
Ringworm
Guilt
Underdog
108
Killing Time
Split Lip
Unbroken

Damn the show looked better to me when it was first announced but seeing some of mys favorite bands in one show is worth the about $300 bucks i'll be spending on the trip.

Meet Your Meat....

Found Via Glen E. Friedman's Youtube page

In Case You missed it cuz you were sleeping LOL

TO in Buffalo

I for one am on board with the Terrell Owens signing by the Buffalo Bills. SO many people think that Terrell will be a detriment to this team and he'll destroy the locker room and he's a "bad" guy.

I disagree with all of these points. I kind of think thats all I need to say.

I'd rather have something to talk about and lose than to have a bunch of nobody's and lose. Do people really want to lose with "good guys" than win with "TO" ?

I don't get it.

I love Brad Riter and we all know he's the best sports talk host in Buffalo.

Here he is talking to ESPN's Tim Graham about it before it happened.

Here is the list of people I talked to right after Owens got signed
Joe The Driver
Jeff Barnes
Farside
Mike Euscher
Pete Price
Dave Putman
Ray
My boss Jim

i think i made more phone calls yesterday than i have all month.

PS MkII

The Elad Love Affair interview

The Elad Love Affair Interview

I knew of the Elad Love Affair mainly because the singer Nola, worked with me at Delaware Camera. They were a young up and coming band in 2003 (when the interview was conducted) whose time was way too short here in Buffalo. Their members have gone on to form a variety of different projects including:

Cages - Nola

Novelist - Ryan

Teeth SO Sharp - Ryan & Bill

Enjoy this look into their past.The interview was conducted with Ryan Via Email back in 2003 i believe.

*Who’s in the band? What does each person play? What does each person do as far as work and school go?

Elad Love Affair is a five piece; Ryan, Bill, Nola, Mark Duggan, and Mark Ludwiczak. I am Ryan, I play guitar and deliver subs for money. I am going to school in Buffalo for Digital Media Arts. Bill also plays guitar and is currently unemployed. He is going to school in the New York City area for painting/visual arts. Nola sings and prints pictures for money. She will be going to school in NYC for photography in the fall. Mark Duggan plays bass, works the night shift at Home Depot and will be going to school in the NYC area this fall. Mark Ludwiczak plays the drums and works at a sports cards store. He is going to school at Penn State for journalism.

*How long have you guys been a band? I remember that Nola said you guys were called Ladies in Red and then she joined and you became Elad Love Affair.

Elad Love Affair has existed since January of 2000, so we have been a band for about two and a half years. Our first show was in May of 2000, and Bill joined the band in August of 2000. The band you mentioned, “Ladies In Red” didn’t really have that much to do with Elad Love Affair. Mark, Mark and myself had been playing together since we were kids, mostly just jamming and fooling around. It was nothing serious, but we called our little project “The Ladies In Red”. We never even played a real show or anything, just a few house parties and things like that… When we decided to get serious about our music we started over from scratch, it wasn’t like that band just changed their name.

*What’s the story behind the name Elad Love Affair?

Elad stands for electrical addict. It’s a term from a book called “The Terminal Man” where doctors plant electrodes in a man’s brain to prevent him from acting out on his violent impulses, afterwhich he begins to kill more and more because he is addicted to the electric shock he receives in his brain. So I came up with the term Elad Love Affair as sort of my take on the world today. It just seems to me that that, as a society, we would rather have our faces come from a screen or our voices come through a speaker. Human interaction is dying and we have been technologically sterilized.

*How did you guys get hooked up with Immigrant Sun? How are they treating you guys? How many records are you going to put out with them?

Immigrant Sun is awesome. We sent out about 75 copies of our EP last winter to every label we could think of and we heard back from 4-5. We had sent Immigrant Sun our last demo about a year earlier and they really liked the new songs. Pat, one of the two guys who runs Immigrant Sun, lived in Buffalo for a few years and they have a history of working with really great Buffalo hardcore bands, so maybe that helped us a bit. But those guys are awesome. We love them to death both as people and a label. They’ve done a ton of promotion for us and have worked so hard to get our name out there so we really couldn’t be happier right now. The contract we signed was for the initial EP and for two more full lengths after that so we are all really excited about the future.

*Who’s responsible for the lyrics and who’s responsible for the music?

Nola writes all the words and vocal parts and we all collaborate on the music. Usually Bill or myself will come up with a main idea for a song and then everyone else gets to put in their input to make a finished product. We really try and stop ourselves from bringing a completely composed song to the band and try and stress each member’s unique contribution to each song.

*You guys have some weird names for your songs. Word on the street is that you all are a little pretentious. What do you have to say about that?

I hear that, we probably are just an annoying bunch of faux art nerds. That’s true. But seriously, all of our titles are very double sided. On one end, there is a lot of thought that goes into the titles and we try to describe the overall feeling of the lyrics and music together, but also, all of our titles are very much tounge in cheek. When you create something like a song, which is a whole universe full of ideas and emotions, and then you reach the point where you have to give that huge thing a name, it’s like, “fuck you”. Titles are really just a formality and tradition that everyone follows and I will never understand how a band could ever represent all that a song is with one word, or with one line plucked from the chorus of the song, those song titles obviously are just filling in space. And then with all that in mind, if you look at the song naming trends in the hardcore scene, it’s sort of hard not to poke fun at it.

*I know some rumors are going around the scene about Nola because of her live performance, what do you say to people who think that Nola is a certain way because of the way she dances when she performs?

Most people don’t know this, but Nola actually put her self through college by dancing as a stripper. She’s really good at what she does. ha… but seriously I think that Nola is just a very passionate performer and she is really pure in what she does on stage. By that I mean, she honestly doesn’t give a damn what anyone in the audience thinks of her and she just does what feels good. She definitely makes a conscious effort to engage the audience through some of her antics, but as far as dancing is concerned, it’s just about the music making you feel good. I respect her for that.

*What topics do you write about in your lyrics? What are your songs about?

The majority of our music, both lyrically and musically is very dark. Nola’s lyrics are always very personal, but everyone in the band relates in their own way even though we haven’t had the experiences or thoughts that Nola has had. For me as a songwriter, music is a really vital and direct form of self-expression, so when I right a song or a guitar part, it tends to be an outlet for a lot of frustration and anger. I’m sure that, in the end, it means something different to everyone, but our music is always based around really strong feelings.

*Do you feel that the Buffalo scene has embraced you?

Yes. I think that for a band like Elad, who doesn’t fit nicely into any one scene and doesn’t appeal universally to any one group of people, we have been really well received. We have a relatively small following in Buffalo, but we’ve never encountered any negativity or closemindedness. It seems like, wherever we go, the handfull of people who like us really really like us and we are more than happy with that. We’ve gotten so much love from people in Buffalo and we are so gratefull to so many people for their support. I think our music is very ecclectic as far as combining different genres and crossing “scene” boundaries goes and as a result, we have managaged to reach at least a few people in all of the different subsects of the Buffalo hardcore scene which is really cool to see.

*I know you guys went on tour with Robot Has Werewolf Hand, how did you feel about that experience? How far did you go and do you have any crazy stories or problems?

Our tour with Robot Has Werewolf Hand, although technically only 3 shows, was amazing. We went up to Ann Arbor Michigan and came back through Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was also the first time that Elad had ever been that far away from home so it was definitely an experience. The people in Robot Has Werewolf Hand are all amazing and they were super fun to be around and we were really gratefull for them taking us under their wing or something… We stayed with a friend of Justin’s in Kent, Ohio after our show and eventually we settled into a 2-hour long acoustic hippie jam which then turned into a 2-hour long rendition of “Jump” by Van Halen. There was a keyboard and everything. One of the shows was at a place that doubled as an art studio/gallery and we searched through their garbage to find a gigantic paper mache head which was placed ontop of Robot’s Van. It was like 6 feet by 6 feet. That at least made a memorable picture.

*Where are you going on this current tour?

The first half of our tour makes a big loop through the North East, starting in New York, going through Boston, up to Burlington, and down through New Jersey. After that we meet up with a band from Johnstown, PA called Elementary Thought Process in West Virginia and head west as far as Chicago and as far north as Detroit. All of the details can be found at www.eladloveaffair.com.

*What do you ultimately hope to accomplish with this band? What do you hope to accomplish with music? Do you uever forsee music being a career path for any of you?

Personally, as a fan of music, I feel like there is a huge hole waiting to be filled in the music scene in general. There are so many bands doing the same carbon copy thing and the world is starving for something new. I can only hope that the music of Elad Love Affair will someday fill that hole for someone. That’s sort of what keeps us going. I think every artist’s dream is that they will be able to someday support themselves with only their art, and I would be lying if I said that that wasn’t my dream as well. However, within the realm of independent music it’s virtually impossible to achieve that status, so I guess music will always just be the driving force behind everything else in our lives.

Last Breath Interview.

11 years ago when I lived in an apartment on Buffalo's west side I conducted and interview with Mike "Ratboy" Novak and Andy Williams. At the time Ratboy was the drummer of the hardcore band Last Breath and any was the band's unoffical "Manager. Now the tw of them are in one of the scenes biggest bands Every Time I Die. Originally this interview was to appear in the 6th issue of my Fanzine "Hello My Name Is..." but that issue never came out. I actually have a few interviews which were slated to be released in print and maybe through this blog these articles will actually see the light of day. This interview is 11 years old so some of the info is dated but hopefully it will entertain those of you who where around back then and those of you who are fans of Mike and Andy's current band Every Time I Die.


Ratboy(middle) and Andy (2nd from right) in Every Time I Die


Rat and Andy (from Andy's myspace)


Here Goes...

LAST BREATH Interview

Right after I got back from tour with Despair in the summer of '96 I went to see what would be Halfmast's last show. One of the bands that opened the show was Last Breath, only then they were known as Counterstrike. I thought that they were a pretty good band. When I found out that they were only 13 and 14 years old I was even more impressed. Well it's two years layer and they're still around and they continue to impress. They finally put out a demo (which is very good) and after a long hiatus they are finally playing shows again. I urge anyone who does shows or goes to shows to check them out. I did this interview about four months ago (Spring '98) at my old apartment. The interview was with the drummer "Ratboy" and last Breath's "Manager" Andy Williams. I'm HMNI.

HMNI: Is this your first interview
Ratboy: Yeah
HMNI: I didn't understand that
Ratboy: Yeah!
HMNI: What your deal dude [To Andy]
Andy: I'm the manager
HMNI: Do you manage the whole band or just Ratboy?
Andy: All of them.
HMNI: So they're your little boys?
Andy: Every one of those little bastards.
HMNI: Ok who is in the band give me members names and ages.
Ratboy: Joe the singer is 15. Chris the guitarist is 15. Russ the bassist 16. I'm the drummer and I'm 16.
HMNI: So you guys are pretty young?
Ratboy: that we are my man.
HMNI: what's your real name:
Ratboy: Mike.
HMNI: Why are you called "Ratboy"?
Ratboy: It's a nickname from the manager.
HMNI: Why do you call him "Ratboy"?
Andy: Back in the day we had a band or should I say tried to start a band. It was me and this fucking kid Rich, who was an extreme "homosexual". anyway the Rat would come to pratics because he hung out with Rich's little brother who is the guitar player of Last Breath. I used to bring CD's and shit to practice and I'd be playing drums and stuff for practice and I'd notice that my CD's were there then five minutes later they were gone. So I called him "Rat" because he would scurry around grab my shit then take off like a rat. So he's called "Ratboy", but he looks more like George Foreman.
HMNI: How long has Last Breath Been together?
Ratboy: I don't know...about two years ago. It started durung Easter vacation two years ago.
HMNI: So you guys were 12 and 13 when you started playing together? Were you going to shows back then?
Ratboy: Yeah I was going to shows.

HMNI: What is the staus of your band right now?
Ratboy: What does that mean?
HMNI: You know...whats up with your band you guys haven't played a show in forever.
Ratboy: We played the other night at Sanctuary.
HMNI: That doesn't count.
Andy: Sure it does...
HMNI:...ok it does count but when was the last time you played a hardcore show.
Andy: They played with Against All Hope...whats noot haardcore about Against All Hope? C'mon Phil was in Despair doesn't that make him hardcore? ...Fuck that kid he still thinks Despair is together. You can take that from the manager!
Ratboy: The last hardcore show we played was with HAtebreed in November. (they have since plaed a show with Harvest. that show was in August -ed.)
HMNI: Why haven't you played any shows in so long? HAven't been asked...Haven't wanted to?
Ratboy: We haven't practiced in a super long time.
Andy: Back injuries...
Ratboy: Well thats not the total reason because he's fine now.
HMNI: But it was a back injury?
Ratboy: Yeah
ANdy: And they thought Chris was going to have surgery.
Ratboy: I dunno they think he's going to grow out of it.
Andy: He's got an extra spine or something like that.
Ratboy: Actually it's a vertabrae
Andy: That's it...HE's alright it's just that he like Oasis. Thats how all of them are except him (Rat) and Russ.
HMNI: Oh Really?
Ratboy: They're kind of Morrissey type kids.
HMNI: Oh that type of hardcore kid?
Andy: No they're not hardcore kids, not at all. They don't goto shows.
HMNI: Which one's are you talking about.?
Andy: The singer and the guitar player. They take after Rich, the "gay" kid I talked about before. He's a schmuck.
HMNI: You guys have recorded twice right? So why don't you have anything out for mass consumption?
Ratboy: Money problems.
HMNI: Really? So what are you guys going to do with the stuff that you have recorded?
Ratboy: We're going to put out a demo hopefully really soon.

HMNI: what would you say influences you guys musically...soundwise?
Ratboy: Well our guitar player basically rips off Turmoil and Bloodlet and stuff like that. It's all he listens ttoo besides Morrissey.
HMNI: So if he listenes to Morrissey why doesn't he do a Morrissey band?
Ratboy: He is.
HMNI: Oh really?
Ratboy: I think so....I don't want to totally talk trash about them because they are my friends.
HMNI: Are any of the members of your band Straight Edge?
Ratboy: Me and the bass player.
HMNI: Are the other two alcoholics?
Ratboy : BAsically
Andy: 420 Dude
HMNI: 420 Every day?
Andy: Yep.

HMNI: What was your first show?
Ratboy: It was at the Showplace Theater with Halfmast and One King Down.
HMNI: I was there it was in July of '96 right?
Ratboy: Yep
HMNI: Is the lineup the same?
Ratboy: Yep
HMNI: Do you feel like you've gotten a good response from people? MEaning do people like your band?
Ratboy: Yeah I guess...Before we were terrible and gradually we've gotten a little bit better.
HMNI: Do you think that's due in part to the "Vogel Factor"? How do you feel about the "Vogel Factor"?
Andy: What Vogel Factor
HMNI: Do you think the "Vogel factor" has anything to do with this band.
Andy: Quite possibly....
HMNI: I think when Vogel started to like this band people started to take some interest...
Andy: What are you trying to take away from their playing abilty?
HMNI: No I love these guys I had them plastered all over my last zine.
Andy: Just because Buffalo's in love with the cutesman in hardcore...the little loveable cuddly stuffed animal....doesn't mean that the Vogel Factor has anything to do with people liking them.
HMNI: But you have to admit that there is a "Vogel Factor" in the scene.
Andy: There is definitely a Vogel factor in the scene. I've got to talk to that guy. Scott Sprigg over me? I play guitar...whats wrong with me?
HMNI: I guess yer not cool enough
Andy: Exactly.
Ratboy: this is off of the subject.
HMNI: Who cares this is good shit talk.
Andy: No offense to Vogel its just something me and him have to square away..
HMNI: Where do you see Last Breath a year from now? What do you guys want to be doing?
Ratboy: I want to play some more shows outside of Buffalo and maybe have something besides a demo out.
HMNI: Why don't you guys send some stuff to Victory...You guys have a schtick. You know, yer a bunch of 15 and 16 year olds. Victory likes stuff like that...remember the Doughnuts?
HMNI: What bands do you like to go home and listen to?
Ratboy: I'm liking the new 25 Ta Life . ACDC...
HMNI: Have you heard the new Blood for Blood?
Ratboy: No....
HMNI: Well we're going to take a little break to listen to it.

HMNI: Ok bands you like
Ratboy: Overcast, Merauder, Unbroken, Coalesce....
Andy: Anything you can weightlift to....
Ratboy: Sepultura
Andy: Yeah anything Sepultura "Chaos AD" and before.
HMNI: Are you guys down with Rollins? "anything you can weightlift to"
Andy: There's nothing wrong with Rollins.
HMNI: I agree, I have five Rollins records in my collection. I love the guy. Do you like the new Bloood For Blood?
Ratboy: What I heard, yeah.

HMNI: Ok we're going finish this up. If anyone wants to contact your band where should tehy go to contact you?

Ratboy:blah@aol.com
HMNI: Andy final words manager?
Andy: Look out for Last Breath in '98
HMNI: Wait a minute. Why did you change your name from Counterstrike to Last BReath?
Andy: A Body Count song....
Ratboy: We changed it because we thought Counterstrike was kind of a cheese name. Now looking back I think it was kind of cool.
HMNI: What about Stone Cold (The band was supposed to changed their name to Stone Cold, named after the wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin)
Andy: The whole Stone Cold thing blew up. The man is just too big for the band. Not saying the band isn't anny good but Stone Cold is way better. Like I said before LAst Breath in '98 this is their year.

Here's a link to the demo.......

http://www.sendspace.com/file/k2zjt0

Jim Calhoun Owns Reporter (Ken Krayeske)

Hiking Soon

Chimney Bluffs




Canadian Side of the Gorge




Allegany




Eternal Flame Falls

I don't think Bono is calling or Lil' Richard for that matter...

Those of you that know me know that I have a very close friend who I went to college with named Ray. He is my oldest and dearest friend. I'm a guy who doesn't really have any friends from high school ( I left that life behind in New York City) and when I came to college here in Buffalo, Ray was one of the first people that I really clicked with . We had a great mutual love of sports amongst other things. Ray and I even lived together for four years before he got married.



Last May a couple of weeks after our annual draft party I got a phone call from Ray. He called me really early ( like 7am) and he sounded a little under the weather. He told me that he had a bad stomach flu and asked if I could drive him to the doctor later that day. I agreed and told him that I would speak to him later in the day. A few hours later at about 11 in the morning I got a call from Bates (Ray's wife) and she told me that Ray was in the hospital. Apparently his pancreas was infected and he was in intensive care. I immediately went to the hospital to see what I could do and to see if I could see Ray and to see what was going on. I remember getting there and seeing BAtes and I gave her a hug. I think that was the first time that I ever hugged her. It's funny people come in and out of your life and you hug them and kiss them but I had never given Bates a hug and I've known her for about 10 years and I spend every X-MAs with her and Ray. She told me what was going and apparently Ray's life was in danger. His pancreas was infected and his kidneys shut down. This all sounded very grave to me and I was prepared for the worst. It just didn't sound very hopeful to me. I went in and saw Ray. All i can remember are all the tubes that he had in him and the fact that it seemed like he was having trouble breathing. I talked to him for a few minutes then I left. I talked to Bates and she told me of the prognosis which sounded iffy at best. Ray had a surgery and then had to wait and see. It took him six weeks to get out of the hospital but he is out and ok.



Ray spent, if I remember right, four and a half weeks in ICU and about ten days in a regular room. I remember going over to Ray's house and seeing his kids during that time, it didn't seem fair because he didn't see his kids that whole six weeks. I don't have kids but I couldn't imagine what that would be like. So Ray got home was home for two months then he returned to work.

It's crazy thinking about people who are your age almost dying which could have happened to Ray. You think about his kids and what they would do without him. I couldn't imagine that. I lost a parent at 17 and that left a massive void. I couldn't imagine what those young kids would do. Rays oldest is 8 and the other two are younger than that. I couldn't imagine those years without a parent.

I know some people who read this know Ray through me and I would ask them to keep Ray in their thoughts because he has a new mountain to climb now. It's something which he has a very good chance of conquering but warm thoughts will help him in the process i'm sure.

2012

More than ever it has been proven that sellouts better look out and that they can't be trusted.


Their time is almost up.

Wooly...

Aparently Jamie Woolford's current band Let Go just recorded a new song. If you know anything about me you know that The Stereo was one of my favorite bands ever. I remember when I first heard the Stereo. They were on a mixtape Gerald Thomas sent me after he moved to Delaware. I wonder if he still likes them? Let Go is just as good if not better. Here are a couple of videos, one by Let Go and One by the Stereo.

Let Go "Spotlights"




The Stereo "New Tokyo"

Great TV Janitors/Handymen/Superintendents/Maids/Butlers

DR. D. David Schultz

Pete and I recently spent a wonderful evening watching this man's antics. Viva la Kayfabe.

Things I Found in the SNow

Target Plaza Delaware Edition.....

Hogan-Belzer Incident

Hogans Response...

Plane Crash in Clarence

Plane Crash Story.

How do you react when a plane crash happens?

I was hanging out with my friend last night and he got a phone call from his wife and she told him about a plane crash in Clarence. He then called this friend of ours who works for the Buffalo News. That friend gave us a few sketchy details but nothing concrete.

So I got home and watched the news and my first thought was not of the people who might have been on the plane but I went and checked to see how close my boss lived to the site of the crash. He's about 2 miles from where the plane went down so i'm assuming everything is ok with him but he may have known someone involved with it. (in fact i just heard on the radio that his street is closed).

Anyhow time for work and hopefully everything is alright with him.

Crazy old Hippie ladies

SO the other day a crazy old hippie lady with quite a few teeth missing came to pick up some of her photofinishing. She picked up an old picture of a few friends of hers from the 60's, one of her friends looked a lot like Phil Lynott (Singer of Thin Lizzy)




So anyway she proceeded to tell me the following things....

- The three gentlemen in the picture were her friends but the one on the right was the "love of her life" who asked her to marry him. HE died the day after he asked her this. HE apparently was working his construction job and was killed on site. Never fear though. She was able to communicate with him through the "white light" and she was able to say goodbye to him.

- She told me that she has done acid over three hundred times in her life and she wishes that everybody could and should do it so they can see the "awesome " perspective that she has on life.

-She told me about the room that the picture was taken in (that she picked up). The room had no windows and she and her friends sat in the room and tripped on LSD while listening to the first zeppelin album. She said the walls were moving and that the experience was both "crazy" and "groovy".



- She commented on the great George Carlin. She said that if he was president that he would bring back the Guillotine and take care of "Bush". She also said that if she were in Carlin's cabinet that she would make it mandatory for everyone to take 3 hits of Acid when they turn 18. She also said that there would be free pot for everyone.



- She also said that she used to date one of the higher ups in the black panther party and the party's she had with those guys were "wild".



I think if I had one wish this week it would be for me to sit in a room with her and tape record or video tape all of her ramblings.

If you like Minor Threat....

If you like Minor Threat check this out.



Thanks Buske

Stallone Movie Night

For the last year me and three of my friends have been having a Sylvester Stallone movie night. We've been retracing the movie career of one Sylvester Stallone. We met every week (or tried) to watch all of Stallone's movies. It all started with the new Rambo and we are soon to end it with Rocky Balboa.

We didn't watch all of them but here are the one's that we did watch. (in no particular order)

Rambo (2008)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Avenging Angelo (2002)
D-Tox (2002)
Get Carter (2000)
Cop Land (1997)
Daylight (1996)
Assassins (1995)
Judge Dredd (1995)
The Specialist (1994)
Demolition Man (1993)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Oscar (1991)
Rocky V (1990)
Tango & Cash (1989)
Lock Up (1989)
Rambo III (1988)
Over the Top (1987)
Cobra (1986)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Rhinestone (1984)
First Blood (1982)
Rocky III (1982)
Victory (1981)
Nighthawks (1981)
Rocky II (1979)
Paradise Alley (1978)
F.I.S.T (1978)
Rocky (1976)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
The Lord's of Flatbush (1974)
The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970)


Now i'll comment on a few of them

First Blood
This was the first movie that we watched. Actually Pete, Chris, Smith watched all of the First Blood movies one Saturday in December '07. We actually watched this movie about 4 times over the course of the movie night run. We even got to see First Blood on the big screen. There was a special showing at the Regal , but I think (including us) there were only about 10 people in the theater. It's still probably my favorite Stallone movie.



The Party at Kitty and Stud's
Yes Stallone's "porn" movie. We had it on the same night that we watched also watched "Oscar" but on that movie night (one of the few we had at my apt) We were working on another project. We were organizing my pictures for the Burning Fight Book. So we did have the movie on (no homo, lol) but we weren't really paying too much attention to it. SO again no homo :) But we had to watch it for the sake of the movie night.



The Lords of Flatbush
This was Stallone's answer to American Graffiti. It was about four friends in the fifties and their coming of age. It also features one of the funniest trailers ever.



Avenging Angelo
This had some potential. It was Anthony Quinn's last movie. It had a mob storyline. Stallone was a mob boss' bodyguard . So you figure it would be good right? Wrong...it was a chick flick. It was like Sly was put in some made for TV love story that you would see on Lifetime or Oxygen. It was easily (in my opinion) the most disappointing movie of the movie night.



Rambo
I think this movie inspired the Stallone movie night. It was Stallone's comeback and very satisfying. It the only memorable action movie that I've seen this decade and leave a 60+ year old Sly to bring it.




In'09 we are going to have a Eastwood movie night but so dar we've only watched "Gran Torino" so we will see how that goes.

The Return of Christian