Finding IT

Filled out the invoice and sent my money in today for an LE.

Well if you don't have a lyricist, why worry about vocals?

I've been a Styx fan since Serpent. I downloaded it The Mission and listened to it once. It's fine But it's not Styx.

Band would have been huge. Here is an early jam of the rhythm section of Adrenaline Mob with Dave. Would have been one of the best.

Here are Dave and Paulie playing Tom Sawyer with Portnoy. Lousy audio. Sorry. That NY music scene is really a small group and a lot of people are hurting right now. Dave touched a lot of lives. Here is a much better ZO2 cover of the song.

A few people have asked me about this. I'm still not up to posting much about it. Dave and Paulie Zablidowsky are both very good friends of ours (my wife and I). We've know them and Joey since the early days of ZO2 and I remain very close with their former managers (Bob and Lynn). We got to as many ZO2 shows as we could (over 50) and provided financial support for the band and Casino Logic through Riker Hill. We appear in several ZRock episodes as well. If you dig back into the archives of TRF, there are many posts of me talking about the band and ZRock. Dave Z was everyone's little brother. He was one of the kindest and sweetest people I have ever known. And he played with a joy that is unsurpassed. Dave was HUGE Rush fan. Paulie too. After any show, he would always track me down to ask what was going on with the band. And if he saw me in the audience, they would always cover Tom Sawyer. In a business so full of self-involved hypocrites, Dave was one of the good guys. And his talent was undeniable with any of the dozens of bands he played with. I saw him with Rubix Kube a few months back and he was so very excited to be joining Adrenaline Mob. The last time I talked with him. he said he would see me after the show in Baltimore on Thursday night.

Thanks kindly, folks. I do appreciate the sentiment, if not the advancing years.

Is that rated highly by anybody? Never heard of it! It was, yes. Or so I was told. It was a mini-series. I found it fair to middlin'. It's long but so is the book.

Brazil—I agree. Gran Torino—yer on crack. Shawshank—hmmm beginning to think you miss yer lady friend fron SOCN. I have yet to see Brazil in full. Watched the first 20 minutes then turned it off because I dislike drug trip simulators. Sadly, it takes effort to make it through that thing. I think our friend from the UK misses the boat on "Rocky"...for the third time during my TRF membership I'm seeing signs of destabilization from someone I respect and emulate. Oh Tony Have you ever seen a real boxing match? I've seen everything from golden gloves to Championship matches. And I trained as a boxer for years. But I also know the difference between a movie and reality. One doesn't have to mirror the other.

Rocky is a great movie. Have to disagree. Bueller and Wanda are funny in sports.

I'm working with a buddy to build a touchscreen jukebox inside a classic arcade cabinet. We are designing the Marquee and Side Art ourselves and I was looking for a web site that had very high res high quality logos of bands from the 70s on. Any suggestions?

I have friends who live in Bancroft on 40 West 72nd just a few buildings down from the Dakota. They make it a point to be out of their condo today because the block is always nearly impassable on this day each year.

The only thing over viewer's heads was just what the hell was going on this season. Or how someone survives swimming in a hurricane. Powerful images can easily be manufactured but a coherent storyline, interesting plot lines any realistic actions are much more satisfying. Oh, and ending up a lumberjack. Never satisfying unless you sell paper towels. Wrong. Truly powerful images are based on archetypes that transcend a single culture. Basic plots are comparative chicken scratch. Shakespeare, for example, certainly didn't get by on plots. He stole many of them. He was a poet and wiz with imagery both in the language and on the stage. I think you missed a great deal of what Dexter was about. Your loss. The potential for "powerful images" were there...Deb dying should have been emotionally powerful but was completely lacking in, well, anything. Perhaps we are saying different things? Whatever. This once great series was totally gutted of any impact on the viewers and other than Dexter's awful decision to abandon his son with another serial killer, no impact on the cast. Makes zero sense. The circuitous and nonsensical storylines completely robbed Dexter, as a show, as a narrative, of any satisfying or realistic conclusions. Yes he's a tragic figure all alone and paying for his many sins. But it was such an absurd contrivance. But please enlighten me, enlighten us all how this final season and series finale was really high art that is over my head and I'm just too simple to grasp the significance of Dexter's sacrifice...or whatever the hell. Or don't. It doesn't matter. The show lost its way years ago and was way overdue to end and to end it with such weak and stupid storytelling was a shame. Yeah, I agree with some of this, particularly about the other story lines. I hope you don't watch Game of Thrones because those may drive you insane.

The only thing over viewer's heads was just what the hell was going on this season. Or how someone survives swimming in a hurricane. Powerful images can easily be manufactured but a coherent storyline, interesting plot lines any realistic actions are much more satisfying. Oh, and ending up a lumberjack. Never satisfying unless you sell paper towels. Wrong. Truly powerful images are based on archetypes that transcend a single culture. Basic plots are comparative chicken scratch. Shakespeare, for example, certainly didn't get by on plots. He stole many of them. He was a poet and wiz with imagery both in the language and on the stage. I think you missed a great deal of what Dexter was about. Your loss.

Writing was mediocre but there were some incredibly powerful images. I think a lot of them went over the heads of many viewers.

Well, according to reliable Internet sources, he's had cancer for nigh on 30 years so what do you expect?

Thanks very much, my friends. Have enjoyed every minute of it.

Anderson Silva getting knocked the F out. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Showboating over-rated dumbass.

That was a great scene. Unfortunately, there's weren't many other ones.

Local Hero is a very under-rated movie.

Twilight Zone La Villa

Pleased to see this recognition, my friend. Yours is an important presence on SOCN.

Tony Soprano was one of the great antiheros in TV history. There are a lot of folks that just aren't comfortable with that kind of protagonist. I thought the character was brilliant. .

Yes seriously. Funniest sitcom. Ever. It certainly was a VERY funny show.