Zombies Everywhere: Interview!

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Breaking News! Head over to Zombies Everywhere (your one stop destination for all things zombies) and check out that blog's brand new interview segment with YOURS TRULY =p

This is a pretty ingenious idea if you ask me. A great way to promote/spread the blogger love and get a peek behind our respective computer screens for a change. I'm still stoked to be to the first candidate for this new segment over at Zombies Everywhere. Thanks man!

Once again, check out my interview HERE.

Hell of show

Tomorrow night I'm off to see The Dillinger Escape Plan opening for Deftones. Deftones put out one of my favorite albums from last year, and Dillinger is my favorite band, period.

This will be my 10th time seeing Dillinger in concert. There's really nothing quite like it. My first Dillinger show was back in 2004. It was a life changing experience to say the least. There's dozens of insane videos from Dillinger concerts on Youtube. This video I'm sharing today is a recent one, and shows why the current lineup just might be the best incarnation of Dillinger yet. I don't think their set tomorrow night, playing in front of a large crowd of "normal" folks, will be as wild, but watching this video gets me foaming at the mouth and filled with anticipation for their next headlining gig.

Enjoy.


*Note*
Oh yeah, forgot to mention this here blog is named after Dillinger Escape Plan's song, "Jim Fear." I kind of hinted toward this in my very first post but of course, nobody was around to read it back then.

Kreayshawn

Dear God. This is the musical equivalent of crack cocaine.



I know this just killed most of my brain cells, yet I CANNOT stop myself from enjoying this. Arby's. Cat Nip. Ovaries. I love it.

Apparently the lovely miss Kreayshawn just signed a million dollar contract with Sony on the strength of this here video.

She's cute and clever. Will the novelty of this song evaporate over time? Maybe. Am I going to watch this video again after I finish typing this post? You know it.

Storyline Dilema

Hey bloggers. As some of you might remember, I was contemplating the merits of film school. I took a screen writing course as an elective before I finished my undergrad and loved it. My professor liked my short film script and encouraged me to try my hand at crafting a legit screenplay. One of the rules in class was to show, not tell about our characters exploits. Meaning not to rely on phone conversations or other technological interventions that ruin the pacing and overall plot of a film. So I've been sitting around, coming up with ideas for potential scripts and am faced with a one reoccurring problem: technology may make our modern lives more convenient...but it royally fucks with the dramatic tension needed in my storyline!

Case in point: THE INTERNET


death to cell phones in movies also.

R.I.P. Jose Guerena. U.S. Marine murdered by Arizona SWAT team

R.I.P.

Sad post today folks.

Imagine working an exhausting graveyard shift. You've barely slept two hours when you're suddenly awakened by the cries of your panicked wife. She's screaming something about men with guns breaking into the house as she clutches your infant son in her arms. You instruct your family to hide as you reach for your rifle, similar to the one that got you through two tours in Iraq during your time in the Marines. You take a defensive position in the hallway as your front door is smashed in by a heavily armed force clad with shields and body armor. Almost immediately, they fire 70+ rounds in your direction in less than 7 seconds. You're left to die, alone, bleeding to death on the floor of your own home.

This is what happened to Jose Guerena on May 5, 2011.

In Prima County, Arizona, the sheriff's SWAT Team burst into Guerena's home serving a narcotics warrant. This was part of a larger, coordinated raid on numerous other homes throughout the county on the same morning, all of which were allegedly involved in some grand narcotics ring/conspiracy.

Here's what happened:


A few key points:
-Nothing was found at Guerena's house.
-Guerena never removed the safety from his rifle and thus, never fired a shot at the police.
-The SWAT Team fired over 70 bullets and hit Jose only 20 times. That's dangerously inaccurate for a team of highly trained "professionals."
-After they entered the house, the police denied Jose any medical treatment for over an hour, effectively letting him die in his own home.

You could argue cops are justified when it comes to shooting individuals who point guns at them, but this whole situation just reeks of something else. The police have tried to smear Guerena after this incident and tie him to some "para-military drug gang" although he was honorably discharged from the Marines and has no criminal record. This was either was either a botched police raid due to gross negligence on the SWAT Teams' part or a sanctioned murder by the Sheriff's department.

Here is the helmet cam footage from a member of the SWAT Team. You be the judge:


more on this story HERE and HERE.