2008-10-31
What's The Rush?
My friend Austin Mendenhall has been showing me some guitar licks lately. He's got a new album out called, What's The Rush. I urge you to check it out!!!

2008-07-26
Off Jackson Avenue
This Saturday night I went off Columbus Ave and 60th Street to see off Jackson Avenue. Fordham University was a host of the New York International Latino Film Festival. My friend Mike Pilgram is the producer and editor of the independent feature film "Off Jackson Avenue"

The film's writer/director, John-Luke Montias introduced the film by saying, "This is not going to be a feel-good film" In part, he was right. This film did not pretend that life is without an ugly side. However I also don't think that this was a feel-bad film. The film's main character Olivia, is a very sweet, pretty and young Mexican woman who came to America, thinking that she would have a better life. Instead, she was thrown into a situation in which others tried to strip her of everything, including her dignity, in order that they could make a few bucks off of her services. So she found herself in strange country with no one to turn to for help, including the cops who were in on the bad deal. In several twists of ironic fate, Olivia is at first like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, desperately wishing for an opportunity to go home. On her journey back to Mexico, she transforms into an unwitting Charles Bronson mowing down the Wicked Witch with a .44 Magnum. At first it looked like the land of milk and honey; but the grass is always greener on the other side of the border.

She came to America, desperate for opportunity.
When she got there, she looked for every opportunity to leave.

Photos from L to R:
1. CK & Mike Pilgram after screening.
2. Mike Pilgram videotaping me photographing him.

P.S. I should mention that my name is in the credits as Special Thanks, because I helped Mike figure out some things in Avid DS Nitris. Here's a Special You're Welcome!

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2008-06-26
Guitar and FX
Here is a pic of my Stratocaaster and some effects pedals that I've been using. Some of the FX are mine. Others are FX that a friend loaned to me for a little bit.

From left to right, they are:
- MXR - Distortion+
- Wells Amp NYC - 5:00 Shadow
- Frantone - Peachfuzz
- Electro Harmonix - Memory Man
- DigiTech - RP350 Modeling Guitar Processor

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