Werewolf vs Freddy ♥ Sheraton Hotel, Minneapolis (11/07/09)
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This year, the merchandise room was reduced to a size of a
large bedroom, so you walk in and out in about a minute. I did manage
to pick up some stuff, but they weren't cheap. Celebrities prints are
costs anywhere from $20-40, we weren't allowed to take pictures (if you
did purchase a print, then taking pictures would cost an extra $5).
Last year, most of the nicer stars let us take pictures for free.
As for merch, the usual bootlegs, toys, horror t-shirts were
there, but because of the smaller room - it feels like there weren't a
lot of choices. Some commonly seen t-shirts were Nightbreed and
Hellraiser, which I thought were cool, since I have always thought
Clive Barker is genius.
Also, this year they had music as part of the show. The person that was supposed to give me a pass to the music area was not at the ticketbooth and I didn't feel like paying extra to see music. Besides, all of the bands seems to be either punk or metal, not really my cup of tea, so I didn't bother to make much effort in getting the pass.
With the disappointing cancellation, incorrect/false information (is
updating a website too much to ask?), the smaller space, and
expensive admission ($30 at the door) - this will be the last year that
my group will attend. 
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11/08/09 Aquarium* Fargo, ND
11/09/09 Waiting Room* Omaha, NE 11/11/09 Brick Kansas City, MO 11/29/09 Oxford O2 Academy 3, UK 11/30/09 Relentless Garage London 12/01/09 Thekla Bristol, UK 12/02/09 Wedgewood Portsmouth, UK 12/03/09 Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh 12/04/09 Bodega Nottingham, UK 12/05/09 Brickyard Carlisle, UK 12/06/09 King Tut’s Wah Wah Glasgow 12/07/09 Ruby Lounge Manchester, UK 12/08/09 Plug Sheffield, UK 12/09/09 Academy 2 Dublin, Ireland 12/10/09 Stiff Kitten Belfast, Ireland 12/12/09 Concorde 2 Brighton, UK 12/13/09 Barfly Cardiff, UK * with Bang Bang Eche Read More |
Opening up for Har Mar Superstar are three very different genre and acts. Starting with Koo Koo Kangeroo (official / myspace), whose music styling is that of hip hop - for toddlers. Their songs are dead simple, like "AOA" (sample lyrics: "aye oh aye oh aye") and "Cheh Cheh Chi" and "LMNOP", but they're catchy and easy to sing along. The highlight of their set was when they threw down a white tarp-like covering and the audience was dancing under it like a party fort.
Wow, Bang Bang Eche (myspace) are young. Someone told me that they're about 18 years old, but they certainly look much younger. Their music is very punk high-energy and reminds me a bit of Arctic Monkeys influenced. My easily favorite song from their set is "Fist Full of Dollars", perhaps a reference to Sergio Leone classic film? They ended their setlist with "Die Hippy Scum". Oh, also, it's worth noting that bassist T'Nealle sported a three keyboard cat moon t-shirt. Adorable.
The odd group on the bill was two-person group, Lookbook (myspace). The band is basically guitarist Grant Cutler, who plays guitars and handles the pre-recordings, with vocalist Maggie Morrison. Their music sounds like 80s pop, not exactly the "body-moving" type of music that you'd think Har Mar's audience would demand. Not really much to say, except I think Maggie looks really cute and I will be talking about them in further detail on my "book"-theme news on Sunday.
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Har Mar Superstar ♥ Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (11/06/09) |
After the first song, he took off his hat. After "DUI", he took off the overall to reveal a Prince "Purple Rain" shirt. He kept taking off articles of clothing as the night went on. From "EZ Pass", to "Girls Only", to "Creative Juices"... the audience was loving it all.
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Har Mar and Melinda Park singing "Powerline"
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The very last song, Har Mar sang an a cappella version of Boyz II Men's "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday". He would pretend the song ended and everyone would clap... only he would continue to sing the refrain. After the third false ending and after he said "goodnight", he came back and sang some more.
Har Mar's latest album is Dark Touches, available from Dilettante Recordings. Read Andrew's review of the album, pick up a copy at amazon
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Book Intro- Drunk for 27 Years: A Story of Victory - Her Choice to Live and Not Die
by author Cynthia Banks
The road of Priscilla’s life was paved by the people that made choices for her. Through heartache, pain, trauma and tragedy, Priscilla’s experiences became stepping stones that forced her to make a choice that ultimately changed the outcome of her life.
Drunk for 27 Years, the compelling true story of Priscilla Gibson, mother of singer, actor and model Tyrese Gibson, suffered 27 years with alcoholicism. The book reveals the unconditional love that her children had for their mother, who despite all they had experienced remained just the strength she needed to make it through.
Suffering abuse at the hands of an alcoholic mother, Priscilla began drinking at a very young age, and continued into her adult years. Many factors manipulated the course of Priscilla’s life, causing her to make one bad choice after another until she finally made the choice to live and not die.
PROLOGUE
“What is wrong with you?” he cried out with tears streaming down his face. “Why do you think I’ve been calling you Mommy Dearest ever since I was a little boy? It’s because you drink just like that lady in the movie, and you act like her too! Why can’t you stop drinking?”
“I don’t know how to stop!” I said putting my head down on the table and crying. “I’m scared!”
“You’re scared? Mama, you’ve scared us to death for years, wondering where you were, not knowing if you were dead or alive. What did you think could happen to you living in these streets?” Junior said before crying out with loud sobs.
“I’m going to stop drinking, I promise. I’m going to stop drinking! I don’t want to be like my mother,” I cried out loudly. I put my head down on the table and began to pray silently, ‘God in Heaven, please hear my cry. I am an alcoholic and I have become just like my mother. If you deliver me from this alcoholic disease I promise I won’t ever take another drink for the rest of my life. I want to live and not die’
Reviews for book Drunk for 27 Years: A Story of Victory - Her Choice to Live and Not Die
Very heartfelt, impressive, sad yet up lifting! A Great story of survival!
-Lela Reed, Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL mom
Wow! This is an inspiring book. It’s straight to the point on how things really were and it’s very honest. The book touched me and told me things about my mother that I never knew. My mother had a lot of issues that she covered up with alcohol - something that a lot of people do because they can’t express their feelings. It’s really, really a good movie…I mean book! I couldn’t put it down. The book goes into depth, telling a story that kept unfolding, a story that unfolded as I read it and as I lived it. I experienced several emotions while reading, I got upset, then mad, then sad, then happy. God is a forgiving God. I’m proud of my mother for having a relationship with Him and making the right choice.
-Salandra, Priscilla’s Daughter
Growing up was hell! My mother was drunk all the time, so the streets raised us. The older we got the more distant we became with our mother. She never really got to know any of us, but we loved her any way and we loved her unconditionally. We survived all that hell and managed to come out of it pretty decent human beings. I thank God for remembering the Gibson family.
-Tyrone, Priscilla’s son
Life with my mother as an alcoholic was very emotionally draining and tough. You never knew if she was going to have a bad day or a good day. Her day started with alcohol – everyday! Because of that my relationship with my mother was strained and distant. As a child regardless of what card life deals you, you always have to try to respect and acknowledge your parents. I never disrespected my mother during her illness, which caused a lot of pain. As a result of being a child of an alcoholic it caused me to make better choices in my life, especially never to drink. I went the opposite direction. I’m proud of my mother for taking the steps to recover from her addiction. I love her dearly.
-Shonte, Priscilla’s Daughter
I have known my Mother-In-Law, Priscilla for almost 6 years and I know that all the words in this book are true. I was not there for all the 27 years, but 6 years of it I was there and the stories were true. Priscilla has come a long way. Even though the book is going to be out for the world to read, seeing it in person is beyond words – she really was drunk all day, everyday. When Priscilla started writing the book, I was there to see her write the first page. She didn’t even know if it was going to be a book, she was just writing out her thoughts. I remember her asking me if I thought it would be a good book and I told her it would be a wonderful book. This is her victory over alcohol and life to her being restored; and God’s victory of another one of His children being saved.
-William, Priscilla’s Son-In-Law
Drunk, for 27 Years: A Story of Victory - Her Choice to Live and Not Die
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Fryer shares from his twenty-five years of business experience in leadership, technology, finance, accounting, marketing and publishing. He has written two critically acclaimed novels. The Legend of Quito Road and The Knees of Gullah Island. Dwight speaks about life, healthcare, business, leadership, history, literature, community and storytelling. The University of Memphis teaches The Legend of Quito Road in its Masters of Fine Arts Program in the English Department.
Dwight Fryer has inspired audiences at universities, corporations, schools, faith communities and nonprofit organizations. His passion is to help people do all they can to succeed and use his experiences to inspire others.
Fryer was diagnosed with cancer two days after a 1998 layoff. In 2001, the disease meningococcal meningitis took his youngest daughter’s life. He works as an advocate for immunization against bacterial meningitis with the National Meningitis Association. He survived a wreck caused by a driver under the influence.
Contact him today for details on how he can share at your next event via email at author@dwightfryer.com. Website: http://www.dwightfryer.com
Q: What inspired you to write these stories?
My first novel was inspired by a economics paper I wrote in graduate school about a drug dealer, his massive initial economic success, and the life prison terms he eventually received for his risk taking schemes in the drug trade. When I began to research this story for the novel form, I felt a need to go to the root of the problem, illegal whiskey.
The Legend of Quito Road called to me early in the mornings of most days until I finally obeyed and wrote the book. The Knees of Gullah Island shares the family history and readers learn what happened to Gillam Hale. He was Son Erby’s grandpa by his second family after his first was taken and sold away.
I wish the modern reader knew more about their origins. This would help us unlock some of the mystery of who we are and who our children can become.
Q: What issues in today's society have you addressed in your books?
Both of my books speak to the modern reader in numerous ways. In The Legend of Quito Road, the theme is “the worst things wrong with most of us were planted by those who love us the best.” Isn’t that how our bad habits are passed on to us? We know that is how we get many of the great things we have learned, but, too often, we overlook the traits our forebears pass on that should not be present in our lives. I want readers to examine how they live and ask why is this what I view as right.
In the second novel, The Knees of Gullah Island, I advise readers to be careful of money. Money quite often catches people up, so the wisdom Scripture that I use here is 1 Timothy 6:10; and to paraphrase it, it says that the love of money is the root of all evil, and those that find themselves in pursuit of it get caught in all types of snares. We find here that Gillam Hale, the main character of this story, loved money. We are forced to recognize that white people, and black people, and any other color people that own people love money more than they do mankind, more than even themselves. Because of the money that can be made in something as illicit as slavery, we often forget that people are people, and that they have rights concerns. All persons have a rich story of their own to tell, and it should not be involving some other person controlling them. So this book talks about that love of money.
Gillam Hale also was from a religious family, a good person; but he got so caught up in the love of money, and when things went bad for him, Gillam Hale did not pray. So bent knees do straight and crooked deeds, and what is slavery but one of the most crooked deed that all the crooked deeds that mankind can do. We are still having slavery stories today? Wasn’t Jaycee Dugard a slave for the past eighteen years?
I want us to look at these historic tales and see how the themes reverberate in our modern lives. Slavery, love, treachery, hatred, trickery, humor, great soul food, church history, drug use and sales, Southern history, domestic violence, disparities within the criminal justice system, legal rights of children born without the blessing of marriage, and illicit sexual conduct are just a few of the topics covered.
Q: Thousands of books are published each year. What sets your books apart from other in your genre?
I am producing quality stories suitable for young and old to read. These books have great wisdom lessons and are filled with startling story lines and unforgettable characters. A major university has taught my work in their Masters of Fine Arts program in the English Department. That is rare air for any writer in any genre.
Contact author Dwight Fryer today for details on how he can share at your next event via email at author@dwightfryer.com. Website: http://www.dwightfryer.com
The Legend of Quito Road by Dwight Fryer
ISBN-13: 9781583147061 | ISBN: 1583147063
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Both books are filled with rich historical details and spiritual truths that are applicable to the modern reader.
The other day, I stopped in at a fast food joint to get something to eat. I gave my order to the person standing behind the cash register, who did not acknowledge the order in any way and made no move to enter it into the cash register. Instead, he was looking around me, silently trying to get the attention of someone out in the dining area. No customers were standing in line, so I figured it had to be someone already seated. The person behind the register moved down the counter, still gesturing to some unseen person, extending a hand, but did not call out to whomever it was. Nor did he say anything to me, such as "I'll be right with you."
Slightly put out, I waited as the person returned to the cash register. Again, I gave my order, and again, the person ignored me, still looking around me at some unknown person. Now completely pissed, I asked him, "Are you going to wait on me or are you going to talk to somebody else?"
Finally, the clueless clerk spoke. "I was just trying to give him his change!" and showed me three pennies. First of all, there was no "him" to be seen -- the ordering area had been empty of people the entire time I'd been inside the restaurant -- and secondly, you don't get that invisible person's attention by gesturing silently, however much you stare and wave your arms.
Thoroughly irritated by this time, I said, "Fuck it" and stalked out, getting my meal elsewhere, from a place where I was actually able to get someone to take my order.
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