PETER FRAMPTON KUNG FU FIGHTING MADONNA

Kung Fu Fighting and Peter Frampton? What? What do they have to do with each other? Yes, both music related but very different. Right! Well as I was just hopped out of the shower this morning, readying myself to go get my ritualistic Sunday Morning Coffee at my local cafe, the great song came on the radio. The song is great and brings back many memories, fond ones, and one stands out more than any. It was one night I'll never forget. A magazine called Paper Magazine,
New York based and geared lifestyles, music, and fashion magazine was having one of their many great parties. It was in The Michael Todd Room at The Palladium Night Club in New York's East Village. It was 1986 and I was a young man in my early 20s, having the time of my life, working very hard, Playing Hard, having fun,and dating lots of beautiful women.

Peter Framptons

Monster Hit Album

with "Bay I Love Your Way"

and "Do You Feel Like We Do"

   The paper always threw good parties and this was no exception. The Palladium was a huge club which had to let in a lot of people, including A Listers, B Listers, and too many C Listers, if you know what I mean. At the time I was a A Lister who could get into any club at any time. Well I was young and thought it was cool and powerful to be amongst the A's ... I used to go to Area 2 or three times a week, which at the time was by far the hardest club to get in to. Area, owned by renowned Night Club Impresario Hotelier/Turtle Lover "Eric Goode" was Cool and Hot, and so by size and Eric Goode's design. And one very cool thing about Area was that the decor changed every 6 weeks or so. The had specific themes and the club was decorated accordingly. One thing a remember and really loved that brought me back to childhood was  a Giant Candy-Land Board. Also the Art Theme that included paintings by Andy Warhol, Keith Harring, and Picasso. Anyway thinking I was cool (and i was, but not for some of the reasons I thought I was, like being a A Lister) I loved going to Area, as it was very hard to get in to. I could get in anytime, din't have to pay, and on top of all that, if that wasn't enough, I was given 2 Drink Tickets when I went in. Sweet. I was in the Hottest A List Club in Town, I could get in any time, din't have to pay and got 2 free drinks to boot. Cool. There were Beautiful Women, great music and lots of cool people to hang out with, BS, dance, this and that. Well I guess a lot of this and that was Drugs, "I never did any," wasn't into it. At the time Sex was my drug, and there were plenty of beautiful girls and women available. No Drugs for me, a couple free drinks, women, good, music, friends, Star Gazing, and dancing was enough for me, plenty. Celebs, yes I saw many a celeb at Area and other Clubs; Mick Jagger, Muriel Hemingway, Princess Stephanie of Manaco, Mike Tyson, Tom Cruise, Brooke Shields, Fellini, Boy George, and on and on.
  OK, back to that party at the Palladium. The Palladium was nowhere near as cool as Area, nor The Lime Light, or Tunnel clubs at the time, so I din't go to them that often. Why would I go to the Second Rate B & C Clubs when I could get in the best and be with a much cooler crowd. Anyway, The Paper Party in The Michael Todd Room. That was the Cool Part of Palladium. You could have a Party in The Michael Todd Room which was The V.I.P. Room and keep out all the Riif-Raff. The Palladium was huge and had to let lots of people in to make money. Lots of B and C List people, The Bridge & Tunnel Crowd and even lower. The Palladium could be cool if there was a private party there, and the room was roped off and guarded by doormen who only let the "Right People" in. Mostly A Lister's, so-called A Lister's. Sounds snobby but it's actually true in a way. You have to control and create a crowd, and letting anyone and their grandmother in wasn't gonna cut it. Well this was a great night, a cool party and a great crowd, mostly artsy, creative, downtown types. They had some really good entertainment that nigh, a really good Stripper as well as Joey Arias doing a phenomenal rendition of Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley. It was friggin awesome and I'll never forget that. I loved that performance. Then later when the DJ was spiinning some great tunes and I was dancing with some girls and friends, it cam on. What? Friggin Kung Fu Figthing. Friggin awesome, we were lovin it. We went nuts,were dancing around with Karate Chops and Kicks, and some of the best dancing ever. Well as far as fun goes. By this time in 1986, the song Kung Fu Fighting was  a Disco Oldy and Disco was almost dead. Maybe it was already dead. Well not in clubs. I can't remember other songs played that night (probably some Michel Jackson and), other than Arias doing Elvis and Carl Douglas's great Hit "Kung Fu Fighting." What I do remember was that the DJ was spinning great tunes, I was digging it and having fun. That was a great party. Another one was when Maddonna did a couple concerts at Madison Square Garden in 1985 and had a party in The Michel Todd Room after the concert one night. This was a few weeks before she got married to Sean Penn, but was hanging with my friend Bobby who she had a fling with and was seeing him one last time. When Booby and Madonna were leaving that night, some photographers were trying to take pictures of them, Booby (a tough young Puerto Rican Kid) punched him out. It made the papers the next day. I wonder what Sean thought of that? Madonna talked here way out of that one. I guess?
So what does Peter Framtpton have to do with Kung Fu Fighting? Well, as I said as i always turn my Radio on, hit the button as I had towards the bathroom in the morning. My Cool-Ass Space Helmet Weltron Radio. When I came out of the shower, Carl Douglas's "Kung Fu Fighting" came on the Radio. I cranked up the volume and grooved on the tune. Just like that night way back when in the Michael Todd Room at the Paladium. Yes I was loving it. That's what great msuic does to you, it brings you back and makes you feel good, and Kung Fu Fighting did, both that night at the Palladium and this morning in myt! apartment in Greenwich Village. Next thing, Bay I Love Your Way, a Monster Hit by Peter Frampton came on. It's a masterful song, it was a huge hit, I have always loved it and I kept on grooving as it played. Yes that's what great music does to you, Peter Frampton and Kung Fu Fighting, that's what they have to do with one-and-other. I love it!




Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Madonna

and Owner of Area

Eric Goode

"LADIES and GENTLEMEN" THE ROLLING STONES

THE ROLLING STONES

BarclayCenter

Brooklyn, NEW YORK

THIS Is a LETTER I Wrote to Jim Farber at The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS on His article/review on the ROLLING STONES CONCERT at Brooklyn's Barclay's Center on December 8, 2012

Hi Jim, Thanks for the great piece "Satisfaction" (Rolling Stones) ....  I'm a lifelong Stones Fan from the early 60's when The Stones first started, I was like 5 years old. And with all the "Shitty Music" they make these days I've grown to Love The Stones and all the Great Rock, R&B, and Pop Artists of the 60s and 70s even more, as they make barely any good music anymore these days. I don't understand it. With a very few exception like Alicia Keyes, Cee Lo Green and a "VERY FEW OTHERS" I think "The Music These Days SUCKS" !!!!!

    That's why the Greatest Rock-n-Roll Band The Rolling Stones are so important, and I as well as Many Millions "Thank" those guys for still keeping it together, for all the "Crappy Music" these days and lack of Anything Good, we can still pull out the Old Vinyl and listen to all the great R&B, Pop, and Rock acts of the 60s and 70s along with Greats like; Frank Sinatra, Dino, Sammy, Tony B, Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong and 100s of others. Thank God for the 50s 60s and 70s otherwise all we'd have is the "Shit of Today" Thank God He Created The Rolling Stones. "Or was that Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest?" Well, yes God did have some hand in it, "I think."

   Sorry, I got off on a tangent. Can't help it when I Think About The Very Sad Fact That Rock has Died. replaced by "Shit Crap RAP Techno and Whatever They Call All The Other Garbage" they so "Wrongfully" call music these days. "It's A SIN." !!!  And I don't believe it's a generational thing as I grew up loving my generations Music The Beatles, The Stones, Pop, R&B, and hard Rock along with Loving my Mom and Dads Music as well, like; Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat king Cole, Louis Armstrong and others. And I remember driving around Jersey in my Dads Plymouth listening to the Radio and my Dad singing along and loving the Music. He was of a older generation and Loved all the Big Band; Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and such which he always talked about "Playing Hooky" from school and going to see the Big Bands with His Buddies at the Paramount Theater, a Live Big Band (The Top Acts of The Day) and a Movie for just .50 Cents .....  And that's why I can't go see the Stones, $450 and Up for tickets plus working in the restaurant business I'd have to take off work and lose over $150 in pay. Even if I could get tickets, it would cost me more than $700 to see the Stones. I love the Stones and wanted to see them one more time (seen them Twice before at much more REASONABLE Prices according to the TIME) ..

   Well Jim, I don't know if you're going to read this "long-winded" letter. Sorry I didn't originally want to right it so long, but I got going and couldn't stop. Loved Your article on The STONES, especially the first 4 paragraphs, which gave me a good feel for the show. I Always have my Great Rolling Stones Vinyl Record Collections (about 30 Albums)  along when I went to see the Stones 2 times in the 70s, I've seen Mick Jagger around town, mostly in Night Clubs and Bars, and when I used to be the Maitre'd at Celebrity Central Restaurant "Da Silvano" I got Keith Richards autograph on a baseball that also has Johnny Bench's signature on it. I took care of Tons of Celebrity's over the years and Keef is the only person I ever asked for an Autograph. "He was Great." Anyway thanks for writing such a good article and painting a good picture of the Concert.

                                                             Thanks,

                                                               Daniel

                                                              New York, NY

DEATH of The TWINKIE !

DEATH of The TWINKIE

"And A Great New Recipe When It Comes Back"

GOT ANY KAHLUA with Chocolate Kahlua Twinkie Recipe
Available in Paperback on AMAZON


And IT WILL BE BACK


Wow! What's the World Coming to? No More Twinkies? can We live without The? Don't Think So! A lot of News about the Powers That Be Shutting Down The Hostess Twinkie Factory. Shutting Down Everything. No More Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Hostess Chocolate Cupcakes with The Little Swirl on Top. First Hurricane Sandy now this! What's Up? Weboxes of the Beloved Golden're Living in Tough Times. What We we do Without Our Beloved Twinkies? Don't Fret. Hostess will be selling off right to their brand products and it's certain someone will snatch-up to rights and "Prestige" or Non-Prestige to Make, Bake, and Sell This Beloved Icon of America, Americana, American Pop Culture, The Twinkie. Of Course the Twinkie Will Be Saved. Kraft Foods or Nabisco are sure to Snatch-Up this Prized Gem that Millions Love and Eat Daily.
    There has been a lot of News on the Twinkie, The Closing of Hostess Factories, The Shutting Down of the Company, and of Course, "What's to Become of The TWINKIE." Yes it will survive and be back soon, but for now boxes of The Beloved Golden Sponge Cake Filled with Cream, Twinkies are being Sold for Thousands of Dollars on Ebay and other sales avenues. Wow!
   in other Twinkie News, "The Dudes Big lebowski Recipe of Chocolate Kahlua Sauce Over Twinkies" has been revealed and is Available in The Dudes Big Lebowski Cookbook "GOT ANY KAHLUA" ? The Collected Recipes of THE DUDE, with the Dudes Recipe for the lusious Chocolate Kahlua Sauce to pour over the Twinkies, along with other great recipes like The Dudes Cowboy Chili.
   You can get The Dudes Cookbook "GOT ANY KAHLUA" ? on AMAZON where it has been Selling on AMAZON Like Hot-Cakes ever since this Twinkie Kahlua Chocolate Sauce Story Broke.
   Dude says "Abide in The Twinkie" !!!

Why BOND CLICHES Are GOOD !

Is It Bond or Is It Me? The Question of Why Bond Just Doesn't Seem as Great and Wonderful as Days Gone By?
    I Grew Up Watching Bond. I've Seen Every Bond Film live at the Time It Came Out since my First Experience with Agent 007 James Bond when I was just a young boy of 7 .. That was in 1965, the film "Thunderball" with The Legendary Undersea Battle and the Yacht the divided in two. I also saw my first Bare Breasted Woman in that film when Bond was in a Night Club where a stripper was dancing. A young Boy just Loves that.
   Everything is so much more Magical when your young, all the great movies I saw at the Rivoli Theater in Rutherford, New Jersey Enchanted me to no-end. It was like I was in a Dream, I was in the picture and experiencing everything; Fast Cars (DB5) Beautiful Women, Casinos, Gadgets, and Exotic Locales, Globe Trotting The World. I Always wanted to be just like Bond, and to some small extent I did. I Traveled the World, I Had Unbelievable Gorgeous Girlfriends and brief liaisons and affairs.I traveled the World and though on a small scale always had a Bond-Like bent in my personal life and style, educated, Smart, Sophisticated, stylish, World Traveling Lady's Man..
  Well Back to me, seeing my first Bond Film to the latest Skyfall and every Bond Film in-between along with the first 4 that had come out before I saw my first. Of Course Quantum of Solace was absolutely Horrible and a great disappointment not only for me but Millions of Bond Fans who thought it was horrible as well.
   They axed Pierce who I though was a great Bond. Why did they do that? I was Pissed! They're not going to get someone in this day and age better at Bond than Pierce Bronson who did a great job in 4 Bond films starting with Golden Eye, Tomorrow Never Dies, the World is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. Yes Piece did a great Job As Bond, I personally liked him a lot as James Bond and was worried about the new Bond, could he fills Piece's shoes? I didn't think anyone could but I was hoping for the Best. So when Casino Royale came, I went and hoped. And I was pleasantly Suprised, this new Guy Daniel Craig was Great. Casino Royale was Great, I was happy and me and Millions of Bond fans were content, We Got a New Bond and a Good one at that.
   Then came Quantum of Solace. It SUCKED! So we were all kind of apprehensive with the release of Skyfall, would it be good, Great, So-So, or Suck? Of course we were all hoping for the Best, we always want Bond to be Good, Great! So the verdict. Well I'm Happy to say "Skyfall Didn't Suck" Was it Great? Afraid Not! How bout Good? Yes Skyfall was good, just not Great "Nothing to Get Excited About" ! OR is it me? Am I jaded, do O read too much into it, and pick it apart, instead of viewing it like a kid, but there's no way you can ever get that Childlike Magic back. Or can You? Well a little anyway.
   Well to answer those question. No I can never get that Childlike Magic back, small pieces but the whole-blown Childlike Magic can never fully be gotten back. Maybe in a Dream, but we're talking reality here.
Yes i do not have the childlike magic. Yes I pick the movie apart and analyze it, which you never do as a child, you just watch it and Love it or not.

BOND CLICHES

SEX

GIRLS
GADGETS

and

EXOTIC LOCALES

 Well, I may not process the Childlike Magic any more, But Let Me Tell You This, though I Love Bond and always want him "It" (The Movie) to be Great, "It's Not." And it's not Methe editing, the , "It's Bond" Not as Good, no Great as It Used to Be. The Movie that Is. It's Not Daniel Craig, he proved he's a fine Bond in Casino Royale. No, it's the producers, the Director (Get Rid of Mendes), the decisions they make, in the story-line, the Music, direction of the Movie, should tone-down the Girls, Sex innuendos, Gadgets, the Music, The Cliches. Yes, YES, YES! It's the Decisions and Direction the Producers, Writers, and Director take. And Speaking of "Taking" Do Not Take Out the Cliches. They May Be Cliches but Cliche may be good, it's what makes a particular "Thing" Good, a THING Like Bond, The Bond Franchise. We the People that pay a Whopping $14.50 as I did, Expect and Want the Cliches, and "ALL" of them, and full-on. Give us Hot Sexy Bond Girls, Give Us all The Great Music and plenty of "Dant-Dant-Di-Dant" Music affects, it charges us up, it's what we Expect "What We Want." Give us plenty of Cool Gadgets and Q and Bond  in ther Gadget Lab and later in the Movie Agent 007 Bond using the Gadget to get out of "Danger." Give us Bonds quirky remarks, charm, and wittiness  a GREAT THEME SONG, Play the Cliche Bond music through-out  the movie. "We Want It All" ! Don't worry Broccoli, there can never be too many Cliches when it comes to Bond. We Want Them. "We Demand Them." So Bond writers, Producers, Directors and Actors, if You Want Great Bond Films for the next 50 Years as in the first 50 despite a few glitches her-and-there, "Leave in All The Great Cliches" that made Bond Great over the years, "That's Your Formula for Another successful 50 Years" and to make the Millions of Bond Fans Happy and content, Bond Cliches! 


Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Most Important News of the Day "SKYFALL DIDN'T SUCK" !!!

Went to See Skyfall Last Night, The First Day in NEW YORK and The U.S. ... Like Most Hardcare "Bond Fans" I Wish Wishing and Hoping This the 23rd Edition of The Great Thing We Know and Love as Bnd Films.. I Like Millions of Other Fans was Waiting in Great Anticipation of "The Return of Bond" as it says in the ending credits of every Bond Filml, "James Bond Will Return" There's no question of a Sequel, Bond is a Franchise and you know there's always going to be aother Bond Movie, another Adventures, a New Evil Villain in a Quest for World Domination "Or Something Like That" and if need be, there's going to be a New Bond (actor Playing James Bond).And we got a New Bond 3 Movies ago in Daniel Craig. Craig's First Film was hugely anticipated as here we have a "New Bond" and Pierce Bronson had don a great job in his Bond Films. How was Craig going to be as Secret Agent 007? A very Big Question. Craig didn't disappoint, He Was Awesome in Casino Royale. The Movie Was Very Good as Well. We were all Happy. Then came Quatnum of Solace a "Big STINKER" It SUCKED, most would agree. So now we have Skyfall coming along and everyone is wondering, is it going to be a "Dam Good Bond Film" or a "Crappy Stinker Like Quantum" ??? Of course We were all "Hoping For The Best."

  


 So Did SKYFALL Deliver you want to know? Yes and No! Yes ... It Delivered yes in the fact that it Didn't SUCK Like Quantum of Solace, which was thee Most IMPORTANT Thing this Movie Needed to Accomplish, "Just Don't SUCK." !!! It didn't and Thank God for That. Hoping for the Best from Skyfall, did we get it? Well, I wouldn't say we got the best, but we did get pretty goo. Not The Best, No I Didn't walk out of the Theater All Pumped Up and Supercharged like I saw a Great Movie. No, I did feel satisfied, entertained, I like the Movie and felt it was quite good. It was Bond and an Event, The First Night and all that, but this latest Bond Movie is "Far from Being Great or Oscar Worthy" as some writers and reviewers have coined it. Far from it! People like to jump-On-The-Band-Wagon. I'm Not, I tell it like It-Is! I wanted to and wish i could say SKYFALL was  great and Ranks Anong The Best Bond Films of All-Time like some have. The Problem Is, "It Isn't" wish it was but it's now. But what is Very Important is the "Fact" That Skyfall was Good and Din't SUCK Like Quantum, that would have been a Disaster. Let's be happy for that.
   Skyfall does have a good number of the Elements that we love most about a Bond Film. The Movie starts with a great chase scene through the Streets of Istanbul that was quite good. The Skyfall Theme Song while not of the Caliber of Shirley Bassey, Nancy Sinatra, or Sheena Easton was pretty good, sung by Adele. The great Bond Theme Song and background music was good, but could have been used a bit more as it always excites and pumps the audience up.
   There were Beautiful Woman but not used in the optimum as in the best and most Classic Bond Films and Best Bond Girls, a bit lacking in Skyfall. Lacking again in the Much-Loved Gadget Department. But one super great job of Pulling a Rabbit Out of The Hat was the appearance of Bonds Original Car The Famed DB5. Awesome! There was a joke by "M" about Bond pressing the Ejector Seat Button on her, and the audience roared when Bond used the specially equipped DB5's Machine Guns on The Villains.
  And Yes, as always, there were Exotic Locales, includin; Shanghai, Istanbul, Macau, and London.
OK, they Overall Best Thing about Skyfall is, "It Didn't SUCK" !!!


Daniel Bellino Zwicke

BLOOMBERG SUCKS

F**KIN BLOOMBERG Did it Again. He Screwed Us. The People Who Live Downtown Manhattan, who have been without Electricity for more than 20 Hours Now and Will be again tonight and for who Knows How Long. Why Did He Screw Us?  BLOOMBERG and ASSHOLE? Simple? There are over 1 Million People without Electricity. We're in the Dark. "WHY THE HELL AREN'T THE BUSES RUNNING ASSHOLE?" Yes You MAYOR MIKE ! There Is Know Reason What-So-Ever that Bus Services could not have started by Noon. If so people would be able to get to work, to there jobs at Delis, Cafes, Grocery Stores, Restaurant, Bars, Whatever. If these Businesses were open, it would have made things a lot more bearable and easy in a Bad and Stressful Time. Instead of Helping by getting the Buses GOING, Bloomberg has exasperated an already tough situation for More Than a MILLION New Yorkers. He F**KED-UP, He SCREWED US. He's an ASSHOLE. You know he's gonna have a Bunch of Bull-Shit Excuses as to Why the Buses weren't Running Sooner and Making Life Easier on New Yorkers who are in a bad situation, No Electricity, No Lights, No TV, Nothing, "We're in The Dark" ! OK, Yeah I know, that's Not Bloombergs Fault. No. But what is his Fault is that He is supplying more than 1 Million New Yorker with "More Hardship." ASSHOLE! We would have had it much easier, and a day with Less hardship today if that ASSHOLE BLOOMBERG would have had the Buses Running today, instead of just sitting there "Doing NOTHING" they Could Have Helped People today. There's NO REASON for THIS! There has been NO BAD WEATHER What-So-Ever Today! None! In fact the weather was NOT BAD at all today. THE BUSES SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUNNING TODAY, "HELPING PEOPLE" both New Yorkers and the poor people who are here on Business or Pleasure (Tourist). You Could have made things a Lot "Better" for People instead of "Throwing Gasoline on The Fire" and making things WORSE For over a 
MILLION NEW YORKER'S MIKE. Thanks a Lot ASSHOLE! 

 


"BLOOMBERG SUCKS"


                          BLOOMBERG BLOWS !!!!!!!




DBZ