TVT Records presents O-Solo's "Remember"

J3, this might sound familiar because it has remnants of the e-mail I sent you, but even though I'm lazy and regurgitate words, it made for a decent blog. So, for those who haven't read this...

I seldom stumble upon a song that catches my ear and I say outloud, "WOW, that's bangin!," but while researching some of TVTs upcoming releases and specifically looking for O-Solo, who killed it on a sampler album last year, I was lead to his Myspace page. Like normal, I waited for the page to download and the song(s) to play, but didn't expect much. Then, the first song, "Remember" started, and I was instantly drawn in by the Napoleon Dynamite throwback beat. What followed, was O's gritty voice declarating, "Hey yo Charles, I knew I was gon be a star, I just ain't know when."

This song gets better with every listen, so I had to share it. Please check it out, cause K-Fleet puts his official stamp on it and that doesn't happen very often!

www.myspace.com/osolo

Okay, so the tats are pretty wack, but this dude can kill it!!

I was infiltrated and violated by a faceless hacker

So, after a long day's work, I head home to go through my nightly routine: check phone messages, hit the john for rectal relief, eat dinner while watching TV, and check my e-mail. The only thing different with this day's excursion was that I stared blankly at my laptop in disbelief that there wasn't a single new message in my inbox.

Okay, I'm not Mr. Popularity, but in a normal day, I get 10-20 messages, most of which are junk mail or e-bay search notifications, but still, they make me feel important. So, I chat with online tech support and find out that someone has breached my e-mail account, changed some settings, and forwarded all my incoming messages to this address infocenter_07@yahoo.co.uk. I haven't had many problems in six years, but days earlier, I had to reset my password due to my address change and new modem, a mere coincidence the problems start now? So, who knows what e-mails were lost that cannot be retrieved.

I did e-mail the account above and no surprise it got send back as invalid. These friggin hackers infiltrated me and all I can do is bent over and take it! Of course, if I ever find out who it was, I'll gladly pay the money to hop on a flight to the U.K. and "sort it out." I just hope no other harm has been done, and they haven't gained access to other things they shouldn't have.

Afternoon 07-25, The Update:

Well, I woke up this morning and tried to get online, but no luck. Mind you, I was on less than 8 hours prior, and to make an even longer story short, the securities dept had shut down access to my account at 8:47 this morning because of the breach and because my account was sending out spams, even though I had changed my password and thought things were cleared up. So, I'm back on the phone with tech support and they reset everything, including the modem which also runs the phone I was calling from, so we were disconnnected several times. Smart ones, ehh! After all this, I still couldn't get into my webmail, so they had to reset my password again and finally I'm back up. Geez, this has really sucked!

So, to those who want to hack into others accounts for the mere pleasure of spamming the world (amongst other things): You are assholes who need to get a friggin life!! I think I need to become a cyber-bounty hunter and track down these people and serve some vigilante justice. Maybe I'll pick up a copy of Hacker Quarterly today to start, or maybe I'll just continue to be bitter and cuss those who violated me. Either way, fingers crossed that nothing else has been compromised.

Paying Homage to Independents #1: Ryko Distribution has the key to obscure world cinema

I love independent cinema and lost/controversial films from around the world. So, I have to give props where they're due, and want to thank Tony Spinosa, Director of Sales of the Central Region for Ryko Distribution, for helping me discover new films and continuing our business partnership.

Ryko always brings a great slate of monthly releases from Synapse Films, Impulse Pictures, Severin, Blue Underground, Subversive, Cult Epics, No Shame, and Heretic, to name a few, and recently picked up Redemption and Sacrament Films. It's like stepping into a time warp everytime I view these films, as they always take me to another part of the world where the culture and times seemed simpler and carefree. Here's a list of some of their top selling releases, so rent or buy them today!

#1 City of the Living Dead-Lucio Fulci
Deep Red-Dario Argento
Cheeky- Tinto Brass
Perversion Story-Fulci
Dust Devil-Richard Stanley
Eraserhead-David Lynch
Maniac-William Lustig
Don’t Torture a Duckling-Fulci
Love Scenes-Bud Townsend
Immoral Women-Walerian Borowczyk
Numb-Michael Ferris Gibson
#20 Hundra-Matt Cimber

Not that every month isn't noteworthy, but September will hail a larger slate of releases than normal, as Blue Underground continues to re-release titles done previously by Anchor Bay, while continuing to pay homage to horror greats such as Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento. On a side note, I hope they'll soon get the rights to Sergio Martino's Torso and give it a proper treatment too. Here's the highlights, so be ready with wallet OPEN.

Stendhal Syndrome 2-disc (Blue Underground)
Suspiria 2-disc (BU)
Opera (BU)
Cat O' Nine Tails (BU)
Schoolgirl Report #2 (Impulse)
Satan's Baby Doll (Severin)
Malabimba (Severin)
Iron Rose (Redemption)
Hurt (Redemption)
Bitter Sweet (Sacrament)
In the Dark (Sovereign)
In a Day (Indie Pictures)
Black Roses (Synapse)

Happy watching, and thanks again to Tony for feeling my passion for these films and helping me indulge in them.

For more info, visit rykodistribution.com.