Nick's documentary "Kali Means to Scrape"

My friend Nick finally releasaed his documentary on Kali. I have seen it and it is very well done. Check it out.





"Kali Means to Scrape" is available. 2 years of work went into this project. AFI graduate, Nick "Pappydog" Papadakis went to the Philippines to document this art called Kali. With the help of Canadian filmmaker Ron Gabriel, they were able to capture the atmosphere of the art and the culture. Nick travelled to the Barrios and Jungles of Negros Occidental and met the masters of the art. He was also able to compile several stories of real life confrontations using the art. The music in the piece is all original music gathered bu our Music Supervisor Phillip "Fish" Fisher, drummer extraordinaire, of Fishbone and Justin Timberlake fame. Along with Helios Jive, Deploi and many others. The music spans from traditional guitar pieces, To Hip Hop, to Jazz, Classical to Trip Hop


Kombat Instruments, Ltd.

Check out Zoe's Jiu Jitsu. Jack gets hog tied.

Big George.

I am not fond of this music.. But, I love Big George.
Enjoy.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6045286431650106346

Eastern Europe part deux

OK.. I am back for the second round of posting photos from my trip to eastern Europe. First, I need a beer. All this posting can work up a thirst, you know?
This beer was a Czeck beer called Budwiser.. Yep, they got sued and have to call it Budwar for sale outside Czeck Rep. It's better that the US Bud, but that's not saying a lot.
I another beer in Prague that was really good. Called Krusti??? Can't remember.. Should have stopped earlier, I guess.
Vienna had great beer.. Had one called Hilfer in Vienna that was great. Also, I had a hemp beer.. Will post on that later.

The subways in Prague were interesting. You have to go down these very steep, very long escalators. They move really fast and I was worried for the seniors who often had to stop just before getting on the thing and judge when to leap on...


In Prague, the most reasonable food and drink was at the local bakery/pastry shop. It was quite nice actually. The sandwiches were great and the pastries quite nice. Well, the apple strudel was not very good after Vienna. But, the rest of it was really good. Coffee was good too.





We wanted to get out of Prague, so we got on the train to see the Fairy Tale Castle at Karl?tejn. The town was very quaint. Beautiful river as we left the train station and headed to the little town where we found this imagination inspiring castle.



Now, I also saw this truly awe inspiring and imagination inspiring porn shop just across the street from a Vodka vendor. So, a shot of vodka later, Zoe let me know what she would do with the swords for sale in this other shop if I went into the porn shop... Oh well.














I settled for having my photo taken with this incredible owl. Feeling the power in it's talons I understood immediately why they use leather gloves.. Amazing.