The big news over the summer was that we both changed jobs. Sue's company closed after 17 years in business (she was there for 14), so she got to take the month of July off to collect unemployment and figure things out. She has now gone to work for one of the former partners at an all-new creative advertising company. The Cedar Knolls location is great and everything is going extremely well! Denis also decided it was time to move on, and left Tekmar Sales. He is now working for the Jilson Group in Lodi, becoming a product expert on high end casters - so you could say his career is on a roll!
Over Thanksgiving, we took a ride out to Lancaster, PA. The weather was terrible the first day but improved considerably for the remainder of the trip. Aside from a few carriages, an Amish family enjoying dinner at a Chinese buffet, and two teen Amish girls at the Hershey Bears hockey game (with non-Amish boys), we didn't see much Pennsylvania Dutch culture in the land of outlet malls. But we had a really nice getaway - the shopping was fun, the hockey game was great, Hershey Park was festive, and the ping-pong matches at the hotel were pretty intense - we even had a group of kids cheering us on!
THE BW&BK FESTIVAL, CLEVELAND, OH, 6/03
Sue and her brother Tom decided to go on a headbanging adventure that turned out to be a very memorable event. The headliners were Trouble and Candlemass, and other highlights included Nevermore, the worldwide debut of Hank Shermann & Michael Denner's new band Force of Evil, Jag Panzer, and Sue's big new favorite, Abdullah. In addition to three long nights of pure horns-up, oldschool-style heavy metal, the Nolz siblings got a chance to check out the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Alice Coopers'town, and spent some time with Jeff from Abdullah who showed us around a bit. We'll never forget the 'Candlemass karaoke', the outstanding performance of Trouble (and Sue getting to meet them), the parking odysseys, hearing Swedish spoken at breakfast, running into Leif and Messiah and the Wolf guys in the hotel (and Evergrey everywhere else including the flight home), and the overall great feeling of being amongst our metal brethren for a very special event.
The Movies We Love (And Why)
It's true, we both love mostly the same movies. Find out why The Legend of Bagger Vance is not about golf; and the Cameron Crowe fixation explained. (There is no explanation for the Kevin Smith fixation, so don't look for it here.) Which trilogy floats your boat - Star Wars? The Matrix? Lord of the Rings? We love 'em all! Check out our (almost) complete MOVIE LIST/REVIEW PAGE!
LISTENING:
PROBOT, 5 song advance
PLACE OF SKULLS, With Vision
THE HIDDEN HAND, Divine Propaganda
PAT METHENY, One Quiet Night
THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG, Traveller
HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE,
The August Engine
LEGEND, Still Screaming
JACK STARR feat. RHETT FORRESTER, Out of the Darkness
THE QUILL, Hooray! It's A Deathtrip
DELIAN LEAGUE, 2003 Demos
"METAL MANIA" (such an original name) on 105.5 WDHA-FM, Friday nights from 11 PM - Midnight
"Professor Dum Dum" on WFMU, 91.1 or www.wfmu.org - Saturday nights from 11 - Midnight. Sheer stupidity from dear old Bill Zebub!
MOVIES WE'VE SEEN RECENTLY:
Amelie
The Matrix: Revolutions (two thumbs down!!)
The Lord of ohe Rings: The Two Towers (Extended DVD)
READING:
Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, by Deepak Chopra
Here she is with RONNIE JAMES DIO!
Hold your mouse over the photo to see her with TROUBLE in Cleveland on 6/14!
Recent Interviews: YOB, Place of Skulls, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters/Probot!
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AFTER you're done reading our pages here, check out some other favorite websites:
www.live4metal.com
(Metal site Sue just started writing for)
www.theuncool.com
(Official Cameron Crowe site)
www.stonerrock.com
(The central hub of the stoner rock community - see also www.stonerrock.com/abdullah)
www.blabbermouth.net
(The most informative music-news site ever created!)
www.viewaskew.com
(Kevin Smith's official website)
www.centurymedia.com
(For those must-have metal CD's!)
www.metalmaniacs.com
(The utterly lame website of the mag Sue writes for)
Ready for some nostalgia?? Check out www.insaniac.com for a blast from the past!!!
Click here for the low-down on a new CD series that beats the hell outta Time-Life!!!
Don't know all that much about it yet, but it's called Elizabethtown and it's a classic Cameron ensemble film with elements of romance, comedy, drama, lots of music and of course well-developed characters that he promises we'll fall in love with. Names thus far attached to the film are Jane Fonda and Kirsten Dunst (Ashton Kutcher dropped out). The movie will be released in 2004.