My Interview With Craig Zablo

Craig Zablo runs the most successful Sylvester Stallone fansite in the world. He also ran the official blog for the movie Rocky Balboa.

You have been a fan of Sylvester Stallone for a number of years now. You run the popular Sylvester Stallone fan site www.stallonezone.com. What makes Sylvester Stallone different then other actors?

THE FACT THAT THE COMMON MAN RELATES TO SLY SO WELL. FOR SOME REASON HE JUST TOUCHES A NERVE WITH PEOPLE ACROSS ALL AGES AND CULTURES.

Do you believe movies influence people? If so how and why?

MOVIES OBVIOUSLY INFLUENCE PEOPLE. USUALLY IT’S A SURFACE THING LIKE THE WAY THAT PEOPLE WILL BEGIN TO DRESS OR STYLE THEIR HAIR… BUT THEN AGAIN NEARLY EVERYTHING CAN BE AN INFLUENCE ON SOME PEOPLE.

What can be done to get more people to watch boxing? Why is boxing not as popular as it once was?

THERE HAS TO BE FIGHTERS THAT PEOPLE WANT TO SEE. BOXING ISN’T AS POPULAR BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY BOXING ORGANIZATIONS AND THERE ARE NO REAL DOMINATE FIGHTERS OR INTERESTING MATCHUPS. THAT COULD CHANGE.

What is your favorite movie? And why?

“ROCKY.” IT TOUCHED ME LIKE NO OTHER MOVIE BEFORE OR SINCE. IT HIT ALL THE RIGHT NOTES.

Do you think blogging is just a fad or do you believe blogging is here to stay? I BELIEVE

IT IS HERE TO STAY. EVERYONE HAS AN OPINION ON SOMETHING…

What final words would you give to our readers? THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ MY ANSWERS. PLEASE DROP BY THE STALLONEZONE AND SAY, “HI.”

Please visit Craig Zablo’s websites.

www.zablozone.blogspot.com
www.stallonezone.com

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My Interview with Alex Seling

Alex Seling is the bass player for the band Hollifane. Hollifane is a pop-punk band that is quickly growing in popularity. All the band memebers are from Newnan, Georgia.

Questions About Your Music Career and Music in General

Before you joined the band Hollifane, what other bands were you in? What did you like or not like about those bands?

I’ve been a part of alot of bands in the five years I’ve been playing bass. I used to play in praise bands at church but between playing for the children’s service, high school service, and the adult service…i was spending 24+ hours a week at church, mainly just standing around waiting to play between performances.

That got exhausting so I ended up dropping that and exclusively play with a band by the name of “Paperdoll”. This band was awful and I’m almost too embaressed to admit being in it! However, it wasn’t necessarily so terrible because of one particular person…it was just a constant disagreement between band members, and often a disagreement with the singer’s voice and the key that we were playing in.

Last but not least, I played for a solo artist named Anthony Z’sler. He started working on his solo project a few years ago and hired on a few band members including myself and the INCREDIBLE Chip Coursey (drummer). I got to play at alot of really cool venues with this band such as places in Atlanta, Memphis, New York City etc. We had a lot of fun but I ended up leaving due to personal differences in addition to a lack of interest.

What do you like most about being in the band Hollifane?
As always, performing live…there is no other experience similar to it.

But second to that, I love writing new music with the guys and getting really excited about new songs with the rest of the band. We always play a new song over and over and over again, just because we are so excited about it.

What type of music does your band play?

At this time most bands would go into their speach about how no genre can identify their band because it is just so unique, but who are we kidding? We can always sum up at least some of our music with genres. We play a little bit of punk, rock, pop, emo.

What is it like to perform live on stage?

There is no feeling like a large group of people being focused on the work that you are most proud of. While enjoying a good time with your friends.

Do you believe people are influenced by the music they listen to?

Absolutely, as my taste in music has changed over the years so has my attitude, behavior and style…all usually in accordance with my favorite genre at the time. Not to say that music has an uncontrolable hold on me. After all I am my own person and I do make my own decisions but music does have a strong influence on me.

Do you still give bass lessons?

No I don’t. Partly because I don’t have the time, but mainly because I’m just not a good teacher. I’m alot better at playing than I am to teach someone else to play. I get way too frustrated way too fast.

Could you name some of the bands you have opened for?

Shirock, Too Late The Hero, The Silent Escape, Ann Bolynn…and if anyone is wondering, yes I am still upset about our show with Spoken and Sullivan being cancelled!

What are some of your bands short term and long term goals?

For the near future we just want to keep making music and get our name out there, maybe even get a full length out by the end of next year.

What is your favorite band, and why?

Underoath, because they mesh so well together, they stand for something, because they look cool, because they are Christian and not ashamed of it, and because they just sound so freakin awesome.

General Questions:

You are working on being a paramedic. What led you to choose this career path?

I actually stumbled into EMT school by accident. I wanted to join the Air Force to join the a pararescue team (The Special Forces of the USAF trained to extract injured soldiers from behind enemy lines by means of air, water, or land). I went through all of the processing, the application, the ASVAB test, the physical. But as it turns out, they wouldn’t let me in due to a small tattoo on the back of my ear that says INRI, which means “Jesus of Nazareth”. But because I was homeschooled and I have a GED…I am required to have 24 credit hours of college if I want them to let me in anytime soon.

So I went to the technical college half a mile away from my recruiter and got some information for some classes and ended up choosing their EMT program since I was going to be a tactical medic in the service anyway.

After I had enrolled I found out the USAF wouldn’t take me. So I ended up going to school anyway because I needed a career so I can eventually support my soon to be fiance when we get married. I loved it from day one and I discovered that I have a passion for helping people that really need help.

You and I were both homeschooled. What do you think about homeschool? Would you do it again? Would you recommed others who are considering homeschooling to homeschool?

It was good for me but I can’t say that it would be good for everyone. I wouldn’t recommend it so someone who can’t take people making fun of them for it because it WILL happen. If you have self-discipline like I didn’t, give it a try. If you don’t like it, go to public or private school.

What are some final thoughts that you would like to leave for our readers?

Use your turn signals!

To learn more about Alex Seling, visit his myspace page:www.myspace.com/4264743

To learn more about Hollifane please visit the following links:

hollifane.com.
hollifane.blogspot.com
myspace.com/hollifaneband

Diversity Adulation By Walter E. Williams

There are some ideas so ludicrous and mischievous that only an academic would take them seriously. One of them is diversity. Think about it. Are you for or against diversity? When’s the last time you said to yourself, “I’d better have a little more diversity in my life”? What would you think if you heard a Microsoft director tell his fellow board members that the company should have more diversity and manufacture kitchenware, children’s clothing and shoes? You’d probably think the director was smoking something illegal.
Our institutions of higher learning take diversity seriously and make it a multimillion-dollar operation. Juilliard School has a director of diversity and inclusion; Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a manager of diversity recruitment; Toledo University, an associate dean for diversity; the universities of Harvard, Texas A&M, California at Berkeley, Virginia and many others boast of officers, deans, vice-presidents and perhaps ministers of diversity.

Rev. Al Sharpton gives the keynote speech to the Yale Political Union on affirmative action, at Yale, in New Haven, Conn., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006. Sharpton vigorously defended affirmative action and criticized conservatives who seek to ban the use of race and gender preferences in a speech that opened debate on the topic at the Yale Political Union. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey) George Leef, director of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy in Raleigh, N.C., writes about this in an article titled “Some Questions about Diversity” in the Oct. 5 issue of “Clarion Call.” Mr. Leef suggests that only in academia is diversity pursued for its own sake, but there’s a problem: Everyone, even if they are the same ethnicity, nationality or religion, is different. Suppose two people are from the same town in Italy. They might differ in many important respects: views on morality, religious and political beliefs, recreation preferences and other characteristics.
Mr. Leef says that some academics see diversity as a requirement for social justice — to right historical wrongs. The problem here is that if you go back far enough, all groups have suffered some kind of historical wrong. The Irish can point to injustices at the hands of the British, Jews at the hands of Nazis, Chinese at the hands of Indonesians, and Armenians at the hands of the Turks. Of course, black Americans were enslaved, but slavery is a condition that has been with mankind throughout most of history. In fact, long before blacks were enslaved, Europeans were enslaved. The word slavery comes from Slavs, referring to the Slavic people, who were early slaves. White Americans, captured by the Barbary pirates, were enslaved at one time or another. Whites were indentured servants in colonial America. So what should the diversity managers do about these injustices?
When academics call for diversity, they’re really talking about racial preferences for particular groups of people, mainly blacks. The last thing they’re talking about is intellectual diversity. According to a recent national survey, reported by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni in “Intellectual Diversity,” 72 percent of college professors describe themselves as liberal and 15 percent conservative. Liberal professors think their classrooms should be used to promote a political agenda. The University of California recently abandoned a provision on academic freedom that cautioned against using the classroom for propaganda. The president said the regulation was “outdated.”
Americans, as taxpayers and benefactors, have been exceedingly generous to our institutions of higher learning. That generosity has been betrayed. Rich Americans, who acquired their wealth through our capitalist system, give billions to universities. Unbeknownst to them, much of that money often goes to faculty members and programs that are openly hostile to donor values. Universities have also failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.
What’s part of Williams’ solution? Benefactors should stop giving money to universities that engage in racist diversity policy. Simply go to the university’s website, and if you find offices of diversity, close your pocketbook. There’s nothing like the sound of pocketbooks snapping shut to open the closed minds of administrators.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2006/11/01/diversity_adulation

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Moderates and Liberals bug me. Moderate’s bug me becaue they are not conservative nor are they liberal. They have no moral foundation, so they have some conservative views and they have some liberal views thay they stand behind. When you pick and choose different sides to stand behind, you are not being firm in your convicictions. You are saying that I stand up for whatever appeals to me, and not what I believe is right. This is not to say that I respect what liberals believe in. I do not agree with anything liberalism stands for. Liberalism wants to do away with the moral fiber that has held America intact for years. This includes, punishing the wealthy, by giving them higher taxes, changing the definition of marriage to two include two men or two women, and giving violent criminals light sentences only to have them repeat the same types of crimes again when they are freed. These are just a couple exa

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UPDATE: ‘Rocky’ Opens With Knock-Out; Tracking Giant ‘Museum’, Great ‘D-Girls’

UPDATE WED PM: I’m told MGM’s Rocky Balboa started fast with a $6.2 million mid-week opening Wednesday from 2,752 theaters. Early word had been that the matinees were “looking good” since the movie is better than anyone ever expected. Amazing that the franchise still had life in it, especially when the Hollywood studios were telling Sylvester Stallone not to embarrass himself by bringing the character out of retirement for a 6th bout (Although I wish Sly had kept his mouth shut since he made a fool of himself every time he’s been interviewed in recent weeks… especially by dissing Richard Gere.) Stallone knocked out the competition, so Sony’s The Pursuit of Happyness was #2, Paramount’s Charlotte’s Web #3 and Fox’s Eragon #4. But, my box office gurus tell me that, by this weekend, Rocky may only be #3 even though the film expands to 265 additional venues for a new theatre count of 3,017. The expected #1 is Fox’s Night At The Museum, which will be the giant Christmas movie this year, and #2, Sony’s The Pursuit of Happyness. Those pics will be ahead of Universal’s The Good Shepherd, Warner’s We Are Marshall and the holdover from Fox, Eragon. Dreamworks / Paramount’s Dreamgirls is looking great, I’m told, definitely Top 3 during Xmas week even with only 800 theaters. So, by December 26th, it should be #1 Museum, #2 Pursuit, #3 Dreamgirls, #4 Rocky, and, believe it or not, #5 Sony’s holdover The Holiday

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Rocky Balboa – Ready To Train

Rocky Balboa – Ready To Train