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GUINNESS WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS INDUCTS JULIAN PAVONE! Posted: 28 Jul 2011 09:20 PM PDT World's Youngest Professional Drummer: Julian Pavone age 7 Today Lesley (my artist/photographer daughter) and I traveled north of Detroit to meet a very special young man.... Guinness World Record holder for being the World's Youngest (age 5) Professional Drummer....Julian Pavone Julian will be presented with his official induction coming up soon in Los Angeles... Julian will be presented with his award and be interviewed on one of the top rated late night talk shows. Stay tuned to my blog for information when Julian will be on television. A musician friend called me this past weekend to chat about the extremely talented you drummer. I spent 24 hours or so researching Julian and I was just blown away by his talent and the enormous amount of media attention he has received almost since his birth.... Actually his Dad told me today that Julian went pro at age 20 months! Mind boggling... The photo shoot for Guinness World Book of Records was this afternoon. Lots of local media were on hand as well... they include...The Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, The Patch, the Macomb Daily and a film team from Guinness' headquarters flew over from England to shoot Julian.... I am told Guinness does not often do that... Oh and there was one blogger there too... Retro: Kimmer! Julian being interviewed by the press... Just 7 years old.. Julian handles himself as a professional musician and yet stays remarkably grounded as any other 7 year old boy... A live wire and a charmer for sure... Julian worked that room like a pro... Amazing! Is Julian going to be the next Justin Bieber or the next Keith Moon! Julian's official letter of induction from Guinness. There were quite a lot of cameras shooting all at once in Julian's home studio. That might have intimidated a normal adult let alone a 7 year old... Not for this musician...Julian was right at home with the media. Julian has appeared on more than 100 television and news shows and that number is still growing.... Julian behind his huge drum kit... The Guinness World Book of Records team.... Annalisa age 5 and her big brother Julian age 7. Annalisa and Julian have performed songs and danced together too at the North American Auto Show. Annalisa is a very bright and a talented young artist just like when my daughter Lesley began her career in art at the same age. When Les and I first arrived we met Julian's mom Lisa... What a lovely woman! Just felt like I had known her for a lifetime. Then Julian came running up to us at the door. Lesley brought Julian a very cool drawing... but oh no... we forgot to grab a drawing for his little sister! When the photo shoot was over I saw that Lesley was sitting in front of Annalisa drawing a cartoon portrait of the darling little girl... Annalisa was so happy and her mom as well. Shooting Julian in action... It is so difficult to shoot drummers! All blur and constant action! Especially with a very active 7 year old! Julian has an endorsement with Vic Firth and if you would like to own a pair like the ones Julian autographed for me today click HERE and to see more videos featuring Julian click HERE Julian autographing a set of used sticks for me... My readers know that I collect autographed drumsticks from only the very coolest drummers and now Julian is on my shelf between Johnny Bee Badanjek and Dennis Machinegun Thompson! Julian rocking his new Filas! Julian's Official Website Julian on Vic Firth Julian's News Julian on Oprah MACOMB, Mich., July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Julian Pavone (USA) breaks the Guinness World Record® as The Youngest Professional Drummer as of March 21, 2010 – when he was 5 years 10 months and 3 days old. Previously, the record had been held by Tiger Onitsuka (Japan), who was 9 years 289 days old. Julian is considered a drumming prodigy. He began playing the drums while sitting on his father's lap at the age of three months. At 15 months-old, he was offered a contract to be a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers' drumline (The United Drumline, founded by William Winfield, III) making him the youngest member by 16 years! Then, at 20 months-old, Julian recorded a CD, "Go Baby!", with legendary bassist Ralphe Armstrong. Trapper Jack, from WDOK 102.1 (Cleveland), broke the story and Julian has been shocking audiences ever since. Since then, he has received worldwide media coverage with more than 11,000 newspaper and magazine articles published about him. He is currently 7 years-old and plays a 22-piece custom drum set with 17 cymbals. He has full artist endorsements with Vic Firth, Sabian Cymbals, ddrum and Sennheiser Microphones. Full Story HERE I would like to thank the Pavone family and Randy Bernard for thinking of us for this story. Lesley and I had a wonderful time today and we hope to see you soon! XXOOK PS It was really fun meeting Bernard Pavone Sr and Ron Amatangelo the charming Grand-dads!

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[New post] Ghost Rider burns all over again in Spirit of Vengeance

Ghost Rider burns all over again in Spirit of Vengeance dailypop | July 28, 2011 at 7:03 pm | Tags: ghost rider marvel comics nic cage | Categories: Horror comics | URL: http://wp.me/p4kUt-2UH

The dark avenging demon of the roads, Ghost Rider enjoyed a cult hit status in the 1970's. When stunt rider Johnny Blaze made a deal with the devil to save his adoptive father, he soon discovered that the demonic one is not known for his good bargains and became the prison for a rebellious soul, Zarathos. When Blaze was near an act of evil, he transformed into the Ghost Rider, a flaming skeletal being on a flame-addled bike. Combining black magic, stunt motorcycling and horror, it remains a touchstone of the comic book 'bronze age.' only to be revived in the 1990's when a new vessel for the demonic spirit of vengeance was found in Danny Ketch.

In 2007, a feature film version of Ghost Rider was released, directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil). It's a mixed bag that takes liberties with some details while remaining dedicated to the source material in other places. A disjointed film, it is actually held together by Nic Cage's larger than life mutant love-child of an Elvis impersonator and Evel Knievel. While Ghost Rider as a character is dull, the CGi effects are actually quite good, but the plot could have been stronger. Even so it's worth a viewing with a few friends, cheap beer and pricey pizza.

Shortly after the first film hit the shelves on DVD, Cage was already talking about a sequel. The theme of denying the demon, refraining from alcohol and trying to be a noble hero would be replaced with a raucous and wild Johnny Blaze guzzling Jim Beam and embracing his alter ego.

The more details that leaked out, the more it sounded like the Jason Aaron run on the monthly comic, a wild and hyper-violent series with gun-toting nuns and a war in heaven. Sadly, it seems that Cage is more influenced by the Garth Ennis mini-series that preceded Aaron's work. A thinly veiled continuation of themes borrowed from his work on Preacher, the less said about Ennis' Ghost Rider the better.

At the San Diego Comic Con, a lack of heavy hitters such as Batman and Superman meant that lesser known superhero flicks could fill in the void, such as Ghost Rider.

Via i09:

Just because Nicholas Cage is still playing damned stuntman Johnny Blaze in the new Ghost Rider movie doesn't mean that we should expect the family-friendly character from the first film. We've seen a Ghost Rider who's more demon than superhero.

Directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor were on hand at Comic-Con, and told us how eager they were to get their Crank-weathered hands on the much maligned Ghost Rider and move him from the superhero genre into horror.

"He's one of the most badass characters of all time," Taylor noted. "He's not really a superhero. He's more like a horror character. His superpower is that he sucks out your soul. That's horrifying."

Cage described the Ghost Rider from the first movie as something out of a Grimm's fairy tale, more something for kids. Cage actually provides the movement for the Ghost Rider in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, something he did not do in the first film, and said he is happy to "embrace the nightmare aspect of the character."

Although the first image we got of this new Ghost Rider were the legs of his glittery black stuntman pants, Neveldine and Taylor have amped up the Rider's scary side. The Ghost Rider is now a charred skeleton, with flames constantly bursting from his body, his jacket bubbling with tar. Where the empty-eyed skull was sometimes campy in the first movie, here it is pretty nightmarish — even more so when the Rider spews fire from his mouth. There was, however, a moment of strange levity: a child character asks Johnny Blaze what happens when the Ghost Rider has to pee. Cue the Ghost Rider, his back to the camera, pissing flames.

At the Spirit of Vengeance press conference, Nick Cage further explained that "weirdness" is one of the defining traits he could bring to the Ghost Rider films. Elaborated Cage:

"The interesting story is when I was trying to think with Brian and Mark about how the Ghost Rider could move [...] I was thinking about kind of finding something really "weird" [...] I looked up in the dictionary that the word literally means "to turn." "Weird" literally means "to turn around." [...] It was like trying to design a body language from another dimension."

Idris Elba and Nic Cage at SDCC2011

Idris Elba plays Ghost Rider's sidekick Moreau, a role the directors described as "a French drunk monk, the first French black alcoholic priest in [movie] history." Elba also conquered his fear of motorcycles simply to play such a bad-ass role: "When I was 19, I fell off a motorcycle and never wanted to get on to one again...until this movie."

Neveldine and Taylor explained that they really didn't take the first movie into account — and they didn't draw from Ghost Rider's more superheroic tales — but the directors did cite the darker tone of Garth Ennis' run as an inspiration.

Via FirstShowing:

Straight from the pages of Empire comes the first three photos introducing us to the new Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, directed by Crank's Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor. Yes, Nicolas Cage is back as Johnny Blaze, but even more importantly, he's back as Ghost Rider, the badass demon from hell. If you didn't hear, the Comic-Con footage impressed all of us, but don't worry, this will kick ass. "We didn't really consider the first movie, at all, in making this. We just wanted to make a great movie, on its own terms."

Idris Elba also stars in this along with Nicolas Cage, Ciarán Hinds as the Devil, and Johnny Whitworth as the villain Blackout (not pictured). Now you know what I'm talking about regarding Ghost Rider having a flaming head almost the entire movie, not just a few scenes like in the first. "This version, we wanted to give people what we think comic book fans really want to see with Ghost Rider. It is darker and more intense. He is from a nightmare. He will scare the hell out of you," Taylor told Collider. Sony/Columbia is releasing Spirit of Vengeance in theaters February 17th, 2012 next year.

First look at the Ghost Rider from the sequel Spirits of Vengeance

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