Scott McLennan
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- Scott McLennan
- Va. Tech Victim Known for Enthusiasm
- ‘People have no shame these days’
- Speaker: Change of focus will help curb school violence
Scott McLennan
Worcester Telegram – Worcester Telegram – Apr 22, 2007
The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival opens at noon each day. Tickets are $35 per day with a two-day pass available for $65. Two stages will be in operation each day of the festival with the music running until the wee hours. Tickets are available online at tickets. com and at Strawberries record stores and the Palladium box office. Metal Blade has long been an integral player at Worcester’s annual metal blowout and last year while Slagel was attending the show he and festival organizers from MassConcerts started talking about Metal Blade’s milestone anniversary. “They said `Hey want to do a whole day of Metal Blade bands?’ and it evolved from there… The Red Chord a band formed in Revere and which considers The Palladium “home court” is a good model of how Metal Blade sustains itself. Red Chord singer Guy Kozowyk said he and the rest of his band mates got their musical bearings listening to various underground acts releasing work on Metal Blade. “I was about 14 when someone introduced me to death metal. I’d read the lyrics to Cannibal Corpse songs. I got into Suffocation and that just shaped my musical direction. When you go from Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots to Napalm Death Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation at an age when you are shaping your influences that kick-starts a musical direction for you” said Kozowyk whose The Red Chord has its next Metal Blade release coming in a few weeks. Kozowyk said he is proud to be part of the Metal Blade story and is quite frankly surprised the story is still going.
Va. Tech Victim Known for Enthusiasm
Washington Post – Apr 21, 2007
“Not sure what I’ll be doing yet” she told friends. But she knew her future would be “AWESME. “Enthusiasm accomplishment and zest for dreams were common among the 27 students killed by the gunman who also shot five professors to death before taking his own life. Among the young victims: class jokers animal lovers voracious travelers athletes musicians a high school valedictorian. For all her gifts Maxine was practical and in many ways understated her parents remembered in an interview Friday that swung between laughter-filled recollections of a life so fully lived and sorrow over what will never be. Friends and roommates filtered through her parents’ living room gently adding a few memories but more often silent as Max’s parents sketched her life story. “She was the greatest person ever” her roommate for four years Michelle Vrikkis said simply… Ever practical Max spent the March break at home despite her friends’ efforts to entice her on a cruise. She was eager to start apartment-hunting in Maryland and get in one last dental appointment while still on her parents’ insurance. ne day she was scheduled to go to an all-day music festival with friends; instead she went to her 13-year-old brother Anthony’s soccer game. When it came time to select a college Max immediately wanted Virginia Tech. Her parents made her at least apply to some bigger-name schools. Even after the acceptance letters from Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon arrived Max insisted on Tech. “She stood on that campus and she said ‘This is my school.
‘People have no shame these days’
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 21, 2007
It’s about rich people taking drugs and disappearing up their own backsides. In that respect at least he admits the play is autobiographical. Having worked as a showbiz lawyer for 10 years handling the affairs of Epstein Lambert Pete Townshend and Keith Moon by the late 1970s Maddock had himself begun to succumb to some of the music industry’s more hazardous enthusiasms. Casting his law practice aside he moved to New York and lived “on to the razor’s edge” throwing himself into the louche hedonistic scene around the city’s legendary disco Studio 54. “It’s one of the things I touch on in my play” he says “how easily you can drift into another world. You start out buying a gram of coke then you buy a quarter because it’s cheaper; then you buy half an ounce with a couple of mates; and then you buy a kilo from a wholesaler; and within a very short time you’re talking to some Colombians you know… In 1983 Jermyn was arrested for trafficking $4 million worth of heroin but the charges were reduced to a misdemeanour and he returned to England. Maddock was not so lucky. He was sentenced to eight years and served three and a half in he says “the belly of the beast”: he once saw a man beaten to death with a metal mop-wringer. He drafted Charlie and Henry in his last year in prison but put it to one side on his release. Returning to Britain and “by dint of having to redeem myself” he went into business. He had noticed that the water coolers that were ubiquitous in American offices were nowhere to be found in British ones.
Speaker: Change of focus will help curb school violence
Eagle Tribune – Apr 22, 2007
history when he killed 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech. “It’s an invitation to a select group of people to break (his record)” Fox said. More metal detectors and police in schools may only challenge a disturbed shooter to act out Fox said. He believes money would be better spent on after-school programs and sparing cuts to music drama and sports programs activities that give many alienated young people a connection to their school and peers. Fox whose 20 books include “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder” said he was outraged by the focus cable television and other media outlets placed on Monday’s “record. “Fox a former dean of the college of criminal justice at Northeastern whose nickname is the “dean of death” dressed in his signature black as he addressed the students Thursday night. He also criticized NBC’s release of Seung-Hui’s “multimedia manifesto… “It’s an invitation to a select group of people to break (his record)” Fox said. More metal detectors and police in schools may only challenge a disturbed shooter to act out Fox said. He believes money would be better spent on after-school programs and sparing cuts to music drama and sports programs activities that give many alienated young people a connection to their school and peers. Fox whose 20 books include “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder” said he was outraged by the focus cable television and other media outlets placed on Monday’s “record. “Fox a former dean of the college of criminal justice at Northeastern whose nickname is the “dean of death” dressed in his signature black as he addressed the students Thursday night. He also criticized NBC’s release of Seung-Hui’s “multimedia manifesto. “”As if this person deserves this kind of stage” Fox said.
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