This was probably my ultimate score on a Book Sale joint. "Underboss",featuring Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, his story of life in the Mafia, underboss of NYC's most notorious crime family, the Gambinos.

Wise Guy : Life story of Henry Hill's three decade on Luchesse Crime family (this is where the movie Goodfellas was based)

The Sopranos : On The Couch, HBO TV Series printed on book expanded til season 4.


That was a pretty good catch.:)

Earth Decay 2010

October 30, 2010. I’ve already mark my calendar for this day, another “leavable” show as I would say, hehe the 2nd Earth Decay (consistently speaking) in San Pablo’s infamous venue, The Lion’s Club was about to happen, brought to us by the guys from Acid Cow Art Collective. The weather was fuzzy and its drizzling a little bit outside, not good for me because I just went on cough and colds, in short I’m still not feeling well but I still have to push my might for our set later, STILL ILL, SINCERE… You can see the diversity on the band list and it was enormous, hopefully all the bands can play tonight since the show had begun at around six (4 hours late due to some circumstances), participating bands were all good, local bands from San PbloBystorm, Legarda, Identikit, Ginseng Luzon, Piledriver, although Isvarah guys had to cancel their set, (Mot's wife had just gave birth to a healthy baby boy, epic!) the show's was still awesome because the guys from Empty, all showed up and played their reunion set. I think their last show happened sometime in early 2000's and this is almost their decade of hibernation, Back from the Dead! All hail Empty! and long live Earth Decay!

More shirts....

kid Dyanamite - 3 Sided with skull on right side







Force of Change - 2008 US Summer tour








Cruel Hand - Lock & Key

Bane Philippine Tour May 19 2010, Sta Rosa City Laguna

Photo by Keith Dador



Photo by Keith Dador



Photo by Keith Dador





2010 had been a remarkable year in our local hardcore scene. Why? foreign bands like First Blood, Alcatraz, Ruiner, Out of Step (Germany), Testament (although it is not a DIY show, it still kicks ass), Warbringer and so on, had graced our land to reach out their dedicated fans worldwide. But for me, the most anticipated was the Bane Philippine tour, held last May 19, 2010. To think, seeing Bane live would be impossible, knowing their extensive touring around US, they still manage to make a South East Asian tour, thanks to all the people who extended their support to make this happen. Bane has become one of the most anticipated hardcore bands in the late 90’s to early 2000’s along with their contemporaries like Indecision, Reach the Sky and One King Down. Up to this moment, many loyal fans still looked up and hold on to them. My first Bane encounter was when I was in early college, a friend handed me a copy of Hellfest 2000 video plus a copy of Bane – It All Comes down to this as far as I remember, even though I wasn’t that much of a Bane fan, I look up high on them because of their passion and sincerity to what they are doing. They wouldn’t go this far if it wasn’t because of that. Sincerity and dedication is what keeps the ball rollin. Seeing them live brought me goose bumps and that’s for sure, I bet for some kids too. There wasn’t a bad Bane show as far as I knew according to what I saw on some videos and reviews and I was right. Bane lineup features Aaron Bedard, Aaron Dalbec (Converge), Brendan “Stu” Maguire( Reach the Sky) and session drummer Nate Manning (later I recognized that he was a Cruel hand guitarist, shame on me! I barely recognized him). The show was a blast. The funny thing is when Dexter (8 Oz)and I were hanging around the corner after their set, Dext was holding his old Bane shirt to have it autographed by Stu, when Stu grabbed his shirt he turned up on Dext and said “Oh, I remember this show, this was Ten Yard Fight’s last show, We played with Reach the Sky, In My Eyes and Fastbreak!” and we were like ”Fuck, It’s like my dream show”. Bane opened another book in our history, and im glad I was a part of it.