The Scarlet Paradigm

So,

Last night I decided to watch “The Taking of Pelham 123″ on our Netflix Player, and I have to say, this movie was pretty good. It was a hostage-scenario movie very similar in environment to “Phonebooth” with Collin Farrel.

Denzel Washington and John Travolta star in this movie, where Travolta’s character “Ryder” hijacks a New York City Subway train in hopes of getting paid $10 Million, and “Garber” (Denzel) is the subway dispatch assigned to that train line that day. The dialogue between Denzel and Travolta is pretty good, and you can really see their acting talents, even in this so-so film. Without these two, this movie surely would have fallen flat. One couldn’t have expected James Gandolfini (who plays the Mayor) to hold this one up all on his own…

Anyway, if you haven’t yet, and are bored on a Monday night, give this one a try. You may enjoy it.

We will be doing “The Taking of CKB” at our show at CKB in Pasadena this Friday, so come see some cool bands, get our EP ($5), Tshirt ($15), and stickers ($0) for your very own. We finally have something concrete to offer you all that you can take home with you and treasure for a very long time.

See you there! http://wp.me/poDC1-5b

–Chris

Keeping with the movie references of my bandmates, I thought I’d post a couple of movies that I recently saw. As most of you know, I absolutely love seeing a good film, and sharing my thoughts about it.

The other day, I had a friend over and we watched “Zombieland” and “Michael Jackson’s: THIS IS IT”. Both were great movies. My friend made the joke that we were “having a night of Zombie Movies”…I know…tasteless, but it made me laugh.

Anyway, Zombieland was about our world in the not so distant future taken over by Zombies, and what would happen if we were the last few surviving humans. The cast was great, and of course Woody Harrelson was hilarious as always. This movie made me ponder on what it would be like if I were in their shoes, with nothing left but my guns and my car, struggling to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic setting with Woody Harrelson as my Zombie-killing partner. The entire movie, Woody was intent on finding himself a twinkie, because it reminded him of better times. The main message of this movie was “Enjoy the Little things”, which I try to do every day. I always appreciate a good comedy that has a deeper underlying message to it. I give this movie an A.

THIS IS IT! was a very motivational movie documenting Michael Jackson’s last moments at rehearsal for what was to be his final live performance. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is in the performance industry, because it really shows us what we are all striving to be. As much as I like to joke about MJ’s personal exploits, you really get to see how amazing of a musician he really is, and when I saw that, it made me want to strive to be that good of a performer/musician as well. There were a few times in the rehearsals where he could have pulled the usual Diva card and yelled someone out, but he always maintained his composure, and dealt with everyone he worked with as if they were family. This shows us that no matter how famous you are, you don’t have to be an asshole.  I give this movie an A as well.

With that, I leave you with a new tasty tidbit in the world of The Scarlet Paradigm. We made it onto AbsolutePunk’s “Free Music Friday” series. Check out the link below, and you’ll see us there in the EP section.

http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?p=61981671

Here’s to a great weekend,

-Chris

Hey,

So here I sit at my computer desk at work, early in the morning, thinking to myself, “man I hope our band makes it and we could play full time”. Every band member’s dream, right?

Anyway, I am feeling in a good place right now, because things with The Scarlet Paradigm are all starting to fall into place and take direction. We had a great rehearsal yesterday, and ran through a couple of new songs (you can hear them at our 1/30 show) and they sound great! We released our EP to the Bandcamp Page last Tuesday, and we have a good bit of merch coming soon for everybody to get their hands on. Things are looking up. It is times like this that makes being in a band worth it, and getting to share it with great people at our shows is the icing on the cake for us. Thanks for all you do, and we’ll see you at the next show!

Also, if you’d like to stay updated on where we’re at in life, make sure to hit up and join our mailing list.

On that note, since I am feeling crazy at the moment, I leave you with this:

Group X – Mario Twins