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Jerry Capeci: Gotti IV Becomes A Farce

Anthony — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:41:38 +0000

And in the seventh week, Gotti IV became a farce.

It happened on the day that the defense began its case. This was last Tuesday, which coincidentally, would have been the 69th birthday of the late Mafia Boss John Gotti, the onetime Dapper Don who died in prison, the same place that federal authorities would like to see his son John (Junior) Gotti meet his end.

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Hollywood Goodfella:Witness: Gotti never organized DiBono murder

af11 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:05:28 +0000

murdered Gambino mobster Louis DiBono

John “Junior” Gotti never helped put together the crew that murdered Gambino mobster Louis DiBono, according to bombshell testimony today in Manhattan federal court.

Former Gambino associate Kevin McMahon testified for the defense that the testimony offered by mob turncoat John Alite earlier this month that Gotti put the murder together was false.

Instead, McMahon said the hit was hastily put together and that he tagged along at the last minute. He said he originally thought the plot was going to be a kidnapping.

“I knew [the plan] had changed,” he told the jury. “But I didn’t get a screenplay.”

While Alite had called McMahon the driver, he said that he sat behind the driver.

Alite had also testified that the DiBono murder was Junior’s first mob hit after he was promoted to captain as a wedding present.

“He was elated. He told me to congratulate him, so I congratulated him,” Alite testified.

McMahon said Gambino enforcer Charles Carneglia was the one who shot DiBono, telling him to not tell anyone he was there.

“No one was supposed to know I was there,” he said.

Gotti is on trial for the fourth time on racketeering charges. The first three either ended in mistrials or a hung jury.

Ny Post writes

WaterLife

theSteezy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:54:12 +0000

Waterlife is a film directed by Kevin McMahon and co-produced by Primitive Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada. A Story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on Earth.

- IDOL

I love getting Prick online

sweetetcetera — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:27:03 +0000

A package containing 5 beautiful, glossed, slipcases (with CDs inside) arrived today, along with a LIVE disc and… a sticker!

Yes, in record time (less than a week) my online order of Prick / Lucky Pierre has arrived from the US.

Turns out that The Wreckard is one of the best albums I have heard in, well, longer than I realised until I heard it. Kevin McMahon’s website describes it as “trouble”. The slipcase explains that it was “inspired by a selection of surviving entries from the audiojournal of an unbalanced aerialist.” And the songs sound… like they were composed during sleepless nights, recorded in some high-tech underground bunker, dumped into a rusty blender and diced, then reassembled into this… strange and beautiful chaos.

Trouble indeed.

I’ve also managed to consume ThinKing, which is altogether more straight forward and upbeat, and has also managed to rub my aural pleasure gland into wonderful excretion.

I’m undecided as to whether I like the album version of Attitude better, or the acoustic clip.

But now, where to stick that sticker.

(PS: “Lucky Pierre” is the guy in the middle.)

Lucky Prick

sweetetcetera — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:02:25 +0000

I first encountered Prick in the cheap bin at a Tauranga music store, and recognising the Nothing record label figured it’d be worth giving a go.

I was quite right. The self-titled album has held a precious spot in my CD collection ever since.

Kevin McMahon’s words and music are quirky, playful, tenacious, and have a stonking industrial drive that mix shockingly well with the chaotic and often retro throw-back rythms. The stonk bears the distinct production stamp of Trent Reznor, with whom McMahon eventually had some kind of falling out.

Mention should also be made of McMahon’s wickedly cracked vocals. He is a man with Attitude.

After some time, a follow-up Prick album called The Wreckard was released. It was made available only through McMahon’s website and I never got around to purchasing it. Then the site went away, and I had to pack my pride away with it.

But now, there is www.luckypierremusic.com. Lucky Pierre being another of McMahon’s incarnations (once featuring Reznor), which actually predates Prick.

Interestingly, the self-titled Prick album is not being sold through the site, like a disowned child, but oh so many other glorious releases are.

Last night I put my order in for a special pack of 6 albums – including The Wreckard and a live CD of Prick self-titled and Wreckard songs. All up it cost just over $NZ100 – including postage from the US.

Somebody wipe down my seat and pick me up off the floor… !

Lucky Pierre

Fear of Blue

ThinKing

(sic)

The Wreckard (Prick)

Prick Live in Boston

"I can't get anything done with you shaking around like that..."

darklucia13 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:33:42 +0000

This video is MUCH better than listening to me stammer tonight. The song is STILL perfect… and entirely fucking relevant!

“Your Scent is all I need to bring out the animal in me…”

~ Feral 13

Song of the Day: Rikers - Easter Eyes

seewhatyouhear — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:04:33 +0000

Rikers – Easter Eyes

Toronto duo Russ Davidson and Ryan Kennedy take their best stab at Phil Spector’s wall of sound here, building their way towards a post-modern pop remodelling of the Everly Brothers, Jesus and the Mary Chain and Sigur Ros. Their forthcoming EP Kings English was mixed by Kevin McMahon (The Walkmen, French Kicks).

Official - http://www.rikersmusic.com/
MySpace – www.myspace.com/rikersrikers
Photo by nikolaus