One of my filmmaking heroes, Rob Nilsson, this
coming Sunday, Aug. 28 is shooting a big scene
for the last 9 @ Night film "GO TOGETHER."

I'm thinking I want to be a part of cinema history.
I'm hoping I can get a part in this film. I don't need
any lines, I just want to watch this Master at work,
creating his Art, see his energy and learn from him.

I'll be at the Parkway Speakeasy Cinema, Oakland
near Lake Merritt for the shoot. Hope to see you,
if you are there...

Fresno Police got a call of a rooster fight on
Brawley, between Shields and Clinton. When officers
arrived, they say a dozen men took off running from
the location.

As they walked the property, they found 200 fighting
roosters in individual pens, and a building that had a
fighting pit. In the building with the fighting pit,
they found boxes of razors that organizers strapped to
the rooster's talons during a fight. Several thousand
dollars in wages were also found, that had been left
behind.

The owner of the facility was contacted and reportedly
told Fresno Police officers that he makes an average
of $1000 per day operating that facility and housing
the roosters.

Additionally, the SPCA was called out to take control
of the animals, and the decision was made to destroy
all of the animals.

Destroy? Can't they be destroyed in the fight? Can't I
wager on that?

2 men shot in Goshen by Fresno Police... If you've
ever been shot in the Goshen, you know that's painful.
I've been kicked in the Goshen...

Two armed robbery suspects are in the hospital after
being shot by Fresno Police officers. The officers
were investigating the 2 males as possible suspects in
a handful of recent robberies.

They followed the men to the Goshen area where they
walked into an Exxon station on Betty drive, just off
Highway 99.

The police officers watched the men walk in with
weapons. The officers, themselves, decided to wait
outside to keep employees and customers safe.

Yeah... Maybe the Officers were bad shots.

Investigators say that the suspects brandished their
weapons at the officers. The bullet holes in the
suspect's car windows show that the officers fired
their weapons several times.

I wonder if the suspects were in the car, or did the
cops just fire at the car?

No officers were hurt. One of the suspects is in
critical condition.

The men are identified as 21 year old Tao Yang, and 18
year old Ger Yang, both from Fresno.

And with the name Yang, it's a good chance they were
French, or part of the Woo Yang Clan.

They may be the suspects in the serial robberies
between Fresno and Kingsburg over the past month.

Joaquin Phoenix says tabloid reports that he had a
breakdown while filming the upcoming Johnny Cash
biopic is bull.

Phoenix banged his head on a bedpost during a scene
related to Cash's brother's death, prompting
speculation that he was reacting to the 1993 death of
his brother, River.

"You know, the press has kind of imposed upon me the
title of Mourning Brother, and because I haven't been
vocal about it, the assumption is that I'm holding
onto this crap that's just not there."

His brother River Phoenix died of a drug overdose
outside the Viper Room when he was 23.

Suggesting that he'd use his personal life for "Walk
the Line," says Phoenix, "kind of makes me sick."

Time is running short for a group hoping to make the
boyhood home of Jimi Hendrix the centerpiece of a
community music center.

King County Superior Court refused to extend a
temporary restraining order that barred the city from
demolishing the two-bedroom house.

Croatian police said they would authorise a concert of
shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the coastal town of
Pula, despite protests from the powerful Catholic
church and parents worried that he is promoting
satanism.

"You should know that Manson fans turn the site of his
concerts into Sodom and Gomorrah," several Catholic
priests said in a letter sent to Pula's mayor.

"If they think that an artist can destroy their faith
than their faith is rather fragile," he told the local
paper.

"For me it is normal that as an artist I provoke
people and I don't claim that what I am doing is
suitable for everybody."

"I am very disappointed with policies and religions
who manipulate people," Manson added.