"little hand says it's time to rock and roll."

At a very young age, I had already made a serious decision in life. I knew what I wanted, what I liked and what I needed out of life. In a time when the film Scarface was at its peak, I didn’t go looking for wisdom through the words of Tony Montana. I didn’t find it in the courage of Rocky Balboa taking the beating of his life. My future didn’t lay behind enemy lines like in Full Metal Jacket. Not even in the humor and wit dressed in those Cosby sweaters - Nah, growing up in the 80’s there was only two things that I knew I needed. It was in that wisdom, Tony Montana said, “you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” Well I wanted to skip all that and get to part three, the women, and I knew just the cats to take me there. The late wizard Michael Jackson and the now dearly departed Patrick Swayze. You see my ideal was, first you get the moves then you get the girl. And there was no better dirty dancer and moonwalker on the planet, than those two gents.













So needless to say, these past few months have been really hard on me. To this day Swayze remains one of the greatest actors of our time. Starring in many of my personal favorite films including: Point Break, Roadhouse, Youngblood and yes, Dirty Dancing. Swayze had the moves and the girls, and in the case of Roadhouse, he had the power too. Swayze taught me a lot about life and love, dancing and rebelling, thievery and ass kicking. He’s been nominated for three golden globes over his career and has even broke into billboard’s top ten singles in 1987 with “She’s like the Wind,” from the film Dirty Dancing.













Other notable films include: Ghost, Donnie Darko, Red Dawn, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Next of Kin, Steel Dawn, and that book you all wasted your time reading school when you could have just seen Swayze shred it in the film version of The Outsiders.

So now, I'll leave you with some advise about life that Swayze once gave me, "All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice."

Cheers brother.