Wednesday, July 29, 2009

One man show

I'm a one man show no one else on my team/ no copilot in the next seat no one else on the scene/ staring deep in the dark isolated from the rest/ got no one holding me up through this grand long contest/ I detest so many things and the evils they bring/ sad souls looking down upon this world that we inhabit/ follies coming all around both comical and tragic/ trying hard hoping somehow to break the bad habits/ without the aid of witchcraft or black magic/ to just have it and let loose for a few/ feeling like an island with a one man crew

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

You best watch yourself were wanted men I have the death sentence on tweleve systems!

I just finished reading the book Murder Machine by Gary Capeci and Gene Mustain. It chronicles the rise and fall of the crew of Roy DeMeo a capo in the Gambino Crime family. The Roy Demeo Crew was believed to have been responisable for over 100 murders in the New York area. The crews method of dispatchment was quick and effective. After shooting the victim in the head another member of the crew would stab the victim in the heart the stop the blood flow. After this they would usually wait for a while for the blood to congeal before they proceeded. On one ouccasion they ordered out for pizza and hot dogs while they waited. After the blood had congealed they would dismember the body peice by peice and package it in plastic bags and drop it in a nearby dump. This book read really well for me and had a good narrative which kept me reading. Another thing I found interesting was how some of Roy Demeo's fellow colleagues became disgusted with his brutal methods of dispatchment. After a member of Roy's crew Chris Rosenberg ends up making a deal with some Cubans from Florida for Cocaine and bring them up to New York to make the deal. Instead of giving them the money Chris ends up murdering all of the Cuban representatives and taking the cocaine. As a result of Chris's indisrection the Cuban who has contacts in the Columbian drug cartel sends up some muscle to New York to sort out the situation. Roy Demeo's handler in the Gambino Family Nino Gaggi sends his nephew Dominick Montiglio to sort things out with the Cuban's. As a result of his paranoia Roy ends up killing a young vacuum cleaner salesman who was sitting outside his house making his rounds. In the end he winds up getting killed because the Gambino heirarchy beleives he would testify against him, overall a great read.