Broken Hearted Trailer

Check out the first trailer for Broken Hearted.

Follow us on facebook at www.facebook.com/BrokenHeartedTheFilm Follow us on instagram at www.instagram.com/brokenheartedthemovie Story Brian is a PH.D candidate who thinks he has his life figured out until he meets Michelle who is coming out of a recently toxic relationship. Both their worlds are flipped upside down while they try to navigate their feelings for one another. A drama comprised with a soundtrack from the most talented independently produced music artists. It's America Graffiti meets The Notebook. Cast BRIAN – Chris Matteis MICHELLE – Irene O'Neill-https://www.facebook.com/theireneonei... ANDREW – Jason Wieder-http://www.imdb.com/name/nm8878489/?r... STACY - Jennifer Cové-http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5862925/ JOHNNY – Dylan Isaacs TOMMY – Tyler Godden-http://www.imdb.com/name/nm9452499/ JACK – Francis Leik LUCY - Cat Valentine JOYCE - Cecilia Vaicels-http://www.ceciliavaicels.com-http://... KRISSY - Elizabetta Malagon-http://www.elizabettamalagon.com-http... BRUCE – Miguel Poncé-http://www.imdb.com/name/nm6940203/ MAGGIE – Sabrina Garcia DANA – Maya Koshaba FIGURE SKATER – Danielle Montalbano-Brezina-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniell... The Music We’ve teamed up with the most talented independently produced music artist from around the world to present the best film soundtrack ever created. Below is a sample of the artists that have signed on to-date. Be sure to click the links to give them all a listen and show your support by purchasing their music. AMZY-Words-http://www.amzymusic.com Arthur Ward-Restless (Without You)-https://www.arthurwardmusic.com Breakin Hundred-Take Me Away-All Said And Done-https://myspace.com/breakinhundred Dan Webb and the Spiders-28 Years-No Excuse-https://www.facebook.com/danwebbandth... Divide the Day-Faded-Strive (Acoustic) https://www.facebook.com/dividetheday/ Eric Bay-Long Hellos Short Goodbyes-http://www.ericbaymusic.com Fire Valley Fire-Backroads-https://www.facebook.com/firevalleyfire/ Flying Points-If You Leave-http://www.flyingpoints.com Frantic Jack-Burn -Hurricane-https://www.facebook.com/FranticJack From States Away-Levittown-Chasing Amy-https://www.facebook.com/FromStatesAw... Here's To You-Live It Up-http://herestoyouband.com Jackson James-Bold-Moving-https://www.facebook.com/JacksonJames... Morgan Willis-Another Day (Outro)-Black Rain-Sophie-She's Not Real-https://www.facebook.com/MORGAN-WILLI... Owen Stephen-Just Dreaming-Rainy Skies-Hardest Roots https://www.facebook.com/owenstephenm... Permanent Holiday-Tonight-As The City Sleeps Tonight-https://www.facebook.com/permanenthol... Promise to Burn-Head-https://www.facebook.com/promisetoburn/ sarGasm-Always-https://www.facebook.com/sarGasmMusic/ Scott Aitken-Hold On-http://www.scottaitkenmusic.com The Fearless-Tangled-https://www.facebook.com/thefearlessm... Workout Music-All Over Town-Make It Right-https://www.facebook.com/workoutmusic/ Executive Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Editor - Joseph Ammendolea Producer – Christine Ammendolea Associate Producer – Danielle Cook Assistant Director - Dan "Shaggy" Hoffman Choreographer - Alexis Sparkle Preproduction Assistant - Frank Sanchez

Fancy Cat Live Part 2 of 2

Check out the band Fancy Cat as they purrrrform live from Port Jefferson.

Fancy Cat Live Part 1 of 2

Check out the band Fancy Cat as they purrrrform live from Port Jefferson.
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Bohemian Live Part 2 of 2

Check out the band Bohemian as they perform live from Port Jefferson.

Please note you'll notice they sounded great with the first song in Part 1, but as the little blonde man fiddled with the soundboard they began to sound worse and worse.  Please do not to count that against them.  They are very talented.

Its unclear why the small hipster man with the weak mustache and early 1900s style haircut allowed the tiny man to keep screwing up the sound for the band.  Every time he tries to tweak it the sound just gets worse.  Either he didn't know what he was doing or it was deliberate.  Either way if you're in a band you better make certain you have your own guy running the soundboard.

Another major issue is the concept of vocals, all live bands seem to spend all their time focusing on the guitar sounding right (which is super important), but they forget the vocals need to be heard.  Every single indie band drowns out the singer with their instruments.  The singer needs to be heard above all else (unless he can't sing, then please, hide him behind the instruments).

It always helps to set a vocal level that gives you five or six decibels of headroom before feedback, then balance the rest of the band to the vocals. If you try to do it the other way, the vocals get totally lost or sound like shit.

Bohemian Live Part 1 of 2

Check out the band Bohemian as they perform live from Port Jefferson.

Please note you'll notice they sound great with the first song, but as the little blonde man keeps fiddling with the soundboard they start to sound worse and worse.  Please try not to count that against them.

Its unclear why the small hipster man with the weak mustache and early 1900s style haircut allowed the tiny man to keep screwing up the sound for the band.  Every time he tries to tweak it the sound just gets worse.  Either he didn't know what he was doing or it was deliberate.  Either way if you're in a band you better make certain you have your own guy running the soundboard.

Another major issue is the concept of vocals, all live bands seem to spend all their time focusing on the guitar sounding right (which is important), but they forget the vocals need to be heard.  Every single indie band drowns out the singer with their instruments.  The singer needs to be heard above all else (unless he can't sing, then please, hide him behind the instruments).

It always helps to set a vocal level that gives you five or six decibels of headroom before feedback, then balance the rest of the band to the vocals. If you try to do it the other way, the vocals get totally lost or sound like shit.

The Fearless Live Part 4 of 4

Check out the band The Fearless as they perform their last show ever live from Port Jefferson.

The video ends rather abruptly due to technical issues.  The camera battery died and the spare was battery was already exhausted from taping the prior acts.

The Fearless Live Part 3 of 4

Check out the band The Fearless as they perform their last show ever live from Port Jefferson.

The Fearless Live Part 2 of 4

Check out the band The Fearless as they perform their last show ever live from Port Jefferson.

The Fearless Live Part 1 of 4

Check out the band The Fearless as they perform their last show ever live from Port Jefferson.

The Last Live Blue Movie Performance

The last live performance by Blue Movie.

The Breakin’ Hundred Reunion

Graduate school. I guess if I’m talking about Breakin’ Hundred I should start with date they were formed or the date they broke up but I honestly don’t remember.  What I do remember is that they formed at some point toward my last years as an undergraduate and split-up at the end of my graduate school career.  I asked the 4 former band members for specifics and got 5 different answers.  (Philly answered twice; once under the name Philly, once under the name Michael).  So, when I hear Breakin’ Hundred, I think back to graduate school. 

Dear college, I never truly appreciated how fun you were.

I discovered the band through Krista Ryan.  She introduced me to her then boyfriend Judd Jaworowski who was the bassist.  He gave me their CD A Jar of Change for free and told me to check out one of their shows.  Krista then proceeded to remind me of every single upcoming performance. 

Not too long after I got the CD, a friend and I were sitting in his car listening to the album, breaking down each song one by one.  We analyzed the CD, not as an amateur album made by a garage band, but a professionally produced piece of pop-art.  We discussed everything from chord progression, to lyrics, to overall sound mixing.  We talked about what worked, what didn’t, and how they could improve.  We didn’t do this to be dicks, we believed they had genuine potential to get signed to a record label and just needed to smooth out some rough edges.  

While Breakin’Hundred was trying to hit it big, I was trying to get my masters in Speech Communication, Performance, & Rhetorical Studies.  Yes, the degree is as boring as the course work.  A fulltime graduate student takes 3 classes (9 credits).   Each class assignment typically involved reading 50-100 page essays written by old dead dudes blabbing about the fundamentals of communication, speech, pop-culture, performance and oration.   We then needed the ability to give a thorough analysis of the material by the following week. To put this in context, here is a quote from Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy.

• “The disparagers of culture make its motive curiosity; sometimes, indeed, they make its motive mere exclusiveness and vanity. The culture which is supposed to plume itself on a smattering of Greek and Latin is a culture which is begotten by nothing so intellectual as curiosity; it is valued either out of sheer vanity and ignorance, or else as an engine of social and class distinction, separating its holder, like a badge or title, from other people who have not got it” (Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy).  

That’s just the first 2 sentences of a 49-page book that needed to be read in one week.  It was also typical of the type of readings we were assigned.  If I ever get ahold of a flux capacitor the concept of Sweetness and Light is going to mean time traveling psycho killer.  Each class left me feeling like Lane Myer from Better Off Dead.  During finals it was regularly expected that we write 20 page term papers all due the same week.  That’s 60-80 pages of writing that analyzed dudes like Matthew Arnold, Jacques Derrida, and Plato (yes, Plato, congratulations you’ve heard of one of the old dead dudes I studied).   

This sums up my life rather perfectly.

But once a month I’d hit up a Long Island bar and check out this band called Breakin’ Hundred.  For about an hour out of my life I could forget about all those damn philosophers and books I wasn’t reading.  I could ignore the papers I wasn’t completing and just listen to some indie pop rock.  So when I think about Breakin’ Hundred I think about a time in my life where I needed the biggest distraction possible and they were happy to help. 

The band went their separate ways right around the time when my academic career concluded.  I always wished that I could have seen at least one show without Michel Foucault ringing in my subconscious but it wasn’t meant to be.  It was a loss, not only from the music but also the collapse of the community that had formed around Breakin’ Hundred over the years. 

One of my first graduate papers discussed the community that formed through music and Breakin’ Hundred was a band that proved my theory’s authenticity.  I even cited their website’s message boards in the paper.  What was also unfortunate was they never advertised their last show.  They went from playing gigs twice a month to just being gone.  Friends I saw rather frequently were gone overnight.  Sure, I could attempt to hangout with them apart from a show but that’s just too much work.   

So on January 16, 2015 Breakin’ Hundred reunited to say goodbye to Eric “Little Philly” Lao (the guitarist Philly’s brother) and their old drummer Mark Corso.  Little Philly is moving away to some foreign country somewhere (Cuba maybe?) and Mark is retiring down south to Shady Pines.  It was bittersweet because it wasn’t only a Breakin’ Hundred reunion, it was also a community reunion.  I saw people I never thought I’d ever see again in my lifetime or the next.  It seemed like they hadn’t changed much or maybe they were caught up in the nostalgia. 

It was the best Breakin’ Hundred show I ever saw.  Eric Maestre’s vocals were sharp, Judd looked relaxed and happy, Philly lifted his head up and talked to the crowd, and Mark made a joke.  It was like all those rough edges were smoothed out, the band had personality, style, and solid music.  I spent my time taping the show for the community members that couldn’t make it and for a moment forgot all about my mortgage, career, and overall adult responsibilities.  So if you’re a fan, when you watch this video try to think about where you were in your life when they were going strong, then focus on the positive vibes they hopefully gave you.  If you never heard them before, enjoy the distraction.  

Written by 

Joseph Ammendolea

Owner/President

“I Like To Play With Toys” Productions®

ILikeToPlayWithToysProductions@Yahoo.com

Life After Breakin’ Hundred

Judd Jaworowski – Defeated the Evil Clan.  His land was revived in peace and people will talk of his deeds as legend in years to come

Michael “Philly” Lao – In addition to finding the legendary 5 treasures, stunned the world with his discovery of 2 lost treasures.  He became a master treasure hunter.   

Mark Corso – Destroyed the vile Red Falcon and saved the universe.  He considers himself a hero. 

Eric Maestre – Completed his quest and was presented with a new quest by pressing Button B.