Persian Yellow Dogs Killed In Brooklyn

A former member of The Yellow Dogs, an indie Persian band located in Brooklyn, killed three current members on Monday, 11.11.13, before turning the gun on himself.

According to the New York Post, the former Yellow Dog used a semi-automatic rifle in the attack, which started just after midnight on Monday morning. The gunman wounded one person outside before walking inside the apartment, where he killed two people on the second floor and one person—who was reportedly still in bed—on the third floor. Two people hid in the apartment's first floor bathroom; they were both unharmed. The shooter then climbed to the building's roof and shot himself in the head, according to the NYPD.

The alleged shooter has been identified as Raefe Ahkbar. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ahkbar was kicked out of the band sometime in the past year for selling the group's equipment. 

The dead victims were also identified:

Soroush Farazmand, 27, a guitarist in the band
Ali Eskandarian, 35, the band's singer
Arash Farazmand, the band's drummer

Sasan Sadeghpourosko, 22, was shot twice in his right arm and is in stable condition.

Akhbar, also known as Aliakba killed several of ex-bandmates from the The Yellow Dogs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

According to the Metro’s New York office, Aliakbar then turned the gun on himself in East Williamsburg.

Akhbar was apparently angry because his bandmates kicked him out. Police told the Metro that they found out that he was selling off band members’ equipment.

Officials said that he fired a number of rounds inside at building in 318 Maujer St., killing his ex-bandmates.

Farazmand, 27, was found dead in a second-floor bedroom with a chest wound, while Farazmand was found dead on the third floor with a head wound, and Ali Eskandarian was found dead on the third flood with a head wound.

Sasan Sadeghpouroskou, 22, was the only survivor of the attack.

“A male shot three victims, killing them,” a police spokesman told AFP. “It also appears that the shooter killed himself on the roof of that location.”

The Yellow Dogs were an indie rock band that formed several years ago in Tehran, Iran, but moved to Booklyn. All of the band's members were from Iran and were featured in an award-winning documentary, No One Knows About Persian Cats, about underground rock music in Tehran. Shortly after the documentary was released in 2009, the band members left for the United States, where they were granted asylum in 2010.

Aurora Again: Skyfall Anew

We are entering a powerfully synchromystically, yes, synchrocinematically significant weekend. Veterans Day (old style, November 11; new style November 12), plus the opening of Skyfall, Lincoln, Citadel, and even A Royal Affair, is one of those conjunctions of metaphors we have grown to view with some caution.

Midnight showings on November 9th, hopefully, for Skyfall will be without any Aurora surprises or undertones, which occurred when The Dark Knight Rises opened.

Colorado's Aurora shooting appeared to have been a "red dawn" event, a milestone awakening incident of which we can only guess what it might mean in the future. The word, Colorado (red) and Aurora (dawn), were a rather meaning combination, a lexilink of some note, as it turns out.

You may recall, Skyfall was there from the beginning. Literally.

I went to see The Dark Knight Rises with my 22 year old son, at 3:15 pm, on Friday, July 20, 2012. One of the first visuals that stuck me, before the film, was what I saw in the preview to the then-forthcoming James Bond movie, Skyfall. At the 39-40 second mark of the trailer, quite readable on the IMAX screen, a frame appeared with a vivid skyline. Right there, up front was a building with a red sign that read clearly, Aurora. 

Aurora screen capture from Skyfall, from the July 20, 2012 trailer.

This is the Aurora Plaza building in Shanghai, China. Therefore, even though The Dark Knight Rises shooting took place only in Aurora, Colorado, due to the Skyfall trailer being shown with the opening of the Dark Knight film everywhere, Aurora was "in" all of the Batman/Bane showings too.

Three movie openings to be aware of for November 9th:

In Skyfall, Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, a revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office.

The Norwich Aurora [of Connecticut]...reported that Mr. Lincoln had been beaten for Congress in 1848 by Thomas L. Harris, a "glorious Norwich boy" and then beaten for the Senate in 1858 by Stephen A. Douglas. Democrat Harris had indeed been elected to Congress from Springfield in 1848, but he defeated Mr. Lincoln's former law partner, not Mr. Lincoln. But the facts did not get in the way of the Norwich newspaper's tirade against Republicans "and the other eminent prophets and saints of the abolition." Source.

The new movie ends with the assassination of the President.

This Lincoln movie is not to be confused with the project that the late Tony Scott had been working for the National Geographic Channel, entitled Killing Lincoln. The two-hour Killing Lincoln, which was being produced by Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free Productions, is based on Bill O'Reilly's best-selling book Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever. The film is due to air in early 2013 and production began in Richmond, Virginia in July 2012.

In the Irish horror film Citadel, Tommy Cowley lives a quiet life in a decaying tower, an apartment complex, with his highly pregnant wife. The couple is attacked one day by a group of hooded alleged young thugs. Ciarán Foy's Citadel envisions a towering U.K. housing project that must be destroyed to kill the inhuman creatures breeding within.

This Citadel is not to be confused with the Mass Effect fantasy site that is a space station named Citadel, where the Task Force Aurora is located, headed by Dr. Garret Bryson, a group created to investigate ancient legends about the Reapers.

Will 11-11 be a special anniversary of note this year? Or maybe 11-12?

President Obama was declared the winner of the election at 11:12 pm on Tuesday. I think someone said Nate Silver predicted MSNBC would declare Obama the winner of the Electoral College at exactly 11:12 pm.

Sources for new opening movie info included Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, and Wikipedia.