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DaFC Movie Screening: Law Abiding Citizen Featuring Jamie Foxx And Gerard Butler

Tessa Horehled — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:26:12 +0000

Upcoming flick Law Abiding Citizen will be out on October 16 but you have the opportunity to catch it before the rest of the public. Drive A Faster Car is presenting a screening on Monday, October 12, especially for DaFC readers!

Follow the jump for more on the movie and how to win passes!

Synopsis:

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice.

Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die.

Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton’s high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton’s crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.

Jump below the image for details on how to win passes to this exclusive event.

Law Abiding Citizen screening
Monday, October 12
Regal Cinemas at Atlantic Station
7:30PM | FREE with pass | All Ages

To win a pair of tickets to attend the Law Abiding Citizen screening at Regal Cinemas in Atlantic Station on Monday, October 12, enter via email with your full name and tell me why you should win the passes. Each of the winners will be chosen at random from the rule abiding contestants and notified via email by 3PM on the day of the screening. Upon confirmation, the winner will receive two tickets which they will receive at Will Call. You must be able to confirm by 5PM EST.

Drive A Faster Car Wins Readers Choice, Best Local Blog/Blogger In Creative Loafing’s Best Of Atlanta 2009

Tessa Horehled — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:22:44 +0000

We are quite excited in the DaFC camp this morning!

Drive A Faster Car has won Readers Choice in the Local Blog/Blogger category in Creative Loafing’s Best Of Atlanta 2009! Thank you so much for all your votes!

Drive A Faster Car was also runner-up for Best Local Blogger (Readers Pick) and Best Georgia-Based Music Blog (Readers Pick)!

Congratulations to all of the other Atlanta blogs who took awards:
- Cityscape: Best local blog Decatur Metro (Critics pick)
- Cityscape: Best local blogger Jennifer Zyman (Readers pick)
- Poets, Artists & Madmen: Best local arts blog BurnAway.org (Readers pick)
- After Dark: Best Georgia-based music blog OhmPark.com (Readers pick)

Vote Drive A Faster Car, Best Local Blog In Atlanta

Tessa Horehled — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:36:29 +0000

Help us out! Creative Loafing has voting open for their annual Best Of Atlanta 2009 — show the city how much you dig Drive A Faster Car and vote for us!

Categories We Think It Would Be Really Cool For Drive A Faster Car To Win:

Local blog/blogger – Drive A Faster Car
Local personality to follow on Twitter – @driveafastercar
Georgia-based music blog – Drive A Faster Car

You must enter 10 categories and contact information for your ballot to count. Ballot stuffers’ votes will be eliminated.

New this year! Save your ballot and come back to it later. Keep your email confirmation that will be sent once you save your ballot.

Voting closes at midnight Friday, July 31. Results will be published Sept. 23.

VOTE FOR DRIVE A FASTER CAR!

Drive A Faster Car 2.0 — I Need Your Help

Tessa Horehled — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:07:47 +0000

Dear my awesome blog readers,

Tessa, Editor of Drive A Faster Car here. DaFC has been a personal project and love of mine for the past eight years — blogging about local, national and international music. I never expected to find myself where I am today. Drive A Faster Car now has thousands of readers and has become a brand much larger than myself. It’s a really exciting place to be.

Over the past few years, I have been working to expand the content to be able to serve as an Atlanta-based culture, entertainment and news blog along the lines of Gawker, Gothamist, and Gapers Block. I feel this is a huge gap in the Atlanta media market and believe Drive A Faster Car is equipped to fill that role. Atlanta is a progressive major city with a ton of great character, stories, people, events, and companies.

I am also looking to integrate coverage of Decatur and Athens into the mix, as the two other primarily progressive cities in Georgia. This is also in an effort to bridge and facilitate communication across these cities. They are a short drive away, quite geographically accessible. No excuses!

I am not physically capable of producing this much content however and the site isn’t currently capable of hosting that much content or traffic. I need to hire writers, redesign the site and up my hosting in order to support the changes needed to properly grow the blog in this direction. I will also need to do a bit of print and web advertising to compliment my social media marketing once the redesign launches.

As aforementioned, I have started to integrate content beyond the scope of music. As of April 2009, I have started to bring on the writers I am looking to hire and have contracted a web designer. I have also committed a local graffiti artist of national recognition to do a proper logo. I switched to a local hosting company (A Small Orange) that can support the projected growth. I need to hire an accountant. I need to be able to pay for all of these services/resources pre-launch.

I have sold a few ads. I have spent a fair chunk from my own pocket. There is some really great stuff coming up with Drive A Faster Car and I would love to be able to launch it all by Fall 2009. Contact me directly and I am more than happy to share my story and direction with you.

I have launched a campaign on a new project-based fundraising service called Kickstarter because I need some funds to help me kickstart the revamp! Starting small to help pay for the immediate expenses I need help covering. If this effort is successful, there will be future campaigns to help raise the rest of capital needed pre-launch.

As changes are made and new content is integrated in over the upcoming months, please let me know what you think! I write this thing for you just as much as I do it for myself.

Any and all help is appreciated. Your donations are only accepted if I reach my target of $1,000 in the next 30 days. Thank you so much!

Sincerely,
Tessa Horehled
Editor, Drive A Faster Car

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Upcoming Ticket Giveaways on DaFC

Tessa Horehled — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:50:27 +0000

Happy Spring! Now that the tornado crap is gone, *knocks on wood,* Drive A Faster Car has some new ticket giveaways up to get you back into full concert-going swing.

LESLIE AND THE LY’S WITH STEREO TOTAL

BLACK KIDS

DIPLO

PEACHES

Enter to win over on the Contests & Giveaways page!

Drive A Faster Twitter

Tessa Horehled — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:59:29 +0000

As you may have noticed, a couple of weeks ago there was the appearance of a new little box over in the right sidebar underneath Drive A Faster Car‘s event calendar. That’s right, DaFC’s on Twitter!

You can keep up with the stuff going on in Atlanta and myself (your Editor, Tessa) in between the blog posts you will find here. I will also be doing Twitter-exclusive giveaways in the near future so be sure to go follow DaFC!

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, here’s a great video that might help you get an idea:

Drive A Faster Car’s Contests & Giveaways

Tessa Horehled — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:01:19 +0000

There is a new home for all of the Drive A Faster Car contests and giveaways! We were running so many, we knew you were having issues keeping up so we decided to gather them together on one easy-to-find page. Good problem to have I suppose, eh?

There are FIVE contests currently running on Drive A Faster Car! Check out Contests & Giveaways for details on how to win.

FEATURED CONTEST

Scion Metal Fest
Saturday, February 28
12PM-12AM | FREE: Ticket Holders ONLY | 18+
The Masquerade

Featuring: Mastodon, Neurosis, High on Fire, Boris, 1349, Cryptopsy, Torche, Nachtmystium, Wolves in the Throne Room, Baroness, Harvey Milk, Kylesa, Zoroaster and dozens more!

To win a pair of tickets to the Scion Metal Fest at The Masquerade on Saturday, February 28, enter via email with your full name, mailing address, phone number and tell me why you should win the tickets BY 10AM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17. Upon confirmation, the winner will receive two tickets each and will be contacted with information on how to receive the tickets.

Check out more Contests & Giveaways from Drive A Faster Car.

Geeklandia

Rick Jackson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:35:43 +0000

(Alan Hemphill)

Welcome to the big round up Pardner. I’m Rick the two fisted six gunned ambassador from Geeklandia. That little filly Tessa asked me to wrangle up the all the biweekly news from pop culture’s moldy basement, and I told her I’d see what I could do. If your wonderin’ about my qualifications let me assure you, I am THAT kind of geek. I’ve drank copious amounts of both Guinness and Mt. Dew, rolled 20 sided dice and even gotten a chubby while waxing philosophic over the matter of Princess Leia’s slave bikini. I’ve dwelled in moldy mommas’ basements, and done a few years of service in various comic book shops around thee ATL. I’ve woken up with a head full of drugs next to questionable women after sci-fi convention orgies, and lived to tell the tale. I shoot blue lasers out my ass John Woo style at goth chicks and renfest fanboys. I’ve done it all, and will do it again to bring you the news and the noise from down below. Tech geeks and gamers, Trek nerds and lamer, most of these are the people that I call my friends. They keep me from taking myself too seriously.

So there you have it, a short rundown of who I am, and why I’m here at Drive A Faster Car. This is about the DMZ the un-policed borderlands between cool and not. This the concert you wear your thrift-store scored Troma t-shirt to. In the upcoming issues I’ll be relaying news and tidbits on the latest in comic books, genre films, designer toys, and exciting projects from Atlanta (and South Eastern) based artists and creators. Speaking of which, watch this space for an interview with local indie comic darling Rich Tomasso. I’ll be talking to him about the death of the single issue comic, his work with James Sturm on their new Satchel Paige graphic novel, pizza, and his time away from Atlanta. Also, I’ll try to sneak in a review of a recent comic themed art show by at Mint Gallery by budding talent Saint (Alan Hemphill). By the heads up from Dosa Kim, Skull Fuck 2 will be going down at Eastside Lounge.

(Alan Hemphill)

Oh! And don’t forget the comics! I’ll be giving you heads ups and reviews of a little of anything and everything with only one stipulation. “If I ain’t read it, I don’t review it.” Geeklandia will also be a place to get crash courses in whatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s going on in your favorite superhero books. Topics will range from the D.C. Comics’ Green Lantern based Sinestro Wars to Marvel Comics’ X-men: Messiah Complex’s, and whatever the hell else I’ve actually ran my eyes over. Any feedback or shout outs that you want to give can be sent to rick(@)driveafastercar.com and there will soon be a P.O. Box that you can send me material related to projects that need some promotions.

That’s all you’re gettin’ for free this time cowpokes. Until next time, “Happy trails from Geeklandia”.

Drive A Faster Car Widget

Tessa Horehled — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:28:21 +0000

We know you were just sitting there thinking how you wished you could show off your favorite Atlanta blog to all your friends, and readers, I am here to appease these wishes.

For your posting delight:

Ain’t that pretty?

You can change the color so it isn’t pink. You can also add it to your Facebook, MySpace, TypePad, Blogger, Google, NetVibes, etc all in one click. (The little “Get Widget” button.)

Enjoy!

Welcome John P!

Tessa Horehled — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:27:18 +0000

Drive A Faster Car has officially taken on a new writer!

Introducing John P…

John P works for a label, goes to a ton of shows and loves Paul Weller. If you want to know more, you’ll have to stalk him on your favorite social networking site or just comment on one of his posts. I can attest- he’s very huggable.