Backyard Empire: Inspired by a true story.

Their mom was really cool and they would let us throw shows back there. The trio met playing the backyard scene. Amparo and Gaxiola started the band together, but Gaxiola quit for a while to focus on school.

He would eventually drop out and rejoin. Drummer Guzman was the final piece of the puzzle.

Guzman adds a more punk influence and Gaxiola serves as the bridge between the two. They drive everywhere, smoking weed to pass the time. I contact the band and they help us; [in return] we help them book a show in L. You have successfully signed up for your selected newsletter s - please keep an eye on your mailbox, we're movin' in!

Each city has its own DIY music scene, and the band already have some favorites. According to the band, San Antonio has one of the most fertile DIY scenes out there, with an anything-goes attitude that turns even vape stores and boba shops into temporary music venues. There is no competition there. Out here [in L. The best thing about San Antonio, according to Pity Party? We can say though that he was just as cunning, fleet-footed and audacious as the film character. He also did everything that happened on the film and yes, he got the jail time that was coming to him.

Carl, however, was an amalgam of several different figures.

Due to a rare form of amnesia, this is the life Lucy lives. It means that she lives in the past, and wakes up each day unaware of what has happened in the days, weeks and months since the date her amnesia set in. When evidence shows the passage of time and change, she is understandably shaken to the core. In 50 First Dates, Lucy played by Drew Barrymore lives in a small village in Hawaii, where well-meaning friends help to reinforce her illusions day after day.

One day she comes across the path of womanising marine veterinarian Henry Adam Sandler , who promptly falls in love with her, reforms his philandering ways and finds new ways to 'meet' Lucy every day. Flash forward past romantic trials and tribulations, plus some Beach Boys music, and we eventually see them married and sailing the Arctic in a yacht.

They now have children and Lucy awakes every single day to watch a cassette tape which brings her up to speed on her new happy life. It's a happy ending, and a bloody weird one.

Philpots lives in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and her long term memory ends some time in Every day she wakes up next to a man, Ian, who has to remind her that she's married, often bringing out the wedding pictures as proof. Once convinced, we presume they head down for breakfast and she gets up to speed on what's been going on. Philpots organises her life quite well with a combination of post it notes, sat-nav, and phone calendar notifications, and apparently neither jokes nor TV re-runs get old for her, which is one advantage to her condition. Their predicaments are quite similar, but Michelle and Lucy look completely different, live in totally different circumstances, and do very different things with their lives.

Michelle works 3 days a week for a charity, where Lucy, apparently, sails around in a yacht studying Arctic wildlife. S from Krakozhia not a real country , finds himself unable to return home after a civil war breaks out and his country breaks down. Unauthorised to enter American soil, and unable to return to a country that no longer exists at least diplomatically , Viktor is forced to live in the terminal of JFK International Airport. In the process, he has lots of crazy adventures, endears himself to the staff, acts as a romantic matchmaker, gets an illegal job as a construction worker and falls in love.

Despite attempts by the tyrannical airport overseer to kick him out, Viktor eventually triumphs and is allowed out of the terminal. There follows a magnificent scene where he gets the chance to finally collect the autograph of bebop saxophonist Benny Golson the reason he came to the US in the first place in memoriam of his deceased father.

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Viktor was partly based on the life of Mehran Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived for 17 years in the departure lounge of Terminal One, Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. Mehran, also known as 'Sir Alfred' to airport workers, arrived there in after the briefcase that contained his papers was stolen and he was refused entry into the UK.

Expelled from Iran for protesting against the Shah, he couldn't go home, and lacking the papers to officially enter France, the only place he was allowed to hang out was the airport. And hang out he did. DreamWorks, who produced The Terminal, actually paid Nasseri for his story. Mehran's story was not quite as happy as Viktor's. He finally left the airport in when hospitalised for an unknown ailment.

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In March he was transferred to a homeless shelter in Paris where he apparently lives to this day. His past refusals to leave the airport until medical reasons forced his hand suggest that he may have become institutionalised over those 17 years. The series tells the life story of the down-to-earth and likeable Rocky Balboa. Rocky goes from scratching a living in Philadelphia to heavyweight champion of the world.

Famous people he beats up in various scenarios and locations along the way include Dolph Lundgren the towering Soviet punching machine Ivan Drago. We see him starting out as a fresh-faced debt collector, beating people up, ascending to fame, becoming a father, beating more people up, and finally running a small Italian restaurant named Adrian, after his wife.

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Oh, and coming out of retirement to beat up the heavyweight champ but not regain his title, as that'd probably demand even more sequels.. Wepner, the clear underdog, lost by KO near the end of the 15th round, but before he did, he put up quite a fight and even knocked down the The Louisville Lip in the ninth.

There's also a film about Chuck's life set for release in , entitled The Bleeder. There are a few similarities, but not many. Both are pretty good at punching people Chuck won a lot more fights than he lost. Both fought a wrestler Chuck squared up to Andre the Giant but lost when he was chucked out of the ring , and both had day jobs before they got their shot at the heavyweight title. But they're different in other respects.

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Chuck is from New Jersey, not Philly. And Chuck fell foul of the FBI in for selling counterfeit Muhammad Ali merchandise whereas Rocky is, obviously, as clean as a whistle. I mean, this is partying down the Jersey Shore.