Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Happy Birthday Michael Jackson!


Today Michael Jackson would've been 52 years old. Although it's been a little over a year, thinking about his passing still closes up my throat. A musical genius, a remarkable dancer, a phenomenal entertainer and most of all The GREATEST entertainer HANDS DOWN. He was an inspiration to me and a doorway for every little girl and boy who ever wanted to be a STAR.



There's not a day that goes by where i don't listen to an MJ song. I loved him like i knew him... Actually, i did know him. Michael put his heart out there for the world to push, poke, and prod since he was 8 years old.

He gave us music to dance to and taught us moves, that in our bedrooms, we were CONVINCED we could do. I remember having his sparkly glove that i would fold up and tuck away under all my clothes in a drawer because it only came out when i was putting on a show. I knew i was never really much of a dancer so i focused on the singing and i had that down PACT! Man i was ready at any moment to bust out:



"I'LL BE THHH-YERRREEEEEE! OH iiIILLLLL BE THHHEEE-YEEERREEEE YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! JUST CALL MY NA-A-A-A-ME, AND I'LL BE THERE!"



And Forget about Billy jean! Those alternating light up side walk blocks AMAZED ME! Shoot i was doing the "hee hee" grabbing my little crotch up and down the halls of my apartment. Dont even let me tell you about how many times my mother had to choke me for ripping off a good white vest and catching a cold because i wanted to stand in front of the fan and scaream

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU NEED IT! AH YEAH YOU NEED ME!".


Knowing the music of Michael jackson lives on gives me comfort. I know that his spirit will forever be with us because he gave us music that transcended cultural and racial barriers. Anytime there is a Michael song on, "It don't matter if you're black or white", all you want to do is dance. THAT to me is what being an artist and entertainer is all about.



"Liberian Girl" is my SONG!


 


So is "Man in the Mirror". I still cry (with no shame) when i listen to it.





Happy Birthday King Michael and R.I.P my love.

August 29,1958- June 25,2009

You are missed.

Source: http://sherinethegirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/happy-birthday-michael-jackson.html

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

OMG FALL

Yesterday when I touched down in Boston after a week in Hawaii, the cold and rainy weather was a warm blanket to my sunburnt skin and island-fatigued soul. (The MBTA remained, as ever, the bane of my existence.) Don't get me wrong, Hawaii was AMAZING, but I had begun to tire of summer before I even left for the trip, and saw it as the season's last gasp before the welcome arrival of fall. So to get back to Boston and find it cool -- even chilly!---was perfect.


The temperature is supposed to rocket back up to sweltering by the weekend, so this seems an apt time to discuss fall and how much I love it and how giddily excited I am for it to arrive. Seriously.


Why is fall so amazing? IT JUST IS. Sweaters (really long sleeved garments of all varieties), jackets, corduroys (like jeans but more fun to touch), pumpkin products, warm liquids of all kinds (tea, coffee, soup), the beauty of the changing leaves, the crisp feeling in the air, plaid, flannel, blankets, the return of episodic television, and a general back-to-school feeling that I love despite having graduated years ago. Shoes that aren't open-toed! Have I mentioned sweaters? Cause I really love sweaters. And I can wear scarves again without looking like an ass! No more sweating all the time! I COULD GO ON.


Really, y'all, I love fall. Full disclosure: wearing a hoodie right now.


But one of the things that makes the prospect of this upcoming fall so delectable is the many, many bands that are coming to Boston. This summer's had a few good shows (Robyn, The New Pornographers) but this fall is over-fucking-run with live musical goodness. And, really, the cooler weather makes the prospect of cramming yourself into a small, dark space with lots of other people far more inviting, doesn't it?


So, without further ado, the list!


Scissor Sisters, House of Blues
August 28


This is less a fall concert and more like the true last gasp of summer, and I can't think of a band I'd rather get sweaty and gross with one last time that the Scissor Sisters. It's a band even my mother loves (though, thank god, she's never bothered to google what their name really means -- she thinks it's just a funny name! Cause they're funny guys!), and much like the Robyn/Kelis concert, I imagine it will be a bunch of extremely happy queers dancing their asses off. (Can't say the second part of the sentence really followed upon the first, but, ah well.)


Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin/Telekinesis, TT The Bear's
September 7


I really don't know anything about SSLYBY, but I've heard their name bandied about by people whose tastes I typically trust, and Telekinesis is one of those poppy indie bands I just love (I keep discovering gems on their self-titled debut album, but my favorite is probably "Awkward Kisser"), it costs $12 and TT The Bear's is five minutes from my apartment, so I am there.



School of Seven Bells, The Middle East
September 11


This New York-based dream pop trio's latest album, Disconnect From Desire, is just beautiful. And, once again, the venue is steps from my apartment. I love you, Central Square.



Laura Veirs/The Watson Twins, TT The Bear's
September 15


Not 100 percent sure about this one. Louisville natives The Watson Twins sang back up for Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis on her first solo release, Rabbit Fur Coat, and their harmonies were certainly missed on Lewis's follow up, Acid Tongue. That said, I'm unfamiliar with their solo work, and only know of Veirs via my pseudo-hippie roommate from Ohio, which is not exactly a recommendation. But! We shall see.


Superchunk, The Royale
September 21


Superchunk, one of the many musical projects of Merge Records founder Mac McCaughan (along with co-founder Laura Ballance), was one of the more influential bands of the early indie rock era (oh, the 90s) and very prominent in the Chapel Hill music scene of that time. Punk-influenced and DIY, Superchunk is perhaps most famous for its early single "Slack Motherfucker," though it has released nine albums to date, including the latest, Majesty Shredding. They don't tour much anymore, so I bought a ticket even though I don't know their catalogue that well. Versus, another vintageish band that doesn't tour often, is opening. Now, if McCaughan will only get back on the road with his other band, Portastatic.




LCD SOUNDSYSTEM!!!!!!, The Orpheum
September 28


I was so disappointed in the spring when none of LCD Soundsystem's tour dates included Boston. New York got three shows, and we got none!  But! It seems we do get a stop on the second round of dates, and while I think it's a terrible venue for the band, I still bought two tickets as soon as I could (which, sadly, was the day after they went on sale, and thus I and my as-yet-undetermined guest are in the center balcony).  James Murphy keeps threatening to stop recording, and he hates touring anyway, so I need to get my fix while the fix is available. Sleigh Bells is opening, and I could not care less.



Ra Ra Riot, The Royale
October 1


Once again, a terrible fit between band and venue (I've only seen one show at the Royale, the free Passion Pit show, and I HATED it, and don't see why anyone thought a gay dance club could also double as an inviting space for indie bands), but Ra Ra Riot plays haunting and beautiful chamber pop (which, I'm sure will go over super well in the slick and cheesy environs of the Royale) and I will seek it out wherever I can. And, on the plus side, the Royale has couches no one ever uses because they all seem to think that the MUST crowd into the tiny little dancefloor space in front of the stage. Their debut album, The Rhumb Line, was one of my most-played albums of late-2008/most of 2009, and "Can You Tell" is one of the better contemporary examples of the catchy unrequitedish love ballad.



The Hold Steady, The Royale
October 6


Yet another travesty at the Royale, and not one I'm sure I want to witness, but I did realize a bit earlier this year that I do genuinely like The Hold Steady. I had been turned off earlier not by their music, but by the critical treatment of their music, which was, "Oh, great, finally a band that plays REAL rock music" unlike all this other crap with synthesizers and bass lines (how gay!). If I heard one more Springsteen comparison (and long live Springsteen, don't get me wrong) or a mention of them being a "bar band" or any other such real man band posturing, I was gonna hit someone. The Hold Steady became for me the epitome of Dudes With Manly Feelings music, and I wanted no part of it. I finally got over that, but I'm still not sure I want to see them live.

Fountains of Wayne
, Paradise Rock Club
October 8


Fountains of Wayne, best known for their novelty hit "Stacy's Mom," have been churning out clever (if a little cheesy) pop music for years now. Adam Schlesinger, their songwriter and primary creative force, has also written half of the good fake pop songs of the past decade plus (the title song to That Thing You Do! and "Pop! Goes My Heart" from the far-more-terrible-than-it-should-have-been Music And Lyrics), and their show should be more fun than most.





Paul F. Tompkins, The Brattle Theatre


Okay, not a concert but an awesome live event nonetheless! Best known as host of Vh1's Best Week Ever (along with a handful of film appearances) Paul F. Tompkins is probably my favorite of the alternative comedians. (Patton Oswalt and Maria Bamford are close behind.) He's also started a campaign where, if he can find 300 people who pledge to come to a show in their city, he...comes to their city. It took a long while (and included an awkward little Twitter spat with the management of the Brattle, who weren't terribly responsive at first), but he's on his way. I'd love to find a YouTube clip of one of my favorite bits off his album, Impersonal, but it seems Paul is on the ball with protecting copyrighted material.


Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, TT The Bear's
October 13


Their music sounds exactly like their name, and it can get a bit old after a bit, but this is supposedly their LAST TOUR EVER before they become officially defunct, and they don't seem the type to do such a thing for the attention. They mean business.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
, Paradise Rock Club
October 20


Another tragically named band, TPOBPAH are nonetheless a catchy punk-influenced pop band, and one that would no doubt be fun to watch.



Florence + The Machine, House of Blues
October 31


I've already seen Florence & The (Not Miami Sound) Machine once this year, on a tiny North American tour she did in April. It was, hands down, one of the best shows I've seen this year, or ever. She's got an amazing stage presence and works the crowd remarkably well (people were, like, jumping cause she told them to). She's only got one album thus far, and can play pretty much every song on it without overstaying her welcome. Her first show was at the Paradise, a better venue in my opinion (it offers more surfaces to lean on, which I appreciate), and the HoB is hopelessly cheesy, but, seriously, if she isn't huge by next year, I'll be amazed. The choice of the day after Halloween Saturday is, um, lamentable.


Whew! Okay, that took forever.

Source: http://twobeerqueer.blogspot.com/2010/08/omg-fall.html

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Music Dictionary Online - When Music, Music Careers and PCs Collide

Internet proved to be where music can be discovered, examined, discussed, shared and purchased. Musicians know this and be online to upload their music and become part of a worldwide process of machine music. They come in the network at any age, at every level of experience - musically and understandable computer. Youth begins with experienced musicians, only to learn where the computer is in the switch, the operation is on the computer can be overwhelmingof them all, what is happening in their lives.


Web allows access to the knowledge of music musicians. Artists can meet the difficult terms and phrases, they do not understand. Summarized in the following mini-dictionary of the music industry, digital, organizations, record biz lingo, computer, and the basic conditions necessary to know the info. We hope that something here will help you navigate these online music a bit easier, so you know, this is a dictionaryextract from an extensive list found at Artistopia.


A & R - artist and repertoire, talent scouts aka: The details of the cooperation the company, whose duties may include find, select and develop the artist's music, band and / or texts.


Affiliate Program - a way to earn revenue through a combination of a Web site to another page, depending on the actions taken by the user.


ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers licenses and distributes royalties for memberscopyrighted works.


Bandwidth - has nothing to do with the size of the team, but it is a measure of the amount of information (data), which can be transmitted over a network connection in a given period of time. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits per second.


Bitrate - the amount of kilobits per second of data in the audio file. Bitrates to choose from when creating an MP3 file determines the size and quality of the resulting MP3. Supreme commonly available bitrate is 320 kbps and higherbitrate, the better encoding is to the original sources of music.


Blanket License - allows you to perform all or in part or in whole, the songs in the ASCAP repertory. What a warm and cozy license.


Business Manager - Manager of the artist or band that specializes in financial matters, including planning, investment, income, taxes, decisions and agreements.


Buzz - that people are talking about a new artist, band, song or album, creating intense emotionsand / or gossip.


Clause - chubby man in red is Claus: writing in the contract can not be certain restrictions, specifications or modifications, which are the final result of this agreement.


Organizer of the concert - with duties including ticket sales, PR, marketing and booking of this agency or office duties to promote the concert.


Content - the search engines happy and well sites in the ranking of search results, a good number of well-written textadapt it to your site and keywords is regularly updated on the Webmaster steak and potatoes.


Cookie - no, not chocolate, but a piece of software that records information about your visit to a Web site, and then store the information to request from the server.


Copyright - a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of recording ideas and information, in our case the properties of artistic works and sound recordings.


Work - new job or on the basis ofresulting from one or more of the earlier works.


Digital license - the use of copyrighted music, including downloads, streaming on-demand, downloads and limited use of CD burning.


Distributor - the agency or broker who handles sales and shipping of music (CDs, CD-ROMs) on the market or, in fact, gets a product to consumers.


The domain name - post signature on the Internet, is a unique name that identifies an Internet site.


DRM -Digital Rights Management is a technology that protects digital part of the intellectual property, such as music, videos or text file.


Encoding - the process of converting audio to or from the compression, such as MP3 or WMA.


Exclusive rights - under copyright law, the privileges that only the copyright owner in relation to copyright.


Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) - file format for audio data compression does not remove informationthe audio stream as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis.


Grammy Awards - an award ceremony for all the species presented by the Recording Academy for outstanding achievements in the music industry: gold megaphone for the fireplace.


Groupie - what is the meaning of being operated without groupies? Too many enthusiastic fans love to offer.


HTML - HyperText Markup Language, the programming language on the Internet. Browser interprets the code written, and displays them on the websiteand websites. Very basic knowledge of HTML can help in some sites.


Hook - pirate phrase music, transitions, the idea - something (a catchy and / or recurring) that makes the song stand out and be more attractive and memorable.


Hype - sensational and extreme promotion of a person, idea or product.


India - an independent artist or band that wants to do-it-all-and / or is not associated with a larger label.


Trainee - usually student's workthe label in the low-paying positions or not, more practice learning ropes and gain business experience.


Internet Service Provider (ISP) - how and who connects a computer or the Internet, or dialup, DSL, Cable, T1 or T3.


Master Recording License - refers to the recording of the performance, which are usually controlled by the record label.


Mastering - the final stage and preparation in the recording against weapons of massduplication, include compliance and improve the audio quality.


Mechanical License - the use of copyright works for use on CDs, cassettes, record albums.


Orders to music - all the pieces of the various documents used in the music business, always read the "fine print" to a number of contracts - recording, management, finders fee, general release contracts. That the agreements are in - time to entertain the public prosecutor.


MusicIndustry - all connected and related to activities in the field of music, dominated by the Big Four record label Sony BMG, Warner, Universal and EMI.


Music Publisher - provides services such as marketing, pitching and promoting songs written by composers. This refers to the commercial exploitation of music and song catalogs.


Press Kit - aka media kit, pre-packaged set of promotional materials for an artist, musician or band to distributetogether with samples of songs, bio, info, history, photos and contact information.


Manufacturer - duties include: controlling the recording sessions, the direction of the artist (s), coaching, organization, planning of production resources and budgets, as well as supervision over the process of recording, mixing and mastering.


Publishing Royalties - income paid to the songwriter.


RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America, an organization that represents the interests of recordand producers in the U.S..


Ripping - means the establishment of an audio CD and save it to your computer in an uncompressed format (wav). Digital Audio Extraction from one form of media to the hard disk.


Roadie - the road crew, who travels with the band on tour. These hard-working people are not everything, but the results, technicians, to create and remove, safety, security, pyrotechnics, and lighting.


Sampling rate - the number of samples per second digitizingsound. The higher the number, the better the quality of digital reproduction.


SoundExchange - an independent, non-profit performance rights, which collects and distributes digital performance of duties for artists and record labels when their sound recordings are performed on digital cable TV, music, Satellite TV, Internet and satellite radio.


Recording - copyright to the recording (what you hear, the entire production), as distinguishedcopyright to the songs (words and music owned by the author or publisher).


Synchronization License - aka "synchronization" license allows you to play the music track "in connection with" or "connection time" a visual image, film, video, commercial advertising - from the copyright owner to the music.


Talent Agent - or booking agent, music agent contractor (s) sets live.


VanityLabel - a famous singer is indicated on the label in the label, and operates under the auspices of the parent label.


Source: http://servicesbmgmusic.blogspot.com/2010/08/music-dictionary-online-when-music.html

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

SONG LYRIC EVERY HEART ( BOA )


open this web >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJoI5fjbHw0


Ikutsu namida o nagashitara
Every Heart sunao ni nareru darou
Dare ni omoi wo tsutaetara
Every Heart kokoro mitasareru no darou


Nagai nagai yoru ni obieteita
Tooi hoshi ni inotteta


Meguru meguru toki no naka de
Bokutachi wa ai o sagashiteiru
Tsuyoku tsuyoku naritai kara
Kyou mo takai sora miageteiru


Donna egao ni deaetara
Every Heart yume ni fumidaseru no
Hito wa kanashimi no mukou ni
Every Heart shiawase ukabete nemuru


Itsuka itsuka subete no tamashii ga
Yasuraka ni nareru you ni


Meguru meguru toki no naka de
Bokutachi wa ikite nanika wo shiru
Toki ni warai sukoshi naite
Kyou mo mata arukitsuzukete yuku


Osanai kioku no katasumi ni
Atataka na basho ga aru so sweeet
Hoshi tachi ga hanasu mirai wa
Itsumo kagayaite ita so shine


Meguru meguru toki no naka de
Bokutachi wa ai wo sagashite iru
Tsuyoku tsuyoku naritai kara
Kyou mo takai sora miagete iru


Meguru meguru toki no naka de
Bokutachi wa ikite nanika wo shiru
Toki ni warai sukoshi naite
Kyou mo mata arukitsuzukete yuku

Source: http://indahlova.blogspot.com/2010/08/song-lyric-every-heart-boa.html

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Master - The Human Machine


Master grubu death metalin yeraltı piyasasında kalmış ve çok iyi işler çıkaran bir metal grubu...


2010 tarihli albümlerinden ilk parça The Human Machine:



http://www.myspace.com/masterspeckmann


Parada pulda olmayıp; sadece metal, daha doğrusu death metal yapan gruplara saygım sonsuzdur.

Source: http://sonyudum.blogspot.com/2010/08/master-human-machine.html

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Fotos de Robert y Kristen en el aeropuerto (Actualizado y sin Tag)

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Nike SB - Zoom Paul Rodriguez 4 Commercial

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Training for Utopia - Technical Difficulties

Training For Utopia - Technical Difficulties - 2004


Genero: Christian Hardcore//Chaotic//Industrial


[Tracklist]:


1. Modus Operandi
2. Dead Signal
3. A Good Feeling
4. Tennessee Midget
5. Two Hands
6. A Gift To A Dying Friend
7. The Falling Cycle
8. Everything, Including The Stars, Is Falling
9. New York City Is Overrated
10. Burning Match In Hand
11. 50,000 Screaming TFU Fans Can't Be Wrong
12. Police John, Police Red
13. Human Shield
14. Thoughtless Reminders
15. Brother Hezakiah
16. Burt Reynolds Vs. Godzilla
17. Single Handed Attempt At Revolution
18. Pretty Picture Of Lies
19. One Zero One


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Password: www.metalafisha.ru

Source: http://christianindustrialdarkmusic.blogspot.com/2010/08/training-for-utopia-technical.html

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age is relative.

I had a birthday last week. I would have told you about it had The Great Timesuck of 2010 (i.e. kids' consignment sale) not devoured the last two weeks of my existence. But it did and here we are, a week later and another week older.


The occasion, as birthdays tend to do, got me thinking.


My daughter is three, or as she still calls it, free. And while she acts exactly like a three year old a large chunk of the day (read: wall-climbing, back-talking, foot-stomping fun), there are times - many of them -when her actions seem more like a girl who is six, or thirteen, or thirty. Sometimes the things that come out of that pretty mouth are so profound they have me reeling a day later. Case in point, a week or so ago she referred to her best bud Peyton as "my whooooole life friend" (complete with dramatic hand gesture). I thought this over for a good twelve hours and decided that yes, this is pretty much the most beautiful thing one friend can say about another.


My boys, they have only been on this earth for nine months, yet I feel so intimately connected to them that I honestly can't imagine this home without them in it. And I can already see it - they are old souls, like their sister. Look into those bluer-than-blue eyes and you'll swear they know life's grandest secret.


Then there's the Hub. We are separated in age by nearly eight years, but no matter. Although most of our lives we didn't know each other, in countless ways it seems we always have. It seems he has always been there, inserted into my memory like an apparition come to life.


And me. Well. I apparently don't know how old I am because I said on this very blog not long ago that I had not been a fan of turning 32. Funny I should say that since I wasn't actually 32. That's right. I aged myself. Unknowingly. FOR MONTHS. Let this serve as proof of how completely removed from reality I am a majority of the time. Anything current, relevant, political, cultural, social... If the prerequisite is that one must be paying attention to anything other than oneself (or one's attachments, ahemsmallchildrencough), then you can safely bet your mini-van fund that I'm a little slow. To say the least.


You don't have a mini-van fund? Obviously you need to reconsider.


As for the birthday, it was a truly great day. Come to think of it, I can safely say it was the best birthday I've ever had, given that it is my first in this family of five. Being crawled all over by my identical cuddle monsters and awarded hourly with a cheery "Happy Birthday, Mama!" from the Girl of Free? Yes please.


My parents were here, which is some happy all by itself. But it also afforded me the opportunity to do the unthinkable. Leave the house. TWO DAYS IN A ROW. We're talkin' hair cut (the first in over six months, mind you), trip to the bookstore, pedicure with new book in hand, lunch with friends, then back for a manicure. (Didn't want those upper digits to be slighted. It was only fair.)


Oh, and I awoke (at 8AM, not 5AM, praise be to the almighty) to this.





And this.






Which means less of THIS (me wanting to go all Office Space on our laptop).


If you think all this makes my husband the most selfless and thoughtful individual on the planet, I will certainly not argue with you. He's ridiculous.


But if you think a day can't get any better than all of the above followed by margaritas with that ridiculous individual, you'd be wrong.




Meet Finnegan Wayne, my tiny nephew and my new birthday buddy. The best birthday gift an adoring aunt could ever receive. Obviously.


Call me crazy, people, but any birthday where a shiny new toy (with accessories) is not the highlight... that is a very, very good day.

Source: http://life-edited.blogspot.com/2010/08/age-is-relative.html

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Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle

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Destination: Montreal. Festival Mode and Design Fashion Show

I Love Sensation Fashion Show 08.07.2010 
After a day of shopping, some purchases at BCBG, and a few hours at two different cafes, I stopped by  Festival Mode and Design during my stay in Montreal last weekend with a few friends. The Festival Mode and Design is an annual event that showcases local Quebecois work. I attended the I love Sensation closing show "by NYC 'design guru' Dick Walsh featuring surprise guests" (FMDM).


The show was wild! Music blasted through the streets, sending vibrations through the crowd as models carried coloured mannequins down the runway, placing them in carefully chosen spots lining the runway. Throughout the show, models carried decorations creating a small set around each and every mannequin. Every now and then rows of models strut down the catwalk covered in a bright, opaque material tightly pulled over their entire frame.


Granted, it was more a show than a showcase of fashion, but fun to watch nonetheless. I believe I was looking forward to a different aesthetic. Perhaps because local and budding designers are closer to, oh let's say us little people down here, you'd think you'd have more variety of size and race on the runway rather than the regular waif. Then again, perhaps it's just my obsession with Marc Jacobs for LV this fall talking.


 A few shots I grabbed:
















Source: http://pelodefabrica.blogspot.com/2010/08/destination-montreal-festival-mode-and.html

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I Don't Just Blog About Music

Hey here are some good reads if you are interested in learning the stock market.  I have finished both and I enjoyed them for the most part.  Check them out when you get a chance.







Source: http://theworthofmoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-dont-just-blog-about-music.html

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Black Stars' striker Asamoah Gyan ventures into music, features on Castro's African Girls


Asamoah Gyan aka Baby Jet was the first Ghanaian to score in a World Cup and he's scored another first, by becoming the first footballer to venture into hiplife music. He features with popular hiplife star, Castro the Destroyer, in a classic video, African Girls. Asamoah Gyan is also very popular for his goal celebration dances, some of which he performs in the music video. The song and music video has been greeted positively by music fans as it is becoming very popular.


The song is produced by Castro's Wondzie Entertainment. The Takoradi native has been struggling to enjoy the same success he had during the times of hit songs like Sradenam and Toffee, and this Asamoah Gyan collaboration might just do the trick. The idea of singing about African women is not as fashionable as of 2005 but it is the focus of the song. Castro and Asamoah Gyan sing about Ghanaian and African women. The song mentions "African girls dey be, dance to the groove and feel the heat". "African girls dey be, them be weet, them be sexy like cheese". It's a party type track and not exactly one that empowers women. Then again, how many African songs do that?


A lot of music fans love the song and the dances but are not very impressed with Asamoah Gyan's rap. Some believe he should learn to take better penalty kicks and not worry about rapping and doing music. Baby Jet claims Ghanaian women are beautiful and that they should use their sweet thing to do 'kekye'. 'Kekye' is a popular Ghanaian term for dribbling and football showmanship.


The video was directed and edited by Egya Bucknor, with camera by Virus Agyare, art direction by Dela Sanaki, make-up by Eunice Mould. The team is known as NAS (Nuquari Arts Studio). There is a cameo by Asamoah Gyan's brother, Baffour Gyan, himself, a former Black Stars regular. It would have been nice to have seen some other Black Star players join in the 'Asamoah Gyan dance' in the music video, especially players like Anthony Annan, John Paintsil and Kwadwo Asamoah.


Watch the music video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ2eF0kcsrg


Lyrics for the song coming to this Museke.com link. African girls is not the only song Asamoah Gyan has been working on. He also has ‘Baby’ which also features Nigeria born Soli Baba. Dancing and music is surely in Gyan’s blood. He plans to record a hiplife album after he finishes his football career.

Source: http://mightyafrican.blogspot.com/2010/08/black-stars-striker-asamoah-gyan.html

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The Perils of Using Vile Language


The news is reporting that "relationship expert" Dr. Laura Schlessinger has decided to "retire" from her radio show when the contract is up at the end of the year. This comes on the heels of a recent controversy where she used the "N-word" 11 times in a short segment to make a point. I'm not fan of Dr. Laura, but I did listen to the clip and believe that the outrage was a little bit out of proportion. Its obvious to any listener that she was not calling anyone by that term, but stating her opinion about hearing that word on HBO, used by African Americans to one another in movies, music videos, and rap / hip hop songs. She, like many conservatives, don't like the "double standard" (the idea that a white person is not allowed to use it, while African Americans are free to use the word as much as they want).


There's a reason for this, though. The word has a vile history. It truly is an ugly word. There is no justification for people to use it. People often want to say that words are just words, but some words carry stigma because of how it was used or abused. It can't be helped. That's just the nature of a living language. I've seen first hand exactly the kind of pain this word can inflict on a person.


When I was in the Navy, stationed in Norfolk, Virginia in the mid-1990s, I had met a fellow church member who was also in the Navy (who became one of my best friends, Nathan). He was friends with an Army guy who was a white supremacist. I learned first hand when the three of us went to the Navy Exchange one day. While driving in the parking lot, Nathan didn't see a young African American lady in the crosswalk. His soldier friend yelled out, "Watch out for the nigger!" Since this was summer and Nathan's truck did not have air condition, we had our windows rolled down. The woman just stared at us and I could see the hurt and pain in her eyes. She obviously heard the comment. I was horrified and wanted to apologize to her. As she crossed in front of the truck, Nathan's friend continued, "You almost hit that nigger bitch!" Based on those two comments, I knew that I would not hang out with this guy anymore. There was no reason to use those terms to describe a person. And that's the thing, the lady was a human being. Racial epithets are designed to dehumanize a person. When a person is dehumanized, it makes it much easier for someone to override their natural born conscience and do atrocious things to them, as we've seen in My Lai, Vietnam; Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad; and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. If one sees another as a "gook", "spic", "raghead", "nigger", "cunt", or "injun", its a license for abuse.


During that period of my life, I actually ended a friendship with a "step-cousin" who was stationed in the area, because he kept using the n-word after I had asked him to stop. He tried to play it off by saying that he only calls cops that, but I wasn't buying it. I knew better because of who his mother was (my dad's older brother had married a divorced lady with six children in their teens in the 1980s and I became friends with a couple of the "step-cousins"). His mother has been known to make racist statements at various family gatherings, including her belief that a neighbourhood has the right to deny a house being sold to a person of a minority race if they want to keep their neighbourhood white. This view only increased her unpopularity in our family.


While I don't think its a sign of racism to use a word in the context of making a larger point, I thought Dr. Laura was widely off the mark in her "advice" to the African American lady who had called her show to get advice on her caucasian husband's friends who always seem to make her race a topic of discussion at gatherings, such as barbecues. The example given was that her husband's friend would ask her questions about why black people do such and such. That is inappropriate behaviour and the husband is not being a good husband by allowing his friends to make his wife feel uncomfortable and marginalized. Instead of giving useful advice, Dr. Laura wanted more examples of the kinds of things the caller's husband's friends say to her that make her feel uncomfortable. When they get into a debate about the use of the n-word, Dr. Laura accuses the caller of being "hyper-sensitive" and even more audaciously, said: "If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry outside of your race." What a moronic answer! Love is more complicated than that.


When I was at BYU, I fell for a lady from the Dominican Republic. Had she not been committed to her Mormon religion, I most likely would have pursued a deeper relationship leading to marriage with her. However, whenever we spent time together, I never saw her skin colour being different than mine. She would be considered "black" in our country's racial category, though she would also be considered hispanic. People who saw us might have saw the stark contrast between our skin pigmentation, but from my vantage point, I saw a beautiful woman. Race was not an issue between us. Sadly, religion was the issue that could not be resolved. I don't think its "hyper-sensitive" to demand that other people treat you with respect and not as a spokesperson for your race or to be referred to by derogatory words that carry a weight of ugliness that goes back to our country's slavery era.


A few years ago, there was a media bruhaha about a speech in which the speaker had used the word "niggardly", which some people thought highly inappropriate because of the close approximation of the offensive word. They are completely different words, with different meanings, but it only shows the power of the sound of a certain word to make sound alike words also "offensive." Books have been written about the n-word and its ugly history. From my experience in the Navy, I never heard an officer use such a word. The only people I heard using it were the uneducated, grunt workers of the enlisted ranks...those whose AFQT score were too low to earn a rating speciality (guaranteed job assignment category). I've never been comfortable among people who use racist words, because as a "half-breed" myself, I've faced my share of racist comments since elementary school (the word "gook" is extremely vile to my ears. I can't tell you the feeling such a word evokes in me whenever I hear it, but its not a good one. Basically, if a person ever called me that, they would likely never earn back the respect I'd instantly lose for them).


In the excellent film A Time to Kill (based on John Grisham's first novel), one of my favourite scenes is when Samuel L. Jackson tells Matthew McConaughey's young, idealistic and Southern liberal lawyer: "When you look at me, you don't see a man. You see a BLACK man." The "birthers" who obsess over President Obama's Kenyan heritage and claim that he's not an American citizen are likely racist because of their inability to accept Obama's unique background and quintessential "only in America" biography. At one of the World Affairs Council discussion groups I attended a few months ago, we had an interesting discussion about how African Americans tend to be disappointed when they travel to Africa. To many, its a spiritual "homecoming" and that can be euphoric, for awhile. But also in such a journey, they learn that the Africans don't see African Americans as "African". To their life experience, these black visitors are American, first and foremost.


However, for much of our country's history, there have been attempts to keep African Americans from being full citizens, starting with the 3/5ths compromise in the U.S. Constitution. The Southern states wanted to include their slaves for the census in order to boost the population, yet they didn't want them to be considered citizens with the right to vote, to be free, and to be paid for their labours. From the images of the Civil Rights era, when schools were integrated by way of National Guard troops sent to keep the peace, to the current teabagger rallies with signs comparing our first African American president to Adolf Hitler (the man who was so digusted by Jesse Owens Gold medal winning track and field performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games that he refused to watch the medal ceremony) or the Joker (from The Dark Knight movie), which is a twist on the racist "blackface" of the Minstrel Show era of the 1950s.


The point in all of this is that time and time again, African Americans are always having to defend their status as American. It shouldn't take a disappointing trip to Africa for African Americans to finally realize that they are Americans, first and foremost. When white Americans go to Europe for vacation, they know that our culture is vastly different from European culture, even though we trace our ancestry to the old continent.


In the controversial segment, Dr. Laura actually said to the caller: "Don't you NAACP me!" I thought this line was hilarious. It immediately made me think of the Michael Jackson song "They Don't Care About Us" when the King of Pop sang these controversial lyrics: "Jew me, sue me, everybody do me; kick me, kike me, don't you black or white me..." What does Dr. Laura mean by "NAACP me"? Is she blaming them for launching a boycott of sponsors of her show?


By quitting, she's doing the Sarah Palin thing..."when the going gets tough, the tough get going." What a thin skin! She made ridiculous comments on her show and even though she apologized the next day, the fall out was too much that she decided not to renew her contract when it expires at the end of the year? At least she didn't use the word the way Mel Gibson had used the word. Context matters.


The reasons she gave for quitting sounded very Palinesque: "The reason is I want to regain my First Amendment rights. I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that."


Before anyone calls her a "Quitter Queen", though, Dr. Laura emphasized that she is not retiring, but ending her radio program.


"I'm not retiring, I'm not quitting, I feel energized actually," she said. "Stronger and freer to say the things that I believe need to be said for people in this country."


I'm not buying that reason. Rush Limbaugh uses his radio program to spout all kinds of lies and propaganda. He doesn't care what people think of him or his views. It sounds like Dr. Laura's skin is every bit as thin as Sarah Palin, because the former half-term governor of Alaska also claims to be a passionate defender of the First (and Second) Amendments.


This episode with Dr. Laura automatically made me think of a beautiful song from the early 1980s, by Christopher Cross. Its "Think of Laura", and although its about the passing of a lady named Laura, when I listened to the lyrics, I was struck by how well the song fits Dr. Laura and her decision to quit radio. You gotta love the irony of it all! Enjoy!



Source: http://sansego.blogspot.com/2010/08/perils-of-using-vile-language.html

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He lifts me up so I can stand on mountains!

He lifts me up!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dgJwEvhrA


A must see! I could see this every day and cry and this is how God will help me get my PhD, limping and struggling and in tears but if I ever get it it will be his gift to me.

Source: http://anicko19.blogspot.com/2010/08/he-lifts-me-up-so-i-can-stand-on.html

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SS501's Love Ya Fell Off at MYX Daily Chart [081810]

SS501's Love Ya entered the Philippine Music Industry a month ago. It debuted at no.9 on MYX Daily Top Ten. 
The battle in this chart is thru Texts MYX(space)VOTE(space)LOVE YA and send it to 2366. Unfortunately, the highest Love Ya reached is at no. 6 @ Daily TOP TEN and it finally fell off as of today August 18 2010. 


Meanwhile, on MYX INTERNATIONAL or MIT (another Chart @ MYX) Love Ya reached no 4.
MIT consists of the WEEKLY rankings Foreign songs while Daily TOP TEN consists of the DAILY rankings of BOTH Local and Foreign Songs.


A lot of the fans believed that a certain online voting particularly http://chartcentral.frihost.net/cc/
is helping a lot on MIT chart. In this online voting, Love Ya is currently at no.2 spot.


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Oh guys. How can we make SS501 famous here in the Philippines if this is the only thing (only reached no.6 and now it fell off) we can do for the boys? HOW? Ottoke?
If that's the case, then don't ever complain if anything you see here in our country is SUJU.
MYX is the key and yet we took it for granted. 
How many times do someone has to inform you to vote in MYX? 


'Puro tayo salita eh... gawin naman naten ung part naten as a fan'



Source: http://cheezeemelt.blogspot.com/2010/08/ss501s-love-ya-fell-off-at-myx-daily.html

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Unexpected Mercy Featured on Junk online



"What's this?", you may ask. Well, from now, every Friday. we'll be profiling some amazing bands from around the region, and guess what, YOUR band could be one of those profiled too! If you want to be profiled on our Getting To Know column send your profile and relevant links (YouTube, Facebook, etc) to scott@freeform.com.my. But for our first edition of Getting To Know, we shine the spotlight on Unexpected Mercy, one of KL's up-and-coming metalcore acts!


The Lowdown


Unexpected Mercy is Joey Lai on vocals, Joshua Ericsson on the bass, Russell Especkerman on lead guitar, Daniel Tan on the synths, and the brother-sister duo of Ian and Vivian Ng on guitar and drums respectively. Yes, their drummer is a girl, and a pretty kickass drummer at that! Formed in 2007, Unexpected Mercy went through a series of line-up changes before settling down to create death metal-fused metalcore in the vein of a really heavy The Devil Wears Prada. They've so far recorded two blistering songs with Nash from The Band Shop, and the tracks, 'The Weakness Within' and 'Shining Forth' are shining examples of well-written Christian metalcore that's never explicit about their beliefs but still conveys a clear message on what this band is about.


It's something of a rarity to see a metal band composed of non-Malays in the local scene, but nonetheless it's more proof that music crosses all boundaries as Unexpected Mercy have begun making a name for themselves by playing at shows like the Wolles Fest, and more recently the Tribute To Jesper Stromblad. They'll also be opening the next edition of the Keramat Durjana Festival in 2011, which will see them alongside the whos-who of Malaysian metal, like Black Territory, Massacre Conspiracy, Heterodox, Thy Regiment, and much, much more.


So to get to know more about these guys, we sat down with Joey and Ian over lunch one sunny day to give us a better picture on who Unexpected Mercy are.


Check out the whole article here :


Junk Online - Getting to know Unexpected mercy



Cheers!!!!




Source: http://embracingdeathwithasmile.blogspot.com/2010/08/unexpected-mercy-featured-on-junk.html

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#517: 100812 Beatles Code Mnet

Sorry for the late post for this show. Can refer to post #504 and #500 for more pictures.... ^^






Translation by saturn:


First, CNBLUE members read the profile of BDS members. Min Hyuk read the profile of BDS's drummer Park Chan.
But he just said the name "Park Chan", then silent... Min Hyuk said, "Nothing more..."
"It is said that you are the youngest... but how old are you? There's no age here..."
He was disconcerted and he stuttered. It really made BDS members laugh hard.


The recorder play: Why they prepared pink recorder. Anyway when Kim Do Gyun played pink recorder I laughed so hard.
Yong Hwa suited pink recorder well.


Jong Hyun's kick was good. If he were wearing more comfortable pants, he could have done it better.


BDS members said that they have job because doing a band cannot be a means of living.
The drummer Park Chan said that those side jobs are for keeping them doing music. So he never felt embarrassed.
Till now, he is doing food delivery, construction worker, clothes selling on the street etc.
MCs laughed out loud saying those jobs suits him better than drummer.
But CNBLUE members didn't laugh. They looked serious.
Yong Hwa said, "You are doing music with difficulty while we are doing so comfortably. I don't know what to say.
I hope we can have a good circumstance soon that everyone is eager to do band."

When MC asked Jung Shin if he had to have a job to keep doing music, what he could do.
Jung Shin answered "There's nothing much I can do, but I think I can do food delivery."
Park Chan said, "Food delivery was the hardest thing. Because food is hot and the pot is heavy, and you must work at meal time. Pizza delivery is ok."
He said he used to do 'Gonguri' at construction site.
'Gonguri' is a construction slang which means to flatten a surface with cement.
All understood it's meaning and laughed, because it's not a proper word for TV.
But only Min Hyuk didn't understand and asked Jong Hyun beside him -_-
(I guess, at home, Min Hyuk's parents speak words from dictionary only.)


Guitarist Kim Do Gyun said he was who performed biting string by teeth for the first time in Korea.
And he said he wanted to teach it to Jong Hyun, saying 5 minutes lesson is enough.
Jong Hyun said he had ever tried once, but since he had decay it really hurt him.


MCs said Kim Do Gyun looked like Undertaker, pro-wrestler. Members laughed so hard.
Jong Hyun almost jumped over, Jung Shin fell down to the table.


The Beatles Code BTS



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Source: http://cnbluesgfc.blogspot.com/2010/08/517-100812-beatles-code-mnet.html

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#519: 100817 Yonghwa @ SBS Strong Heart

Our leader had to sing and dance during the show. His rendition of that song is so niceee. I can't say the same for his dancing but he seems to have improve a lot! *His wave* hahahhs ^^
There's also a cut on his ‘nuisance MC’ at SBS Gayo last year.Will post it when we found the video
Meanwhile catch these 2 videos first (;




Here are some SBS Strong Heart Official Pictures







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credits: parkjimin, chiara @ soompi, bluetory20100114 @ youtube
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Source: http://cnbluesgfc.blogspot.com/2010/08/519-100817-yonghwa-sbs-strong-heart.html

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