terça-feira, 24 de março de 2009

domingo, 22 de março de 2009

Isn´t she lovely?




Easy.....eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyyyyyy listening

Artist Name: Lorraine Bowen
Album Name: Songs From the Living Room (2002 hit compilation)

An appetizer...
http://www.4shared.com/file/94245718/27e3e542/04_-_i_love_london.html
The main ditch:

The dessert:
From http://www.lorrainebowen.co.uk/:

Lorraine Bowen was born in a caravanette in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1961, granddaughter of the famous beekeeper, Arthur Bowen of Bowen's Bees. When she was 17, the family went on a safari in Africa when her mother won first prize in a Shredded Wheat Competition and life was never the same again!
Lorraine achieved a Bachelor of Music degree at Surrey University and a secretarial diploma and thereafter balanced temping with busking around Piccadilly. After bartering her singing lessons for bass guitar lessons, she got into the indie band "See You In Vegas" and played bass for about three years .
In 1986 she joined up with songwriter/lyricist, Mick Jackson and founded the acoustic outfit, "The Dinner Ladies" who made two albums on Hannibal Records, "These Knees Have Seen the World" and "A Tree To Breathe".

During her time with the Dinner Ladies she was spotted by Billy Bragg, auditioned (whilst his regular pianist was on maternity leave) and suddenly found herself playing piano live on stage with him at the Manchester Opera House in the autumn of 1988.

Lorraine continued to play piano with Billy over three European tours and then back in England on his album "The Internationale" contributing recorder, accordion and backing vocals. Next she helped out in the studio on Billy's vocal production of that hit single "Sexuality" and in fact that whole album, "Don't Try This At Home".
Billy Bragg wrote, "You're A Star!" on Lorraine's birthday card and at the end of the album tour, he encouraged Lorraine to start a solo act. Thus the Lorraine Bowen Experience was born - the first live gig being at the Diorama in central London with three songs (on piano, accordion and bass guitar). To date she's now reached the grand sum of fifty five recorded songs! An early review in Melody Maker quotes "in her baggy white jumper she's pure sex!".

A major source of inspiration and hard work in the early days was the Canadian fringe festivals, which Lorraine joined in with for five years. Hour long shows from Winnipeg to Vancouver helped her shape her art of audience participation coupled with humour and her British way of going on and went down really well over there. This led on to tours in the States culminating in headlining the Vancouver Comedy Festival in 1998 and having her fabulous song, "Julie Christie" starring in the Canadian Film "Better Than Chocolate" which is widely regarded as a top film overseas.

Over in England Lorraine's television credits include using her Crumble Song as a theme tune for BBC3's comedy show "Marigold", appearances on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, The Divine David Show and 2 music videos on Adam and Joe's Take-Over TV. On ITV, Lorraine performed weekly on The Paul Ross Show and on BBC2, she made a guest appearance on the youth pop programme The Ozone. She has also appeared as top guest on the UK Style programme FAB PADS. Radio credits include writing songs for numerous shows including Radio 4's "A House is no a Home", jingles for radio presenters, singing her songs on BBC Radio 4's Radio Shuttleworth and composing and singing songs on Radio 2's hit comedy series, "Heated Rollers" .

Over in Japan, some groovy producers heard of Lorraine's talents and asked her to sing on their cover version of the Eurythmic's hit, "There Must Be An Angel". It became a huge club hit all over the world and got to number 6 in the Japanese charts!. The producers? - top Japanese outfit, Fantastic Plastic Machine. New re-mixes are being discovered every week! Since this session, Lorraine has been ask to collaborate with many British /Japanese and Italian DJs, writing melodies and lyrics for their terrific backing tracks. Look out for TiTiCoCo with DJ Robert Passera, "ZoZoi" on dejavu records with Paolo Scotti and "High Heels" with DJ Taylor.

On her own label, Sequin Skirt, Lorraine has arranged and produced FOUR CDs: Greatest Hits Volume One was made in 1995, Greatest Hits Volume Two in 1998, BOSSY NOVA" in 2000.and Lorraine Bowen's Vital Organs in 2006. Lorraine celebrates the new opportunities the internet has to offer independent artists like herself. It's relatively easy now to self-produce CDs and offer them internationally on the internet via paypal. MySpace is another exciting new venture she is involved with and she is always excited about new technological advancements that can make it easier to hear new music and enjoy what she started producing so many CDs ago!

quarta-feira, 18 de março de 2009

Mainframe weeping ....







´Bout the gear.....


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From the IBM Archives:

The following is the text of an IBM Data Processing Division press fact sheet distributed on October 5, 1959. The all-transistorized IBM 1401 Data Processing System places the features found in electronic data processing systems at the disposal of smaller businesses, previously limited to the use of conventional punched card equipment. These features include: high speed card punching and reading, magnetic tape input and output, high speed printing, stored program, and arithmetic and logical ability. The 1401 may be operated as an independent system, in conjunction with IBM punched card equipment, or as auxiliary equipment to IBM 700 or 7000 series systems. The IBM 1401 was also commonly used as an off-line peripheral controller in many installations of both large Scientific Computers and large Business Computers. In these installations the big computer (e.g., an IBM 7090) did all of its input-output on magnetic tapes and the 1401 was used to format input data from other peripherals (e.g., the punch card reader in the IBM 1402 card reader/punch) on the tapes and transfer output data from the tapes to other peripherals (e.g., the punch card punch in the IBM 1402 card reader/punch or the IBM 1403 lineprinter).
During its lifetime about 20,000 total systems were manufactured (photo), making the IBM 1401 one of IBM's most successful products. From the IBM Archives:

´Bout the tunes...

In October 2006, respected indie label 4AD (Pixies, Dead Can Dance, Scott Walker) put out an album by Icelandic avante-garde musician, Jóhann Jóhannsson. The album is called 'IBM 1401, A User's Manual'.
The concept is based upon work done back in 1964 by his father, Jóhann Gunnarsson, chief maintenance engineer of one of the country’s first computers, and Elias Davidsson, one of the first programmers in the country.

The album was originally written for a string quartet, organ and electronics and to accompany a dance piece by long-standing collaborator friend, Erna Ómarsdóttir. For the album recording, Johann has rewritten it for a sixty-piece string orchestra, adding a new final movement and incorporating electronics and vintage reel-to-reel recordings of a singing IBM 1401 mainframe computer found in his father’s attic.

Coment:

This record is a mark.....they found the soul....the machine soul....I work with that and I can feel...few people can .....

Collapse Under the Empire - Systembreakdown


Good.Listen while you feel ......








...

Ain´t talking bout love...


I checked my mail box once (actually in 1998) and found a mail from someone I never heard about...can´t recall the name.

I think you will get the same feeling i had right after reading this...


"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny.He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most.God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.Long is the road from conception to completion.If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

All change is not growth all movement is not forward.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Laughter translates into any language.

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?Trouble shared is trouble halved. Chance favors only those who court her. Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around. To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding. What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. He is not great who is not greatly good.

Love conquers all

Let us surrender ..."



Victor Wooten - More love




...


Soundscape for "wrightisms"

http://www.4shared.com/account/file/93596502/ef2e8c1a/01_-_Blacula__The_Stalkwalk_.html

terça-feira, 17 de março de 2009

Wrightisms (or some decent quotes to put on your MSN)

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back

Half the people you know are below average.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

I intend to live forever; so far, so good.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Smoking cures weight problems. Eventually.

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

Change is inevitable. Except from vending machines.

A fool and his money are soon partying.

Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.

How young can you die of old age?

I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world. Perhaps you've seen it.

It's a fine night to have an evening.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot.

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

I put my air conditioner in backwards. It got cold outside. The weatherman on TV was confused. "It was supposed to be hot today.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, in four years I'll be ninety.

For a while I didn't have a car. I had a helicopter. No place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running.

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.


The Fugs - It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest

CREDITS


The FUGS are:

Ed Sanders - vocals
Ken Weaver - vocals, drums, routines
Tuli Kupferberg - vocals, fututionand
Ken Pine - guitar, vocals
Charles Larkey - bass
Bob Mason - drums

Side One (there where no cd´s on the 60´s)


1. Crystal Liaison {Weaver-Sanders-Pine}
2. Ramses II is Dead, My Love {Sanders}
3. Burial Waltz {Sanders-Warren Smith}
4. Wide Wide River {Goldbart-Weaver}
5. Life is Strange {Kupferberg}


Side Two

1. Johnny Pissoff Meets the Red Angel {Sanders}
2. Marijuana {Sanders-Kupferberg-Bob Dorough}
3. Leprechaun {Weaver}
4. When the Mode of the Music Changes {Kupferberg}
5. Whimpers from the Jello {Sanders}
6. The Divine Toe (Part I) {Sanders}
7. We're Both Dead Now, Alice {Weaver-Sanders}
8. Life is Funny {Kupferberg}
9. Grope Need (Part I) {Sanders}
10. Tuli, Visited by the Ghost of Plontinus {Kupferberg}
11. More Grope Need (Grope Need-Part II) {Sanders}
12. Robinson Crusoe {Weaver}
13. Claude Pelieu and J. J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments {Sanders}
14. The National Haiku Contest {Weaver-Sanders}
15. The Divine Toe (Part II) {Sanders}
16. Irene {Sanders}

ONWARD EARTHLINGS

We wax weary of the tadpole smegma served to us as the primal data of the nations on Earth. In the face of a world led by a command generation of savage Honko-Cossack marauder pirates poisoning our air, murdering our youth and defiling our ethics, we declare our continuing commitment to the possibility of a benign civilization and the absolute right of each man on earth to:
1) a guaranteed grope,
2) land and money,
3) longevity,
4) happiness,
5) freedom,
6) supplies for his art,
7) sheep.
We wave the banners of these god-lit principles even now while Dom Dom Doom marches in waving a carrot and in the dreams of war lords mutant fruit flies devour syrup-coated telephone poles. Somehow great slurgul-slurguls of glee, humor, horniness, and peacecraft can still escape our lips, for you, for us, for the love that can spurt and flow from the surfaces of song and poetry. The benevolent city of ivory colored grope spires is our vision. And all of us, all lovers and drooling ministrels aboard the Chariots of the Abyss, bend back into the terror, take knowledge of the City of Love we wish to create, flash it the big fist, and spew onward, attempting radiance, into the skush. Onward! Grope for peace. Love the Earth. We have escaped the crone drivel. Up against the wall.

http://www.4shared.com/file/93366810/44ea3be8/The_Fugs_-_It_Crawled_Into_My_Hand_Honest.html

*Sometimes I wonder how i find those precious masterpieces....

POTPOTPOTPOTPOTPOTPOTPOT......


Pray (to whoever) listening to the Gregorian chant....


THE FUGS - MARIJUANA


domingo, 15 de março de 2009

I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna stop smoking and drinking the whole week to study for that test/make my essay/finish that project at work/get earlier to work/wake up earlier/save some money/stop forgetting things/stop losing stuff/stop hitting my car everywhere/stop coughing all the fucking time/clean my house/insert whatever reason here.

The very moment you say this to yourself something immediately makes you pay attention to what happens around. Your cellphone ring, your computer makes bling, the doorbell rings, someone is honking without mercy in front of your house, you get out of work hiding from everyone and someone steps in front of you in the lobby and goes on about every fucking employee on the shift going to a bar or somewhere's place right fucking now and it's gonna be the best fucking party ever.

Not forgetting to mention that you're counting with a little help to take the so cherished 'vacation'. It's a little hard to go and get your 'relief', and the lazyness you feel when you're thinking about having to go get it every two days kinda helps you stay on your house and do whatever the fuck you need to do to be functional.

You breath deeply and answer the guy, "OK, fuck it, let's go", thinking to yourself, "It's alright, just today, it'll be a farewell, I'll start fresh on monday". You made your rationalization for the day, your conscience accept this bullshit you just came up with, and you start feeling more at ease.

The time you get at the place and you sit, everybody around start showing how kind they are to you...

"Hey, I got pot."

"Hey, I just got a shitload of pot, you want some?"

"You want some pot?"

"You want some pot?"

"You want some pot?"

"HEY ARE YOU DEAF? YOU WANT SOME POT?"

"Hey! POT!"

"POT! POT! POT! POT! POT!!!"

"Hey! Big guy! YOU WANNA EAT SOME FUCKING POT?!?!?!"

You look in awe to all that abundance. You literally stand up and shout "ABUNDANCE!!!!!". Until you wake up in some fucking living room looking at the ceeling and asking "WHY GOD? WHY?!?! I FUCKING BELIEVE IN YOU MAN!!!".

I don't blame my friends. They are truly amazing. But really, I can't shake up the feeling that someone is using them. To screw with my mind.

To you believers out there, I don't give a fuck who it is. I'm just bringing up the fact that it happens.

"You lack personality and will to say NO, my friend". Oh really?!?! I'm just gonna pretend you didn't think that.

I'm at work, expressing my self to a friend of mine, "Man, I gotta stop for a while, I don't feel my head is working properly, you know." and he says "I've been telling myself just that for 17 years now."

Yeah. Thanks for the heads up.

I'm with the theory that if you stopped drinking before 30, you didn't really drink. And if you became in fact successful before that time, you are in fact cheating.

You're competing with a whole lot of high and drunken people. No wonder you're getting ahead.

Fuck it. I'm going home. Sleep it off once more.

sexta-feira, 13 de março de 2009

You are not the only one who feels like this...


Listen while you read:
L´s theme (from Death Note)

http://www.4shared.com/file/92697732/5fd815c8/04_Ls_Theme.html


Guess what...

You wake up one day and realize that something is wrong with you.

Something is missing.Feels like you are late for something you don´t know.A unconfortable breath from the bottom of your lungs takes you out of your warm and cozy bed.

You go brush your teeth.The way you look at yourself in the mirror fills you with an awkward feeling that the one reflected is you, but the way you look into it, is like it was somebody else.

Although the face is yours, the "place" were you stand shifts for a glimpse of time and them, you are inside the mirror.It´s a fraction of second but seems like you were there for your whole life.Weirdly familiar.Quiet.
Then the change comes.

Silently, sneaking through electric shots all over our brain.Each and every thought brings a shadow of a memory of NOTHING that still constantly struggling against the "reality" we already have recorded in our mind.Then everything you see, hear, smell or touch seem to have a reason to be...and if they don´t, you eagerly feel like you want to find the pourpose...

REVOLUTION is when everything you have is taken from you and you claim for justice.
EVOLUTION is about increase new skills improoving a creature´s shape or form.

This is not a revolution.This is not about evolution eighter.
It´s all about concience.

"Nothing" hapened while you were trying to brush your theeth thinking on what color of tie to wear."Nothing" was said to inspire a new religion, nation, political ideology or a self healing epiphany."Nothing" was added to you.
You still the same, almighty, powerfull, undisposable piece of stardust.
EVOLUTION is about increase new skills improoving a creature´s shape or form.

This emptiness inside you.Now you can feel how empty you are.That´s because you really think the black matter is nothing.That the ATOM is nothing, and that NOTHING can harm you....
You are right of beeing afraid of NOTHING.

NOTHING is the name for what you don´t know.
NOTHING is what we can´t see, hear, touch or scent.
NOTHING can be felt.......when we trade places with ourselves inside the mirror.

Now listen...

"Nothing" CAN harm you.
"Nothing" WILL take you from your comfortable place in everybody´s reality.
"Nothing" IS about to change the world.

Accept NOTHING and your reality will never be the same....ever....
Soundtrack for this time of reflection...
listen carefully while you think....
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