ORIENTATION - Arthole
a commentary on the nature of corporate conformity
by Arahan Claveau & Nebulosus Severine
    

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Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
The New Economy - by Blaise DeLaFrance Voom

Using in-world instruments. The sounds grow stronger when the camera approaches.
Concerts are played with people all over the world.
Instruments are created specific for each piece. These instruments also feature visuals and
animations, and performances of a jumping, hovering, floating, dancing and twirling Avatar.

Orchestra Metaverse is a truly unique and spectacular event.
The Orchestra approach Second Life as an instrument itself.
The result is dependent on both the performers and the virtual environment
in which they play. (D, I, CA, USA, N, UK)

Every year Mick (see the backyard blitz post) and his mate Ryan put on a barbeque at the MCG before the game...this year was the 10th year they've done it so they pulled out all the stops, with 100 punters, a wedding band, lamb spit roast, lino and gino the italian barbie-meisters, a red carpet, beer drinking on duty cops and waitresses hired from a 'specialist' modelling agency.

It went very well, Ed had a great day, unfortunately it all finished up for him before half time.

The Venezuelan backpacker did a great job as a waitress.

And Rob managed to nearly sever his thumb cutting the legs off the lamb with a blunt bread knife so it would fit on the spit.

Anyway,Lets Get back on talking about tuberockers,In short: Guitar Hero + Youtube = TubeRockers. My first rhythm game in flash. It’s really very similar to other games out there in terms of gameplay, scoring, etc. You should still give it a try as it uses YouTube videos for music and background. This means two things. The game looks cool (in my opinion) Possibility of new tracks is endless. Who could ask for more? (Actually you could ask for a smoother, less choppy gameplay on systems that hasn’t got a dual core cpu) Right click and select “low quality” it helps.

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 Currently theres only 2 Songs to choose from

 Here is a Video i made of Me playing the Song Die Hard on TubeRockers!

Lol i know I'm pretty bad :P

here is the Link to the game: http://www.gamereclaim.com/2008/09/tuberockers/

Enjoy!

-GameZo

Last night I finally got to see “Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds” live.  Fourteen years ago, I discovered them paging through this guide to alternative music my friend had which we treated like the bible.  There wasn’t a Wikipedia, Napster, BitTorrent or any way to find out about anything that wasn’t "Brooks and Dunn" or "Metallica" in the cold Midwest, so we had to read about and then pretty much buy an album in order to listen to it.  It was a gamble, but a gamble my job slinging burgers could support. 

I had read about this band called “Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds” and it sounded interesting.  Bluesy, savage rock with a lead singer who not only wrote lyrics but was an skilled storyteller.  Being a fan of film and theatrics, I bought “Let Love In”.  From then on, it was an avalanche.  I picked up anything I could by them and researched more.  This lead to “The Birthday Party”, “Magazine”, “Visage”, “Einstruzende Neubauten” (how the hell do you make on umlaut in HTML again?), “The Dirty Three”, Mick Harvey’s solo work, and countless films, soundtracks, and books.  To this day, a page I tore out of a Rolling Stone is hanging on my bedroom wall back home of an Anton Corbjin photograph of Cave.

When I heard they were playing the Showbox, I ran to the computer to get tickets but they were almost instantly sold out.  Fuck.  Then another show was announced but sold out too quick for me to snag a ticket. Fuck.  A few weeks later my friend Michel sends me an e-mail asking if I want to go to see “Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds” because she has an extra ticket.  FUCK YES!

September 24th, 2008 arrived.  Michel and I met at Hooverville, which I could dedicate an entire other entry to, and then walked over to the Showbox.  Since Michel is short she likes to be up front,  I have no problem with this so as the doors open we rushed to the rail.  The opening band “Earth” did their droning stoner-rock thing deftly then took their leave.   Before I knew it out walks Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Warren Ellis, and Mick Harvey each setting up at their stations.  They begin. "Night of the Lotus Eaters". Out stomps Cave, thrashing and kicking. A visual analog of the music.

I'd describe each song, but I'll leave that to someone else.  Pretty much every song I really wanted to hear, Cave and the Seeds supplied.  I was hoping for "The Curse of Millhaven" but what I got instead I will remember until I'm dead and hopefully after.

They began "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry" and Cave began strutting at the edge of the stage.  He came over near where Michel and I were standing.  Suddenly, I feel like I've missed the last 5 or 10 seconds of my life and Nick Cave is towering over me jutting the microphone into my mug.  It might as well have been his dick cause I had no idea what to do with it.  Michel said I just stood there, slack-jawed, eyes gaped.  I later realized I was starstruck for the first time in my entire life. 

Cave just stared a hole in me, drew back the mic.  With a look that said, "Lemme show you how it's done boy..." 

He grunted an animalistic, "Uhhh!" and quickly stabbed the mic back into my face. 

I let out a weak, "Uhh..." 

He withdrew the mic and again, with but with more emphasis, "UHHH!"

I let out a stronger, "UHHH!"

He pulled back, "UHHHHHHHH!"

I belted, "AHHHHH!"

Cave smiled a small smile and went back to Henry.

I never expected anything like that to happen.  Instead of picking one of the numerous attractive ladies in the front row (some of which I found would sooner use me as some kind of watchtower to see this pelvic thrusting Australian rock god) he gave the paunchy, nerd a chance.

The female half of the couple to my left, tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Great job!" 

It was kind of her to lie.

So now I've sang (or at least grunted) with Nick Cave and made Patton Oswalt laugh.

If I marry (or at least awkwardly make out with) Sarah Silverman, I can pretty much die fulfilled. 

Bailey and I went along, and Mick soon joined us as he lives nearby. Cooper was thrilled to have Daddy there to play with, as well as all her little friends!

Mantan juara dunia lima kali, Mick Doohan yang melontarkan pernyataan sekaligus sanjungan setinggi langit tersebut.

Mick Doohan berkata,”Orang sering bertanya siapa pembalap terbaik sepanjang masa? Itu hal yang sulit untuk dijawab karena di setiap jaman punya perbedaan. Dengan begitu, Valentino mungkin sama baiknya dengan pembalap terbaik yang pernah ada, kalau bukan yang terbaik.

Rossi kini tercatat sebagai pembalap yang paling sering menjuarai balapan di kelas utama dengan total 69 kemenangan yang didapat.

Hal lain yang membuat Doohan yakin kalau Valentino Rossi adalah pembalap terbaik adalah fakta bahwa  Valentino Rossi masih punya masa depan yang panjang di kelas MotoGP. Itu berarti akan ada lebih banyak gelar yang akan didapat dan lebih banyak rekor untuk terus diukir.

London 28th August 2008

Mantan juara dunia lima kali, Mick Doohan yang melontarkan pernyataan sekaligus sanjungan setinggi langit tersebut.

Mick Doohan berkata,"Orang sering bertanya siapa pembalap terbaik sepanjang masa? Itu hal yang sulit untuk dijawab karena di setiap jaman punya perbedaan. Dengan begitu, Valentino mungkin sama baiknya dengan pembalap terbaik yang pernah ada, kalau bukan yang terbaik.

Rossi kini tercatat sebagai pembalap yang paling sering menjuarai balapan di kelas utama dengan total 69 kemenangan yang didapat.

Hal lain yang membuat Doohan yakin kalau Valentino Rossi adalah pembalap terbaik adalah fakta bahwa  Valentino Rossi masih punya masa depan yang panjang di kelas MotoGP. Itu berarti akan ada lebih banyak gelar yang akan didapat dan lebih banyak rekor untuk terus diukir.

This image appeared on TNA Wrestling's Website last night. For those that have followed wrestling, its pretty damn obvious as to who it is. He has done all he can do in WWE, and it is time for him to help out some striving promotions, such as TNA. So the question is, Will he feud with Abyss? Many people are already speculating it.

Want to buy steroids online? but you have many concerns and rightfully so, this article will cover many issues ranging from getting ripped off to getting in trouble with the law and how to avoid both.
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Steroid Website Scams,
Most people who have considered buying steroids online know that there are literally thousands of steroid scam websites on the internet, what most people dont know is that the biggest scam steroid websites are actually the biggest steroid websites on the net.
I will not be mentioning the names of any of these scam steroid websites but what i will say is that if i were to name these scampers the list i would rattle off would be almost every website on the first 50 pages on google when you search the phrase (buy steroids) or similar, i will also give clear instruction on how to quickly and easily identify these rippoff sites.

As i did mention previously the biggest scammers are the biggest steroid websites,
many of these sites have multiple linked sites that are owned by one person or group in various counties in Eastern Europe and these sites even go to the extent of including steroid discussion forums on these websites and if there are any negative posts they are simply deleted.
so here is what they do, they sell products that are not illegal at all and are in fact perfectly legal vitamin mixtures which are labeled with names or nick manes of anabolic steroids such as winny, (Winstrol Depot) or Deca, (Nandrolone Deconate) so what they are actually selling has nothing to do with anabolic steroids,
this is why these scam sites can continue to operate they are not breaking any laws! how this was found out was the DEA actually ordered

How To Spot These Scam Sites!
here are some basic but stricked guidelines for spotting these steroid scams,

1.
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2.
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The reason this is true is that genuine steroid websites need to keep a low profile so to speek, so showing there face on video is not possible for owners of genuine steroid websites.

These above two ways to spot scam steroid websites are definitely certain indicators of a scam steroid websites.
Other things that indicate a scam steroid website in my experience and research are any websites calling themselves online pharmacies, these are generally scam websites that will not send you anything at all they obviously don’t get any return business they specialize in the one off scam and they get away with this because the person that got ripped off does not complain for obvious reasons.

How To buy Steroids Safely Online.
The key to purchasing steroids online safely and discreetly depends on the website that you order with, if they have the correct payment procedure then your purchase will not get you in trouble legally even though the order is posted to you.
here are some possible scenarios when buying genuine steroids online,
your order may be intercepted buy customs officers who screen incoming international post this also depends on the website that you have ordered from and there postage technique, it is possible for a website to have a very high success rate if they have a quality postage technique and you would be surprised how much these techniques vary and the results usually follow accordingly.

If your order does get seized by the customs officers this deos not necessarily mean that you are in any legal trouble even if the order is in your actual real name, the point here is that there is no proof that you ordered it.
if you order from an experienced supplier they should have a sound buying procedure that is in the best interest of their customers privacy and legal safety.

Summary.
Do not ever buy from a site that accepts credit card or bank card of any kind, do not pay using paypal or any other online method, pay only with western union money transfer,
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there are some genuine websites such as genuine steroids
but stil the best advice is do your research but be careful on your source of info they too could be the scammers!

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This is an excerpt of a talk given by Elder Gene R. Cook of the 1st quorum of the seventy at Ricks College several years ago. He tells of an experience where he sat next to Mick Jagger of Rolling Stones on a plane for 2½ hours, discussing the effect of rock music on today's Youth. This talk is also recorded in a set of cassettes called 13 lines of Defense: Living the Law of Chastity, published by Deseret Book.

Sometimes young people have a feeling that the music they listen to doesn't have anything to do with chastity. And yet, as I've had the opportunity to interview many youth in varying countries throughout the world, I've found that it is just not so. I believe, without any doubt, that there is music of the Lord. I also believe there is good music that men have created--some romantic music, maybe some good cowboy music, and just plain fun songs, etc.

Those can be okay. They can cheer you up and they're fun to be involved with. It ought not to surprise us that the devil has his own music as well. That kind of music is found throughout the world and has a great impact on young people especially. Let me try to bring this principle alive by relating a true story that happened with an individual of whom you have probably heard. How many of you have heard of Mick Jagger? I think almost everyone has as he is one of the most famous rock stars in the world. Well, you might be surprised to know that I had about 2 ½ hours with him on an airplane and it was quite an experience. I'm going to relate part of that to you to try to illustrate this important point about selecting wholesome music.

Mr. Jagger and I were on a flight that originated in Mexico and were headed, I believe, to either Houston or Dallas. As I sat down in the plane, the seat next to me was empty. Later a man came and sat down by me. I noticed immediately that he was reading a rock magazine. I offered a silent prayer as I often do when I try to talk to people about the Church. I prayed that the Lord would inspire me in what to say as I talked to this man.

After the prayer, I said something like, "My name is Gene Cook. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. What's your name?"

And he said, "My name is Mick Jagger."

Not realizing who he was I said, "Well, I'm glad to meet you, Mick."

And then he said, "I said my name is Mick Jagger."

I said, "I heard you, Mick."

And then he opened up the magazine and pointed to his picture and said, "This is me." Of course, then I finally realized who he was. I just hadn't ever thought about sitting next to him, but it was so. What I'm going to say is in no way speaking evil of Mick Jagger himself. Please understand that. I'm not speaking evil of the man, but I am of what he represents because it is wrong. It is of the devil himself, in my opinion.

Even before I knew who Mick was, I noticed that his pant leg was pulled up a little on his calf. As I looked at his leg I thought for some reason, "This fellow looks a little sick." I'm not sure why, but that caught my attention before I even knew who he was.

After we visited back and forth a minute or two about what we were doing and all, I finally said something like, "You know, Mick, I have a question for you that I'd like you to answer for me."

He said, "Well, I'll be glad to try."

Then I said to him, "I have opportunity to be with young people in many different places around the world, and some of them have told me that the kind of music you and others like you sing has no effect on them, that it's okay, and that it doesn't affect them adversely in any way. Then other young people have told me very honestly that your kind of music has a real effect on them for evil and that it affects them in a very bad way. You've been in this business a long time, Mick. I'd like to know your opinion. What do you think is the impact of your music on the young people?"

This is a direct quote, brothers and sisters. He said, "Our music is calculated to drive the kids to sex."

I'm sure I had a real look of shock on my face in receiving such a bold response. He quickly added, "Well, it's not my fault what they do. That's up to them. I'm just making a lot of money." Then he told me he'd been in Mexico making a video because he could make it for about one third of what it would cost in the United States. He told me this was a great day for them because now instead of just having audio where they could portray some of what they wanted to about sex and all, they now had videos and could have the people both hear it and see it portrayed. He said this would have much more impact on the youth, that his music was selling much more, and thus he was making much more money.

As I said, we talked for a couple of hours. Let me just share a few things that happened because it teaches the importance of what we are discussing with respect to music.

As we chatted, I told him I was married and had eight children. He told me that he was not married but that he had three children and was proud of it. He told me that he had one woman pregnant in Virginia, one in New York, and one in England, as I recall. He told me that it didn't matter what you did in life, that you could take whatever you wanted, and you could do whatever you wanted. He said there were no commandments, there was no God, and nothing really mattered. He indicated there was no judgment day and you could just do whatever you felt like doing. Whatever I told him in our discussion was white he said was black. And whatever he said was white I told him was black.

He indicated that he had had the missionary lessons. In the beginning I didn't believe that, but as we talked further I think he probably had. He told me he had two or three lessons, and I think that was probably true because of some of his responses to me. According to him, he had been taught by missionaries in England.

He said, "As I listen to you Mormons, your problem is that you think you have things all figured out. Life isn't that simple." Then he would go on and explain some complex things, some theory of man. I would answer him in a very simple way from the scriptures, and he would say, "See what I mean?" He was always trying to make things much more complicated than they really were.

Our conversation continued. He told me that he believed in evolution and that he also believed he had descended from a monkey.

I told him, with a smile, "That might be the only thing you are right about."

We pursued the idea of evolution and the fact that if one is going to subscribe to the philosophy that he did, then he'd have to believe there was no God and that he just evolved. And if there is no God, then there are no commandments. There are no rules, and thus you can do whatever you want. He told me the importance, in his view, of freeing up the youth. He felt that they ought to be able to do whatever they wanted in spite of their parents. He said that parents were inhibiting them too much and controlling things and they ought not to be doing that. It was truly astounding to me. He told me that he was thankful the family, as an entity, was being destroyed. And I gathered from what he was saying that he was doing his best to help that along.

I've only been mad at two investigators in my life where I kind of got upset, and he was one of them. As we proceeded in the discussion, he probably had four or five alcoholic drinks. As you know, when one does that one tends to be a little looser in the way he talks and thinks. Finally, in a rather loud voice towards the end of our discussion, he said something like, "Furthermore, about your Book of Mormon-- your Book of Mormon is a lie, and any man that believes it is a liar." He said it in such a way that most people nearby could hear it. That really did upset me.

I thought to myself, here's a man who is representing evil and trying to announce it now to the whole cabin to try to make them feel that the Book of Mormon is not true.

I then felt impressed to say something like, "Well, Mick, you're mighty fortunate today, mighty fortunate."

He said, "What are you talking about?"

And I said, "Because you're sitting next to a servant of the Lord who plans on correcting what you just said."

He then said, "What do you mean?"

I said, "Well, you're really lucky. I just happen to have a Book of Mormon right here in my briefcase," and I pulled out a Book of Mormon and put it in his lap. I told him something to this effect, "Mick, this book has changed my life. I love the Book of Mormon. And I have read it many, many times. It is the greatest book, in my mind, on the face of the earth. In my view it has changed me, it has made me a better man. You say it's a lie. I must have missed that part. Show me."

My young friends, there was just total, dead silence. He didn't say a word. I finally said, "Well, maybe you were offended by the part where Lehi told his sons to be honest men or where he taught them to rely upon the Lord and have faith in God. Maybe you were offended when Alma told his boy, Coriantumr, that he had broken the law of chastity and then he told him what he had to do to correct it. Maybe that offended you. Or maybe it was the part when Christ came to America. Or maybe it really bothered you when he said that one is to love his wife with all his heart and not commit adultery. Maybe that offended you." I carried on a little bit with him that way, and of course again he said nothing. I finally said, "Well, if you can't show me a chapter, then at least show me a page, or maybe a paragraph will do. That would be all right. Just show me one paragraph." And again, brothers and sisters, dead silence. I finally said, "Well, then how about a line, or one word." I finally bore my testimony to him and said something like, "My friend, the lie is not in the Book of Mormon. The lie is in you. And I bear witness to you in the name of the Lord that if you don't turn your life around, you'll be going to hell. The devil himself will come and get hold of you." I bore my testimony to him as strongly as I could about what he was doing, that it was not right, and that it was not according to the Lord's plan. I felt very emotionally involved when I bore my testimony because I thought to myself, "Here I am going about the earth trying to strengthen young people, trying to make them better and turn them to the Lord. And men like this are coming around right behind me trying to tear it all down, destroying the family, and destroying their reliance on God. I bore a very fervent testimony to him and told him that I would be a witness that I had at least given him "the word."

Well, he calmed down quite a bit in that encounter and didn't say any more. That at least quieted him down so he didn't continue in the vein he was in.

Just before our couple of hours together concluded he said, "Oh, now I remember something about your Book of Mormon" (referring to my challenge to him to show me something that was out of order.) He said, "Well, here it is. It's the part about Brigham Young."

Then I informed him that Brigham Young was not mentioned in the Book of Mormon one time. My response kind of took him aback. We talked the last five or ten minutes in a more general way, and then finally bid each other farewell and split up.

As I arrived home from that trip and shared the experience with my family, I was very moved, as you would have been. I was mostly moved by the spirit of the Lord that bore witness to me of the evil nature of that kind of music and the impact it has on people. In our Family Home Evening that night, we made a commitment, as a family, that we would never, ever allow any of that kind of music in our home. Not ever! We had a great spiritual experience together where we felt the Spirit and committed to that decision. Now, as those years have gone by since I visited with him on the plane, I'm pleased to say that that kind of music has never been in our home and I think never will be as a result of that experience. I share it with you to impress upon your minds that there is music of the Lord and there is music of the devil. I would be mighty, mighty, careful with the music you listen to. The Church isn't ever going to publish a list of approved songs and say, "Here are 146 that you can listen to and 246 that you can't." You'll have to choose, won't you? Use your conscience. Use the Spirit of the Lord and have enough sense to make those judgments correctly and don't listen to that kind of music. Just one other comment. A few days after I arrived home, my wife and I were up late on a Friday evening. I turned the television on, or maybe we looked in the paper, and saw that there was going to be a Mick Jagger special on that night. Well, I'd never even watched anything like that before and I thought, well, let's see what it's like. So we sat up for an hour or so and watched this show. I was really taken aback. Not so much by what I saw, as I expected that, but by all the innuendoes sown in the lyrics of which a young person might not be very aware. Lyrics like, "Do what you want. No one can tell you what to do. You're your own man. Take what you want. Pick what you want." It was the same stuff I'd heard on the airplane for two hours-- there were no rules in it, no God in it, no "what's right" in it. It was, do whatever you want to do. You're free, you can take what you want, do what you want. I was very much taken aback by how those thoughts had been sown very subtly in all that music. Many young people would not realize how those thoughts are sown in. However after listening to that music time after time, one can begin to parrot that kind of philosophy and those inward feelings to their parents and not be as obedient as they ought to be.

I bear testimony to you again, that good music can have a great impact on you and evil music surely is of the devil. Think of the great contrast in the lyrics, "I am a child of God, and He has sent me here, has given me an earthly home, with parents kind and dear. Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way. Teach me all that I must do, to live with Him some day." What a dramatic difference. That hymn would lead you to think of the Lord, wouldn't it? It would humble you in your heart. It would lead you to be obedient to your parents. Look at the different impact that would have. What if you sang a song like, "Oh my Father, thou that dwellest in the high and glorious place, when shall I regain thy presence, and again behold thy face?" What if you had that in your repertoire, as it were, of what you sang, of what you thought, of what you listened to. What a difference! Little Primary songs like, "Jesus said love everyone, treat them kindly too, when your heart is filled with love, others will love you." Very simple, isn't it? One of my favorite ones is an easy one, a simple one. "Oh Father, look on us today and bless us with thy love. In Jesus name we humbly pray, O Father up above." So simple, isn't it? I have sung that song to myself many times as I have wandered around alone in airports or other places to keep my mind focused on good, worthy things. Think of the impact on you or your children singing over and over, "I love to see the temple; I'm going there someday, to feel the Holy Spirit, to listen and to pray. For the temple is a house of God, a place of love and beauty. I'll prepare myself while I am young. This is my sacred duty." Wouldn't that have a great impact? It would, and one day your children would end up in the temple. If the music is of this other kind, they may end up somewhere else.--

Lo mejor del disco son sin duda los riffs y los abundantes solos de guitarra del genial Mick Mars, que en muchos casos salvan canciones enteras. Las letras en cambio son demasiado adolescentoides para un grupo formado por tios de 40 años laaargos. Los cortes que más me han gustado son el exitoso single "Saints of los Angeles", "Just another psycho" y "Goin' out swingin", aunque merece la pena escuchar el disco solo por los riffs. También hay una balada titulada "Animal in me", que no me gusta demasiado.

En fin, un regreso con buena nota, pero que suena a más de lo mismo. Aunque sin duda, no vale los 20 eurazos que cuesta, como la inmensa mayoría de discos, por otro lado.

Mi nota final: 7/10