So today (I'm still feeling the sleep deprivation) I woke up, got out of bed, (dragged a comb across my head. I did actually) and did a math assessment. It didn't even let me finish my review work. It was like "Okay you got that done and now to keep you from making progress, here's an assessment that we could have given you later but are making you do now." (And I was like NO, and they were like YEAH) Then we went and picked up Hannah. Then we came back here, chilled a bit, and then went to the home school planning party. It was almost half as fun as the lock-in. We walked along the creek and then Nik called and Shaun and I had to go find him. We wound up at Dairy Queen. Then we started looking for the group again and then Shaun's girlfriend called and asked him to go get ice cream for her and a friend. So then we walked all the way back to Dairy Queen, walked back to the park just to find that Shaun's girlfriend and a group of other people were on their way to the Dairy Queen. SO we had to TURN AROUND and walk BACK to the Dairy Queen and then we gave the assorted ice creams to people and then just hung out and were groovy for the rest of the day.

You may not have heard of Planet Brain yet, 3 quiet Italian school friends who have been slowly honing their craft for the last decade, but once you have been exposed to their elegiac, transcendent rock music you will be hard pressed not to separate your life into two distinct categories: pre and post Planet Brain. The culmination of years of writing, refining and aural exploration their 2007 debut album ‘Compromises & Carnivals’ was an explosion of styles. A calling card album that contained a mesmeric set of songs that offer up a foundation that could easily be as important as Radiohead’s ’Pablo Honey’ or Muse’s ‘Showbiz’.  Fusing together the psychedelic tinged guitars of Swervedriver and ‘Gish’ era Smashing Pumpkins to the caustic bombast of latter day Muse they created an album seared with a heartfelt vitality rarely captured on record. In singer Marcello Batelli they are blessed with one of the most emotive voices in music today, though his operatics never overshadow the music, with rhythm section  Nicola Zagrando and Claudio Larese Casanova (yes really) provide a muscle that propels Planet Brains music to deep within any listeners conscious. Following the UK release of ‘Compromises & Carnivals’ on Function Records the band have toured their homeland as well as making frequent exploratory trips to the UK. Currently completing recording on their follow up EP which sees the band pushing their sound to a darker, heavier sounds cape they will be embarking on an Italian tour in November and returning to the Uk in the winter. I recently managed to grab some time with Marcello in order to discuss the bands back story, writing process and where they are heading.

Ok to kick off for those who don’t know can you introduce yourselves and give a brief history of the band. How you formed, what you wanted to get out of the band when you started?

We formed back in 1999, when we were about 15. Nicola and I used to play already together since we were at secondary school, we recorded some stupid songs about our teachers on a demo tape. Then we met Claudio and settled in his house, still our current homestudio-rehearsal room. Our first line up showed Claudio on the keyboards (he’s the drummer now), me (Marcello) on the drums (afterwards moved to guitar and vocals), Nicola on the guitar (then forced to be a bass player). We just started the band to entertain ourselves, without a real project. We soon began to write our own songs ('Walkie-Talkie' is one of the first songs we wrote), and we recorded a first demo-album in 2001 called 'Bottom of the Seas', followed by the 'Orange' EP in 2002, recorded by winning a local contest. We got another “ghost album” recorded in 2004 which was never been released, but some of the songs that were on it had been included in 'Compromises and Carnivals' (2007), our debut album.

The songs on 'Compromises & Carnivals' cover a huge range of styles from the epic versions of 'Gash Discipline' to the highly intimate moments such as 'Prince Astronaut''. Can you talk us through some of the influences that have informed Planet Brains music and also how the writing process works, how you work as a unit and the timescale over which a song might develop, as despite containing complex parts you can imagine being carefully assembled over months when listening each song sounds so natural you can almost see it being created in a few hours.

Most of the songs of 'Compromises and Carnivals' started just as improvisations. We use to jam a lot and record demos when we practice. Some songs were assembled by taking the best parts that came out from the jams, and some others were just left as close as possible to the original versions. Anyway, there is no such thing as a real method in our writing process. Sometimes it all just starts with a guitar riff, or a drum pattern. 'Prince Astronaut' was written by me, alone, in many days, and...yes, in an intimate setting, but “Who do you think I am”, for example, was finished only in 3 takes. Above all, the most important thing we focused on was to preserve the original energy - a sort of spontaneous and emotional feeling - each song has in the first takes.

As a band a lot of the reference points that come up include Muse and Radiohead..... but my mind always brings up early Smashing Pumpkins, as well as some elements of shoegazing from the late 80s early nineties in the UK, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Swervedriver...which drew heavily on pyschedelic guitars. Without asking you to do the impossible and label your own sound what would you flag as the bands formative influences?

You’re right, I am a true Smashing fan. Anyway all the three of us listen to different kind of music, and I can say there are no specific bands to which we refer. Nicola is more keen on 70ies psychedelic-progressive bands, such as King Crimson or Yes, Claudio listens a lot to Tool or Porcupine Tree, and recently I loved Sigur Ros, Oceansize and Mars Volta. Actually, these are just the first bands that come into my mind, not necessarily the main ones.

Vocally do you have any artists you look as markers for what you want to achieve on record. The style of singing you employ brings names like Jeff or Buckley, Thom Yorke and Matt Bellamy and though its easy to see why you always maintain a a unique voice. When did you first really realise you could sing and what were your first experiences of singing?

Brilliant vocalists such as Buckley and Yorke have obviously been great teachers. But I also learned a lot from singers just like Billy Corgan, Layne Stanley or Bjork, for example, whose vocal techniques are personal and excellent without being methodic and perfect. When I started singing my main aim was not to break my vocal strings after each concert! That was simply my first experience of singing. Now I would love to acheive a wider use of the voice, I mean not only in extension, but also in a richer range of tunes and styles...from falsetto to growl!

Lyrically what inspires you to write? Do you draw on personal experiences or do you look for outside influences? Quite a lot of the lyrics seem to be examining the protagonists struggles with their own psyche a lot of the songs talk about someone searching for salvation or answers? In terms of the latter what are the band reading/watching/ listening to right now?

Both personal experiences and outside or literary influences actually. It is true that there are lots of characters taking parts in the songs, and the recurring themes are psychologic questions, states of mind, perceptions...together with language and (non)logic matters. Most of the time it’s all about suggestions or it’s all written around a single word I particulary like. I’m more interested in catching the song mood through the sound of the lyrics then in telling a complete story.
About what the band is reading/watching...mmh, I don’t know, but I’m surely not wrong if I say that Nicola is watching a horror film and reading a fantasy book...haha! Claudio will be on a more romantic/comedy style movie/novel. I am currently reading an old Japanese book, 'Essays in Idleness' by Kenko, which is awesome.

With 'Compromises & Carnivals' you achieved a definite sound, from the drums to the bass and even guitars, across the entire record. How was this achieved and did you have specific ideas and reference points for the sounds you wanted when you went into the studio or is it something that evolved over the recording process? Also where does the title come from?

We wanted the album to sound as a whole piece. The ten songs were written in differents periods so we tried to give them a continuity effect. At the same time, we wanted the album to sound as natural as a live concert, but with a clear and detailed recording. That is why the instruments settings are mantained the same across the record and the over-dubs are just a few.
The title of the album comes from a line in the second track. It can be representative of many of the themes of the lyrics and it could also reflect, somehow, the way the album is composed: free jamming improvisations (carnivals) transposed and fitted into song-forms (compromises).

You seem to thrive in the live environment and the shows are always a little special. How important is the live experience for Planet Brain, how do you approach shows and do you find the songs develop and change at all live?

When rehearsing we used to think of the songs in a “live” way - that is “how could it be that song when played live?” Being a three-piece band makes you concentrated all the time on how to fill the spaces in the songs, not to leave holes in sounds. But for hard you try this during rehearsing, stage always remains a challenge. It is our privileged testing field, not only to improve the new songs, but also to bring back the old ones to their original jamming structure. I don’t find the songs change at all live, I think they’re gradually evolving gig by gig, confirming the fact that songs are a living thing...that has to be experienced!

Whenever I’ve seen you in the UK you’ve been on line ups where you stand out from the style of bands you play with, yet despite being maybe not what the crowd expected you have always gotten a great response. I wonder if you could talk about this and also if you face a similar situation in Italy? Are there similar bands around at the moment or is it similar to the Uk where the scene is getting a lot heavier in many cases?

Yeah, that was part of the magic of our UK gigs. It also happens here in Italy to share the bill with heavier bands. Last weekend we played together with a metal friend-band (Wrath Prophecy), and it was awesome, we both enjoyed it a lot. I think that the heavy scene finds more spaces just because its fans religiously support their favourite bands and their live shows, more than “indie” audience does. Anyway, it was great to catch the attention of different crowds during our UK gigs, and when we were worried for our set being mellow, we simply tried to recreate an atmosphere on stage, as a new start, or just...kick ‘em out!

You have what appears to be a very good relationship with Function Records, can you talk a little about how this came to be and the benefits of the relationship to date?

I would say that our relationship is a friendship first, before being any sort of business partnership. It all started as a “bands exchange” between PB and Lebatol (the band that’s running the label). We organised a short Italian tour for Lebatol in 2005 and the plan for us was to come to UK for an equal tour. Lebatol Italian tour was awesome, we will never forget that, we had such an amazing time. After that they asked us to put one of our songs on a 7”...then probably an EP or...and finally we decide to release the album.
It’s a matter of fact that they do for us more than we did for them, and we have to thank them a lot for this. Hope they could join us for a longer tour of Italy, possibly later this year.

You’re currently back in the studio recording for a new EP. How are the sessions going and how are they differing from the 'Compromises & Carnivals' sessions? Are you using the same methods/studio/producer?

It’s going to be much different. This time we’re recording all by ourselves at our homestudio, “Brainland”, while 'Compromises and Carnivals' (except for guitars and vocals) was recorded and mixed in a real professional studio. Plus, we just bought a reel-to-reel 16 tracks recorder,  so we’re going to mess things up with analogic stuff. Sessions are starting right in these days. The reel-to-reel seems to work fine, tapes have just arrived, I haven’t finished the lyrics, but we’re ready to go! We are working without a producer, even if I’d love to, but we’ve done some pre-production demos lately, in order to try and see which are the main mistakes in each songs, and that method helped us a lot.

What can we expect from the new material, how has the Planet Brain sound evolved?  Any more crazy studio effects.. like the alarm at the end of 'Vision' that still has me checking my phone!!!

Haha! Yeah, that was what I wanted as a reaction! We should ask N*kia an endorsement for that. I think this time we will be more concentrated on the sound research itself, also because we have to play the role of the sound-engineers, and I’d prefer to waste some time in experimenting new miking techniques, rather than new ring tones. I’d like the whole sound to be different and renewed, but I can’t tell now how will it be obviously, as much will depend on what we’ll discover during the recordings.
I think new songs represent a step further what we tried on 'C&C'. There is a wider use of a sort of a “cut-up” technique (not properly a Borroughs’ one): more odd tempos, more puzzle-wise structures and juxtaposed melodies. We wrote long prog-ish songs and then made a synthesis of them. I like to imagine those songs simply being “tracks containing three or four different themes mixed together”, just like an object made of different materials but still a single piece. I know that each theme of a track could have been worth its own developing into a proper song, but on the other side I love these tracks being so chaotic and full of distractions, as if it was an environment you’re in, observing things from multi-angle perspective views.

Guitar wise how do you feel your playing has changed since 'C & Cs'? Have you changed your set up and if so how? What effects are you currently using?

Well something has changed in my set up. In these last days I’m trying a double amps setting, switching between (or putting together) a Fender Twin and a Vox AC30, but I don’t think I’m going to use that on the record...I need to practise. I’m using different tunings and some new effects/pedals (GigaDelay, Comp, Phaser, Octaver) as well as new overdrive/distortions, Big Muff and stuff. Also Nicola is using different distortions for the bass. On the newest songs I’m more a rhythm guitar than a lead one - as it was several times in C&C. That is because we worked on the arrangements as a whole body, trying to enframe each instrument (guitar in this case) in the other two (bass and drums).

I have a few American friends who have all been digging PB recently and have been ordered to tel you to get over to the states NOW!!!! On that theme where would you like to play that you havent already visited and are there any particular gigs or festivals you’d love to play onday?

Yeah! Please tell your American friends we’re ready to go NOW!
What’s Glastonbury? Never heard this, is it another small-indie-fest like Pinkpop, Reading, Rock Am Ring, Sziget? with an up-to-30 people audience? Haha, Glastonbury would be awesome even if we were the first opening band at 9 am playing a 30 mins set.
We would love to play more around Europe, or follow a bigger band in a part of their tour as supporters.

Looking forward we obviously have the EP coming up and you return to the UK in late August before a tour of Sicily... beyond that what does the winter 2008 and beginning of 2009 hold for Planet Brain?

No masterplan at the minute. Anyway: touring more than ever, keep writing new songs, having fun...why not?

Ok so a quickfire last few... when not playing or writing music what would be a perfect day out for Planet Brain?

Out in the outer space! What else could the Brainians ask?

We’re buying...what are Planet Brain drinking?

Hoegaarden (just our temporary trend – it was Mojito last summer and Guinness two summers ago).

Finally and very cheekily....what went wrong at Euro 2008???!!!

Toni.

thank you again.

Thanks a lot!
Love

ciao!
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Az MSE-meccsen a kebeleiek vezettek. Volt két kapufánk, lehetett volna legalább 1 gól belőle. A bírók nem segítettek egyáltalán, sőt, hát úgy fizettük ki őket, ahogy a lapon írta: kaptak 180 lejt.

A BC Mures az új felállásában tetszik. Jók az új játékosok. Persze, ez még csak az első meccs, amit játszottak. A brassóiak még csak felszerelést se vettek magukra, de azért a bíráskodást meg tudták kommentálni.

Tatár Béla azt mondta, hogy nem tudják, mi lesz, ha véletlenül az elsők között végeznek, mert az 1. ligába nem mehetnek. Nincs stadion. Szerintem ilyen veszély nem fenyeget. Megvan a módja, hogyan lehet ezt elkerülni. És hiába vannak az első helyen, még két csapatnak ugyanannyi a pontja, mint nekik. Érdekes lesz a folytatás.

Tegnap félig leszedtük az almát. Boglárka felmászott a létrára, és onnan kiabálta, hogy mámá, mámá... hogy látom-e. Egyedül le is szállt. Sajnos, már megint esik, úgyhogy Tünde nem tudott menni piacra, és az almával meg a fűvel sem igen tudom, mi lesz. Lajival beszéltük az almafát, mondta, hogy oltsuk be a hátsót, mert valósz. vadalma, amit terem. Kicsi, apró. Boglárka fent aludt a dombon. Eddig már felébredt, bizonyára.

Este valamilyen kábult filmet néztünk a Boomon. Félóra után sem jöttem rá, miről szól. Sophia Loren, Gerard Depardieu s még mit tudom én kicsodák. A pasi a Mephistóból. Aztán belekábultam, totál. Megadtam magam.

És már megint esik az eső.

I can't recall whether I told you all or not, but our last boss was fired under incredibly risque circumstances. He was audited by our corporate office, aka big brother, and during an eight hour day (which by the way was an amazing feat in and of itself seeing as how he only worked maybe twenty hours a week) he spent seven hours and fifteen minutes looking at porn on his computer. Well, to be fair he was only looking at porn for part of that time, the rest he spent surfing swinger sites, communicating with women he met online, and soliciting hookers on Craigslist.com. I'm assuming the other forty five minutes of the day were spent in our bathroom jacking off. Needless to say, he was fired.

The boss we had before that was a huge bitch. And I mean a literally huge bitch. And she was an angry bull dyke. And to make matters worse she was a UNC Tarheel fan, which is despicable. (Go State!) The very first time I met her she kicked me off the lot, in the middle of an interview with one of her subcontractors, because I didn't have contractors liability insurance. She was infamous for flipping her wig over the tiniest flaw in a trailer, but expected everything to be fixed like new with a scrooge tight budget. She once tried to fire one of her employees for not picking up their feet enough when they walk. (although Joe is an annoying foot scuffling bastard, but still) She was so horrible to work with that the first question I asked when the company called me up to hire me was whether she was still working there, because I refuse to ever work for another boss like that ever again. She was fired for punching a hole through a wall in a trailer that was just finished because there was a small stain near the floor that nobody could get out.

From what I hear the boss before her was fired for embezzling from the company, and the one before that was fired for not bothering to show up ever cause they were rich and didn't really give a fuck. So at this point we've had a pretty good record of corporate picking out complete douchebags to run our joint. Enter their latest Mona Lisa of management.

About eight months ago we got a new boss named Steve. Steve was fat as shit. He was arrogant and swaggered with that cock sure machismo synonymous with all those post college used-to-be-cool-jocks who still think they are cooler than your face, and your moms face, and probably never got the long series of merciless beatdowns they deserve which might have snapped them back into reality. He stunk. Literally, he smelled bad. His shit was so stanktastic that the other people in the office refused to let him crap there. So instead of using one of the other two bathrooms available in our shop, he would climb up in our stored trailers and drop a deuce or two in the toilets, leaving them there for us to deal with when we pulled them up to fix. He left corn filled landmines all over the lot behind trailers and bushes, marked for the wary passerby with spare toilet paper. He spat frequently with little or no regard to wind direction. His dog was ugly. He sucked at his job. Everything about him sucked. I thought we might have hit rock bottom with this one.

That was until the day his neighbor's car got repossessed. For some reason he felt this was a sign from the powers that be that he should take half a day off, snag one of our salesmen, and go out shopping for guns. Now he was a Yankee, and I assume he was from a larger city. Not a country boy like most of the other guys who work there. So he had never owned a gun before in his life, nor had he shot one. His total fire arm experience was limited to what he had seen in movies, and this apparently did not bother him because he made absolutely no effort to learn anything about the legal aspects of shooting guns, or any of the finer points of gun safety.

Now we have shooting ranges around the area in which it is legal to practice shooting your shiny brand new shotguns. We have expansive stretches of woods and farmland in which one could safely and secretly test out your aim. In fact, there is a veritable plethora of options for the novice gun enthusiast. We are after all in dixie land. But rather than take advantage of any one of these convenient options, Steve decided it would be cooler to bring his guns to work. He came in on a Saturday, while a contractor was working, printed of a bunch of pictures of our district managers face, and headed to the back of our lot to climb up in a trailer we have marked for demolition.

This trailer is beyond repair, and we've been cannibalizing it for at least a year now. It's worthless. But it is still the property of our company, not Steve. It is also adjacent to the next lot which has a 24/7 security guard that patrols it to guard their supplies. And it is also basically around the block from the Highway Patrol and Policeman's training facilities, meaning that there are always a shit ton of pigs cruising around. The following pictures were taken by yours truly to show you what I couldn't

So long story short, my boss is gone and our branch is living in heaven, once again functioning how they should. Tell me how your boss got fired.

Shinhwa's Lee Minwoo has revealed that his ideal type is Kim Shin Young.

On MBC "Introducing a Star's Friend," Lee Minwoo said, "It's between Kim Shin Young and Shin Bong Sun."

Kim Shin Young asked again, "What if you could only pick one in this world?" and Lee Minwoo surprisingly answered, "I'd pick Kim Shin Young." At his surprising confession, she said, "Let me think about this for a moment," causing great laughter.

Lee Minwoo, Jung Sung Un, Boom, Kim Shin Young, Bae Seul Ki, and Park Young Rin will be on this episode broadcast on October 4 at 5:25pm.

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Model: Bongo Oldbull

Shirts: *BOOM* by Aranel Ah

Pants: Gritty Kitty - Chuttes Black

Cuffs: Georgiabean Lately - Depp Cuff Sortof

Facial thingamahjig: *BOOM* All Star

Shape: Custom job from Babyhoney Bailey with Georgiabean Lately

Choker: Custom St. Christopher's Medal - Babyhoney Bailey with Georgiabean Lately

Skin: <TheAbyss> Scorpio_Origin 4[A] Smooth

Hair: Gritty Kitty - Deadline (brown)

Eyes: Infinity Designs Ltd. - Eternal Essence - Bliss Eyes

Misc.: MC Wallet Chain, <-Puncture-> Sedated Ear Piercing set, ~A&G~ Twisted Fate ink

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There were 15 or so shirts to choose from, so I had a hell of a time deciding which ones to shoot. I managed to get the 4 in that fit my personality the best: (left to right) To Write Love On Her Arms, Cool Ain't Perfect Perfect Ain't Cool, Me So Horny, and Hope. Really, all of them fit me pretty well and there's at least two shirts, I'm betting that would suit just about anyone. That's the beauty of them. There is something for everyone.

Storytime: It was March 20th of 2007. I remember the date, because it was two days before my then girlfriend/SL wife's rez day and I was scouring every corner of SL to find the perfect gifts for her. I found *BOOM* by accident when tp jumping from store to store (specifically ones that I knew she didn't shop at, so I wouldn't risk her having whatever I got already) in my hunt. Everything in the store was easily accessible, in the way that it didn't look eLeet or like I needed a personal referral to rez there. I dug that. I wound up buying her a few things there, as well as the Tartan kilt/man-skirt for myself. Over a year later, here I am blogging another fine Aranel Ah creation.

I really dig the black grease stripes under the eyes. I know that they're typically for jocks, but I see them in my own special(ed) way. They look tough and I like that. Plus, I hadn't seen anything quite like it, since I'd found the Aitui eyedrop prim facial tattoos that I still wear regularly. They're dirty and look messy and some girl's mother or father would probably try to wash mah face and that's appealing. What I'm getting at is, to me, they're unique and that gets a gold star everytime.

On an entertainment note, I am friggin' addicted to Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. I started reading them with a friend and didn't really expect to like them, but I do. I got her the first one and when she finished it, I got her the second and started reading the first. She finished the second and was onto the third, then I finished the first and was onto the second. Now, she's on the fourth and I'm onto the third. Have you ever felt genuine remorse after finishing a book, simply because it's over and you can't keep it going. It's not usually the type of book that I would get into (i.e. no nudity, no sex so far, no mass murders, no huge plot twists or no obscure references to VU songs), but to my own surprise, I think I'm going to be upset when it's my turn to finish the fourth book.

Wall-E Expectations: very very very high. Impressions:  very good

Several people told me it's a 'great' 'must see' & 'fantastic' so I went in with high expectations, maybe too high...

...so naturally I had problems: Where's the power source for Wall-E... he's been living off scavenged batteries all this time? & power supply on Axiom? Why send EVA to look for plant life--shouldn't she have been programmed to detect oxygen/water/contaminant levels/cyanobacteria?
And where did all those babies on board come from if the humans couldn't--

"Suspension of belief!" I was told fiercely.

Okay. Okay.

Actually. I liked a LOT of stuff here. Anybody remember the first (I think) Pixar film--Adventures of Andre & Wally-B? Wall-E was like a nice look back to Wally-B.
And I liked the linking details--the WALL-As cleaning up Axiom while WALL-Es cleaned up Earth.

And I loved the inside references/tributes--no way these happened by chance--like the Autopilot on Axiom coming across like HAL from 2001 (same single red eye. Same 'programmed with more info than humans will do what's best for humans whether they like it or not'. & in case you still don't get it--listen to the soundtrack!!!)

I loved the obese pilot's first steps being taken to Space Odyssey music.
And there were great touches like the pilots in the wall portraits getting larger & larger--could have sworn I saw Obama & McCain up there but won't swear to that.

& I think I saw Wall-E whack into Sputnik up when he zooms up--again, can't swear to that.

But I will swear Wall-E was watching stuff off an ipod & charges up to the Mac warm up tune. (well if Wall-E = Adam, he needs 'Apple' to connect him with Eva/Eve right?)

& I liked the captain laboriously re-learning the meaning of words & them extrapolating the consequences of humans getting everything we need supplied to us by machines--they aren't the drones any more, we are!

So okay, yes. Even this grouchy nitpicker liked it.

Boom Expectations: High. Impressions: Fairly Good

I heard 'Boom' (SRT) was good & I liked Jean Tay's previous 'Everything But The Brain' so yes, I expected good stuff.

And I liked the premise--en bloc pressures--personal vs profit.Lovely touch having the corpse (who pointedly notes he is not a ghost. Great staging & great acting-in-confined-space by Zachary Ho). I also liked the use of local dialect, characters automatically switching to mother tongue which sounded very natural. The civil servants backing up Jeremiah-the-corpse-shifter (Chua EnLai totally convincing there) had some hilarious & only too believable scenes. The estate agents & en bloc wagonites were all beautifully done.

But--I was uncomfortable with how good the English was the rest of the time... the characters either spoke street patois or perfect English perfectly enunciated. That felt a bit jarring.

And I didn't understand some things--like if Jeremiah hears corpses, why he's 1) only hearing this corpse 2) only spending time worrying about this corpse.

I'd have liked more made of the contrast--like how a corpse can be relocated without his consent but the live woman apparently can't... till you realise at the end that she can.

And I was surprised how little being whacked by his father & chained to the fig tree seems to have marked Boon's feelings about the old house. The abuse anecdote is trotted out and then nothing much follows from it.

Would have liked a more 'closure' type ending (have a weakness for sappy conclusions!) like having the corpse disinterred first... he finds that now he is out of the ground he is free to wander as a 'ghost' & returns to look for his wife & the fig tree--only to find them gone & his wife in the mean time, having learned who he is finally accepting he's dead & going to his funeral plot to find the foundations of a new building being put in.

The Painted Skin Expectations: none. Impressions: Fun

I went to see this because it's based on the old Chinese story and yes--because my eye hurt too much to read/write. But I had great fun.

Captain Wang rescues a Xiao Wei, a beautiful woman, a demon aka fox spirit in human form. She lies that she is daughter of an allied clan who have all been slain & is taken under the care of Wang's wife Pei Rong (Vicky Zhao looking gorgeous, dignified, vulnerable--imho much much more appealing  than Zhou Xun). The fox demon falls for Captain Wang & tries to seduce him. She's assisted by another demon--chameleon spirit this time, XiaoYi, who is in loved with her & feeds the her human hearts which she has to devour to keep her beauty... so there are unexplained deaths all over the city & Captain Wang has to increase patrols... so far so good.

Then the demon hunter, Xia Beng shows up--she's a feisty girl and this is where echoes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer started bouncing in my head. Qi Yu Wu as the chameleon demon even looks a little like Spike & of course XiaoWei would be his mad Drusilla...

And Donnie Yen as Captain Pang, one time suitor of Pei Rong turns up too & links up with the Demon slayer, moody & secretive like Angel skilled in Chinese martial arts...

Yes, there's a happy ending. No, nothing really scary here--neither spooky nor bone crunching painful, which was all very well for me.

I liked little details like valet parking horses & the same horse used in lieu of a deposit at the inn.

All in all, fun if you're in the mood. More about love, the deceptiveness of beauty & how these prompt us to rash decisions whether we're human or demon.

Mamma Mia. Expectations: Low. Impressions: Meryl Streep is awesome!

Yes I went to see it--I mean, Meryl Streep... of course I went.

And there was this segment I really loved where Meryl Streep, Julie Walters & Christine Baranski dance down winding stone pathways to the jetty singing & dancing, spontaneously collecting women villagers along the way and all these women of all ages and all shapes & sizes looked like they were having a great time with the great music--like a Dove advertisement set to music. That felt really wonderful.

It was a little strange hearing Pierce Brosnan sing 'SOS' with a Brit accent but okay...

The youngsters sections I frankly found boring--okay, I am getting old I am getting old I am getting old--

But I loved Meryl Streep here--loved the way she can run up crumbling stone steps in heels & loved the way she & her old girl group camped up Super Trouper... what's so crazy is the very same costumes would probably have looked great back in ABBA's heyday and now look fantastically retro OTT.

I managed to suspend belief (& rest my eyes during the kiddie scenes) and--Meryl Streep is great in this show. So are Julie Walters & Christine Baranski.

You have to be in the right mood but if you are, it's great.

Born Again (dvd ordered from US) Expectations:based on good write up, paid US $50. Impressions: Wow, but--

This blew me away.

Markie Hancock was brought up Evangelical & grew up lesbian. There were so many echoes though from a world away... like how she repeatedly accepted Christ & died to herself--when she was 4 years old, when she was 8 years old, when she was 12 years old--I lived through all that too. Each time feeling totally committed, desperate to be a true Christian, trying to use will power to generate enough conviction to make myself belong to the 'saved' camp...

Here she lays it all out so clearly--for her it was a choice between losing her family&religion (single unit) & losing herself. She chose to stay true to herself.

No judgements are passed here. Her parents & brothers speak for themselves & we see their POVs presented clearly & without mockery.

Her struggle to evolve an identity is real & honest. Her family is obviously a loving, caring, nurturing one--their only drawback seems to be that after succeeding in producing an intelligent, loving, honest human adult they realise what they really wanted was an intelligent, loving, honest child--of God & of themselves.

And it's a strong positive film--somehow just watching & registering all this on film suggests we are all learning & evolving (even as several characters refuse to consider even the possibility) new ways of seeing & being.

But I think there is a distinction between being religious & being born again. There is the religion that binds you to 'who is not with me is against me' but there is also the 'who is not against me is for me' & that side of religion isn't represented. Perhaps from the POV of a former Evangelical it's an all or nothing thing.

I would dearly love to see what Markie Hancock does next.

I would love her to explore other religions--& how gay people live with religion.

I'm thinking of passing this to FCC for a screening-&-discussion. At this stage it seems to be a call to atheism. But I don't think this is the end of things. I hope not!

If you look back on my blog, you would find that I had already mentioned that the  recession had started in the year 2001.  How do I know this ?  It was because my business as a Feng Shui master was going to the roof when there was negativity in the world.  The people who had hired me told me that their business was not going anywhere.  They wanted me to fix the energy with Feng Shui.

I would like to share with you that in a time like this, people are trying to soul search to see what they can do.  Can you see now that there is always a gap of business opportunity in every situation ? 

Please do not focus on the negative news, focus on what you can do to help others to solve their situation.  It is time to be valuable to others.

Lets face it, we are the same people, the same money flow, the same real estate, how could a country boom in a period of time and had now become up side down and bankrupt in the next period of time ?

If you know Feng Shui, you would start to see Period 8 chi has a lot to do with it, because the chi has moved to China and India.  This is why America is in trouble with the money chi.  On the other hands, human brain and human efforts can make the difference.  If you take a look at this closely, the economic crises were created by human.  If this was the case, we can equally turn this around into boom again. 

It would take people’s confident to get us back to recovery mode in our being.  A group of us are listening to our morning calls to motivate ourselves.  I do watch the news to see what is going on with the world, so I can understand how to help people.  My group of people do not listen to the news at all.  They are keeping out the negative things out their brain.  This is the only way that they can be in the happy mode.

While people out there are scared about the economic down turn, my group of people are earning good money.  You do get what you focus on.  All of us were brought up in a certain way that we seem to be very responsive to the news.  I noticed that the restaurants in China town were empty.  The car parking area in the big hotels in Las Vegas was also empty.  How can economy turn around when everyone is in this mode ?

Some of my friends are earning big money.  Thank God that we have found a way not only to survive, but to find the honey to live a life style.  They told me that this was the best opportunity to earn money when people do not trust the stock market and the banks do not give out credits and loans for the real estate. 

We are involved in the booming business.  We other businesses are going burst, our business is booming.  We found out from history that this is the only business that can survive the storm of the economic climate.

We do have some businesses that are making us money.  If you do want to know the secret of the gold mine in this recession or depression situation, please contact me magicalfengshui@gmail.com

I do believe that if you have that luck to smell money, you would find me.  Otherwise, you would not find me.

Kwai Lan

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 What Is a Crane?

Cranes are machines that use levers and/or pulleys to lift significant weights. A crane one passes on the road may look like a fairly modern invention, but these machines have actually been used for at least the past 2000 years, if not longer. The Romans used cranes to build huge monuments. Medieval churches were constructed with them. Also, the Egyptians may have used them to create pyramids. The modern version can be either simple or complex, and cranes vary based on their application.
A relatively simple crane is the mobile crane. A telescopic boom (arm) or steel truss mounts its movable platform. Either pulleys or levers raise the boom. Generally a hook suspends from the boom.
The platform of a mobile crane can either have traditional wheels, wheels designed for railroad tracks, or a caterpillar track, which is useful for navigating unpaved and uneven surfaces. Mobiles can be used for demolition or earthmoving by replacing the hook with an appropriate tool, such as a wrecking ball or bucket. Telescopic cranes, with a series of hydraulic tubes fit together to form the boom, can also be mobile.
All Terrain cranes and rough terrain cranes are both essentially mobile as well. The truck-mounted crane generally has outriggers to increase its stability. Rough terrain cranes tend to have a base that resembles the bottom of a 4-wheel drive vehicle. Outriggers also stabilize these cranes. They tend to be used in rough terrain, as the name suggests, and are frequently used to pick up and transport materials.
Loader cranes have hydraulic powered booms fitted onto trailers. They load goods onto the trailer and the jointed sections of the boom are folded down when not in use. The loader may also be considered telescopic, as one section of the boom, in some designs, may telescope for ease of use.
Stacker cranes are most frequently seen in automated warehouses where they tend to follow an automatic retrieval system. For example, in huge automated freezers, these cranes, equipped with forklift apparatus, can work by remote, stacking or obtaining foods as needed. This retrieval system makes it possible to keep workers out of the cold.
Gantry cranes are most often found in ports and railroads, where they unload and move huge containers off of ships and trains. The bases are huge crossbeams which run on rails, so lifted containers can be moved from one location to another. The portainer is a special type of gantry crane that lifts materials on and off ships.
Floating cranesmounted on barges or pontoons are also essential to the shipping industry. Situated in water, they are used to construct ports, salvage ships or build bridges. Like portainers, floating cranes also can unload ships. They are able to handle very heavy loads and awkwardly shaped containers.
Tower cranes, conversely, do not generally have a moveable base. These are often the tallest cranes, and have to be assembled piece by piece. The base looks like a long ladder, and the boom is perpendicular to the base. Tower cranes are used to construct tall buildings, and in the case of skyscrapers, the tower crane is often assembled and affixed inside the building itself during construction.
All cranes represent a meeting of simple machines, used for the purpose of reducing workload. However simple they may seem, they are instrumental in many aspects of industry. They can dig, move, create, or destroy, depending on their type. Cranes exemplify that sometimes the oldest ideas are the best ones.

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This song is absolutely beautiful. It's called "Shut Up And Explode" and it's recent usage was on an anime called Xam'd (I'm sure this opening is still running). You can check out the anime, if you're a bittorrent user, by going here. I haven't seen any of it yet, but I'm under strict reccomendation.

You should seriously download this song - and put it on your media player of choice. It's fantastic, and you can be sure that more of the same should be coming your way in the next week.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3qvgbr

This is track #4 from the album 'EXPOSED', released 2008. Tracks copyright their respective owners, etc. I reserve Blogger's Rights to share this track with the public. If you have a problem with my actions, speak up media comglomerate!

Adam's worried she's going to need a helmet soon if she doesn't get a little more coordinated or learn to have a little more fear.

lol. ah, classic.

And here we go.

Tennessee over Minnesota - Kerry Collins just keeps winning.

Denver over Kansas City - You play to win the game! So why did you get rid of Jared Allen???

New Orleans over San Francisco - Clearly people don't realize, you can hire away Baltimore Defensive coordinators as much as you want, but they're not the ones playing to win the game!

New York Jets over Arizona - Well my pick started out well last week. But this is the Week of Favre.

Green Bay over Tampa Bay - Al Harris is gone. Bring back Ahmad Carroll! Oh wait. He sucked.

Carolina over Atlanta - The coin came up heads. Panthers have heads. We'll go with panthers.

Jacksonville over Houston - Well...they should at least win this game easily...

Cleveland over Cincinatti - Cleveland just goes ahead a gouges the refs eyes this week so they can't see anything.

San Diego over Oakland - I guess I need to pick a favorite Cali team...wow thats going to be a hard decision...aaand raise your hand if you haven't figured out the sarcasm?

Buffalo over St. Louis - Trent Green puts up a fight. Or gets in a fight with the worst offensive line ever. Probably the latter.

Dallas over Washington - No chance.

Philadelphia over Chicago - Kyle Orton hopes that the Philly D from the Cowboys game shows up. No dice.

Baltimore over Pittsburgh - Yes. It will happen.

Last Week: 10-6

Overall: 30-17

Regionals, analysis, pretty graphics here for the clicking.

Sucesso em todo o Brasil, "Boom" está em cartaz há nove anos e já foi apresentada para um público estimado de 900 mil pessoas. Com a participação de Maria Carollina e Marcelo Barros, cenário e figurino de Cláudio Tovar e direção de Marcus Alvisi, "Boom" promete uma hora e meia de pura diversão.

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Instead I plan to follow up my last post about the way we tell stories with friends with a "The Way I Tell Stories with Friends." The best method by which I figure to do this is to tell you a story...one that happens to involve a nickname.

My gym, called BOOM, I guess because of the high-impact and high-intensity of the classes was my haven in New York for a year. The word filled an orange circle in neon green or white lettering with an ! meant to show just how much of an impact this gym could have on your life. Trainers often stood outside the glass door entrance soliciting people to give it a try and get a free work-out with one of them. As often as they shouted this, they would mumble comments out of the sides of their mouths when they were ignored. Ones like, "you should use it so you can lose it" and "come on girlfriend, it's almost Thanksgiving...you know you don't need another pumpkin pie," laughing at their own wit. I joined before I noticed these "encouragers," otherwise I probably would have passed.

When I worked out there, I stuck mainly to the cardio room, running on the treadmills and ellipticals. Typically, I plugged into my playlist and out of the world around me.

One night after work, I walked to the gym, changed, filled my water bottle, and looked around for the next available machine.

The only one open was a squeaky elliptical positioned precariously between a nicer elliptical and a treadmill, both of which were getting a workout from the people pounding on them. The guy on the treadmill caught my attention. A few years older than I am, he had an 80's sweatband around his head and was rocking to whatever 'jams' were on his ipod. I stepped on my machine and began my workout.

Lost in girl-pop and tunes by Journey, I toned out all the other New Yorkers sweating to their oldies, Friends episode, or ESPN countdown. But the guy on the treadmill kept catching my attention. He bumped up his speed, digging hard into the revolving band. He pushed it up again and as he did, he yelled out "Go Go, COME ON." I almost fell off the elliptical. I turned to him, but his eyes were closed and his shaggy hair flopped back and forth to whatever rhythm the beat of his music set.

I looked around and other people were watching this guy, who was totally unaware and absorbed in his regimen. Their mouths quirked and we cocked our heads and the interruption before going back to our workouts.

About three minutes later, the speed on the guys treadmill revved up again. His arms pumped faster, and he yelled "OH GO GO YEAH YEAH." And again, I completely lost my balance. I frowned at the disturber. Looking down the row of machines, I found a different one at the far end. I snatched it, glancing back to see he was finally getting off, dripping sweat and confidence at his running capabilities. Not bothering to towel off his machine, he walked right by the paper towels and into the Men's Locker room.

Now not only had he disrupted mine and several others' workouts, he also failed to clean the machine he rained sweat on for the past 50 minutes.

Disgusted, I finished my time out and gathered my stuff to leave, deliberately cleaning my machine as if to make up for his slobbery. As I headed to the subway, I called my friend in desperate need for someone to commiserate with my experience.

"So, tonight at the gym there was this guy," I began, "and as he worked out, he'd just shout out all of the sudden, really loudly and randomly..." I demonstrated and a few people glanced at me as they passed by. "It was like he had exercise tourette's ...and everyone stared at him as he'd shout out. Exercise Tourettes kept this up for my entire workout. Do you know how hard it is to focus on a machine I'm already pretty unstable on when someone is shouting next to you? Damn near f-ing impossible..."

She laughed on the other end of the phone as I retold my story, slightly exaggerated of course, but that was the fun of telling it. Exercise Tourettes became one of my first nicknames, and one of which I'm most proud, but certainly not the last one my lips have uttered. The best part of telling a story, I think, is coming up with the names of the people you're talking about in the event you don't actually want to use their real ones...which of course you never because what's the fun in that?

So most of you who are in my stories may be wondering what I call you when I telling one...you may find out soon enough and I'm sorry in advance.

What do corpses and buildings going on en bloc have in common? Eviction, Hard-line Negotiation and a barrel of laughs according to Singapore Repertory Theatre’s latest offering, BOOM.

Directed by Tracie Pang (The Dresser, The Pillowman) and written by up-and-coming playwright Jean Tay (Everything But The Brain), BOOM is based on a premise hardly new to anyone remotely familiar with Singapore – the squeeze for space on a tiny island where ‘sand is more valuable than gold’.

Traversing two concurrent narratives, BOOM traces the story of a property agent, Boon, played by Sebastian Tan of Broadway Beng fame, and overzealous civil servant Jeremiah Chong, played by thespian and local television favourite, Chua En Lai.

While Boon struggles to convince his aged mother to let go of her dilapidated old flat and her beloved, albeit rotting, fig tree and agree to the en bloc sale of their home, Jeremiah tackles a negotiation of a more supernatural variety. His task is to persuade an unusually difficult corpse to relocate, (not that I claim to know about usual corpse-like behaviour), since according to Government stipulations, his fifteen years in the ground is up.

Sound funny yet? Trust me, funny barely begins to scratch the surface. From the witty dialogue peppered with local dialect, the performers’ impeccable comic timing, the non stop prattle of overly cheery property agents about “panoramic view…close to good schools pools…your perfect dream home” to the snide but oh so satisfying digs at civil servants, BOOM’s real appeal is its familiarity.

Every scene provides you with something you’ve probably seen, heard about or complained about yourself and yet the play manages to avoid being overly repetitive or stagey. Instead, with a tight script, clean direction, fascinating set (with, I kid you not, an actual grave in front of the stage!) and commendable acting, BOOM is engaging, entertaining and thought-provoking all at once—definitely no mean feat.

Particularly impressive is acclaimed thespian Fanny Kee’s extremely authentic performance as Boon’s aging mother. Kee manages to be obstinate, hilarious and yet incredibly endearing with her portrayal of the stubborn old woman who insists on clinging on to a past that the future has no patience with.

No doubt BOOM will have audiences laughing a mile a minute and yet, as it has you laughing about death, decay, loss and change, the pertinent questions of the play are by no means thrust to the sidelines. Do long-forgotten rotting corpses have the same value as the run down walls of old homes? Is there no room for the past in our race for the future? Questions that land-scarce Singapore cannot avoid grappling with as the old makes way for the new.

“BOOM” is a production of Stage Two, a professional division of the Singapore Repertory Theatre. “BOOM” held its run from September 18 – 28 at DBS Arts Centre.

Spending a day at home, with a horrible cough, and a slightly spinning head is no fun...

I ended up playing a space rpg/shooter game for most of the time... I need to find a good game that doesn't get old quickly... or... an alternative to the computer that I can actually stick to...