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12 November 2009 @ 06:42 am
Hi again everyone, Well I recently did a cover for the known song of Silent hill "Promise" , well, I thought I could share it here cause ....silent hill is a japanese game, is a song from Akira Yamaoka, and it uses electric guitars...sooo.. I don't really know if this goes into J-rock exactly, but, why not? lol maybe you know some of the other silent hill songs =P

Anyways, that's it, nothing special, a fairly easy song, I think this was the 2º song I learned because of a friend that really liked it, but I had to do a cover sooner or later so, here it is, if you know the song I hope you like it will all the video editing and such as always =)

Have a cool day, ciao :D

oh yeah!! the link! duh :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWcC8rAGKl0

Edward
 
 
 
12 November 2009 @ 12:04 am
Tweets from @Rob_Thurman (probably of a useless and irrelevant nature. Beware.)

09:56 Today, in the vernacular of my youth, sucks donkey dicks. The dicks of vampiric, blood sucking donkeys, but it sucks them all the same. #

10:45 We're going to tear this mother down! @liketheriver1 under departure screen 4 plug to download images for new comic Off to see @rob_thurman #

12:01 cheer up! U *made* the list. agree tho'.Nothing like a poll 2 make u feel like shit @katrchrdsn *sigh* another poll...These just depress me. #

12:13 Oooh. Bring me back some mala beads. I'll totally reimburse you...well, unless they're made of rare black diamonds @marjoriemliu. #

16:09 Yeah, the same day I'm riding my rainbow farting, gold coin burping unicorn to never never land. Mark the date. Snort @katrchrdsn #

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 01:30 pm

Hey guys,
I'm requesting a bass guitar tab for Arashi's Sakura Sake.
Here's the mp3 in HQ:

http://www.imeem.com/micaro/music/Q-pQq-ka/arashi-sakura-sake/

I found an instrumental in pretty good quality, which should help since there won't be 5 guys singing to make it harder:
http://www.imeem.com/delymma/music/rvSx9IPH/arashi-sakura-sake-original-karaoke/

I tried to tab this myself, by looking at piano sheets and other covers, but I can't really seem to get it right. 

http://winkychan.livejournal.com/34866.html
Heres where I found the sheets, there are 3 different versions, but none of them matched up quite correctly to the music when I played them (it sounds off, it might be the key?).

It's definitely in 4/4  and I'm guessing that it's in the key of Eb.

Thanks for all the tabs you've already been doing, ~
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 04:01 pm
 I have the whole FoE chat ripped in ipod/mp4 format if anyone wants it?
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 12:23 pm
Haimazn probably tabbed these before(?) but I couldn't find them, so I re-tabbed them again, I suppose.
Two songs from Alice Nine's Alpha bandscore, both in gp5 format

Aoi Tori - http://www.mediafire.com/?unyjmhqzdiw
JEWELS - http://www.mediafire.com/?md3lwv2mmoz
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 11:09 am
Opera Theater of Saint Louis is hosting the world premiere of The Golden Ticket, a new opera based on Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. One of my favorite mezzos, Jennifer Rivera, is playing Veruca Salt. (Of course the mezzo would play the bratty kid...)

As exciting as this is, this brings up a topic that I've been thinking about/talking with other people about recently. What is with this new trend of making musicals out of movies? Granted, Charlie is a book, but there are two big movies and a musical based on it already. Now there needs to be an opera of it? I think the question needs to be: is this good operatic material?

So here's my problem: medium. Every medium -- be it opera, broadway musical, movie, play, novel, whatever -- has its inherent strong points. Some stories just work in a certain medium. When you start juggling it around, the story loses its original impact. Shrek the musical? Spiderman the musical? An opera based on An Inconvenient Truth? I mean, come on -- who thought this was a good idea? You see the same thing happen when they make your favorite book into a movie. Some movie renditions are wonderful and they even enhance the original story, but some books just lose all their power when they're put into movie form.

I've noticed a trend, especially in broadway musicals, and I think that these media are being compromised because everything new that is being written isn't taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of the form in mind. I could blame it all on commercialism, but this trend began before the recession came in full-force. I think the cause is more laziness than anything. There isn't a commitment to the craft. There needs to be a commitment to the craft! Nothing good ever came from half-hearted writing.

Joyce Didonato, a very successful mezzo-soprano with a refreshing, ever-present awe of life, said it perfectly in her last post when she explained Dr. George Gibson's philosophy. He believes in the three Ds: Dedication, Disclipline, and Determination. I think that is such a great motivator and thing to live by. If only the entertainment industry would do the same...
 
 
Current Location: law office
Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: Act III Finale - Die Fledermaus
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 08:07 am

That's right. Can't officially vote, but you can unofficially  vote in the comment section for Goodfellow and me...or Salome, Delilah, Zeke, and me.

http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=12778

Why always the NYT#1 sellers? They surely don't need any help. Why not show some love for we who struggle, goddamn it? But *be* polite, drop a comment here too, and I'll enter you in the book contest.

Partying with my best bud from W to Sun, so shall be scarce. Hey, maybe I'll pick up an application at Wal-Mart. Health insurance here I come! 
 
 
11 November 2009 @ 12:07 am
Tweets from @Rob_Thurman (probably of a useless and irrelevant nature. Beware.)

14:50 enough with this f*** dial-up. I'm tossing it in the pond, pulling out the blackberry wine and partying like it's 1699! #

15:03 a cackle of mad scientists! @mark_henry Genius...and practicalRT @markteppo: Wondermark's Supernatural Collective Nouns.bit.ly/K9mYZ #

15:14 spread the word. SPNers are good fans kitsunehi13 @Rob_Thurman Blackberry Merlot? My FAV! a big bottle of it to Chicago's Supernatural Con #

15:29 guy on facebook wants to be my friend, but from the pic I think he wants to sacrifice me to his Dark Lord perhaps via a George Forman grill #

15:35 Bring me enough converts and maybe I'll name a doomed character after you @kitsunehi13 @Rob_Thurman And my hotel room will be party central. #

16:02 GOODFELLOW, people. VOTE. @mark_henry VOTE: Which Author Has The Best Secondary Characters Poll bittenbybooks.com/?p=12778 #

18:32 Whoops. Forget voting for the horny and the homicidal of my universe. I'm not listed on the poll. #

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10 November 2009 @ 04:13 pm


Whoops. Update. Pretty pointless to vote for me as I'm not on their list (although they have comment sections to leave a write in vote that won't be counted but will show Goodfellow rocks and that we D-listers don't take this lying down...although Goodfellow would...or standing up...or hanging from a chandelier.) Anyhow, the hell with that noise--since I already posted the contest, you can tell *me* your favorite secondary character and why and I'll still give the books away.

Is a vote for the horny puck in us all. So go vote for our bad bad boy. And of those who vote will be dropped in the hat for a signed book giveaway. Five books...your choice of Deathwish or Trick of the Light (and Zeke, another very bad boy.) 

VOTE: Which Author Has The Best Secondary Characters Poll:   http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=12778

It's not for me, really. It's for my horny and homicidal crew. Don't let them down.

Robin Goodfellow, Salome (who doesn't love a killer mummy cat?), Zeke (who doesn't love a killer...a killer...um...a killer who really enjoys his work.) And so many others.
 

 
 
 
10 November 2009 @ 09:39 am
Hi, I am a longtime reader and watcher of this community, but have not posted in ages. I make violas for a living, thought i would share. Early in my career I decided not to make violins, a choice frowned upon by the master I studied under, and considered by many to be professional suicide. I have proved them all wrong; I drink decently priced wine, and live fairly well in Vienna off the violas. This is the 2009 Martina Filjak viola, shown in its early birth pangs.


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Shown also me selecting the wood in Cremona in 2006, before I even had an inkling of an idea about what it would turn into. Martina Filjak is a pianist whose interpretations of Bartok, and many others I listened to during the construction of the viola. I wrote her an email, hoping to get free concert tickets when she plays here in Vienna. With a shaking hand steadied by loads of esspresso, i begin today varnishing....happily, nervously!
 
 
Hi hi fellas,

LONG TIME NO SEE!!! Heeheehee~~~  ( * 3 * )

I was always a grabber of tabs, but exfrawen asked me long time ago to finish the percussion part of this long named song White Summer and Green Bicycle, Red Hair with Black Guitar from The Pillows. I just replied, well, give me one or two weeks coz I was just buzy on my work.

Yes, I was really buzy in the past couple of months and had no time (sometimes I was just too lazy) to tab the percussion part. However, I'm free now, and have just finished it~~ I think it's time to be a tabber.

So, exfrawen, please have fun with my percussion tab.

Sorry for my business and laziness.

Here is the link to the tabbie:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=71C1BSEY

I also translated the lyrics into English on this site:

http://www.jpopasia.com/lyrics/33146/the-pillows/white-summer-and-green-bicycle-red-hair-and-black-guitar.html

My native language is Chinese, so the English translation may have some errors, please feel free to correct them.

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Updated: I found something not so accurate in my tab so I upload a new one:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G9VLC1G0


 
 
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10 November 2009 @ 12:05 am
Tweets from @Rob_Thurman (probably of a useless and irrelevant nature. Beware.)

10:51 someone get a fecophilia intervention for @mark_henry, STAT! & I take exception 2 being called a vagrant because I can be lured w/a beer can #

11:03 when beer falls like manna from heaven, I do not question its mysterious ways. I CHUG @mark_henry @Rob_Thurman LOL! Were you in that scene? #

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I'm selling an official X JAPAN shirt from the 2008 3-day reunion live. Thus, I am doing a 3-day auction on E-bay. Free shipping in the US, $5 shipping for international. I'll throw in some freebies if I have bands you like. Thank you!

Link HERE.

PS: If you want to purchase this item and cannot use e-bay or paypal, please let me know.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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