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LUD WIG VAN BEETHOVEN
I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.
JASON BECKER
Let me introduce you to the beethoven of the new centuries
This guy add soo mutch bad luck in his life and he never gave up
This guy is a tru music and life lover
My Life, Music, Disease and Yogananda
Before I tell a little about my life and start gushing over Paramahansa Yogananda and Ammachi, let me say it is not my place to tell anyone how to live or think. Most of my beautiful friends are not Self-Realization Fellowship members, although they respect Yogananda and Ammachi. I just think this could be a neat story that might increase one's own faith, from wherever it stems.
When my parents (my first gurus) were young, they read Autobiography of a Yogi. So while I was growing up, I sometimes saw Yogananda's picture on the front cover. Even when I was a toddler I thought, "this guy has all the answers", just from the photo.
My father, Gary, played classical guitar and my uncle, Ron, played blues guitar so I wanted to be a guitar hero. I loved Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, and Eric Clapton; then Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eddie Van Halen. From age five on I constantly practiced and visualized being a great musician. I absorbed every kind of music I heard; classical, Indian, Japanese, Native American, jazz, blues, rock - whatever I could find. I performed at school and little coffeehouses from sixth grade on.
When I was in elementary school there was a creek right around the corner where my family and friends would play. The Richmond SRF Temple was built right above it. While walking home from high school, my friends would take SRF literature and read it sort of mockingly, although the meaning couldn't be mocked. I laughed with them but always said, "He is right though. This guy knows everything." At the time, though, I thought I also knew everything because I was a very good guitarist and giving lessons to even my music teacher.
At sixteen I met my friend, Marty Friedman, a great guitarist, who had already made a few records. We made four albums of virtuoso-type guitar playing together, and played in Japan and across the U.S. We never got mega-famous together but we are known all over the world for our innovative style. In 1989, I left to do my own music only. I joined David Lee Roth's band when I was 20. Every guitarist would have killed for this gig because the two previous guitarists, Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai were respected
stars. In 1990, I won a readers' poll for best new guitarist in "Guitar Magazine".
I had been having a lazy limp in my left leg so I went to check it out. I was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease) and given five years to live. The doctors even said don't bother changing your diet because it won't help. My family was crushed, but I just laughed and said "no way, I have things to do and I'm invincible." My father quit his job to come and live with me in Glendale. I went to Vancouver to record Dave's album, "A Little Ain't Enough," which went gold. The weakness traveled through my body into my fingering hand and, unbeknownst to all but my friend, Steve Hunter, I barely finished the album with a shaky hand. I was also falling often. I laughed about it because I thought it would go away. (See ARTICLES)
One night I dreamed I was running. When I woke up I forgot I had a limp, so I walked totally normal until I remembered, "oh, yeah, I have a limp". Then I immediately stumbled. That showed me that if you have control over your mind, you can do anything.
Anyway, back to Dave's band. Since I couldn't tour with Dave because I was too weak, I started recording on a keyboard and computer with one hand because the other hand would fall. The writing came easy because whole pieces came into my head without any effort. Having great musician friends lay down tracks the way I wanted, including Steve Perry from Journey and members of Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra, took some time but with the help of my friends, Mike Bemesderfer and Dan Alvarez, it was finished in 1995, and released in Japan. Every song came from my heart. It has my guitar playing, full orchestral pieces with flavors of modern and Baroque classical, African, Indian, blues, rock, Native American, choral, Japanese, and fire guitar. Now, thanks to Eddie Van Halen, 'Perspective' will be released on Warner Brothers Records in May 2001.
The first time I felt like I could die was when my voice got weak. I panicked. I needed something. I had my mercury fillings removed, chelation, acupuncture, massage, and diets. I finally thought I needed God, but I never cared or thought about God. How could I know something unknowable? Plus, many religious people I knew were nerdy, annoying, judgmental hypocrites. For some reason I thought you had to be that way to be spiritual (now most every religious friend I have is a great person who tries to live like Christ or their favorite saint). I read the New Testament and though I thought Christ was a perfect God, the words often flew over my head and I didn't think I could know Him.
My father and I started reading Yogananda's book, Man's Eternal Quest and I found out there were lessons. He called the Richmond Temple and asked if someone could come talk to me. Brother Devananda came and gave me Yogananda's book, Where There Is Light. He (and since then every monk and nun who has come to my house) meditated with me, my family and devotee friends. They all give me wisdom, love and compassion, and even though they know there are higher states than body consciousness, they never belittle my condition. This wisdom and understanding from all devotees of Master put the icing on the perfect, beautiful cake of Master's teachings and I had found my path. My father and I ordered the lessons, we went to the Temple when we could, and I started reading Yogananda's Gita for hours a day. Also, sometimes my friend, Serrana, and my mother and uncle wheeled me up to the Temple. There I met an inspiring devotee, David Dunlop. He has become a great friend. He has brought many great stories, friends and monastics to my life. He often comes to meditate or just hang. His ability to see Master and Divine Mother in everyone makes my family and me so comfortable and uplifted that we can't help but share even our darkest secrets. We also see Yogananda work through him.
I could only do the lesson exercises in my head, but this never discouraged me because Master always includes us disabled folks. He doesn't give us excuses. He always says if you can't do everything, you can at least do it in your mind. He means it when he says God is for all.
In 1996, I could barely breathe unless I was totally reclined. Lack of air and so much fear made me very angry much of the time. This anger compounded because I got mad at myself for getting mad. Finally, in February 1997, I reluctantly went to get a tracheostomy (a tube through my throat for breathing) and a gastrostomy (a tube through my abdomen into my stomach for liquids). When I first got to the hospital I hadn't slept for three days. I lay down and stopped breathing. Everyone was happy I was finally resting. My girlfriend came in and started worrying because I responded to nothing. After trying to comfort the ignorant lay people of my family, the doctor finally looked at my chart and me and realized I needed a breathing mask. I had carbon dioxide poisoning. I was close to being a veggie. I am so sorry for people whose lives slip away by human mistakes. I guess it was meant to be, but dang!
I only remember a few minutes of the next week. I had never taken any drug in my life. They had me on morphine and although I needed it and sometimes it felt good and helped me sleep, it made me feel even less in control and thus very angry with everyone, especially nurses.
When I finally came to, I had two brand new shiny holes in my body. I was scared to death, and a groin pain that had been bothering me for a while (which I later found out was excessive air from swallowing) became excruciating every time I coughed or moved. No doctors gave any importance to it because they didn't have an answer. Only a month later did I discover I could remove cups of air out of the tummy tube, and all pain went away for good.
The hospital staff wanted my family out, but only my family could communicate with me. My father invented an ingenious alphabet board with which there is no waiting and pointing like with most boards. Each letter is indicated by two specific eye movements. I can say anything I want very quickly. As soon as the staff saw that my family was not going to leave me for a second - out of love and necessity and not just to complain about the job they were doing - they were happy to have help.
One particular event in the hospital changed my life. I hadn't slept for well over 36 hours. Every hour or two a nurse came in to stick a tube down my throat to suction out mucous from my lungs. This made me violently cough which made my groin unbearably painful. I felt that one more suction would literally kill me. I prayed to God very sincerely to not let me die without knowing the point of it all and learning more about Him. This night at 4:00 AM, my girlfriend was too exhausted to wake up. The nurse who then came in knew I was frantically trying to say no to suction, but she said, "I am just doing my job." She wouldn't wake my girlfriend up. When she finally left I lay in the dark feeling raped. I felt the life start to leave my body. My eyes were open but I couldn't even tense one muscle. I started to black out. All at once I heard distant voices of people I love. After all this hellish fear and confusion, the good stuff began.
While I was still dying, I heard the OM. I felt I was being cradled by something familiar. In one silly vibration - such power, love, infinite wisdom, everything to be known and felt if only I could comprehend one tiny piece of its all-encompassing perfection. During these most blissful moments of my life, something in my heart said, "Lord, I am not ready to go". Instantly I felt life coming back to my body. My eyes were uncontrollably lifted to gaze in my forehead. Without a body, clearer than "life", I went through a door with an eye on it. I believe God was showing me "heaven". It was my idea of a perfect place. Whatever I thought was effortlessly manifest. In my mind I created a guitar and hands to play it. From my mind effortlessly flowed the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Before I even thought of the next perfect phrase it would flow into the ears. I think God was showing me the human potential. We work so hard but if we surrender to God there is no limit to our capabilities. After God was finished trying to teach something to this egotistic knucklehead, my eyes fell back down to my girlfriend sleeping on a cot in the hospital. As I slowly gathered myself and realized the incredible blessing I had received, I felt only love. I tried to remember anger and pain but they were all gone. When the nurse came back and my girlfriend woke up, a glow filled the room. We all could only smile. We all became good friends and talked a lot. From then on I made many nurse and doctor friends.
Without having read Yogananda's lessons, this Grace of God (or my awareness of it) might have ended with this experience. But now I was fired up because Master's words were proven. Every moment I could, I practiced the techniques and for once I could pray from my heart. God gave me many more lessons and visions. Words are inadequate to describe these. I am speechless in God's love and perfection. He showed me that I would never truly leave the people I love. And God is playful. When I would start to drift off to sleep, He would gently but firmly tap my foot to wake me up. After a few times of opening my eyes to see no one there, I knew he was playing with me. God didn't want me to sleep, He was having fun in our loving exchanges. Since this great couple of weeks I haven't kept up the intensity, but I will always know God is with me, guiding me, ready to play, teach and love.
I hung pictures of the SRF Gurus in my hospital room. I had dim lighting and meditation music playing as often as possible. The staff always came into my room to relax and talk with my family to get away from the hectic hospital environment. (Click on individual photos to learn more.)
I talk a lot about doing things myself, but I am slowly seeing God does everything. And I could do nothing without my parents, brother Ehren, former girlfriend and best friend Serrana, girlfriend Marilyn, and huge team of family and friends. The doctor wanted to teach me a lesson for choosing to get a tracheostomy instead of politely dying. This was actually told to my mother, plus many more horrible things she can't even talk about. The doctor almost insisted I be put in a hospital for life. My Mom realized that she was dealing with a person who had forgotten the heart. Mom fought with love, confidence and peaceful determination. Of course she won and I went home. I eat way less than nurses tell me to (8 cans of Jevity or 2,000 calories). Mostly I eat fresh fruit and vegetable juices, vitamins, nuts, and once a week, eggs, beans or something cooked. I sometimes even fast on juice. Since this diet, I have gained over forty pounds. I have been doing Kriya Yoga since October, 1997, only in my mind. It is awesome anyway.
Now that my parents have seen the infinite ways Paramahansa Yogananda and Divine Mother are literally with me and with them, they faithfully read the Lessons and know they are not alone. The Richmond SRF Temple always sends my parents and me beautiful flowers.
People wonder how I can be happy and excited about life with no movement, voice, or breathing without a machine. The most obvious reasons are a great family and friends showering me with affection. I constantly feel love and respect from everyone I meet and from fans around the world. Plus, in addition to "Perspective" coming out in 2001, I have three CD's worth of guitar material that I recorded at home while I could still play, ready to be released, an instructional video for guitarists, and a ten-minute video for "Perspective" with a full orchestra, a ballet, and my father's paintings. Plus, this SRF article that I have written with my eyes has inspired me to start writing my book. I am also trying to get funding for a computer that reads my eye movements. With this computer I could also record the music that is in my head, and write a book. And I am doing a treatment called the Wet Cell Battery, advised for ALS by the Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce. I can move three new muscles that were gone for years, and my body is looser.
These things are indispensable, no doubt, but there is something subtle which is growing more tangible every day (or I should say every month because I still make many mistakes, so I only see my progress when I look back and reflect). The constancy of ALS can be overwhelming. There is never a lunch hour or even a second break. Not only during my four hours a day of attempted meditation (or, as I call it, swallowtation, because spit rolls down my throat causing me to swallow a lot), but most minutes of the day I feel an inner peace. I know Master is taking most of the hell away, literally.
I once read a story about Master's favorite disciple, Rajarsi Janakananda. Master had left the body. During Rajarsi's last couple of years, he had a painful brain tumor, yet he was peaceful. He said Master often came into his body to take on the pain himself. I know Master loves his most mistake-ridden, forgetful, arrogant devotees like me as much as his favorite disciples. A dream-vision my mother had, proved what I already felt.
One day I was meditating. Mom lay down in front of me. She drifted and then something made her look at me. Instead of me, Yogananda was in my wheelchair with a tube in his throat. He was breathing like me, looking at my mom with a big smile on his face. Mom closed and opened her eyes to see me suddenly jerk. I think Yogananda was giving me a break and my jerk was him leaving my body.
Master has taught me to love and respect saints of all religions. Thanks to Yogananda I am open to learn from Jesus and every saint I read about. A few times I have gone to see a great saint and healer, Mata Amritanandamayi, or Ammachi. Since I have a picture of Yogananda on my wheelchair, people always come up to talk about Him and are happy to know about the Richmond SRF Temple. The last day Ammachi was here, I was feeling a little guilty because I feel such love for her (even though Master is always in my mind). When I got home, there was a personal letter from the Mother Center with rose petals blessed at Guruji's shrine. To me Master was saying, "I am always with you wherever you are. I know what is in your heart."
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Everyone know that Jackie Chan is the coolest guy in the world!!!!
Honestly just look at him
You cant tell me you want to hit him
When i see him i just want to give him a Big Big hug
METAL GEAR
Metal gear is the greatest series of game ever made.
Even if you dont like this kind of game the storie will show something new that youv never seen in a movie.
A serie made buy hideo kojima start whit:
Metal Gear (msx2/famicon/nes/c64/pv/mobile phone)(1987)
Metal Gear 2 : solid snake (msx2/mobile phone)(1990)
Snake's revenge (nes)(1990)
Metal Gear solid (ps1/pc)(1998)
Metal Gear solid : Integral (ps1)(1999)
Metal Gear solid : VR mission (1999)
Meatl Gear : Gost Babel (gbc)(2000)
Metal Gear 2 : Sons of liberty (ps2)(2001)
Metal Gear 2 : Substance (xbox/ps2/pc)(2002)
The document of Metal Gear solid 2 (ps2)(2002)
Metal Gear Solid : The twin snake (gc)(2004)
Metal Gear 3 : Snake eater (ps2)(2004)
Metal Gear 3 : Subsistance (ps2)(2005)
Metal Gear Acid (psp)(2005)
Metal Gear Acid 2 (psp)(2006)
Metal Gear solid :Digital Comis (psp)(2006)
Metal Gear solid 4 : Guns of the patriots (ps2)(tba)
PRIMUS
Primus is all about Les Claypool; there isn't a moment on any of their records where his bass isn't the main focal point of the music, with his vocals acting as a bizarre side-show. Which isn't to deny guitarist Larry LaLonde or drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander any credit; no drummer could weave in and around Claypool's convoluted patterns as effortlessly as Alexander, and few guitarists would willingly push the spotlight away, like LaLonde does, just to can produce a never-ending spiral of avant-noise. All of this means that they are miles away from being another punk-funk combo like the Red Hot Chili Peppers; Claypool may slap and pop his bass, but there is little funk in the rhythm he and Alexander lay down. Instead, they're a post-punk Rush spiked with the sensibility and humor of Frank Zappa. Primus' songs are secondary to showcasing their instrumental prowess. Their music is willfully weird and experimental, yet it's not alienating; the band was able to turn their goofy weirdness into pop stardom. At first, the band was strictly an underground phenomenon, but in the years between their third and fourth albums, their cult grew rapidly. 1991's Sailing the Seas of Cheese went gold shortly before the release of Pork Soda. By the time of the album's 1993 release, Primus had enough devoted fans to make Pork Soda debut in the Top Ten. After touring for a year -- including a headlining spot on Lollapalooza 1993 -- Claypool revived his Prawn Song record label in 1994 and released a reunion record by Primus' original lineup under the name Sausage. In the summer of 1995, Primus released their fifth album, Tales From the Punch Bowl. It was another success, going gold before the end of the year. In the summer of 1996, Primus announced they were parting ways with their drummer, Tim Alexander. He was replaced by Brian "Brain" Mantia, who made his debut on The Brown Album, which was released in the summer of 1997. The covers EP Rhinoplasty followed in 1998, and a year later, Primus returned with Antipop. Antipop was a departure from previous Primus albums, as different producers were used on almost each track (including such notables as Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Tom Waits, South Park creator Matt Stone, and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland) and it featured such guest artists as Metallica's James Hetfield and former Faith No More guitarist Jim Martin. After a supporting tour wrapped up in 2000, Mantia left the band to join Guns N' Roses. Claypool talked about reuniting with former drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander in the press, but shortly afterward announced that Primus was going on indefinite hiatus. During the ensuing break, Claypool focused on recording the debut album by his side project, Oyster Head (who also included Copeland and Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio), as well as releasing his two-part solo outing, Live Frogs: Set 1 and Set 2. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, All Music Guide
JOE SATRIANI
Satriani was inspired to play guitar at age 14 after hearing that Jimi Hendrix had died. Satriani reportedly heard the news during a football training session where he immediately confronted his coach and announced that he was quitting to become a guitarist. During the 1970s, Satriani moved to Berkeley, California to pursue a music career. When his friend and former student Steve Vai gained fame playing with David Lee Roth in 1986, Vai raved about Satriani in several interviews with guitar magazines. In 1987, Satriani's second album Surfing With the Alien produced popular radio hits, and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years. Satriani also toured Australia with Mick Jagger in support of the Rolling Stones singer's solo album.
Satriani (left) on the cover of the April 1990 issue of the Guitar World magazine with Steve Vai.In 1989, Satriani released the album Flying in a Blue Dream. One Big Rush was featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything. The Forgotten Part II was featured on a Labatt Blue commercial in Canada in 1993. Big Bad Moon, one of Satriani's few singles with personally sung vocals, was a big hit in 1991-1992.In 1994, Satriani joined the band Deep Purple to replace guitarist Ritchie Blackmore during the band's Japanese tour. In 1996, he formed G3, a concert tour featuring three instrumental rock guitarists -- originally Satriani, Vai, and Eric Johnson. The G3 tour has continued periodically since its inaugural version, where Satriani and Vai are returning members, featured with a floating third member, including Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robert Fripp and more.Satriani is also credited on many other albums, including guitar duties on Alice Cooper's Hey Stoopid (1991), Spinal Tap's Break Like The Wind (1992), Blue yster Cult's Imaginos (1988), band members Stu Hamm and Gregg Bissonette's solo albums, and many others including countless guitar heroes-style albums. Interestingly, he was credited for singing background vocals on the 1986 debut album by Crowded House. In 2003, he played lead guitar in The Yardbirds' CD release Birdland.
MEGADETH
After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet
Megadeth. Though Megadeth followed the basic blueprint of Metallica's relentless attack, Mustaine's group distinguished themselves from his earlier band by lessening the progressive rock influences, adding an emphasis on instrumental skills, speeding the tempo up slightly, and making the instrumental attack harsher. By streamlining the classic thrash metal approach and making the music more threatening, as well as making the lyrics more nihilistic, Megadeth became one of the leading bands of the genre during the mid-'80s and late '80s. Each album they released went at least gold, and they continually sold out arenas across America, in addition to developing a strong following overseas. By the early '90s, they had toned their music down slightly, yet that simply increased their following; all of their proper '90s albums debuted in the Top Ten.Throughout Megadeth's many lineup changes, the two core members were bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine (b. September 13, 1961), who was the band's official leader. Mustaine grew up in the suburbs of Southern California, where he was raised by his mother in a broken home; frequently, his mother left him to be raised by aunts and uncles, who never encouraged his musical inclinations and often belittled him for his fondness for heavy metal. In 1981, he formed Metallica with James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Mustaine spent two years with Metallica, developing a strong cult following in California's underground metal scene, before he was kicked out of the group in 1983, allegedly over his substance abuse. Immediately following his firing, he formed Megadeth with Ellefson, Slayer guitarist Kerry King, and drummer Lee Rauch. This lineup was extremely short-lived, and Mustaine and Ellefson soon recruited guitarist Chris Poland and drummer Gar Samuelson.For the next few years, Megadeth toured and gained a following, signing with the independent label Combat in late 1984. The following year, the group released their debut, Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!, which received strong reviews, not only in metal-oriented publications, but also in mainstream music magazines. The album sold very well for an independent release, which attracted the attention of major record labels. By the end of the year, the group had signed with Capitol. Megadeth's first major-label album, Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?, was released in the fall of 1986. Like its predecessor, Peace Sells was greeted by strong reviews and sales; it eventually went platinum.Although the band's fortunes were on the upswing, Mustaine was beginning to sink deeper into drug abuse, specifically heroin. Soon, his addictions began to affect his work. Many stories concerning his erratic behavior were circulating within the metal community, and they seemed to be proven correct when he fired both Poland and Samuelson before the recording of the band's third album; they were replaced by Jeff Young and Chuck Behler, respectively. The new lineup debuted on So Far, So Good...So What!, released early in 1988. So Far, So Good peaked at number 28 on the charts and also eventually went platinum (despite less enthusiastic reviews); it also featured a notorious cover of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the UK," with incorrect lyrics.In the years immediately following the release of So Far, So Good...So What!, Mustaine was impaired by his drug addictions. In early 1990, he was arrested for driving under the influence and entered a rehabilitation program. By the end of the year, he was not only sober, but he had reconvened the band; firing Young and Behler and replacing them with guitarist Marty Friedman and drummer Nick Menza. This lineup recorded Megadeth's fourth and most progressive album, Rust in Peace. The record peaked at number 23 on the American charts and went platinum. 1991 saw Metallica break through to the mainstream, and sensing the possibility for similar success, Mustaine followed suit in stripping down the band's sound, though it remained as technically perfectionistic as Rust in Peace. The result, Countdown to Extinction, was released in 1992, entering the charts at number two; the record went double-platinum and became the band's biggest hit, confirming that they had retained their audience in the wake of grunge.Now one of the most popular metal bands in the world, Megadeth moved farther toward the mainstream with Youthanasia in 1994, which entered the charts at number four and, like its predecessor, went platinum. The following year, the group released Hidden Treasures, a rarities collection which featured some of the soundtrack tunes that had helped expand the group's MTV audience in the early '90s. 1997's Cryptic Writings found Megadeth fully embraced by album rock radio, which formerly would never have touched the band. Ex-Suicidal Tendencies drummer Jimmy DeGrasso signed on in 1998, in time for the following year's Risk. In 2000, following the release of the best-of Capitol Punishment, Marty Friedman followed Nick Menza out the door; he was replaced by former Savatage and Alice Cooper guitarist Al Pitrelli. After signing with the BMG subsidiary Sanctuary, Megadeth debuted its new lineup on 2001's The World Needs a Hero.While on break from touring, Mustaine suffered a serious injury in January 2002 while staying in Texas. He was diagnosed with having radial neuropathy shortly thereafter, a condition that prevented him from playing guitar. The compressed radial nerves in his left arm and hand were strained, leaving Megadeth little recourse but to disband in April 2002, after almost 20 years in the music industry. During his time off, Mustaine prepared an elaborate reissue campaign, remastering each album and reissuing them all with bonus material. This campaign set the stage for a Megadeth revival, which came in 2004-2005 with a surprising comeback album, The System Has Failed, and some heavy touring. Capitol released a new best-of, simply titled Greatest Hits, just as Megadeth hit the summer concert circuit, headlining Mustaine's own Gigantour festival. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
TOOL
Tool's greatest breakthrough was to introduce dark, vaguely underground metal to the preening pretentiousness of art rock. Or maybe it was introducing the self-absorbed pretensionof art rock to the wearing grind of post-thrash metal -- the order really doesn't matter. Though Metallica wrote their multi-sectioned, layered songs as if they were composers, they kept their musical attack ferociously at street level. Tool didn't -- they embraced the artsy, faux-bohemian preoccupations of Jane's Addiction while they simultaneously paid musical homage to the dark, relentlessly bleak visions of grindcore, death metal, and thrash. Even with their post-punk influences, they executed their music with the ponderous, anti-song aesthetic of prog rock, alternating between long, detailed instrumental interludes and tuneless, pseudo-meaningful lyrical rants in their songs. Tool, however, had a knack for conveying the strangled, oppressive angst that the alternative nation of the early '90s claimed as their own. So, the band was able to slip into the definition of alternative rock during the post-Nirvana era, landing a slot on the third Lollapalooza tour in 1993, which helped their first full length debut album, Undertow, rocket into platinum status. By the time the band delivered their belated follow-up, Aenima, in 1996, alternative rock had lost its grip on the mainstream of America, and their audience had shaped up as essentially metal-oriented, which meant that the group and the record didn't capture as big an audience as their first album, despite debuting at number two on the charts. When their first full-length album was released in 1993 (they released an EP a year earlier), Tool won lots of fans with their grinding, post-Jane's Addiction heavy metal. With their dark, angry lyrics and numbing guitar drilling, they appealed both to metalheads and alternative rock fans. When they landed an opening spot on Lollapalooza, their audience grew by leaps and bounds; the increased exposure helped their debut album, Undertow, go gold. Its 1996 follow-up, Aenima, was also a success.After a co-headlining slot with Korn on Lollapalooza '97 wrapped up, Tool remained on the road, supporting Aenima until well into the next year. During their usual extended hiatus between albums, Keenan decided to use his downtime productively by forming a side project, dubbed A Perfect Circle. The band's 2000 debut, Mer de Noms, was a surprise hit, while their ensuing tour was a sold-out success as well. With Tool break-up rumors swirling, the band put the speculation to rest by re-entering the recording studio and issuing the stop-gap B-sides/DVD set Salival late the same year. May 2001 finally saw the release of Tool's third full-length release, Lateralus, which debuted at the number one position on the Billboard album chart and became the band's biggest hit. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, All Music Guide
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Ninja scroll is a prety goo manga movie but its also a prety cool short serie.
In feudal Japan, the Edo period brought a time of delicate peace bought with blood. Ninja Scroll: The Series chronicles the life of Jubei Kibagami as he wanders the countryside as a ninja for hire. At this time, ninja clans are everywhere. One clan, known as the Hiruko Clan, doomed to live and die in darkness, protects a sacred treasure called the Dragon Stone. The Kimon Clan, however, bent on reviving the power of the Toyotomi, wants the Dragon Stone and the treasure it hides. Jubei Kibagami is the best the man for the job of protecting both the Dragon Stone and the only one whom can use it - The Light Maiden.
VEGETA
NARUTO
KAKASHI
SASUKE
LES FOURMIS
Le temps que vous lisiez ces lignes, sept cents millions de fourmis seront nées sur la planète. Sept cents millions d'individus dns une communauté estimée à un milliard de milliards, et qui a ses villes, sa hiérarchie, ses colonies, son langage, sa production industrielle, ses esclaves, ses mercenaires... Ses armes aussi. Terriblement destructrices. Lorsqu'il entre dans la cave de la maison léguée par un viel oncle entomologiste, Jonathan Wells est loin de se douter qu'il va à leur rencontre. A sa suite, nous allons découvrir le monde fabuleusement riche, monstrueux et fascinant de ces "infra-terrestre", au fil d'un thriller unique en son genre, où le suspense et l'horreur reposent à chaque page sur les donées scientifiques les plus rigoureuses. Voici pour la première fois un roman dont les héros sont des fourmis.
GOLDORAK
Il parcour tout l'univer
Aussi vite que la lumierre
Qui est il
D'ou vient il
Formidable robot des temps nouveau
C'est Goldorak le grand ....... Le grand Goldorak
AND GOLDOSH
AND IF YOU DONT KNOW WHO IS GOLDOSH WELL YOU SUCK