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I'm new here, just found this forum by looking online.
I think right now I just need some advice from others like me. I'm just feeling a bit lost.
About 3 weeks ago I came out to by 2 best friends. I'm glad I did because this is who I am. I can't really explain it but its like being able to breathe for once.
But about 2 weeks ago in my sculpture class I was outed by one of the girls in my class. I had never told her or anyone in that class, much less that campus.
I was speaking with the table that I sit at and I guess what triggered this girl to out me was by me saying that I don't want children at this point in my life. I don't have the best relationship with my family, so I'm not sure if I want kids.
But the very second I said this, the girl just started saying, "You're the biggest stereotype! Come out! Come out! It's okay! Push, push, push! Push the door! Don't be afraid! Push!" She just yelled it out in front of the classroom. What made me so mad was that she was laughing the whole time.
I'm bi and the campus I go to is really a religious campus. I mean, the people are religious, not the campus, but the comments I've heard about gay people have hurt me at times. I'm the 'gay' guy now in that class and even a few people have stopped speaking to me or just sort of act like I'm not there.
I don't have any gay friends, so just having to deal with coming to terms with my sexuality has been hard. And this girl that outed me in that class is gay. I thought this was my right to keep this private, to tell those I trusted.
I don't even know what to do. I feel so abused and harassed by this girl for doing this. And she doesn't stop because she makes like comments to others when I'm around. She'll say things like, 'Well, you know gay guys, they're crazy."
I really want her to stop. I don't know who to go to. I can't do this. I mean, any advice?
If she's gay, I think she should know better. She should have given you more respect than that. Maybe she's just ecstatic and over the top that there's another 'gay/bi' person she knows and she's overreacting.
Tell her she's making you uncomfortable. Tell her to stop, don't go on huge tangents - otherwise she won't get it. Maybe to her being gay/bi might be a big deal, but tell her there's a lot more to being you and being a person than just being gay. Be upfront with her, simply being gay doesn't require extra sympathy on your part if she's a dick or bad person. Being gay shouldn't affect how you see or treat a person (in this context), especially if she's already being inconsiderate towards you.
As for being outed, I hope things are going alright. I guess look at the positive side of it, you're being honest to a lot of people and you no longer have to pretend. It takes a lot of courage to do that.
And... welcome! Enjoy your stay, people are pretty friendly here.
I guess the issue is whether you can go back into the closet... if you're truly outed, it's typically not easy to go back. But this depends on how you handled it when she was saying this stuff, her reputation at school, etc.
If you're the gay guy now in that class, it would probably spread throughout the school kind of quickly.
So, I guess I'm wondering if you have the option of going back to being closeted.
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
Wow. That was rude of her. D: You shouldn't out people (obviously) Blehh..
I guess you'll just have to confront her about it. I agree with Uncertain.
Either way, good luck with it all. I'm sure it's not easy to be outed when you aren't ready/expecting it. You might be able to get back in the closet, and if not, you'll get the hang of it. The hardest part is learning to stop caring what people think, and what stupid judgements they make.
Keep this in mind: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don' t matter and those who matter don't mind." ~Dr.Suess
I wish I could tell you to just ignore her, and go on with your life, but that only works in feel-good stories.
Can you just take her aside and tell her to knock it off? (Okay, make it sound like you're not talking to a three year old, but ya get my point.)
If you can't/she won't, I guess...you are who you are. And people are assholes, no getting around that. Hopefully, if you don't confirm or deny any of it (or deny, as long as you're okay with that), it'll blow over after a while.
Or it won't. It fucking sucks, and I'm so sorry that your coming out has been so traumatizing. *hug*
As callous as it is, the people who won't talk to you aren't worth it. And I know that helps just about as much as if I was saying that it'll pass. But it's true.
I really hope you stay with Oasis...I keep coming back here, and the people are wonderful.
Good luck!!! I'm sure we'd all like to know how things turn out.
"Excuse me if I don't feel comfortable shoving this tampon up my penis in the mens room." Andrea Gibson, on women who mistake her for a guy in the ladies room.
down here in texas the gays are crazy...lol..we would just laugh and call her a dumb bitch but thats just us...if i were you i would just ignore it...i know its easy said then done but if you just agree to everything she say sarcastically then she will get tired of you and drop the subject..if that doesnt work then act like a texas boy and tell her to shut up bitch.. and as for the religous school they should know better then to ridicule anyone the whole message of god is about helping people and being a better person duh!!! well good let and let us know how it goes
~mark from texas!~
If you told her in confidence then what she's doing is very unfair. And if you want her to stop, tell her to stop. She sounds annoying actually.
But once you tell a secret, even to one or two people, it's really not a secret anymore.
I have kept possibly one secret in my entire life. Two actually. Everything else get's told to a trusted friend or my mother or several friends. Who then tell a trusted friend or their mother or several friends.
When I first told a person I was gay, two more people knew by the next day. I didn't find out about this until a year or so later once I was out properly. I never officially came out at my other school but everyone knew, because everyone talks.
I wish you every luck on your religious campus- which does complicate your situation- but if you want to be immune from outing, come out. If you don't do it now when will you do it?
And if you don't come out how will you meet other gays?


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Officer Arthur E. Dunn had radioed Redding Dispatch that he was bringing in a prisoner he had arrested for drunk driving. When Dunn failed to arrive an hour later or respond to radio contact, his beat partner started a search. Dunns patrol car was discovered over an embankment where it had plunged after the prisoner shot the officer with a small caliber handgun he had concealed. Dunns killer escaped by kicking out the patrol cars rear window but was captured nearby. Officer Dunn, 43, was a 14-year CHP veteran and had been assigned to the Burney Resident Post for 10 years
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Officer William B. Wolff, III was returning to his vehicle after making an enforcement stop along the San Bernardino Freeway when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver. The force of the impact was such that Wolff was thrown over the vehicle he cited and was killed instantly. The 32-year-old patrol officer had joined the CHP four years earlier and had served in the Baldwin Park Area since graduating from the Academy. The motorist who killed Officer Wolff was charged with felony drunk driving.
Officer Ward E. Washington was killed when a truck blew a tire and the driver lost control, hurtling the truck off the Pomona Freeway and striking Officer Washington as he was having lunch at an outdoor restaurant. Ironically, Washington, 39, had been assigned to reduce truck accidents by inspecting the vehicles in truck yards and on the roads for safety violations. Officer Harold E. Horine Officer W. F. Leiphardt, Jr. Baldwin Park - May 13, 1978 Officers Harold E. Horine and William F. Leiphardt, Jr., both 39 years old, were partners working out of the Baldwin Park Area office. Horine and Leiphardt were investigating a roadside crash involving an abandoned vehicle when a passing tractor and trailer swerved onto the shoulder, smashed into the abandoned car, and rammed it into the patrol officers. Horine and Leiphardt were both killed instantly. Officer Horine had been a member of the Patrol for 10 years, and Office Leiphardt had 12 years of service with the CHP. The truck driver was charged with felony drunk driving and manslaughter. Officer Gayle W. Wood Officer James E. McCabe Southern Division - September 1, 1978 Officers Gayle W. Wood and James E. McCabe were on air-traffic patrol, making their last run before quitting at dusk when their CHP helicopter crashed and burned near Castaic Lake on Interstate 5. The helicopter struck a power line support that apparently was not visible in the approaching darkness. Officer Wood, the 41-year-old pilot, was a 10-year veteran of the Patrol and had been a CHP pilot for five years. Officer McCabe, the 34-year-old observer, had been a member of the Patrol for seven years and a helicopter observer for six months. Officer Roy P. Blecher Officer William M. Freeman Woodland - December 22, 1978 Officers Roy P. Blecher and William M. Freeman were partners, working out of the Woodland Area Office, when they were gunned down along Interstate 80 near the Yolo Causeway in West Sacramento. Investigators found signs of a struggle. Blecher was handcuffed and shot in the back of the head and Freeman had been overpowered, shot and killed. Their last radio contact was at 3:12 a.m. when they stopped a suspect for a routine traffic violation. The killer was captured, tried and convicted of the murders and is currently serving a life sentence. Officer Blecher, 50, was a 21-year CHP veteran and Officer Freeman, 32, was a 12-year Patrol veteran. |
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It's all over for 360 phones, but software lives on as "suite of services".
Vodafone 360 phones killed off
Vodafone 360 is dead. Or, at least, phones rocking its dedicated OS are. The network has announced that the Samsung H1 and M1, along with the forthcoming H2, are all being killed off. The social networking-mad software, however, will continue to live on in 100 handsets, giving you access to dedicated apps, tunes, maps and the chance to integrate contacts from Facebook and Twitter. ----------------------------------- In an official statement, Vodafone said, "We have always been clear that Vodafone 360 is about a suite of services, not just about bespoke devices. Our intent was always to provide services across as many handsets as possible on as many platforms." However, with similar services already rocking up as native features of mobile operating systems, HTC Sense being just one example, how many punters are really going to check out Vodafone 360? Have you got a Vodafone 360 phone? Or were you planning on snaffling a Samsung H2, only to have your hopes dashed? Tell us your thoughts on Facebook and Twitter. |


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Search "no chill method " It exists.
Obviously there is a higher chance of infection but also because there will not be any cold break beer will most likely be quite hazy
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J.Dash: Miley Cyrus & I Will Do a Collaboration Together
You've probably seen Miley Cyrus' unicorn-onesie-wearing Twerk video by now, but were you familiar with the "Wop" song before?!
J. Dash, the man behind the "Wop" jam, revealed to "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" after Miley debuted her Twerking skills to his jam, the song has soared in popularity.
And J. Dash and Miley are no strangers. In fact, not only did Miley tweet him to check out the video, they also joked about getting matching unicorn tattoos.
So will we see a J.Dash and Miley collab in the near future?
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Based on interviews with 18 current and former Microsoft executives, as well as contractors and partners who worked on the tablet project, the CNet article details how the ill-fated Courier tablet lost out in a power struggle with the competing Windows 8 project.
Courier, which had been publicly disclosed, was going to be a very different tablet than the iPad or earlier Tablet PCs. The sleek Microsoft prototype featured two screens that users could control with either pen or finger touch input. It was also near ready to ship, versus tablets based on Windows 8 that were a good two years ago from release (Windows 8 tablet prototypes have been given to developers, but aren't expected to be generally available till the second half of next year).
But a sticking point for Ballmer, and chairman Bill Gates who the article says was also consulted, is that Courier ran a modified version of Windows. As a result Courier couldn't, for example, run Microsoft's feature-rich Outlook email app. The software giant makes billions of dollars a year on its Exchange e-mail server software and Outlook.
Gates reportedly had "an allergic reaction" to the news Outlook wouldn't run, according to a Courier worker who attended the strategy meeting where Courier's fate was decided.
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By: vetyourpet on May 5, 2007 - 1:39pm - Add new comment
What's going on with that new restaurant that sticks out onto the water from Buckingham? It looks like it got to a certain point and then stopped. It never looks like anything is going on over there. Anybody know?
By: vetyourpet on April 14, 2007 - 7:13pm - Add new comment
I need some honest input, please. I have a very small yard that has completely gotten out of control. The ivy is headed for the bridge, the bushes are scary, the grass is suspiciously not looking like real grass, and it's generally not an attractive little area. I think if a person, who knew what they were doing (not me!) could come and get it under control, I think I could maintain it. I'm sure I need to get a couple of estimates, and I hate to just pick names out of the phone book without reaching out to the BT bloggers first.
By: vetyourpet on February 28, 2007 - 6:50pm - Add new comment
Angel2Strays' original blog question was, basically....where can she move to, in Bluffton, that will allow her to have her dogs? I don't think we helped her. How about it? I'm sure she wants to move to our area because she sees what a pet-friendly, helpful, supportive neighborhood community this is. Where can she go? Someone out there must have a contact or a connection for her.
By: vetyourpet on February 24, 2007 - 7:26pm - Add new comment
I wish we had thought of this ahead of time, but we didn't. My daughter was driving on 278 this afternoon, and saw an injured racoon in the median. She pulled over, saw it was still alive and tried to make some phone calls. I realized that I would have NO IDEA who to call in this same situation, be it a deer, dog, or racoon. Please share phone numbers, so that all of us can keep these numbers in our cars. Thank you!
By: vetyourpet on February 10, 2007 - 12:16pm - Add new comment
My daughter sent out an e-mail, to everyone on her list, hoping ONE wonderful person will be able to help. She lives in Ridgeland..so this is all local. She is NOT the owner of the dog, but the dog's owner came to her for help. My daughter already has 6 rescue dogs and 3 rescued cats. Here's the jist of the story. This dog is fun, loving, kind, gentle, totally loveable, but is also large and naughty. He has been returned to the shelter twice, by previous adoptive families, and is headed back to the shelter this weekend.
By: vetyourpet on January 25, 2007 - 6:46pm - Add new comment
This seems so silly and petty, but it's at least not a huge social crisis. I'm soon to be a Mother-of-the-Groom and, of course, will need a special dress. Does anyone know the name of any catalogs or websites or on-line shopping sites where I could browse for a dress? I just can't start shopping a hundred stores.... I don't have the time or the patience. I am a plus-size lady, so a petites catalog won't be of help. Anybody?
By: vetyourpet on January 7, 2007 - 12:42am - Add new comment
My daughter would like to move to Bluffton but, right now, she can probably only afford to rent. She has a family and rescue dogs, though, so she needs a place that will accept pets. She would be willing to pay an extra deposit for the dogs. Does anyone know of a home for rent in a friendly, safe, animal-friendly area of Bluffton?
By: vetyourpet on December 5, 2006 - 10:22pm - Add new comment
As are all decent people, I am so happy to know that Sammy and Moose are out of harm's way, and are on the road to recovery, loving homes, and good health. I can't help but think, however, of their previous owner. He must be legally restricted from owning other dogs, or he will do this again and again. What is the update on the legalities of his offense?
PS Do you still need donations for vet care for Moose and Sammy? I just saw the article and pictures yesterday, and it said the surgery was today.
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Are there clinics or community businesses that are going to (or already are) offering flu shots?
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Does anyone know anything about the Metabolic Research Center in Bluffton? I'm wondering what kind of a weight-loss program it is and how expensive it is.


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8 Great Christian Songs
Here are 8 great Christian songs. (The links lead to the corresponding audio via YouTube.)
1. Hail, Holy Queen. This is, by far, my favorite hymn. Hearing it during the closing procession at the evening Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption this past week was one of the highlights of that day. And I'm not the only one that shares such a high enthusiasm for it – after all, who could forget the famous Sister Act version?
2. Panis Angelicus. It was written by St. Thomas Aquinas as part of Sacris Solemniis, and it is one of my all-time favorite songs – out of every genre. If it were up to me, singing it would be mandatory around the Eucharist at every Mass. The polished version from Luciano Pavarotti is the best.
3. Turn Around. I'm not a big Matt Maher fan, which is probably due to my unsatisfying Protestant upbringing and, stemming from that, my general distaste for anything affiliated with the charismatic movement. Despite this, the song contains a good message on God's grace, and I can be occasionally caught humming it.
4. Dies Irae. Considering its prominence in the traditional Requiem Mass, this chant about Judgment Day is hardly uplifting, but it maintains a sense of the sacred that I find lacking in most other songs.
5. The Litany of the Saints. I never hesitate to give credit to this prayer when discussing my conversion to Catholicism. This particular rendition from the 2005 papal conclave always fills me with awe.
6. Te Deum. It has traditionally been ascribed to St. Ambrose and St. Augustine (two of my favorite saints!), and it is simply great. I was first introduced to it by an Anglican, surprisingly enough. The lyrics are not especially profound, but they provide a captivating reflection on the grandness of God.
7. Miserere. This Latin classic is based on Psalm 51 (Greek: 50), which enshrines contrition.
8. The Paraklesis. It consists of a series of odes to Mary, the Theotokos (Mother of God). This version from the Greek Orthodox is beautiful. (An English translation is available in the video's description.)
What are your favorites? Please share them in the comments section below.
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Preston chairman Peter Ridsdale has reiterated the club's desire for a high-quality striker ahead of the upcoming season.
Neil Mellor believes his former club Preston will have failed if they are not top-six challengers in League One next season.
Preston striker Neil Mellor has been forced to retire from professional football due to a knee injury.
Preston striker Neil Mellor is a transfer target for MK Dons despite suffering an injury which brought his season to an end.
Preston boss Graham Westley has revealed striker Neil Mellor is set to resume training following a lengthy injury absence.
Preston striker Neil Mellor and a number of his team-mates have expressed their disappointment at the sacking of Phil Brown.
Preston boss Phil Brown has a striking headache to contend with after injuries to Iain Hume and Neil Mellor.
Preston boss Phil Brown has lauded leading marksman Neil Mellor's finishing ability.
Notts County boss Martin Allen has been named Manager of the Month for September following a run of four wins and a draw.
Preston striker Neil Mellor is enjoying life back at the club following his loan spell with Sheffield Wednesday.
Sheffield Wednesday boss Gary Megson says Preston North End striker Neil Mellor remains his number one transfer target.
Sheffield Wednesday manager Gary Megson has laid down a challenge to his strikers on the club's mini tour of Austria.
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Sheffield Wednesday's bid to sign striker Neil Mellor from Preston North End has fallen through.
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The Coleman 48 Qt. Combo combines 3 of Coleman's must-have cooler items to create a 3-piece matching set that keeps your food and beverages cool. This durable combo pack includes a 1/3-gallon jug, a FlipLid personal cooler and a 48-quart classic cooler. All 3 cooler pieces are designed with Coleman's therm-ozone insulation that keeps everything cold, plus it's environmentally friendly too. The 48-quart cooler has a hinged lid and holds up to 63 cans. It has 2-way carry handles that make this portable cooler easy to move. The matching, insulated water jug has a wide mouth and flip-tip spout and keeps beverages hot or cold. The FlipLid mini, personal cooler is perfect to keep lunch chilled. It has a unique, reversible lid that works as a serving tray with built-in cup holders. This Coleman cooler set makes a great gift and comes in matching blue colors.
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Clinically termed as Blepharoplasty, eye lift or eyelid lift is one of the most popular cosmetic procedures among both men and women that are conscious about their appearance. Droopiness on the upper eyelids and sagginess under the lower eye-lids is something you cannot escape, as you grow old. The droopy and baggy eyelids not only make you look older than your actual age, but may also interfere with your peripheral vision. Many people think blepharoplasty is a solution for getting rid of dark circles and wrinkles. It is important to mention here, the procedure does not help it to remove fine wrinkles and dark circles surrounding an eye. However, to cater these issues, the surgery can be performed in conjunction with other facial procedures. There are two different types of eyelid rejuvenation procedure:
Lower eyelid surgery- It is performed in two ways: Transconjunctival and transcutaneous. The most commonly used procedure, transconjunctival, is used to remove the excess fat that forms "puffy-bags" under the lower eyelid area. The surgeon makes a small incision on the inside surface of the eyelid with the help of a laser and scalpel. Depending upon the requirements, fat is removed and rearranged. The re-arrangement of fat prevents deep hollows to occur under the lower lids. This advancement is known as 'Transposition Lower Eyelid Lift'. Transcutaneous eyelid surgery is performed by placing minor incisions just below the lower eyelashes.
Upper eyelid-lift surgery- It is performed by making small incisions on the creases of the lids (natural folds) so that they remain hidden from the view. Before starting with the first incision, the surgeon makes outlines on the area where incisions will be made so that cuts can be made correctly.
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Western News and Notes - 12.06.08
Tazer vs. Kaner
It's All-Star time, and there has been plenty to talk about concerning the voting in the Eastern Conference.
Well, let's forget about the East and look West.
Teammates and supposed buddies Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane are battling each other for votes. They have even gone so far as to produce videos to convince fans to give them their votes.
Which video is more convincing?
or Kaner….
You decide.
Joe Sakic will be out of the lineup for at least six weeks because of a herniated disk in his back.
Sakic has only played 15 of the Avalanche's 24 games this season, missing 9 games due to this back injury and because of an infected tooth. He also missed 38 games last season with an injury that required surgery.
Unfortunately, I think this will be Super Joe's last year in the NHL. It will be sad to see him go; he's such a classy guy.
Mason takes top rookie honours
Goalie Steve Mason of the Columbus Blue Jackets was named Rookie of the Month for November.
In eight games last month, he had a 2.09 GAA, a .919 SV%, and two shutouts.
His teammate Derrick Brassard took the award in October.
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Music |
Steven Stapleton and Graham Bowers The collaborations
are a result of the chance meeting of Nurse
With Wound's Steven Stapleton and Graham
Bowers, both artists were appearing
at Bangor
Sound City's first art/sound
event 'Wet
Sounds' curated
by Joel
Cahen located at the Bangor Swimming
Pool, North Wales, in January 2011. Both
were admirers of each others past works and
felt that a collaboration on a new piece
of work could be an interesting and exciting
prospect. Following on
from the success of Rupture,
a new work Parade was
released on the 3rd of June 2013 as a CD,
a special limited edition Double Vinyl album
was released in April 2014.
Both were released through the Red Wharf
label and distributed by
Cargo. A small number
of Parade CDs and Diploid (Parade ~ Epilogue)
CDs and the Double Vinyl Album are now on sale. ExcitoToxicity is the third collaboration to be released on June 23rd 2014, initially as a Limited Edition CD. The Limited Editons have all been sold. |
New Release
A Pre-Release of ExcitoToxicity is now available.
The initial pre-release has been limited to a quantity of 100 and contains a unique and individual printed insert of one of Steven's featured paintings, it takes the form of an unusual post-card, stamped with stamps of the world, franked, signed and numbered by Steven and Graham. The Limited Editons have all been sold. |
ExcitoToxicity Featuring An excess of most things, both mentally and physically, although exciting and pleasurable, can easily accelerate and rapidly become toxic. A continuous
musical track in six sections: We have thrown caution to the wind and gone overboard on the quality of the 8 Panel DigiPak artwork design and packaging for this release ... why? ... Graham liked all Steven's proposed paintings for the album ... so Steven decided we should feature them all ... on a heavy board in full gloss, on a matte background. |
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Excerpt Chains and Gates |
Excerpt The Worm Within |
Excerpt Jack Hammer Mutation |
Excerpt Dancing Tiger |
Excerpt ExcitoToxicity |
Excerpt Broken Symmetry |
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Parade ~ Double Vinyl Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) and Graham Bowers We have a small number of the standard album for sale Please note that the Art Edition and Limited Edition are now sold out Of Interest? ~ go to shop • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
Examples of three of Steven's individual artworks in the special ART EDITION |
Parade ~ CD
A continuous
musical track in eight sections: The CD features original artworks by Babs Santini and Graham Bowers, and is available now at the Shop |
Artworks: Babs Santini and Graham Bowers
Read Reviews of Parade |
Excerpt OFF TO HELL ON A HANDCART |
Excerpt APES AND PEACOCKS |
Excerpt BELLS OF HELL GO TING A'LING A'LING |
Excerpt RING A'RING O'ROSES |
Excerpt A TISSUE OF DECEIT |
Excerpt RATS, CATS AND DOGS |
Excerpt BEYOND THE PALISADE |
Excerpt THE BITTER END |
For details on the double vinyl ~ go to shop
(Parade ~ Epilogue) ~ CD
A collaboration
between Nurse
With Wound (Steven Stapleton) and Graham
A twenty minute composition recalling the salient musical motifs and the final resolution of Parade.
Artworks: Babs Santini
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Reviews ~ ExcitoToxicity |
Freq ~ MagazineMichael Rodham-Heaps ~ 28th July 2014 Graham Bowers and Nurse With Wound – ExcitoToxicityIt's hard to get a handle on this word wise; I was really tempted to leave this as a three letter review – just "wow," with maybe a few exclamation marks for good measure. Indeed I think this impression was cemented in the first two minutes and didn't seem to waver in the slightest for ExcitoToxicity's whole duration. I know I'm incredibly biased towards Stapleton and Co. (I think he's notched up a 25 year obsession for me already), but the studio dexterity on display here is so good at hijacking your lobes, blancmanging expectations in swerving colour and sleight of hand, you'd be foolish to pass on the experience. Continuing Stapleton's recent collaborations with fellow din denizen Graham Bowers, this recent offering brings to mind (for me at least) Spiral Insana's mouldering ilk, but refracted through insect eyes. It's like a hall of mirrors, dribbling with recurring motifs, little bites of the cherry scattered through a multi-headed raggedy man, prism-foddered to differing perspectives, toe dipping the focus in textural honeycombs. Those clatter-caked edgings cerium-bouncing with tasty additions of fuck-off gut-tars, burning on a weirdo(ed) diet of Guru Guru funnelled down the injured panoramas of Amon Düül. You could say this is all over the place — not as chaotic as Parade perhaps, although it certainly shares its tendency to fly off the handle at times (my poor speakers) betwixted by a calm calculated lance or jerky puppeteers hands — seriously, you just can't fathom how this sets my shadowy heart aglow. The action commences with "Chains and Gates," like a kite adrift on sinister thermals, full of temple palms and twilight sines as breathy snakes of uncertainly knot up wisps of Spanish guitar. A tantalising spread of classic Wound topiary, tensile charged, filled with a sense of something unsavoury lingering just around the corner. A vibe suddenly pulled into the chromatic chasm of heavy piano misuse, a violent schism overtaken by a SLAM of beat and layers of grandiose guitar heroics. A raucous incentive (the windows are rattling again), bringing back memories of Peat Bog's meaty "Bone Frequency" underpinned by an anvil-like chime, chased in disembodied wahs and percussive custards, everything convulsively flittering in your inner ear like a bunch of diced earth worms. Squirming in alternate realities, body-snatched in radio surf and alarm clock noodles. That glinting anvil falling foul of badly-oiled gates to wallow in the protozoics of the beginning once more. Another two tracks slip by in melancholic whist and scattering metallics. Strange shuffles of alien percussives tapping momentums in ill-fitting shoes. The warping piano and timpani tumble (found on both Rupture and Parade) is all present and correct, squirted between slices of eyeball, radiophonic slivers — the instantly recognisable Huffin' Rag Blues woman with her West/East Coast drool; broken toys; and more momentary madness. "Dancing Tigers"'s damaged boy racer wheelies and chugging frets are great too, dump-trucked into an astral dustbin of trickster tinkering. That tap-dancing nail gun stapling oak, jumping the table gaps, floating away on zero gravities, the muted scrape of pearly gates and asthmatic lungs. Beautiful stuff that oxbows the brain in hypno-badness, a spell broken in anvil-like slashes of armour plate and wah(ed) currency. Seamlessly carrying on, the title track is a riveted circus of garbled joy with a heated argument thrown in for good measure, then ambient reflection marred by thunderous piano inners. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Hitting the final furlong, "Broken Symmetry" starts with '30s flappers melded with brutalised drums, leading to a reprise of the first track. Insides turned outside, branching into a dichotomy, a split layering of loose change falling into an enormous collection plate, beneath which a marginalised Brian May is fret-fucking to his hearts content .The metallic flavour of the coinage overtaking it all in a glorious loosening of limbs. Another great collaboration with Graham Bowers and a worthy addition to the NWW canon towering by my stereo's side (some would say an industrial accident waiting to happen!). -Michael Rodham-Heaps- |
Back to the top | Brainwashed ~ MagazineJohn Kealy ~ 1st September 2014 Nurse With Wound and Graham Bowers – ExcitoToxicityExcitotoxicity is an unwanted process where neurons become over-activated from a surplus of the neurotransmitter glutamate, resulting in cell death and, ultimately, tissue damage and degeneration. Essentially, neurons receive too much stimulation causing the usually well-balanced internal physiology of each cell to become off-kilter and produce excessive levels of harmful molecules that break the neuron down from the inside-out. It is believed to be an underlying part of a number of serious neurological diseases including motor neuron disease, a disease that Graham Bowers has become a victim of. This album is partly a musical diary, an artistic interpretation of neurophysiological processes and a very human response to an unfathomable loss of control. ExcitoToxicity's release comes at a time when mentions of motor neuron disease (MND; or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS) are running like wildfire through social media thanks to the ice bucket challenge. In contrast to the scores of healthy, young people light-heartedly "raising awareness" about a disease that many cannot describe let alone imagine, this release from Bowers and Steven Stapleton is a quiet and lonely call from the other side of the coin. It is impossible to listen to ExcitoToxicity without taking account of all the contextual information that the album carries with it from the dispassionate facts of how excitotoxicity and disease occur in the body to the highly personal journey that Bowers has found himself traveling upon. "Chains and Gates" begins from an ominous silence before building into a beat and guitar heavy crescendo. The rhythms are sabotaged and pushed into the background by sparks of sound and bell-like interruptions, much like the regular firing of the nervous system becomes dysregulated and disrupted by abnormal activity within itself during neurodegeneration. The album continues in this manner, setting up musical scenarios and dashing them upon the rocks of atonality. Much like the duo's first collaboration, Rupture, which dealt with the damage done to the brain through stroke, the idea of the brain as a tightly controlled musical engine (due to its inherent rhythmic activity in the form of brain waves) is used here to demonstrate how delicate this system can be. Throughout ExcitoToxicity, noises begin at low volumes and repeat while simultaneously rising to uncomfortable and almost painful levels. This is a fantastic audiological metaphor for the physiological process of excitotoxicity as neurons fire and fire and fire until they physically break down. More specific references to MND/ALS are made through the titles, "Jack Hammer Mutation"referring to genetic factors associated with the disorder and "Broken Symmetry" reflects the progression of the disease, with paralysis usually developing along one side of the body before crossing over to the other. Taking all this together as a concept album, it is very clever. Add in the fact that the music is a step up from previous NWW/Bowers collaborations (which have been brilliant so far) and this makes for a wonderful release. However, just when I become embroiled enough in the album to get lost in its sounds, I remind myself of Bowers himself going through the emotional and physical turmoil of his body closing in on itself as MND/ALS is a neurological disorder that spares the mind; unlike Alzheimer's or even extreme Parkinson's, MND/ALS will destroy the motor system but leave the patient fully aware. Therefore, to think of ExcitoToxicity as purely an art project about a disorder does it a huge disservice, it is also the sound of a man coming to terms with his own mortality and how the rest of his days will be spent. Knowing this makes every second of ExcitoToxicity precious and heavy, heavier than any other recorded work I can think of. -John Keally- |
Reviews ~ Parade |
Brainwashed ~ MagazineJohn Kealy ~ 20th October 2013 Nurse With Wound and Graham Bowers, "Parade"/"Diploid (Parade ~ Epilogue)"Red Wharf For their second collaboration, Steven Stapleton and Graham Bowers take the elements that worked so well on Rupture and push them outwards into something more bewildering, but equally as compelling. Pomp, ceremony, showbiz and a cryptic approach to musical arrangements, this is a powerfully odd and oddly powerful work by the duo. As much as I enjoyed Rupture, its heavy subject matter prevents it from being a regular addition to my listening schedule but Parade fills that gap perfectly. Given the name of the album, it is perhaps no surprise that the music largely has a touch of fanfare and a strong beat to it. Synthesised brass and strings bring to mind The Residents circa Freak Show (their last great one in my opinion) but sound far less rigid. Divided into eight movements, Parade does truly sound like I am surrounded by marching bands. Granted these marching bands are a far cry from the usual mobile orchestras seen at the St. Patrick's Day parade or at a New Orleans Mardi Gras but the different segments fade in and out like the sound is being made by musicians in transit. The fact that the different segments also tend to be jarringly different is also reminiscent of the parades I would go to as a child; an American high school band followed by traditional Irish musicians followed by dancers dancing to pop music would not have been out of the ordinary. A psychotic brass band followed by frenetic electronic beats followed by eerie noises from the outer dark would not have been normal for sure.
Freq ~ MagazineMichael Rodham-Heaps ~ 8th June 2013 Graham Bowers and Nurse With Wound – Parade/Diploid |
Red Wharf Only listened to this twice so far, but I must say its miles more entertaining than the previous Graham Bowers collaboration Rupture. Gone are the studious symphonics, favourably replaced by liberating wonky oompha chip-chop that scatters the wares more psychsomatically without labouring any fixed point.. "Off to Hell on a Handcart" (seriously loving these track titles) is stereophonically awry, a slippery mess of Michael Jackson moonwalk on a blancmange pavement of pomposity. An erroneous comedy monkeying around with your cranium like old-fashioned 'Wound used to, before everything got protracted and drone swept. There's too much going on, not that I'm complaining, Mr Stapleton and company haven't been this satisfyingly doodah since The Surveillance Lounge. A welcome return to form me thinks, as my head feels that it's swimming in too much alcohol and that internal gyro is about to let things fly. The speakers are working the savage twists and huge swells of bloated Thicke'n 'Pharrell over Floyd's "Heart Beat Pig Meat." Surfing those gooey choirs swallowed in monumental dronic croup and collapsed kola crushes whilst an airborne Mr Bowers spits notation like massive globs of multicoloured chewing tobacco.The pleasures fly by, three tracks in and you're suddenly immersed in some mighty fine piano insanity, a nailing techno that's batshit crazy (I'm listening so loud the windows are quaking). A judder jaggered action sequence shuffled into the back of tomorrow fading on eerie rivers of cooling fat whilst the innards of piano wire play on ill winds. "Ring A'ring O'roses" is full of scribbled discordance, a weird shrill and squeaky gravy. The brass skirting round choral creepers and strange percussive indigestions. Old gramophone flavours coming and going to fluffy organisms on hospital trolley wheels; a feed-Baucus-aba-caustic-bizarre-ness fading to a lone whistling bin man. This should be on the education syllabus, it's definitely on par with trying to read the other side of Ulysses or the unfathomable Flounder by Mr Grass (easy has never been on my agenda). I'm really enjoying every single minute of this – as the violins and ominous swell of "A Tissue of Deceit" suddenly whips into a munster dance floor of loose scoops of '30s crooner, cross wired with panel punching beats and against the tide operatics. It's a mess that almost doesn't work, but it cusps that disgruntled frontier beautifully in mixed metaphors of interchanging texture, bedazzles you in abrupt swindle. The penultimate "Beyond the Palisade" is a curmudgeon of mental hammering to a Gilbert and Sullivan ribcage of BPM xylophonics. Punishing and ludicrous, leading to the worry beaded soundscape of "The Bitter End," with its harmonic cloisters oozing away on an orchestrated slow roast to nowhere. The 20min bonus Diploid is an epilogue to Parade, a slow electroacoustic groping of piano wires and zithery misfirings of notation; a considered vibe that relishes in a restrained chaos blighted in rolling classical touches. Rising horns and twilight caresses. Dark Cage(ean) rumbas and siren calls from beyond, dancing textures between the left and right channels. Swollen beats, cutting off to a rising of rusty hinges and the creakiness of empty swings to a Mozart haze. Classic Nurse territory of scraping and tourniquet tightenings. Berio floods of insecurity at odds with the jewellery box cuteness, liquifications of insects scuttling all over it as decaying notes steam off into cul-de-sac(ean) recesses retiring on a piano viscera fade. FAB-U-LOUS. |
Read Reviews of Rupture |
Rupture This work is an attempt to
create a musical illustration of the 'goings-on'
in the brain during the last hour and three
minutes of a life after suffering a major stroke. When
the complexity of the human brain's retained
information and the inherent properties which
constitute a'life', an 'individual', a 'person',
are catastrophically damaged after blood
– 'life's fuel' – ruptures the previously
organised and essential control centres,
absolute mayhem follows. |
Excerpt CD ~ " ... a life as it now is," Vinyl ~ Disk One |
CD ~ " ... is not what it was," Vinyl ~ Disk Two |
CD ~ " ... and never will be again," Vinyl ~ Disk Four |
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Reviews ~ Rupture |
Brainwashed MagazineJohn Kealy ~ 29 January 2012 |
This "musical
illustration" of the events occurring
in the brain following a lethal stroke is
a dramatic, chilling and emotional portrait.
Musically, it is removed from anything else
Nurse With Wound have done (even if it does
touch on similar influences as the rest of
Steve Stapleton's body of work) as Bowers
adds a more composerly hand to Stapleton's
surrealist drift. Bowers and Stapleton have
crafted something unique that does not fit
neatly into any categories, even amongst
Nurse With Wound's expanded horizons. This
is draining, devastating and utterly compelling. Bowers' work in the medical field designing
environmentally controlled rooms for operating
theatres and medical imaging suites has added
tremendously to the power of the piece. Listening
to this from two different perspectives, firstly
from that of an enthusiastic experimental music
listener and secondly from my professional
perspective as a neuroscientist reveals an
impressive and moving synthesis of art, science
and pathos. Concepts such as memory and disinhibition
of neural networks are played out in the music;
a warped sample of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March"
from A Midsummer Night's Dream and
the sound of children's voices appear to represent
the resurgence of memories in the minutes before
death (possibly due to metabolic disturbances
within the temporal lobes of the brain). The
disrupted electrophysiological rhythms of the
brain are represented in the discordant and
tumultuous rhythms of Bowers' playing. Towards the end of the album, various permutations
of "My Blue Heaven" are played,
gasped and hinted at. The protagonist/patient/spirit
promises to see loved ones (whether living
or dead, we are unsure) in their blue heaven.
The effect is moving and unsettling, my own
memories at the loss of loved ones (albeit
not from a stroke) emerging in the fabric
of the music. While I have always found Nurse
With Wound's music to be enthralling on a
number of levels, this is the first time
I have ever felt Stapleton's music to connect
in such a powerfully emotional way. I have
been frightened, entertained, humoured and
provoked but never have I felt grief. The weight of Rupture is crushing; this is not music to turn on, sit back and relax to. It is intrusive, captivating and mentally exhausting. Each time I listen to the album, I feel like another little part of me has changed. Aptly, the titles of the segments sum up not only the medical and physiological implications of a stroke but my feelings as a listener following this work: "A life as it now is, is not what it was, and will never be again." |
Freq ~ MagazineLinus Tossio ~ 1st January 2012 |
Sweeping in on modernist orchestrations, Rupture is
a very different kind of Nurse With
Wound collaboration, though there
is plenty which harks back to Steve
Stapleton's tape-loop manipulations
of orchestral music both in Nursey guise
and with Current 93's earlier
harshly overbearing recordings in the pre-Apocalyptic
Folk days. Here there is an explicit theme
hinted at in the title, as the ensemble attempt
to envisage musically what it might feel
like to undergo a severe brain embolism –
and who better for sculptor and composer
Graham Bowers to work with on such
a project than Messrs. Stapleton, Liles,
Waldron and Potter? Wall of sound doesn't begin to adequately
describe the onslaught they unleash together;
once the first few gentle tones of part
one's calm before the rupture ("… a life
as it now is,") have been dispensed with,
there's no stopping the sounds layering
and slathering over each other in an incrementing
palimpsest of composed, found, cut, pasted
and thoroughly mashed up sources, from
bombastic kettledrums and braying horn
sections to the crooning sounds of yore,
flummoxed and banjaxed together. Part two
("…is not what it was,") is marked by the
sudden drop from rubbery throbs and a slowing
of the heartbeat pulse as what sounds like
a terribly unprepared piano is given a
strum, plonk and surging snippy surgery
as the cackling, pounding blood music flows
lopsidedly, seemingly up, down and round
the hill with an increasingly demented
air as a marching band engorges itself
Ourobouros-style inside the victim's head. The religiose cacophony of the likes of C93′s Dog's
Blood Rising and Bowers' own compositional
method (which he terms sound theatre) bubbles
up through the mire on synthetic strings
and sampled roadworks, a symphony of multimedia
detritus emergent as the brain begins to
recurse upon itself, then shatter under
the strain of catastrophic failure. The
stumbling, slurred incoherence of a stroke
sufferer comes via the poor abused piano
once again and shivery strands of synthesis,
smeared and traumatised by tape manipulations
in the throes of Modernist spasms and bilious
chorales. There are repeated visitations to rhythmic
devices – clocks, pulsing arteries, bright
shards of painful sound stabbing straight
for the inner ear, bowel-churning rumbles
of the corpus under
stress and strain – whose recurrence builds
into a narrative of dissolution, of inevitable
consequences of the blockage of blood flow
to the brain. Part three ("…and will never
be again") brings medical emergency sounds
in as the patient stabilises, the whirr and
heave of assisted breathing phasing in and
out of audibility with the immanence of those
pearly gates and white-lit voids chiming
at the brink. The thrum, crunch and crashes
of the orchestral heaves take up the strain,
the musical body undergoing its own catharsis
as the voices return. Indistinct and unquiet,
their speech is hesitant, their laughter
hollow and the moans chorused to a fragmentary
swing coda, jazz mired in a soup of dissonant
brazen memories as the words decay to nullity. A dizzying descent into malfunction on the most personal of levels, Rupture marks a return to gelatinous surrealistic pillow music from NWW in one of those fortuitous collaborations which was just waiting for the right circumstances to happen. |
a closer listen ~ MagazineRichard Allen ~ 26th January 2012 |
One hour, three minutes and thirty seconds
of death: that's one way to describe Rupture,
and in this case, the description is literal.
This concept album seeks to "create a musical
illustration" of the dying brain following
a stroke; and damn, is it powerful. The
brain is a miraculous storage facility, but
following a stroke, all of the neurons get
jumbled. The ensuing hodgepodge of
memory and fantasy, important and inconsequential
is fearsome and wondrous all at once. So
much packed into electrical impulses! So
much beauty, so much despair! All of
these conflicting thoughts and feelings are
present in Rupture, an album composed
in a tightly controlled fashion, yet ironically
reflective of chaos. Shy strings and sullen brass introduce the
stroke: bursts of color like tiny stars exploding
in the brain. A series of drum rolls
leads to an ominous passageway. From
whence do these incoherent voices stem? Are
their chants sinister or benign? (To
quote Jacob's Ladder, "if you're
frightened of dying, and you're holding on,
you'll see demons tearing your life away".) Is there
a message embedded in their code? And
what of the radio transmission that follows? Is
it a memory, a phantasm, a TV show? Who
will sort these things out? Why do sense
not? Who in, as wonder? Feel. Truth,
is! Is! |
Piccadilly Records ~ Record Store Day 2012 |
Due to popular demand this work is now available as a very limited double vinyl LP in a special edition for Record Store day 2012. It's the first collaboration of
Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound and composer/sculptor
Graham Bowers. It is, without doubt, one
of the best things we have ever released.
It's an extremely unnerving, but also hauntingly
moving listening experience. The work is
an attempt to create a musical illustration
of the "goings-on" in the brain
during the last hour and three minutes of
a life after suffering a major stroke. It
is multi-layered and is primarily concerned
with the internal chaos caused by the loss
of control of thought processes, responses
and consequential actions, with all types
of incoherent disjointed memories and present
real time events - as well as moments of
lucidity, panic and fear - clashing, merging
and evolving. It's essentially one long piece, but is presented here over 4 sides of finest quality 150 gm virgin vinyl. . "...a life as it now is,. ...is not what it was, ...and will never be again" The records have been expertly mastered for vinyl and cut by Noel Summerville at 3345 Mastering, who's 30 + years of experience of cutting vinyl speak for themselves. It arrives packaged in a beautiful gloss laminated gatefold sleeve, featuring artwork from both Babs Santini and Graham Bowers and a full colour insert. At the artists' request, it is limited to just 500 copies. 250 copies of these have been created for Record Store Day. This edition will additionally contain an extra insert, each one being a unique hand created piece of art, mounted on black fine art paper and individually signed and numbered by Steven and Graham. |


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Less than 48 hours after the Spanish Grand Prix, all 11 Formula One teams are expected back on track on Tuesday for the start of a four-day test at the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France.
The focus of the test will be preparations for both the next round of the championship, the Monaco Grand Prix, and the following race in Canada. Two variations of the Paul Ricard layout will be used to simulate the conditions of Monte Carlo and Montreal.
In line with this years testing restrictions, teams will be limited to one car per day, with a mixture of race and test drivers conducting the development work. High-downforce aero packages will be high on the list of priorities, as will Bridgestones super-soft tyre compound, which will get its first race outing in Monaco.
Champ Car legend Sebastien Bourdais will be back in the cockpit for Toro Rosso, following his successful test with the team last December, while Spyker will be fielding no less than five drivers over the course of the session. Testers Fairuz Fauzy, Markus Winkelhock and Giedo van der Garde will pilot the F8-VII for half a day each, with racers Adrian Sutil and Christijan Albers getting a day apiece at the wheel. Newly-announced test driver James Rossiter will also be in action for Super Aguri.
As always, Formula1.com will bring you daily reports on the teams progress, as well as all the latest pictures from Paul Ricard. Note - all schedules are provisional and subject to change.