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Lords of Chaos Film Review
Lords of Chaos brings you the truths and the lies of church burning's, murders , Satan and head banging!
Before I get to far into this, I do want to let those of you know ahead of time that maybe unfamiliar with this story, that Lords of Chaos is one that is based on a true story. Based on, being the key term. Now I do know of the controversy and stories that were claimed to have been surrounded by certain Black metal bands from that time frame. Stories of church burnings, rapes, satanic worship and even murder. Now I'm not here to tell you what was truth or not, I wasn't there. But what I am here to do is tell you the story that is now being told to us about such , in Lords of Chaos.
Lords of Chaos , directed by Jonas Åkerlund, shows you the story of the birth of Norwegian Black Metal by band Mayhem, whose dark and satanic music, was also thought to be their beliefs and life style. The film takes you on a very dark look into the downward spiral that was known among the closest of members as the Black Circle.
Rory Culkin plays Euronymous,guitarist and creator of the Mayhem from Oslo. While trying to become the next big break thru band while pushing the Dark image for the band as many did in that time. As bands goes, members come and go often , especially when new. In walks Varg, played by Emory Cohen(whose portrayal of Yarg will scare the shit out of you!) to fill the slot as new bass player. It is now where the story takes a dark turn.
Varg was a fan of Mayhem, but now challenges the band, Euronymous, especially to live up to their image, and with that, I don't mean by wearing the black and white face paint. With that, Churches are now being burned, rapes are taking place and are being aired on the news. Members of this Black Circle are coming forward to each other claiming that they had committed these crimes.
Most of the crimes mentioned are all show in the film and are done in a way that it does make you believe that what you are seeing in the film is all true. As the film continues, Euronymous and Varg are constantly on watch of each other. Varg's strength and hunger to destroy is growing and you start to see an almost scared realization by Euronymous that reality lost all grips.
No spoilers here….but i do want to say that Lords of Chaos is well worth a watch to the very end!
I must say, that a high point to me for the film, you hear many stories of what bands used to do on stage, well…Lords of Chaos actually portrayed one of those stories as we got to see former lead singer(now deceased) who went by the name of Dead (played by Jack Kilmer, yes Val's son)mutilate himself live on stage. I wish we could have seen some more live footage thru the film, but it will explain why you don't.
Lords of Chaos is the fucked up cousin to Sid and Nancy and the bastard step child to Bohemian Rhapsody.
Growing up and being so heavily influenced by music that surrounded the occult , this film is so easily relatable and easy to follow. For those of you wanting to know more about the truths of it, look it up. As a matter of fact, Varg himself has made a few videos on YouTube about the film …they to are worth a watch.
Lords of Chaos will be in my video library, I absolutely loved the film !!
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Lords of Chaos is everything I thought it would be, and showed me so much more.
Lex Ortega's Belibette Album Review
From the dark mind of Lex Ortega comes his latest offering of pain and suffering to the world, this time thru his music with his band Belibette.
In 2015, Lex Ortega took the entire horror film industry and visually raped all who saw his film Atroz. Atroz is without a doubt the most brutal and all most hard to watch films in existence. Lex is back this time with his band entitled Belibette with their debut lp 72 Huries and from Atroz to his music, he hasn't let up one bit!
Me personally growing up, i was always in to heavy metal, hard core and some death metal for the most part. Each genre had different sounds and speeds to them, but basically, it was whatever moved me is what I liked. Well, after I heard Belibette ,I let Lex know that I had to review it!
I mentioned how each style of music i listened to had its own sound and speed, well Belibette is what is called grind core. imagine if you will, taking some brutal lyrics, crashing snare drum and a lightning fast guitar riff and dumped it all in to a blender then threw a handful of razor blades in the mix for good measure while Lex growls and howls into the microphone!
The tempo is blazing fast and the vocals styling of Lex is honestly like nothing ive ever heard…..and further more (laughing),nothing i could ever understand. The band is from Mexico and all lyrics are sung in Spanish as well….that doesn't help as I didn't exactly ace Spanish classes in school.
But never the less, the vocal styling is truly a mystery on how they (the front man) can not only pronounce what it is they are saying, but also cant figure out how it is possible for them to be able to speak the next day after performing.
I'm going to leave you with the video for the track Sutil Posesión. I think the strobe light effect really captures the feeling of grind core. Kind of like feeling your heart pounding . I commend Lex and his band on the debut and hope they tour the states and I get the chance to experience Belibette first handed, but in the mean time, check them out and be sure to support !!
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Life of Agony 9/30/18 Baltimore Soundstage
For Nearly 30 fuckin years……damn, I have been a fan of Brooklyn based hardcore band Life of Agony. When I heard they were coming to my town, and then found out it was on a Friday night…OH WE ARE GOIN!I spent many of my younger years, listening to , and going to as many shows that i could when ever the band came around, well its a few years later and I sure as hell didn't want to miss it!
The show originally was slated for Friday September 13th, the same night we were supposed to get hit with a hurricane. Just my damn luck! Luckily the tour rescheduled for the 30th…a Sunday….SUNDAY, REALLY?!?! Fuck it, I'm still there!Baltimore Soundstage here we come!
The night started off being fortunate enough to have been able to schedule a video inter with bands bass player, Alan Robert, who talked with us about being on the road, meanings behind many of the lyrics, his artwork and him doing laundry! We spoke and hung out for close to 30 minutes. My wife Steff and I had such a great time talking with him, very hospitable, genuine good person! I must also admit, having been such a huge fan of the band, i was actually a bit shaky when he first entered the room with us.
As the show got under way, local Baltimore Hardcore band End It All kicked things with a short, but very powerful set! These guys are doing a few shows in the west coast soon so show support and get your ass to see them, they are so worth it!
Next on stage, and pretty much arriving and jumping on stage due to car issues, Silvertomb. Many of you were or like me still are fans of the once great goth rock band Type O Negative. Silvertomb is comprised of guitarist from Type O Negative Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly as well as Joseph James from Agnostic Front. I knew of the band, but sadly hadn't actually heard their work yet. I'm here to tell ya, after the somewhat short set, I am a fan! Kenny fronts Silvertomb so perfectly, and the band is just tight as hell!! Great emotionally strong sound and lyrics with a very strong stage presence made for a very memorable show. It was also great to see the guys playing again since TYPE O Negative was such a huge part of my life.
Then the time came for the moment we were all waiting for. Now mind you, this is now on a Sunday, the crowd about 1/3 its capacity , so that was kind of upsetting, but they were true fans and were just glad to see the band! The band came on stage and everyone went nuts, even the band. The band kick it right in to high gear from the get go. Playing such a perfect mix of old school, and all thru the years. We were up front for a while then slowly made our way back so we could just relax and take in the show it self.
The energy pouring out on stage is incredible! Many bands after this many years of playing just start slowing down. Not the case with Life of Agony! They were all over the stage, and totally giving love to the fans, and further most, to each other. You can easily see that after so many years together they are so much more than just a band, they are family and that made the show even that much more enjoyable! But still, when they played River Runs Red, the place still goes nuts!!
This was the last show of this leg of the tour, everyone was going home, then they were off to conquer Europe . So that made it kind of a special show. What really made it though, was when Silvertomb came out on stage while during 's. Life of Agony set with a birthday cake with lit candles and all to sing Happy Birthday to Alan. The entire crowd joined in as we all wished Alan a Happy Birthday!
All and all do i wish there had been a larger crowd, only for the band's sake. As far as I was concerned it was perfect, a more intimate show if you will, and the guys are just as good now if not even better live than they once were! They killed it!!!
Be sure to take a minute, actually 15, and check out the great video interview that Alan Robert did with us prior to the show! Thanks again Alan!!!
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MUSIC REVIEW: Darkest Hour – Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora (2017)
If you have never listened to Darkest Hour, I would recommend grabbing this record, checking it out, and seeing what all the fuss is.
I saw these guys a few years ago live in Indianapolis, IN, at the Emerson Theater if memory serves correctly. I believe Himsa and Acacia Strain were the other bands with them, and that was one hell of a show. That was my introduction to Darkest Hour – a live performance, you know the old-fashioned way of finding new music. For that time period, something like that was a welcome style. When the whole melodic metal thing was breaking out, these guys put a new twist on it though they weren't whining with their vocals. They come out screaming ready to kick ass and this new album is no different from that moment. Sure, they've progressed musically, but the style never changed, and they've stayed true to the first second I heard them.
A lot can be said about Darkest Hour. This band is just all out heavy, heavy, heavy, fast, and to-the-point Metal. With their classic thrash style guitar solos and blast beat drums, you would think it was a band from the mid-80s or early 90s. This force-to-be-reckoned-with of a band brings us their ninth studio album: "Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora".
This album has really shown what kind of skill Darkest Hour has in the music business. In a time when metal music isn't particularly all the rage anymore and things seem to be slowing down in the music world (and, to be honest, I thought metal had been docile for too long), it's good to see a band still out there keeping true to their roots.
This album starts out with a song called "Knife in the Safe Room", and as it comes at you as just a blast of metal madness. You cannot beat that. Then we slide right into "This Is the Truth" with a smooth transition. Straight up..this album is the truth. The melodic metal sound that they bring is mostly in the music. There's none of that clean vocal, housewife metal style; it's all hard and growly and heavy, so when you listen to the harmonizing guitars and expect some cleanliness, you will be surprised to hear that there is none of that happening. Starting extra hard, and not slowing down till the end when there are a couple slower numbers, Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora is a damn fine record that definitely needs to be a part of your collection pronto!
Bassist Reverend Jim Forrester Murdered
Reverend Jim Forrester
1974 – 2017
On Monday, 18 December 2017, Reverend Jim Forrester was murdered around 7:00 pm in front of the Boston Tattoo Museum at 1534 Eastern Avenue in Baltimore, MD, where he worked as a body-piercing artist. According to reports, Reverend Jim was on the phone with his wife, who heard the struggle, at the time of the incident.
Watch the news report from WJZ CBS Baltimore, MD:
Though rushed to Johns Hopkins Hospital, Reverend Jim later succumbed to his wounds.
Police have no suspects in the case and no motive at this time and ask that anyone with tips call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7-LOCKUP or text tips to (443) 902-4824.
Reverend Jim was well known for his work in the music scene, having played bass in Sixty Watt Shaman before joining Foghound and Serpents of Secrecy.
According to Invisible Oranges:
House of Tortured Souls encourages anyone who is able to attend the benefit concerts and/or donate to the Gofundme for the family.
House of Tortured Souls extends our deepest condolences to Reverend Jim's widow.
Rest in peace, Reverend Jim.
GWAR has been one of my favorite bands for the past 30 years now. Known for playing on or around Halloween in Baltimore I took every opportunity to grab some passes to see them now that I'm back in Maryland after many years of being gone from the area. Rams Head Live in Baltimore was the venue on this Thursday night. A good sized club always brings in big acts and is a pretty cool venue with pretty much not a bad seat( all general admission) in the place. GWAR is one band that to see live is one that I would HAVE to cover for a story. My wife Steff had never seen GWAR before, that alone was almost reason enough to go.
By the time we got there GHOUL was just about to go on stage. GHOUL is a fun mix of GWAR, MENTORS, MISFITS with a touch of MOTORHEAD! Keeping in touch with the Halloween spirit with a horror punk sound. I don't think Gwar could have found a better band to hit the road with. Both lyrically and their stage presence oozes horror. As for starters, if your not familiar with GHOUL, they all wear burlap sack, masks with bloody mouths, have stage actors that they behead and spray blood out on to the crowd and sing of death and graveyards while they have the look of just committed a nasty home invasion. GHOUL ARE FUCKING AWESOME!! What a great live act and a great bunch of guys as I was fortunate enough to have run into a few of them after the show.
Finally,…after a bit of a wait from what seemed to have been some technical issues, GWAR makes their way to the stage. By this time the crowd had started to fill up, sadly it wasn't to overly packed, but then again it was a Thursday ….and the general age of the crowd…well, we aren't as young as we once were. GWAR come out on stage and its always something new, every tour. The stage show is creative, overwhelming at times, oh..and bloody violent. Kind of makes you feel like your mixing a Lloyd Kaufman film to shock rock extreme music, in one live nightmare!
This was my first time having seen GWAR since the passing of the late great ODERUS URUNGUS, it was hard waiting to hear some of the old classics, and yet only one was done, Black and Huge. It was actually kind of nice that the band left it alone. Regardless, the stage show over the top as always, and for the club only charging $20.00 tickets, makes you wonder how these guys are making a penny because they really do put a lot into it!
Of course, they always touch on a few big media items such as government and religion, that the boys are always more than welcome to slay and befoul on stage and spray gallons of blood and other bodily fluids on to the audience. From a decapitated priest to Blothar ejaculating on the crowd, it was a wet floor, to say the least!
It was the same day as the show that the heart-wrenching news surfaced about guitarist Michael Derks, best known to the world as Balsac the Jaws of Death. I had noticed from the get go that he wasn't on stage. So, just kind of assumed that with the recent medical news that maybe he had decided to take the rest of the tour off…I was wrong. It must have been the third song that Balsac made his stage presence, and what a crowd response he was given, and seemed as if he really played his heart out that night.
GWAR played for over an hour and a half. For these aging gentlemen, those costumes, props, lighting, stage theatrics and pure energy, I've got to give them credit cause most of the people in the crowd were winded. The last song came around, and how suiting, it was a cover of AC/DC's If You Want Blood. Not only did they do a great job of the song, they also did a great job of making a complete mess of the venue and everyone that was in it! If you were one of the fortunate ones who hadn't got spewed or gutted on, you were about to! I honestly don't think there was a dry place in the club by the end of the song.
As I mentioned earlier, my wife had never seen GWAR before. When they came on stage she and I got split up, I went up to the stage to take photo's and she went front and center stage in the crowd with old friend of mine who catches them every time they roll into town with his daughter no less. So the band exited the stage, house lights came on, ..and they were, the three of them, all blue and red and I do mean from head to toe soaked in stage spray! The smile on my wife's face was priceless, she had been GWAR'd!!
GHOUL and GWAR thank you both for the passes and thank you both for such a great show, you guys are the goods!!
Visit Gwar on their website and see all the great things you've been missing: Gwar-Official Site of the Gods also check out the almighty and amazing GHOUL on their official site..I'm telling you this band is something to look out for. Ghoul-Official site!
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CONCERT REVIEW: Slayer (28 June 2017)
By John Roisland
As I brought to your attention before, many of you were very stoked, and some even tried to prove me wrong of the rumor of ex-Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies drummer, legendary Dave Lombardo will in fact be joining the legendary horror punk band The Misfits as they reunite and headline this year's Riot Fest set for September 2nd and then again on September 16th in Chicago, Illinois.
The rest of The Misfits lineup will consist of Glenn Danzig (who hasn't played with the band since 83), Jerry Only on bass and Doyle on guitar.
Dave Lomabardo stated to Rolling Stone Magazine:
Danzig and Slayer did a few shows together back in '88 before the first Danzig album had even been released. It was then that Glenn and Dave first met. Glenn has been quoted as saying:
The Misfits, the originators of the horror punk scene, and Slayer (FUCKING SLAYER), the almighty in the heavy metal world, joining members on one stage,...one word. LEGENDARY!
Will this grow into a full blown old is now new again band? Will there be new music and studio time? Well, with retirement not in the too far distant future for any of them, and these seeming to be the days of reunions, it's any mans guess. Would I like to see it happen? Could be interesting, but what I would really like to see is someone who is is going to Riot Fest and SEND ME A DAMN T-SHIRT 'CAUSE I CAN'T FUCKING GO!!!
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By John Roisland
When someone asks you, "Who is the best horror band?", who do you automatically think of (or, even better, who SHOULD you always automatically think of)? To me, that's an easy question to answer: hands down it is The Misfits - the original in your face horror punk band that started the wave of horror music as we know it today.
Originally fronted by legendary vocalist Glenn Danzig, who, after leaving The Misfits, went on to form the highly acclaimed Samhain. While lyrically was similar to The Misfits, was a darker and much gloomier sound. He later went solo and started Danzig. While all three acts were very similar, they were all also worlds apart yet all had huge followings and were very influential in the music world. After The Misfits original members split up, there've been a lot of harsh words towards each other and hard feelings over the years amongst the members - including court cases over copyright issues.
The Misfits originally formed in 1977, and 39 years later The Misfits are still kicking ass and it seems like a dream will come true. They said it would never happen but, the almighty The Misfits will be making a return the end of 2016 at Riot Fest headlining the show with all original members - or so it was claimed. The original members have rumored that they will be using renowned drummer and former member of legendary heavy metal thrash gods Slayer the one and only Dave Lombardo. Now Dave has been rumored to be the skin smasher filling in on drums during these live performances that are being held in September.
As of now Dave's name has not officially been announced. As a matter of fact, it's actually just hearsay and speculation because band members of The Misfits have been hinting around that he is who the drummer will be. So by the process of elimination by hints given by Danzig and Jerry Only, Dave's name has surfaced and is now in the limelight.
I have been a fan of both Slayer and The Misfits since I was a young teen and continue to be one to this day. Hell, I even sported the black wrist bands like Glenn for a while. So combining the two bands for me personally would be like a demonic musical orgasm! Although the styles of both bands are very different, putting the two together will be incredible, especially in a live performance.
Could this possibly be the new line up for The Misfits? Could there be a new studio album in the future with the return of the original members plus Lombardo? One can only dream.
It's doubtful that I will be lucky enough to attend Riot Fest and get to witness the reunion of The Misfits , but if any of you readers out there are able to and if you think I'm a halfway decent guy, then help me out and get me a fucking t-shirt!
I don't have a clue on the future of The Misfits or the possibly joining of Dave Lombardo on drums to the band, but I do promise that I will keep you guys updated as the events unfold !
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COMING SOON: The 7th Annual GWAR-B-Q
Feast With Gwar
By John Roisland
House of Tortured Souls prides our selves on bringing you horror - from our universe and all others. That's why we're thrilled to announce that on August 20, 2016, legendary shock rock band Gwar returns to Hadad's Lake in Richmond, Virginia, for the 7th annual GWAR-B-Q!!
Gwar first hit the music scene in 1985 and have been shocking audiences and appalling both parents and censors with their violent, sexual, and blood-filled stage shows ever since. (I, personally, have been a fan from the start.)
On top of having a powerful and unique sound, Gwar has a stage show that is like no other stage show you will ever see. Combine A Serbian Film, The Evil Dead, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Price Is Right into live stage theatrics with badass music and you have a show that has to be experienced to believed.
In addition to their extreme live shows, the band hosts what is appropriately called the GWAR-B-Q (as mentioned earlier). This will be the 7th year running of the mini festival and, just like the previous years, the festival has an all new line up, including Eye Hate God, Lamb of God, Against Me!, American Nightmare, Lagwagon, and many more still to be announced. Don't panic, though, because Gwar will be playing and torturing humans in the pit as usual.
Gwar has been kind enough in these financially stressful times to help us out attendees by contacting Richmond hotels and securing the best rates possible. (I figure Gwar threatened to slay off if they didn't help out, but I can't confirm this.) So, for the hook-up, check out the GWAR-B-Q website.
Also, (and I found this to be extremely cool) the GWAR-B-Q website has a section where you sign up to help out at the event. It doesn't specify whether or not helping means you'll be hand feeding Beefcake the Mighty small children before his show or scrubbing his toilet after, but, hey, either way you'll get to say you were there!
If you're going to have a Gwar weekend in Richmond, VA, you must dine at GWARbar. (For those of you who don't know, Gwar have a restaurant/bar in Richmond at 217 W. Clay Street. GWARbar offers both meatfilled and meatless fare and all is inspired by the band! Michael Derks, AKA Balsak the Jaws of Death, has drawn upon his 30+ years of restaurant experience and is executive chef for the establishment. (This would be a must for me!)
Tickets for the GWAR-B-Q officially went on sale Friday, June 10, 2016. The gates open at 10:00 (yes, AM), and the first band goes on at 10:30, so get there early and prepare to become a slave to none other than Gwar!
Long Live Oderus!
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Is STRANGELAND 2 headed our way??
By : John Roisland
Big news today for both horror and metal fans. Legendary front man Dee Snider of hard rock metal group, Twisted Sister announced today that Strangeland 2, is in the works!
Back in 1998 Dee Snider released Strangeland , that he wrote and co starred in along with other such stars as Robert Englund, Kevin Gage, Elizabeth Pena, and a young Amy Smart. It was the story of a internet predator, who enjoyed performing different kinds of sadomasochistic torture on his victims. And a detective to find his daughter, who has fallen victim to his trap.
As of this morning Snider re-tweeted an Instagram photo from Christopher Petzel, the president and CEO of Strangeland rights owners Emaji Entertainment, which was captioned with the words "We're going to Strangeland!". Snider of course , added his own caption along with the tweet , confirming that "the Strangeland sequel team begins to be built…".
Obviously, there is no further information given as it was just announced this morning, but bet your ass we here at www.houseoftroturedsouls.com will be following this one very closely! I did a review on the original back in October, the movie, I absolutely love. I think it was a breath of fresh air that at the time, the horror industry needed!
The storyline I think was great, and give mad fist bumps to Mr. Snider who wrote the story. It was however , never given a real big push with the release of the film. I must say, that I am very excited about this, and hope it gets a better backing by the studios for a bigger release.
Strangeland did go in to become a bit of a cult classic with a big following especially with the metal heads, as it had a great soundtrack, but also with those involved with tattoos and body modification, as the story deals a lot on the subject.
Either way, this is one I will be on the look out for!
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MOVIE REVIEW: Deathgasm (2015)
By Nick Durham
Heavy metal up your fucking ass. That's what Deathgasm promises, and holy mother of fucking shit, that's what Deathgasm delivers on. A delirious, New Zealand-birthed film revolving around metal, demons, and hysterical gross out moments, this film is a total fucking treat, and that's saying it lightly. Fifteen minutes into this movie, I knew I stumbled upon something special.
Deathgasm revolves around Brodie (Milo Cawthorne): an abandoned teenage metal head that is stuck living with some fairly conservative family members that don't approve of his dress style, taste in music, or penchant for playing some blistering licks on his guitar (it should go without saying that I totally relate to this kid, but I digress). Anyway, Brodie meets local troublemaker and fellow metal head Zakk (James Blake), and of course they decide to start their own band. Before you know it, they inadvertently summon up an ancient evil that begins taking demonic possession of the local townfolk. What results is some of the most hilariously amazing scenes you'll see in a horror flick around today.
Nearly everything about Deathgasm is wondrous. The film's screenplay and scenes are peppered throughout with various metal-flavored in-jokes and nods to the metal genre. Combined with the pitch-black comedic moments and even more nods to 80s horror flicks (this film owes a lot to The Evil Dead (1981) and Demons(1985)), you won't be able to do much else other than love this fucking film. The film's makeup and gore effects, and especially the soundtrack, are totally fucking killer.
Now for as much as I love Deathgasm, it isn't perfect. In fact, it falls just short of being an all-time classic, albeit just barely. The bro relationship between Brodie and Zakk, and the love triangle with the super fine Medina (Kimberly Crossman), doesn't get as much depth served to it as I would've liked. That and sometimes the film's pacing is sometimes all over the place. All of that aside, this is a fucking great time.
All in all, if you're a longtime fan of metal music, you owe it to yourself to see Deathgasm. Even if you're not into metal music, you'll find a lot to admire here regardless if anything like The Evil Dead or Demons (1985) is up your alley. If you don't get even a smidge of enjoyment out of this, I think something may be wrong with you, and we just can't be friends.
Rating: 4/5
By John Roisland
In honor of the late Peter Steele celebrating his birthday January 4th, I bring you my personal tribute two Type O Negative.
Formed in 1989, Type O Negative, out of Brooklyn, New York, hit the hard core/heavy metal scene with a sound that was of their own. Heavily influenced by The Beatles, Black Sabbath, and The Doors, the "Drab Four", as they were nicknamed, lyrically gave us songs about romance, depression, death loss, addiction, vampirism, and hate. The lyrics were often with a very dark sense of humor that lady over many of their songs.
When I was first introduced to the band, just after the 1991 release of their first album Slow, Deep and Hard, I thought to myself, "Okay, not bad". But at the time, I was into heavy thrash metal, so these guys weren't fast enough for me. But before I knew it, I was absolutely in love with them. They just made sense to me at that point in my life; the lyrics, spoke to me. I can remember putting their CD on repeat while I would be home and my old roommate getting very pissed after hearing about 4 hours of Christian Woman!
Over the years their creative style and dark imagery was burned into my heart, my mind, and my soul. It inspired me to the point that if I were an artist, Type O Negative would have easily been my muse. And the odd thing is that they have actually inspired me to do artwork every time I've listened to them in recent years. The Brooklyn New York music scene was known for its hardcore bands, Agnostic Front and Sick Of It All for example, and then some long haired guys come on stage with songs about vampires and a following of their own.
With the 1993 release Bloody Kisses, they took the world by storm! Type O Negative were now touring the world over and over again. A follow-up album in 1996, October Rust, earned them critical acclaim. From one album to the next as each followed, their level of maturity grew in their music, as lyrically they became darker, more emotional, and more personal. The last three albums, World Coming Down, Life Is Killing Me, and Dead Again, were both incredible and very sad, because you could hear him singing about his real life monsters: alcoholism and paranoia brought on from newest vice, cocaine.
Lead singer Pete Steele was a monster of a man who stood 6'8 and towered over everybody on stage. Though I am 6' tall, the few times I was fortunate enough to have met Mr. Steele, my neck was sore from looking up at him. He was an incredible person to talk to, and he spoke genuinely and honestly. He didn't hold back, which I appreciated, but he was also a very shy and depressed person. Steele suffered from being both bipolar and clinically depressed, which led him to drink before going on stage to get over his stage fright, and he sometimes consumed an entire bottle or two of red wine while on stage to continue.
Their shows were always phenomenal, no special effects, no fancy light show, just four guys performing great music. I think seeing them in DC on Halloween night was very suiting! Their songs are ones that you could dance to, throw down in a pit, work out, have on in the background while you were doing things around the house, or even have sex to, but their music to me was much more. Their music was never, ever turned off if ever their song was playing. I always allowed it to finish. I'm not trying to say that every song they wrote was masterpiece, but there was never one that I could say I didn't like either.
Listening to Peter Steele's voice always amazed me. This 6'8 mountain of muscle had a voice that could hit some of the lowest sounds I've ever heard. It was as if you were listening to Lurch from The Addams Family singing to you, and on the flip side has voice with so melodic and graceful. If you didn't know who he was, you may have thought to put a battle axe in his hands and throw him into a set of Conan the Barbarian, but you wouldn't think of him as a a singer.
Back in my day, every time Type O Negative came to town I always had my tickets and never missed a show. No matter how big or small it was, it was always a great show. It didn't matter who they were performing with , the likes of Danzig, Pantera. or taking a night off from a major tour and doing a small club show unannounced, they were always awesome!
Peter Steele died April 14th, 2010 from heart failure due to an aortic aneurysm at only 48 years old. I miss Type O Negative a lot, I still listen to it all the time. As a matter of fact, it's the most popular played Pandora station that I have. I listen to it at work, in the car, and any chance I get. The memories that I have of them are very strong though they weren't everybody's cup of tea. The friends that I hung with were all metal heads and hardcore music fans. I was the Type O fan of my group, and they all knew and respected that.
The untimely death of Peter Steele and the end of the band hurt. I was living in Florida at the time and had just got home from work. I turned the computer on and saw the headlines. I was crushed! Memories of their concerts, sounds of the music, and friends I was with as their music played thru out the years came rushing to me like a hail storm of bullets.
To this day , through me, their music lives on and always will. People always ask one another, "What's your favorite...?" Well, I don't know what my favorite food, or actor is. Not sure what my favorite movie is (unless its horror), but I do know what my favorite band is, ..... Type O Negative.
So to Peter Steele, Kenny Hickey, Josh Silver and Johnny Kelly, I thank you for the music and memories that were and will be made through it.
And to Peter, I hope you are no longer fighting with your monsters, and can nest rest easy. We miss you.
Keep It Evil.
COMING SOON: Gutterdammerung
By John Roisland
Yes, I spelled it correctly, so don't sit there and make fun of me. Gutterdammerung is a rock n roll movie about good and evil . Brought to you from the vision of Bjorn Tagemose , a Belgian-Swedish director whose lie of specialties are visual arts , ....and music videos, the combination together in what he has brought us looks FUCKING AMAZING!!!
The film is in black and white and is a "silent film", but it's not. As a matter of fact, it may end up being one of the loudest films to cross this earth! This film you wont see in any regular movie theater, noooooo sir! This is a traveling show, full equipped with live rock band, preforming in front of/under the screen, much like you would see a symphony playing in front of a Broadway play.
The story is one of good and evil. Humanity is a shit storm, and the big guy upstairs is tired of it. He decides to take away the one thing that is pure evil. A guitar. For without the guitar, the people of earth will no longer have (say it with me) ,"sex, drugs, or rock and roll!!" All the things that have corrupted humanity. But between a fallen angel, played by Iggy Pop, and an evil priest, played by Henry Rollins, there's going to be plenty of room for disaster , I'm sure!
The film also stars rock-n-roll god himself Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, G-n-R's Slash , the one and only Grace Jones, heavy metal fathers, Slayer's Tom Araya, Volbeat, Nina Hagen, Jesse Hughes, Josh Homme, and Mark Lanegan.
Sadly enough there are no tour dates except for one in England that was to go on sale today, October 14th, 2015. The rest of the world will just have to wait...but I think it will be worth the wait! This is going to be what looks like - this generation's musical experience, set to rock-n-roll, and good old heavy metal!
There are also no prices at this time, I can assure you it wont be cheap to start, but with a traveling band and so on...I'm sure it's only going to get more costly and it grows!


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Ethics Of Hunting Essay, Research Paper
Philosophy of Sports
May 18
Hunting, as defined by Webster?s Dictionary, is the act of one that hunts, specifically in the pursuit of game. The major controversy about hunting is if it is ethical. Hunting ethics is a term that defines the true standards, conduct, and moral, judgement of a sportsman. I believe that hunting is ethical and should continue to be legal throughout the United States. As long as the hunters hunt legally, safely, and their intentions are good. Hunters should hunt during the right season and should kill and gather their game, not just shoot for fun. This is where the ethics of hunting come into play. What are the basic ethics of hunting? Each hunter has his own code of ethics he follows. In this paper I will try to explain the basic ethics of hunting that hunters follow, why we hunt, how hunting helps the economy, and why hunting is more dangerous for the anti-hunters than for the actual hunter.
Jim Posewitz defines the ethical hunter, in his book Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting, as ?a person who knows and respects the animal hunted, follows the law, and behaves in a way that will satisfy what society expects of him or her as a hunter (Posewitz 53).? Every hunter develops a set of ethics that he or she hunts by. These are a set of rules in which he or she thinks that they should act in order to hunt fairly. Most hunters learn hunting ethics from watching other hunters or from their parents when they are introduced to hunting as children. That is if one hunter believes it is ethical to hunt using bait, then they are hunting their own ethical way. They are doing nothing illegal but some other hunters look upon this as unethical. They stick by the claim that anyone who baits is not a ?true hunter.? The problem with hunting comes when we try and push our ethics off on other hunters. Every hunter?s code if ethics is different. However, we each share the same basics. This is we want to hunt legally, safely, and we want to wait for the most human shot possible. Most hunters had a code of ethics drilled into them when they were young and now stick close by them. They are not going to hunt in a manner they find unethical. Hunters should practice personal ethics as a way of showing respect for his fellow sportsman and the animal. One of the most ethically irresponsible things a hunter can do is not follow up his shot. You must always do everything possible to retrieve a wounded animal, including spending the whole day looking for it. Hunting for sport is an improvement over hunting for food, in that there has been added to the test of skill an ethical code. Which the hunter formulates his or herself and must live up to without the moral support of bystanders. Ethics come from within and spring from respect. To know nature is to respect it and from this comes ethics.
Hunting is an undeniable part of our history and still plays a major role in the lives of many Americans. Back during the times of early colonization, people hunted because the animals were a good source of food, clothing, and barter to trade. The pioneers probably did not have any questions about ethics or sportsmanship while hunting. They harvested their game in the cheapest and most efficient way possible. I have little doubt that most of these early settlers enjoyed the hunt, but enjoyment wasn?t why they hunted. They did it to survive. However, since we are more efficient that our ancestor and since we?re more numerous as well, we must impose limitations on ourselves so we don?t take more animals that we can use and damage the wildlife populations by doing so. The hunting instinct is bred into the bone and blood of at least most of us and is one of the fundamental elements of human nature. Hunting can be labeled ?dominionistic? because hunting demonstrated their control over animals (?What?s the problem with hunting?? 26). Hunting offers one way to express this element of human nature and to experience first hand the role of predator in the food chain. Another reason we hunt is it provides a significant amount of food, often for families that could not afford to purchase the most common forms of commercial meats. The act of hunting preserves an experience that was central to our culture and indeed all-human culture, at one time.
How many sports bring in over a billion dollars each year? A lot of sports bring in excess of a billion dollars, but none get as much controversy as hunting. Hunters provide funds for wildlife management programs and support a significant sector of the economy with their purchases of equipment and services. Hunters contribute $3 million per day to wildlife conservation programs nationally, for an annual total in excess of $1.5 billion. Conservation funds come directly from license revenues, excise taxes on sporting equipment, and financial support from hunting advocacy groups. Also, hunters contribute $14 billion annually to the U.S. economy and support over 300,000 jobs. Yet with all these contributions, hunting still gives some a bad taste in their mouth. Without these contributions there is no way the government could protect endangered wildlife. Hunters are controlling the over populated woods and at the same time protecting the game that is on the verge of extinction.
Most arguments against hunting come from non-hunters who cite safety as being their leading cause of ending legalized hunting. However, the number of accidents remains small in proportion to the number of safely conducted hunts. Very few times do you ever hear about hunting accidents, this is because not many accidents ever occur. However, when one does happen the media hypes it up to make it sound as bas as possible. Other objections include hunting based on the treatment of animals, waste of meat, and the unnecessary killing of one type of game. Law can regulate specific practices, but hunter conduct is hard to regulate during or after a hunt. This is where the hunters? ethics come into play. People need to be taught basic, proper hunting ethics to insure hunting will be done ethically.
A major concern for hunters nowadays does not involve ethical hunting but it comes directly from anti-hunting organizations. Groups of anti-hunters will protests in fields by placing themselves between hunters and their game or use noise to drive the game away from hunters (www.outdoorsite.com). These demonstrations have led to hostile confrontations and drawn media attention. Most states have passed hunter harassment laws that make it a crime to prevent a legal hunt. Besides passing the hunter harassment law, the government has placed other restrictions on trying to keep hunting ethical. They have hired game wardens to make sure hunters enforce the basic hunting ethics and they also have hunting seasons. Emotional feelings for the animals are the only reason anti-hunters will not give up their cause. They need to understand that dying from a gunshot wound or an arrow is better than starving for weeks. Even though the animal does suffer when it is shot, it?s only for a few hours, maybe. However, being maimed by another animal or starving can last up to weeks.
We all have our ideas and beliefs on how everyone should hunt. And ideally, everyone would hunt like us. But this is not going to happen, so as long as hunters are hunting legally, I say leave him alone. In reality, if we wanted to be a ?true hunter,? we would have to take to the woods just like our ancestors the caveman. Wearing buckskins while hunting with a stick bow and arrowheads. The only way hunters can respond to the debate by anti-hunters is by improving the hunt and not engaging in violent confrontations. Ultimately, public opinion will decide whether hunting, as we know it, will continue. If you are able to win over the crowd, you will be able to win your freedom.
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2.) Posewitz, Jim. Beyond Fair Chase: The Ethic and Tradition of Hunting. Falcon Press, 1994
3.) ?What?s the Problem with Hunting?? Orion: People and Nature. No. 15.1. Winter 1996
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I was telling my husband about this book I just read,
Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe,
And I was like, "it's ballet young-adult fiction. But it's written in verse! But not like rhyming couplets verse, more like a stream of consciousness kind of thing, it actually reads really naturally and I only had like one brief moment where I wondered what the book would look like if it were written in paragraphs instead of verse but then after that one moment I was totally on board with the verse and into it,"
And he was like, "Wait wait wait. There's ballet young adult fiction?"
And I was like, "Huh? Oh yeah, definitely! There are probably more ballet YA books than regular adult ballet books. Makes sense, I mean most of the people in the world doing ballet are kids and young adults, so there's your audience."
Which I hadn't really thought of before. Now I want to make two lists of all the ballet fiction ever and see which list is longer, A or YA.
I really enjoyed Audition. Read all 607 pages in about three hours and not just because the verse lends itself toward page-turning.
The main character, Sarah, has a very adult inner voice that she is pretty much completely unable to voice outside of her own head. A problem I majorly remember. From my own self at sixteen. Or yesterday. Whatever!
Sarah is in this relationship:
…every other part of me is straining to be
The forearm his fingertips are absently stroking.
You remember that relationship, right? You're into him, he's into him? He's got the power?
Eventually he sees her like she wants him to but it's all wrong. He begins taking her movements, the physical expression of her mostly non-verbal self, and working them into his choreography and giving them to another dancer to dance, like he's draining her soul like some kind of dance-vampire and coming back again and again.
It's a really interesting angle on the relationship of muse to artist. We all want to inspire someone, I mean how flattering to be someone's magic, to be the spark that makes an artist create.
But then what do you get back? Love? That's good. Collaboration? That's good. Fame? Maybe good? But what if you get nothing back? What if he takes and takes? Is that ok, like in service to the greater art? Or is it not ok because it's killing you?
I remember we all wanted to be The Girl In The Song when I was in high school. To have a song about you. I wonder if girls want that anymore.
Anyway, Audition. Totally worth an adult read.
Deets are: Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe, copyright 2011, Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Disclosure: I totally checked this out from my local library and received no compensation for my review other than the pleasure of a good read.


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Professional Sports: What about Those that Never Make It? July 30, 2007Posted by Marquis Chapman in Basketball, Football, NBA, NFL, Sports.
Every year, the NFL and NBA drafts are televised on ESPN. Each year, a very small percentage of athletes hear their name called and get to shake the commisioner's hand in front of family, friends, and millions of fans. Once you step foot on that stage, your life is changed forever. Fame and fortune become synonymous with your name. The people who have helped the athletes get to this point are taken care of for life. It's a dream come true.
But what about the athletes that have their dreams put on hold? What about the athletes that don't hear their name called? Instead of relief and joy, they're filled with grief, embarrassment, and uncertainty about the future. The athlete feels like he has let everyone down, especially those who have helped him get to this point.
Now, comes the road that is not as glorified. The road that's not talked about as much. It's not covered on ESPN, or written about in Sports Illustrated, or hardly ever talked about on radio. The road that's seldom talked about is the NBA Development League or the training camps for undrafted players in the NFL. Your name no longer carries any weight. No one cares about your awards, accolades, and highlights in college. You've become just another number now.
While some of your peers are shooting commercials and signing endorsment deals, you're playing in small basketball arenas in places like Des Moines, Iowa or busting your butt in a traning camp as a free agent for a coach that doesn't even know your name.
There are a select few that do make it by taking this route. Some become stars, some become reliable backups, and some just find a home with a team riding the bench every season. Players like center Ben Wallace and wide receiver Joe Horn were undrafted and have had very long productive careers in the NBA and NFL.
There are quite a few however, that find themselves right back at square one, having to start the process all over again. For some, it will be countless tryouts with one team after another, never even coming close to finding a secure home with a team.
So, at what point does the time come for an athlete to stop chasing the dream? At what point does an athlete that has played sports all his life, start considering getting a 9 to 5? When is it time to hang it up and realize that the dream has become an unrealistic fantasy?
Some stop chasing the dream and get an ordinary job and are able to adjust to a life without sports, becoming successful in other areas of work. There are others that keep chasing and chasing, as the window of opportunity slowly closes. They refuse to stop trying and will continue to try to make it as long as their body allows them to. The reason: it's the only thing that the athlete knows. They've put all their eggs in one basket, banking on making it in professional sports. They didn't take college academics seriously and didn't even bother to think about life without football or basketball. For many athletes, there are no other options. They simply have nothing to fall back on.
After years and years of try outs and eventually never making it, the athlete may become bitter, and blame everyone and everything besides themselves as to why they didn't make it. Phrases like "I could have been a great player" or "No one wanted to give me a shot" are the norm. The athlete refuses to accept failure in something they've been doing their entire life. Many of them will never find a home in professional sports.
So as you watch Lebron James in a Nike commercial or see Reggie Bush pitching an add for Gatorade, it's important to realize that for every Lebron or Bush, there are hundreds that don't make it. There are only a select few that are lucky enough to make it as a professional athlete and there are far more that will never make it. The limelight in professional sports is so bright sometimes, that we often forget about who's left in the shadows.
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It's the end of the worlds as we know it. And all Fringe Division wants is soup.
"I swear I saw someone walking around with it!" says Jasika Nicole, bubbly and bundled up between takes while filming on a Vancouver lot. With a week left before wrapping Fringe's fifth and final season, the mood on this drizzly December afternoon is unexpectedly light. Especially for folks facing a string of long night shoots involving the ultimate battle between our heroes and their bald overlords, the Observers. "It's going to be big," says Anna Torv, whose Olivia Dunham is already bearing the bumps and bruises of the previous episode's action. "I'll be impressed if we can shoot it in the time allotted."
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text: Sarah Olson explores the beginning of life and the creation of the world through the lens of religion and science. She has exhibited paintings, drawings and created performances and sculptural installations in New York City and abroad in various galleries, public spaces and on residencies in remote locations in India, Scotland, England and El Salvador. Her public performance work, where she creates live drawings on a scrim-like backdrop has recently taken place in Zucotti Park and Central Park in New York City with the NYC Parks Department. A live video of her work was displayed last summer at Summer Stage in Central Park during a performance by vocalist, Tamar-Kali. In New York, she has also created performances taking place at the Joyce Theater, Littlefield Performance and Art Space, The Education Alliance. While working within traditional drawing and painting media, she also incorporates plastic waste into her images and performances such as bags, bottles, lids, six-pack rings; questioning the constant stream of garbage that piles ever higher as populations soar. Her sculpture and painting have most recently been displayed at The 3LD Art and Technology Center, and Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum. She has also shown at DA Gallery, Gallery Satori, The Dahesh Museum, Columbia University in NYC; and the Rivington Gallery and Museum of Design in London, among others. Her work is in the collections of Bruce W. Ferguson, Eric Fischl and Eileen Guggenheim. Olson lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband and three children. She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.


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By News-Herald staff
Cavs owner Dan Gilbert's letter to Cleveland fans
Dear Cleveland, all of Northeast Ohio and Cleveland Cavaliers supporters wherever you may be tonight:
As you now know, our former hero, who grew up in the very region that he deserted this evening, is no longer a Cleveland Cavalier.
This was announced with a several-day, narcissistic, self-promotional buildup culminating with a national TV special of his "decision" unlike anything ever "witnessed" in the history of sports and probably the history of entertainment.
Clearly, this is bitterly disappointing to all of us.
The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you, nor NEVER will betray you.
There is so much more to tell you about the events of the recent past and our more than exciting future. Over the next several days and weeks, we will be communicating much of that to you.
You simply don't deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal.
You have given so much and deserve so much more.
In the meantime, I want to make one statement to you tonight:
You can take it to the bank.
If you thought we were motivated before tonight to bring the hardware to Cleveland, I can tell you that this shameful display of selfishness and betrayal by one of our very own has shifted our "motivation" to previously unknown and previously never experienced levels.
Some people think they should go to heaven but NOT have to die to get there.
Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
This shocking act of disloyalty from our homegrown "Chosen One" sends the exact opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. And "who" we would want them to grow up to become.
But the good news is that this heartless and callous action can only serve as the antidote to the so-called "curse" on Cleveland, Ohio.
The self-declared former "King" will be taking the "curse" with him down south. And until he does "right" by Cleveland and Ohio, James (and the town where he plays) will unfortunately own this dreaded spell and bad karma.
Just watch.
Sleep well, Cleveland.
Tomorrow is a new and much brighter day …
I PROMISE you that our energy, focus, capital, knowledge and experience will be directed at one thing and one thing only:
DELIVERING YOU the championship you have long deserved and is long overdue …
Majority Owner
Cleveland Cavaliers
Open Letter to Dan Gilbert
Part III
By: Gary Norris Gray- BASN Staff Reporter
Three years ago you wrote this letter to the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers. It was a very passionate and eloquent letter. Sir, the commissioner fined you for this short letter even-though you left out a few issues. Sir, you stated it was a coward act by the Chosen One. No, Mr. Gilbert it was a business decision by LeBron James and you sir should have respected that but instead you decided to trashed a intelligent Black man. Refusing to acknowledge your own ineptitude and your bad business decision
1) Mr. James was a free agent and could sign with any team in the league including yours, the Cleveland Cavaliers. James did his due diligence working for your team seven years. James carried a team of no names (CAN ANYBODY NAME THE STARTING FIVE OTHER THEN JAMES?) to the conference Semi Finals in 2005-06 against the Detroit Pistons then again the NBA Finals in 2007 against the San Antonio Spurs. The last straw for James was the lost to the Boston Celtics in the Conference Semi Finals of 2010. To LeBron James it seemed like you were content to just play in the playoffs.
2) It was evident to James that you sir were not interested in winning a championship, it was about padding and promoting the Cavalier brand with James at the head of the table while you received the revenues from that brand. By the way, sir notice that the last three years when the Miami Heat came to Cleveland to play the stadium was full in fact it was standing room only.
3) Since the departure of LeBron James the Cleveland Cavaliers have not won more than 25 games. The first year they only won 19 games. The Cavaliers went from 61 victories to 19 victories. From first place to last place. That should have told you how great LeBron James on the Cavalier floor meant to the team. But as my friend Reggie Howell from WCLM AM 1450 in Richmond Virginia states many times "I Digress".
4) Mr. Gilbert you received all of the revenues and profits the last three years, while the fans had to watch terrible basketball.
5) Mr. Gilbert owes the City of Cleveland three championships which he had in his grasp with LeBron James in a brown and yellow uniform. Gilbert refused to acquire the players to attain a championship and it cost the City of Cleveland. In Gilbert's last attempt at a championship in 2010 he hired the then elder Shaquille O'Neal on the down side of his career. It did not work. The Cleveland Cavaliers lost in the Conference Semi Finals to the Boston Celtics
6) Mr. Gilbert, you guaranteed the City that the Cavaliers would win the NBA Title before LeBron James. SORRY YOU LOSE, Mr. James went to three championship rounds, winning two of them back to back in Miami. What happened to the Cleveland Cavaliers?
7) Mr. Gilbert you owe the people of Cleveland an apology, and a refund. The profits you pocketed. The fans also helped you with the fines the commissioner levied against you and the organization three years ago.
You sir should be ashamed for fielding a D'League team and having the citizens of Cleveland forced to watch this terrible team day after day.
Gary Norris Gray
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Prodigal Prayer List 2008, 2009, 2010February 20th, 2011
- Please pray for my 23 year old daughter N. She has bi-polar and has begun to display effects of the disease (again) but doesn't recognize this. She knows the Lord but has begun drinking and putting herself in dangerous situations. Thanks, Mom – Lynda
- Please pray for my daughter S. She has 1 yr left to finish her BS degree but was arrested due to DUI. She works in a bar (strip club) and is far, far away from her Father God. She has always been very strong willed and determined to "do it her way" although as a young child she loved God and was very gifted musically and wrote worship songs. Everything changed at age 14. Her father is alcoholic and we divorced in 1999 and this exacerbated her lifestyle. Please also pray for me – Thanks – Mom – J
- Our daughter, L, was brought up in a Christian home, led worship for years, and witnessed effectively at university this past fall. After being influenced by a boyfriend, she has wandered from God & is confused. Would you please pray for L, her boyfriend and his family? Please also pray for our 17 year old daughter, Laura who needs to forgive those who have betrayed her trust, rejected her, or hurt her and allow the healing from God to enter her life. Thank you. Mom – S
- Our boys have both experienced salvation and were raised in a pastor's home. Please pray for my son, N, who is 22 and living in NYC with his girlfriend. She has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Please also pray for my son, J who is 19, and has allowed himself to become mixed up in a belief system that is contrary to God's Word. He is hateful, surly and planning to leave at the end of the summer to return to his new-found friends. Please pray for the broken hearts of my husband and me, as we are not doing well under this burden, especially while trying to pastor. Thank you. Parents – T and C
- Please pray for my beloved son, Josh (age 19). Josh does not know the Lord as his own personal savior, and, in his attempts to fill the "emptiness" of his heart, has become self-indulgent, self-destructive, and depressed. Please pray that his heart would be softened and that he would become sensitive to God's calling and will for his life. Mother – Janine
- Please add Sarah (age 27) to your prayer list. She is single and was raised in the church. She even went on a mission trip to Africa with Teen Mania. Now living in rebellion. Thanks, Mom – Rose
- Please pray for my beautiful daughter. We are asking God to bring her rebellion to an end and help her see His love for her – and to come back to us. Please also pray for our son who also needs salvation and deliverance. Both our children were raised in a Christian home. Praying Mom – Lisa
- Please pray for my son, Jonathon, and his wife Sarah. Pray they will turn to Jesus and make Him Lord of their lives. Jonathon was raised going to church but walked away at age 25. Thank you. Mom – Peggy
- Please pray for my son, Matt. He is 22. He knows the Lord but has been caught up in the world and using drugs for over 4 years. He has been arrested, put in jail, been to rehab twice. The longest he has been sober/clean is 90 days. Hoping this nightmare will end soon. Mom – LB
- Please pray for my sons J and M, They are both far from the Father. They are now independent and grown young men, who do not live for the Lord. What a blessing it would be to see some fruit begin to show in their lives. Mom – Sandy
- Please pray for my 19 yr old son A. He proclaimed his homosexuality and left home a year ago. Since then he has cut off his parents though we reach out to him in love. Now he has left our town and moved out-of-state without a word to us. Please pray that he return his heart to his family and his Lord. Pray for me his mother that the heartbreak I suffer from his desertion will lessen and become manageable.
- Please pray a miracle healing for A. my son who is 30 years old. He is addicted to prescription drugs. He came from a very strong Christian Faith and upbringing. Please pray for God to move this mountain from him and heal him – body, soul and spirit. He has been through drug rehab and a medical protocol, but to no avail. He needs Jesus. Thanks! Mom, Susan
- Please pray for my 26 year old son, N, who has never accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. His heart is proud and rebellious and he continues to make bad decisions. He is living with a woman twice his age who enables him to continue to live in debt and stay angry and resentful at why he owes people money. Pray that he would accept God's grace and God would grant him repentance and he would know Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior.
- Please pray for my 21 yr old daughter, C, who is a Christian but has a romantic relationship with a non believer. Pray she would turn to the Lord instead of marrying someone who doesn't know the Lord. Thank you! Mom, Cathy
- I would appreciate prayers for my prodigal daughter K. After two years of Bible College she moved in with her boyfriend and now found out she is pregnant. I'm tired of feeling guilty and saddened by her choices….I am praying for God to heal my daughter and the rest of the family too. Mom – Monica – CA.
- Please pray for my 27-year-old son "B" who claims to love the Lord and is saved, but is not making choices to reflect that. He needs emotional healing too. Please also pray for my 15-year-old daughter "M" who is being sucked into the world and its lies. She has chosen not to believe in God as her form of rebellion right now. Thanks! Mom, Angie
- Please pray for my daughter S. my young teen beginning to have temptations all around her. God protect her and give us wisdom. Mom – Holly – WV
- My son, David is at a crucial crossroad. He can choose to return to Christ or not. Please pray that he will make good choices and pray that his younger sister will be protected. Mom – B.
- Our 18 year old son has run-away. Please pray that he will respond to his Heavenly Father's voice to return and be reconciled. Mom – C
- Matthew age 22, will return to the Lord, and place his faith and trust in Him and Him alone. For protection from the attacks of the enemy, especially when tempted by alcohol, drugs, and improper relationships. For the Lord to radically work a change in Matt's life, give him the hope and encouragement that he seeks, and the peace to deal with his daily life. Father – Mike
- 17 year old "D". Please pray that the Lord would faithfully and swiftly deliver her from the anger and rage, the drugs, the alcohol, the illicit partners, the ungodly lifestyle, the physical violence towards me and her sister, her rebellion and contempt of us. Please open her father's eyes to see the truth of what is going on with her in our family, and give him the wisdom and courage to act on her behalf and help him protect his daughter and our grandson from the dangers of this situation. Please Lord, protect D's 14 year old baby sister from abuse, harm, evil influences any dangers, temptation to sin and despair over our family circumstances. Bind any spirit of rebellion attempting to manifest within her. Lord Deliver us from evil, I implore You! Please break the satanic hold domestic violence has on our family members. In the mighty and precious Name of Jesus. Mom Donna
- Anna and Grace, to return to the Lord and the values taught to them in our home. Parents, Russ and Laurie
- I need prayers that will spiritually lift my daughter and help her. Also ask God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to remove the roots of anger, contempt and bitterness from her heart. Filling it then with understanding, hope, forgiveness and joy. Please pray that she will be shielded from harm to both body and soul. That God will break the chains that Satan has bound her up in and mend our family's broken relationship. Mom – Marianne
- Matthew 21 year old-Father, deliver him from the stronghold of alcohol and/or drugs. I pray he would have a genuine encounter with Jesus Christ and choose to serve the Lord in all he does. Remove him from ungodly influences, give Matthew hope in You. Mom – Sherri
- Sarah and her children – We need a miracle. I pray that she will be released from her violent anger and rage (and drugs if she is still involved). I pray that she will begin to make decisions that will better her life and the lives of her children. I pray for my family here at home that the rage she brought into our lives will not affect our efforts to forgive her and that we will continue to pray for God's blessings in her life and the lives of her children. – Mom Shannon
- 20 year old Jordan – He left home, no word on where he is or who he is with. Also 18 & 16 year old sons and our marriage. – Mom Deirdre
- 16 year old Dominique – Pray that she is delivered from the spirit of rebellion and a desire for ungodly companions, Please pray for her mental health. – Mom Donna
- Christina – Return to God, set better priorities with Children / boyfriend – Mom Sherry – DE
- Jason – Return to God, his wife and son – Mom Claudia
- 21 year-old Donna – prayer for her return to the Lord and deliverance from alcohol – Mom Debbie
- 19 year old Shawn – Mom Susan
- 19 year old Kyle – Mom Kathy – NC
- Vern – deliverance from alcohol – Mom Holly – OR
- Shane – deliverance from alcohol, step up to Fatherhood – Mom Marilyn – CA
- Brandon & Sarah – return to the Lord – Mom Linda – CA


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I have a Windows-7 computer that crashed (hard drive). Good news, I have a full backup of everything. Got new hard drive, Win7 and majority of programs have been reinstalled, and now I'm going through the chore of putting all the data back.
My Outlook-2007 is basically my professional lifeline. I have (2) Personal files...my main (Outlook.PST) file, and it's companion archive (Archive.PST). I have many years worth of transmissions here, and (legally) cannot delete them...thus the archive. Prior to the crash, my Outlook was configured to automatically archive anything >2yrs; thus, I have some 3+gb of data stored in that file. Not a big deal, I've got plenty of drive space, and a workhorse for a computer workstation.
Now the problem...my MAIN file...after I recreated my identity...I simply copied in OVER the the new "Outlook.PST" file...and, thus, my "current" mail (and contacts, etc.) are all perfectly intact. However, when I attempted the SAME process (i.e. creating a new Personal folder called 'Archive'), and copied in the backed-up "Archive.PST", I continually receive the error message:
"Cannot expand the folder. The set of folders cannot be opened. C:\__xxxxx___\Archive.pst is not a personal folders file"
What is going on here? I attempted to run that Outlook repair tool that Microsoft provides, to no avail...it errors out immediately. Please help! I thought I had a bad situation (the crash) solved by keeping good backups...but if I can't tap the back, what's the use? And, yes, we have jobs ongoing that have 3-4 years worth of communiques, that I *MUST* be able to retrieve. Thank you in advance for your assistance...
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Originally from New Zealand, Kim has grown up eating and cooking seafood. In that part of the world, Asian flavours are very popular and the style of cuisine is known as Pacific Rim. It is growing in popularity in the UK nowadays, as the delicate balance of tastes that Asian spices and aromats bring to dishes are delicious. He has travelled the world, picking up techniques and flavours that compliment and enhance all the dishes on the menu for this session.
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Tasty, nutritious and often very reasonable price-wise, this class will help you with how to:
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- pineapple and ginger salsa
There will be lots of chefs tips on how to present your efforts so that your final dish looks attractive and enticing.
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Mac OS X, Open Source and Other SillinessApril 22nd, 2006
Sometimes I wonder if a few tech commentators just want to make waves, rather than say anything useful, let alone factual. Consider the case of USA Today's Andrew Kantor, who recently came out with the outlandish suggestion that people, once properly exposed to Windows XP courtesy of Apple's Boot Camp, would ditch the Mac OS in huge numbers.
I've already weighed in on that, suggesting it was one of the crazier ideas in recent memory. However, Kantor pushed some buttons, got lots of hits and even if he found himself inundated with hate mail, no doubt his bosses at Gannett were happy over the attention.
Now we have another experienced button-pusher, John Dvorak, who was once an Apple booster way back when. He has long-since deserted the platform and decided to imbibe Kool-Aid full time. He wants to provoke rather than enlighten, and thus comes out with his own brand of outrageous pronouncements.
The latest is his suggestion that Apple make Mac OS X open source, so it can work, side-by-side perhaps, with Linux the fight the good fight to unseat Microsoft from its dominance of the operating system market. Here Dvorak seems to forget, or at least ignore, one key detail, a tiny detail perhaps, but one that's nonetheless quite significant: Apple makes most of its money from selling personal computers. Despite the stellar growth of the iPod, the Mac remains critical to its balance sheet.
So consider the consequences. If Apple makes Mac OS X completely open source, and not just its core, it loses control over the system, and leaves it open to thousands of programmers to change it, and not necessarily change it for the better. Anyone who has explored the world of Linux can understand that it's quite chaotic, because there is no single, unified version. There are different variations, each of which carry lots of installation options. Power users may adore the situation, but if you want something to "just work," is Linux really the answer? What about the plight of the consumers to whom Apple caters, if they were forced to sort through this mess to make thing work?
Consider, also, what would happen to Apple's hardware if Mac OS X enters into the wild. It would no longer exclusive to Macs and perhaps PC boxes configured by a handful of crackers. No, everyone would be able to download a distribution of one sort or another, and install it on their cheap Dells or Gateways. So what happens to Apple's finely-configured business model? Do the sales of new Macs go up or down under such a situation? This is not a trick question, and we all know how it would gut sales of Apple's computers real fast.
It is true, historians will remind me, that the Mac OS was, long ago, a free download to anyone who wanted to set it up on a handful of floppy disks. But don't forget that it still was designed to run strictly on Macs. Only Apple didn't monetize its operating system in those days, but it eventually learned that it can't shortchange itself as the operating system became larger, more complex and more expensive to develop.
So what's Dvorak's game here? Does he really believe his tall tales, or does he somehow want to see Apple fail big time? That would of course, justify his trip to the Dark Side years ago. Maybe it took a few more years to accomplish, but in the end, he'd be victorious, and he could watch Apple's final descent into obscurity once iPod sales peak and taper off.
Wait, did I say taper off? Well, eventually that will happen, and Apple will have to find a way to replace it with a compelling line of consumer electronics products. But that's another question and somewhat beyond the scope of this article.
Conspiracy theories might suggest that Kantor and Dvorak are quietly laughing their collective heads off watching Mac users tear them apart online and via email. Surely they can't be serious? They do just want to get people talking, even if the words are not the ones you'd utter in family surroundings.
Or maybe they are indeed serious, which would be the most tragic development of all.
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So here goes part 2 of my Japan trip… Have been so caught up with 2017.
We walked quite abit of distance before reaching Streames Coffee Company, situated at the other side of Shibuya. This Seattle style cafe is run by a Champion latte artist named Hiroshi Sawada. It is located right at the end of a small street and there's few people in the morning. We tried their signature drink military coffee and latte. Price-wise, it is on the pricier end which is equivalent to SGD10 per cuppa. The coffee is one of the smoothest I have ever tasted. Highly recommended.
Steamer Coffee Company, 1-20-18 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, +81 3 6427 3705
We then proceeded with our plan and headed to Showa Memorial Park. Was hoping to see abundance of Gingko leaves lining up awaiting our visit and after a long journey and 20 minutes of walking, were we disappointed with what we see. But since we were there already, we just explored the park anyways and still caught few beautiful sights here and there.
|Bare leaves, beyond peak.
|Who would you sit here with?
So we grabbed a quick bite at the train station before we raced against time to catch Ginko leaves at Meiji Gingu Gaien, as it was close to 2pm. (Dusk tends to settle around 4pm)
The whole stretch of restaurants were packed and we settled with Shake Shack for latte. Yes we are caffeine addicts! While the BFF heads off for her boyband concert, I went on to explore night illumination at Gotanda station and it was a beautiful sight on its own. Thereafter, had Sushizanmai at Shibuya outlet and boy, were there so many fellow Singaporeans there! Personally I feel the food is good but pricey.
|Ended the night with Oden after salsa social!
The next day, we headed to Rikugien Garden to soak in the sun and admire maple leaves!
|Their limited edition Baked Apple Drink was sweet but not too overwhelming.
|The lovely entrance sight that greeted us… what a contrast with Showa's entrance.
|The vibrancy of colours.
|Ho Mia Ducks (Good Life Ducks)
|Chilling at this tea house while waiting for night illumination
Thereafter, I headed to Shinjuku area for good coffee and Baked cheese tart. I chanced upon this hip and modern Blue Bottle Coffee Aoyama Cafe. So cool to see the baristas in action in front of you. Their humble Baked cheese tart is located at a small corner in Shinjuku station, in which I initially walked past and my inner sense guided me back to Baked cheese tart. haha.
|No queue at all
Located at the entrance of Shibuya alley (Just beside Starbucks), Gyu Shige Yakiniku is a great place for meat lovers. Tried their Genki Kalbi and Sakura Yukhoe (Horse meat), which tasted sweet and awesome. 🙂


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Zev steals a turn with the Melissa & Doug Deluxe Grocery Cart while his older sisters are otherwise engaged. We brought lots of merchandise with us to the Cape to photograph for this year's holiday catalog, but this has been the most popular by far – even with our smallest toy tester.
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TITLE: The New Testament
AUTHOR: Jericho Brown
PUBLISHER: Copper Canyon Press
GENRE: Poetry
What Jericho Brown has done with the biblical imagery employed is profound, he relates with every black 'brother.' He is black, obviously, and relates with the vices that lurks in every corner waiting for a black body. Jericho Brown like Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the world and me questions the significance of the black body in America.
What Angel of Death flies by each house, waving
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Jericho Brown is dauntless, a black gay poet may be assumed to be positioned on the wrong side. Though there is a thin line between what is vulgar and what is erotic, vulgar is offensive and erotic is art. Brown's art is clear off the line, he steered clear of vulgarism when he discussed the romantic love of brothers. His erotic poems are sensual and powerful. In What the holy do he was not soliciting for equality in issues or sexual but equity.
We wrote our own Bible
And got thrown out of church.
Then I saw one of us again—a man
Pushing into him
From behind.
The New Testament is a good read. The author dared to speak unfiltered truth delivered in a coat of music.
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