Now here is my hip-hop beat or instrumental music I made on 08/09/11. All original, nothing is sampled except of the drums beats, more like kits than samples but it sounds like real drums. I don't own any studio racks yet to dynamically processed and compressed the final tracks, so the sound quality is a bit dry as of now. I will be getting them soon to add in to my music lab. This beat making is taking me to another level. And I like it. Like I could make thousands of these, more like icing on a cake, eating an ice-cream, etc. Just as long that I have some racks to produce better sound quality with than just the creative aspect to it. I mean it's pointless to make creative tracks but then it has that peaking distorted sounds rather than that punchy, slash warm, slash colorful soothing sounds… I really made this instrumental beat for my relatives to rhymes with. Again, I am more of a electronica based hobbyist.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Beat Making - Akai MPC
or Instrumentals. I am more of a Electronica lab based musician slash hobbyist. To be honest, it's easier for me to make beats that are synthesized than sounding more like real drums. Where some typical Hip-Hop beats uses. Drum beats like acoustic snares, kicks, hi-hats or tambourines. Sometimes TR-808 kick and clap (rather than snare) are also common for hip-hop, specially from the west-coast. East-coast has more of that old school jazz drum beats which I also like. Here are few beat makers showing basic drum beats using the MPC in YouTube. Something I do as well, just not as often.
Here is Boon Doc. One thing about Boon Doc is that he can get really animated. All head bopping and what not, attitude at the end. But this dude is a genus when it comes to sampling old school records mostly from the 70's or late 60's. Last time I heard of him in YouTube is that he transitioned towards the real thing like actual real instruments than just doing sampling from an MPC 1000 quantizing, sequencing, and all that. Even switch his well known signature using the MPC 1000 religiously with followers, to using USB type midi controlled MPC which is the MPD32.
Here is Kay Kay, I wanna buy few of her drum kits. Just because I want to buy some of her kits. I think she makes MPC 1000 pretty for us beat makers. Actually she's got some skills, and she'll devour any exaggerated egos out there that most beat makers can't take control of sometimes. Anyways, here she is doing her thing.
This is DJ Hellfire. Just recently find out about this dude, same as Kay Kay. This dude showed a bit of that basic step of making drum beats, but I'm more impressed about the way he sampled Led Zepplin's guitar sounds. It doesn't sound like a long track but just the idea that he sampled something different is what I find cool.
Here is Boon Doc. One thing about Boon Doc is that he can get really animated. All head bopping and what not, attitude at the end. But this dude is a genus when it comes to sampling old school records mostly from the 70's or late 60's. Last time I heard of him in YouTube is that he transitioned towards the real thing like actual real instruments than just doing sampling from an MPC 1000 quantizing, sequencing, and all that. Even switch his well known signature using the MPC 1000 religiously with followers, to using USB type midi controlled MPC which is the MPD32.
Here is Kay Kay, I wanna buy few of her drum kits. Just because I want to buy some of her kits. I think she makes MPC 1000 pretty for us beat makers. Actually she's got some skills, and she'll devour any exaggerated egos out there that most beat makers can't take control of sometimes. Anyways, here she is doing her thing.
This is DJ Hellfire. Just recently find out about this dude, same as Kay Kay. This dude showed a bit of that basic step of making drum beats, but I'm more impressed about the way he sampled Led Zepplin's guitar sounds. It doesn't sound like a long track but just the idea that he sampled something different is what I find cool.
Bicycle - The New Invention!
What if Bicycles was is invented this year. Than it was in 1817. Everyone would be amaze by it. "Behold! the Bicycle… powered only with the Human Power.. That's right people.. no gas, no electric, not even steam!!! Just human energy!" All sold out from any local stores in a month. Maybe in a week. In a day? Just a year after being invented and then mass produced.
I was thinking about this three weeks ago till recently during my grave shift. There are several kids on BMX cruising by, regular folks doing early morning exercises with their mountain bikes, older people with their vintage cruiser bikes, and few road cyclers looking like slim chupacabras. Then I see motorcycles from japanese imports to american chopper bikes screaming like loud farts. And I thought what if there are bicycles just as fast than a motorcycle or even faster.
In three years, after bicycles are mass produced and sold out a year after it was invented, they would probably come up with an updated and more advance bicycle which is the "Bicycle Car". All men powered. Perhaps just as fast as regular car or even faster. That bicycle car would have the same type of concept as the Handcar.
Handcar
The Bicycle Car would have battery operated starter (when starting at the stop lights - or needed advantages to rest - even as additional muscle as you paddle). And that battery was energized from a renewal energy, like the solar energy for instance. Perhaps it has four wheels or even five wheels. One driver, who also uses leg power, and two other humans as generator using arms or leg power. In twenty years, or maybe even less than that, the streets and freeways would be filled with nothing more than a man powered bicycle cars. Hopefully my words illustrates it enough about how that would look. I'll probably do that later.
Everyone would be looking fit, like people from China and Vietnam. Where they have evolve even more extreme about taking advantage of using a bicycle.
The rest of the bicycles would be the last to be invented. Backwards…. Bicycles like Racing Bicycles, Recumbent Bicycles, Mountain Bikes, Cruiser Bikes, BMX, Low Rider Bicycles and etc...
From The Bicycle Mechanic. So far, this is the only modern bicycle concept I have seen in the internet, since bicycle was invented in 1817 by a German Inventor named Karl Drais. Automobiles was invented after, around 1885. And it was powered by "steam" (hot coals). Then to gas, thats when it was mass produced in the 1900's. Because why sweat it when you can use gasoline.
One of my other favorite about bicycles is The Bamboo Bicycle Project, which is in Ghana Africa.
No Facebook in China
No Tweeters, no Blogger, they have Google and YoutTube but certain issues like tragic political histories are blocked. Recently, I think Google and Youtube are blocked too. Most of their youth have no idea Tiananmen Square Massacre even existed back in 1989. Except for the few that can hack through it in their Universities. That's like the movie Matrix, where Neo wants to find out the truth, while the rest just think history is just a pass, pointless, and be better to just move on. True, at least the Chinese youth have nothing to complain about, no grudges, and just focus more on making their own pockets and country wealthier and wealthier. I heard Hong-Kong waste more food than Americans or any other countries. To me, thats like to not finish your meal in a restaurant shows the levels of how high your prestige is. Either that, or they are just too busy to finish a meal. The rest, I've seen it in the news. And a co-worker of mine told me a few. He came from Shanghai with a passion in history, focusing on Chinese & American relations. He says he wants to be a professor someday here in the States. Already submitted his applications to 20 Universities. To name a few, are Harvard, USSC, Stanford, Berkeley, and etc.
You know, it's weird because my cousin from Hong-Kong have a Facebook account. But uses her mobile phone…?
Some links:
First Twitter, now Facebook: banned in China
Lists of Websites Blocked in the People's Republic of China
Banned in China, Facebook opens office in Hong Kong
Here is a sample clip of the Youth in China about Tiananmen Square.
Little history of Tiananmen Square Uprising.
Lately, my brother told me about a lady he bumped into who were passing out flyers about regular people in China, who works out in the gym and then get tortured for it, because they might be taking steroids to overthrow the government. Actually, that was just a sarcasm. He did though have a flyer considering about Falon Gong. The art started in 1992. 3 years after 1989 (Tiananmen Square Massacre) it's the wrong time to start the martial art, but I guess it was important for some people to practice something a little more advance than Tai Chi, pretty similar type of principle. But I don't think there's anything suspicious about it. It's a free your mind physical and mental exercises. Rather than pouching and pushing the numbers up, where other countries needs the number too. Well, we all need the numbers, I need it too. But there's nothing wrong with relaxing away stress once in awhile in an open park, and everyone can join in, with none of that negative vibes man. It's not like they will do that all week thought out the month 24-7. Until they decide to keep it permanent. And in order to keep it that way, is to start a rebellion. If that succeed, most people will live like a slacker from jamaica smoking marijuana, from marijuana to PCP, making them having super power strength like Arnold Schwarzenegger to over throw the government. I think that's ridiculous. Just my opinion.
Here is one example of a Falon Gong practitioner who had been tortured.
You know, it's weird because my cousin from Hong-Kong have a Facebook account. But uses her mobile phone…?
Some links:
First Twitter, now Facebook: banned in China
Lists of Websites Blocked in the People's Republic of China
Banned in China, Facebook opens office in Hong Kong
Here is a sample clip of the Youth in China about Tiananmen Square.
Little history of Tiananmen Square Uprising.
Lately, my brother told me about a lady he bumped into who were passing out flyers about regular people in China, who works out in the gym and then get tortured for it, because they might be taking steroids to overthrow the government. Actually, that was just a sarcasm. He did though have a flyer considering about Falon Gong. The art started in 1992. 3 years after 1989 (Tiananmen Square Massacre) it's the wrong time to start the martial art, but I guess it was important for some people to practice something a little more advance than Tai Chi, pretty similar type of principle. But I don't think there's anything suspicious about it. It's a free your mind physical and mental exercises. Rather than pouching and pushing the numbers up, where other countries needs the number too. Well, we all need the numbers, I need it too. But there's nothing wrong with relaxing away stress once in awhile in an open park, and everyone can join in, with none of that negative vibes man. It's not like they will do that all week thought out the month 24-7. Until they decide to keep it permanent. And in order to keep it that way, is to start a rebellion. If that succeed, most people will live like a slacker from jamaica smoking marijuana, from marijuana to PCP, making them having super power strength like Arnold Schwarzenegger to over throw the government. I think that's ridiculous. Just my opinion.
Here is one example of a Falon Gong practitioner who had been tortured.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Grind Time vs Rodney Dangerfield
It's not my cup of tea… one of my teenage relative likes it. For some reason these east-coast rap battles sort of remind me of Rodney Dangerfield. Probably because his a Jew and also from the east-coast. If only Dangerfield has an opponent he would probably grind these guys out. Okay, here is Rodney Dangerfield on the first three YouTube videos.
ClassicTelevisionBlog - Comedian Rodney Dangerfield
ClassicTelevisionBlog - Rodney on The Tonight Show
Rodney Dangerfield - CaddyShack!
Now here are the rappers from Grind Time. I must warn you, these guys ain't typical hip-hop artist that the mainstream may know. Some probably seen parts from the movie 8 Miles by Eminem, when Rabbit went unto a freestyle rap battle. Well it's exactly like that. This is modern urban Shakespeare stuff from the east-coast, but I'm sure it's everywhere now even more. It's more like "Yo Mama Jokes", where they clown each other up. Except they rhyme and flow more like rappers and downgrade each other up way dirtier than Yo Mama Jokes. Hey the tongue is a double edge sword that can cut a human soul. Like young kids playing with a pistol found in the yard with a lot of bystanders around minding their own business. It's funny how some of them dresses like kindergarten but speaks so graphically, like they're gonna steal your lunch bag, with peanut-butter banana sandwich inside it.
Mr Sell vs Dirt
Madness vs Soul Khan
Soul Khan vs Fresco
E Ness vs Iron Solomon
ClassicTelevisionBlog - Comedian Rodney Dangerfield
ClassicTelevisionBlog - Rodney on The Tonight Show
Rodney Dangerfield - CaddyShack!
Now here are the rappers from Grind Time. I must warn you, these guys ain't typical hip-hop artist that the mainstream may know. Some probably seen parts from the movie 8 Miles by Eminem, when Rabbit went unto a freestyle rap battle. Well it's exactly like that. This is modern urban Shakespeare stuff from the east-coast, but I'm sure it's everywhere now even more. It's more like "Yo Mama Jokes", where they clown each other up. Except they rhyme and flow more like rappers and downgrade each other up way dirtier than Yo Mama Jokes. Hey the tongue is a double edge sword that can cut a human soul. Like young kids playing with a pistol found in the yard with a lot of bystanders around minding their own business. It's funny how some of them dresses like kindergarten but speaks so graphically, like they're gonna steal your lunch bag, with peanut-butter banana sandwich inside it.
Mr Sell vs Dirt
Madness vs Soul Khan
Soul Khan vs Fresco
E Ness vs Iron Solomon
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Gameboy & Microphone - Unboxing
I got these two boxes yesterday. I already opened them, and seen what's inside of it. Which is a Gameboy Gray and a Microphone. Like most of my online orders, I used Amazon.
Here are the boxes already opened from yesterday.
First box would be the Gameboy Gray, all bubbled wrapped.
Inside the bubble wrap, is this geeky looking' black with purple striped fanny pack type bag. Probably from the 80s as well.
Inside that bag are these. Gameboy with some games and accessories. All functioning right, it sounds good, and it's used but still looks new. Came with 4 games: Tetris, Mortal Kombat II, Urban Strike, and Killer Instinct. Played them all, even with my Gameboy Advance, and it's all good. There are only 3 game guides, the one for Tetris is missing. Then there's this charger also. I think it's a charger. Although it is collectable item now, and they can go up to 500 bucks if it's brand new, but I order this not for playing games, but for musical purposes. An instrument called LSDJ (cartridge u can get online for 100 bucks). I've purchased a Gameboy Color before this, but I barely see whats going on in the screen, making me order another one. I doodled around to it already, I just need to take few tutorials before I go any further to it. Because man, this may seem like a toy, but it can really make some awesome 8-bit sounds. Even as samples from the games itself. What this Gameboy needs to complete as a functional instrument are to sync it with other instruments like: This Is Not A Bomb with TR-808 Drum Machines or any of them Roland TR Series Drum Machines. Even Korg Electribe EMX-1.
A sample video syncing it with "This Is Not A Bomb" and "Korg Electribe EMX-1."
LINKS source of syncing LSDJ:
http://thebbps.com/articles/content/chiptuesday-midi-syncing-lsdj.html
http://midi.thediyshop.info/musical-instruments/lsdj-midi-controller-this-is-not-a-bomb-2/
Now to my next box, which I also opened yesterday…
It's a new microphone. I usually use my Edirol R-09 when recording live sounds.. Now, I got me a C-1 Studio Condenser Microphone. I'm going to use it to record acoustics (simple chords), percussions, random objects that can produce sounds I like, and for vocals <--- I have few teenage cousins that can flow rhymes and they say they wanted to be big as MCs someday. So I say, alright. I'm just a hobbyist, but I do have the basic gears that most Hip-Hop producers has, and we'll see where that goes.
It came with a warranty and this thick plastic case with foams in them. I can always store it away whenever I want.
There it is, It's a lot cheaper than the one I was originally planned of ordering which was the MXL 990/991. Except C-1 has a better ratings, and good reviews. Plus like I said, it's also cheaper.. excellent bargain. Hopefully, dammit.
The Phantom Power for the Condenser Microphone.
The Microphone Table Stand with Pop Filter. Which I got a day before the two boxes arrived. This gear is going to be standing on my music lab's table. I'm still waiting for another cable that would be connected to my mixer. I'll try posting a video soon or later, of me recording some random instruments or objects etc… then lay those sounds to my MPC 1000 and make a track out of it...
Here are the boxes already opened from yesterday.
First box would be the Gameboy Gray, all bubbled wrapped.
Inside the bubble wrap, is this geeky looking' black with purple striped fanny pack type bag. Probably from the 80s as well.
Inside that bag are these. Gameboy with some games and accessories. All functioning right, it sounds good, and it's used but still looks new. Came with 4 games: Tetris, Mortal Kombat II, Urban Strike, and Killer Instinct. Played them all, even with my Gameboy Advance, and it's all good. There are only 3 game guides, the one for Tetris is missing. Then there's this charger also. I think it's a charger. Although it is collectable item now, and they can go up to 500 bucks if it's brand new, but I order this not for playing games, but for musical purposes. An instrument called LSDJ (cartridge u can get online for 100 bucks). I've purchased a Gameboy Color before this, but I barely see whats going on in the screen, making me order another one. I doodled around to it already, I just need to take few tutorials before I go any further to it. Because man, this may seem like a toy, but it can really make some awesome 8-bit sounds. Even as samples from the games itself. What this Gameboy needs to complete as a functional instrument are to sync it with other instruments like: This Is Not A Bomb with TR-808 Drum Machines or any of them Roland TR Series Drum Machines. Even Korg Electribe EMX-1.
A sample video syncing it with "This Is Not A Bomb" and "Korg Electribe EMX-1."
LINKS source of syncing LSDJ:
http://thebbps.com/articles/content/chiptuesday-midi-syncing-lsdj.html
http://midi.thediyshop.info/musical-instruments/lsdj-midi-controller-this-is-not-a-bomb-2/
Now to my next box, which I also opened yesterday…
It's a new microphone. I usually use my Edirol R-09 when recording live sounds.. Now, I got me a C-1 Studio Condenser Microphone. I'm going to use it to record acoustics (simple chords), percussions, random objects that can produce sounds I like, and for vocals <--- I have few teenage cousins that can flow rhymes and they say they wanted to be big as MCs someday. So I say, alright. I'm just a hobbyist, but I do have the basic gears that most Hip-Hop producers has, and we'll see where that goes.
It came with a warranty and this thick plastic case with foams in them. I can always store it away whenever I want.
There it is, It's a lot cheaper than the one I was originally planned of ordering which was the MXL 990/991. Except C-1 has a better ratings, and good reviews. Plus like I said, it's also cheaper.. excellent bargain. Hopefully, dammit.
The Phantom Power for the Condenser Microphone.
The Microphone Table Stand with Pop Filter. Which I got a day before the two boxes arrived. This gear is going to be standing on my music lab's table. I'm still waiting for another cable that would be connected to my mixer. I'll try posting a video soon or later, of me recording some random instruments or objects etc… then lay those sounds to my MPC 1000 and make a track out of it...
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Norway Rampage
I've seen this in the news earlier today, after getting up between my sleep from a grave shift (partly sleep walking to the fridge, with a heartburn). The old man was watching it in a Filipino TV News (TV Patrol). The reporter was speaking like a machine gun, I couldn't understand what he was saying. But the TV screen shows the word Norway, footages of a bomb wrecked buildings, and words like gun massacres. I thought it was some sort of a Osama Bin Laden type retaliations.
Daaaamn!!!
A picture of Anders Behring Breivik taken from a book downloaded from a link posted …
SUNDVOLLEN, Norway (Reuters) - A suspected right-wing fanatic accused of killing at least 92 people deemed his acts "atrocious" yet "necessary" as Norway mourned victims of the nation's worst attacks since World War Two.
Police were hunting on Sunday to see if a possible second gunman took part in the shooting massacre and bomb attack on Friday that traumatized a normally peaceful Nordic country.
In his first comment via a lawyer since he was arrested, 32-year-old Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik expressed willingness to explain himself in court at a hearing likely to be held on Monday about extending protective custody.
"He has said that he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary," lawyer Geir Lippestad told independent TV2 news.
Police said Breivik gave himself up after admitting to a massacre in which at least 85 people died, mostly young people attending a summer camp of the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour Party on an idyllic island.
Breivik was also arrested for the bombing of Oslo's government district that killed seven people hours earlier. Norway's toughest sentence is 21 years in jail.
Survivors, relatives of those killed and supporters planned a procession to mourn the dead at Sundvollen on Sunday, near the island where the massacre took place.
King Harald would attend a service in Oslo cathedral, a few hundred meters (yards) from where a bomb devastated government buildings including the offices of Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Police said they were seeking several missing people and the toll could rise to 98, in the worst case.
Lippestad, speaking late on Saturday, did not give more details of possible motives by Breivik.
Breivik hated "cultural marxists," wanted a "crusade" against the spread of Islam and liked guns and weightlifting, web postings, acquaintances and officials said.
A video posted to the YouTube website showed several pictures of Breivik, including one of him in a Navy Seal type scuba diving outfit pointing an automatic weapon.
"Before we can start our crusade we must do our duty by decimating cultural marxism," said a caption under the video called "Knights Templar 2083" on the YouTube website, which took down the video on Saturday.
A Norwegian website provided a link to a 1,500 page electronic manifesto which says Breivik was the author. It was not possible to verify who posted the video or wrote the book.
"Once you decide to strike, it is better to kill too many than not enough, or you risk reducing the desired ideological impact of the strike," the book said.
Norway has traditionally been open to immigration, which has been criticized by the Progress Party, of which Breivik was for a short time a member. The Labour Party, whose youth camp Breivik attacked, has long been in favor of immigration.
About 100 people stood solemnly early on Sunday at a makeshift vigil near Oslo's main church, laying flowers and lighting candles. Soldiers with guns and wearing bullet-proof vests blocked streets leading to the government district.
"We are all in sorrow, everybody is scared," said Imran Shah, a Norwegian taxi driver of Pakistani heritage, as a light summer drizzle fell on unusually empty Oslo streets.
"At first, people thought Muslims were behind this," he said of some initial suspicions that the attacks might have been by Al Qaeda perhaps in protest at NATO-member Norway's role in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Some terrified survivors of the shooting rampage said bullets came from at least two sides.
"We are not at all certain" about whether he acted alone, police chief Sveinung Sponheim said. "That is one of the things that the investigation will concentrate on."
Police took almost 1.5 hours to stop the massacre, the worst by a single gunman in modern times. "The response time from when we got the message was quick. There were problems with transport out to the island," he said, defending the delay.
Witnesses said the gunman, wearing a police uniform, was able to shoot unchallenged for a prolonged period. He picked off his victims on Utoeya island northwest of Oslo forcing youngsters to scatter in panic or to jump into the lake to swim for the mainland.
"I heard screams. I heard people begging for their lives and I heard shots. He just blew them away," Labour Party youth member Erik Kursetgjerde, 18, told Reuters.
"I was certain I was going to die," he said. "People ran everywhere. They panicked and climbed into trees. People got trampled."
The bloodbath was believed to be the deadliest attack by a lone gunman anywhere in modern times.
The suspect, tall and blond, owned an organic farming company called Breivik Geofarm, which a supply firm said he had used to buy fertilizer -- possibly to make the Oslo bomb.
Home-grown anti-government militants have struck elsewhere in the past, notably in the United States, where Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with a truck bomb in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The district attacked is the heart of power in Norway. But security is not tight in a country unused to such violence and better known for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize and mediating in conflicts, including the Middle East and Sri Lanka.
(Additional reporting by Walter Gibbs, Anna Ringstrom, Henrik Stoelen, Terje Solsvik, Patrick Lannin, Johan Ahlander, Wojciech Moskwa, John Acher and Ole Petter Skonnord in Oslo, William Maclean in London; Writing by Alister Doyle; Editing by Matthew Jones)
ARTICLE SOURCE
Daaaamn!!!
A picture of Anders Behring Breivik taken from a book downloaded from a link posted …
SUNDVOLLEN, Norway (Reuters) - A suspected right-wing fanatic accused of killing at least 92 people deemed his acts "atrocious" yet "necessary" as Norway mourned victims of the nation's worst attacks since World War Two.
Police were hunting on Sunday to see if a possible second gunman took part in the shooting massacre and bomb attack on Friday that traumatized a normally peaceful Nordic country.
In his first comment via a lawyer since he was arrested, 32-year-old Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik expressed willingness to explain himself in court at a hearing likely to be held on Monday about extending protective custody.
"He has said that he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary," lawyer Geir Lippestad told independent TV2 news.
Police said Breivik gave himself up after admitting to a massacre in which at least 85 people died, mostly young people attending a summer camp of the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour Party on an idyllic island.
Breivik was also arrested for the bombing of Oslo's government district that killed seven people hours earlier. Norway's toughest sentence is 21 years in jail.
Survivors, relatives of those killed and supporters planned a procession to mourn the dead at Sundvollen on Sunday, near the island where the massacre took place.
King Harald would attend a service in Oslo cathedral, a few hundred meters (yards) from where a bomb devastated government buildings including the offices of Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Police said they were seeking several missing people and the toll could rise to 98, in the worst case.
Lippestad, speaking late on Saturday, did not give more details of possible motives by Breivik.
Breivik hated "cultural marxists," wanted a "crusade" against the spread of Islam and liked guns and weightlifting, web postings, acquaintances and officials said.
A video posted to the YouTube website showed several pictures of Breivik, including one of him in a Navy Seal type scuba diving outfit pointing an automatic weapon.
"Before we can start our crusade we must do our duty by decimating cultural marxism," said a caption under the video called "Knights Templar 2083" on the YouTube website, which took down the video on Saturday.
A Norwegian website provided a link to a 1,500 page electronic manifesto which says Breivik was the author. It was not possible to verify who posted the video or wrote the book.
"Once you decide to strike, it is better to kill too many than not enough, or you risk reducing the desired ideological impact of the strike," the book said.
Norway has traditionally been open to immigration, which has been criticized by the Progress Party, of which Breivik was for a short time a member. The Labour Party, whose youth camp Breivik attacked, has long been in favor of immigration.
About 100 people stood solemnly early on Sunday at a makeshift vigil near Oslo's main church, laying flowers and lighting candles. Soldiers with guns and wearing bullet-proof vests blocked streets leading to the government district.
"We are all in sorrow, everybody is scared," said Imran Shah, a Norwegian taxi driver of Pakistani heritage, as a light summer drizzle fell on unusually empty Oslo streets.
"At first, people thought Muslims were behind this," he said of some initial suspicions that the attacks might have been by Al Qaeda perhaps in protest at NATO-member Norway's role in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Some terrified survivors of the shooting rampage said bullets came from at least two sides.
"We are not at all certain" about whether he acted alone, police chief Sveinung Sponheim said. "That is one of the things that the investigation will concentrate on."
Police took almost 1.5 hours to stop the massacre, the worst by a single gunman in modern times. "The response time from when we got the message was quick. There were problems with transport out to the island," he said, defending the delay.
Witnesses said the gunman, wearing a police uniform, was able to shoot unchallenged for a prolonged period. He picked off his victims on Utoeya island northwest of Oslo forcing youngsters to scatter in panic or to jump into the lake to swim for the mainland.
"I heard screams. I heard people begging for their lives and I heard shots. He just blew them away," Labour Party youth member Erik Kursetgjerde, 18, told Reuters.
"I was certain I was going to die," he said. "People ran everywhere. They panicked and climbed into trees. People got trampled."
The bloodbath was believed to be the deadliest attack by a lone gunman anywhere in modern times.
The suspect, tall and blond, owned an organic farming company called Breivik Geofarm, which a supply firm said he had used to buy fertilizer -- possibly to make the Oslo bomb.
Home-grown anti-government militants have struck elsewhere in the past, notably in the United States, where Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with a truck bomb in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The district attacked is the heart of power in Norway. But security is not tight in a country unused to such violence and better known for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize and mediating in conflicts, including the Middle East and Sri Lanka.
(Additional reporting by Walter Gibbs, Anna Ringstrom, Henrik Stoelen, Terje Solsvik, Patrick Lannin, Johan Ahlander, Wojciech Moskwa, John Acher and Ole Petter Skonnord in Oslo, William Maclean in London; Writing by Alister Doyle; Editing by Matthew Jones)
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RIP - Amy Winehouse
I can't believe Amy Winehouse is dead already. I haven't even bought any of her albums yet.
Amy Winehouse - "Rehab" Live on David Letterman.
My quick research online:
Being only 27 years old at the time of her death, she now joins the infamous 27 Club.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues:
eating disorder, paparazzis, relationship issues, heroin, ecstasy, crack, cocaine, ketamine, and alcohol.
The singer’s father also reported that doctors have warned Winehouse that, if she continued smoking crack cocaine, she would have to wear an oxygen mask and would eventually die.
Amy Winehouse - "Rehab" Live on David Letterman.
My quick research online:
Being only 27 years old at the time of her death, she now joins the infamous 27 Club.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues:
eating disorder, paparazzis, relationship issues, heroin, ecstasy, crack, cocaine, ketamine, and alcohol.
The singer’s father also reported that doctors have warned Winehouse that, if she continued smoking crack cocaine, she would have to wear an oxygen mask and would eventually die.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Just beautiful…
I never payed attention to the lyrics growing up from this song. I was more intrigued by the guitar chords and the vocal melody of it.
Sailing by Christopher Cross in 1980.
It's not far down to paradise
At least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
It's not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
Sailing
Takes me away
To where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free
Fantasy
It gets the best of me
When I'm sailing
All caught up in the reverie
Every word is a symphony
Won't you believe me
It's not far back to sanity
At least it's not for me
And when the wind is right you can sail away
And find serenity
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
I never payed attention to the lyrics growing up from this song. I was more intrigued by the guitar chords and the vocal melody of it.
Sailing by Christopher Cross in 1980.
It's not far down to paradise
At least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
It's not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
Sailing
Takes me away
To where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free
Fantasy
It gets the best of me
When I'm sailing
All caught up in the reverie
Every word is a symphony
Won't you believe me
It's not far back to sanity
At least it's not for me
And when the wind is right you can sail away
And find serenity
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
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