Saturday, June 9, 2012
Kate Mc Gill - I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Death Cab For Cutie cover)
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Friday, June 8, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Guitar Playback and Palmer Melodic Backing Track Challenge
http://www.youtube.com/user/Wallimann?feature=watch
Palmer and Guitar Playback are happy to announce the Melodic Backing Track challenge!
1st prize - Best theme
Palmer Fat 50 Amp head
2nd prize - Best effort
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
3rd prize - Most encouraging comment
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
4th prize - Most viewed video
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
5th prize - Most liked video
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
1. Download the contest backing track at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7849971/Melodic%20Challenge%20Contest.zip
(Full track available at http://www.guitarplayback.com/melodic-challenge, however make sure you record your entry on the shorter contest backing track which is free)
2. Videotape yourself playing an original theme over the track
3. Upload your video to Youtube
4. Title your video "Guitar Playback and Palmer Melodic Backing Track Challenge Entry
5. Add the tags "guitar playback", palmer, backing track
6. Submit your video as a video response to this video
Good luck!
Palmer and Guitar Playback are happy to announce the Melodic Backing Track challenge!
1st prize - Best theme
Palmer Fat 50 Amp head
2nd prize - Best effort
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
3rd prize - Most encouraging comment
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
4th prize - Most viewed video
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
5th prize - Most liked video
$100 gift certificate to http://www.guitarplayback.com
1. Download the contest backing track at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7849971/Melodic%20Challenge%20Contest.zip
(Full track available at http://www.guitarplayback.com/melodic-challenge, however make sure you record your entry on the shorter contest backing track which is free)
2. Videotape yourself playing an original theme over the track
3. Upload your video to Youtube
4. Title your video "Guitar Playback and Palmer Melodic Backing Track Challenge Entry
5. Add the tags "guitar playback", palmer, backing track
6. Submit your video as a video response to this video
Good luck!
Natasha Trethewey Named 19th US Poet Laureate
Natasha Trethewey began writing poems after a personal tragedy.
While Trethewey was a college freshman, her mother was killed by a stepfather Tretheway had long feared.
"I started writing poems as a response to that great loss, much the way that people responded, for example, after 9/11," she told The Associated Press. "People who never had written poems or turned much to poetry turned to it at that moment because it seems like the only thing that can speak the unspeakable."
Trethewey, 46, an English and creative writing professor at Emory University in Atlanta, will be named the 19th U.S. poet laureate Thursday.
The Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation's first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one—Robert Penn Warren—was named by the Library of Congress in 1986. She is also Mississippi's top poet and will be the first person to serve simultaneously as a state and U.S. laureate.
Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her book of poems, "Native Guard." They focused partly on history that was erased because it was never recorded. She wrote of the Louisiana Native Guard, a black Civil War regiment assigned to guard white Confederate soldiers held on Ship Island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
The Confederate prisoners were later memorialized on the island, but not the black Union soldiers.
A stanza reads:
"Some names shall deck the page of history
"as it is written on stone. Some will not."
Librarian of Congress James Billington, who chose Trethewey after hearing her read at the National Book Festival in Washington, said her work explores forgotten history and the many human tragedies of the Civil War.
"She's taking us into history that was never written," he told the AP. "She takes the greatest human tragedy in American history—the Civil War, 650,000 people killed, the most destructive war of human life for a century—and she takes us inside without preaching."
It's a "happy coincidence," he said, that Trethewey was chosen during the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States.
Trethewey will be the first poet laureate to take up residence in Washington in January 2013 and work directly in the library's Poetry Room since the position was created in federal law. Her term, beginning in September, also coincides with the 75th anniversary of the poetry center and a poet-consultant position at the world's largest library.
The poet historian will be among the youngest laureates and said she hopes to promote national activity around the writings and to engage with the library and people who visit it in the nation's capital. She has a personal connection to its vast holdings after researching her Civil War poetry in the library's records.
Past poet laureates have included W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove and Warren—the last poet laureate from the South and an inspiration for Trethewey. Their agendas as the nation's chief poets have included readings across the country, newspaper syndication of poems and poetry readings over high school public address systems.
Poetry lives in the Trethewey family. Her father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet and college professor. But when she went to graduate school, she was more interested in telling stories and studied fiction writing.
"On a dare that first semester, a poet friend of mine got me to write a poem. I did it because I thought I would prove that I couldn't do it," she said. "It was at that moment that something really clicked."
Her Pulitzer-winning poems also included her personal history as the daughter of interracial parents—and the story of her mother, who died at the age of 40. In "Miscegenation," a poem in "Native Guard," she wrote about her parents' journey to Ohio in 1965 for a marriage that was illegal at home in Mississippi.
"They crossed the river into Cincinnati, a city whose name
"begins with a sound like sin, the sound of wrong—mis in Mississippi."
Trethewey's next collection of poems, "Thrall," will be published this year. It explores her relationship with her white father and shared and divergent memory within families, along with poems about paintings and the history of knowledge from the Enlightenment.
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Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
USE OF NE033X MUSIC VIDEO IN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION CEREMONY & EVENT - PERMISSION
With High School students in the United States getting ready for graduation ceremonies for 2012, I've been contacted concerning using my video, The Foo Fighters - Times Like These, in their various events, and pursuant to the U.S. Fair Use Act, you are more than welcome to use this or any of my videos in any event or function without specific permission or notice given. Basically - go for it! ;-P And, I am honored to play a part in such an important milestone in your lives.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Danny aka ne033x
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Sarah Jessica Parker's Night in New York Invitation
It's my honor to invite you to take part in an event I'm hosting at my home with the President and First Lady on June 14th.
If you can make a donation of any amount today, you'll be automatically entered to win two tickets to New York to join us.
Just before Election Day in 2008, I went to an Obama campaign office in New York and called some undecided voters.
I believed then, as I do now, that if we all chipped in and did our part, we would not only make history, but create meaningful change that so many Americans needed.
For me, this election is even more important than 2008.
As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success.
This November's election will determine whether we get to keep moving forward, or if we're forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden -- while people like me, who don't need tax breaks, get extra help.
I'm hosting this event on June 14th because there is so much at stake this year, and I want to keep doing what I can.
I hope you'll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York.
It should be fabulous.
Donate $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to win:
https://donate.barackobama.
Hope to see you there,
Sarah Jessica
If you can make a donation of any amount today, you'll be automatically entered to win two tickets to New York to join us.
Just before Election Day in 2008, I went to an Obama campaign office in New York and called some undecided voters.
I believed then, as I do now, that if we all chipped in and did our part, we would not only make history, but create meaningful change that so many Americans needed.
For me, this election is even more important than 2008.
As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success.
This November's election will determine whether we get to keep moving forward, or if we're forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden -- while people like me, who don't need tax breaks, get extra help.
I'm hosting this event on June 14th because there is so much at stake this year, and I want to keep doing what I can.
I hope you'll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York.
It should be fabulous.
Donate $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to win:
https://donate.barackobama.
Hope to see you there,
Sarah Jessica
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