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Comment on black slab of spirited energy by leena hentai leela

leena hentai leela — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:23:30 +0000

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Comment on genius score scribblings for dummies by gillesroy

gillesroy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:23:27 +0000

Thanks mjensen! Found the score annotations simply too fascinating to ignore.
Gilles

Comment on genius score scribblings for dummies by m jensen

m jensen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:57:51 +0000

Hello, I was at the expo too and just want to say i love your photos.

Comment on what the music industry thinks of you by gillesroy

gillesroy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:14:03 +0000

Hi Sohail,
I will give it a shot when I come across some spare time for this kind of detective work.
It is indeed unfortunate that I couldn’t find the source, but I really did systematically root through my personal archives before resigning myself to posting this must-see ad from the mere photocopy I had left.
If you really need the source for a project with a real-world deadline, recommend you try the research yourself, either a needle-in-a-haystack search in a university library, or some calls to ad publications with archive services.
I’m sending you my original scan by email. That’s the best I can do for now.
Cheers,
Gilles

Comment on what the music industry thinks of you by Sohail

Sohail — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:58:23 +0000

Hi Gilles

Thanks for trying

Sohail

Comment on what the music industry thinks of you by gillesroy

gillesroy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:25 +0000

Hi Sohail,
Yes, an online search won’t provide results in this case. And for off-line research into periodicals (in a university library, for instance), without publication specifics, it’ll be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
It might get trickier, even. Not sure whose archives the ad might be in, SONY BMG? Or the ad company that designed the ad for them?
Just to give you an idea…
If you really would like to find a good resolution copy of the Ad for educational purposes, perhaps your best bet is to first talk to someone working in an Ad industry publication for advice, somebody who deals with archives. Here’s the Yahoo directory listing for Ad trade mags:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Marketing_and_Advertising/News_and_Media/Trade_Magazines/
Hope this helps,
Gilles

Comment on what the music industry thinks of you by Sohail

Sohail — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:55:06 +0000

Sorry that last bit reads like total goobledegook! It should read “It would be great to get hold of the original too for presentation purposes.” Too many hours on the Internet!

Best wishes
Sohail

Comment on what the music industry thinks of you by Sohail

Sohail — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:52:31 +0000

Thanks for getting back on this. I’ve done my own research on the Internet and came up with little. The ad was displayed on page 36 in a book by Jean Kilbourne entitled ‘Deadly Persuasion: Why women and girls must fight the addictive power of advertising” published in 1999 by Free Press. It woulb be great to get rid of the original too for presentation purposes.

Comment on what the music industry thinks of you by gillesroy

gillesroy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:17:20 +0000

Hi Sohail,
Unfortunately, I no longer have the mag from which this page was scanned (I had photocopied it for use in a university essay, back in the mid-’90s).
All I remember is that it was from an Ad industry monthly - which one? which month/year?… memory fails, sorry.
Finding the source may likely require some finicky research… regardless, I’ll do a quick internet scan of available Ad industry publication archives, and let you know if I come up with anything.
Désolé,
Gilles

Comment on what the music industry thinks of you by Sohail

Sohail — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:17 +0000

Is there really no chance of you finding the source of this ad. It’s very telling.

Best wishes
S

Comment on that no-good, stupid mystery we call music by puss ‘n notes - amateurmusicians.net

puss ‘n notes - amateurmusicians.net — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:50:24 +0000

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Comment on black slab of spirited energy by Music Practice Tips - Links | Music Practice Tips

Music Practice Tips - Links | Music Practice Tips — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:19:56 +0000

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Music Practice Tips - Links | Music Practice Tips — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:19:10 +0000

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Comment on black slab of spirited energy by gillesroy

gillesroy — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:00:48 +0000

Hi Kris,

Thanks, hadn’t noticed those kings! From what I’ve gathered so far on this stuff, the three Kings (three wise men) are allegorical representations of three brightest stars in the belt of the Orion constellation.

Apparently, what’s of esoteric significance is the way the alignment happens, in the calendar cycle, in connection with the Winter Solstice.

On Dec 24th, Sirius (the “Star in the East” in the Bible) aligns the Three Kings, thereby announcing the rebirth of the Sun cycle, after it’s lowest ebb in Winter Solstice.

You’re correct to note that the great pyramid also is connected with the Dog Star.

You probably have Frank Albo’s book on the legislature, he’s pretty much my source on info on Winnipeg hermetica lore.

If not, just follow the leads here:
http://www.frankalbo.com/

You can also check out the (hotly debated) Zeitgeist movie for more on this stuff:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Certainly, the Great West Life building also qualifies as a bad vibe bunker in my books. Designed by the same crowd.

Comment on black slab of spirited energy by Kris

Kris — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:34:07 +0000

This is really neat, thanks for the insight. Did you notice the Great West Life building has the 3 kings on top of the entrance, and the west side of the legislative building has a sphinx… like a mini-model of the great pyramid in Giza during the winter solstice. I’m wondering if this is of any significance?

Comment on take in large doses, three times a day by gillesroy

gillesroy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:59:11 +0000

Hello all,
Graham Watt is the creative mind behind the Mozac graphic featured in this post. Sorry Graham for crediting you this late in the process!
Cheers,
Gilles

Comment on take in large doses, three times a day by graham watt

graham watt — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:03:20 +0000

Hi, Gilles. You talk about music as if it's all of a piece. Especially with those muzak references to masses.
The Mozac thingy was about Mozart. Not the music, but what was in the music. Hard for me to explain as I'm not a musician. Perhaps I can equate it with current entertainment advertising style overcoming its persuasiveness. The idea of being listened at rather than involved with.
That is the difference between muzak and Mozart.
This is from a book on the death of persuasion in advertising:
We’ll still keep going as in the past, chiselling a bit off here, knocking a bit more off here, adding a new system here, finding new acronyms, missing the point there, letting the system do the work.
Ad America isn’t the land of the free or the home of the idea
anymore. It’s the land of the fee and the home of the gizmo.
So the concentration on the advertisement or the media will continue
rather than on the idea, the big almost inconceivably simple, powerful, persuasive idea. An egregious error, because the persuasive power isn’t in the ad or the spot or the banner or the superboard or the direct mail piece or the beer can that farts
when you open it.
The advertising is just the box the idea comes in.
The TV or radio spot, the spread, the website, the brochure, are transport containers, crates, paper bags, dishes. Things on which to carry something precious.
And what is precious is nuance.
When we listen to music we love, we hear more than lyrics or tone values, we hear an idea, and this idea is what has let lyrics unknown to foreign ears be as enjoyable as the music. The idea isn’t the music,
it’s in the music. This is hard to set straight in your mind, but it is the key to creating ideas which can get past the gatekeepers of eyes and ears and into the soul.
It’s why Mozart lives.
A persuasive idea catches your soul in receiving mode, and signals the beginning of a coupling. A sometimes comforting understanding of our oneness, a little voice somewhere in the head saying, “yes, I know”.
Today we pay enormous attention to the crates and paper bags and confuse them with the idea.
I’m not sure, with our present obsession with thinking systems for creating, if we’ll ever be free again to think in terms of persuading.
We should think about it. Otherwise we’ll continue with the witty, clever, edgy, addy little fluff bullets that bounce off the psyche noiselessly, forgotten before they’re seen and never felt.

Love your website. I can't even play the spoons.

Graham Watt

Comment on top 10 reasons why I don’t own an mp3 player by John Foster

John Foster — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:45:27 +0000

First of all I play rock, jazz, classical guitar, and lately Gypsy Jazz. I also have the ability to play country, bluegrass, and a bit of flamenco. As a teacher it is important for me to have a basic understanding of as many styles as possible. I get more students that way and I really enjoy something about all of these styles.

As for movies in the states the problem is the industry spends a fortune on big budget special effects movies and that leaves little room for smaller movies. You can make about 100 Being John Malcovich’s or Mementos for the price of one Tranformers or X-Men movies. European movies don’t always have big budgets and therefore must depend on, of all things, a good script to carry the day. I’ll take a good script and unknown but talented actors any day over a overbloated special effects driven spectacle. But in the end I don’t think it’s about the continent of origin so much as industry executives wanting to make money and the general public rewarding their efforts by flocking to see poorly done sequels like Spiderman 3 and Pirates of the Carribean 3.

Comment on top 10 reasons why I don’t own an mp3 player by gillesroy

gillesroy — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:20:36 +0000

Hi John,

What instrument do you play, and what style of music? Do you use your iPod as playalong track in practice, or simply use it to listen to your repertoire?

On Euro vs. Amero flicks: sorry if it looked like I was making a value judgment. Both Europe and America are home to rich traditions in movie-making… and there is such a thing as Eurotrash!

That said: in my heavy movie-going days of yore, I did notice that European films tended overall to leave more emotional breathing space than American films, and much of this had to do with sparer use of music.

At least it seemed to me. If you (or anyone) know(s) of a comparative study on this phenomenon, I’d certainly be interested in reading it.

Comment on top 10 reasons why I don’t own an mp3 player by John Foster

John Foster — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:47:30 +0000

I have all of the pieces I am studying on my ipod and Korean and Spanish lessons as well. I mix them in randomly because I don’t necessarily enjoy studying the languages but am studying those out of necessity.

Incidentally, my girlfriend gave me a cell phone and I almost never use it.

I was a film major in school and don’t necessarily think European films are better than American ones. Certainly the US puts out its share of bad big budget films but we also have quite an underground movement of top notch films. Europe produces some good films as does Canada. One thing you may want to consider is that European governments subsidize their film industry and the films don’t need to turn a profit. Americans don’t have that luxury. Then again we fon’t have 30%+ taxes or outrageous gas and cigarette prices like in Canada and Europe.