Josh Homme: Biography
The News Review:
- Josh Homme: Biography
- Ville Valo: Biography
- Youths charged in shooting death of Toronto teen
- MUSIC WHAT’S NEW? Set your summer to music with these upcoming…
- A tribute to lives lost building the bridge
- SUICIDE MACHINE PART 2: The failure of medicine
Josh Homme: Biography
TV.com – May 27, 2007
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Ville Valo: Biography
TV.com – May 27, 2007
Since then the band’s members have changed a couple of times but Ville Mig?nd Linde have been with the band from the beginning and are accompanied with Gas and Burton. “You could say that we are the Scandinavian dark version of any boyband. Except that we write our own music. And our choreagraphy is not that polished. Plus we don’t look as good as the Backstreet Boys. ” HIM’s debut album Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 was released in the autumn of 1997 introducing their sound a vibrant mix of metal and bittersweet pop melodies… “The only way to make music is relate to it deeply on emotional level. How do I get my ideas? I just sit down to the middle of a pentagram and they start flowing. Love and death – life and death – those two things are the extreme opposites of each other and include the entire scale of essential feelings and events. It’s not only love and death I’d say it’s about love hate dying living feelings. and those are pretty important things – at least to most people.
Youths charged in shooting death of Toronto teen
CBC.ca – May 28, 2007
Handguns are already severely restricted in Canada and a handgun registry has been in force for more than 60 years. Schools don’t want metal detectorsThe shooting also saw the finger of blame pointed at lax school security. The Toronto District School Board doesn’t plan to install metal detectors board assistant superintendent Donna Quan said Thursday. Metal detectors aren’t foolproof and students can bypass them by taking different doors she said. Jefferys is already on a list of Toronto schools scheduled to have security cameras installed… f the 109 high schools in the Toronto District School Board 65 have security cameras. Manners’ friends and family gathered at a park near his home on Saturday to pay tribute to the gifted arts student. In addition to the music and food there was also a small donation box to raise funds for the boy’s funeral. A service is scheduled for Thursday at 11 a. at the Christian Centre Church in Toronto. With files from the Canadian PressStory Tools: E-MAIL |.
MUSIC WHAT’S NEW? Set your summer to music with these upcoming…
Free Lance-Star – The Free Lance-Star – May 27, 2007
But what’s normal in the record industry these days?Ravaged by dwindling sales–at least the legal kind–music labels have been under pressure to shake up every old strategy. That’s good news for music fans looking for hot new CDs in the normally dry summer season. Count on fresh music from new stars trying to follow up a hit (Maroon 5 T-Pain Daddy Yankee) older acts angling for a comeback (Smashing Pumpkins Meat Puppets) and more sounds from brand names simply trying to keep atop their rolling wave (R. Kelly Bon Jovi 50 Cent). Here are some of the highlights… Daddy Yankee “El Cartel: The Big Boss. Paul McCartney “Memory Almost Full”: Sir Paul’s first for the Starbucks label and the first since his awful marital breakup. Poison “Poison’d!”: A set of covers from the hair-metal vets. Includes Bowie the Cars and weirdly the Marshall Tucker Band (remember “Can’t You See”?). Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band “Live in Dublin”: Ireland’s literary capital seems the perfect place to stage these songs of historic heft. Swizz Beatz “ne Man Band Man”: ne of hip hop’s most inventive producers works this time with everyone from the expected (Kanye West) to the less so (Coldplay). Various Artists “Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash”: A salute to the country icon featuring artists including step-daughter Rosanne Cash Elvis Costello Sheryl Crow Willie Nelson and Loretta Lynn.
A tribute to lives lost building the bridge
San Francisco Chronicle – May 27, 2007
” The ceremony at Crissy Field was brief but impressive. The children stood on the redwood-flanked stage their school banners bright in the sunlight. Music from the Horace Mann and Presidio Junior High schools’ bands blended with the strains from the Fiesta band. The services yesterday recalled an old Chinese legend. A famous Emperor commanded his chief metalsmith to make a fabulously large bell. Cast after cast was made but the metal would not set perfectly. Each cast showed a crack… His young and beautiful daughter worried for her father. Finally a wise man told her that the hot metal would not set until it had tasted human flesh. While the molten metal boiled in a giant furnace she flung herself to a fiery death. The bell was perfect the most beautiful-voiced in the world. The Golden Gate Bridge sings a beautiful song today — of accomplishment. But the steel would not span the water until human life was given up. The 11 made that sacrifice.
SUICIDE MACHINE PART 2: The failure of medicine
Detroit Free Press – May 27, 2007
Some patients or their families even described Kevorkian as the first doctor they had encountered who seemed to care and who listened to them. Kevorkian was certainly the only doctor any of the families had known who made a point of refusing money for services rendered. In fact several people who turned to Kevorkian chose death in part because lacking money and health insurance they could not afford medical interventions that would prolong their lives. There is no disputing that some of the people who turned to Kevorkian had very difficult medical situations. Nine for example had ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease which progressively attacks the spine and muscles but is often confused with a stroke or arthritis; another had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which can appear to be depression. But for others according to doctors life could have been bearable with better pain relief better coordination between specialists and primary doctors and a more caring attitude from physicians. Would that have been enough to stop a suicide decision by someone with say a progressing disability? Perhaps not… She had the same book under her pillow for nine months. She couldn’t watch TV; it gave her migraines. She couldn’t listen to music; it would drive her crazy. ” Curren said his wife saw dozens of doctors over the years some good some bad. He said one enraged her during a 1992 hospitalization by describing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as “a diagnosis for neurotic women. ” “She basically quit at that point” Curren said. “She was so demoralized.