Belkin Network USB Hub and Mac OSX 10.5.7 again......last straw.

Ok so for those of you that have been following this little story of a Hub and Mac OS 10.5.7.....you would be forgiven for thinking that it ended in a lasting relationship.
However it didn't we/they broke up ...
I took it back to the shop and got me cash back!
After that brilliant bit of getting it to install the SXUTPT drivers (and also me having to delete Iantivirus) it ran that once brilliantly ..then I turned the laptop on the next day and the drives just kept appearing and reappearing....in the Belkin Control Centre....
To say that I'd had enough was an understatement....so hence out came the box and back it went....

So sorry if I got anybody's hopes up ..I had thought i'd found a solution - but it tuned out to be short lived.

So as I said in my 1st post about this ...time to get the Apple Time Capsule!

Belkin Network USB Hub and Mac OSX (10.5.7) again.....

Ok to update the story from a couple of days ago....
As you can see from the post earlier I was not enamored by my purchase of the Belkin Network Hub and it's inability to function in any shape or form within a stable useable environment of OSX 10.5.7

However as I write this post I am transferring files across the network and backing up to my 2TB of storage that has laid dormant (If the truth be known) since I jumped from a desktop to a Laptop.
The key for those who have run into the error known as 'what is an effing SXUTPT driver anyway!!'.. and I still can't find the answer....

Is....

Download the Pre-release driver from the Belkin UK site (not the US site) this is what you are looking for on the site :

And then the download your after is :

Once this is downloaded it will give you an installer (ignore the disc that came with the Network Router- it's useless-) run the installer after having set up the router via the instructions in the manual.
You then will be prompted to restart your machine and your fingers will be crossed if your familiar with the SXUPTP driver issue!!
Belkin Control centre software will automatically start up , and if your drives are connected and turned on about 30secs later they will appear in the control centre interface mounted.
If you investigate the the 'General' panel you'll see this :

which tells you at last the SXUTPT driver is installed ...hurrah!!

A note of caution if you are running a laptop (like I am) you may be tempted to close the lid to put the laptop into 'sleep' mode while the drives are connected- you can do this - but you will only do it once! because it completely locks up your system, so I strongly advise you don't try that!!
Disconnect all drives and then close laptop for sleep mode - You don't have to Quit the belkin software as well...just have to make sure you disconnect all the drives connected via the Belkin control panel.

Hope this is of some use to you guys out there who have HDD's sitting around and laptop where the 'leads' aren't just quite long enough.
For less than £60 it's cheap way to 'network' your drives.
Transfer rates are about 1GB to 7mins so as a background transfer it's pretty acceptable in my eyes at least.
Also you can 'stream' video back off the drives to your laptop and then hence to your TV if required.

Question....

If you live in hope, do you live in fear ?

Belkin Network USB Hub and Mac OSX (10.5.7)

Well it is now 22:29 and I have eventually given up on trying to get this to work with my Macbook Pro (Unibody) started at 16:00ish.
If you install it under it under a normal user it will tell you (very irritatingly) that it was unable to install the 'SXUPTP' driver....whatever this does and does not do is lost in geek hell......

I then read on an apple forum about using terminal commands within the 'Safe Boot' environment (not being too fond of unix commands I stayed away from Terminal) however I did try the safe boot option for install - that's after I'd spent 30mins downloading the 10.5x driver from Belkin.com (lot of good that was).
The SXUPTP problem does not rear it's head under 'Safe Boot' and then you restart under normal user ...success so far.
Alas however when you restart after using the drives, SXUPTP driver not installed rears it's ugly godforsaken head again...and so off you go rebooting in safe mode and installing and rebooting in user mode and using and then finding out when you try to eject the drives via the Belkin Control Hub interface that sod all happens apart from your once stable computer has crashed big time....
When it works the transfer speed is acceptable - a bit like the speed of moving a file from one memory stick to another.

However the control interface is basic and buggy ..the reliability is probably 0.5 out of 10.
The support for the Mac OS is completely just not there.

So to summarize you do get what you pay for and an Airport extreme base station would be a better idea maybe, or a NAS drive that has been tried and tested on the Mac OS. So that will be my next step once i've got the funds.

Buy it at your peril

This is my reality...what's yours?

Control

Power is nothing without control.
Without control you risk losing everything.

Psalm 27 - re -interpreted

"My Love is my light... Whom shall I fear?"

Placebo -'For what it's Worth' Lyrics

Placebo - For what it's Worth

The end of the century
I said my goodbyes
For what it's worth
I always aim to please
But I nearly died
For what it's worth
Come on lay with me
Cos I'm on fire
For what it's worth
I'd tear the sun in three
To light up your eyes

For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth

Broke up the family
Everybody crying
For what it's worth
I have a slow disease
That sucked me dry

For what it's worth
Come on walk with me
Into the rising tide
For what it's worth
Fill the cavity
Your God shaped hole tonight

For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth

For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth
For what it's worth

No-one cares when your out on the street
Picking up the pieces to make ends meet
No-one cares when your down in the gutter
Got no friends got no lover
No-one cares when your out on the street
Picking up the pieces to make ends meet
No-one cares when your down in the gutter
Got no friends got no lover

For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
For what it's worth
Got no lover
Got no friends
Got no lover.




Taken from the Album 'Battle for the Sun' released on 8/06/09
A free download of the title track from the album is available here

Friend?

Somebody once told me ' A good friend is like a good book, You can pick it up from the shelf and just go back to where you left off'

Let's be clear in this ...the supposition of the above statement is that neither you or the 'Friend' will never change over time. For instance the things that motivated you and your friend and even your friendship are they the same 'now' as they were ten years ago, or maybe even a year ago ?

Friendships are like water always moving and sometimes 'clear' and sometimes 'murky' and time passes like a 'current' between the strands of that friendship, sweeping it along or maybe even sweeping it 'out to sea'

To summaries Friendships are like any 'relationship' they need to be nurtured and cared for if they are to continue.

We're From America - Lyrics - Marilyn Manson

We're From America

We're from America,
we're from America,
where we eat our young
we're from America,
we're from America,
it's where jesus was born

We're from America,
we're from America,
where they let you come on our faces
we're from America,
we're from America,
we speak American

We don't believe in credibility,
because we know that we're fucking incredible
we don't believe in credibility,
because we know that we're fucking incredible

I want to be a martyr don't want to be a victim,
Be a (?) with a gun so they call me a hero,
Want to be a martyr don't want to be a victim,
Be a killer with a gun so they call me a hero

God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
So sing it with me

We're from America,
we're from America,
we're from America,
you can sing it with me
We're from America,
we're from America,
we're from America,
you can sing it with me

We're from America

We don't like to kill our unborn,
we need them to grow up and fight our wars
We don't like to kill our unborn,
we need them to grow up and fight our wars

We believe in everything we say,
we say it because we believe it
we believe in everything we say,
we say it because we believe it

We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america,
you can sing it with me
We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america,
you can sing it with me

We're from america,
you can sing it with me,
from america,
you can sing it with me,

We're from america,
we're from america,
we turn literature into litter
we're from america,
we' re from america,
we believe in being a quitter

I'm in recovery
I'm in recovery
I'm in recover - eeee
from America
from America
from America

So sing it with me
We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america
you can sing it with me,
we're from america,
from america
we're from america,
you can sing it with me
from america,
you can sing it with me
from america
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me

From the Forth coming Album 'The high End of Low'

This is currently available as a free download from the MM official website

OLED Technology... changing YOUR world in the near future?

OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology is just around the corner ...well ok about 2 years away from a 'consumer' point of view.

It's been highlighted as super thin (4.3mm) HDTV's and photo frames..etc.... but that's not what I see as exciting.

The ability to use OLED to light your room therefore dispensing with normal illumination methods - switches /lamps /strip lights etc gives architectural lighting a whole new concept to grapple and play with.
Also the ability to use your available 'window space' as OLED 'frames' and therefore choose to show a sunset - when it is cloudy outside or visa versa if you choose, brings the ability to set your own living environment to your personal taste a step closer.

Obviously if your walls were just 'sheets' of OLED then the ability to show images/ scenes /information within one room would be staggering (maybe this is why they talk about future broadband requirements so much? )
OLED technology does have two drawbacks at the moment that stop it 'Launching' onto the mass consumer market at the moment.

1 It's lifetime for the 'Blue' -in RGB is much less than current lifetimes for LCD and Plasma so therefore is deemed as beneath requirements for 'consumers' after all who wants to pay a fortune for something that only lasts 5000hours?
2 Price - to give you and idea a 7" photo frame Kodak has made currently costs $1000...let you work out what it would cost to cover one of your walls!

For a bit more info check here

F1 - New Season

Just thought I'd mention it's 15 days to the start of the New F1 season.
Pleased to see Mclaren seem to be having some 'rear' diffuser problems ...struggling guys ?? hehe

Right Where it Belongs - NIN (Lyrics)

Right Where it Belongs

See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side your on ?
Then I look to closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on ?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all ............Right where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want to be ?
But if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself.......Find yourself afraid to see

What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own
Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead
And you really are alone

You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the worlds
Are you hiding in your dreams ?

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want to be ?
But if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself.......Find yourself afraid to see


NIN - 'Right Where it belongs' - Taken from the Album 'With Teeth' released in 2005.

Previous posting that reminded me of this track 'You Alone'

The Singularity

Singularity is in effect the 'creation' of computers that can think (a'la A.I.) and can therefore recreate themselves in a more advanced state than the Humans who created them ...hence they can reach 'Singularity'

It covers alot of technological aspects and is covered in in more 'layman' terms here

Effectively aspects of this have been covered in SF for years from Harlan Ellison (I have no mouth and yet I must scream) to more famously William Gibson in his novel 'Neuromancer'.

Films which also refer to a 'Singularity concept' are :
A.I (touched upon it in Cyborg technology)
Terminator in 'Skynet' Robot/Computer technology
2001, Hal can think and make decisions of his own free will
Forbin Project: Colossus - Computers decide that Mankind is a 'virus' and so is to be destroyed.
Demon Seed: Computer decides it wants to be 'Born' so Julie christie is chosen as the mother.

Obviously dramatic intent is the force behind the novels/films but the concepts are based upon 'Singularity' and what effect would 'freeing' the computer from human control have?

I Suppose 'Tyrell' from Bladerunner had the best quote for this:
"More human than human is our motto here at the Tyrell Corporation"

Minute Prologue.....(Musings on inability)

Minute Prologue.

I've been listening to all the dissention
I've been listening to all the pain

And I feel that no matter what I do for you
It's gonna come back again

But I think that I can heal it
but I think that I can heal it
I'm a fool that I think I can heal it
With this song......

Taken from the Album 'Live Songs (1973)' by Leonard Cohen

Franklyn

Film has already been premiered at the London film festival, and has garnered positive and negative reviews - depending on who's reviewing it.

The film is a split narrative set simultaneously in contemporary London and in a future metropolis ruled by religious fervor. It's the story of four lost souls, divided by two parallel worlds, on course for an explosive collision when a single bullet will decide all their fates.

Remains to be seen if it is a 'Cult' hit - has been compared with 'Dark City' and also 'V for Vendetta' - though that maybe just because of the Dark Dystopian feel the Film Trailer gives out - rather than because of Premise.

Trailer and WIKI entry

You Know Me........?

WISH

This is the first day of my last day
Build it up now take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far.
No need for me to stay the last thing left I just threw it away.
(?) my trust in you
Now there's something more fucked up I could do

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

I'm the one without a soul, I'm the one with this big fucking hole.
No new tale to tell twenty-six years on my way to hell.
Big time hard line bad luck fist fuck
Don't think you're having all the fun
You know me I hate everyone

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

Wish there was something real ,wish there was something true
Wish there was something real in this world for you.

This world for you
This world for you
This world for ......

NIN- 'Wish' from the EP 'Broken

Currently playing in iTunes: The Four of Us are Dying by Nine Inch Nails'

Connecting Macbook + Macbook Pro (late 2008) Unibody to HD TV (HDMI)

So many posts in forums about this 'question' I thought I'd try and add a little simplicity to the 'problem'

First of all you need to understand that The Mini Display port on your Macbook/Macbook Pro only transmits Video not audio. So hence a separate audio connection is required - via the headphone socket - and hence needs to be inputted into either your TV - if it can accept a separate audio to video signal or into a separate audio device - Like a 5.1 system or speaker system.

The cables required to achieve the video output are as follows:

Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter

£20 from Apple Store either online or Retail store.

Then also from Apple Store either online or Retail store :

Belkin HDMI to DVI Cable - 6ft
£14.63

So in total £34.63 will get your video signal to your HD TV.
As for the Audio a standard 3.5mm phones jack to whatever connection is on your TV/Audio system is all that remains to be bought and connected.

If you want to spend a little more you could always get the Apple Remote (£15.00) so you can run Frontrow via your armchair/Sofa

Obviously if your looking at running your Macbook from the sofa in terms of surfing checking your email etc you could invest in a Bluetooth Mighty Mouse and Bluetooth Apple Keyboard and run the Macbook remotely - also this would enable you to run the Macbook in 'Clamshell' mode - eg: closed.

Well hope this helps let me know if you've any questions.

Mobile Me....well sort of!

Have a new computer now (got it about a week ago ) A lovely Aluminum MacBook Pro.

(Dodgy photo taken with Iphone above)!

Something Wonderful.....

....is going to happen.

True to your own self?

"You can have my isolation
You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith
You can have my everything"

NIN- Closer

Itunes Playcounts....

Lost my Itunes playcounts, you can manually import the numbers (a bit of a pain on 6389 songs admittedly) by using this script

NIN Remix's

NIN RSS

Link above to the NIN remix's I have done so far. Will allow you to download them as Itunes files so you can listen or access the playlist on the NIN remix.com site (though you will probably be then forced to create a user) - so best off just downloading them into Itunes!
Maybe doing another remix in the near future but creative things are on hold at the mo.

Quotes..."Something is Squeezing my Skull" - Morrissey

"Something is squeezing my skull
Something I can't fight...............no true friends in modern life".

Morrissey- Something is Squeezing my Skull - Taken from the forthcoming album 'Years of Refusal'

Apple @ 25 years

Well it's 25 years of the Apple computer this year so to celebrate , I thought I'd put up a picture of the most beautiful computer ever created.

Underpowered, overpriced ..but designed by a god.

I Give you the Apple G4 'Cube' released on the 19th July 2000.

Macworld 2009

So the show is over for this year (well infact for all the foreseeable years).
New versions of Ilife and Iwork ( let's hope iMovie is easier than the previous version in 08 as that was a dog of an interface)
Hardly front page news with those two updates, and also the announcement of an updated - unibody- 17" Macbook Pro was no surprise.
though the non removable battery was - 8hrs life -hmm forgive me if I'm a little sceptical on that performance figure.

Apple have been quoted as saying they will announce new products as and when they are ready, as opposed to feeling' they have to follow the trade show 'diarys'
This I believe is a good thing , though I think they need to act fast in announcing a release date for 'snow leopard' so the mac faithful can start saving up.

The next few months are key to apple in refreshing there product line ( new iMacs new mac mini and 30" screen) however the legend that is Steve Jobs will not go away apple just because you don't do keynotes at trade shows and and want to release as and when you see fit.
Steve Jobs is a visionary - a flawed visionary however- Jonathan Ive is an inspired genius, but this peter or Paul bloke who did the keynote at MW09 - well he's a nice enough guy but don't strike me as a genius in waiting - more a safe pair of hands to reassure the apple board, and we all know what happened the last time a safe pair of hands came over from coca cola.

Hummm

Just that just hummm...

Christmas

Christmas is a time for families - The irony of that 'statement' is not wasted on me.

Worldwide Album chart - Top Ten 18/12/08

1 Beyonce - I am Sasha (2)*
2 Guns 'n' Roses - Chinese Democracy (1)
3 Akon - Freedom (3)
4 Coldplay - Viva La Vida (5)
5 Pink - Funhouse (8)
6 The Killers - Day and Age (4)
7 Britney Spears - Circus (9)
8 Kanye West - 808 & Heartbreak (7)
9 T.I. - Paper Trail (6)
10 AC/DC - Black Ice (10)

A bit of moving around in the top ten but all artists and albums from previous week are still there.
Nothing to report that is exciting though I am surprised not to see 'Take That' enter, but as this is a worldwide chart their UK popularity is negated when applied 'worldwide'.

* = Previous weeks position

Chicken Syndrome 2

What came first the 'Lover' or the 'Hater' ?

Chicken syndrome?

What came first the 'friend' or the 'enemy' ?

Morrissey - "Years of Refusal" track listing and further Moz release info

Years Of Refusal
1 Something is squeezing my skull
2 Mama lay softly on the riverbed
3 Black Cloud
4 I'm throwing my arms around Paris
5 All you need is me
6 When I last spoke to Carol
7 That's how people grow up
8 One day goodbye will be farewell
9 It's not your birthday anymore
10 You were good in your time
11 Sorry doesn't help
12 I'm ok by myself

Slated for a release date of 23rd of February 2009 in the UK.

There will be two releases of this album, the DVD version will also include:
1 That's how people grow up (Promo)
2 All you need is me (Promo)
3 I'm throwing my arms around Paris (Promo)

For a track by track breakdown of the album see here

"I'm throwing my arms around Paris" will be released as a single on the 9th of February 2009

Tracklisting as follows :

CD
A I'm throwing my arms around Paris
B Because of my poor education

7"
A I'm throwing my arms around Paris
B Shame is the Name

Worldwide Album chart- Top Ten

In an effort to provide an 'alternative' (not musically speaking mind) Album chart for the 'world' market - not just UK/US or any other individual territory... I have decided on this master plan.
The chart is compiled using data from sources that are 'freely available'.

The chart will only include original artist albums - no dodgy compilations or 'summer hits' hogwash will be included.

Only the top Ten will be counted and previous weeks chart positions may also be included if I can keep track. (- hey I'm only human!)

1 Guns 'n' Roses - Chinese Democracy (-)*
2 Beyonce - I am sasha (-)
3 Akon - Freedom (-)
4 The Killers - Day and Age (-)
5 Coldplay - Viva la Vida (-)
6 T.I - Paper trail (-)
7 Kanye West - 808 & Heartbreak (-)
8 Pink - Funhouse (-)
9 Britney Spears - Circus (-)
10 AC/DC - Black Ice (-)

*(-) = Previous weeks position.

Mama Lay softly on the Riverbed (Lyrics) - "Years of refusal" -Morrissey

Mama why did you do it?
mama who drove you to it ?
Was it the pigs in grey suits persecuting you
uncivil servants unconcerned by how they frightened you
life is nothing much to loose
It's just so lonely here without you


Mama why did you do it?
mama who drove you to it ?


(?) british money men who scared the life out of you
bailiffs with bad breathe I will slit their throats for you
life is nothing much to loose
It's just so lonely here without you


life is nothing much to loose
It's just so lonely here without you
(soooo)
I want you
When I come to you
we're going to lie down beside you mama
we're going to met you
We're going to join you
we're going to lie down beside you mama
and we will be safe and sheltered in our graves
we'll come before you and we will kiss you
by way of one fine (?) mama

Morrissey - 'Mama lay softly on the Riverbed' taken from the forthcoming album 'Years of Refusal' Released 2009

Snippets...of lyrics.

"Nothing in this world is for real,
Except you are for me, and I am so yours"

Marilyn Manson - 'Ka-Boom Ka-Boom'

You Alone ?

If your whole world of reality exists only inside your head.
How does anyone else really know how you feel emotionally about the things that are important to you ?
The things that exist within your soul - not the things that you mention day to day - but the things that motivate you and also scare you into realizing what it is to be you and you alone ?

Say Farewell.....

'Say farewell to your fair-weather friends , and not a second to soon'

Morrissey 'No-one can hold a candle to you'

Morrissey- 'One day goodbye will be farewell' lyrics

'One day goodbye will be farewell'

Always be careful when you abuse the one you love hour or the day no-one can tell
But one day goodbye will be farewell
And you will never see the one you love again
You will never see the the one you love again

I have been thinking -what with- my final brain cell
How time grips you slyly in it's spell
And before you know goodbye will be farewell

And you will never see the one you love again
And the tiny children tell you that you smell
Well just look at me, a stubborn beast I've got nothing to sell
And when I die I want to go to hell

And that's when goodbye should be farewell
taa tah taa tah

One day goodbye will be farewell
So grab me while you still can - goodbye


Taken from the 'Live' version of the track - so no guarantee ppl that this is the final version to appear on 'Years of Refusal in Feb 09

Morrissey - Years of Refusal Album artwork?

Originator here the excellent site "Morrissey Solo"

Morrissey - Autobiography

Morrissey, has 'mentioned' on the Janice Long show (Radio 6 show in the UK) that he is currently writing/thinking of writing (delete as you wish) his autobiography that covers his music career, in an effort to maybe 'correct some truths'

"So much crap is written about me, it's hard to live with sometimes," he said. "It all gets burned down in history and becomes a part of your legacy."

If however 'Morrissey's true 'Legacy' sees the 'light of day' - well,..... we will see.........

A Woman in Berlin (2008)

A new film from Germany is aiming to open up old wounds over the 'allied liberation' of Berlin by the 'Red Army' in 1945.
A tale not familiar to modern ears - but a brutal truth hidden in the 'shadows' for nearly 70 years.

Bloc Party - Talons Lyrics

Talons (Acoustic Version) lyrics



And in the dark it comes for me
Malevolent and without thought
Uprooting trees, destroying cars
Cold and relentless, with arms outstretched

No boat nor brick
Nor crucifix can hold it back
For I've been wicked
I've been arrogant

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss (Silent about it)
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss

Awaken from dreams of drunken car crashes
You saddened my friends and claimed all my lovers
I tried to stay still, so it will not see
It's talons rake the side of my face
When did you become such a slut? (A dirty slut)

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And I cannot say that I was not warned or was misled
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
It will feel like a kiss

And I didn't think I'd catch fire when I held my hand to the flame
And I didn't think they'd catch up as fast as we could have run
Fate came a knocking when I was looking the other way
A new disease came in the post for me today
For me today,for me today,for me today

And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
Silent and velvet
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes
And when it comes it will feel like a kiss


(Bloc Party 2008)

Note the 'Standard release of this single - is nothing at all in 'mood' like this version, in my opinion this is the superior release.

Films of note....

"Die welle" (The Wave)
A dictatorship experiment at school goes wrong ....echoes of 'Das Experiment' anyone?

"Gomorra" Guardian Film Review here
Even the trailer is hard to watch..... makes the Godfather mafia look like chivalrous Knights of old.....Trailer.

Thought

There is no hope anymore.....

Start Afresh

Everything starts afresh, friendships - even to an extent relationships.
For circumstances like the orbits of the planets change position over time.
Nothing is as it was, do not be frightened of that statement understand it for what it is, a declaration that time changes everything and you can no more change time than you can step back in time and change the events that led you to this point you are at now.

Stone

'Passion petrified like stone,all that remains is a frozen memory of past desires'

Nothing....

Nothing.... is anymore as it should be.

Existence now is the name of the game.

Mission Elapsed time

....19 Days.

Countdown

3 Days to go ......

~Transmission ends~

Countdown

4 Days to go.....

Countdown

5 Days to go.....

Countdown

6 Days to go......

Countdown

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Verve - Love is Noise 'Promo Video'

Haunted

"Alternative futures haunt me....."

Photosinferno 2008

Explanation of context here

Morrissey & Thoughts.....

'There is something I wanted to tell you, It's so funny you'll kill yourself laughing

But then I, I look around, And I remember that I am alone, Alone. For evermore........'

Quoted from the track 'Come Back to Camden' off the Album 'You Are the Quarry' by Morrissey

NIN 'We're in this Together' Lyrics

We're in This Together

I've become impossible

holding on to when

when everything seemed to matter more

the two of us

all used and beaten up

watching fate as it flows

down the path we have chose

You and me

we're in this together now

none of them can stop us now

we will make it through somehow

You and me

if the world should break in two

until the very end of me

until the very end of you

Awake to the sound

as they peel apart the skin

they pick and they pull

trying to get their fingers in

well they've got to kill what we've found

well they've got to hate what they fear

well they've got to make it go away

well they've got to make it disappear

The farther I fall I'm beside you

as lost as I get I will find you

the deeper the wound I'm inside you

for ever and ever I am a part of...

You and me

we're in this together now

none of them can stop us now

we will make it through somehow

You and me

if the world should break in two

until the very end of me

until the very end of you

All that we were is gone we have to hold on

all that we were is gone we have to hold on

all that we were is gone we have to hold on

all that we were is gone

but we can hold on.....

You and me

we're in this together now

none of them can stop us now

we will make it through somehow

You and me

even after everything

you're the queen and I'm the king

nothing else means anything

Taken from the Album 'Fragile'

Music/Lyrics NIN/Trent Reznor 1999

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Verve 'Love is Noise' Lyrics

Love is Noise

Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles that are made in China?
Feel the bright prosaic malls
And the corridors that go on and on and on

Are we blind can we see?
We are one incomplete
Are we blind in the city?
Waiting Politely to be saved in

Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues I'm singing again, again, again, again, again

Will those feet in modern times
Understand this world's affliction?
Recognize the righteous anger
Understand this world's addiction

I was blind couldn't see
What was here in me
I was blind, insecure
Felt like the road's way too long, yeah

Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again, again, again, again, again


Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that your feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again, again

Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles made in China?
Will those feet in modern times
See the bright prosaic malls?
Will those feet in modern times
Recognize every buddha?
Will those feet in modern times
Pardon me from my sins?
Love is noise

Verve 2008

'Love is Noise' is released in the Uk on 4th of August 2008
Taken from the Album 'Forth' to be released in the UK on 25th August 2008.

Interesting thing about these lyrics is either I've got the wrong Verve 'video' for this tune or everybody else is just plagiarizing the wrong lyrics. Because the ones that are out there do not tie in with the 'Single' release ...unless those lyrics are for an extended/Album mix?

Random Quote....

"I still believe in God , But God no longer believes in me"

Taken from the 'Intro' of the Track 'Wasteland by The Mission (UK) from the album God's Own Medicine

Placebo 'Soulmates' Lyrics

Soulmates

The sea's evaporated,
Though it comes as no surprise
These clouds we're seeing,
They're explosions in the sky
It seems it's written,
But we can't read between the line

Hush, it's okay, dry your eye
Dry your eye
Soulmate dry your eye
Dry your eye
Soulmate dry your eye,
Soulmates never die

~This one world vision turns us into compromise~
What good's religion when it's each other we despise?
Damn the government damn their killing, damn their lies
~It's okay~

Dry your eyes
Soulmate dry your eyes
Dry your eyes
Soulmate dry your eyes,
cos' soulmates never die

Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die


Never die


Soulmates never die
Soulmates never die

Placebo

This was a B side to the single 'This Picture'

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Life Solution

 = The solution to all your problems!

If only Life was a simple to use as a Mac....I wish!

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Part of your Soul ?

A longtime ago ..well all things are relative when you reach my age to be honest....
I went to the Walker Art Gallery ,at the time it was to see a particular painting D.G. Rossetti had done concerning Dante seeing Beatrice by chance in the street.

However what I have 'walked through the rest of my life with' (held to my soul so to speak) is a piece by George Fredrick Watts entitled Hope.

I have no idea why this painting should have such a 'hold' over me, but it does and that's that really. I stopped in my tracks when I saw it, it is only small compared to the other paintings in the room- and yet it called out to me ...my eyes could not turn away, I sat riveted soaking up the atmosphere of this simple but effective beyond belief work of art and yes it was burned into my soul from that day on.

The whole art of the the pre-Raphaelites with it's victorian melodrama (for surely that is how it fits in the scheme of things) is a strong pull for those searching for emotional escape from a reality that is found 'wanting' of love,desire and virtue.
At a tender age I embraced it as an alternative to a cruel world. I realize now that The symbolism movement is more based on reality and removes the sweet 'fantasy' of Ophelia to replace it with 'Harder' images that need to be drilled down into so that the reality you achieve is not what you first saw- 'reading the painting' is maybe how this could be described.

Anyway I digress Art is art but in my mind It's a desire to portray the world as you see it - and not for anybody else to question, for it is your vision.

Photosinferno.

Leonard Cohen 'Avalanche' Lyrics

Avalanche

I stepped into an avalanche,
it covered up my soul
when I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn, learn to serve me well.


You strike my side by accident
as you go down for your gold.
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
is neither starved nor cold;
he does not ask for your company,
not at the centre, the centre of the world.


When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
for this ugly hump at which you stare.


You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they're the crumbs I've left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound.


I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say you've gone away from me,
but I can feel you when you breathe.


Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
don't love me quite so fiercely now
when you know that you are not sure,
it is your turn, beloved,
it is your flesh that I wear.

Taken from the Album 'Songs of Love and Hate' 1971 Leonard Cohen

"They locked up a man
Who wanted to rule the world
The fools
They locked up the wrong man"

The Dark Knight....Batman reborn?

Well I've seen 'The Dark Knight' and to be honest it is fantastic....dark, marauding, malevolent and true to the 'Spirit of The Dark Knight comic.
Christian Bale wavers a bit in the film but Batman does not- he reigns supreme over the chaos that is Gotham City.
Supporting the Chaos theory full throttle is Heath Ledger as the Joker (complete with nods to the Arkham Asylum comic character)

You could say it is a tale of two cities...
One that wants to be reborn via Batman...so the caped crusader can hang up his cape once and for all - though we all know Heroes do not retire they die.
The joker on the other hand wants chaos for chaos sake, and therefore to bring the City to it's knees - so that it may face upto what it really is rather than what it believes it is or could be.

This film really is that deep in the way it plays out it's strands of the story - yea there's denied love, hope, fights, action and big bangs. However the way it is all weaved together is like a comic book every scene tells a story of the characters portrayal through the cities eyes... and it is played out against the backdrop of Gotham beautifully.

Ultimately that is why it works, the principal and minor characters are fighting for the soul of Gotham.

Channel 4 review here
Official movie site here

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Keane 'Try Again' Lyrics

Try Again

I fell asleep on a late night train
I missed my stop and I went round again
Why would I want to see you now?
To fix it up, make it up somehow

Baby I'll try again, try again
Baby I die every night, every time

What I was isn't what I am
I'd change back but I don't know if I can

Still I'll try, try again, try again
Baby I die every night, every time

But I was made the way I am
I'm not a stone; I'm just a man
Lay down your arms and I will lay down mine
Rip back the time that we've been wasting

God I wish you could see me now
You'd pick me up and you'd sort me out

Still I'll try, try again, try again
Baby I die every night, every time



From the Album 'Under the Iron Sea'

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NIN (Nine Inch Nails) The Slip Available in Shops

The Physical manifestation of The Slip is now becoming available in the shops worldwide.

Further info here

250,000 copies of the CD/DVD edition will be made available worldwide each individually numbered.

Each includes :

CD : The Slip Album

DVD : 5 Videos

24 Page booklet

and exclusive sticker pack.

No mention if the Multitrack files of the song are included on the DVD for Logic/Garageband etc.

Though they can be downloaded individually as torrents from the NIN remix site

The Album can be pre-ordered in the UK from here

Old Thoughts.....(July 2007)

Found this amongst my 'kipple' just now.....Interesting insight to my mind at that time.
(What a difference a year makes in your attitude to life)

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I don't want anything from anyone anymore, I've had enough of being misunderstood - misinformed and ridiculed by people with an IQ about seven circles beneath me...

All I've known, All I understand, I've fought for.

I've kicked against the pricks to get to this.

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Photosinferno July 2007

Red Light Company 'Ship Song' Lyrics

Ship Song

Darling we should break out

And I would help you with the cinematic strip lights

They're all blinding you

You can have my flashlight

Wouldn't let the birds keep picking at your breadcrumbs

Darling we should break out, I would miss you

But you know I've got a problem, and it spreads

It's like speak another language you can hear me

But it's covered in my fortune

We were on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh noo ohh ohh

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)ohh ohh noo

Darling we should break out, I would miss you

But you know I've got a problem, and it spreads

It's like speak another language you can hear me

But it's covered in my fortune

We were on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh noo ohh ohh

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)ohh ohh no

We were on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh ohh ohh noo

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)noo ohh ohh

We we're on a sinking ship

I guess you know ohh ohh noo

I guess it was a daytrip

At least (?)noo ahh ohh

Morrissey 'Years of Refusal' Album *Update

Updated entry on 'Years of Refusal'

Coldplay 'Free Track Download' Death Will Never Conquer

Coldplay are giving away a free track via their Website .

Have to say i'm not surprised it's free wouldn't make a C side never mind a B side ah well at least it's free. Even if it is rather 'Pooh'.
Shame it's not the track 'How you see the world' - not sure if this is a new track or if it's just now seen the light via the Coldplay widget?

Anyway enjoy :)

Hockenheim GP 2008 'Awards'

Driver of the Day

Lewis Hamilton for just showing the other teams eg: Ferrari and BMW why McLaren are never a force to be discounted.

The improvements McLaren brought to Silverstone (but never got to really show due to the weather) and therefore unleashed on the Hockenheim grid stunned the chasing pack and made a mockery of both Ferrari and BMW - which in BMW's case was embrassing because they were racing in Germany! (Ouch!)

Muppet of the Day

Well I only have to use one photograph to show the driver and the muppet on the track at the same time. Felipe Massa for 'letting' Lewis Hamilton pass him like he was a back marker, this I do not expect from a Ferrari driver and the 'Tifosi' will not be to happy about that.I know for one I wasn't , and questions are already being asked about the 'quality' of the Ferrari drivers over recent races. Sorry Massa but you get the Muppet award.

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We Have a Hold .....at T minus 16 days 4 hours and 5 minutes ...
....and Holding.

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One Million in 72 Hours.....

..As opposed to One Million in 2256 hours (94 days) In the case of V1.
So I think that will be classified as a success then.

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Fate

'Stay true to Destiny's Path,
Fate will then weave around you'.

Photosinferno -2008

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Dead Can Dance 'In Power we entrust the love advocated' lyrics

Sail on silver wings

Through this storm

what fortune love may bring

back to my arms again

The love

Of a former golden age

I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take.

For, now that wheels are turning,

I find my faith deserting me...

This night is filled with cries of

dispossesed children in search of Paradise.

A sign of unresolve that,

envisioned, drives the pinwheel on-and-on.

I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take.

When memory bears witness to

the innocence, consumed in dying rage!

The way lies through our love;

there can be no other means to the end,

Or keys to my heart...

you will never find.

You will never find

(DCD).

The costliest mistake.....

Found this on the 'Have your say' part of the BBC website.
I feel most people will be able to relate to a 'couple' of the observations on life.

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Iphone 3G....

Well I've seen one in the flesh (today) in the O2 shop.
I think it is a nicer phone overall to look at compared to the Iphone V1, the plastic back does not feel tacky at all very similar feel to the Macbook plastic in-fact.
It's supposed to be 'bigger' but it does not feel or look like that in the hand.

The thing that is most appealing (as a V1 user) is the 'Apps store' but to do this you need to update to the V2.0 SDK, which is not an option for me at the moment due to mine being 'non official' shall we say. So a bit of a wait there methinks.

The 16GB version which is the only one at this moment available in white ...gotta be 'Apple' white ..... black is just so not cool or Apple.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best Mobile phone on the market, you can talk specifications of camera's/ MMS (like how often do you use it ..really!!) / blah blah blah ....but Apple have put the all the bit's together and made a smartphone that the end user can pick up and use without having to read the manual- the one that comes with the Iphone V1 is 8 pages long and most of that is pictures.

For anybody with a mac it is the defacto choice in fact only choice .....everything else is 'just a mobile phone'

If you have a Pc (Spit) I think it works just as well but can't really comment as I'd never have one even if it was free..well I would but I'd sell it and put the money towards buying a new mac lol

Oh and to finish on a note:
What I suspected has come true. Inline with Apples 'Let's improve something but while we are doing that lets take something away' ...There's no Dock in the box This will cost you £19.00 as a separate item.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still Remake

I can't believe they are remaking this film.

One of the definite 'Atomic age' films of the 50's.

Probably end up being like the hash that was 'The war of the worlds' remake, no substance no style.....and no hope - seeing as it's got the 'actor' Keanu Reeves in it...says it all really.
And a really simple plot incase anybody has to actually think during the movie.
God I'm depressed about this idea already...and it doesn't come out till December...
It's all going to go "Klaatu barada nikto.

Check out the original film trailer here

Triumph over Adversity ? (You decide)

When it seems everything is not going your way, always remember there are two types of person in this world

Those that act upon events, or those that let events act upon them.

Just a thought for today of all days.

Movie Quote Time....

"I am trapped in a world in which I just do not belong"

Taken from George Pal's 1960 version of 'The Time Machine' based on the novel by H.G.Wells

Red Light Company 'First We Land' Lyrics

First We Land

Obstructions in this mind
Subtract just to find that it multiplies
So I wanted this time reach out
I wanted to
You wanted to
Distractions and dressed eyes
So cover up in time just to realize
I wanted to this time be found
I wanted to

Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
Only works when we kiss
Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
Only works when we kiss

Distractions to get by
Something I need it's a friend of mine
I wanted to this time reach out
I wanted to
You wanted to

Dead brakes in the cold lights
In a mess and it's me that I can't still hide
I wanted to this time be found
I wanted to

Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
It only works when we kiss
Only hurts when we date
Identify you can say
First we land
It only works when we kiss

Brett Anderson New Album 'Wilderness' released today

The Brett Anderson website has details on his new Album "Wilderness' released today.

Track listing is as follows:
1- A different place
2- The Empress
3- Clowns
4- Chinese Whispers
5- Blessed
6- funeral Mantra
7- Back to You
8- Knife Edge
9- P.Marius

The main textures used on this album are according to sources Vocals Piano and Cello (allegedly no guitars)....so me for one can't wait to hear it and sink into it's depths.

British GP 2008 'Awards'

Driver of the Day

Rubens Barrichello - for yet again showing his mastery of the silverstone circuit in the wet (2002 anybody?).
A roll of the dice and Rubens was off up to ten seconds faster than anybody on the track due to the gamble of 'extreme' wet tyres...he took the chance and drove supremely to third place and the podium, while those around (ahem Ferrari!!) fell over each other in the conditions.

Muppet of the day
Well though it pains me to say this ...it's gotta be the Ferrari team - a good day out lads - if your aim is to make numpty's of yourselves in front of a worldwide audience.....

NIN Remix 'Lights in the Sky' from the Album 'The Slip'

Well this is the 7th mix I've done of NIN tracks, and now I've started to stay within the logic environment. Having moved on from the 'limitations' of Garageband - though cool loops for GB !!

This mix is notable for the fact I cut up the lyrics and took out all ref to the Title of the track , and rewrote the vocals for a different emotional feel.

Also three tracks from the album 'The Slip' were used in the mix (999,999/Corona Radiata and of course Lights in the sky.

The enjoyable thing about this mix was (as Opposed to 'Head Down (White Noise)') It actually took less than three days for the mix to come together, I'm sure I could have chopped up a bit more -and i may revisit that in the future- but the track just organically grew in my head and on the computer and the 'mix' was the tweaking that took the time on the last day.

Anyway hope you like it ...let me know.

Patience....is a virtue...

...so they say anyway.

A great 'friend' of mine once said some years ago:
"I have a dictionary with the word 'Patience' in...I've crossed it out because I do not do Patience...."

The Sisters of Mercy 'Marian (Version)' Lyrics

Marian (Version)

In a sea of faces,in a sea of doubt
In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom
In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down
If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home.....

I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the wake
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the

Marian

Marian, there's a weight above me
And the pressure is all too strong
To breathe deep
Breathe long and hard
To take the water down and go to sleep
To sink still further
Beneath the fatal wave
Marian I think I'm drowning
This sea is killing me

I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the waves
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...

Was ich kann und was ich konnte (What I can do and what I could do)
Weiss ich gar nicht mehr (I just don't know anymore)
Gib mir wieder etwas schoenes (Give me something beautiful again)
Zieh mich aus dem meer (Drag me from the sea)
Ich hoere dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)
Kannst du mich schreien hoeren (Can you hear me calling?)
Ich bin hier allein (I am here alone)
Ich hoere dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)
Ohne deine hilfe verliere ich mich in diesem ort(Without your help I am lost
in this place)

I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the waves
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian
Marian......