mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Canadian Guitar Summit
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 08 22:49:21 GMT

A bit more than 20 years ago, back in 1986, more
dedicated than today to guitar playing, I started
buying Guitar Player magazine. I learned a lot not
only from the lessons in it and from the musicians
interviewed but also from the plastic records that
came embedded in it*.

One of these plastic records was from a gathering
of guitar players called Canadian Guitar Summit.

http://dreamwater.org/art/gtr/cgsbb.htm

The Canadian Guitar Summit got together just to make
this song and this recording, called “Beyond Borders”,
and was composed of Alex Lifeson from Rush, a progressive
rock band, Rik Emmet from Triumph, a hard rock band, Ed
Bickert, a jazz player, and Liona Boyd, a classical guitar
player. All Canadian of course…

http://bandtoband.com/index.php?Page=Search&BandId=5566

The resulting song/recording more than being beyond
borders, is beyond description. A beautiful piece of
music.

http://www.2112.net/sphere/virtualsongs/audio/Lifeson&Emmet-Beyond_Borders.mp3

— MV

* – I first heard Steve Vai’s Blue Powder, another beautiful
piece of music, through the same plastic records…

http://www.vai.com/AllAboutSteve/discography_vinylsingles.html
http://www.bytefest.com/private/MeCHx/My_Music/STEVE%20VAI%20COLLECTION/Steve%20Vai%20-%20Blue%20Powder.mp3

Yes, 20+ years ago, while you were all listening to Duran
Duran and Bryan Adams…

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: News Not Fit to Print
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 08 23:39:21 GMT

Yay for me, yours truly is in the news…

Informacao Empresarial Simplificada e Cartao de Cidadao com SOA
http://www.semanainformatica.xl.pt/864/act/300.shtml

Grandes empresas e Justica adoptam mais ‘software’ livre
http://www.novabase.pt/showNews.asp?idProd=IMPRENSAC1440BC3

Month old stuff, but I do google myself from time to time.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: System 7 New Album
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 08 23:20:21 GMT

Great video for System 7’s first track off of
the new album.

System 7 Hinotori Video Clip
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fxAx63r7qgo

Cant wait for it to come out…

http://www.a-wave.com/label/pages/AAWCD012.htm

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Founders Dinner
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 08 22:14:21 GMT

7 years ago Patrick and me started having monthly
dinners, gathering just a bunch of entrepreneurs
and founders.

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/366/

You’d think that people would be interested in
being around likeminded people and exchange ideas.
In particular when, as is the case of Patrick,
you can trade ideas with someone who actually has
been in a “for real Silicon Valley startup with IPO”.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickvandervalk

Last night’s dinner was the 7th anniversary.

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/366/calendar/6872499/

Number of people attending? Seven. Number of portuguese
people? Two. Number of foreigners? Five.

So much for portuguese entrepreneurship and networking…

Me and Patrick are going to rethink the event and
probably not organize it anymore. Both of us have more to
do than try and fight against windmills. On the other
hand, we might make it commercial; by invitation only and
charge 200 or 500 Euro per person. Not sure if we’d get
for-real entrepreneurs, but wannabes would be knocking at
our door, even if it was just for the chance of getting
a job…

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Aquaria, 2007 Independent Game of the Year
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 08 16:48:21 GMT

Brlliant, beautiful, haunting. Aquaria was named the
best independent game of the year.

http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/index.html
http://www.gametunnel.com/articles.php?id=661

If/When I create a games company, this is the type
of game I’d like to create. The world in general and
me in particular are fed up with 3D and FPS games…

— MV