mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Zappa: Heavy Mental
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 07 16:07:21 GMT

“Flakes”, a song on Frank Zappa’s Sheik Yerbouti album,
contains a Dylan parody, with guitarist Adrian Belew
doing the Dylan “voice”.

http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/flakes.html

I was looking out on YouTube to see if there was
some video for Bob Dylan’s impersonation in one of
Frank Zappa’s songs when I found a bunch of stuff
both from Frank Zappa, Dweezil Zappa (son) and
Moon Unit Zappa (daughter) that is the perfect
example that you can have heavy and mental in the
same setting… Some of the videos is stuff that I
hadnt seen in 20 years…

Frank Zappa – Flakes+Broken Hearts are for Assholes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPlvuSisdg (with Steve Vai on guitar)

Frank and Dweezil Zappa — Sharleena (live) (“Battlestar Galactica?!?”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1c39Hi8SLI (THE DWEEZ!)

Moon Unit Zappa – Valley Girl (“Its like SO bitchen!!”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M9aY7hXjGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eEvLzoSVsw (with lyrics)

Dweezil + Moon Zappa – Let’s Talk About It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbN3iAdWPi0

Dweezil Zappa – My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfAmdTa4W8 (“No Redeeming Social Value!”)

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Open Arena Evolved
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 07 01:57:21 GMT

Like I said about a month ago, the game that I’ve
been playing and that led me away from Enemy Territory
(although I play now and then) is Open Arena:

http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Open%20Arena

Having gone through all the maps, with 3 bots (+ me)
and at levels “I Can Win”, “Bring It On” and “Hurt Me
Plenty” (now cycling through “Hardcore”), I started to
think that pretty soon I’ll need aditional fun. Which
brough to my mind the fun times I had with pepper, nbk
and zorton playing some Quakeworld mods and maps.

When I went to look for them I found that some are
available for Quake 3 Arena! Which might make them
moveable to Open Arena.

Open Arena Evolved anyone? You’d just need to port
over this stuff:

Quake 3 Requiem Mod
http://www.reqoning.com/q3req/

Quake ChaosDM Mod
http://chaosdm.planetquake.gamespy.com/ (Q2)
http://chaosarena.planetquake.gamespy.com/ (Q3 version never came out)

Muny’s Maps
http://www.munyul.com/stuff_quake.html

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Microsoft LiveLabs Volta
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 07 00:49:21 GMT

Microsoft LiveLabs Volta

http://labs.live.com/volta/

“JavaScript is just an assembly language,says Live Labs
product manager Alex Daley.”

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=480

See, VD? I told you so…

http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Slowly%20but%20Surely

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Nintendo ES OS
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 07 20:57:21 GMT

Inside Nintendo’s ES Open-Source Operating System
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16503

Nintendo ES Operating System on JavaScript
http://ajaxian.com/archives/nintendo-es-operating-system-on-javascript

Must be the US Xmas shopping but they are about 1 week behind
the geezer! (a little bit whoa!, a little bit wheeee!)…

http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Its%20Official,%20Javascript%20is%20the%20Next%20Big%20Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKNBPIMsCwU

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Fish at Aula Magna
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 07 01:22:21 GMT

Just got back from the Fish concert at Aula Magna.

– opening act Forgotten Suns sucked; the singer either
got stagefright or stressed his voice during soundcheck;
halfway through he had to give up; I guess singing in
a real stage isnt the same as singing in bars

– the light technicians sucked; its not obligatory to
know the songs so that you can create a complimentary
ambience to them; but you should at least have some
feeling and know what each button on the board does

– Fish sucked; the band cant provide the ambience
demanded by the songs on the setlist; the setlist
sucks because it was a mish mash of Marillion’s Straws
album and Fish songs; the arrangements and orchestrations
for the songs sucked because the band sucks; and Fish
sucked by completely fucking up most of the songs by
either being out of tune or forgetting the lyrics

I do not enjoy paying 35 Euro to see bad cover bands,
so, Fish, do us a favour and get back with Marillion. They
cant write lyrics to save their lives but you sure suck
at harmonics and melodics.

The only person more pissed off than me was my
brother: yesterday Scorpions sucked even harder.

— MV