TESLA | FOREVER MORE

TESLA | FOREVER MORE
Multi-platinum rockers TESLA reunited with producer
Terry Thomas, who was behind the boards for the band’s 1994 Gold-certified BUST A NUT album, and engineered by Michael Rosen who worked on INTO THE NOW.

FOREVER MORE was written and recorded during a period of high energy and bizarre life circumstances for each of TESLA’s band members, with those experiences coming full circle throughout the CD.
Lead guitarist Frank Hannon says:

"FOREVER MORE demonstrates the idea of writing songs in a diverse fashion. The title track is one of our deeper cuts complete with heavy lyrics, de-tuned riffs and acoustic interludes, while, ‘I Wanna Live’ is one of our more uplifting songs that bounces musically and delivers a lyrical message that suggests living life to the fullest.”

The rest of the album takes a similar ride of dynamic ups and downs with songs like ‘So What!,’ ‘Fallin’ Apart,’ ‘Breakin’ Free,’ ‘The Game,’ ‘All Of Me’ and ‘The First Time.’”

Track Listing:

1. Forever More 5:02
2. I Wanna Live 3:35
3. One Day at a Time 3:11
4. So What! 3:39
5. Just in Case 4:38
6. Fallin' Apart 4:22
7. Breakin' Free 5:02
8. All of Me 3:27
9. The First Time 4:10
10. PVT. Ledbetter 3:23
11. In a Hole Again 5:25
12. The Game 4:50

テスラ　ゲッティン　ベター！！

Theo van Gogh

Theo van Gogh (pronounced [ˈteːjoː vɑnˈxɔx]) (July 23, 1957–November 2, 2004) was a Dutch film director, television producer, publicist and actor. He was a descendant of Theo van Gogh, the brother of painter Vincent van Gogh. He was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri in 2004.
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Theo van Gogh was born in The Hague. His great-grandfather was art dealer Theo van Gogh, brother of Vincent van Gogh. His father, Johan van Gogh, was a member of the Dutch secret service ('AIVD', then called 'BVD'). Theo's uncle, also named Theo, was executed as a resistance fighter during the German occupation.

After dropping out of law school, Theo van Gogh became a stage manager. His self-proclaimed passion was filmmaking, and he debuted as a director with the movie Luger (1981). He received a Gouden Kalf ("Golden Calf", the Dutch equivalent of the Oscar) for Blind Date (1996) and In het belang van de staat ("In the Interest of the State", 1997). For the latter, he also received a "Certificate of Merit" from the San Francisco International Film Festival. As an actor he appeared in the production De noorderlingen ("The Northerners", 1992). After that, he worked for television and wrote provocative columns for Metro and other newspapers.

Van Gogh was a writer of polemic prose. His often aggressive tone and personal animosities got him involved in a number of public lawsuits against other writers and public figures, and got him fired as a columnist at a succession of magazines and periodicals. This forced him to seek refuge in his own website, called De Gezonde Roker ("The Healthy Smoker").[1] The site's name, which is also the title of one of his books, was an allusion to his notorious chain smoking and to the 'politically correct' negative stance towards smoking in society. In general, Van Gogh had a strongly nihilistic outlook on life, as displayed by episodes of heavy drinking, his open use of the drug cocaine and a cynical view of love relationships. (Later in life, he would adopt a healthier lifestyle, claiming it was for the sake of his son.)

Although he seemed to enjoy his life, he said he would not mind dying if it were not for his young son. His last book (2003) was Allah weet het beter ("Allah Knows Best") in which he presented his views on Islam in his typically cynical, mocking tone. He was a well-known critic of Islam, particularly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. He supported the nomination of the liberal (former PvdALabour Party), Somalian-born female politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali for Dutch parliament.

[edit] Political views

Van Gogh was a member of the Dutch republican society Republikeins Genootschap which advocates the abolition of the Dutch monarchy, and a friend and supporter of the controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn who was assassinated in 2002. He was also a staunch supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, although he revised his stance to a more neutral one in 2004.

[edit] Controversial statements

Although Van Gogh was known as a friendly, tolerant character in person, in the 1980s he became a newspaper columnist, and through the years he used his columns to vent his anger at politicians, actors, film directors, writers and other people he considered to be part of "the establishment".

He incurred the anger of leading members of the Jewish community by making comments about what he saw as the Jewish preoccupation with Auschwitz. This quote from a 1991 magazine interview is a typical example of such commentary. Van Gogh explained a "smell of caramel" by stating that "today they're only burning diabetic Jews". When he was criticized by the Jewish historian Evelien Gans, he wrote in Folia Civitatis magazine: "I suspect that Ms. Gans gets wet dreams about being fucked by Dr Mengele." He also expressed the wish that she would sue him so that she would have to explain in court why his remarks were false.

Van Gogh rejected every form of religion. In the late 1990s he started to focus on Islam. He felt strongly that political Islam is an increasing threat to liberal western societies, and said that, if he'd been younger, he would have emigrated to the U.S.A., which he considered to be a beacon of light in a darkening world.

One of the few politicians who seemed to be exempt from Van Gogh's criticisms was the libertarian leader Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated in 2002. Van Gogh usually referred to him as the divine baldhead. After the death of Fortuyn, Van Gogh continued attacking the remaining members of the Lijst Pim Fortuyn as he did other politicians. His political idol from then on was Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

[edit] Submission

Working from a script written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, van Gogh created the 10-minute movie Submission. The movie deals with the topic of violence against women in some Islamic societies; telling the stories of four abused Muslim women. The title itself, "Submission", is a translation of the word "Islam" into English. In the film, women's naked bodies are veiled with semi-transparent shrouds as they kneel in prayer, telling their stories as if they are speaking to Allah. Qur'anic verses unfavourable to women are projected onto their bodies in Arabic. In August 2004, after the movie's broadcast on Dutch public TV, newspaper De Volkskrant reported on claims of plagiarism against Hirsi Ali and Van Gogh, made by internet journalist Francisco van Jole. Van Jole said the duo had "aped" the ideas of Iranian-American video artist Shirin Neshat. Neshat's work, which made abundant use of Arabic text projected onto bodies, had been shown in the Netherlands in 1997 and 2000. After the broadcast of Submission, Van Gogh and Hirsi Ali also received death threats. Van Gogh did not take these very seriously and refused any protection, reportedly telling Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "Nobody kills the village idiot", a term he frequently used to refer to himself.[1]

[edit] Van Gogh's murder
Place where Van Gogh was killed
Demonstration at the Dam square after Van Gogh was killed
Demonstrators

Mohammed Bouyeri murdered Van Gogh in the early morning of Tuesday November 2, 2004, in Amsterdam, in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat ( [show location on an interactive map] 52°21′32.22″N 4°55′34.74″E / 52.35895, 4.9263167), while he was bicycling to work. He shot him eight times with an HS 2000 handgun, and Van Gogh died on the spot. Bouyeri then cut Van Gogh's throat, nearly decapitating him, and stabbed him in the chest. Two knives were left implanted in his torso, one attaching a five-page note to his body. The note (Text) threatened Western governments, Jews and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding). The note also contained references to the ideologies of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra.

The killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, a 26-year-old Dutch citizen, was apprehended by the police after being shot in the leg. Bouyeri has alleged terrorist ties with the Dutch Hofstad Network. He was also charged with the attempted murder of a police officer and bystander, illegal possession of a firearm, and conspiring to murder others, including Hirsi Ali. He was convicted on July 26, 2005 and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.

Imam Fawaz of the as-Sunnah Mosque in The Hague gave a sermon several weeks before the murder in which he called Theo van Gogh, "a 'criminal bastard' and beseech[ed] Allah to visit an incurable disease upon the filmmaker."[2]

A few days after the murder, one of Van Gogh's intimate friends delivered an open letter to "Mohammed B. and his friends" on Dutch television.[citation needed]

Van Gogh was cremated on November 9, 2004 in Amsterdam. During the memorial service, Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" was played; a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of liquor were placed on the coffin.

[edit] Aftermath

The day after the murder, Dutch police arrested eight Muslim radicals belonging to a group later referred to as the Hofstad Network. Six detainees were Dutch-Moroccans, one was Dutch-Algerian and one had dual Spanish-Moroccan nationality.

Following the murder, the Dutch Complaints Bureau for Discrimination on the Internet (MDI) received many complaints about websites praising the murder and making death threats against other people.[2]

At the same time, starting with four attempted arson attacks on mosques in the weekend of 5-7 November, a significant number of apparently retaliatory violent incidents and arson attacks took place.[3] The Dutch Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia recorded a total of 106 violent incidents against Muslim targets in November. The National Dutch Police Services Agency (KLPD) recorded 31 occasions of violence against mosques and Islamic schools between 23 November and 13 March 2005.[4] The case that drew most attention was an arson attack that led to the destruction of a Muslim primary school in Uden in December 2004.[5]

By November 8, Christian churches were in turn targeted in vandalism and arson attacks. A report for the Anne Frank Foundation and the University of Leiden, which counted a total of 174 violent incidents between 2-30 November, specifies that mosques were the target of violence 47 times, and churches 13 times.[6]

International Records

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Details of Indies Records music CD releases.

Indies Records


Indies Records
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Tara Fuki, Iva Bittova, Vladimír Vaclavek, Raduza, Hradistan and Jiri Pavlica, Traband, Al-Yaman, Maraca, Docuku, Jablkon and others.

Indies Records on the web: www.indiesrec.cz/

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CD cover
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Description of CD releases from Indies Records
Where available mp3 sound samples are included, click on links for approx 30 second sample.
Raduza - V hore (MAM260-2) CD

Raduza - V hore (MAM260-2) CD
Immediately after its release in April, the new album of RADUZA, 'V hore', was among the best selling CDs in the Czech Republic.
Bylo nebylo (mp3 sample)
De Nîmes (mp3 sample)
Tara Fuki - Piosenki Do Snu (MAM153-2) CD

Tara Fuki - Piosenki Do Snu (MAM153-2) CD
Piosenka (mp3 sample)
Pada (mp3 sample)
Tara Fuki - Kapka (MAM214-2) CD

Tara Fuki - Kapka (MAM214-2) CD
Poušť - Desert (mp3 sample)
Oči - Eyes (mp3 sample)
Iva Bittova - Cikori (MAM150-2) CD

Iva Bittova - Cikori (MAM150-2) CD
Kočka (mp3 sample)
Zapískej (mp3 sample)
Iva Bittova - Iva Bittova j.h. (MAM186-2) CD

Iva Bittova - Iva Bittova j.h. (MAM186-2) CD
Gloomy Sunday (mp3 sample)
Absint (mp3 sample)
Iva Bittova and Vladimir Vaclavek - Bíle inferno (MAM055-2) CD

Iva Bittova and Vladimir Vaclavek - Bíle inferno (MAM055-2) 2 x CD set
Sto let (mp3 sample)
Zelený vínecek (mp3 sample)
Al-Yaman - Hurryia (MAM234-2) CD

Al-Yaman - Hurryia (MAM234-2) CD
mp3 sound samples can be found on the AL YAMAN web site at:
www.al-yaman.cz
Jablkon - Hovada Bozi Animates Dei (MAM249-2) CD

Jablkon - Hovada Bozi Animates Dei (MAM249-2) CD
Magic Playing: From the roots of Moravian Folklore - Various Artists (MAM209-2) CD

Magic Playing: From the roots of Moravian Folklore - Various Artists (MAM209-2) CD
Hradišťan – Krátký popis léta (mp3 sample)
Tomáš Kočko & Orchestr – Vy vsetínští páni (mp3 sample)
Iva Bittová – Zelený víneček (mp3 sample)
Docuku – Husle (mp3 sample)
Traband - Hyje! (MAM246-2) CD

Traband - Hyje! (MAM246-2) CD
mp3 sound samples can be found on the Traband web site at:
www.traband.net/

Maraca - Longe (MAM206-2)


Maraca - Longe (MAM206-2)
dobre (mp3 sample)
More mp3 sound samples can be found at:
www.maraca.cz/cz/mp3_h.html

Hradistan and Jiri Pavlica - Zlaty slunovrat (MAM161-2) CD


Hradistan and Jiri Pavlica - Zlaty slunovrat (MAM161-2) CD
mp3 sound samples can be found at:
www.hradistan.cz/cd16.htm
(scroll down their page and look for the red musical note symbols)
kol sonzlgn
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Bud Yorkin

Bud Yorkin (born in Washington, Pennsylvania on February 22, 1926 as Alan David Yorkin) is an American film producer, director, writer and actor. He directed and produced the 1958 TV special An Evening With Fred Astaire, which won nine Emmy Awards.

Yorkin earned a degree in engineering from Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In 1963, Yorkin teamed up with Norman Lear to form Tandem Productions, which at first produced several films in the 1960s to 1971 with such major sudios like United Artists and Warner Bros., and later produced many of the decade's hit sitcoms, such as All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, and Sanford and Son.

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