#Project Starsailor

[fantasykiri5]

Chat which do we like more, with or without the extra little patches of colors (ignore that the bark edge on the top isn't finished- I'm gonna do it once I've figured put the rest of the bark)

[starsailores]

the holland and vortalis as orpheus and eurydice fic is finally finished, ready for your viewing pleasure. it may be what you expect, it may not, but either way, if you choose to read it. i hope you enjoy. my heart is in those words.

[ominous-faechild]

@caffeinated-starsailor @teamarine777

this guy be acting like he not only doesn't know what the project is, but hasn't READ and theorized about it 😉😔

What if I had a secret project I was working on...? Would people even want to see it...? 😔👀

[pear-pies]

hey pals, i’m working though a box of NMEs from 2001/2002 and Kerrangs from 1998 so pleeeaase let me know if there’s (particularly British) bands you like! 

I’m generally skipping over the likes of;  

doves, the streets, stereophonics, the charlatans, a, 3 colours red, slipknot, starsailor, bon jovi, symposium, coal chamber, ash, soulfly, tura satana, clawfinger, human waste project, feeder, the wildhearts, skunk anansie, therapy?  

so let me know! :))

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Tomás Nochteff (Mueran Humanos)

Mueran Humanos, an Argentinian duo now based in Berlin, mixes post-punk, industrial-inflected synth explorations, garage rock and psychedelia. Carmen Burguess and Tomás Nochteff share vocal duties and play a very basic line-up of instruments: bass, synths, drum machines and samplers. In his review for Dusted, Andrew Forell called their latest, Hospital Lullabies, “a thrilling concoction of electronic, industrial, bass-driven body music fueled by the transgressive spirit of a DAF or a Psychic TV.” Here, Tomás presents his list of visionary music.

A list of visionary music

What is a visionary? Visions can come in dreams, in journeys to other worlds, in hallucinations. They can be the product of will, of a derangement of the senses, or they can come uninvited to save you or to haunt you and destroy your mental balance, even your life. It can be heavenly, or hellish, but to be authentic visions they have to be otherworldly. And to be visions rather than just imagination, they must have an element of truth. Not literal truth, like “that wall is green,” but a different kind of truth, the one that´s expressed in symbols, in metaphors, in omens and obsessions. In “Heaven and Hell,” Aldous Huxley analyzed the visions of people under the influence of psychedelic drugs, the visions of mystics and the visions of schizophrenics. He found fundamental parallels and concluded that they must have been visiting the same places. These people are not merely hallucinating, but they are perceiving another reality, visiting a different world, or maybe they are perceiving the world as it really is. And he quotes Jung on this: “schizophrenics and mystics are on the same ocean, but schizophrenics are drowning and mystics are swimming.” A visionary could be a mix of all these archetypes. Like Philip K Dick: was he on drugs? Yes. Was he mad? Yes. Was he seeking enlightenment? Yes. Had his visions an element of truth? No doubt about it. Were his visions revelations? To some extent, yes.

On our last album, Hospital Lullabies, the songs deal with all these different experiences on the journey to another world and on the invasion from another world into everyday life, with its horror and its beauty, the agony and the ecstasy. And how one copes, or doesn´t, with it.

So to celebrate it, I made a list of music that I do consider visionary. There’s madmen, there’s mystics and there’s psychonauts, all possible combinations of the three archetypes and everything in between.

Pharoah Sanders—“The Creator has a Masterplan” (Impulse)

I don´t know much about cosmic jazz, or any jazz for that matter, but what I know is that this record is pure bliss. “Harvest Time,” on Pharoah is another masterpiece. Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry are also incredible. This is music of the spheres; it has the touch of God.

Rudimentary Peni—CacophonyI (Outer Himalayan Records)

One of the few perfect punk bands ever, for lots of reasons. The bass lines are extraordinary, for example. But they belong here because of schizophrenic member Nick Blinko: incredible artist & novelist, obsessed with Catholicism and the supernatural horror. A guy who stopped his medication to force himself into a psychotic crisis just to write an album. Hero. Martyr.

Nico— “Janitor of Lunacy” (Cherry Red Records)

For me, Nico was the best and more underrated of all Velvets (and we love Velvet Underground as much as anyone). Also, the production from John Cale on her records is probably his best work too, or at least among his best. I feel that she is not appreciated enough. Iggy said that meeting her changed him. I suspect that´s true for all her famous friends: Bowie, Lou Reed, John Cale, Leonard Cohen, etc. They were all larger-than-life characters. And we know there is an element of self-built mythology on all that, a bit of acting. There is nothing wrong with that; rock and roll at its best is a complete artform and we must appreciate this self-built mythology as part of their craft. But with Nico you don´t get that feeling. She seemed that she didn´t care about her image, she was born Nico and I suspect that in that sense she inspired them all to no end. She was the genuine article. One of our main loves in music. Essential with a capital E.

Coil—“I Don’t Want To Be The One”

Jhonn Balance wanted to be a magician, and he died trying. I think he succeed in building a shamanic body of work with the help of the great late Sleazy and a myriad of brilliant contributors. Coil´s music at its best it´s like a plasma between worlds, or a very, very good psychedelic drug. My most beloved electronic/industrial/post-industrial project ever and one of our main influences. This performance is superb.

Lungfish — Feral Hymns

I´m not interested in DC post hardcore per se, and I don´t have any tattoos. I shouldn´t care about Lungfish the way I do, but they knock me out every single time. Daniel Higgs is a seer. I don´t know what he is talking about, but at the same time, my gut knows exactly what he is talking about. He speaks in images, like Tarot, like the religious painters, like Rimbaud and San Juan de la Cruz. His delivery is supreme. Raw and fragile, yet powerful and precise. Over circular, repetitive, minimal structures of music that have a haunting, arresting effect. Hypnotic, magical, devotional music. Either you get it, or you don´t. I can´t explain it. That´s the beauty of it, I suppose. And the truly mark of the visionary artist.

Ghedalia Tazartes—“Une Éclipse Totale De Soleil Part 2”

Ghedalia for me represents the pure, untouched, sui generis artist. Applying the techniques of musique concrete to the ancient folk music of the Sephardic Jews with a raw energy that usually you can only find in punk, or blues. I see in him an archetype, the Fool card in the Tarot. The madman that opens the gates of heaven and hell, gives himself to these supreme energies and survives only because of his perfect innocence.

OM—“Sinai (live at Sonic City)”

Maybe the greatest rock band of the last 20 years. Here with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe to maximum effect.

Charlemagne Palestine—Live in Holland 1998

Like Ghedalia, Charlemagne Palestine is a Jewish artist that works in the avant garde field but subverts it with the tradition of his folk music instead of sticking to the cold, cerebral, rational program of academia. He has his own world. Watch this and you will understand what I am talking about.

Virgin Prunes—Excerpts from Sons Find Devils/“Walls of Jericho”

There is a VHS tape called Sons Find Devils, comprised of live shows and short experimental films (some of them made by Balance, from Coil). I had it as a teenager and watched it countless times. Sadly, it is not complete on YouTube or elsewhere but here are some small extracts. With their heretic mix of Irish Catholic imagery, Irish Paganism, Bataille, performance art and post punk, the Virgin Prunes made a unique and extraordinary body of work. A testament of its importance is that Gavin Friday was guest singer of two bands in this list: The Fall and Coil. And Mr. Scott Walker himself invited him to sing on a play. Maybe the historians ignore them, but Mark E. Smith, Scott Walker and Coil knew where it’s at, didn´t they? Their record If I die I die is a masterpiece. Produced by Colin Newman from Wire, no less, if you need more validation.

Boredoms—Vision Creation Newsun

I like some of the more comical, early work of Boredoms, but with Super AE and this one they got me. They got serious and spiritual, channeling Alice Coltrane, tribal drumming, kraut rock and noise into a glorious, euphoric sound. Maybe they are not visionaries, but their music can produce visions. I saw them around 2005 (on acid) with the three drummers line up, still in this phase. I remember thinking “this is what cavemen had in mind when they invented music.” I actually saw it, with my eyes closed. Early humans. In caves. Inventing music. God bless LSD.

Aphrodite´s Child — 666

The one record I bought for the cover only, it cost me 50 cents, best deal of my life. A concept album about the apocalypse. Easy contender for the best psychedelic rock album of all time. Pet Sounds? Get outta here. An absolute masterpiece.

Tim Buckley—Starsailor

Tim Buckley is a mystery. He died too young. How he went from his L.A. folk rock first album to the absolute unique sound of Starsailor and Lorca is impossible to understand and a miracle of music. All six records in between are masterpieces. He was possessed by genius and has the most beautiful voice. I don´t know much about him, but his music put me out there.

Sun Ra—Night Music 1989

Watch this. Space is The Place, indeed.

Pescado Rabioso—Artaud

This guy, Luis Alberto Spinetta, is considered by many to be the most important rock musician in my country. So being an arrogant teenage punk, or whatever, of course that alone was enough to reject him altogether without even thinking. But a couple of years ago I was blown away by a book of poems he published in 1978. Incredibly beautiful, unique and sophisticated poetry. I recently started, too late, to listen to his music. This is one of his most famous and revered records. It´s dedicated to, and inspired by Antonin Artaud, who tried and failed to reach the mystic enlightenment, generating a body of work in the process which is a testament to his spiritual ambition, his radical rejection of the material world and his pain. Spinetta understood this, he said the record was trying to find an answer to Artaud, a way out of it, a way out of the pain. It´s psychedelic music of the highest order. The lyrics are incredible but you can enjoy it even without understanding them.

Dead Can Dance—Dyonisios

I kept forgetting this band exists. This new album is great. I listened to it non-stop during last Winter/Spring. It´s the perfect time because the record is about Dyonisios, so as a soundtrack for the rebirth of Nature it´s perfect. Probably their best work in years. Sublime.

The Fall—“Garden” (Live at the Hacienda, Manchester, UK, 1984)

No list of visionary rock and roll would be complete without Mark E. Smith. Famously he said, “I used to be a psychic but I drank my way out of it.” Indeed, there was a time, between 1978-1990, when he was possessed by something, injecting realism with mysticism, mixing high and low planes, exposing the supernatural forces that hides in the cracks of everyday life. He never talks about hell neither heaven, but rather the way they mix and manifest here on Earth. You’ve got countless of bands using occult/mystic imagery, and you know it´s nice but it´s just a game. You’ve got thousands of bands referencing Burroughs and the cut-up technique, but no one can write as Burroughs did. MES did it. MES wasn´t playing. He was a realist of the augmented reality, he told it like it is, in his fragmented, hallucinatory, unpretentious, visionary prose poetry.

There is a lot in his lyrics that can be read in a mystic, occult way. He left a lot of clues for the ones that can read them. His texts are kaleidoscopic, and they reflect what´s in your mind, really. I think he will be recognized with time as the great experimental writer that he actually was rather than merely an angry Mancunian punk. He had more in common with someone like Iain Sinclair than with any other rock musician. One of my favorite web sites is The Annotated Fall, where fans analyze his lyrics in depth. Pay a visit if you can, I can´t recommended it enough. In many ways, he was too intelligent for rock and roll, and that´s why he was misunderstood, but he didn´t care, he believed in constant work, never explain, never apologize. The Fall took all the best things in rock and roll: Can, Velvet Underground, punk, Captain Beefheart, and pushed it to the next level. Our favorite rock group ever.

Huun Hur Tu — “Prayer”

I tried to stick to Western, modern music but I can´t help including this.

[matterofblues]

Better-than-Toei Birthdays for the Digidestined

and/or “because just doing this by sun sign is stupid”

A long-running and thoroughly researched project of mine, this is an extension of my earlier post about the kids’ rising signs.

Taichi - April 17, 1988, 21:50 – Aries with a Taurus Moon & Sagittarius Rising Hikari - May 9, 1991, 14:42 – Taurus with a Pisces Moon & Libra Rising Miyako - June 9, 1990, 0:05 - Gemini with a Sagittarius Moon & Pisces Rising Yamato - June 30, 1988, 7:20 - Cancer with a Capricorn Moon & Leo Rising Daisuke - August 2, 1991, 21:30 - Leo with an Aries Moon & Aries Rising Iori - August 30, 1993, 20:58 - Virgo with an Aquarius Moon & Taurus Rising Ken - October 5, 1991, 20:02 - Libra with a Virgo Moon & Gemini Rising Sora - October 31, 1988, 20:00 - Scorpio with a Cancer Moon & Cancer Rising Takeru - December 2, 1991, 10:19 - Sagittarius with a Libra Moon & Aquarius Rising Joe - January 1, 1988, 22:45 - Capricorn with a Gemini Moon & Virgo Rising Koushiro - February 16, 1990, 4:40 - Aquarius with a Scorpio Moon & Capricorn Rising Mimi - March 8, 1990, 21:56 - Pisces with a Leo Moon & Scorpio Rising

You will notice, twelve different kids, twelve different sun, moon, and rising signs.  That was the goal.  Nicely shown by what an interdependent whole these twelve kids are.  (Also shows minor things like all the Jogress partners so far have been put together by age.)

Post Kyousei, if I had to guess, I would say Meiko is a September Libra (Pisces Moon, Aquarius//Pisces Rising).

In shorter form:

January 1 - Joe (yes. he gets the biggest holiday/born-on-Christmas-equivalent in Japan. guess how much attention even he’s ever paid to his birthday?) February 16 - Koushiro (he may be a true Aquarian but he’s got a scary amount of planets in Capricorn.  probably how he’s made all that money by 16.) March 8 - Mimi (International Women’s Day, baby~) April 17 - Taichi (Please note the 7+1 birthday.) May 9 - Hikari (doesn’t sound like a big deal, until you see the chart that goes with it… did you notice that Libra Rising?) June 9 - Miyako (canon Gemini, junai = pure love.  Plus she has a hilarious Mars in Aries… ;) June 30 - Yamato (Starsailor Moon.) August 2 - Daisuke (Yes, I know the artbook said he was still 7 on August 3.  Aside from this day being ruled by the Sun and the Moon, Daisuke is easily another birthday-ignored kid, even by Toei.) August 30 - Iori (Day of the Rock.) October 5 - Ken (What is it about Libras..) October 31 - Sora (This has an easy explanation with the movie.  Taichi screwed up her birthday, tried to make it better at Christmas and failed, and Sora is still turning the screws two months later.) December 2 - Takeru (baby of the group.  baby of the year.  ’If a second child, some December 2 people can have trouble establishing themselves as individuals since they have formed a conception of themselves subordinated to a powerful older sibling and forget when their own birthday is.’)

Want a greater, more detailed explanation for any of these?  Just ask.  

Checked and cross-referenced here: http://astrology-numerology.com/sun-moon.html http://www.alwaysastrology.com/rising-signs.html#Find https://www.thesecretlanguage.com/check/day/ https://birthdaypersonality.org/

Thanks to @kourious, @glassesandpassion, @its-your-light, and @believinginhope for letting me test-drive things on them and contributing to this as a whole.

[manyetikbant]

Ajans: 12 Nisan 2018

Ajans: 12 Nisan 2018

Manyetik Bant Haber Ajansı iyi akşamlar diler. Red Bull Art Around Arnavutköy’de Red Bull’un İstanbul semtlerinin sokaklarını sanatla buluşturan etkinliği Art Around, Karaköy ve Moda’dan sonra bu yıl Arnavutköy’ü mesken tutuyor. 4-20 Mayıs arasında gerçekleşecek “Hayaletler” temalı projenin küratörlüğünü Collective Çukurcuma yapıyor. Canavar, Can Büyükberber, Bahar Yürükoğlu, Pınar Yoldaş, Ali…

[63824peace]

Wednesday, 9th of november 2005

I headed toward Haneda Airport by taxicab early in the morning. I fought against the temptation to drowse.

We crossed Tenkuu Bridge and my eyes exploded with light.

I looked through the window and saw the horizon full of fire colors. I haven't seen dawnlight with my own eyes for quite some time. I always get up early, yet I rarely see the new sun.

Tokyo has a horizon drawn by skyscrapers, electric poles and wires, elevated railroad tracks, highways, signs and advertisements. All these city things trap only a small piece of sky for Tokyo's residents to behold. We can't even see the sunset clearly. We only know the daytime sun.

I lived alone in Tokyo's Ikejiri district when I first came here ten years ago. I could only see the highway when I opened my window. Every morning suffocated me back then. The city disciplines us, it eases us into a well-planned routine, formidable patience, and a bit of luck if we want to enjoy sunrise and sunset. I could relish sunrise every day back in Kobe.

Today I appreciated a new facet of the airport. As the name implies, Tokyo's airport really brings us into the skies.

"Even in Tokyo, we have a place where we can find a tremendous sky."

The morning sun shattered my drowsiness. I felt exquisite this morning.

I boarded flight JL8831 and departed from Haneda Airport to Kimpo Airport. I noticed a movie that Shin-chan had recommended listed on the flight's program (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants), but I wasn't able to watch it. Korea isn't far from Japan, so they didn't show an in-flight movie.

From the plane I could see Mount Fuji draped in snow. The mountain has begun its own winter preparations.

I was surprised by more than ten fans waiting in Kimpo Airport's lobby. They greeted my arrival with placards that read, "I love MGS!" and "Hideo Kojima!"

The display really moved me. I gave some of them my autograph.

I saw a few middle-age people standing among them. I'm sure that the older folks were simply confused. They must have thought that I was someone else. They didn't appear to connect at all with video games or MGS.

I met Mr. Youn and his subordinates in the lobby. Mr. Youn is the CEO of UNIANA, an Asian branch of Konami. We exchanged a warm, firm handshake.

Kimpo Airport was blistering cold the last time I was here in February. When my flight landed today I heard an announcement that the temperature was 4 Celsius. I worried a little. I'm relieved to find the weather not too cold... it's even warm.

We drove to meet Director Park Chan-Wook at Haeng-Ju Bridge. We arrived early, so I checked out the mountain fortress Haeng-Ju Sa Seog. I didn't have enough time to move up the mountain, so I walked around the base instead. Ginko trees had shed their leaves and covered the street with a canary-colored carpet.

I had a completely different impression of this place when I visited in mid-winter. I now see that Korea and Japan are similar. Both have beautiful autumn leaves as well as clearly distinct seasons.

We went to the restaurant Naruto where they serve homecooked Korean cuisine.

Director Park's group decided to go ahead and film my interview. They'll include the footage as extra material on the DVD release of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. I was caught off-guard, and I greeted the camera in Japanese.

The staff taught me a Korean line from Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: "Neo na jal haseyo." It's become the movie's catch-phrase. The film's main character (Guem-Ja) speaks the line to a preacher who finds her after her release from prison. It translates into something like, "Excuse me, but who the hell do you think you are?" It's similar to Jimmy Oshini's one-liner from his comedian days.

You shouldn't say it around people who haven't seen the movie though. It's a pretty rude expression, and they won't know that it's just a film reference.

We gave Director Park a gift: Shin-chan's rendition of Guem-Ja drawn on high quality paper.

We enjoyed lunch for two and a half hours. Our conversation covered a breadth of topics... our current activities, prospective projects, movies, manga, anime, and so on.

I last saw Director Park nine months ago. He was pretty tense then because he was shooting his film. He seemed pretty relaxed today though.

I really enjoyed it.

Director Park gave me the Oldboy Ultimate Box Set, sold only in Korea. They really made this fancy. The package design resembles the mysterious box from the movie. And talk about "ultimate"... it holds the soundtrack, a photo collection, a storyboard, a senitype, and four discs with extra footage. I hope they release it in Japan too.

What?! He told me that Starsailor used Oldboy footage in the music video for Bring My Love, and the Box Set contains the footage. Starsailor is my favorite UK band. I used their song Way to Fall as the MGS3 credits theme.

The coincidence surprised both of us. Japan, Korea, and the UK all connected for a moment, and I felt a strong sense of connectivity.

Director Park and I went our separate ways, and my group headed toward UNIANA.

They updated us on G-STAR's situation. The game expo starts tomorrow.

I spoke with Mr. Senju, Matsuhanan, and Tojin over the telephone. They had been preparing our booth at the expo site even before I arrived. They briefed me on the construction progress. Nothing serious has come up, but we're still behind schedule. We'll probably need to delay our stage rehearsal.

All three of them spoke excitedly. They're really into this.

Even Korea loves the anime series Crayon Shin-Chan. UNIANA's conference room has a Shin-Chan clock.

We briefly stopped by the computer room in the evening before heading toward the G-STAR site.

We arrived at the Korean International Exhibition Hall (KINTEX). It's located just slightly off the city's center. KINTEX compares with Germany's magnificent Leipzig Messe, which hosts the GC Expo.

KINTEX first surprised me with its size. It has a modern design, too. I heard that they just recently finished its construction. G-STAR plans to gather a total audience of 100,000 people, and I think that KINTEX can handle that amount of people easily.

I went inside. G-STAR starts tomorrow, and most booths were still incomplete. I was surprised… and a little worried.

I asked locals about the situation. They explained: "The Korean people never settle for second best. Once they saw each other's booths, they commenced rebuilding their own to make them even better."

I was startled somewhat to see booths that lacked any structure whatsoever. Everything looks like Japan's TGS two days before opening.

I had to walk through all the construction to get to UNIANA's and Konami's collaborative booth. I could hardly move without stepping on something. I walked carefully through the cranes, cars, wet glue, and paint.

I took a right inside the entrance, walked straight forward, and UNIANA's and Konami's booth appeared at the end of the aisle. They're putting the final touches on the exterior. Our booth is done. Nice!

I heard that we've built G-STAR's MGS booth in the image of the TGS MGS booth. They share the same stage structure, layout, color schemes, and textures. I was reminded of our booth two months before... it's like the same game expo in a different country.

I'm excited. I can feel adrenaline slipping into my system.

"I see... I think I understand now why Mr. Senju, Matsuhanan, and Tojin sounded so alive."

I feel energy tensing inside me. I'm really looking forward to the show.

I checked the booth and the stage, along with the next-generation theater's visual setup and Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.

We hadn't prepared backstage for the live show, so I needed to catch up on the plans. Mr. Senju and I went over the latest rehearsal notes, the Powerpoint presentation, and the whole program from start to finish. It looks like we'll forego rehearsal today. We'll handle it tomorrow.

I had some of the unusual candies that Mr. Senju found in Korea. We're supposed to hold them in our mouths and suck.

I hadn't seen them before in Japan, so I took one. These are fun!

I ate dinner with everyone at the Italian restaurant inside KINTEX.

Kenpai! Three cheers for Konami, UNIANA, G-STAR, and the Korean gamers! Let's give tomorrow everything we've got.

I finally checked into my hotel just before midnight. I had a couple drinks at the bar while I admired Korea's night view.