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The Synergy project
Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy. Some of this work was used as the basis for music in Commodore 64 and Amiga computer games, notably Rob Hubbard's score for the C64 version of Zoids, which was an unofficial cover of Synergy's Ancestors from the 1981 album Audion.
The first album in the series, Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra, was released as an LP in 1975. Like the following albums, it exclusively makes use of electronic instruments, mainly synthesizers. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Fast released eight more Synergy LPs on Passport Records, all of which were later re-released on CDs. The 1998 re-release of Semi-Conductor, a compilation album originally released in 1984, was a remastered version of the original, and contained ten additional tracks. The eleventh album in the series, Reconstructed Artifacts, was released in 2003, and contained completely new performances of select compositions from the previous albums, using modern digital synthesizers, as well as the new digital recording technologies.
Currently Fast is slowly developing a new Synergy album, which is likely to come out in either 2011 or 2012. This will be his first studio album consisting of new material in over twenty years. According to Fast's website, it will heavily make use of software synthesizers (one of which is, fittingly, Sample Logic's Synergy synthesizer) rather than the hardware equipment he has been using so far. He has amassed a lot of new thematic material and plans to rework some old, as yet unreleased pieces for the new album as well.
On Synergy's first and second album, the following statement appears: "This album was created with absolutely no guitars." This is an apparent counter-reference to repeated statements appearing on albums by the rock group Queen that "This album was created with absolutely no synthesizers."
The albums by Synergy are:
1975: Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra #66 Billboard 200 (18 weeks)
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Plouffe: Mrs. Obama, I need to speak with you for a minute.
(Silence)
Plouffe: Mrs. Obama?
Michelle: Can’t you see I’m trying to get the meat out of the claw? It’s very tricky. I need to concentrate.
Plouffe: Mrs. Obama, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you . . .
Michelle: Oh no, another masseuse quit?
Plouffe: No, I’m afraid you’re going to have to cut the vacation short and leave a day earlier than planned.
Michelle: Oh, well I have some bad news for you: I’m staying. Now scram.
Plouffe: Mrs. Obama, the president has to leave a day early to deal with the hurricane, and we’d like you to come with him.
Michelle: You think I’m taking orders from a little worn like you? You look skinny. Why don’t you go get something to eat, worm? If he wants to go, rev up his jet and get him out of here. Now let me finish my lobster.
Plouffe: Mrs. Obama, I’m really sorry, but we’re worried about the symbolism of the first lady remaining on a luxurious vacation while the East Coast is getting destroyed by a hurricane.
Michelle: Symbolism? How about the symbolism of me smacking you over the head with seashell?
Plouffe: Now Mrs. Obama, I don’t think that’s necessary.
Michelle: I’ll show you what’s necessary.
(She throws a lobster tail at him)
Plouffe: This isn’t working. (Calling out) Mr. President? Mr. President? You need to speak with Mrs. Obama.
Obama: (from far away): I’m busy.
Plouffe: Busy with what?
(Silence)
Obama: I’m on the phone.
Plouffe: Who are you on the phone with?
(Silence)
Obama: I’m in the bathroom.
Plouffe: Mr. President, can you come over here?
Obama: I’m . . . I’m on the phone in the bathroom.
Plouffe: Mr. President!
Obama: Okay, I’m coming.
(Obama enters the room)
Michelle: Your lackey here is risking his life by telling me I’m going home with you one day early. Set him straight.
Obama: Michelle, I’ve got to get back to Washington to deal with the hurricane, and you -
Michelle: What are you going to do about the hurricane, fix people’s houses? You don’t which end of a hammer of to hold.
Obama: Now Michelle, that’s not fair.
Michelle: Last time you tried to hang a picture you busted open your finger and spent a whole week looking at it to see if it was infected. You can’t use a teleprompter to fix a house, Barack.
Plouffe: (under his breath): And people think it’s the job that’s giving him gray hairs.
Michelle: What’s that, lackey? You’re like Ed McMahon, always laughing at everything Johnny Carson over here says. Well I do what I want. And I’ve decided I’m staying until Tuesday.
Plouffe: Oh God.
Obama: Darling . . .
Michelle: Don’t you darling me. I’m sure Ed McMahon will fix everything for you. Now if the hurricane comes through here Sunday when will the stores be open?
Reggie Love: By Monday if the damage isn’t too bad.
Obama: Reggie cut it out! She’s not staying.
Michelle: What did you say?
Obama: I mean, sweet flower, please come home with your Barry.
Michelle: Screw you, Herbert Hoover.
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MADRID, SPAIN - JUNE 30: Duchess of Alba, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart and Alfonso Diez attend ELLE Awards 25th Anniversary at the Matadero cultural center on June 30, 2011 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
She has also walked the runways for the world's top designer's including Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce and Gabbanna and Diane Von Furstenberg.
Last year, the stunning blonde has earned herself a spot at number ten on the Forbes World's Top-Earning Models list, with estimated earnings of $3 million over the past 12 months.
She won the coveted role of a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010, following in the footsteps of international beauties such as Giselle Bundchen and Heidi Klum.
The blonde beauty is currently dating fellow model Hermann Nicoli who she has been with for five years.
She spoken about her ideal night in with her lover which she says would involve 'an evening at home relaxing, watching a movie on the couch and eating a home-cooked meal'.
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| Newly-wed bride Anya Nguyen and her bridesmaids look at "Forever Marilyn", a sculpture by Seward Johnson, on July 15, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The stainless steel and aluminum sculpture, which stands 26 feet tall and weighs 34,000 pounds, will be on display in Chicago through the spring of 2012. The sculpture was inspired by Marilyn Monroe iconic scene in the 1955 movie "Seven Year Itch". (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) |
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| Model Kate Upton (L) poses with designer Angela Chittenden backstage at the Beach Bunny Swimwear show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim 2012 at The Raleigh on July 15, 2011 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Beach Bunny) |
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| Hilarity of the Week |
Earlier Lord Judge – welcoming a juridical report on superinjunctions – said readers placed greater trust in the content of traditional media than those "who peddle lies" on websites.
He urged that ways be found to curtail the "misuse of modern technology", in the same way that those involved with online child pornography were pursued by the police.
"Are you really going to say that someone who has a true claim for protection perfectly well made has to be at the mercy of modern technology?" he asked.
The lawsuit lists the defendants as "Twitter Inc and persons unknown".
The "persons unknown" are described as those "responsible for the publication of information on the Twitter accounts".
On Saturday, the White House released five video clips of bin Laden taken from the compound, most of them showing the al Qaeda leader, his beard dyed black, evidently rehearsing the video-taped speeches he sometimes distributed to his followers.
None of the videos were released with sound. A U.S. intelligence official said it had been removed because the United States did not want to transmit bin Laden's propaganda. But he said they contained the usual criticism of the United States as well as capitalism.
While several video segments showed him rehearsing, one showed an aging and gray-bearded bin Laden in a scruffy room, wrapped in a blanket and wearing a ski cap while watching videotapes of himself.
