"Can you promise that I will come back?"

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Weekend Video: Alpine Coaster in Mieders, Austria

I'm busy. Busy, busy, busy; so this is sort of a quick-and-dirty place-filler.

Take a ride, man. This video is intense.

This is a single-pipe alpine coaster in Mieders, Austria. You reach the summit via a cablecar and then sit on a small car with a brake lever and off you go. Having ridden it once using a little braking, I decided to try it a second time without using the brakes. This is SCARY! Enjoy the ride!
Off-ride footage here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA-k3G1F7k0
Note - for websites linking the video, please note that my name is David Ellis (the J is my middle initial).

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Weekend's End Video: Back in the U.S.S.R.

And to think, we once didn't get along with these clowns.

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Weekend's End Video

Synergy - Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra
 
Larry Fast's first release, from 1975. Cutting-edge synthesizer work; it still sounds pretty damned good.

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)

Larry Fast's blog (not updated since 2009) featured this nice animated gif.

Heh. I didn't know blogger supported those. Didn't work a few years ago, as I recall; I had to stash the anis in Photobucket.

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Video of the Weekend: "Kiss me, Son of God" (an ironic and well-played spoof of Barack Obama)

Bravo, man!

Yeah, you've nailed our Dirty Socialist Community Organizer in Chief: the narcissism, the self-surrounding by scoundrels, neo-Communists, Black Liberation Theologists and even real honest-to-God "Free as a BIRD!" bomb-building terrorists. And did I see Cloward and Piven in there somewhere, maybe between Alinsky and Ayers?

And remember, LeftLibProggs, I prefer to judge Barack Hussein Obama by the content of his ideology; not by the color of his skin.

Cheers!, and enjoy!

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Doorbell: It's the Government.

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h/t Blake

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Weekend Video: Politzoid's "Little China Debt"

Heh. Someone else likes David Bowie.

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Weekend Video: "The Obama Legacy: A Message for Obama and Democrats"

Nice, very nice imagery, and music. h/t Darleen Click.

Originally posted at the Market Ticker.

More good news: Michelle Bachmann is within a point of RINO Romney in Iowa polling; with Herman Cain in third place...

Romney, the national front-runner and a familiar face in Iowa after his 2008 presidential run, attracts support from 23 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. Bachmann, who will officially kick off her campaign in Iowa on Monday, nearly matches him, with 22 percent.

“She’s up there as a real competitor and a real contender,” said Republican pollster Randy Gutermuth, who is unaffiliated with any of the presidential candidates. “This would indicate that she’s going to be a real player in Iowa.”

Former Godfather’s CEO Herman Cain, who has never held public office but has found a following among tea party supporters, comes in third, with 10 percent.

Which is to say, Tea Party favorites are polling a cumulative 33%, with RomRino at 22%.

I like Michelle Bachmann. She's both the fiscal and the social chops for the job. Herman Cain is most excellent as well.

Is it too early to dream of a Bachmann - Cain ticket? That would make my year, let me tell you.

But even a Romney - Huntsman card would be an improvement over dirty socialist BHO.

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Weekend Video: Lessons from Atlas Shrugged

If you've read Ayn Rand's timeless classic, good for you! You should no longer be a dirty socialist - collectivist. Unless your name is Wesley Mouch, or you are one of Mouch's moocher minions.

If you haven't availed yourself to read Atlas Shrugged, this is a pretty decent overview. But there is no substitute for reading the novel, you lazy ass.

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Other weekend goodies:

Justice David Prosser wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court recount over dirty socialist-supported JoAnne Kloppenburg. So much for 'Jabba the Filmmaker''s visit to rouse the rabble in Madison.

How to spot a psychopath.

Some asshole swiped my "Jabba the Filmmaker" photoshop without accreditation. If I was a psychopath, I'd boil him in cod liver oil.

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