Why Islamic Propaganda is Disturbing Spam...

Is this some sort of bizarre karma or an attempted virus (of mass destruction) a file was attached after all but this was a bit too pomo not to include... ****(actually it went on for about 2 pages, but i haven't actually published this for the sake of being reading material...for a really great story, however, you can always scroll down to learn about the awesome underworld of opera, or why that guy that no one can stand is always a bass player...)***

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BISMILLAH AR RAHMAN AR RAHIM (In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful)
Peace to all who follow hidayath (guidance, the correct path)!
Islam…for whom? For every person upon whom Allah has bestowed life and intellect. For those who can see the blessings of Allah. For those who can hear the Words of Allah. For those who can comprehend the evidences of Allah. For those whose hearts are full of love and gratitude to Allah. For you, for me, and for those whose blessed hearts are open to faith in Islam.

I invite you to Islam for your eternal happiness. Eternal felicity, salvation and peace are in Islam.

Allah jalla jalaluh revealled Prophet Muhammad (pbuh): Say: "What has come to me by inspiration is that your Allah is One Allah: will yet herefore bow to His Will (in Islam)?" (21: 108)

THE REASONS OF KNOWING ISLAM WRONGLY: 1- Unfortunately, Most of human exactly does not know Islam according to Islam. Most of mankind has lost its own sense faculties because those people are in comfort, amusement, has the passion of earn much money. Most of human is in being drunk of amusament, football, music, secularism, ideologies. Sustanance and blessings are not favour of Allah.

Why Opera is the New Hip Hop

Well, it's not really, but one should always remain speculative and controversial, now read my feature!!!

HIP TO B SHARP – OPERA’S GRAND CRESCENDO –

An oversized hairy man stands astride the stage, his legs spread apart, arms stretched out towards the heavens. He opens his mouth to bellow out that first resonant note in an unfamiliar tongue. Not exactly a My Chemical Romance gig.

While it may be assumed that the word “soap” would be a necessary prefix in order for it to appeal to Gen Y, opera has started to ascertain a distinctive presence on the radar of cool.

“The data shows that a lot of people start attending the opera when they’re quite young,” says Opera Australia’s Emma Williams.

You wouldn’t be blamed for believing that the opera was only for the blue bloods: conjuring up images of fur stoles and tuxedos milling around outside the Opera House en masse, an air of superiority and overpowering perfume surrounding them.

Making opera more palatable is certainly an issue when it comes to making it popular. Recognising this, the Pacific Opera Company was founded in 2002 to break down existing barriers between young opera performers and audiences.

“We do student concession tickets for $45, that’s the most affordable opera around!” boasts the Company’s director, Julie Taylor. “”and we go out to the Western suburbs and people come who have never been before.”

Pacific Opera also took on one of opera’s fundamental challenges when it comes to remaining in the cultural loop: the language.

“We sing in English – always,” Taylor explains, which is beneficial not only for the audience, who: “absolutely love the immediacy of the laughs and they get the story.”; but also for the performers “to allow them to concentrate on the development of their singing.”

Recent controversy has surrounded the Sydney opera community of late, involving celebrated mezzosoprano, Fiona Janes and Opera Australia director, Richard Hickox. One of the issues raised by Janes in her seven page letter was that the performers being selected for roles were too young.

A somewhat grandiose statement, in Taylor’s opinion. “Young people either don’t get a role at all or they get put in the chorus...there are not enough performances in Australia for novice opera singers and young people have to go overseas.”

Taylor, is proud to boast of one of their fundamental principles, “to provide opportunities for professional development for emerging young artists here in Australia.” Here she executes the dramatic pause effortlessly: “to ensure the future of opera”

Pacific Opera makes a point of casting young people in principal roles, but offer them the assistance of a mentor, consisting of their Council of Patrons, which boasts names such as Yvonne Kenny.


Furthermore, in a continuing effort to “make the opera accessible to everyone”, Taylor along with celebrated music teacher, Susan Deas started a regular Sunday Adult Education Course entitled, Opera Unzipped.

“She and I came up with this course that was just a Sunday afternoon of opera appreciation with champagne on arrival,” says Taylor.

Like Taylor, Deas aims through her continuing education course in opera appreciation to acquaint people with opera "in language non-musicians can understand, demystifying the basics”

So what type of people show up? “All sorts of people come to the classes,” says Deas, a lecturer of Continuing Education programs that include “A Beginner’s Guide to Opera”, as well as organist, music teacher and general opera enthusiast. (“I don’t know what keeps the passion alive for it, but it’s still there…”)

Without the offer of champagne on arrival, getting young people into opera appreciation, according to Taylor, it’s about “dumbing it down”, introducing it gently.

“We do some high school education programs in collaboration with the Blacktown Arts Centre,” she says. “We had this guy in the corner with these big dreadlocks and he was saying ‘right – she likes him, but he doesn’t like her’ and we had this group of 600 kids becoming more and more engaged.”

Surprising at all? “Well some had never even heard a tenor voice before and they just go, ‘oooohhh…’ Certainly young people are when they experience these things for the first time, more likely to be opera goers when they’re older.”

According to Williams, lifestyle has a major impact on the attendance rates.

“It’s quite interesting…They get into the opera via student tickets and remain there through their twenties,” she says of the Opera Australia demographic. “When career, mortgage, family, etc take priority, they stop attending in their 30’s, early 40’s and then start coming back to the opera…once these financial and time constraints are removed.”

In her letter of complaint, Janes also outlined a decline in Opera Australia’s repertoire.

Williams believes that the influence in audience attendance is “primarily repertoire.” Fundamentally, the program is designed to feature the “More popular operas – operas performed by Puccini and Mozart normally have a larger number of attendees”

She labels operas by the likes of Handel, or any opera from the Baroque era as strictly for what she dubs, “the opera purists”.

The Pacific Opera Company don’t subscribe to notions of purity. “We started out doing the standard repertoire, but this year we are doing lesser known works by good quality people.” Says Taylor.

However, while the approaches of Opera Australia and the Pacific Opera Company may differ somewhat, the most beloved of all the operas seems universal.

“Madame Butterfly,” says Williams. “It’s one of our most beautiful and successful operas, and in fact it’s going to be on again in our 2009 season…it’s one of the operas that come back again and again because they are so loved by their audience.”

Agrees Taylor: “the more emotionally tragic like Madame Butterfly really gets to people: it’s got everything – betrayal, lust, murder.”

So in spite of the public furore surrounding Opera Australia, in what media have dubbed a “bunfight”, how much of a presence does opera have in the Sydney arts community?

“In the words of a great blind singer ‘opera is the paradise of music’,” intones Taylor. “We’re offering people cultural variety, so I think that we contribute quite fundamentally.”

Williams agrees, citing last year’s Opera Australia attendance figures: “In total, including all the performances in Sydney and Melbourne plus that from our Oz Opera touring company, it was 447 000.”

So, will the youth carry on the opera-going tradition well into the future? This time, it seems that it’s only over when (or if) the fat lady stops singing.

Why I Hate Bass Players

The Bass Complex

If you're a guy and you play bass guitar, then you can frankly bugger off, cos more than likely you are furtively donning a massive bass complex - i.e. musical insecurities trying to be disguised through arrogance and egotism: both personally and musically...

He can never keep in tune “Your guitar needs tuning,” I might say to the lame-arse guitarist, not really aware if it was the bass, or indeed, the player himself.

“I have no concept of pitch,” he would reply, though not in so many words. I snort aloud at the thought of him so openly admitting to any of his weaknesses. Especially musical weakness, although he’s never even played a scale in his life.

His frustrated attempts to tune a guitar against his tone-deaf ear tells me what his words never will… The result of his tuning efforts only ever become more strained and raspy than before.

But it was his own fault really. He would always try to jam along with the likes of Angus Young, Trent Reznor, Syd Barrett. Blasphemous, really, for a bass palyer to assume himself in such a high regard…especially one of his calibre.

It happens to the youngest child. Those once hampered with an Oedipal complex and no idea of how to act upon it, they start to play the bass guitar.

How many bass guitarists could you name? In all seriousness, they’re the Kris Novoselic’s of the world. And if you haven’t heard of him, then my point is even further proven: i.e: he’s the only dude from Nirvana with no obvious acclaim (albeit, a lot of bucks..) But they want it so much more...

The bass players are always the ones who want the tiring rounds of publicity and in their live attempts to elbow their way to the spotlight centre, right in the thrust of the frontman, further attempt to ascertain their musical genius. And yet they can't even play a simple chord...

Ah, the bass complex. Yes boys, your penis's may be very large, but you still can’t play music for shit. Perhaps you should just whip out your dick onstage and blow the audience away in the more literal sense.