Posted by: Michael J on 04-30-08:
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Posted by: Frog on 03-30-08:
k revel everyone is not arol, only arol is arol, you win. the point is that the truth stands for itself, so i do too, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, which puts your tiny power trip right in its place doesnt it. doesnt matter anyway. cheers.
Posted by: . on 03-28-08:
right, well i guess expecting that drastic of a process acceleration isn't rational is it. *shrug* well if it makes any difference,I myself as Steve,am NOT a wound up nature show host or school shooter or some random person who cant manage to get off their ass without external encouragement or anyone else I killed who's name was Steve.THAT Steve is DEAD in the final context of the word and no one in their RIGHT MIND cares, to continue identifying with him as a living being.This is ludicrous.
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Thing and Nothing
Selected Reviews
I don't necessarily know how this fits into the U.S. Rocker format but this is DAMNED good. Yes, it is a musical. The music is dramatic and well-formed with lots of intense tempo changes. Impassioned voices, whispers, screams, trumpets and pianos screaing, synthesizers wheezing, a wailing violin. And a short sweet story with incredible witty sardonic dialogue and extremely poetic images...
-- U.S. Rocker
An elaborate science-horror dream told through a crazy quilt of music and lyrics. The format of performance art opera is perfectly suited for the storyline...The music is offbeat and warped, like circus music that the devil invents to give you a migraine. Sounds collide and crash at a frantic pace, keeping in tune with the see-saw vocals. Alternative stuff that theatre folks may most appreciate.
-- Factsheet Five
...The circular logic and self-reflecting story line in Thing and Nothing, like a mirror stretching into infinity, creates a reality that is not real; but contains more truth in its fragmented plot than any modern morality play. This is all underscored and emphasized by the music, an orchestral creation worthy of Ives or Zappa. Caffeine jittered piano and strings struggle with pondering horns and liquid bass, strict percussion fusing with loose melodies, and the harsh rasp of voices arguing and fighting and being confused reigns over all. Bursts of sound become motifs, identifying characters and locations. Melodies that at first seem to have no purpose suddenly come to magical frutition when juxtaposed with the orchestration, indicating mood and adding to charcter development. The shifting tempos, meters, and tonalities of the music establish the landscape of Cum Pooter land, the fields and fjords, the mountains and mochills that set the scene for this nightmare drama. With no money but his own, and no studio suport whatover, TASM Lab has sculpted a concept album that actually makes one sit down and think
--Lollipop Magazine
...The mechinations of the story I will leave for you, but what is most impressive here are the performances. meticulously written and flawlessly acted, Thing and Nothing is nothing short of outstanding. The author, Jeffrey J. Till, shuld he address more mainstream topics, could very well create a show that would easily play on Broadway. So, if musical theater is an interest for you, then Thing and Nothing is something you will fully enjoy.
-- Carpe Noctem
...I was very intrigued to receive the Thing and Nothing from TASM Lab...The play is ruthless and perverse, with an ugly characterization of the human condition. It uses sex both as a vehicle into the listeners emotions, and a crutch for easy shock value. The vicious attack on the emotional state of the listener seems to suggest and embracing of some ot the theories of Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. Musically the play is compex, yet repetitive. The stylings are grandiose with soaring orchestration that uses disharmonic harshness to further tweak the listeners emotionally. Overall the project is bold and fascinating, if not wholly effective.
--The Crass Menagerie
The cover of Thing and Nothing is a painting of chaotic and artistic proportions. The recording is a studio production of a play that echoes the sentiment the album cover...The accompanying music is a boullaibaise of piano, guitar, speed-driven rhythm, brass, and classical tempos, and the singing is pinpoint and strong.
-- PIECES Online
This is just plain fucking crazy. NOT what you would normally find on a CD...This is definately a bold experiment that is incrediably well done. Unique. I could go on and on
-- MT#66
...The brainchild of Jeffrey J. Till, Thing and Nothing is perhaps best described as a cross between Gilbert and Sullivan, Cats and laurie Anderson. The music is electronically orchestrated, moving between classical and broadway themes. Featured vocalist are Brent Oberlin, Colin Bradford, Christopher Bryers, and Michelle Graf. All deliver fine perforances. A grand concept and a creative story make the mark on its own bizarre level though, if you look at it on any other level, it might seem a bit overwrought. The obscenity of the work comes only form the fact that it deals with sex...This isn't for everyone obviouly. Those who like modern, artistic musical theatre might enjoy Thing and Nothing. It's definitely different
-- Parabrisas
Note: Nearly every review describes the plot of the story, which has been omitted here for space considerations
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Posted by: Michael J on 04-30-08
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Posted by: Frog on 03-30-08
k revel everyone is not arol, only arol is arol, you win. the point is that the truth stands for itself, so i do too, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it, which puts your tiny power trip right in its place doesnt it. doesnt matter anyway. cheers.
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Posted by: . on 03-28-08
right, well i guess expecting that drastic of a process acceleration isn't rational is it. *shrug* well if it makes any difference,I myself as Steve,am NOT a wound up nature show host or school shooter or some random person who cant manage to get off their ass without external encouragement or anyone else I killed who's name was Steve.THAT Steve is DEAD in the final context of the word and no one in their RIGHT MIND cares, to continue identifying with him as a living being.This is ludicrous.
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Posted by: seventh cloners cloners clone's clone of a seventh cloners cloners clone's clone's clone on 03-19-08
everything is enchanted. enchantment is the more melodic synonym of entropic gravity touching closer to its etheric nature as you see it takes the cemetary out of the song in essence linguistically. take, for example, my radio. it's an inexpensive cd player and am/fm model with no tape player and no clock- i had the option to let my mom get me a pricier model because it was a birthday gift but the other model was unaesthetic. the brand name printed on it demanded attention. this little guy doesn't ask me to look at it. after my mom bought it for me i gave it back then bought it off her, which sounds like nonsense maybe but thats what i had to do for it to be mine. now its in my aparment sitting on the microwave, plugged into the wall (the radio is, not the microwave), but i never use it, nor do i intend to. i never turn it on. i don't own any cds and i'm not interested in the radio stations. it's just important, for some reason, that that thing is there. it's existence and presence in my apartment in and of itself is the manifested expression of the radio station i'm listening to, the radio, at least that part of it that is there merely to act as a mental reference point to the radio, to itself, to the essence of the here and now that is the true raw nature of time as it would otherwise be forgotten in the false context of memory. there is no music that is richer than this. there is no signal stronger than silence as all sound is contained within it. everything is enchanted by silence. the strength of an existences enchantment is measured by the strength of its silence. this is true for all of existence including within the context of music as expressed in the wake of silence.
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Posted by: i agree on 03-17-08
revel is a coward on an ego trip. no argument there at all. i am you as you are he and you are me and we are all NOT -that- guy revel.
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Posted by: . on 03-17-08
there's obviously a direct connection between time travel and the dimensions. when a person time travels the first thing that happens is that they effectively erase their original timeline, so there has to be somewhere for te traveller to be wen their originating timeline is gone, and that is the dimensions/dimensional existance, which is the same as the place refered to as the other side, which is accessable by degree of indisposal to physicality, of course. it i by order of the cessation of interest in the expression of the local timeline that the traveller is imparted visibility within this field, and this process may be expressed in varying degrees of speed. the traveller for example may wish to sift bulk from their observed expression or to purge it, perhaps in haste, which would lengthen the process, as more bulk would then be created while attempting to escape entropic gravity which no one can do on the other side or on this one.
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Posted by: Emmanuel Teijeiro. Original creator of homestarrunner.com on 02-11-08
so i was like "i sure am the original creator of homestarrunner.com and i don't give a fuck who your two brothers think they are". and that was that.
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Posted by: frog on 02-08-08
in response to "black lentil"'s prattle about sporky:
dude, how are you going to say that it's SAD that a kid named after a plastic fork and spoon combination i ate parfaits from kentucky fried chicken with when i was the same age he was when we were both on the farm does better growing up in the mainstream, using a username that's just a ripoff of kira's, and an incoherent one at that, and expect to be taken seriously? i mean, by anyone intelligent, obviously you succeeded in shutting down the thread and making a spectacle of hipforums moderatorship, but that's beside the point. or is it. heh. nevermind. good job genius.
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Posted by: post regarding revel's ego trip in zendik forums on 01-28-08
Revel: (clears throat) Everyone (in the context of this dicussion) IS Arol, and everyone else here for that matter. You ARE a weak masochistic conceited bitch, and a failure at life. I AM intelligent and confident enough not to bother wasting my time either advising or commanding you to "get some class" as I DO recognize the boundary between my responsibility and yours, and that IS the reality you have to face every day of your life, waking or sleeping. I AM the winner of that and any other existing argument for that matter, and I AM at this moment as these words are spoken, a better zendik than you, a better man than you, and a better person than you, BECAUSE my response to life is YES, to knowing that the one bearing the devils advocate excuse is the fool, the martyr, the retard, and the loser, being yourself, in that matter, of course. Cheers (to me). Blan.
Frog
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Posted by: whats wrong with my name on 01-25-08
god IS us, and wether or not i care about you doesn't need to be ADVERTISED. this dilema is the foundation of the zendik cult, which is founded and led psychically by me simply because i bear that name, and am conscious of it's fallacy, and THAT's what's behind zendik. That's the whole thing.
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