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Well I was experimenting with a few songs trying to get a few bars for my song. Then I starting fooling around with Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple. Well, needless to say, I told some people about it, recorded it, and sent it. They loved it, and it was hilarious. It’s what I’d call the “Pink Floyd” version of Smoke on the Water. I’ll upload the riff here. Note the deterioration starting at 0:15. Next up -> Psychedelic Version of Smoke On The Water.
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A site I visit regularly released a compilation of public opinion polls! Hurray, I’ve been awaiting this for over a month. Well here is the link to the site, if you want to visit, I’ll post the results here regardless (procrastinate my English of course). Note: These polls are all from April (starting the 9th). All the polls below are in order of most recent to oldest.
Party | Angus Reid | Strategic Counsel | Harris Decima | Ispos Reid | Nanos Research | Segma Unimarketing | Average
Liberal | 30% | 30% | 33% | 30% | 36% | 30% | 31.5%
Conservative | 33% | 36% | 30% | 35% | 36% |36% | 34.3%
NDP | 20% | 15% | 16% | 16% | 14% | 15% | 16.0%
Green | 8% | 10% | 11% | 10% | 6% | 9% | 9.0%
Bloc Québécois | 8% | 8% | 9% | N/A | 8% | 9% | 8.4%
Positive results for NDP, Liberals, bad news for Bloc and Conservatives. Greens are going up as usual, but are unlikely to win a seat as usual. Cheers.
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Lib Dem MP gets kicked out.
Ow. That’s gotta hurt.
Hahahahaha!
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Brand new public polling results released today from the Angus Reid site. It’s good news for Liberals and NDP, while bad news for the Conservatives. The previous Angus Reid poll had the Conservatives at a 10% lead, but are down to a meager 3% lead. Here are the numbers
Conservatives - 33% (-3%)
Liberals - 30% (+4%)
NDP - 20% (+2%)
Green & Bloc Quebecois - 8% (-1,-1%)
Other - 1% (-)
Well, while the Conservatives were too slow with their paper shredding, they helped their precious economy by giving in thousands to paper shredder companies all around. Erm… now it’s time to sit back and wait for the next Conservative scandal.
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Well, I guess my next recording will be a new song. Why? Because we’ve had little assignments in school these days, and the damn French test is over. So far, I have created a combination of several genres - jazz, rock, and blues. I’ll have a short recording up in a few days. Meanwhile I am looking for some good recording stuff, and a program that will allow me to set up background music (drums, bass).
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Finally recorded YYZ (51 takes as David C. commented…). And screw the background music, I can never get the main part at the right speed. Too damn fast every time. Not the best quality, but neither are the rest of my recordings. Surprisingly I memorized all of it except the intro (never know how many times to play that part).
Next recording possibly own composition, YYZ w/ background music, or Sultans of Swing (don’t care what anyone else says, awesome song).
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Well, for those who do not understand all the abreviations above - “Floor Switching (changing sides in after elected) in UK (United Kingdom) Results in First UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) MP (Member of Parliament). Dr. Bob Spink, the Conservative Party member of parliament for Castle Point, Essex.
Well I have two points of view on this. My first point of view makes me believe that this is something good that happened. A democracy has to represent “all the people” which is obviously impossible, but due the the FPTP system (First Past the Post System (winner-takes all electoral system)) this is very hard to achieve in places like the UK, Canada, and the US. Why I believe this is good, well due to the fact that the UKIP recieved 603,298 (2.2%) and got 0 seats. That’s right, ZERO seats. On the other hand, a small party called Health Concern got one seat with 18,739 votes (0.1%). Well, you might argue that Health Concern is only a regional party. Well so what, let’s take another party for example. Respect, a minor political party, in several regions, who won a seat by a <1% margin. 68,094 votes. 0.2% of all the votes. If anything, the UKIP deserve at least ONE seat in parliament, and although he switched sides, he is representing them.
My other, conflicting point of view is that this is not representing the voters in Castle Point (Spink’s constituency). Floor switching is something I am highly against, because it does not represent the people who voted for that politician. It is completely disgraceful. To boot, the UKIP came in 4/5 in Castle Point, just ahead of the Green Party. Spink receieved 22,118 votes, or 48.3% there. Now the UKIP candidate, Neil Hamper, received 3,431 votes, or 7.5%. That is 40.8% less votes than the Conservative party! What Spink has done is an example of blatant disregard for his voters, and for his party.
I personally do not know which way to swing for this. Yet I have weighed both sides, and taking into account the factors that make floor switching such a bad practice, I believe that Spink has made the wrong decision, both for his party, and his constituency. He may be in the spotlight now, but come next election, I will be looking forward to him receiving less than 10% of the votes in his constituency.
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Here’s Frederick’s post and the link to the Toronto Star.
Erherm… my spiel about why Conservatives suck.
Well obviously Harper’s technique of attacking Elections Canada backfired just a tad bit… legally. This of course would mean the Liberals were right (sign of the apocalypse?)! Well now… taking into account the following facts ->
The Conservatives broke election laws, support increasing immigration laws (including the change made in Bill C-50).
The Liberals are under horrible and weak leadership, and are not standing up for their ideals. In fact they let the immigration change in C-50 pass, and denied the change in the Bill.
The NDP are boring, with very center-left, Liberal ideals their leader holds. The only good side to it is that most of the members are left-wing.
The Green party. Pssh, as if they’ll form a government.
Bloc? Self-explanatory.
So who to support? Well, how ’bout you decide? I’ve laid before you a selection of the weakest parties available today, and possibly in all of Canadian history. I would vote for the NDP despite the bad leadership of Layton. If the Conservatives seem to be up in polls, then I would support Liberals to keep Harper out of government. A Liberal government, no matter how weak, is better than a biased, xenophobic Conservative government.
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Dominion House Journal is a politically blog started up by one of my contacts. I recommend it for anyone bored enough, or interested in Canadian politics.
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5. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin. This song is one of the best-selling songs released by Led Zeppelin, and definitely their most famous (not to say that there aren’t other famous ones). It is the most covered song in the world, has been parodied several times, and is ranked #31 on the Rolling Stones “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”
4. Bad Horsie - Steve Vai. Not the most famous rock song, but definitely incorporates many rock features. That and I love the guitar part, great solos. For anyone who loves listening to instrumental rock, this song is for you.
3. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd’s most famous song. Probably their most drug-induced one as well, but that’s beside the fact. Comfortably Numb is a major hit around the world, and was a great leap forward for progressive rock. It is also considered to have one of the greatest solos. Definitely one of my favs.
2. For you drum freaks out there… and bass freaks… and guitar freaks, this one’s for you. YYZ - Rush! The ultimate instrunmental featuring all three of the prominent rock instruments. Several solos for each one! A thrilling song, listen to it if you’re into prog rock, and listen to it if you’re not! Note: This video features the extended YYZ (with a longer drum solo).
1. Dun dun dun… NUMBER ONE! Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock 1969. Hendrix was at his best here. Then again, Hendrix was at his best everywhere. Anyone here who likes his music, or likes rock/jazz music in general needs to watch this. The song is a combination of Purple Haze, and the creation basically of a whole new Villanova Junction. It’s the ultimate Hendrix song.
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by nikola