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Man I hope this works, I am so not good with computers and technical stuff. But her somes the translation from Rockoon magazine.


„Let us go down in a blaze of glory.“

A grey Monday in Hamburg is the right setting for HIM and their new release Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice.
Ville Valo came to see us personally when the first sonic impressions of the seventh studio album by the finish heartbreakers were given to the press. A perfect time to talk with the charismatic lead singer about his newest creation, his plans for this year’s Christmas and his New Year’s resolutions for 2010.


Rockoon: Hello Ville – lovely to see you. Are you excited about presenting the new album to the press?

Ville: Let’s put it this way: I am nervous. But not because of the new album, cause this time I’m totally satisfied with it. You just put loads of time in it. Therefore it is really lovely that it is finally done. I feel absolutely agitated and enthusiastic about the album, now that the baby has finally been born.


Rockoon: How where the reactions to it so far?

Ville: Really good. But the reactions of the journalists aren’t as important as those of our fans who will hopefully like it. It is always a game and you never know the outcome.


Rockoon: In fact, I do think that especially your female fans will love it as it isn’t as doomy and bulky as Venus Doom.

Ville: Of course it isn’t as doomy as Venus Doom, but that just happens automatically. Back then we have listened t a lot of My Dying Bride, Cathedral, Anathema or Paradise Lost as well. And those bands have influenced us on Venus Doom a lot. But when we went on tour with those songs, we realized that it’s totally different to play overlong songs live. So we wanted to write shorter songs again, songs that come to the point quicker and are more melodic.


Rockoon: Which song is going to be the first single?

Ville: I think it will be Heartkiller. Basically I usually don’t care which song is going to be the first single as I believe in the album as a whole. But it is also important that a song combines all the aspects of the album in itself and is radio friendly at the same time.
I personally look at Heartkiller as a good accommodation to give the fans a first taste of the whole new album. It has, like all the songs on the album, alternative guitars and a huge melodic chorus. We could have taken a whole lot of other songs as the new single as well, it is the same for the other songs. So there is no mystic stuff behind our choice.


Rockoon: What kind of attitude do you (the band) have when your recording a new album?

Ville: We usually have the motivation that it will be our last album. Screamworks was simply supposed to be a rock album with 80s synthies and direct choruses to sing along. It was supposed to be more than doomy and sad. We didn’t want a Venus Doom II. When I started to write the songs, the guitars were going into the direction of rock´n`roll and metal on their own. We probably got inspired by Rage against the Machine and the Stone Temple Pilots in that matter, but also by classic metal bands like Megadeath and Type O Negative.


Rockoon: I personally was surprised that some songs sound happier. What happened during the last year?

Ville (laughs): That is funny. I think it depends on how you are feeling in life at the moment. Maybe you are happy at that moment in life and therefore experience the songs as happy. Cause basically it is about the understanding that life is fucked – and to celebrate this. That it is absolutely okay to make mistakes and that you don’t have to hide them but to stick by them, to learn from your mistakes and to just go on… simply “fuck off”. That’s probably the punk attitude of the album. Honestly I have to tell you that there were emotionally much harder albums for me. Those have been dark, really dark. A friend told me that Screamworks sounds like a different kind of darkness. (laughs)


Rockoon: The happy side of darkness.

Ville: Not necessarily happy. It is more as if you were wandering over the waters of the ocean of melancholy, but not really diving in. Lyrically it is sad, but you just can’t stop jiggling your butt and having a good time. Therefore I wouldn’t call it a “happy” album.


Rockoon: How about hopeful?

Ville: Exactly. Screamworks is a hopeful album. Being happy I don´t care about – I don´t give a shit. Hope is what is more important for me, that there will come something positive out of all this shit. We all know, bad stuff will happen, so let’s just celebrate this knowledge and condition. Let us go down in a blaze of glory. To sum it up: It sounds the way I feel in my head right now. But I am totally happy that I am so creative at the moment and that some experiences lie behind me.

Rockoon: Do you have a favourite song on the album so far?

Ville: Difficult. So far I love the album as a whole. Out of a lot of different reasons I like Disarm me. I wrote that song back in 2002 and finally it worked out. It has taken forever until we got a grip on it. I also totally like Dying Song as the guitars and the drumbeat remind me of Interpol. In turn the chorus has again a really rocking The Cult vibe. Maybe I even like this song the most.


Rockoon: The name of the album sounds really long and complicated at first. What does it stand for?

Ville: I just love it if there is anything in art that contains the title “Selected Works of…”. And I also really like the expression “works” a lot. I am a huge fan of Andy Warhol’s Factory when lots of different artist have worked under the same banner. And we did have this “factory-feeling” while we were rehearsing as well. Scream just matches this word perfectly as I scream a lot on the album. Those are screams of torments, screams of joy and also primal screams. I wanted to go to the limit, get everything out of me, that’s why I scream so much. (laughs)


Rockoon: And what about theoretical and practical love?

Ville: I think it is really poetic as it is indeed paradoxical. From my point of view love is nothing theoretical and at the same time there’s nothing practical in love. Love is never practical. Machines are, humans and love are not. That’s exactly what it is. It is the “Yin & Yang” –concept behind it. Of course we know, from fairytales, that there are things that can make love develop. But I don’t believe in such things. In my opinion 80% of the people compromise when it comes to love. They take what lies next to them to satisfy themselves and society.

Rockoon: Meaning they take the easiest path.

Ville: It is easy for the moment, but basically not. In the end it is even the hardest path. A marriage without love is unbelievably hard, isn’t it. But I personally think that one day the door will open and someone will step into the room and everything around me will change. That might sound like a child talking. But I like the power of this believe. Such a thing, besides love, can only do drugs and alcohol.


Rockoon: Only a few weeks till Christmas. How are you going to celebrate it?

Ville: Christmas is the time of the year when we, as a band, take some real free time. That is the only tradition we have as a band. Christmas, for me, is not about presents, it is simply about having the time to enjoy traditional meals and watching telly with my younger brother and my parents. As my mother and I are vegetarians it will probably be salad again. (laughs)
It is really the only time of the year in which we can all relax. Although it is just a day and we are not doing anything special it is always wonderful.


Rockoon: Do you have any New Year’s resolutions for 2010?

Ville: I want to go on a holiday in January. We were doing quite a lot this year and do need a break before the new album will be released. I don’t have any other resolutions as I usually tend to break them. (laughs) Quitting smoking doesn’t make any sense. Either you smoke or you do not smoke.


Rockoon: Do you already have plans for your upcoming tour in Germany?

Ville: We hope to be able to play a special gig around the release date. We try to make it happen in whole Europe. Then we will be touring Australia, the UK and North America. The first real chance for the German fans will be around the festival season I guess. But nothing has definitely been planned yet. As we are not the biggest band in the world, we have to wait until the biggest bands have made their decisions (laughs)



Roockon: Are you looking forward to the upcoming tour? It is well known that you are not one of the biggest fans of such trips.

Ville: The concerts themselves do make a lot of fun. But life in a tour bus can sometimes be hell. And you do eat a lot of junk that mostly contains pizza and coke. When you’re doing this over months it is not a really nice experience. But as long as the fans are really enjoying the shows, it is a wonderful experience and it does outweigh the negative aspects of a tour.


Rockoon: 2010 you will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of HIM. Is there anything special planned?

Ville: That is hard to tell when a band has really formed. We are all school mates who have been doing music together since the early 90s. In fact there is something to celebrate every year. 1996 we got our first record deal for example. Or look at Join me – we could celebrate the 10th anniversary of the single release now.


Rockoon: It has been 10 years already…

Ville: Crazy, isn’t it? It is such a long time, but it feels like yesterday. We could celebrate all the time, cause we are still in the business.

Rockoon: Where do you get your motivation after all the time?

Ville: It is great to be able to write songs and to have the opportunity to record and release them, to put your words into music. I didn’t know what to do else instead of making music.


Rockoon: What would you do today if you weren’t a musician?

Ville: Hard to tell, I’d probably studied something, but in fact I have never had the ambition to do anything else but music. I always wanted to be a musician.


Rockoon: Thanks for your time, Ville. Do you have some words for your German fans?

Ville: That is usually the hardest question. (laughs) How about that…
Be patient and make sure there is some paper before you go to the toilet.

Hey Everyone

It is currently 6:33am in Hollywood and once again I am still up working my butt off to get ready for the big "TILA TAKE OVER LAUNCH"

*SIGH*

This has taken SO much work and full time dedication round the clock non-stop work, but since I believe in these projects so much, I don't mind working 12 to 13 hour straight since this is my passion afterall!  Anyway I just wanted to stop by and give you all another quick update on what's been going on in my world!  Let's make a check list so to sum things up a lot quicker:

1) First of all I want to apologize for all of my German & Turkish fans for the cancelled tour.  It was a big screw up from the promoter's end and I was very upset because I was all packed and ready to go and even cancelled my Thanksgiving plans with friends and family just so I could see my fans overseas.  Anyhoot, I will have a video apology from the booking agents overseas posted up soon because they did some foul things & My Tila Army & I will be awaiting their public apology for what they did. Anyway..........

2) I have been working round the clock for my new Gossip Site "Tila's Hot Thoughts- Hollywoods Most Dangerous Blog" & my other Social Network Media website temporarily named www.TilasHotSpotDating.com , but once it's all finished, the social media site will just be named www.TilasHotSpot.com so we won't have to change the website names! YAY! *breathes* More meetings & contracts setting up this week & the feedback on everything has been AMAZING so far! I'm VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS! Can't wait for everyone else to the rest of the VIP ELITE MEMBERS IN MY POSSE! hehe.....thanks for your patience! YAY!

3) Music still going as planned! Single will be released this year for sure! I just gotta pick out an exact date! How about Xmas?? Who doesn't want a Tila Tequila Song as a xmas gift?? hehe....ps-Yes I started my own record label and have 2 new acts I am interested in signing....stay tuned!

4) There's about 20 more exciting things to tell you all but im fucking tired and its 7am.  This boss bitch is going to sleep now! hahahaa! Check back later for more info and fun news and who's else has officially landed on my "SHITLIST" ohhh you don't wanna miss out on that one! Everyone here knows....YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET ON TILA TEQUILA'S SHITLIST CUZ U MIGHT AS WELL ASK THE DEVIL TO HELP YOU CUZ GOD SURE WON'T! MUAHAHAHA! No, but for real. Don't fuck with me. You're done.

On the bright side....BOSSLADY GOING TO SLEEP NOW! BYEEEEEEEEEEEEE! See you tomorrow with more news, pics,video's, and "WHO DID TILA RIP A NEW ASSHOLE TODAY?" updates....LOL.....goodnight Tila Army Soldiers! See you...when I wake up...whenever that is. Lata!

Love

Commander in Chief

Tila Fucking Tila

PS-A VIDEO OF ME "BEFORE THE FAME" THIS VIDEO WAS SHOT ABOUT 7-8 YEARS AGO! POW!

What is the Alga? It is the name of Cladophora that could be the key to a new revolution in energy storage system and not just any storage, but batteries so thin you would have them printed on a paper and charged in about 11 seconds, with net superior capacities above anything that exists on the market.

There have been attempts to make paper-like batteries in the past, but they stumbled on the inconvenience of degrading their capacity over use. In other words, they have not been able to hold their charge for long after they've been used for a while, phenomena that we can observe in our laptops' or our cellphones' batteries such as Dell inspiron 1721 battery.

Cladophora is a hairlike freshwater plant and causes bad-looking, bad-smelling beaches - maybe you've had the unconscious opportunity of meeting her. Cladophora is an alga characterized by producing a kind of cellulose with a very large surface area (of course, in its microscopic details). Scientists say it has 100 times the surface of the cellulose found in paper.

If you have such a wide surface, then it's easier to understand you can put more conducting polymer on it, and have it recharged. Not only the battery's capacity will be enhanced, but also its lifetime, since the power is distributed over that huge surface. While a comparable polymer Dell 1721 battery showed a 50 percent drop in the amount of charge it could hold after 60 cycles of discharging and recharging, the new battery showed just a 6 percent loss through 100 charging cycles.

"We have long hoped to find some sort of constructive use for the material from algae blooms and have now been shown this to be possible," said researcher Maria Str?mme, a nanotechnologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. "This creates new possibilities for large-scale production of environmentally friendly, cost-effective, lightweight energy storage systems."They new Cladophora-based A1078's polymer layer is very thin: 40 to 50 nanometers, and its own cellulose fibers are only 20 to 30 nm, so they were collected into paper sheets.

The difference in charge capacity is extreme: the Cladophora paper battery could hold 50 to 200 percent more charge than usual conducting polymer batteries. Once optimized, the scientists say, they could even surpass the capacity of lithium batteries like Toshiba pa3107u 1brs, hstnn ib17, evo n610c battery, evo n600c battery, Apple a1057, Dell inspiron 1721 battery, also having the convenience of very fast recharging, because of their thickness. "When you have thick polymer layers, it's hard to get all the material to recharge properly, and it turns into an insulator, so you lose capacity," said researcher Gustav Nystr?m, an electrochemist at Uppsala University. "When you have thin layers, you can get it fully discharged and recharged."The paper battery could be used anywhere from electronic thin birthday cards to very fast car batteries, so their potential is immense, if harvested to the maximum.

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According to recent reports, MIT invented one that could store much more than regular batteries as Dell inspiron 1721 battery can in a simpler and fashionable way by using liquid metals and liquid electrolyte in the middle. The man who had invented the liquid battery, MIT professor Donald Sadoway, has been gathering “some major funding” from the newly founded ARPA-E, who encourages risky projects in the field of energy. The approach is a little different this time. If then, the battery was planned to be used in commercial applications, and to be more specific in mobile applications, such as car batteries and laptop batteries like inspiron 1721 battery, now Sadoway says he wants to play big and help the energy industry by designing batteries powerful enough to hold all the excess wind and solar power. These two sources of energy are complementary to each other, in the sense that wind is powerful at night and the Sun can only provide power during the day.

Back in March, there was everything about a vgp bps2c that contained antimony, sodium sulfide and magnesium. Because of patenting secrecy, any further public details have not been given, so what we know now of the battery’s components, like then, is that there are two metals and a salt involved.

The working principle is simple: the energy is stored in the liquid metals that want to react with one another but can do so only by transferring ions — electrically charged atoms of one of the metals — across the electrolyte, which results in the flow of electric current out of the battery. When the battery is being charged, some ions migrate through the insulating salt layer to collect at one of the terminals. Then, when the power is being drained from the Dell 1721 battery, those ions migrate back through the salt and collect at the opposite terminal.

Sadoway’s new liquid battery’s sizes are huge, he projected a a1175 bigger than anything existing today: “We’re talking about batteries of a size never seen before,” he says. And the system they develop has to include everything, including control systems and charger electronics on an unprecedented scale.

Likewise, his liquid battery is not destined to the consumers, so money won’t be spent on making it safe or easy to use, but large and to be handled by specially-trained people. Also, the new Dell inspiron 1721 battery would only function at high temperatures, because, he says: “Solid components in batteries are speed bumps. When you want ultra-high current, you don’t want any solids.”

It’s about time someone thought about investing and inventing in the large currents sector, despite the obvious need to make small and efficient batteries for cars and A1078. If the infrastructure won’t be fully developed in the future, when we would expect everyone to charge their vehicle, then either electricity won’t be cheap anymore, or we would have blackouts every evening, because the current system isn’t ready for such a huge power consumption.

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Electric Vehicles

A group of environmental activists and car engineers want to prove that available technology in electric-powered vehicles makes environmentally responsible motoring not only possible, but also preferable.Members of the group set out from Tokyo for a 310 mile journey to the city of Osaka. The goal was to complete the trip without having to recharge the Dell GK479 battery .

They say their 13-and-half-hour trip broke the record for electric vehicle endurance. The previous record was held by U.S. company Telsa Motors which managed 313 miles on a single charge. The Mira EV, a two-seater manual-shift based on Daihatsu's Mira van, generates 74 kilowatts per hour. It¡¯s almost five times the capacity of other Presario V3000 battery in the Japanese market.

It carries enough battery power to run 1,386 laptop computers.

Naotsugu Mihori, Vice President, Japan EV Club:
"People are always putting down electric vehicles saying they're useless because they only can go short distances. Wouldn't you say the electric vehicle already available out there are good enough?"

Battery maintenance has been a hot topic for laptop users, but in fact that many errors inside the final analysis, comes from two aspects, one is like apple a1175 "thinking does not keep pace with nickel-metal hydride batteries to lithium battery change", another one is more Funny, is derived from mobile phones because mobile phones are in fact the majority of users the first exposure to the repeated use of rechargeable battery devices, and would therefore be taken for granted some of the customary extension of a mobile phone to the notebook body.


Mihori hopes the world record will encourage consumers to try out more electric vehicles.

Naotsugu Mihori, Vice President, Japan EV Club:
"We hope people will realize that the capacity of the electric vehicles on the market now is good enough and I hope they will start buy sony vgp-bps2c more readily and reduce their gasoline consumption and their carbon emissions." The car didn¡¯t come cheap¡­ the group says it spent more than a million dollars to improve the car's performance, and added parts donated by Japanese firms.

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Benefitting City of Hope

This epic recording brings together Latin artists under a common cause. The project is an initiative to help create public awareness within the Hispanic community about bone marrow donation.

The project includes a musical campaign with a historical song and video to premiere on February 11, 2010. It will then be released for broadcast around the world.

Performers include

Plácido Domingo

Gloria Estefan

 David Bisbal

 Luis Fonsi

Marco Antonio Solis

Arthur Hanlon

Wisin & Yandel

 Enrique Iglesias

And our very own Nathan Pacheco and Ender Thomas!

We’ll be sure to let you know when and where you can see the results of this meaningful project.

Announced as part of several new features, including We7 and Spotify links, the every genre, every angle music platform has been growing in popularity since its launch earlier this year.

"Premium content is and will always be our focal point, but having the addition of quality content pouring into Rivmixx from all over the web will add another layer of engagement for our community," explained MD, Danny Mac.

Not only does Rivmixx provide at least twenty news worthy features each month - that's more than many magazines produce in a year - it also puts forward all the latest albums reviews, the latest technology tried and tested, cool websites offered up for perusal and now, as well as its own hand penned news, it provides aggregated news from the most popular music sites in every genre. Blues, reggae, jazz, country, R&B, hip hop, dance, rock, pop and other all have their very own sections, all of which run a steady stream of news from the most popular sites.

"We7 and Spotify links have now been added to our editorial too," continued Danny Mac. "This allows users to stream their favourite artists whilst browsing Rivmixx.com"

Any album, feature or news item mentioned within Rivmixx links through to the tracks on Spotify or We7 - allowing music fans to not only listen to the latest music for free, but also get the information surrounding them, professional reviews and a chance to add their own comments. In many cases there's interviews with the artists themselves too and the opportunity to become a fan and then receive all the artist's own news, blog posts and video/track/image updates.

Any fan that signs up to Rivmixx automatically gets their own 'mymixx', which is an individually tailored magazine that's produced by the artists - latest news, music, videos, blogs and events - and includes the latest news and album reviews as posted by Rivmix itself. It's another, unique magazine created by the fan for the fan, produced by their favourite artists.

Rivmixx, which launched earlier this year, has been growing steadily, in content, design, and communication. The company has proved itself as something of a taste making voice too, with several hot new acts – including Florence and the Machine, Speech Debelle and Toddla T - profiled and channelled through Rivmixx, going on to find serious success within the industry.

Chart topping artists such Chase & Status, The Flaming Lips and Robbie Williams are also featured. And now, with the addition of this new aggregated news feature, musicians from within the country and blues, among other genres, will be catered for too.

From album and new music technology reviews, interviews, festival specials, ticket giveaways, exclusive audio and video content, to hot off the press news updates; every detail is carefully designed by a team of leading music industry professionals to provide users with an unrivalled music resource.

Interested users can sign up to www.rivmixx.com using their facebook accounts, or create a new, unique, tailored profile.

'Sup All Time Low? You're on a major record label now? Hellllo Interscope Records.

So according to this video (link below) and Absolutepunk.net. The Baltimore based, pop-rock band is now signed with Interscope Records. Their next album, (third full length studio record) will be released on Interscope. Their current album, Nothing Personal, is still spinning with Hopeless Records but will be helped by Interscope.

What do you guys think of the change? Good, bad? Do any of you remember when ATL was on Emerald Moon Records? That was a long time ago, who remembers The Party Scene and The Three Words To Remember In Dealing With The End?

Personally, I think it's great. Although, I do adore Hopeless Records. But whatever floats their boat, right? I just don't want them to compromise integrity, mortality and principles in exchange for money; aka: SELLING OUT.

What do you guys think of the record label change?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_AUJvk7mWA

 Yanni, Chloe and Nathan have recorded their version of the Christmas classic -O'Holy Night.

It's available for purchase now on iTunes.

Just open your iTunes software and go to the iTunes store page.

In the search type Nathan Pacheco and you should see it in the search results.