Michael Jackson & Eddie Van Halen

In 1983 Eddie Van Halen worked with Michael Jackson for "Beat It" a song for the album of Michael Jackson: Thriller, the most selling album of history, and that sounded like this: These days it's hard to find another music albums in best-seller lists that are not of Michael Jackson. I was never interested in pop music, and I see this from a certain distance, that distance that may give me some objectivity. Personally, I never understood why everything that was around Michael Jackson was an inexhaustible source of controversy. The singer wore a glove in his hand because he burned it in a commercial for Pepsi, and it was a scandal. He slept in a oxygen bubble and it was a scandal. Using oxygen to recover from burnings is something usual. This is also used as a kind of instant recovery. I have seen photos of the old band Led Zeppelin with oxygen masks after a concert and no one found it strange. It is usual in sportsmen too, and no one is surprised. The continuous use of pure oxygen is highly harmful although it feels like a miracle remedy, it also causes cell aging. Another scandal of the artist was that he lived with a chimpanzee. George Clooney slept with a pig and was not criticized so much. I never understood another one of the controversies: that he was black and wanted to be white... Well, if it was that way, it is not a crime at all because nowadays there are people that change their image through aesthetic surgery. Some people change their sex, and no one worries. And if someone who is black wants to change his color for some social reason it is because of people that are racist, and that is a big shame for all the white people. If it was that way, we should feel so ashamed that we should just shut up and blame the racists, and not to someone that just wants to protect himself from racism. But, despite this, Michael Jackson did not want to change his color, he just had a common disease: vitiligo, that is genetic and causes partial whitening of the skin and sometimes reaches a total whitening. Maybe he did what many people with the disease do, which is a procedure called depigmentation, to avoid that look of patches that the illness gives. He also used makeup to hide it, avoiding to be touched by people so the makeup was not removed, or maybe it was only visible from some distance. He had to justify himself all his life for suffering vitiligo!!! Another consequence of vitiligo is that it provokes photophobia . People with vitiligo can easily be blinded by sunlight, and because of the same illness, may also suffer dangerous burns on the skin. This is why Jackson may often wore an umbrella. He had nose cancer and everybody did jokes about this. It was obvious that he had surgery on his nose, and many people do that, and nothing happens. Was that a tiny nose and too natural? The breasts of Pamela Anderson are not natural too, and nothing happens. But the worse controversy that the singer suffered was the accusation of children abuse. In the last days, that child that denounced the singer, with whom he reached an economical agreement, has confessed that it was an idea of his father, and that all was a lie. But I think that it is too late and actually, Jackson died more than 10 years ago with this terrible accusation that I think he was not ready to bear with. From being a philantropist that gave fortunes to NGOs and to children, he passed to be, for the public masses, to be a monster that abused of children. And it was then when the character, and probably the person, died. From the distance, I see Michael Jackson as a money-making machine. Since he was 6 many people has made profit of him exhibiting him as a freak monster. And I feel shaming to polemize about his diseases and his weakness, that was wanting to recover that lost childhood. Maybe the biggest mistake of Michael Jackson was to think that even that lost childhood could be bought. And that's because with Michael Jackson we can see that not everything can be purchased. Not the lost childhood, nor people that love you and protect you, and not everything has a price. -Emma Alvarez- © 2008 by Emma Alvarez. Link to this post without copying the text. If you liked this post, subscribe to Emma Alvarez Site or give yourself a gift Stumble it! Add me to your del.icio.us network

Summer Seamless Patterns Vol.1

I've done these Photoshop seamless patterns. And I want to share them with you. Download them for free, but before please read and understand the terms of use. Terms of use These patterns are free to use in commercial and non-commercial designs, as long as you follow these conditions: - The patterns can't be sold. You can sell the designs you make with the patterns, but not the patterns themselves. - They must be downloaded clicking the links from this article in www.emmaalvarez.com. If you like the patterns and want your visitors to download them, place a link to this post, so they come and download them from here. Don't directly link them. - You can't redistribute the patterns without my explicit consent. If you want to pack them in a clipart library, cd or dvd, or anything else, ask me first. - You can't claim these patterns as yours. - Don't use these patterns in racist, sexist, hateful or blaspheme works. - You can link back and name www.emmaalvarez.com in your website or designs, but it's not required, although I will appreciate it. Summer Seamless Patterns Vol.1 Click here to download -Emma Alvarez- © 2008 by Emma Alvarez. Link to this post without copying the text. If you liked this post, subscribe to Emma Alvarez Site or give yourself a gift Stumble it! Add me to your del.icio.us network

Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Iron Maiden)

Part 1 "Hear the rime of the ancient mariner See his eye as he stops one of three Mesmerises one of the wedding guests Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea. And the music plays on, as the bride passes by Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale. Driven south to the land of the snow and ice To a place where nobodys been Through the snow fog flies on the albatross Hailed in gods name, hoping good luck it brings. And the ship sails on, back to the north Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on. The mariner kills the bird of good omen His shipmates cry against what hes done But when the fog clears, they justify him And make themselves a part of the crime. Sailing on and on and north across the sea Sailing on and on and north til all is calm. The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner About his neck, the dead bird is hung. And the curse goes on and on at sea And the curse goes on and on for them and me. day after day, day after day, We stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean Water, water everywhere and All the boards did shrink Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink. There calls the mariner There comes a ship over the line But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide. See...onward she comes Onward she nears out of the sun See, she has no crew She has no life, wait but heres two. Death and she life in death, They throw their dice for the crew She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now. Then...crew one by one They drop down dead, two hundred men She...she, life in death. She lets him live, her chosen one. one after one by the star dogged moon, Too quick for groan or sigh Each turned his facce with a ghastly pang And cursed me with his eye Four times fifty living men (and I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one. The curse it lives on in their eyes The mariner wished hed die Along with the sea creatures But they lived on, so did he. And by the light of the moon He prays for their beauty not doom With heart he blesses them Gods creatures all of them too. Then the spell starts to break The albatross falls from his neck Sinks down like lead into the sea Then down in falls comes the rain." Part 2 "Hear the groans of the long dead seamen See them stir and they start to rise Bodies lifted by good spirits None of them speak and they´re lifelesss in their eyes And revenge is still sought, penance starts again Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on. Now the curse is finally lifted And the mariner sights his home Spirits go fromhe long dead bodies Form their own light and the mariners left alone. And then a boat came sailing towards him It was a joy he could not believe The pilots boat, his son and the hermit, Penance of life will fall onto him. And the ship sinks like lead into the sea And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins. The mariners bound to tell of his story To tell this tale wherever he goes To teach gods word by his own example That we must love all things thaat God made. And the wedding guests a sad and wiser man And the tale goes on and on and on." -lyrics of the original song- You can find this song, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", in the latest album of Iron Maiden "Flight 666". This work is a compilation of 17 of their most successful songs. It's a live album and recorded in 16 different cities in 11 countries around the world. Published this 9 of June. If you haven't seen them live I recommended it, because it's a great experience. It's incredible how this band sounds, and their show... Without a doubt Maiden are masters of masters. -Emma Alvarez- © 2008 by Emma Alvarez. Link to this post without copying the text. If you liked this post, subscribe to Emma Alvarez Site or give yourself a gift Stumble it! Add me to your del.icio.us network