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042 . New short movie released

2007-10-18T20:21:00.000+02:00

Piange la Bella Anguana is now available. Check out details HERE.

041 . The National

2007-10-03T16:09:00.000+02:00

Oh guys, these people deserve to be mentioned. I discovered The National thanks to my friend Peter Holley. The band sounds (I'm listening "Boxer") slightly like the first album of The Editors (the good one, yes) just, if possible, with less indie, more relax and more inspiration. It's dope people! Run to the shop (or start your torrent) >>

Slow Show:

040 . Political Player

2007-09-24T11:06:00.000+02:00

I'm collecting some political video on my YouTube channel. Most of them are about the situation in Italy, but you'll find even some other relevant international issue I would like to share. In this post, the customized player that broadcast all these disappointing documents.

039 - You cannot ask questions to Kerry

2007-09-18T20:04:00.001+02:00

038 . I do link!

2007-07-05T10:24:00.001+02:00

Follow the link. Play the game. Read the articles. An episode of RingCast about this issue coming soon!.

http://www.lucavolonte.eu/

037 . YouTube Account

2007-07-04T22:26:00.001+02:00

Ok ok. As a part of the redisign of the website, it was completely obvius to open a YouTube account. This will even help our suffering provider bandwith. So enjoy Gehenna Inc on YouTube (funny goodies coming soon ^__^)

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=GehennaInc

036 . Grejt Suksses!

2007-06-08T20:18:00.000+02:00

035 . THEY ARE BACK!

2007-05-19T13:21:00.000+02:00

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

035 . Why Vatican Must Crumble

2007-05-19T10:06:00.000+02:00

Watch this video. Then give me a reason why we should trust these people anymore.

034 . We7 - Revolution?

2007-05-12T10:37:00.000+02:00

www.we7.com

Peter Gabriel launched a new music/video download service that allows FREE download of contents. You can choose between ads free contents (for a cost) or a song/video with some ads in the beginning for free. The interesting part is that after 4 weeks you can make the ad disappear even if you decided to download the free ones.
I joined today, let's hope the wiser labels will do the same!
Thanks Peter!

033 . RingCast now available!

2007-05-11T18:19:00.000+02:00

RingCast now available! The long wanted and long needed podcast of the (un)dead webzine Ring is now available on Gehenna Inc. West, iTunes and on Last.fm.

Check it out (if you speak italian, or wanna die trying)!

032 . Copyright - End Of An Age

2007-05-04T09:00:00.000+02:00

I'm happy to highlight two articles about the upcoming end of the copyright age: the father of DMCA admit defeat and SIAE is in trouble with EU. Check them out (if you can read italian):

http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1972319&r=PI

http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1935461

Cheers!

031 . Post Rock Surprise

2007-04-19T12:24:00.000+02:00

Hi guys, I got a suggestion from my friend o__o__o__h from Last.fm about this band, Migala. The album Restos de un Incendio is really stunning: here below a 30 seconds preview that really do not give you the idea of how good this record is: imagine a mix between the most hypnotic Antimatter and Godspeed You Black Emperor!. Give it a try :)

030 . MGS- Philanthropy lives!

2007-04-17T17:51:00.000+02:00

Hi buddies, a quick post to highlight the new shining trailer of Metal Gear Solid Philathropy of my mate Giacomo Talamini. The project is still under development but as you can see the quality is rather high. Enjoy!

Find out more about the project here:

http://www.mgs-philanthropy.net

029 . Gehenna Sampler n°1!!!

2007-04-16T20:20:00.000+02:00

Here for you guys the embedded last.fm player with 3 songs from the bands Gehenna Inc. is supporting!

If you want to spread your muzak, contact me at info[at]gehennainc.com

028 . Jesus Camp Armageddon

2007-04-16T17:06:00.000+02:00

Hi guys, this time I toke a really long pause...been quite busy lately. I write today to test some of the new features of Blogger and even because I just saw a documentary that you MUST see. It's called Jesus Camp and it talks about American Evangelical people.

http://www.jesuscampthemovie.com/

The movie is quite significant specially for the way these guys make propaganda and shape the "future generation of americans".

I saw it in english but on P2P you can find for sure spanish subs and even a crappy english (automatic) translations. Give it a try...

027 . Saturday Night Dope

2006-12-17T17:16:00.000+01:00

I've been yesterday in Este for the gig of Dope Stars Inc. The band has just released the new album Gigahearts.

I still have to listen it all throught, but it seems very well produced and quite catchy (maybe too soft? I still have to listen it all till the end).
The show was nice but half of the band missing (Alex & Grace), replaced by substitutes. Ok, Este is not the WGT, but that sucked a bit, even if these guys played very well.

Btw, another interesting band, Adam (harsh EBM) was on stage. Check them out at their MYSPACE page. As far as I know, the debut cd will be released in a couple of months.

Later!

026 . A Game Of Powers

2006-12-02T11:44:00.000+01:00

These days I'm reading Nobilis, a really impressive roleplay game directly inspired by Sandman. I know it's a bit OT, but if you are looking for something better than usual roleplay games and you're sick to death of Vampire, please, take a look to this great game. It's probably the best I've read since Kult came out.
From Wikipedia, a good description of the amazing setting:

"Nobilis draws on many sources, including Christianity and Norse mythology, but adds numerous unique details to its setting. Though the everyday world in the game appears much like our own, it is actually only the Prosaic Earth, a lie that the world told to itself in a desperate attempt to explain suffering, and a rationalized delusion which conceals the true reality that would plunge most mortals into madness: the Mythic Earth, an animistic world where everything has its own sentient spirit. In the Mythic, the earth is really flat, and hangs somewhere among the vast boughs of the "world-tree," Yggdrasil. Countless worlds dot the branches of this world-tree, but at the top is Heaven, which is inaccessible to all but the angels (only one human soul in a billion is not turned away) and is the source of all beauty. Beneath the earth, in the roots of Yggdrasil, is Hell, the source of all corruption. Around Yggdrasil, except above heaven (where it is open to the stars), is a mystical impenetrable curtain of blue flames known as the Weirding Wall.

Every class of objects and every concept is represented by a being of god-like power known as an Imperator. Each Imperator may govern from one to several of these Estates, and has effectively limitless control over them. The Imperators are engaged in a deadly struggle with the Excrucians, terrible beings from outside the Weirding Wall who wish to destroy reality; this struggle is known as the Valde Bellum. This war keeps Imperators busy in the Spirit World, so in order to maintain their affairs on Earth and in the other worlds they invest a shard of their soul in a human (or occasionally another animal or object), creating a Nobilis. Each Nobilis represents one of the Imperator's Estates; the group of Nobilis this forms, known as a Familia Caelestis, is typically loyal, both to each other and their Imperator.

The Imperator Lord Entropy oversees the actions of the Nobilis and enforces the Code Fidelitatis, the five laws he has established for them, in his Locust Court. The most notable and notorious of these, and the one most often broken, is the Windflower Law which states that no Noble is allowed to love another being. Ironically, Nobilis can turn other humans into Anchors, whose every action they can control, but in order to do this they must first love or hate the person.

To protect their physical forms from the ravages of the Valde Bellum, Imperators take a part of reality and partition it off into a self-contained, unique world which can take any form. This world, called a Chancel, both houses their physical bodies and is a spiritual reflection of it. Much like in the myth of the Fisher King, if the Imperator suffers, so does their Chancel.

Flowers have great significance to the Nobilis and their Imperators; earthly flowers are reflections of their heavenly counterparts and each has a meaning. For example, the gamemaster is known as the Hollyhock God because, in the world of Nobilis, hollyhocks represent vanity and ambition. This is because, according to the in-game story, the angels used flowers as a tool to control and direct the brunt of their powers when they created Reality. Each Nobilis and Imperator has a flower that represents them, and flowers are often used in their magical rites."

For the whole article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobilis

And, remember, the manual is FUCKING nice. Hard covered, weird size, excellent quality of graphics and drawings, amazing text. It even won the Best Graphic Presentation Book Format Product 2002. Check it out!

[ X + Y ] Singularity Upon Us!

2006-12-01T11:03:00.000+01:00

"Although impressive in many respects, the brain suffers from severe limitations. We use its massive parallelism (one hundred trillion interneuronal connections operating simultaneously) to quickly recognize subtle patterns. But our thinking is extremely slow: the basic neural transactions are several million times slower than contemporary electronic circuits. That makes our physiological bandwidth for processing new information extremely limited compared to the exponential growth of the overall human knowledge base. Our version 1.0 biological bodies are likewise frail and subject to a myriad of failure modes, not to mention the cumbersome maintenance rituals they require. While human intelligence is sometimes capable of soaring in its creativity and expressiveness, much human thought is derivative, petty, and circumscribed. The Singularity will allow us to transcend these limitations of our biological bodies and brains.We will gain power over our fates. Our mortality will be in our own hands. We will be able to live as long as we want (a subtly different statement from saying we will live forever). We will fully understand human thinking and will vastly extend and expand its reach. By the end of this century, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence. We are now in the early stages of this transition."

This is an excerpt from Ray Kurtzweil "The Singularity is near". To read for free the first chapter, check this address:

ENGLISH

Italian translation here:

ITALIAN

I will order the book for sure (let's say after christmas, now getting undamaged stuff sent by post is basically impossible). Enjoy!

025 . P2P Uber Alles!

2006-11-28T12:16:00.000+01:00

A quick note for P2P italian supporters: the 10th of December in Milan there will be a manifestation to pretest against the Legge Urbani (about copyright issues). I remember very clearly that in the political program of Rosa nel Pugno party there was the promise of changing the legistlation to make P2P LEGAL. Gehenna Inc. strongly support P2P as a way to share culture. This doesn't mean we are not ready to pay something for culture when it's fair. Copyright laws are just too old, anachronistic and they fail to suite the new digital age.
Support P2P, support the condivision of culture!

For more INFO>>

024 . I Am The Protagonist

2006-11-26T15:13:00.000+01:00

Another cool band you should check is Faderhead.

http://www.faderhead.com/

First of all, because you can listen their whole album online, and this is terribly smart. Secondly, because even if they are newcomers of the scene, FH1, their first album, has many things to say in the EBM area. Even if electronic layers and textures are quite simple (basic beats, basic sounds, no complexity at all, but electric guitars will be added in live shows) the result is surprisingly fresh and intelligent. Chorus have the right mood, songs are quite different one from another ("I am the protagonist" explode in the middle, "Melting Into Your Eyes" is a very good classic-style futurepop song, and "Mattaku (Feat. Myoonji Sadamune)" has an iponotic refrain that shows the way for future EBM). No surprise in knowing that the leader is coming from a heavy metal background: in many cases (let's point Ulver, or Manes) this means new approches to the use of eletronic instruments. Thumbs up!

023 . Na Na Na

2006-11-26T14:47:00.000+01:00

Welcome back guys, today I have some little free time so I decided to update my blog with some REAL post. Ok, it's again a post about music, to highligt a really great band that I heard lately: The Knife. They come from Sweden and their 3rd release, Silent Shout, has really impressed me. The Knife are Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson, a couple with a really weird approach to electronic music. Silent Shout is NOT a violent album, though it sounds really creepy and alien, as it was thinked thanks to some psychadelic drugs and recorded in an underground tunnel buried in the forest.
Listen to the song "One Hit" or "From off To On" to understand what i mean. It's like Apex Twin going to Halloween Town, from Nightmare Before Cristmas :P

Check them out at:
http://www.theknife.net/
http://www.klicktrack.com/shop/index.jsp?cp=74

And please, see the video for "Like A Pen" single, simply too cool ^__^

022 . New Playlist

2006-10-16T19:41:00.000+02:00

Hi guys. I know I know, more than two months without updates! It has been a long summer of study, but now I have my degree. I really have to make up some posts, specially to review Francis Fukuyama "Our PostHuman Future". I'll do it soon, promise. Today, just a little update about the cds that I was listening more during all this weeks. Let's go (in no particular order):

+ Bark Psychosis - Codename Deathsucker
+ Calaxico - Discography
+ Cat Power - You Are Free
+ Faderhead - FH1
+ The Postal Service - Give Up
+ Withest Boy Alive - Dreams
+ Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
+ Explosions In The Sky - Friday Night Lights
+ Slayer - Christ Illusion
+ My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
+ Forward Russia! - Give Me A Wall
+ Gravenhurst - Flashlights Season
+ Gravenhurst - Black holes In the Sand
+ Gravenhurst - Fires In Distant Buildings
+ Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
+ Mogwai - Mr. Beast
+ This Empty Flow - Magenta Skycode
+ Wolf parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

It's all good stuff, let's give it a try!

021 . June / July Playlist

2006-07-16T20:22:00.000+02:00

Long time no see! I was busy with exams but now I heading toward the graduation in Sept/Oct with a thesis on Online Worlds and Communities (what else? ^__^)
Soooo, for some time I didn't updated the blog with the music I'm listening. Here we go with a huge list (at least 20 positions for the last two months). Maybe later I will spend some more words on them:

1. Spiritual Front - Armageddon Gigolo
2. Ashram - Shining Silver Skies
3. Mono No Aware - Kataku
4. Mono No Aware - Kika No Sekai
5. Lord Of War OST
6. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
7. Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift
8. Atrium Carceri - Kapnobatai
9. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side
10. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle
11. Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia - Indian Ink
12. Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia - Peel Sessions
13. Sephiroth - Draconian Poetry
14. The Notwist - Neon Golden
15. The Notwist - Shrink
16. The Organ - Grab That Gun
17. Tenhi - Maaäet
18. Tenhi - Kauan
19. MZ 412 - Macht Durch Stimme
20. Loss Of A Child - The Future Symphony

As probably someone of you will notice, my soundtrack has been a weird mixture of sad pop songs, noise, dark ambient, post rock and acoustic folk. I'm not normal... ;)

020 . DeviantART

2006-06-08T11:22:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody, just a quick message to point out that finally I opened an account on DevianART, the biggest community in the world of visual art and connected topics.
You can find out my page here:

http://tommasodb.deviantart.com

I will use it to post the same stuff you can find on Gehenna Inc., but it's useful to get comments and job commitments. Feel free to leave your mark there!