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UPDATES LINKS FOR THINGS +ROSS-RELATED

My album "Manifest Destiny" on Lulu.com
as a CD: http://www.lulu.com/content/6020129
mp3 download: http://www.lulu.com/content/multimedia /%2br%C3%98ss_-_manifest_destiny_-_dow nload/6021738

Also "Godlings" the novel is back up and perfectly revised at http://stores.lulu.com/rossallaire and coming soon, the trade paperback editions of The Autobiography of Jesus X (Parts 1 & 2), which combined are basically 'The Adventures of Black Jesus' only way more fucked up. I know it sounds weird, but if you think that stuff like Jesus and God and all that is a bunch of horseshit, then seriously this book is for you, because it basically proves you right. From the horse's mouth. The horseshit.
Hmm.
Anyway...

Over at http://www.myspace.com/rossisnotgunshy I mentionedi n the blog that I'm setting up to record a plugged-in version of "Four Fucking Chords," sometime this week.

Oh, and yes...
...if you're like me, and watch stuff on YouTube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwZzYSU qsH0
much appreciation. until i set up my own YouTube channel, this is how the word is going to be spread!
:) lol
i commented on it. that's me, ROSSunleashed. Proof!
apparently other people were saying they were me, Gunshy, Ross, +ROSS, whatever it is.. me. i find that ridiculous. and of course, reprehensible. not to mention completely fucking wrong. kudos for spotting out the fakers, dude.
great job with the, uh, video too. i love your music notations when its the breaks and solos, that's worth it alone! someday i'd love to see a really cool flash put to that song. it's so visual. zooming into "my fingers glued together" and "flies or fleas" and all the ways of dying... it would be so brutal!

In the meantime, at http://www.zazzle.com/gunshy I have t-shirts that say "I PROBABLY HATE YOU" and a matching bumper sticker. Wacky +ROSS merchandise, like a "Waiting to Die" t-shirt or a professional-grade skateboard imprinted with my artwork!
Crazy shit.
I'm asking you to trust me with your support. I'm not just trying to hawk shit, it's beyond that now. I'm asking you to fund me, as an artist, so that i can make more, better art.
please.
thanks for listening.
PLAY IT LOUD
[+R]

p.s.: coming soon to lulu.com, a collection of fucked up short stories called "Ten Pieces" and "Fear & Loathing at Ground Zero," an essay about my visit to NYC on 9/11/02. And shortly after that, a compilation of some of my ambient works, tentatively titled "Sleeping with Ross" because yeah you know you want to. lol!

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ChickenGod 2009-03-13 18:58:24

If somebody made a flash of all of the ways to die in that song, It'd be so epic-ly awesome.

Gunshy 2009-03-13 18:58:24

...and probably banned (except on NG), which of course would only make it awesome-r!

TheSilverGuitar 2009-03-13 20:15:05

"I PROBABLY HATE YOU"
I laughed pretty hard.

And yeah, when I get Flash, I have this list of concepts I want to turn into respective movies. A music video to Waiting to Die was fifth on the list.

Gunshy 2009-03-13 20:15:05

nice! i'm trying to get more into that whole "I PROBABLY HATE YOU" line of stuff.
i've been waiting a long time for the "waiting to die" music vid concept to float around, so i finally just said it. if i could draw or do flash, that's probably what i would be doing, "beaten, bombed, defenestrated..." some crazy crap.

ChickenGod 2009-03-13 20:48:30

I wouldn't want to get flash, I wouldn't know how to use it well, and It'd be a waste of money

Gunshy 2009-03-13 20:48:30

money? you think half these people actually buy flash?

TheSilverGuitar 2009-03-14 13:25:35

In my mind, i always sort of visualized it as a "Johnny Got His Gun" sort of thing, fading back and forth from him imagining all those deaths (fantasy) to some monotonous day to day sort of corporate job (reality). In the end, he commits suicide as the song sort of slows down at the end, and the movie fades to black, as overdone as that is.
Although, I might not animate his face. Maybe to keep his identity a secret, or maybe he doesn't have an identity, or maybe he is the identity of the millions of people with Dilbert type jobs that realize how bland their respective lives are.

That, or a bunch of violent backgrounds and depictions of each line, which could prove to be more intense, or even "arty," but with less of a storyline and maybe meaning.

Mind you, this concept is only fifth on the list, I feel as is I've already over-thought it.

Gunshy 2009-03-14 13:25:35

i hear ya on that one. overthinking ideas is one of the things i do best!
flash, and drawing for that matter, are a complete mystery to me. but scriptwriting and screenwriting have always been part of what i do, yet still i have relatively few concept ideas for music videos. i never even tried to think of my songs in some visual way until a few years ago. "oh yeah, music videos,... uh, shit," or i'm basically just having ideas. like, "dead heroes" is red and orange to me, as a song, whereas "waiting to die" is black and purple. it's like that.

i must admit i have never even heard of this "johnny got his gun" but now i must read it! or see it! or something.

TheSilverGuitar 2009-03-15 10:00:36

Yeah, i'm the same way. I visualize songs through colours.
Dead Heroes is definitely orange or some hot colour, Terra Angelica is probably a pinkish purple sort of colour, and Waiting to Die is navy, at least for me.
At the risk of being called a Pearl Jam rip off, I never really liked music videos. When I watch them, I typically think that the song was better the way I visualized it. Yes, I know I just said that.

And Johnny Got His Gun is an excellent book, but to understand what I was talking about with the fading into reality, you'd have to see the film.

Gunshy 2009-03-15 10:00:36

ok will do (on the johnny movie)
hmm yeah theres a lot of blue in waiting to die. it's a blues song, duh!
and yeah terra angelica is definitely pink/red and yellow and white and some other stuff there, lilac or lavender/magenta... that's what i get for writing a song about a just barely-teenaged girl. big crunchy girlie glam sadness.
...
uh yeah i actually kinda agree with the "never really liked music videos," in principle, even though as a teenager i was glued to mtv like anybody else. it was all we had, then, besides the radio. alternative nation, headbanger's ball, and 120 minutes got me thru the week. especially 120 minutes and superrock when it was on. they'd show old black sabbath videos and alice cooper and shit, so it was all worth it. but as far as what was then-popular, it was basically nirvana and yeah the vid for jeremy was awesome. but in the end, most videos are these slick promotional tools, hype for the bands' images, not the works of art that jeremy, come as you are, and any tool video so obviously are. i love the video for pearl jam's song evolution.
what i hate seeing is what so many greenday videos are, the band playing pantomime in some weird theatrical setup, edited within shots of the band or just the lead singer walking somewhere, slowly. so cliche.

ChickenGod 2009-03-21 23:47:37

I visualize most things with colors. Waiting to Die was a mix between Red, and Purple. I didn't really hear much blue...if that makes sense.

Movies are usually a color to me too. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets was A Red/Orange. I remember that extremely clearly.

And if you want a 'Johnny Got His Gun Reference' The Music Video for 'One' by Metallica has clips from it.

I never really liked Metallica...

and "Sleeping with Ross" is a sexy title...obviously.

TheSilverGuitar 2009-03-24 20:22:25

When I said pink, I didn't really mean the neon-hot-obnoxiously-bright kind of pink, I meant kind of a spacey, arty, nebula-esque atmospheric kind of pink. Kind of pale really, lilac would describe it nicely, I suppose.

Agreed, great music videos are rare, and ones that can be deemed as actual "art" are even more rare. But for the most part, they are a way a means to make money by the record company, or even the band, the latter case of which is even worse.

Green Day and Good Charlette or whatever pretty much ruined the modern music video. Yeah, pretty much all Green Day videos are the same; they all incorporate some cliche, whether it's from one of their previous videos, or just a classic gag seen throughout MTV.

RiotFlash 2009-07-18 11:54:11

I understand how long ago all this was said, but I do enjoy the "Nice Guys Finish Last" Green Day video.