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Dave Matthews Band member LeRoi Moore dies

FOUNDING member of the Dave Matthews Band, saxophonist LeRoi Moore, has died of complications from a vehicle accident in June.
A statement on the band’s website said Moore died unexpectedly overnight at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Moore had been injured in June while riding an all-terrain vehicle near his farm in Charlottesville, Virginia, the statement said.

He had recently returned to his home in Los Angeles to begin rehabilitation.

He was 46.

Their website blog states:

08/19/2008

We are deeply saddened that LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.

MJB goes socialized

Slowly but surely I’ve been working on the code and changing the backend to allow for our readers to join and have their own profiles, upload pictures, and even give you a chance to write your own entries.  Not everything mentioned is fully functionable just yet but in my spare time I will be implementing these features.  Spread the word as this site will be merging into a social platform for bloggers and content collaborators much like Associate Content and Squidoo.

If you’re already a member and would like to log in, click here, or click on the copyright symbol in the footer of our web site on any page. “©“.  I will soon have a log in form located on the side bar.

Edit: I have installed a login on the far right sidebar simplifying everything.
 

We have a new registration form for new users, too. Click one of the log in links and click on Register to fill out your own profile.

Traveling The Unknown

My mind constantly races with the unknown as does the minds of most everyone.  This is natural how we seek to know the truth and insight of those we care about.  Even those we show interest in.  I can honestly say that all of 2008 has been the most stressful time in my life.  It can only get better, right?  So easily our confidence is shattered with the unknown.  Where does that strength come from when rock bottom is so clearly in sight?  Even at the age of 29 that wisdom is blurry, to grab tightly onto the security we all wish to fathom.

I hurt.  I love.  I seek. I desire.  Never before have I found such a desire to know the mind and the reality of this heart that brings laughter and a sense of hope.  Lately it’s becoming more clear that this isn’t how we wished for it to be.

Call me possessive or maybe obsessed.  But it comes with a healthy mind and a strong heart.  I carry this willing passion to achieve a position with this heart.  Though the world brings it’s mighty blows I carry on.  I pursue with understanding and sensitivity to be enough strength for the world to step aside.

Do you know what I want?  I want you.  I would like to have you.  To be the only one to receive such words and to have them reciprocated.  I will only want what is willing to give.  And sometimes I’ll want what isn’t willing to give, but I’ll understand if you just say something with sustenance.

I’ll leave 2008 in it’s wake only showing little ripples here and there of it’s past.  Eventually they disapear and wither away.  I’ll leave New York with a greater interest and ability to raise and love my son.  You’re my one and only, Landon.  Life has handed some blows that kept you from me.  Selfish reasons have kept you from me.  Lies have kept you from me.  But you will know this one day and you will see daddy’s over-powering love shine through for you.  I’ve been given an example on how life should be lived and I will pass this onto you.

In the immediate unknown is the interest I seek.  Frustration and hurt follows that on an unmentionable scale.  Other’s influence this and it breaks me.  It’s the quietness that I’m discontent with.  You are loved.

The “Art” of War.

Little do we as civilians know the trauma and heroism that goes on in the heat of battle. The likely hood of a solder realizing the reality of things present in battle may not come until the battle is over. A strange and erie silence looms over fields stained red after the smoke clears, the screams silence, and the moans simmer below the wind and birds. The reality is that death will happen whether deliberate or natural. But no man or woman is born into this world knowing that one day they too will be the cause of a loss, a loved one, and a tormented mind-crazed terrorists. We shed blood for our God and for our pride in our nation.

So many times I wish I was alive during the second world war and of age to be a part of it. Not to witness the death, but to know the men and women of that day which sacrificed all they had for so few. And I’d gather those who’ve passed during that war and place them in a large room. One by one I’d ask them to describe their intents, their last moments, every memory they had that gave them peace and hope when all was lost. This would surely impact even the most naive from the dawn of age to the future coming.

I watched this video with toys and I learned more emotion with the knowledge of another impeding onto me. “Who said toys were just for kids?”, said the creator of this film. Imagine the satisfaction a solder had when he found a stick resembling a human figure and allowed his imagination to run as he too made a toy from it. It’s a mad world.

Myspace Global Redesign

By James Callan

Bloomberg News

Article Launched: 06/14/2008 01:36:49 AM PDT

MySpace.com, News Corp.’s social-networking Web site, will begin a global redesign next week to increase traffic from existing users and draw new ones.

The redesign includes a home-page makeover, navigation changes and an overhaul of the site’s search tool and MySpaceTV player, the company said Friday in a statement. The first phase begins Wednesday, the company said.

News Corp., which bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005, is seeking to increase advertising revenue on the site by attracting new users. The media company said in April it will miss a 2008 goal of $1 billion in sales for Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace. Last month, New York-based researcher EMarketer said MySpace may have lower-than-predicted sales this year because of the slowing economy. MySpace said “a major advertiser” agreed to take over the site’s home page on the first day of the new redesign. Company spokeswoman Dani Dudeck declined to identify the advertiser.

The latest MySpaceTV player will offer a new advertising platform for multiple ad providers and formats. The player also includes more comprehensive video-sharing tools and a wider range of language choices, the company said.

News Corp. Class A stock, which has fallen 13 percent this year, rose 66 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $17.98 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.