BulletProof Messenger was the 12th artist to reach 50K on SellaBand
Overview
Formerly knows as Gone To Earth, BulletProof Messenger is an electronic rock band from NY. Recently, the group has toured with many national acts including major recording artists Incubus, Trapt, Collective Soul, Blindside, Adema and more, performing overseas as well as in the United States. The band has also received recognition through such media sources as Fox Television, MTV, CBS, Newsday, Press and Sun News, Clear Channel Radio - (Winners of 92.5 KGB FM Battle of the Bands), XM Satellite Radio, etc. Furthermore, the group has gained a large following through extensive touring and a significant amount of radio airplay; and is featured on MySpace as one of their top 50 Un-signed acts. Most recently the group has completed their full length release, engineered by Tony Dawsey (NIN, Kid Rock, Jay-Z).
Biography
Formed by Programmer Matt Litwin and Guitarist Voley Martin, BulletProof Messenger experimented with many styles and underwent a great deal of change before finding their niche. While the music is melodic enough to attract alternative rock fans, the guitar riffs attract even metal listeners. Couple this with layers of programming and electronics, BPM creates a completely new dynamic. These variety of influences are clearly reflected in the music and live performances.
Unwilling to compromise with the sound with poor vocals, after a grueling three year search for a singer, vocalist Marcus Klavan joined the band. His dedication was immediately evident when he relocated from his home in Maryland to Long Island, NY.
Immediately following Marcus' incorporation into the group, the band caught their big break. Incubus chose the band to perform as their opening act after consideration of countless applicants. This show ignited the following year’s touring schedule.
Later that year, the band was selected to perform in the 92.5 KGB FM Clear Channel Battle of the Bands. The band went on to win the competition, turning heads along the way with their newest addition drummer, Alex Straiter. His energy at live performances and unique style brought an exciting new dynamic to the sound of BulletProof Messenger.
Following this success, the band was selected by Collective Soul to be the direct opener for the release of their new album. Just days later, the band was selected by XM Satellite Radio as one of the top unsigned acts in the country and was selected by the band Trapt to open their shows.
Since that time, two new members were added to the group: Jesse Downing, former bassist for Shootyz Groove, and Scott Martin on guitar. As a result of these two new members, the sound and live presence of the group were all enhanced.
After a year and a half in pre-production and 3 months in the studio, working with noteworthy individuals such as Tony Dawsey (NIN, Jay-Z, Kid Rock) BulletProof Messenger completed their self produced debut release, “The Crucial Line”, released in November 2006.
Following the band’s debut release, in mid 2007, BulletProof Messenger was selected from over 3,000 acts world wide, to perform a special showcase for Sellaband.com at the Gibson Guitar Studios in London. This show attracted the attention of various international music press and greatly increased the bands international following.
Discography
The Crucial Line - 2006, Lo-Fidelity Publishing
Overview
Formerly knows as Gone To Earth, BulletProof Messenger is an electronic rock band from NY. Recently, the group has toured with many national acts including major recording artists Incubus, Trapt, Collective Soul, Blindside, Adema and more, performing overseas as well as in the United States. The band has also received recognition through such media sources as Fox Television, MTV, CBS, Newsday, Press and Sun News, Clear Channel Radio - (Winners of 92.5 KGB FM Battle of the Bands), XM Satellite Radio, etc. Furthermore, the group has gained a large following through extensive touring and a significant amount of radio airplay; and is featured on MySpace as one of their top 50 Un-signed acts. Most recently the group has completed their full length release, engineered by Tony Dawsey (NIN, Kid Rock, Jay-Z).
Biography
Formed by Programmer Matt Litwin and Guitarist Voley Martin, BulletProof Messenger experimented with many styles and underwent a great deal of change before finding their niche. While the music is melodic enough to attract alternative rock fans, the guitar riffs attract even metal listeners. Couple this with layers of programming and electronics, BPM creates a completely new dynamic. These variety of influences are clearly reflected in the music and live performances.
Unwilling to compromise with the sound with poor vocals, after a grueling three year search for a singer, vocalist Marcus Klavan joined the band. His dedication was immediately evident when he relocated from his home in Maryland to Long Island, NY.
Immediately following Marcus' incorporation into the group, the band caught their big break. Incubus chose the band to perform as their opening act after consideration of countless applicants. This show ignited the following year’s touring schedule.
Later that year, the band was selected to perform in the 92.5 KGB FM Clear Channel Battle of the Bands. The band went on to win the competition, turning heads along the way with their newest addition drummer, Alex Straiter. His energy at live performances and unique style brought an exciting new dynamic to the sound of BulletProof Messenger.
Following this success, the band was selected by Collective Soul to be the direct opener for the release of their new album. Just days later, the band was selected by XM Satellite Radio as one of the top unsigned acts in the country and was selected by the band Trapt to open their shows.
Since that time, two new members were added to the group: Jesse Downing, former bassist for Shootyz Groove, and Scott Martin on guitar. As a result of these two new members, the sound and live presence of the group were all enhanced.
After a year and a half in pre-production and 3 months in the studio, working with noteworthy individuals such as Tony Dawsey (NIN, Jay-Z, Kid Rock) BulletProof Messenger completed their self produced debut release, “The Crucial Line”, released in November 2006.
Following the band’s debut release, in mid 2007, BulletProof Messenger was selected from over 3,000 acts world wide, to perform a special showcase for Sellaband.com at the Gibson Guitar Studios in London. This show attracted the attention of various international music press and greatly increased the bands international following.
Discography
The Crucial Line - 2006, Lo-Fidelity Publishing
The true Catholic Church (tCC) is a Roman Catholic conclavist group with a claimed membership of around 90 families worldwide. It regards the Roman Catholic Church as an apostate, un-Catholic organisation, and claims that it is the true and legitimate Catholic Church founded by Christ (the word "true", with a lower-case "t", is used in its title solely to distinguish it from the mainstream Roman Catholic Church). Roman Catholics regard it as a schismatic sect.
The tCC's leader, Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher, resides in the United States, in Springdale, Washington. He claims the title of "Pope Pius XIII": the tCC's members believe that the papacy was vacant between the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and their election of Fr. Pulvermacher as pope in October 1998.
Election of pope
Pulvermacher's election as pope was the third such conclavist papal election to be held: the first took place in Kansas, USA in 1990, and elected David Bawden as Pope Michael, while the second took place in Assisi, Italy in 1994, and elected Fr. Victor von Pentz as Pope Linus II. The tCC rejects the first election on the basis that Bawden was elected by his parents, a lady friend and one other couple. The second election is rejected on the grounds that it allegedly involved non-Catholic electors.
The tCC claims that the papal throne was left vacant in 1958 because Angelo Roncalli, who emerged from the 1958 conclave as Pope John XXIII, was in fact ineligible for election to the papacy. It is claimed that he had become a Freemason in 1935 while serving as papal nuncio to Turkey: such an act would have earned him automatic excommunication under Catholic canon law. Mainstream Catholics do not take such claims seriously. The tCC maintains that none of John XXIII's successors (Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI) have been true Catholics, and that they have all hence been ineligible for the papacy.
In 2002, it was revealed that Fr. Pulvermacher has practiced pendulum divination since his time as a seminarian. He does not dispute this, but maintains that the practice is not occult in nature, but rather is a type of God-given natural science. Gordon Bateman, his principal collaborator and one of his cardinals, dissociated himself from the tCC as a result.
Beliefs of the tCC
The tCC holds to the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church as they existed prior to the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965 ("Vatican II"). It vigorously denounces the changes within Catholicism associated with Vatican II, which it regards as invalid. It affirms that the acts and policies of the church leadership since Vatican II have violated fundamental principles of Catholicism.
A distinctive feature of the tCC's worship, which it shares with other, larger Traditionalist Catholic groups, is its continued use of the Latin-language Tridentine rite of Mass. In the Catholic Church, the Tridentine rite has been almost entirely superseded by a revised liturgy which was introduced in 1969 by Paul VI as part of the reform programme that followed Vatican II. The tCC holds that such action by Paul VI has no weight because Paul VI was never the pope, that the new rite is un-Catholic, and that the Liturgy of the Mass was locked in place by Pope Pius V in the 16th century.
Criticism
While a simple priest such as Fr. Pulvermacher (or, indeed, a layman) can be validly elected to the papacy under Catholic canon law, the tCC's critics claim that neither Pulvermacher nor any other members of the tCC possess episcopal orders. The tCC hence (it is claimed) has no connection to the historical episcopate and no means of transmitting holy orders to future generations of its membership. No bishop was found to consecrate Fr. Pulvermacher after his election, and so the latter, purporting to use the plenary powers of the papacy, granted himself authority to consecrate Gordon Bateman as a bishop, and Bateman subsequently consecrated him. Whether or not a pope has the power to grant a simple priest faculties to consecrate bishops is a disputed question, however.
Size of membership
The tCC claims a worldwide membership, though the available evidence suggests that its adherents are few in number. The number of people who participated in the 1998 papal election has never been disclosed, but the tCC states that more electors voted for Fr. Pulvermacher than had voted for Pius XII in the 1938 conclave in Rome; according to some reports, 61 cardinals cast their ballots for Pius XII. Fr. Pulvermacher's (alleged) consecration to the episcopate was attended by 28 people.
As of June 2006, the tCC has two priests, Fr. Pulvermacher/Pius XIII and an American named Robert Lyons whom he ordained in June 2000. Fr. Lyons is married, but it is acknowledged that the usual obligation of clerical celibacy derives only from church law rather than from divine law, and that some married priests exist in the "official" Catholic Church. Such married priests are primarily Eastern Catholics (who have never had any disciplinary requirement of celibacy for diocesan, "non-monastic" clergy) and married clergy who have converted from other Christian denominations. Regardless, married priests are barred from rising to the rank of Bishop while married (i.e. while their spouse remains living).
The tCC's leader, Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher, resides in the United States, in Springdale, Washington. He claims the title of "Pope Pius XIII": the tCC's members believe that the papacy was vacant between the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 and their election of Fr. Pulvermacher as pope in October 1998.
Election of pope
Pulvermacher's election as pope was the third such conclavist papal election to be held: the first took place in Kansas, USA in 1990, and elected David Bawden as Pope Michael, while the second took place in Assisi, Italy in 1994, and elected Fr. Victor von Pentz as Pope Linus II. The tCC rejects the first election on the basis that Bawden was elected by his parents, a lady friend and one other couple. The second election is rejected on the grounds that it allegedly involved non-Catholic electors.
The tCC claims that the papal throne was left vacant in 1958 because Angelo Roncalli, who emerged from the 1958 conclave as Pope John XXIII, was in fact ineligible for election to the papacy. It is claimed that he had become a Freemason in 1935 while serving as papal nuncio to Turkey: such an act would have earned him automatic excommunication under Catholic canon law. Mainstream Catholics do not take such claims seriously. The tCC maintains that none of John XXIII's successors (Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI) have been true Catholics, and that they have all hence been ineligible for the papacy.
In 2002, it was revealed that Fr. Pulvermacher has practiced pendulum divination since his time as a seminarian. He does not dispute this, but maintains that the practice is not occult in nature, but rather is a type of God-given natural science. Gordon Bateman, his principal collaborator and one of his cardinals, dissociated himself from the tCC as a result.
Beliefs of the tCC
The tCC holds to the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church as they existed prior to the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965 ("Vatican II"). It vigorously denounces the changes within Catholicism associated with Vatican II, which it regards as invalid. It affirms that the acts and policies of the church leadership since Vatican II have violated fundamental principles of Catholicism.
A distinctive feature of the tCC's worship, which it shares with other, larger Traditionalist Catholic groups, is its continued use of the Latin-language Tridentine rite of Mass. In the Catholic Church, the Tridentine rite has been almost entirely superseded by a revised liturgy which was introduced in 1969 by Paul VI as part of the reform programme that followed Vatican II. The tCC holds that such action by Paul VI has no weight because Paul VI was never the pope, that the new rite is un-Catholic, and that the Liturgy of the Mass was locked in place by Pope Pius V in the 16th century.
Criticism
While a simple priest such as Fr. Pulvermacher (or, indeed, a layman) can be validly elected to the papacy under Catholic canon law, the tCC's critics claim that neither Pulvermacher nor any other members of the tCC possess episcopal orders. The tCC hence (it is claimed) has no connection to the historical episcopate and no means of transmitting holy orders to future generations of its membership. No bishop was found to consecrate Fr. Pulvermacher after his election, and so the latter, purporting to use the plenary powers of the papacy, granted himself authority to consecrate Gordon Bateman as a bishop, and Bateman subsequently consecrated him. Whether or not a pope has the power to grant a simple priest faculties to consecrate bishops is a disputed question, however.
Size of membership
The tCC claims a worldwide membership, though the available evidence suggests that its adherents are few in number. The number of people who participated in the 1998 papal election has never been disclosed, but the tCC states that more electors voted for Fr. Pulvermacher than had voted for Pius XII in the 1938 conclave in Rome; according to some reports, 61 cardinals cast their ballots for Pius XII. Fr. Pulvermacher's (alleged) consecration to the episcopate was attended by 28 people.
As of June 2006, the tCC has two priests, Fr. Pulvermacher/Pius XIII and an American named Robert Lyons whom he ordained in June 2000. Fr. Lyons is married, but it is acknowledged that the usual obligation of clerical celibacy derives only from church law rather than from divine law, and that some married priests exist in the "official" Catholic Church. Such married priests are primarily Eastern Catholics (who have never had any disciplinary requirement of celibacy for diocesan, "non-monastic" clergy) and married clergy who have converted from other Christian denominations. Regardless, married priests are barred from rising to the rank of Bishop while married (i.e. while their spouse remains living).
The Briglin Pottery was founded in 1948 by Brigitte Goldschmidt and Eileen Lewenstein in the basement of 66 Baker Street London.
They aimed to produce affordable domestic pots that were well designed and attractive. Donald Mills worked with them from 1948-52 and Anthony Barson joined the pottery, specialising in painted decoration.
Due to a fire in 1952 the pottery was moved to 22 Crawford Street where it continued to flourish for many years. During it's height in the 1960s and 1970s Brigling was producing several thousands of pieces a week.
Brigitte married in 1950 and is perhaps better known as Brigitte Appleby. Eileen left Briglin in 1959 to set up her own studio. Both women were active in the forming of the Craft Potters Association and served it for many years.
Briglin Pottery closed in 1990.
Brigitte Appleby died in April, 2000
and Eileen Lewenstein in March, 2005
.
Briglin pottery in noted for it's muted colours, wax resist decoration, white glazes and oxide decoration. In 2002 Anthea Arnold published "Briglin Pottery", documenting the history of the pottery ~ "The story of a Studio Pottery in the West End of London"
Example of Briglin pottery are included in collections such as that of the University of Warwick
They aimed to produce affordable domestic pots that were well designed and attractive. Donald Mills worked with them from 1948-52 and Anthony Barson joined the pottery, specialising in painted decoration.
Due to a fire in 1952 the pottery was moved to 22 Crawford Street where it continued to flourish for many years. During it's height in the 1960s and 1970s Brigling was producing several thousands of pieces a week.
Brigitte married in 1950 and is perhaps better known as Brigitte Appleby. Eileen left Briglin in 1959 to set up her own studio. Both women were active in the forming of the Craft Potters Association and served it for many years.
Briglin Pottery closed in 1990.
Brigitte Appleby died in April, 2000
and Eileen Lewenstein in March, 2005
.
Briglin pottery in noted for it's muted colours, wax resist decoration, white glazes and oxide decoration. In 2002 Anthea Arnold published "Briglin Pottery", documenting the history of the pottery ~ "The story of a Studio Pottery in the West End of London"
Example of Briglin pottery are included in collections such as that of the University of Warwick
Bob Shaloob is a politician from the state of Mississippi. He represents the United States Green Party. Bob will be a candidate for Congress in 2008 and has gained significant media attention for his plan to socialize the American Health Care system in line with the Canadian system. He is also the first Green Party candidate to reach a ballot in the State of Mississippi.