My name is John Kammerer. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah in the U.S. I have been doing music since I was pretty young. I like to record music more than play shows. I did the whole working band routine from 1992-1997 full time in the Intermountain West. It was fun, but honestly not very productive.
On February 12, 1997 I played my last show. I tell everyone the same schpeil - like if you loved to make pies. You made pies all the time. It was fun, all kinds, and so you decide to go into business making pies and all the sudden, one day, as you stare at the gazillionth pie, you say to yourself “Dear God if I have to look at another pie I am gonna throw up!”
All the fun went out of it for me. It was a job. A job that kicked your ass 5 nights a week and you barely made enough to pay rent on the rehearsal studio, cover the costs of playing out, and try to hold some semblance of a life.
So I walked away.
And for 10 years I was like the AA guy who can’t go into a bar because the temptation to drink would be too great. I avoided listening to and playing music, even being around it, as much as I could. I knew that one good whiff of that rush that you get when you are playing your set and that feeling, no use explaining, because if you can dig it you know its like trying to describe a sunset, you just gotta be there at that particular time.
So I ramble, a little over a year ago my old friend Mike (guess maybe I should not use his last name without asking, eh?) Mike was the guitar player that I started playing with in late 1991. My college roommate, Steve, knew Mike from high school. Steve and I were college roommates and good friends. He had just started playing bass. I’d been ’playing’ guitar since I was 8, but not ’really playing’ until I was about 14. Basically the minute I realized that a very average looking kid could get girls’ attention with writing a song.
And I sang. I really, really loved to sing. I feel like all my childhood was spent mumbling songs. That probably sounds ridiculous. I was always singing. And I was really into Prince. I was at my Grandma’s house when I heard the song on the trailer for Purple Rain on TV. It was like a bomb had gone off in my soul. Funny thing, to me is, I can’t remember what song? Regardless, I was really flippin impressed.
All the sudden my lure to music, just because I thought it was cool, became like an astral tractor beam. I went and got the song book and dove in with all the passion, and tunnel vision, of youth.
So of course I listened to, played, enjoyed all sorts of other bands’ music, it was the early-mid eighties. It was heaven for a kid in suburban Utah . Music was the perfect release, hobby , whatever for me. I made bands with my friends, wrote some songs, learned some covers, played at places (ie other friends’ houses when their parents were away and a party going on) I went to college for 2 years, but I vividly remember thinking “College? Pfft… screw that. I’m gonna be a fetchin rock star!” So I met Mike at the end of my sophomore year . Mike and Steve and I played at Mike’s apartment. Mike had been in a band and had WAY more experience than either of us. We finally got a drummer named Tony and we got a gig.
A real life, honest-to-true gig!
At the Perseus Opera house. It was a hollow, concrete basement in an old building in downtown Salt Lake City. We were to open for a band called “Hate times nine”. I don’t like labels, but let’s just say that the crowd were primarily people I wouldn’t want to have over for potstickers and beer. And we had to drag asshat Tony to the show because he was literally hunkered down in a corner shivering in fear.
We got another drummer. My friend since 4th grade, Brad. We started a group called “Stone Pony”. We had nofa king clue that there was a Linda Rondstandt (sp?) and the Stone Ponies - Brad said he went to a club in Jersey that Bruce Springsteen owns and it was called the Stone Pony. It was Stone Pony with a chess Rook (the horse guy) and we tough we were just about as bad ass as we could be (I’ll post some pics)
Steve left after a while and we got the biggest musical influence ever dropped in our lap by the gods.
Sherman Smith, although he never let anyone call him that, we called him Jamie. Jamie Starr. He told me his name as “Jamie” and I said (because of Prince) “Jamie Starr?” and he said yes. We all took it at face value, he wasn’t being deceptive, he just didn’t like his name, and it stuck. Jamie had been to the music institute of technology in Hollywood. He was WAY better than any of us. Way.
So we began writing a whole new body of songs. We already had about 40 or so. Some pretty good, some not, but we could play all night with our own material. Even when we satiated the crowd by agreeing to play a song by -band-name-goes-here- but saying it was off their brand new album (always) ‘Grandma Unchained” and playing one of our own. We played covers, but we tried to do them our own way. But when Jamie came along it was taken up a few notches.
We began playing out full time. Like 5 nights a week. And when we weren’t playing we were rehearsing, sending out kits, working on getting shows, you know the drill. We got good, IMHO, and we played EVERYWHERE we could.
That was our downfall. Even when we got a new drummer, Rob, who could play at Jamie’s level, we still never took any time to stop and smell the roses. When we could record, we tried to record ‘records’ not demos, meaning instead of applying our limited resources to getting one song perfect, we tried to make 10 or 12 perfect. Big mistake, in retrospect.
I’m going to post it all here, if they will let me. That band, with me, Mike, Jamie, and Rob was called “Dolphin” - I lobbied for “The Groovy Dolphins” but everyone else thought that was too corny. If I put in a band name here I am gonna use that!
We played until Jamie got a lung transplant. We recorded a demo, “Polarity” of about 10 songs with the idea that when Jamie got back we would finish it. Jamie never made it back. Jamie had cystic fibrosis and had lived a hell of a lot longer than his doctors had predicted. He was in his 30s. There is more to that story, but I won’t tell it here.
So Mike and I got a friend of his, Sean, and a guy named Derrick who played bass and sang and we formed a band called Swallow. We played quite a bit, but nothing like we had before. I played a show with the guys on Feb 12th 1997 and then told them the next day I was done. I was all burnt out. Life can be a sucky bitch sometimes.
At the time I was dating a girl named Melinda. She was the one for me and we wanted to have a family. I didn’t want to play in bars and rehearse every night and record every chance I could get and go into the whole family thing like that. That would have sucked. Our son was born in April of 1998 and we also have 2 daughters. I told myself, and I am not trying to put myself on a cross here, I was SICK of music, that I should give it 10 years and see what the gods bring me.
I’d lost track of Mike and he tracked me down in early 2007 (it was eerily odd, like 10 years to the week) and we hung out a bit, but I lost his number and he lost mine and we just fell out of touch. Mike came to my house in February of 2008 and ‘popped in’ - we chatted, and decided to play ‘just for fun’ the next - like - Tuesday - the 12th of February. You may find this stupid, but I think things happen in cycles. Ups and downs if you will.
I talked my wife into letting me get a little 8 track recorder and we’ve been making some songs. I’ve not got much equipment, so I have to improvise a lot, but its taken me back to my roots. Hot summer nights in my uncle’s back bedroom in Albany, California recording my guitar into the left channel and my mic into the right of my ghetto blaster and trying to mix it to sound good .
So that’s my story. I’m 36, married, happily, three cool kids, have a full time job, just getting back into music. I can’t imagine ever being into it as much as I was, but I also have to be honest with myself and admit that it truly does make me happy and fulfilled in a weird, spiritual, deepsoul way that is pretty cool.
~j
John Kammerer
Aka Vince DelGato
Salt Lake City Republic of Utah
Vincedelgato@gmail.com
BANDS:
Stone Pony - SLC, UT 1992-1994
Dolphin - SLC, UT 1994-1996
Swallow - SLC, UT 1996-1997
PROJECTS:
With Mike Doran as 7-Below 1994
With Jamie Starr as New Karma 1995
Misc.
I like to do vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion. I can’t say I am an expert at any of them, but I like playing everything myself. I love playing with other people, and am playing with Mike right now once a week, but I like to go fast when an idea hits me, and I can’t write out the music, so I have to try to record it while the idea’s in my head. Dig?
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
I think John McCain's using Oil of Olay
He looks vibrant - like a young senior.
This is huge. Romney spent a lot and lost. McCain said "Economy? What dat?" (or equivalent) and Mitt's like "I single-handidly saved the universe!" and exit polls said they still liked Mac over Mitt.
This momentum will carry well into Super Tuesday.
So if its Hillary vs. McCain - they're pals - would it still be fun to watch?
What if its Obama vs. McCain and they have to do challenges like on Survivor and ... oh wait ... that probably won't happen.
This is huge. Romney spent a lot and lost. McCain said "Economy? What dat?" (or equivalent) and Mitt's like "I single-handidly saved the universe!" and exit polls said they still liked Mac over Mitt.
This momentum will carry well into Super Tuesday.
So if its Hillary vs. McCain - they're pals - would it still be fun to watch?
What if its Obama vs. McCain and they have to do challenges like on Survivor and ... oh wait ... that probably won't happen.
Oh what a night! Its like Christmas without all the driving!
The polls have been closed in Florida for a little less than an hour (except, I guess, in the Pensacola area?) and its neck and neck.
Giuliani either was the most ill-advised candidate in history, or he’s got a reality show in the works and just did this for kicks. I still say he will make a media darling come election time, when he’s running on September 11th and has no real policy/decision factor in the ultimate decision. I mean, the guy is pretty likeable. Just ask half the hookers in Manhattan ;-)
Just kidding Rudy! Please don’t sick Bernard Kerik on me!
My boy came in last. Again. Didn’t play well with the old folks, I guess. Oh well, they’ll all be dead in a few years anyway (man! I am being a jerk huh!)
Mike’s gotta be getting out soon. Don’t he? Too bad, in a way. Huckabee’s not got great demographic reach. He’s just too much a victim of being identified, by the media, as “Former Pastor” instead of “Former Governor of Arkansas” – oh! He’s giving his speech now – hot getting out! He’s now saying things like “Mizzur-uh!”
OK I am back, Mike’s fun to watch. He’ll make a fine commissioner of baseball one day I’m sure.
So Mitt and Mac are 35-32 in favor of McCain and its been that way all night. 47% in as I type and still 35-32.
Calling each other the “L” word? Guys! What the heck is that all about? (ooh Huckabee just said “Mizzur-uh!” again!) Calling a fellow Republican liberal, even if its just a generality, is like calling Dick Cheney “cutsie” – it just shouldn’t happen. Sure, gay guys call each other the ‘other f word’ and some black people bafflingly refer to each other with the “N” word, but LIBERAL?
Here I was all worried about the Dems self-destructing (turned out it was just Bill, imagine that? I told him, “Bill you can’t cold-quit McDonald’s or your blood sugar goes wacky and next thing you know its you who’s blowing interns” but he never listens. Damn hippie ;-)
Hillary’s now kicked ass in Michigan and Florida and neither of them give her a single stinkin’ delegate. She’s gotta have a team of the best lawyers in the galaxy studying statue and precedent right now figuring out how to get them back on.
Barack and Edwards were elsewhere, so the results are not “telling” necessarily, but it will look GREAT in the headlines to the rest of the country who gets our say in a week.
I can’t believe this race. Its awesome. The intensity level is so high, so early, so often that its just riveting. Giuliani’s leaking that he’ll endorse McCain, now McCain’s side’s confirming in the media.
Can Mitt recover if he loses Florida? He’s got loads of cash, but he’s gotta get a good bump soon or he’ll lose the battle of momentum. But its still too close to call. 51% in and its now 36-31 for Old Mac. If he can’t close by 60 – he’s gonna have to give a speech.
McCain will get to have the pep rally.
Giuliani either was the most ill-advised candidate in history, or he’s got a reality show in the works and just did this for kicks. I still say he will make a media darling come election time, when he’s running on September 11th and has no real policy/decision factor in the ultimate decision. I mean, the guy is pretty likeable. Just ask half the hookers in Manhattan ;-)
Just kidding Rudy! Please don’t sick Bernard Kerik on me!
My boy came in last. Again. Didn’t play well with the old folks, I guess. Oh well, they’ll all be dead in a few years anyway (man! I am being a jerk huh!)
Mike’s gotta be getting out soon. Don’t he? Too bad, in a way. Huckabee’s not got great demographic reach. He’s just too much a victim of being identified, by the media, as “Former Pastor” instead of “Former Governor of Arkansas” – oh! He’s giving his speech now – hot getting out! He’s now saying things like “Mizzur-uh!”
OK I am back, Mike’s fun to watch. He’ll make a fine commissioner of baseball one day I’m sure.
So Mitt and Mac are 35-32 in favor of McCain and its been that way all night. 47% in as I type and still 35-32.
Calling each other the “L” word? Guys! What the heck is that all about? (ooh Huckabee just said “Mizzur-uh!” again!) Calling a fellow Republican liberal, even if its just a generality, is like calling Dick Cheney “cutsie” – it just shouldn’t happen. Sure, gay guys call each other the ‘other f word’ and some black people bafflingly refer to each other with the “N” word, but LIBERAL?
Here I was all worried about the Dems self-destructing (turned out it was just Bill, imagine that? I told him, “Bill you can’t cold-quit McDonald’s or your blood sugar goes wacky and next thing you know its you who’s blowing interns” but he never listens. Damn hippie ;-)
Hillary’s now kicked ass in Michigan and Florida and neither of them give her a single stinkin’ delegate. She’s gotta have a team of the best lawyers in the galaxy studying statue and precedent right now figuring out how to get them back on.
Barack and Edwards were elsewhere, so the results are not “telling” necessarily, but it will look GREAT in the headlines to the rest of the country who gets our say in a week.
I can’t believe this race. Its awesome. The intensity level is so high, so early, so often that its just riveting. Giuliani’s leaking that he’ll endorse McCain, now McCain’s side’s confirming in the media.
Can Mitt recover if he loses Florida? He’s got loads of cash, but he’s gotta get a good bump soon or he’ll lose the battle of momentum. But its still too close to call. 51% in and its now 36-31 for Old Mac. If he can’t close by 60 – he’s gonna have to give a speech.
McCain will get to have the pep rally.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Setting the table
Bush: US will 'confront' Iran if necessary
Jan 28 06:53 PM US/Eastern
US President George W. Bush warned Iran Monday that the United States will "confront those who threaten our troops" and defend its allies and interests in the Gulf.
Bush, in excerpts of his State of the Union speech provided by the White House, also urged Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, embrace political reforms, and "cease your support for terror abroad."
"But above all, know this: America will confront those who threaten our troops, we will stand by our allies, and we will defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf," he said.
His message echoed US warnings about an early January face-off between US and Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz and came as Washington pushed for new UN sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.
"Our message to the people of Iran is clear: We have no quarrel with you, we respect your traditions and your history, and we look forward to the day when you have your freedom," said Bush.
"Our message to the leaders of Iran is also clear: Verifiably suspend your nuclear enrichment, so negotiations can begin. And to rejoin the community of nations, come clean about your nuclear intentions and past actions, stop your oppression at home, and cease your support for terror abroad," he said.
Bush was to deliver the speech at 9 pm (0200 GMT Tuesday). The White House said it would be his final State of the Union address before leaving office in January 2009.
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Jan 28 06:53 PM US/Eastern
US President George W. Bush warned Iran Monday that the United States will "confront those who threaten our troops" and defend its allies and interests in the Gulf.
Bush, in excerpts of his State of the Union speech provided by the White House, also urged Tehran to suspend its uranium enrichment program, embrace political reforms, and "cease your support for terror abroad."
"But above all, know this: America will confront those who threaten our troops, we will stand by our allies, and we will defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf," he said.
His message echoed US warnings about an early January face-off between US and Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz and came as Washington pushed for new UN sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.
"Our message to the people of Iran is clear: We have no quarrel with you, we respect your traditions and your history, and we look forward to the day when you have your freedom," said Bush.
"Our message to the leaders of Iran is also clear: Verifiably suspend your nuclear enrichment, so negotiations can begin. And to rejoin the community of nations, come clean about your nuclear intentions and past actions, stop your oppression at home, and cease your support for terror abroad," he said.
Bush was to deliver the speech at 9 pm (0200 GMT Tuesday). The White House said it would be his final State of the Union address before leaving office in January 2009.
Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
From mid-January 2008
So this thing with the Clinton law suit... caucuses being held in casinos, casino union backing Obama, Bill gettin huffy... WTF?!?!
I really think its going to be an Obama/Richardson ticket. Bill Richardson has a TON of foreign policy experience, hell he's worked with the North Koreans, and they will say Obama lacks experience in that area (IMHO of course).
The chances of a Clinton Obama partnership seems, to me, impossible at this point. Its not the candidates, honestly, I think, that have flung the muck, its their supporters and the media WON'T STOP ASKING EVERYONE about it (liberal media my ass. Sorry but the marketing folks know which way the wind's been blowing) so these offhand comments by staffers are being lathered up into a frenzied dirty pool story.
It pisses me off! We live in the greatest country on earth. We are richer and more powerful than any other 'superpower' has ever been and the fate of mankind, literally, could be decided by the person who wins this election (because I can't imagine the neocons and the hawks will push HEAVY for giving Iran a good punch in the back of the head before W goes back to Crawford) and we can't get good juice from any of the major networks. They cover it like a golf tournament (which, in a sick way, its kinda like a golf thingy, if you think of all the old white men who hate everything with knickers on and what not) where the candidates are 'filmed' doing shit but not really allowed to have a good sit down with any viewer who cared to listen for 20 minutes or so.
(wow! look at me go ranting about!)
And that leads me to the Republicans, who, god help us all, are probably going to retake the house (Pelosi.. why Nancy, Why Armenian genocide 't'day?!?!'), the Senate, and I really think, the White House.
The Democrats have taken their already fractured base, gotten it excited and motivated, and then confused the fuck out of it with infighting to the point where we've actually got candidates who won't be able to work together to unite the core support, and really inflict change, vision, and hope.
The Republicans have kept to what they know best, the "War on Terror" that trumps fiscal responsibility and common sense at times, but sells like hell in the Wal Mart. They're playing with a loaded deck, I think.
Now some will say I am a conspiracy theorist and what not, but I think Dick Cheney's not going to just "retire" come January 2009. I think Karl left to get away from scrutiny. The private sector doesn't have to give press conferences unless they wanna. He's already layed out plans, I think, for something big.
Could attacking Iran be the thing that tips the scales?
Could a summer spike in gas prices drive the public to demand stability in The Gulf and if Iran hassled any more of our ships... well George did warn them not to do that again.
The very mention of an anniversary attack come fall could rekindle a lot of emotion, especially if Rudy is on the ticket.
And the prospect of an older, seasoned military man who would kick some ass, but not torture or anything too evil because he was, after all, a prisoner of war. (and with God as my witness, I am not trying to make light, in any way, the heroic service and horrific experiences John McCain went through in Vietnam. He's amazing to me, as a success story and as a person. but...) That being said I don't like him. He's angry. Why hasn't he addressed what Bush did to him in South Carolina in 2000? Was he promised the backing of the Big Powers? Because they are out there and they loooove the military-industrial complex. Ike was onto something.
And I think Karl and Dick are leading the charge.
I know, I know, McCain and Cheney in bed together, it gets me hot too ;-)
This isn't to say that Hillary or Barack would get us out of the Middle East, should they get elected, because I think they are beholden to a lot of the same people, just with two separate, very large bank accounts. One for the left and one for the right. I believe that both Clinton and Obama would work towards getting the United States out of Iraq (We won't be leaving Afghanistan for a looong time. At least until the dust settles from the Bhuto assassination. I think) FASTER than a Republican would (save my boy, Dr. Ron Paul. The best man for the job, IMHO of course) but they probably wouldn't be able to do it within their first term, so they couldn't run for re-election on it, and since no one would do all of this for just one, measly, term in office, they are already game-planning years ahead, and won't commit to anything now that is going to bite them in the ass in 4 years. But they were the two and THEY have allowed their supporters to start throwing mud on each others' shoes.
If I had the ear of Obama or Clinton, I'd say, "look here you putz! Goover there and kiss and make up and hold babies aloft, together! Invite the media to a sit-down, with a small table for two, maybe some coffee and those cigar shaped cookies they have. Show the country that, despite what the media might report, they are both committed to the betterment of the country and above all want to defeat the Republicans come November and they kiss and hug some more, laugh a little, cry a bit (maybe do a
I really think its going to be an Obama/Richardson ticket. Bill Richardson has a TON of foreign policy experience, hell he's worked with the North Koreans, and they will say Obama lacks experience in that area (IMHO of course).
The chances of a Clinton Obama partnership seems, to me, impossible at this point. Its not the candidates, honestly, I think, that have flung the muck, its their supporters and the media WON'T STOP ASKING EVERYONE about it (liberal media my ass. Sorry but the marketing folks know which way the wind's been blowing) so these offhand comments by staffers are being lathered up into a frenzied dirty pool story.
It pisses me off! We live in the greatest country on earth. We are richer and more powerful than any other 'superpower' has ever been and the fate of mankind, literally, could be decided by the person who wins this election (because I can't imagine the neocons and the hawks will push HEAVY for giving Iran a good punch in the back of the head before W goes back to Crawford) and we can't get good juice from any of the major networks. They cover it like a golf tournament (which, in a sick way, its kinda like a golf thingy, if you think of all the old white men who hate everything with knickers on and what not) where the candidates are 'filmed' doing shit but not really allowed to have a good sit down with any viewer who cared to listen for 20 minutes or so.
(wow! look at me go ranting about!)
And that leads me to the Republicans, who, god help us all, are probably going to retake the house (Pelosi.. why Nancy, Why Armenian genocide 't'day?!?!'), the Senate, and I really think, the White House.
The Democrats have taken their already fractured base, gotten it excited and motivated, and then confused the fuck out of it with infighting to the point where we've actually got candidates who won't be able to work together to unite the core support, and really inflict change, vision, and hope.
The Republicans have kept to what they know best, the "War on Terror" that trumps fiscal responsibility and common sense at times, but sells like hell in the Wal Mart. They're playing with a loaded deck, I think.
Now some will say I am a conspiracy theorist and what not, but I think Dick Cheney's not going to just "retire" come January 2009. I think Karl left to get away from scrutiny. The private sector doesn't have to give press conferences unless they wanna. He's already layed out plans, I think, for something big.
Could attacking Iran be the thing that tips the scales?
Could a summer spike in gas prices drive the public to demand stability in The Gulf and if Iran hassled any more of our ships... well George did warn them not to do that again.
The very mention of an anniversary attack come fall could rekindle a lot of emotion, especially if Rudy is on the ticket.
And the prospect of an older, seasoned military man who would kick some ass, but not torture or anything too evil because he was, after all, a prisoner of war. (and with God as my witness, I am not trying to make light, in any way, the heroic service and horrific experiences John McCain went through in Vietnam. He's amazing to me, as a success story and as a person. but...) That being said I don't like him. He's angry. Why hasn't he addressed what Bush did to him in South Carolina in 2000? Was he promised the backing of the Big Powers? Because they are out there and they loooove the military-industrial complex. Ike was onto something.
And I think Karl and Dick are leading the charge.
I know, I know, McCain and Cheney in bed together, it gets me hot too ;-)
This isn't to say that Hillary or Barack would get us out of the Middle East, should they get elected, because I think they are beholden to a lot of the same people, just with two separate, very large bank accounts. One for the left and one for the right. I believe that both Clinton and Obama would work towards getting the United States out of Iraq (We won't be leaving Afghanistan for a looong time. At least until the dust settles from the Bhuto assassination. I think) FASTER than a Republican would (save my boy, Dr. Ron Paul. The best man for the job, IMHO of course) but they probably wouldn't be able to do it within their first term, so they couldn't run for re-election on it, and since no one would do all of this for just one, measly, term in office, they are already game-planning years ahead, and won't commit to anything now that is going to bite them in the ass in 4 years. But they were the two and THEY have allowed their supporters to start throwing mud on each others' shoes.
If I had the ear of Obama or Clinton, I'd say, "look here you putz! Goover there and kiss and make up and hold babies aloft, together! Invite the media to a sit-down, with a small table for two, maybe some coffee and those cigar shaped cookies they have. Show the country that, despite what the media might report, they are both committed to the betterment of the country and above all want to defeat the Republicans come November and they kiss and hug some more, laugh a little, cry a bit (maybe do a
trying this out
So the downloading, the theory is that with a normal P2P peer-to-peer like limewire, you share files and someone downloads an entire file from one source. With torrents you go to a website (there are tons, and although I don't care for them, you should look on wikipedia for piratebay.org and read about them buying Sealand, its this tiny "country" off the English coast.) Anyway... So I go to Torrent Portal here - http://www.torrentportal.com/account-login.php I have a login, its free to have one, but you don't have to use it. search for a "torrent" - by the way, wikipedia has a great explanation of this, if you go there and just look up "torrents" - and then refine your search - here is an example - http://www.torrentportal.com/torrents-search.php?search=there+will+be+blood -- here i typed in -there will be blood- and hit "search" now you will find all kinds of crap - this site is good because they don't like adult torrents here - not that there is anything wrong with a nasty movie once in a while - but some are just rediculous with the porn so use the drop down for "Search Type" and change from any word to "All words" and check the "hide unseeded" button (I will explain in a bit.Advanced Torrent Search Search For: Sort By: Date AddedFilenameSeedersLeechersSizeRating DescendingAscendingSearch Type: Any Word (OR) All Words (AND) Size:From to (mb)Category: (all categories)GamesMoviesTVVideosAppsAnimeAudioComicsUnsortedPorn Hide Unseeded: Hide Non-User Uploads: Exclude Words: (seperate words with a space)
so it will look like this: Advanced Torrent SearchSearch For: Sort By: Date AddedFilenameSeedersLeechersSizeRating DescendingAscendingSearch Type: Any Word (OR) All Words (AND) Size:From to (mb)Category: (all categories)GamesMoviesTVVideosAppsAnimeAudioComicsUnsortedPorn Hide Unseeded: Hide Non-User Uploads: Exclude Words: (seperate words with a space)
this will greatly reduce your having to look through a bunch of crap. sort by changes the way they are sorted - seeders means people who are "sharing" the file and leechers means how many are downloading it. I usually play around with this depending on the kind of file I am looking for. For example if you want a brand new movie, date added is good because people will post crap. Some viruses/trojans but your antivirus software should be fine, if not you can download Avast from here and its killer! Seeders is good because the more seeders the more chance you have of getting an entire file, quickly. Leechers, on the other hand, is helpful because you can go off what all the other people have been reccomended - its a "use your best judgement" and learn as you go type thing. Size is good if you are looking for something large (ie. you can download ALL the Simpsons - its 40-something gigabytes, and might take a week, but you can) like if you want 'all' the Neal Yong songs/records ever made or all the beatles or all the sopranos, whatever. Now stop here and download bitcomet. Its the best, I think. There are others but its good and reliable and safe. http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/download.htm its 100% legit freeware and its very, very popular. Install Bitcomet - its pretty slick. Now when you are at torrentportal.com - and find a song/movie/tv show that you want you will see something like the image I attached to this email this movie is a tough one, so its a good example, a lot of stuff you'll have no problem finding a perfect file/collection right off - but I highlighted the one in pink because I wanted to explain. if there is a red "X" next to it don't download it. It's probably just something fake (there are a lot of, apparently, bored nerds out there) but might be a virus or something. again, don't get too concerned because if you have antivirus software running it will catch any file, even if its embedded and still in the process of downlaoding, and quaratine it) look for the ones that have the green check mark and/or are green hightlighted. You can click on the little symbol (page with a green arrow on the left - to the left fo the file name) and the first time you may have to right-click and choose "Download with bitcomet" if you click on the file name it will take you to the page of the file, where you can also download it, but that's more for if you want to see people's comments. An example is, if you're wondering "this movie's not even out in theaters yet and here it is for downloading" which does happen but its rare, you might want to read the comments because someone may be saying "yeah its a screener - its real" or "this is BS" So you start downloading. Some files go fast. Some are dog-ass slow. Sometimes it can take a couple of days if its something big. I've gotten collections, like the Sopranos and all the Beatles and all the Pink Floyd and what not and its taken a while, but if they are seeded (meaning if someone, at some time, uploaded the whole thing) then it will eventually complete. This is a lot, I know, and it may seem really befuddled, but play around with it. Its fun. You can get TV shows (both recent, if you miss something) and old, movies, songs, entire collections, games, programs, all kinds of stuff. Some good things to have if you're going to be getting into it (All freeware, all legit) are: DIVX movie player- my favorite, if the file will work (it likes .avi files) is here: http://www.divx.com/ Winamp is awesome for MP3s - i dig the 'visualization' thingy- http://www.winamp.com/ VLC media player is clunky, not pretty, but plays EVERY kind of file http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-10267151.html winrar is here: http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250-10007677.html?part=dl-winrar&subj=dl&tag=button it will extract .rar and zipped files.
so it will look like this: Advanced Torrent SearchSearch For: Sort By: Date AddedFilenameSeedersLeechersSizeRating DescendingAscendingSearch Type: Any Word (OR) All Words (AND) Size:From to (mb)Category: (all categories)GamesMoviesTVVideosAppsAnimeAudioComicsUnsortedPorn Hide Unseeded: Hide Non-User Uploads: Exclude Words: (seperate words with a space)
this will greatly reduce your having to look through a bunch of crap. sort by changes the way they are sorted - seeders means people who are "sharing" the file and leechers means how many are downloading it. I usually play around with this depending on the kind of file I am looking for. For example if you want a brand new movie, date added is good because people will post crap. Some viruses/trojans but your antivirus software should be fine, if not you can download Avast from here and its killer! Seeders is good because the more seeders the more chance you have of getting an entire file, quickly. Leechers, on the other hand, is helpful because you can go off what all the other people have been reccomended - its a "use your best judgement" and learn as you go type thing. Size is good if you are looking for something large (ie. you can download ALL the Simpsons - its 40-something gigabytes, and might take a week, but you can) like if you want 'all' the Neal Yong songs/records ever made or all the beatles or all the sopranos, whatever. Now stop here and download bitcomet. Its the best, I think. There are others but its good and reliable and safe. http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/download.htm its 100% legit freeware and its very, very popular. Install Bitcomet - its pretty slick. Now when you are at torrentportal.com - and find a song/movie/tv show that you want you will see something like the image I attached to this email this movie is a tough one, so its a good example, a lot of stuff you'll have no problem finding a perfect file/collection right off - but I highlighted the one in pink because I wanted to explain. if there is a red "X" next to it don't download it. It's probably just something fake (there are a lot of, apparently, bored nerds out there) but might be a virus or something. again, don't get too concerned because if you have antivirus software running it will catch any file, even if its embedded and still in the process of downlaoding, and quaratine it) look for the ones that have the green check mark and/or are green hightlighted. You can click on the little symbol (page with a green arrow on the left - to the left fo the file name) and the first time you may have to right-click and choose "Download with bitcomet" if you click on the file name it will take you to the page of the file, where you can also download it, but that's more for if you want to see people's comments. An example is, if you're wondering "this movie's not even out in theaters yet and here it is for downloading" which does happen but its rare, you might want to read the comments because someone may be saying "yeah its a screener - its real" or "this is BS" So you start downloading. Some files go fast. Some are dog-ass slow. Sometimes it can take a couple of days if its something big. I've gotten collections, like the Sopranos and all the Beatles and all the Pink Floyd and what not and its taken a while, but if they are seeded (meaning if someone, at some time, uploaded the whole thing) then it will eventually complete. This is a lot, I know, and it may seem really befuddled, but play around with it. Its fun. You can get TV shows (both recent, if you miss something) and old, movies, songs, entire collections, games, programs, all kinds of stuff. Some good things to have if you're going to be getting into it (All freeware, all legit) are: DIVX movie player- my favorite, if the file will work (it likes .avi files) is here: http://www.divx.com/ Winamp is awesome for MP3s - i dig the 'visualization' thingy- http://www.winamp.com/ VLC media player is clunky, not pretty, but plays EVERY kind of file http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-10267151.html winrar is here: http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250-10007677.html?part=dl-winrar&subj=dl&tag=button it will extract .rar and zipped files.
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