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    <title>Manzana Oscura</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Try to define the right moment when something starts to die to be born again.

Learning to draw an apple. Trying to draw it every single day, until getting the point of the perfection in the shape and shadows... Try to give to the image of the apple the aspect of being alive into the paper. Get all this before the apple turns dark by oxidation. This story could be well known for most of the people who study art painting. Yes, it's a very close personal story from my years of art student.

Think about the seeds in the white flesh of a fruit like the apple, without oxidation, loss and death, they wouldn't be able to give the roots of a new tree, they wouldn't give the new life that resides inside.

Manzana Oscura (Dark Apple) was created by Banshee in 2006, this project' name reflects the anxiety of the fragile existence. Manzana Oscura is a musical experimental project based in the question of Which is the moment when we start to die, the moment when the reason become emotion, the past in future... Everything happens in the present, death and rebirth.

Music starts when the images and words are not enough.

Thanks for listening and reading,

Kindest regards,
Banshee
©Manzana Oscura.

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      <title>In the Prison of Despair</title>
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      <title>Writer's Block: The Best Invention</title>
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<table><tr><td><div style="'border:"><p>What would you consider to be the single greatest invention in the history of the world? Why?</p><p style="'font-size:">Submitted by <span class="ljuser" style="'white-space:"><a href="http://brianmorris.livejournal.com/profile"><img src="http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" alt="[info]" width="17" height="17" style="'vertical-align:" /></a><a href="http://brianmorris.livejournal.com/"><b>brianmorris</b></a></span><br /></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" /> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=508">View other answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div>
 <br /><br />Ipod<br /><br />It is small, goes with you everywhere, it's content is by and for you... and... looks great!!!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:51:34 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Look away<br /> My precious one<br /> The weight of hurt was fed<br /> to those you feared<br /> <br /> Turn away<br /> My only one<br /> Trapped inside my head<br /> you seem to be<br /> <br /> Is life worth living<br /> without your body against mine<br /> Is the air worth breathing<br /> without your tiny hand in mine<br /> Is my life worth fighting for<br /> without your arms within mine<br /> Oh is the Amethyst<br /> or is the weight of bliss<br /> <br /> And the taste<br /> of your tender skin<br /> leaves my senses scattered<br /> on the titles<br /> <br /> And your touch<br /> like compassion's interim<br /> hold me when the dark<br /> claws at my side<br /> <br /> like your kiss<br /> your kiss]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:51:33 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Writer's Block: Reality TV Your Way</title>
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<table><tr><td><div style="'border:"><p>If you could make your own reality show, what would it be about and who would be on it?</p><p style="'font-size:">Submitted by <span class="ljuser" style="'white-space:"><a href="http://lauralieisfly.livejournal.com/profile"><img src="http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" alt="[info]" width="17" height="17" style="'vertical-align:" /></a><a href="http://lauralieisfly.livejournal.com/"><b>lauralieisfly</b></a></span><br /></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" /> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=483">View other answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div>
<br /><br />It would be a mix between Big Brother and the film "Cube". I liked the first time I saw those whistar specie of humans on tv -Skinner should've been proud- but something was missing there beyond the sentimental pornography, a real meaning for the group... <br /><br />I really don't like the reality shows or TV, I really can live without it :), but everytime someone mentions the subject i like to tell them my idea... :)<br /><br />does your family love you, does the White Clown love you??<br /><br /><br />Manzana Oscura.]]></description>
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      <title>Writer's Block: God For a Day</title>
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<table><tr><td><div style="'border:"><p>If you could be God for a day, what three things would be at the top of your to-do list?</p><p style="'font-size:">Submitted by <span class="ljuser" style="'white-space:"><a href="http://rebelfilms.livejournal.com/profile"><img src="http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" alt="[info]" width="17" height="17" style="'vertical-align:" /></a><a href="http://rebelfilms.livejournal.com/"><b>rebelfilms</b></a></span><br /></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" /> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=486">View other answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div>
<br /><br />I think G-d must be very tired of hearing how many non-versed on the business come around thinking they could do it better... but ok... here is the three top to do list:<br /><br />I would send a new avatar to change the actual order of this world.<br /><br />I would open the eyes of some humans to lead others to make a better world.<br /><br />I would start everything again... <br /><br /><br />Probably this sounds cruel, but I can't imagine the G-d's mind... I am only a human.]]></description>
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<table><tr><td><div style="'border:"><p>Do you have any odd nervous habits?</p><p style="'font-size:">Submitted by <span class="ljuser" style="'white-space:"><a href="http://theonlyink.livejournal.com/profile"><img src="http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif" alt="[info]" width="17" height="17" style="'vertical-align:" /></a><a href="http://theonlyink.livejournal.com/"><b>theonlyink</b></a></span><br /></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" /> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=487">View other answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div>
 <br /><br />yes, an obsessive-compulsive behavior... I tend to fix, order and/or cut what looks out of place :(]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[<center><b>July 20, 2008.</b></center><br /><br />Today is the saddest day of my life,<br /><br />I have lost a very good friend.<br /><br />A kindred spirit has gone... a part of my heart is gone too. hope to find soon -in this grief- the heal for my pain and sorrow.<br /><br />It is a mourning day and time for me.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett <br />(6 January 1946 - 7 July 2006) <br /><br />Shine on you crazy diamond, on you, for you, forever...<br /><br />Brilla en ti diamante loco, en ti, por ti, por siempre...<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.findagrave.com/photos/2006/191/14893566_115262638527.jpg" /></center><br /><br /><center><img src="http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t217/manzanaoscura/70-4.jpg" /></center><br /><br /><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=14893566&amp;page=gr" target="_blank">Syd Barrett Profile at Find A Grave</a><br /><br /><br /><br />]]></description>
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      <title>Save The World - One Click At A Time! -new images.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<center><b>Save The World - One Click At A Time!</b><br /><br />On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thehungersite.com/tpc/THS_linktous_120_02"><img border="0" alt="The Hunger Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_ths-jelly-free.jpg" /></a>  <a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/tpc/BCS_linktous_120_02"><img border="0" alt="The Breast Cancer Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_bcs-jelly-fund.jpg" /></a>  <a href="http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/tpc/CHS_linktous_120_02"><img border="0" alt="The Child Health Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_chs-jelly-help.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theliteracysite.com/tpc/TLS_linktous_120_02"><img border="0" alt="The Literacy Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_tls-jelly-fund.jpg" /></a>  <a href="http://www.therainforestsite.com/tpc/TRS_linktous_120_02"><img border="0" alt="The Rainforest Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_trs-jelly-save.jpg" /></a>  <a href="http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/tpc/ARS_linktous_120_02"><img border="0" alt="The Animal Rescue Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_ars-jelly-help.jpg" /></a></center><br /><br /><br /><b>Code</b>:<br /><center><br /><br />&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;Save The World - One Click At A Time!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thehungersite.com/tpc/THS_linktous_120_02"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Hunger Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_ths-jelly-free.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/tpc/BCS_linktous_120_02"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Breast Cancer Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_bcs-jelly-fund.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/tpc/CHS_linktous_120_02"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Child Health Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_chs-jelly-help.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theliteracysite.com/tpc/TLS_linktous_120_02"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Literacy Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_tls-jelly-fund.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.therainforestsite.com/tpc/TRS_linktous_120_02"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Rainforest Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_trs-jelly-save.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/tpc/ARS_linktous_120_02"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Animal Rescue Site" src="http://www.greatergood.com/images/linktous/120_ars-jelly-help.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=1&gt;&lt;a href="http://manzanaoscura.livejournal.com/11091.html"&gt;Click here to post this on your page or 'blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/center&gt;<br /></center><br /><br /><br />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:51:41 -0700</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:05:05 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Writer's Block: Home is...</title>
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<table><tr><td><div style="'border:"><p>Where do you call home?</p><p style="'font-size:"></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" /> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=444">View other answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div>
<br /><br />My home is where is my heart...<br />My country are my friends, and that's what I really miss.]]></description>
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      <title>Writer's Block: Where your memories began.</title>
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<br /><br />When my father called home from L.A. many years ago. I was less than two years old and the phone was too heavy and big for me, I just remember his voice saying: "I miss you and mom, I'll be back soon".]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:05:04 -0700</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The heart, that secret place...<br /><br />The cruelest lesson is that words are seeds. <br /><br />and<br /><br />The heart is not an open grave.<br /><a href="http://www.maploco.com/view.php?id=2665655"></a>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[======================================================================================================<br />LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies<br /><br /><b>Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102.</b><br /><br />Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus.<br /><br />He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: "Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror."<br /><br />He argued for decades that LSD could help treat mental illness, but in the 1960s it became a popular street drug.<br /><br /><b>'Turn on, tune in, drop out'</b><br /><br />While working with the drug in the Sandoz pharmaceutical laboratory a few years after first producing it, Mr Hofmann ingested some of the drug through his fingertips.<br /><br />He went home and experienced what he described as visions of "fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours".<br /><br />The drug was popularised by Harvard professor Timothy Leary who suggested that people "turn on, tune in, drop out".<br /><br />Rock stars and the counter-culture of the 1960s picked up LSD as a wonder drug but horror stories began to emerge of users suffering permanent psychological damage.<br /><br />LSD was made illegal in many countries beginning in the late 1960s.<br /><br />Story from BBC NEWS:<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7374846.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7374846.stm</a><br /><br />Published: 2008/04/30 08:48:57 GMT<br /><br />]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A life.. or a journey? who knows...<br /><br />Please remember that english is not my first language. So, please be patient and send me or write the corrections.<br /><br />I wonder if you, my dear reader are there...<br /><br />I wonder if one of my angels is waiting outside...<br /><br />Is there any lost soul?<br /><br />These are some thoughts I had in today.<br /><br /><br />Banshee]]></description>
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      <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I found this image on deviantart,<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50151036/"><img src="http://tn1-3.deviantart.com/fs15/150/f/2007/063/7/a/An_Apple_by_Fishdot.jpg" /><br />An Apple</a> by *<a href="http://Fishdot.deviantart.com/">Fishdot</a> on <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/">deviant</a><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/">ART</a><br /><br />I wish for you the best, dear reader!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[...the world seems too strange to be real.<br />...The time is passing too slow.<br />...I want to visit your website, but I don't remember the address... Do I know it?<br />...I do try to sleep, but I can't! Too much coffee!!<br />...I wonder about many things I care... and they are really not important.<br />...The moon is a face and the sun is a nightmare!<br />...My cat is looking for an imaginary cat...<br />I do write things like this...<br /><br />My mind is not so well,<br /><br />...Sometimes...]]></description>
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