The Mellotron Group

This is what happens when these kinds of experiments go horribly  wrong.
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE) 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/25/2011 9:17:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tomdcour@amnh.org writes:

 
 
 
getting my bodily fluids drained has always been a concern of mine- I  
figure the chinese and russians do as good a job  
as anyone else
P.S. I like what you wrote Chris


On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:56 AM, John Hammaren wrote:



 



It’s full  of commies, draining the rest of us of our natural bodily 
fluids! You think  it was coincidence that video was posted? I think not. 
 
 
From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)   [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas 
C.  Doncourt
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 5:37 PM
To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
Cc:  _'newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:'newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) '
Subject:  RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax  slingers

 
 
OH GOD NO !!! not on the tron site for pities sake

> Communist  more likely. The Soviet Russkies weren't much different. The
> removal  of individualistic thought does not promote much innovation.  .
>
> From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  [mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ]  On Behalf Of Gary Brumm
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:00 PM
>  To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax  slingers
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> Chris, I agree with most of this except  "The emphasis on imitation over
> invention (largely an American  ideology)"
> I think it is overwhelmingly an Asian  ideology.......
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> From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups%20.com) 
>  [mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ]  On Behalf Of Chris Dale
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:43  AM
> To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax  slingers
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> Well if not mistaken, the letters next to  the video say DPRK, which means
> "Democratic People's Republic of  Korea".
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> Those of you familiar with history might remember  that it's a misnomer of
> sorts - a propaganda title used by North  Korea and Stalin's puppet
> counterpart Kim Il Sung.
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>  As an educator of Korean students and having gone deeply into the
>  Demilitarized zone at the South / North Korean border, I can tell  you
> that these students have it ingrained in them to duplicate or  copy
> perfectly - without any thought of improvisation or expression  because it
> is immediately extinguished at the slightest  emergence.
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> Now before the automaton reaction of 'politically  incorrect' enters the
> conditioned and malleable mind, consider that  the country was largely
> destroyed during the Korean War and that  their entire culture has been
> based upon copying either Americanism  and it's influences (South Korea) 
or
> Communism and it's influences  (North Korea).
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> With 5000 years of culture reduced to almost  nothing in 3 years, the
> people had no choice but to copy everything  else and to do it very well,
> to the point where copying it better  took over and originality or 
anything
> resembling it was  discouraged.
> This idea is shared by many Koreans by the  way!
>
> The emphasis on imitation over invention (largely an  American ideology) 
is
> almost second nature to pr esent day students.  I have witnessed this 
first
> hand and attempt to drastically reduce  it for the student's sake.
>
> Of course, these children will  gradually learn the bigger meaning of what
> it is they're doing, and  let their artistic sides emerge, but for now
> let's take comfort and  enjoyment in what they've achieved (and had 
drilled
> into them) to  do, and the fact that they've even eaten and have
> electricity as  more than half of North Korea doesn't. It's a completely
> different  world than you can imagine, with rampant starvation, propaganda
>  speaker systems in every house, and picures of the "Dear Leader" hung  up
> on bedroom walls and larger than family pictures.
> There's  even an incident where a man's home caught fire and he saved the
>  pictures of the "Dear Leaders" first while his family burned to  death.
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>
> Anyway - this is a singular performance  because of where these kids are
> from and it needs to be seen in it's  proper social, political and 
economic
> context, and not through the  views most of us would normally hold.
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> As far the  North American hockey dad's and soccer mom's - in my opinion,
> these  people (although well meaning) are just as bad as the oppressive
>  totalitarian governements of the world because it's the exact same  thing
> on a much smaller scale. These people also reduce and suppress  their kids
> to death by ruining any individual expression, in the  guise of being in
> their best interests.
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> I'd have no  difficulty at all lashing out at those troublemaking parents
> out if  I was a school coach. It might be the only time they ever question
>  their righteous behaviour before ruining part of their kids  childhood.
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> Going back to what I said about musically  copying - here's a modern 
Korean< br>> pop song. It's  simultaneously humourous, tragic, and irritating.
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> This is  the legacy of years of exposure to the worst and most
> unforgiveable  modern North American pop music.
> What a shame that our vapid music  industries have influnced someone else
> to make bigger mounds of  sonic garbage than ourselves.
> And check out the guy dressed as Robin  (from Batman). He likely has no
> idea who Robin actually is at all,  and was just impressed by the fashion.
>
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> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY) 
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>  On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Noel
> <_noel@arbelos.eu_ (mailto:noel@arbelos.eu) <mailto:_noel@arbelos.eu_ 
(mailto:noel@arbelos.eu) >>  wrote:
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> I don't o ften comment on groups, but in this  case I have to. I agree 
with
> Mike on this one (hello Mike). This is  the very peak of soulessness. 
These
> poor mites have been programmed  out of their very humanity. It doesn't
> bear thinking about what they  have had to endure to get them to do what
> they are doing. Please  make them stop. Let them out to play in the fresh
> air and the  fields. Let them find their souls again.
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> ---  In
> _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
>  fdoddy@... wrote:
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>>  Mike,
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>> You actually thought the five children playing  was soulless? It's mind
>> numbing how cynical and bitter you are.  If there is pity to had, it's on
>> you, I'm  afraid.
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>>  fritz
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Dickson  <mike.dickson@...>
>> To: newmellotrongroup
>>  <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>>
>>  Sent: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 12:47 pm
>> Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] OT-Future ax  slingers
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>>  Watched them both. One is as pitifully soulless as the other,  I'm
>> afraid.
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>> On 22/04/2011 16:02, Tom  Doncourt wrote:
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>> Cool! From that to  this-
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>> _http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM_ (http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM) 
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>>  On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:54 AM, johnm400s911  wrote:
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>  > For the guitar players on the board. This will make you  smile.
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>> _http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0) 
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