Voodoo (Alexz Johnson album)

Voodoo is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alexz Johnson. The album was released on March 9, 2010 through Orange Lounge Recordings and inDiscover Recordings.

Writing and development

The recording process began in mid-2009 when Johnson revealed on her website that she was dropped from Epic Records, and that the album she recorded and planned to release with them, was now shelved due to contractual complications. Some tracks were written as far back as 2005 with intent to be released through the album she planned with Capitol-EMI, but that deal shortly ended as the executives who signed Johnson to the label had been released from their contracts.

After several months of recording, Johnson announced that the album was almost complete and clips of several potential singles were posted on her official site shortly after. Johnson also worked with several musicians during the recording process. She teamed up with guitarist Tim Welch once again after previously working with him on several of the songs she had recorded for Instant Star. As of October, video treatments began being formed and Johnson had applied for the VideoFact grant, funded by MuchMusic, MuchMore and PromoFACT, and learned she was one of 272 other applicants to win in late 2009.

Voodoo (actor)

Voodoo (born Alex Torres; September 24, 1977) is a Canadian pornographic film actor.

Career

In September 1999, Voodoo and a friend left Canada and began a cross country motorcycle road trip in the United States. In October 1999, they began working as pornographic film actors after arriving in California without any money, contacting Vivid Entertainment, and being referred to Jim South.

As of May 2012, Voodoo remains under contract with Reality Kings, a production company he signed with in 2009.

In December 2012, Voodoo and pornographic actress Karlie Montana launched the reality porn website MiPhoneSex.com on the XXXFastPass Network.

Personal life

Voodoo married pornographic actress Nicole Sheridan in October 2000. During their joint marriage and porn career, they always worked together even during group scenes. They also used condoms with everyone except each other; their marriage lasted 10 years.

Voodoo worked on weekends as a part-time instructor at Skydive Taft until October 2011 when he was fired after it was discovered he stole from the company by not paying for a sky-diving experience and inappropriately conducted himself on company time with the recorded sexual encounter with the receptionist Hope Howell while skydiving in Kern County, California. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigated the incident and found that it did not violate FAA rules because the stunt did not interfere with the pilot's ability to fly the aircraft. According to Howell, the purpose of the stunt was to grab the attention of Howard Stern and appear on Stern's radio show.

Max on the Rox

Max on the Rox is a rock/blues band from Vaasa, Finland. The band is notable for being the rock/blues band where Kai Hahto, the well-known heavy metal musician is a drummer.

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Beat

Beat or beats may refer to:

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Beats (video game)

Beats is a rhythm-based video game for the Sony PlayStation Portable handheld gaming system. It was released in 2007 at the PlayStation Store.

Description

In addition to downloading music from the Internet, users may also use their own music to play along to in the My Music Challenge mode. Beats automatically loads the track titles and artist names of the songs it finds on the user's PSP. However, the game will only read up to 127 tracks for the user to choose from. There is as yet no explanation from Sony for this limitation, nor is it obvious how the game determines which 127 tracks are loaded from the library. (What is known is that the game loads the same set of tracks from the user's /MUSIC directory each time.)

During the game, three stationary targets, or landing points, (just one in Novice mode) are spaced evenly at the center of the screen. Symbols appear from off the screen and glide towards these targets in rhythm with the music. The symbols represent notes that players are meant to synchronize their button presses to and are identified by the four PlayStation face buttons: circle, "x", square, and triangle. These notes are generated based on the rhythm of the music using a beat tracking algorithm. While often occurring on the beat, notes can also occur off the beat at times. Tracks with greater emphasis on rhythm, especially techno songs with a strong, well-defined beat or powerful bass lines, generate the best in-game beat patterns.

Dv8

DV8 is a comic book published by Wildstorm. The series revolves around the lives of a group of Gen-Active people (Called DV8, or referred to as "The Deviants"), initially living in New York under the supervision of Ivana Baiul, who sends them on life-threatening black ops assignments.

Publication history

The series lasted 32 issues. The story of most DV8 members continued in the pages of Gen-Active, an anthology-series featuring various Wildstorm characters. Gen-Active lasted 6 issues.

Writer, Micah Wright, pitched a relaunch to WildStorm in 2003, but it was not picked up by the publisher. The artist on the book would have been Mark Robinson (Codename: Knockout).

The title returned in June 2010 as an eight-issue limited series called DV8: Gods and Monsters, written by Brian Wood with art by Rebekah Isaacs. The project is something Wood had been trying to get commissioned for years:

Fictional team history

Rather than saving the world, they use their powers for selfish reasons: to please themselves, indulge in any fancy that comes their way, uncaring about anybody else, and to forget that they are all just pawns to Ivana, expendable to her needs and desires. The members don't like each other, but are soon banding together for survival. This is what stands this book apart from most other superhero teams: they aren't heroes, they are not nice people, don't even like each other and can't even save themselves, let alone the world.