Help Me With Spelling, form my Album Melodic Fantasy
Juan M. Valero
May 24 2008, 07:27 AM
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Hello guys, I'd like the somebody take a loot at this text and correct my misspellings... I put the Spanish version and the English version wink.gif

Thanks in advance:



EL PROYECTO MELODIC FANTASY:

Melodic Fantasy es mi gran proyecto en solitario. Melodic Fantasy se trata de una saga que estará formada por muchos discos o maquetas de muy diversos estilos y cuyo objetivo no es otro que saciar mi sed de tocar y de experimentar con la música. De este modo a Earlier compositions le seguirán otros capitulos como “Akoustic Fantasy”, “Symphonic Fantasy”, “Power Fantasy”, etc. Donde trataré de agrupar los temas de dichos estilos de un modo más ordenado que no en Earlier Compositions, donde podemos encontrar desde baladas a lo Depeche Mode o ritmos Dance hasta música de Terror pasando por supuesto por temas powermetaleros y también por temas progresivos algo pasados de vueltas.
Se trata sólo del primer eslabón, de momento solo estoy en el Hall del museo, ya habrá tiempo para entrar en las diferentes habitaciones.
Ningún estilo queda fuera de este gran proyecto y desearía poder explorar lo máximo posible ya que no hay estilos buenos o malos sino composiciones buenas o malas así que si realmente lo hago mal no hay que buscar excusas en el estilo...


THE MELODIC FANTASY PROJECT:

Melodic Fantasy is my own solo Project. That will be formed by a great amount of albums from very different styles and the objective is to play and experiment in all the diverse ways that are possible. So after Earlier Compositions there will be more albums like “Akoustik Fantasy”, “Symphonic Fantasy”, etc. where I try to get groups of songs with a similar style because in Earlier Compositions we can find from ballads in the style od Depeche Mode or Dance rhythms to Terror music, Power metal or Progressive metal.
This is only the first step, now I’m in the Museum’s Hall, but there will be more time to explore all the different Rooms.
All the styles have a place in this project, and I wish to explore the maximum possible because I really think that there aren’t good or bad styles, just good or bad sogs, so if you feel that my music is not good enough I cannot search ecuses in the style.



EARLIER COMPOSITIONS:

Podemos decir que este disco es una especie de recopilatorio de todos los temas que he ido componiendo a lo largo de los 2 últimos años y que me han servido para avanzar sobretodo en temas como la grabación, el uso de programas para mejorar la calidad del audio y aprender a componer, mezclar, masterizar, y en definitiva a crear una rutina de trabajo cómoda y eficaz.
La verdad es que creo que he dedicado más tiempo a la búsqueda de sonidos y a dominar programas de grabación que a la propia composición ya que de hecho gran parte de los solos son improvisaciones con alguna salida involuntaria de tono. No obstante de lo que se trataba es de ser capaz de crear algo que la gente pudiera escuchar sin pensar “que lástima que no tenga un sonido mejor”. No obstante el camino es largo y sigo en ello, y la prueba es que en este disco hay muchos errores de programación que no han podido ser solucionados, pero de eso ya hablaré más adelante.

Earlier Compositions se trata de un disco irregular, lo reconozco. Hay temas de muy diferentes estilos y dentro de los estilos hay temas de muy diferente calidad, pero como suele suceder a veces es difícil decidir que tema debe entrar y que tema no y como no veo necesidad de limitar el numero de canciones he decidido incluir prácticamente todas las composiciones que he hecho para este proyecto sin descartar más que un par de ellas. Cada uno es libre de grabar sólo aquellas que más le gusten, por supuesto.

Bien, se trata como ves de un disco bastante extenso, de casi 100 minutos, lo cual entiendo que puede resultar excesivo pero la idea es más pensarlo como una especie de recopilatorio de todos lo que he ido haciendo y que no tenían a priori un proyecto previamente definido. Es cierto que también he estado componiendo para otros proyectos, y espero que esos temas vean algún día la luz, pero no he querido incluirlos aquí por ser otro pequeño mundo aparte.


EARLIER COMPOSITIONS:


We can say that this album is like a compilation putting together all the songs that I’ve recorded during the last 2 years and that made possible my advance not only in the composing, mixing and mastering fields but also in creating a good and profitable routine.
The truth is that I hope I’ve dedicated more time searching sounds and working with recording programs than in the own writing and the fact is that some solo are just improvisations with small and non voluntary outs of tune. Well, the objective was to create something that anybody could listen without saying “what a pity that it doesn’t get a better sound”. But the way is so long and there are some mistakes that I cannot resolve in this album, but I’ll talk about this later.

Earlier Compositions is an irregular album, I know. There are a really different tracks with a really different quality, but as usually happens it’s difficult to choose what songs should remains and what doesn’t, so as I don’t need to discard anything I decided to put all together here except 2 bad tracks . Of course each of you are able to record your favourite songs.

Well, as you can see that’s an extremely long album, almost 100 minutes, so that’s the reason because I understand that it would be too much but the idea is to think about the album like a weird compilation with all tracks that haven’t a concrete project. Of course I recorded more things for other projects, and I wish this themes will be released one day, but I prefer not including them here because those are a little word apart.



MI PROCESO DE GRABACION:

Generalmente me sirvo de varios programas para llevar a cabo una canción. Uno para hacer toda la composición, es decir una partitura MIDI, otro para poner sonidos reales a ese MIDI y finalmente otro más para grabar guitarras y hacer la mezcla del tema y su posterior masterización.
La idea de hacerlo todo por separado es para potenciar esas partes, de lo contrario el resultado puede convertirse en un monstruo difícil de manejar en un ordenador convencional debido al excesivo consumo de recursos (pensad que hay veces que he necesitado más de 40 pistas para una sola canción... de hecho rara vez bajo de las 20).
Es el momento de agradecer a todos los miembros del antiguo foro de www.guitarristas.info su ayuda ya que todos los temas aquí incluidos se subieron previamente a dicho foro para someterlos a las criticas de los foreros, muchos de ello buenos amigos míos. Este proceso fue clave para mejorar mi oído y mis capacidades de técnico de sonido. Así como bien dice Toni Lloret (creador del foro y tremendo guitarrista) la mejor manera de evitar que te roben tus canciones es simplemente difundirlas por ello os invito a que vosotros también lo hagais porque merece la pena. Cada tema que escuchas con oído crítico te hace mejor y te ayuda a definir en tu cabeza cual es el sonido que quieres.
Bueno, a pesar de todo he de decir que la calidad de este disco no es ni de lejos la deseada ya que debido a cierto problemilla informático perdí gran parte del material. De hecho lo que ahora tienes en tus manos no es un material bien mezclado sino que tiene su punto de partida en las mezclas “provisionales” que hice para compartir las canciones en el foro de guitarristas.info
Así pues tanto los instrumentos virtuales (bajos, teclas, orquesta, percusión) como las guitarras tienen su origen hace por lo menos 1 año ya que de hecho en Mayo del 2007 todo este material ya estaba pendiente de mezclar de nuevo y masterizar. No es difícil imaginar que hoy por hoy el sonido que estoy consiguiendo es muy superior y por lo tanto el próximo disco sonará mucho mejor.


MY RECORDING PROCEDURE:

I often use some programs to get the songs. One for the composing, a MIDI tab, other to put real sounds into the MIDI and the last one to record guitars and do the mix and mastering.
The idea is to do in different steps to work harder in those points because working all together would be too much difficult because of the excessive resources use (just think that sometimes I’ve need more than 40 tracks for one song… actually I think I didn’y use less than 20).
Now it’s time to say a big thank you to the www.guitarristas.info’s forum because of his help and the reason is because I uploaded there my stuff and the members send me some advices about the mixing, mastering or anything else. This procedure was really important to improve my ear and sound technical skills. So as Toni Lloret (site creator and excellent player) the best way to protect your songs and to avoid that somebody steal them is to share them, so I invite you to do share your stuff because it’s a great experience. Every theme that you listen with a critical ear improves yourself and helps you to know in your head what’s your desired sound.
Well, after all I must say that the quality of this album is not the desired because I have some troubles with my computer and I lost great part of the stuff. In fact what you have in your hands now is not the stuff good mixed and good mastered, but is the remastered themes from my initial mixes that I did to share in guitarristas.info
So all the virtual instruments (bass, drums, orchestra, percussion) and guitars as well have his origin in the last year because in May 2007 all this stuff was already recorded. It’s not difficult to understand that nowadays the sound that I can get is too much better, so my next album will sounds better.



PARA EL FUTURO:

Creo que hay demasiadas cosas que quiero hacer. De momento tengo varios proyectos en mente y algunos ya iniciados, entre los que se encuentran un proyecto Gótico con voz femenina, un proyecto cantado inspirado en mi intento frustrado de novela “VASTAGOS” de temática vampírica, el proyecto Akoustik Fantasy que como su nombre indica se basará en una base acústica con estructura más tradicional de bajo batería y guitarras, y también un proyecto con un DJ, que espero llegue a buen puerto


MY FUTURE:

I think there are too much things that I want to do. Now I have some projects in my mind and some others, in which there are a Gothic project with a girl-lyric voice, another sung project called VASTAGOS (lyrics in Spanish, sorry). I have also an acoustic project called Akoustik Fantasy with a typical structure: bass, drums and guitars. And finally I have a project with a DJ that I wish works good.




Well that's all GuitarMasterFriends !! I supose I'll upload another text with the thanks and something more, so thanks for all your help !!!

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This post has been edited by Juan M. Valero: May 24 2008, 11:07 AM
Reason for edit: spelling of course
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i would like to help you Juan but i am not sure from my spelling .also nice projects you have

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Juan M. Valero
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don't worry mate wink.gif

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QUOTE (Juan M. Valero @ May 24 2008, 11:57 AM) *
Hello guys, I'd like the somebody take a loot a this text and correct my misspellings... I put the Spanish version and the English version wink.gif


It should be spelled as " look at "

laugh.gif laugh.gif
That's the only mispelling for me

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Juan M. Valero
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OUCH that's true tongue.gif but that's not important 'cos is not in the text laugh.gif
Thanks mate !!!

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QUOTE
This is only the first step, now I’m the Museum’s Hall,


Is there something missing?

QUOTE
EARLIER COMPOSITIONS:

We can say that this album is like a compilation putting together all the songs that I’ve recorded during the last 2 years and that made possible my advance not only in the composing, mixing and mastering fields but also in creating a good and profitable routine.
The truth is that I hope I’ve dedicated more time searching sounds and working with recording programs than in the own writing and the fact is that some solo are just improvisations with smalls and non voluntary outs of tune. Well, the objective was to create something that anybody could listen without saying “what a pity that it doesn’t get a better sound”. But the way is so long and there are some mistakes that I cannot resolve in this album, but I’ll talk about this later.

Earlier Compositions is an irregular album, I know. There are a really different tracks with a really different quality, but as usually happens it’s difficult to choose what songs should remains and what doesn’t, so as I don’t need to discard anything I decided to put all together here except 2 bad tracks . Of course each of you are able to record your favourite songs.

Well, as you can see that’s an extremely long album, almost 100 minutes, so that’s the reason because I understand that it would be too much but the idea is think about the album like a weird compilation with all tracks that haven’t a concrete project. Of course I recorded more things for other projects, and I wish this themes will be released one day, but I prefer not including them here because those are a little word apart.



I am not sure but I think they should be
1.small and non voluntary
2are
3.is to think



MI RECORDING PROCEDURE:


should be

"MY RECORDING PROCEDURE:"


QUOTE
I often use some programs to get the songs. One for the composing, a MIDI tab, other to put real sounds into the MIDI and the last one to record guitars and do the mix and mastering.
The idea is to do in different steps to work harder in those points because working all together would be too much difficult because of the excessive resources use (just think that sometimes I’ve need more than 40 tracks for one song… actually I think I didn’y use less than 20).
Now it’s time to say a big thanks you to the www.guitarristas.info’s forum because of his help and the reason is because I uploaded there my stuff and the members send me some advices about the mixing, mastering or anything else. This procedure was really important to improve my ear and sound technical skills. So as Toni Lloret (site creator and excellent player) the best way to protect your songs and to avoid that somebody steal them is to share them, so I invite you to do share your stuff because it’s a great experience. Every theme that you listen with a critical ear improves yourself and helps you to know in your head what’s your desired sound.
Well, after all I must say that the quality of this album is not the desired because I have some troubles with my computer and I lost great part of the stuff. In fact what you have in your hands now is not the stuff good mixed and good mastered, but also is the remastered themes from my initial mixes that I did to share in guitarristas.info
So all the virtual instruments (bass, drums, orchestra, percussion) and guitars as well have his origin in the last year because in May 2007 all this stuff was already recorded. It’s not difficult to understand that nowadays the sound that I can get is too much better, so my next album will sounds better.


thank you

I think there is no need of also (but is enough)

sound better







QUOTE
MY FUTURE:

I thinks there are too much things that I want to do. Now I have some projects in my mind and some others, in which there are a Gothic project with a girl-lyric voice, another singed project called VASTAGOS (lyrics in Spanish, sorry). I have also an acoustic project called Akoustik Fantasy with a typical structure: bass, drums and guitars. And finally I have a project with a DJ that I wish works good.



think

signed project ?



that's all I can notice.
I think there are few grammer errors but I am not that good at english so someone else will help you  in that matter biggrin.gif

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Juan M. Valero
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thanks mate, I'm gonna correct those mistakes wink.gif

QUOTE (Vinod Saranga @ May 24 2008, 11:02 AM) *
Singed project
signed project


mmm no, I wanted to say that in this project I have a voice that are singing... I don't know how to translate this and if it's correct

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QUOTE (Juan M. Valero @ May 24 2008, 03:31 PM) *
thanks mate, I'm gonna correct those mistakes wink.gif



mmm no, I wanted to say that in this project I have a voice that are singing... I don't know how to translate this and if it's correct


sung project ?
not sure may be there is a good one

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Juan M. Valero
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Ouch, I hope that's true, sing/sang/sung an irregular verb ohmy.gif sad.gif Where would be my mind ??? laugh.gif

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Vinod's doing a great job here, a few that I would suggest are:

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QUOTE (Juan M. Valero @ May 24 2008, 06:27 AM) *
THE MELODIC FANTASY PROJECT:

Melodic Fantasy is my solo Project (own solo is a little too much). It is influenced by many albums from diverse styles and the objective is to play and experiment in all the diverse ways that are possible. So, for instance, after Earlier Compositions there will be more albums like “Akoustik Fantasy”, “Symphonic Fantasy”, etc. where I try to group together songs with a similar style. As an example, in Earlier Compositions we can find ballads in the style of Depeche Mode or Dance rhythms to Terror music, Power metal or Progressive metal.
This is only the first step, at present I’m in the Museum’s Hall, but there will be more time to explore all the different Rooms.
All styles have a place in this project, and I wish to explore as many as possible because I really think that there are no good or bad styles, just good or bad songs, so if you feel that my music is not good enough I cannot blame the style.



...


EARLIER COMPOSITIONS:


We can say that this album is like a compilation that collects together all the songs that I’ve recorded during the last 2 years and that made possible my improvments not only in the composing, mixing and mastering fields but also in creating a good and profitable work routine.
The truth is that I hope I’ve dedicated more time to searching for sounds and in working with recording programs than in the own writing and the fact is that some solos are just improvisations that include some 'outside' playing. Well, the objective was to create something that anybody could listen to without saying “what a pity that it doesn’t get a better sound”. But the way is so long and there are some mistakes that I cannot resolve in this album, but I’ll talk about this later.

I know that Earlier Compositions is an irregular album. There really are different tracks with really different qualities but, as usually happens, it’s difficult to choose which songs should remain and which don’t and since I don’t need to discard anything I decided to put them all together here except for 2 bad tracks . Of course you are all able to record your favourite songs.

Well, as you can see it’s an extremely long album, almost 100 minutes, and that’s the reason. Even though I understand that it may be too much the idea is to think about the album as a weird compilation with all the tracks that haven’t a concrete project. Of course I recorded more things for other projects, and I hope that these themes will be released one day but I prefer to not include them here because they are a little world apart.



...

MY RECORDING PROCEDURE:

I often use some different programs to make the songs. One for the composing, a MIDI tab, another to put real sounds into the MIDI and the last one to record guitars and do the mix and mastering.
The idea is to do it in different steps so as to work harder on these points because working on them all at once would be much too difficult because of the huge resources used (just think: sometimes I’ve need more than 40 tracks for just one song … and I actually think I didn’t use less than 20).
Now it’s time to say a big thank you to the www.guitarristas.info’s forum because of its help. I uploaded my stuff there and the members sent me advice about mixing, mastering and anything else. This procedure was really important as it improved my ear and my technical skills.

Toni Lloret (site creator and an excellent player) says that the best way to protect your songs and to avoid somebody stealing them is to share them, so I invite you to share your stuff because it’s a great experience. Every theme that you listen to with a critical ear improves your understanding and helps you to understand what makes your desired sound.

Well, after all this I must say that the quality of this album is not quite what I desired because I had some trouble with my computer and lost a great deal of stuff. In fact what you have in your hands now is not the stuff that was mixed and mastered well but the remastered themes from my initial mixes that I shared on guitarristas.info
So all the virtual instruments (bass, drums, orchestra, percussion) and guitars come from May 2007 when all this stuff was originally recorded so hopefully it’s not difficult to understand that nowadays the sound that I can get is so much better and that my next album will sound better.



...


MY FUTURE:

There are so many things that I want to do. At the moment some projects are in my mind and some I have already started; there is a Gothic project which uses a female voice, and another sung project called VASTAGOS (literally 'lyrics' in Spanish). I also have an acoustic project called Akoustik Fantasy with a typical structure: bass, drums and guitars and finally I have a project with a DJ that I hope will work well.

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Well that's all GuitarMasterFriends !! I suppose I'll upload another text with the thanks and something more soon, so thanks for all your help !!!

See you smile.gif



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Apologies - did this too quickly to really do justice to your piece Juan and it's not perfect. I've tried to stay as close to your original Spanish version as I can but my translation isn't perfect and I've diverged from it a few times as well but hopefully not too much. I've used modern English so the grammar is more 'how it's used daily' then correct classically.

Cheers,
Tony smile.gif

EDIT - correcting my sloppy English - duh

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That's amaizing Tony  smile.gif
Juan I think you've now got the real help biggrin.gif

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Vinod's doing a great job here, a few that I would suggest are:

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QUOTE (Juan M. Valero @ May 24 2008, 06:27 AM) *
THE MELODIC FANTASY PROJECT:

Melodic Fantasy is my solo Project (own solo is a little too much). It is influenced by many albums from diverse styles and the objective is to play and experiment in all the diverse ways that are possible. So, for instance, after Earlier Compositions there will be more albums like “Akoustik Fantasy”, “Symphonic Fantasy”, etc. where I try to group together songs with a similar style. As an example, in Earlier Compositions we can find ballads in the style of Depeche Mode or Dance rhythms to Terror music, Power metal or Progressive metal.
This is only the first step, at present I’m in the Museum’s Hall, but there will be more time to explore all the different Rooms.
All styles have a place in this project, and I wish to explore as many as possible because I really think that there are no good or bad styles, just good or bad songs, so if you feel that my music is not good enough I cannot blame the style.



...


EARLIER COMPOSITIONS:


We can say that this album is like a compilation that collects together all the songs that I’ve recorded during the last 2 years and that made possible my improvments not only in the composing, mixing and mastering fields but also in creating a good and profitable work routine.
The truth is that I hope I’ve dedicated more time to searching for sounds and in working with recording programs than in the own writing and the fact is that some solos are just improvisations that include some 'outside' playing. Well, the objective was to create something that anybody could listen to without saying “what a pity that it doesn’t get a better sound”. But the way is so long and there are some mistakes that I cannot resolve in this album, but I’ll talk about this later.

I know that Earlier Compositions is an irregular album. There really are different tracks with really different qualities but, as usually happens, it’s difficult to choose which songs should remain and which don’t and since I don’t need to discard anything I decided to put them all together here except 2 bad tracks . Of course you are all able to record your favourite songs.

Well, as you can see it’s an extremely long album, almost 100 minutes, and that’s the reason. Even though I understand that it may be too much the idea is to think about the album as a weird compilation with all tracks that haven’t a concrete project. Of course I recorded more things for other projects, and I hope that these themes will be released one day but I prefer to not include them here because they are a little world apart.



...

MY RECORDING PROCEDURE:

I often use some different programs to make the songs. One for the composing, a MIDI tab, another to put real sounds into the MIDI and the last one to record guitars and do the mix and mastering.
The idea is to do it in different steps so as to work harder on these points because working on them all at once would be much too difficult because of the huge resources used (just think: sometimes I’ve need more than 40 tracks for just one song … and I actually think I didn’t use less than 20).
Now it’s time to say a big thank you to the www.guitarristas.info’s forum because of its help. I uploaded my stuff there and the members sent me advice about mixing, mastering and anything else. This procedure was really important as it improved my ear and my technical skills.

Toni Lloret (site creator and an excellent player) that the best way to protect your songs and to avoid somebody stealing them is to share them, so I invite you to share your stuff because it’s a great experience. Every theme that you listen to with a critical ear improves your understanding and helps you to understand what makes your desired sound.

Well, after all this I must say that the quality of this album is not quite what I desired because I had some trouble with my computer and lost a great deal of stuff. In fact what you have in your hands now is not the stuff that was mixed and mastered well but the remastered themes from my initial mixes that I shared on guitarristas.info
So all the virtual instruments (bass, drums, orchestra, percussion) and guitars come from May 2007 when all this stuff was originally recorded so hopefully it’s not difficult to understand that nowadays the sound that I can get is so much better and that my next album will sound better.



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MY FUTURE:

There are so many things that I want to do. At the moment some projects in my mind and some I have already started; there is a Gothic project which uses a female voice, and another sung project called VASTAGOS (literally 'lyrics' in Spanish). I also have an acoustic project called Akoustik Fantasy with a typical structure: bass, drums and guitars and finally I have a project with a DJ that I hope will work well.

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Well that's all GuitarMasterFriends !! I suppose I'll upload another text with the thanks and something more soon, so thanks for all your help !!!

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Apologies - did this too quickly to really do justice to your piece Juan and it's not perfect. I've tried to stay as close to your original Spanish version as I can but my translation isn't perfect and I've diverged from it a few times as well but hopefully not too much. I've used modern English so the grammar is more 'how it's used daily' then correct classically.

Cheers,
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WOW !!! that's exactly what I need !!! biggrin.gif I think that now this part is ok wink.gif Thanks a lot mate !!! uff I think I need to study too much more huh.gif rolleyes.gif

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