Title of an interesting collection of music released by Jump, Little Children in 1998 on Atlantic Records. Listening from start to finish, each track seems strikingly different from the last. It's an amazing album, though I wonder slightly at the arrangement of tracks as flow might have been improved with slight alteration.

Track Listing:

1. Not Today
2. Violent Dreams
3. Come Out Clean
4. Cathedrals
5. All Those Days Are Gone
6. Body Parts
7. My Guitar
8. B-13
9. Habit
10. Say Goodnight
11. Close Your Eyes

so let's break it down, a little..
My favourite slow tracks on the album are most definitely "Close Your Eyes" and "Cathedrals", though most every song on the album appeals to me in some way, "Come Out Clean" is fast and fairly loud but very good. It's hard to describe the album as a whole, except to say that it jumps all over the place.. sweet enchanting vocals, lyrics, to harsh and unsettling. Most times, I can't listen all the way through, simply because it doesn't fit any one mood well enough.

I don't know that many people that are into Jump, Little Children, but the people I do know are very into them. There is a good reason for that.. check the album out, though nothing beats one of their live shows. The entire group has a lot of experience and are extremely talented. Get acquainted with this album, and the new one, "Vertigo", hit up one of their shows, and you'll know exactly why so many people are addicted.

One last note.. few things are quite so awe inspiringly gorgeous as watching them perform Cathedrals live, or as exciting as hearing the first few notes of Violent Dreams or gosh any of it. Listen and support them, they deserve it.

The name of one of the very first post-punk bands, formed by former Buzzcocks vocalist Howard Devoto with guitarist John McGeoch, bassist Barry Adamson, keyboardist Bob Dickinson, and drummer Martin Jackson. They performed their first concert in June of 1977. The band had several good albums despite frequent changes in its lineup. Magazine could rightfully be considered one of the very first indie bands despite the fact that it broke up in 1981, many years before the music journalists invented the term for Husker Du and Nirvana.

The old E1 "Magazine (the band)" node. Adjust your hard-links accordingly.

Howard Devoto's post-Buzzcocks band, taking their ethos further, into the realm of art-rock, with the addition of keyboards and songs about "My Tulpa" and such. They had their greatest success with Magic, Murder, and the Weather, and the geeky-Motown "About the Weather", but rather than cash in on what could have been a lucrative run of hits, Devoto shut the thing down. Alumni include John McGeoch and Ben Mandelson of Siouxsie and the Banshees, and composer Barry Adamson.

This little node will follow suit with many of my other nodes and will be on weapons of the firearm variety. This time I'm going to write about how to load a magazine properly.

This topic is often of great importance because this not only helps to prevent damage rounds or magazines it also helps reduce the chance of there being a blockage with the function of the weapon with the case of a blocked round. It's essential that that someone can safely and efficiently load a magazine because failure on being able to do so will result in a blockage and this requires a 'stoppage drill' which will require movement of the rifle thus making a persons marksmanship skills mess up due to movement of the barrel, hence a loss of tight grouping.

The first and foremost thing to do is to check that you have the correct type of rounds for the firearm and the procedure to be carried out. Next you check you have the correct type of magazine for the rounds and firearm otherwise you can forget even trying.
After checking that all the correct equipment is ready you must now check that the magazine is in good working order with a spring that isn't messed up and the magazine body isn't dented.
Now the magazine is ready you would assume you'd start packing in those rounds, but wrong. You must now check that all the rounds you have are in good working order and aren't already fired. As stupid as that last comment sounds I actually witnessed a person fill his magazine with empty brass shells and live rounds just before a fire fight.
Now the easiest position to load a magazine is in the kneeling, squatting or sitting position as this provides you with a flat stable surface, being your thigh. Place the magazine on your thigh so that the magazine is vertical and the direction that the rounds should go points towards you.
Next pick up your first round and hold it like you would a pen. Then turn your hand so that the round is directly above the magazine with it being orientated to the direction it would be as if it were if it was in the magazine. Now push the rounds down into the magazine past the top lips until it seems secure and won't fall out.
Now the round is in the magazine push it so that the base of the round hits the far rear of the magazine.
Now you can then fill the magazine up with more rounds in the same fashion ensuring that it is in correctly and there shouldn't be much problem with firing your rifle.
With a little practice you can do this much faster and efficiently over time without too much worry of inserting a round in a fashion that it will cause a blockage in the magazine and/or rifle.

Mag`a*zine" (?), n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or cellar.]

1.

A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.

2.

The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

3.

A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

4.

A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine. --
Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing. --
Magazine stove, a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.

 

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Mag`a*zine" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Magazining.]

To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

 

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Mag`a*zine", n.

1.

A country or district especially rich in natural products.

2.

A city viewed as a marketing center.

3.

A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.

4.

A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.

 

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