OK, this one is serious. And rather urgent.

Invisible Movement needs help to stay on its feet for the second time. For those of you who were not following this website in November 2006 and for those of you who don’t remember it, back in the days the old hosting company kicked I-M.net out of its server because of “using up too much of the system resources” and, thanks to an amazing person, who partly made this site what it is and who is and always will be the most wonderful human on Earth, no matter where she is and what she is doing right now, who agreed to accept donations at her PayPal, a donation rally for new hosting was started.

And then, a bunch of people donated enough money for the best hosting ever to be bought and the remaining amount was used for the longer-term domain name renewal. One of them, certain J.H. most likely gave twice as much as everyone else together.

In the meantime, I was 100% sure that I’ll be able to pay new hosting once the current offer expires with my debit card. Unfortunately, the situation in this country did not change, there’s still no possibility to use PayPal and, apparently, even though I tried, it turned out that I cannot use my debit card online and, as the current hosting offer expires in about ten days, so there isn’t much time to react or to send money by snail-mail to someone who would be able to pay it.

In short, Invisible Movement will need to run another donation rally this week.

Before anything else is done: I’m looking for a volunteer who can use PayPal and who will be able to accept the payments and then, when it’s all done, just transfer the donated amount of money onto the hosting company’s account. The person, of course, needs to be trusting enough to do this.

So, if you think you could handle being the volunteer for this process, please, contact me. I will pick the person who seems to be the most reliable or the first reliable enough to come up, then the donation rally will start.

I hope that, among 40 000 people who visit this website each month, there’s someone who could help with this.

This is The Mars Volta’s new video clip, to preceed the upcoming album. John is in it, too, at 2 minutes, 11 seconds. The scene he’s in lasts about 1/2 of a second, though; but I helped you by placing it as a preview still of the video.

(as originally seen here… the version on this page is of bad quality, compressed and meant to be just a preview!)

First of all, until 03rd September, you can watch some of the Reading set at this URL. I know how to rip and I would rip it and extract the best parts for you, but my computer has a problem with the rstp protocol and it won’t even let me watch it. So, if anyone knows how to rip from the stream (as I assume I’m not the only person in the world with that superpower…), it would be nice if you could rip this

Yorkshire Evening Post review
NME review with a partial setlist. BTW, John did not do a solo at this show, for the first time after the Bilbao promo on 18th April 2006.

And this is what happened at Reading