Jesse Mohr from rev967.com has quite the strong opinion about Linkin Park's ongoing relief efforts for the Tsunami victims in Japan. You can read his post below. I wanna make clear, that I so don't agree with that!
1. Of course there are a million places, where people need help, but you got to start somewhere and Linkin Park have also supported and organized relief stuff for Haiti and tons of other regions that were hit by natural disasters. Also, we really shouldn't forget that millions of people will suffer from the after effects of the Tsunami in Japan for decades!
2. The point that people should invest their "hard-earned" money in their own countries first really pisses me off! When do we finally realize that we are ONE people on ONE earth? Everybody should decide for themselves which relief organisations they want to support, and in my opinion you should just listen to your heart instead of sorting people and their problems into hierarchies. For example, I have donated to Save the Children, MFR, Donate Life and I am an online volunteer for UNHCR, but that doesn't mean that I think other issues are less important, I just had to make a decision eventually.
You can discuss Jesse's opinion in the comment section!
Here's his post:...
And finally, June 26, 2011 is here! After many months of waiting, finally my dream came true! Nothing could prepare me for an experience so magical.
After a very hot afternoon, finally comes the moment of the M & G. How
exciting. Here they are ....
I shake everyone's hand and, in my English a little 'low, I try to say
something. I remain enchanted in front of the blue eyes of Phoenix and ask him if he likes Italy.
He says "Yes" and added he would like to return, but on vacation! Damn.
Italian fans are so passionate . Why not come to Italy more often??
With Joe I exchange a "Ciao" and then I am in front of my idol, Mike!
I ask him to devote the autograph to "BA" and he said "Just BA? That's the shortest name I've ever heard"
And I explain him that it stands for Barbara. and so all my plans to tell him many things disappear in the emotion....
Linkin Park LPU Summit Review 20/21 June, 2011 by tensh_iie
The first Linkin Park LPU Summit EVER was held in the beginning of this week, 20/21 June 2011. It's the first time I am reviewing for AdieK84's blog, but I am happy to do so ;)
Day 1 – A night of games and activities The first day of the Summit was held on Monday in the “Schwarz-Licht-Viertel” in Hamburg. I never heard of that place before so I was excited to see what our beloved LPU had thought of for us. My friends and I traveled about 1 ½ hour to Hamburg and reached the meeting point 30 Minutes earlier. A few fellow LPU'er were already waiting on the outside and it didn't take long before Adam came over to greet us. Adam is a very nice and gentle guy and I am very happy I had the opportunity to meet him. Anyways after that I went inside were other LPUers were already waiting. So I took a seat, ordered something drink and pretty soon everyone was talking and chatting. Seeing that I've been to a several Linkin Park Concerts before I already knew a bunch of people, or just had seen their faces before. After everyone had arrived (around 26/30 people) Adam welcomed us AGAIN and explained everything that was about to happen today and he even told us some things about tomorrow. After that we were split up into groups and brought, one group after the other, to the, let me call it the “Playground”. We were about to play Underground Mini-golf. I NEVER played Mini-golf before, so I was sure I would suck balls. Anyways we arrived at the Playground and I was stunned. The whole thing was like a tunnel with a bunch of turns and curves, corners and stuff and it all was painted in like Underwater-world Environment, or jungle, technical stuff. And on top of that everything and enlightened by black light, which means the pictures were glowing and shining. It looked incredible. I never saw something like that before, a really original idea in my opinion. ...
Concert Review Linkin Park LPU Summit Hamburg + Concert on June 21, 2011
By LPfan1989
Translated by Adiek84 in a rush, so beware stupid mistakes!
And again I am writing a review for Adiek84´s Blog ^^ Arrival We started our journey to Hamburg at 6 am, the drive was calm and fast, and still we took 4 hours to get to Hamburg, because of many breaks. At 10:15, me and my friend waited at the E2 entrance of the O2 World Arena Hamburg, where I saw a few familiar faces of fans I've already met in Leipzig, like BlackChester for example. We actually had to use a different entrance, where we than had to stand in line and wait another 30 minutes. During this time, Adam (LPU) came outside and explained the schedule of the Summit. Then the Check-in started. It was possible to get tickets at the box office, but not for me, as I needed wheelchair space. Little did I know what was about to happen that evening. My friend and I were welcomed warmly by Adam and I thanked him again that I was allowed to bring a person to help me with the wheelchair. We got our Summit Passes with a red dot on it (because we didn't have a ticket for the concert later that night). After that we were examined by the staff and then went to the elevator. After a little detour to the ground floor, we found someone from the staff who showed us the right way (he led us through the kitchen). So we arrived at the chill out area (how I call it). There we got beverages and something to eat, so that we could have lunch first....
Concert Review Linkin Park Project Revolution
Festwiese, Leipzig + M&G on June 18, 2011
By LPfan1989
Arriving at the Venue At 11 am I made my way to Leipzig and the drive was so uneventful and relaxed that we arrived at the venue at 2.30pm already. My buddy and me, who was also my official assistant, because I'm sitting in a wheelchair, had a little break first, but then went to the entrance. First we went to the wrong one, which was closed (we weren't the only ones doing this), so we had to walk back again to the other entrance. After it started to rain so hard that we had to find shelter first, we asked the staff at the box office for information on the M&G and wheelchair space. They told me some totally wrong information, saying that the meeting place for the M&G was the box office, when we found out later that it was the bell tower. When we went through the entrance our stuff was examined by the staff there and they took two water bottles (from four) and my snap light sticks, and I had to open the mailing tube that contained my poster cause I could've hidden anything in there. The rest of the review, pictures, videos and live tweets after the click >>> ...