Torrey Lawrence Adams, is an American Music Executive, who is President of KhyKel Music Enterprises.
He started his career in the music business writing and co-producing as part of a rap group called Downpact in the early 90’s. During this time Torrey was mentored by DJ Weasul. After a few years of recording and performing and the sudden passing of his beloved mother, the group disbanded and left his mind cultivating new and positive ways to succeed personally.
Biography
KhyKel Music
2005 - Torrey founds KhyKel Music Enterprises as yet another vision would soon become active and manifest itself into a personal business venture. He proudly named the new company after his 2 children.
Using the industrious and systematic approach to attaining his goals, he structured KhyKel into several unique specialties that form one team which supports each other. Torrey carries a professional and positive attitude, along with a deeply creative mind, into the daily operation of his life, family and new ventures.
One way was to think outside the box. The goal he says is to develop his brand into a trusted provider of high quality executable ideas, products and services through out the world. His dedicated ethics to KhyKel oversee artist and repertoire, song production and exploitation, product and project development and multi-media marketing. Torrey works closely with his advisors and consultants researching and developing plans while leveraging resources to achieve his many long term goals.
Soiree Series
2007 - Torrey is asked by Soiree Series Founder; Grayson Brulte to join The Soiree Series as a Creative Advisor. The Soiree Series™ is a series of classy VIP invite-only private events.
Accomplishments
Altermotion Pictures
2006 - Torrey was asked by the founders of Altermotion Pictures to compose a score for a short film called "The Wake". He was also the music supervisor on the project.
Heal Breast Cancer Awards and Gala
2007 - Torrey arranged and controlled the negotiations for Atlanta, GA pop soul recording artist Leah Devon to perform at the event in Beverly Hills, CA. The event benefited the Heal Breast Cancer Foundation.
Go Pets, LTD
2008 - KhyKel Music signs an exclusive license agreement with GoPets, Ltd to supply music for online interactive video games.
He started his career in the music business writing and co-producing as part of a rap group called Downpact in the early 90’s. During this time Torrey was mentored by DJ Weasul. After a few years of recording and performing and the sudden passing of his beloved mother, the group disbanded and left his mind cultivating new and positive ways to succeed personally.
Biography
KhyKel Music
2005 - Torrey founds KhyKel Music Enterprises as yet another vision would soon become active and manifest itself into a personal business venture. He proudly named the new company after his 2 children.
Using the industrious and systematic approach to attaining his goals, he structured KhyKel into several unique specialties that form one team which supports each other. Torrey carries a professional and positive attitude, along with a deeply creative mind, into the daily operation of his life, family and new ventures.
One way was to think outside the box. The goal he says is to develop his brand into a trusted provider of high quality executable ideas, products and services through out the world. His dedicated ethics to KhyKel oversee artist and repertoire, song production and exploitation, product and project development and multi-media marketing. Torrey works closely with his advisors and consultants researching and developing plans while leveraging resources to achieve his many long term goals.
Soiree Series
2007 - Torrey is asked by Soiree Series Founder; Grayson Brulte to join The Soiree Series as a Creative Advisor. The Soiree Series™ is a series of classy VIP invite-only private events.
Accomplishments
Altermotion Pictures
2006 - Torrey was asked by the founders of Altermotion Pictures to compose a score for a short film called "The Wake". He was also the music supervisor on the project.
Heal Breast Cancer Awards and Gala
2007 - Torrey arranged and controlled the negotiations for Atlanta, GA pop soul recording artist Leah Devon to perform at the event in Beverly Hills, CA. The event benefited the Heal Breast Cancer Foundation.
Go Pets, LTD
2008 - KhyKel Music signs an exclusive license agreement with GoPets, Ltd to supply music for online interactive video games.
Jim Anchower is the fictional author of “The Cruise”, a column that appears in the satirical magazine The Onion. Readers are met with a friendly “Hola, amigos,” followed immediately by the apologetic "I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya," and an analogy to explain his limited free time ("the waters are not always smooth in Lake Anchower") from the easy-going and robustly directionless Jim.
Jim's articles cover his various meandering exploits, which usually involve his pursuit and use of marijuana and beer, the decrepit state of his car, and anecdotal analysis of his current menial job.
Jim is usually joined in these pursuits by his friends Ron Wheat and Wes "The Bomb" Baumgartner. Ron appears to be just as clueless as Jim, while just slightly more responsible (he was Jim's boss at the carbonics plant) while Wes is genuinely good-natured and responsible, looking after Jim when his leg was broken and attempting to help Jim locate a new apartment. Wes has been hanging out less with Jim and Ron as of late as he has a serious girlfriend, Mindy Dawes.
Over the course of his writing career, he has worked at a hospital cafeteria, California Fajita Cantina (where he was fired for trying to take a customer’s plate before he had finished, and subsequently calling the customer "Tubbo"), a coat check in a museum (he quit after a manager complained about a sauce stain on his shirt), as a shuttle bus driver at an airport, as a worker at a carbonics plant, and as a sales associate at a large chain electronics store.
Jim drives a Ford Festiva and considers the Nintendo Game Cube his favorite video game system. His favorite movie is Dude, Where's my Car? and his beer of choice is Miller Genuine Draft.
Onion writer Joe Garden is the actual author of the Anchower columns.
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Jim's articles cover his various meandering exploits, which usually involve his pursuit and use of marijuana and beer, the decrepit state of his car, and anecdotal analysis of his current menial job.
Jim is usually joined in these pursuits by his friends Ron Wheat and Wes "The Bomb" Baumgartner. Ron appears to be just as clueless as Jim, while just slightly more responsible (he was Jim's boss at the carbonics plant) while Wes is genuinely good-natured and responsible, looking after Jim when his leg was broken and attempting to help Jim locate a new apartment. Wes has been hanging out less with Jim and Ron as of late as he has a serious girlfriend, Mindy Dawes.
Over the course of his writing career, he has worked at a hospital cafeteria, California Fajita Cantina (where he was fired for trying to take a customer’s plate before he had finished, and subsequently calling the customer "Tubbo"), a coat check in a museum (he quit after a manager complained about a sauce stain on his shirt), as a shuttle bus driver at an airport, as a worker at a carbonics plant, and as a sales associate at a large chain electronics store.
Jim drives a Ford Festiva and considers the Nintendo Game Cube his favorite video game system. His favorite movie is Dude, Where's my Car? and his beer of choice is Miller Genuine Draft.
Onion writer Joe Garden is the actual author of the Anchower columns.
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Happy Is a Yuppie Word is a song from San Diego Rock band Switchfoot's fifth Studio album, Nothing Is Sound.
It was originally slated to be the lead single from the record, and the band even shot a music video for its release. But the band's record label, SonyBMG elected to go with Stars instead, because that song was deemed more marketable than the darkly-themed "Yuppie." Stylistically, the song is a bit of a departure from previous Switchfoot albums, and is a prime example of the "darker" feel of "Nothing Is Sound."
The bridge of this song is also the inspiration for the title of the album.
Song Story
About the song, Switchfoot's frontman Jon Foreman said:
A year ago, I had a late night talk with a friend who stated the quote: "Happy is a yuppie word." I stayed up after he left, turned off the TV war and wrote a song about our happy, yuppie world. Turns out, Bob Dylan was the one being quoted.
Music Video
The music video was originally leaked online but was never officially released to tv outlets. It was later released on Switchfoot's self-made DVD, Switchfootage 2.
The concept is very similar to Switchfoot's video for Stars, with the band playing underwater. This may be because it was also directed by the same person, Scott Speer.
It was originally slated to be the lead single from the record, and the band even shot a music video for its release. But the band's record label, SonyBMG elected to go with Stars instead, because that song was deemed more marketable than the darkly-themed "Yuppie." Stylistically, the song is a bit of a departure from previous Switchfoot albums, and is a prime example of the "darker" feel of "Nothing Is Sound."
The bridge of this song is also the inspiration for the title of the album.
Song Story
About the song, Switchfoot's frontman Jon Foreman said:
A year ago, I had a late night talk with a friend who stated the quote: "Happy is a yuppie word." I stayed up after he left, turned off the TV war and wrote a song about our happy, yuppie world. Turns out, Bob Dylan was the one being quoted.
Music Video
The music video was originally leaked online but was never officially released to tv outlets. It was later released on Switchfoot's self-made DVD, Switchfootage 2.
The concept is very similar to Switchfoot's video for Stars, with the band playing underwater. This may be because it was also directed by the same person, Scott Speer.
The Unas Language from the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 is a simplistic constructed language that lends itself to quick, sharp sentences. It is spoken by the Unas, a primitive and strong clan-based race of humanoid aliens. All Unas words and sentences are said with animal emphasis (and as such all Unas words are fully capitalised), and are often repeated many times, either for strength or because the Unas is emotionally intense or feels its point is not being understood.
The Unas language is remarkably similar in certain respects to the Goa'uld language, suggesting to some a relationship.
Unas Syntax
The syntax of the Unas language is the same as that of English: subject-verb-object. There are no known tenses in the Unas Language.
Pronouns
The Unas language possess only one pronoun, KO, meaning 'we'. In all other instances, one either uses the proper noun, or excludes it entirely. For instance the sentence AKANA KEKA CHAKA (Akana kills Chaka) uses the proper nouns Akana and Chaka, with the verb KEKA (to kill).
The pronoun KO (we) is used very differently to its English counterpart. KO acts as a suffix, much like the suffix -men in Chinese. The above sentence AKANA KEKA CHAKA (Akana kills Chaka) has an entirely different meaning when KO is added; AKANA KO KEKA CHAKA (All the Unas named AKANA kill Chaka). However, KO can be eliminated entirely in some instances of extreme emphasis; KO CHA (we will stay).
Unas Dictionary
To date only a very small portion of the Unas language has been translated.
A
A: and
A: particle, all (see KO(2))
AKANA: a name
A KA NAY: as one tribe
A CHA'KA: general greeting/hello/etc.
A KA: thank you
ASEK: shirt
B
BERNAR: retreat
BERNAR KA CHA: break off attack and retreat
K
KA: no
KA CHA: only (me, him KA CHA/me and him only)
KADA: naqahdah
KA NAY: friend
KEKA: danger
KEKATA: staff weapon
KEL: why
KEL: how
KEL KO TAR: who is he/can we trust him
KEL KA: how many
KEL KA NAYA: how many tribes
KETA: retaliate
KO: we/us
KO: all together (UNAS KO KEKA/all the unas fight)
KO: share
(KO) CHA: to stay
KO KA CHA: relocate, move
(KO) NO NAY: away from your home
KOR: iron
KOR ASEK: refers to the alpha male - his name, actually (iron shirt)
L
LOTA: wait
M
MAK TAL: a sacrifice
MAKA: sorry, apologies
MA KAN NOK: stop fighting immediately
MOO TA: marked for death/going to die
N
NAK: enemy
NAN: feed/eat
NAY A: tribe
NO NA: home
O
ONAC: the Goa'uld
S
SOSEKA: a large number, 20 (two tens)
SHA: yes/I agree
SHA NAT: to free (from a prison/danger)
SHESH: I don't know, I don't understand
SHEISH: an exclamation for alarm
SHO: this
SKA NAT: stop fighting
SKA NAT: save lives
SKA NAT TE: alliance, to preserve life.
T
TA: speak, negotiate
TA: say, how do I say ("TA relocate?")
TATAK: attack
TAR: who
TAK: trick, deception
TAR MAN KAN KO: do you wish to help us
TE: particle used for introduction (TE KOR ASEK/I am Iron Shirt)
TE: particle (Chinese "a")
TOK: against/resistance
TONOK: that (referring to the most recent object)
TONOK SHESH: that is unclear
TONOK TOK ONAC: to fight the Goa'uld
U
'UMAN: humans/Tau'ri (derived from "human")
'UMAN TA TOK: will the humans attack
UNAS NAY A TOK: all the tribes will fight
Z
ZO: particle (Chinese "a")
ZO: will
Notable Phrases
KEL KO KEKA: why did you attack us?
DAN'AL CHO'EE'CHE, 'UMAN KO KEKA UNAS: while you Dan'al (Daniel Jackson) spoke peace, the humans killed Unas.
A TOK 'UMAN: a human that is different than the rest, a better human
KA CHA: away from harm
SHA NAT KA KEKA: to help one escape from impending doom (eg, "I was helping you escape the executioner.")
KA KEK: you don't have to kill
KA NAN TOK: Get out of my way!
SHO EYAY JAY: this thing is good (as in moral)
UNAS KO TOK ONAC: the Unas fight the Goa'uld
MAK TAL KO KAKEKA 'UMAN ONAC NAYA, ONAC KEKATA KEKA MAKTAL: The sacrifices fight the human hosts, but the goa'uld's staff weapons kill the sacrifices.
A CHA'KA AKANA, CHO'EE'CHE: hello, Akana. Please, sit.
AKANA, CHAKA KA CHA KA KEKA 'UMAN MAKTAL: Akana and Chaka don't kill the human sacrifices.
Notes on Translations
KA KEKA ONAC
From "Enemy Mine", although literally translated "not kill the Goa'uld", context suggests it should be understood "take the weapons of the Goa'uld", or "disarm the Goa'uld".
KEKATA
Mafdet theorizes that KEKATA simply means weapon, and applies to all weapons of any description, whereas I have translated it to mean solely the Jaffa Staff Weapon; If we break it apart, we see KA TA or don't speak; thus it can be assumed that something that silences someone for good kills them, a weapon. This debate will remain open however, for there is yet no translation for KE.
Also may be composed of KEKA meaning danger and TA meaning speak.
SESEKA
A large number, or twenty. Although the second translation is never given, it can be assumed to mean approximately that number, as the size of the army in "Enemy Mine" is approximately 300 Unas, which is twenty times KOR ASEKs tribe of between seven and fifteen. Elsewhere it has been speculated that SESEKA means "forty-four" or "four and four tens". This is still a plausible number with the lower end of the estimated tribe size.
BERNAR KA CHA
This can be translated both "retreat only" and "retreat, and don't hurt". In this case, the multiple meanings of KA CHA lead to the same meaning; however, in some other cases, they do not. Presumably, KA CHA means "only", because if it is only a couple of people, then they must trust each other, and therefore KA CHA "not hurt" each other.
Relation to Goa'uld
The Goa'uld language has numerous similarities with Unas, leading some to believe that the former was derived from the latter. Whether or not this is true, there are some similarities, not least of which is the subject-verb-object word order. There are also vocabulary similarities, as follows:
*KEKA/Khek: "Kill" or "death" in both Goa'uld and Unas.
*ONAC: In Goa'uld, "onac" means "sentient being". In Unas, it means "Goa'uld".
*TOK: In Unas "tok" means "against" while the Tok'ra are the Goa'uld against Ra.
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The Unas language is remarkably similar in certain respects to the Goa'uld language, suggesting to some a relationship.
Unas Syntax
The syntax of the Unas language is the same as that of English: subject-verb-object. There are no known tenses in the Unas Language.
Pronouns
The Unas language possess only one pronoun, KO, meaning 'we'. In all other instances, one either uses the proper noun, or excludes it entirely. For instance the sentence AKANA KEKA CHAKA (Akana kills Chaka) uses the proper nouns Akana and Chaka, with the verb KEKA (to kill).
The pronoun KO (we) is used very differently to its English counterpart. KO acts as a suffix, much like the suffix -men in Chinese. The above sentence AKANA KEKA CHAKA (Akana kills Chaka) has an entirely different meaning when KO is added; AKANA KO KEKA CHAKA (All the Unas named AKANA kill Chaka). However, KO can be eliminated entirely in some instances of extreme emphasis; KO CHA (we will stay).
Unas Dictionary
To date only a very small portion of the Unas language has been translated.
A
A: and
A: particle, all (see KO(2))
AKANA: a name
A KA NAY: as one tribe
A CHA'KA: general greeting/hello/etc.
A KA: thank you
ASEK: shirt
B
BERNAR: retreat
BERNAR KA CHA: break off attack and retreat
K
KA: no
KA CHA: only (me, him KA CHA/me and him only)
KADA: naqahdah
KA NAY: friend
KEKA: danger
KEKATA: staff weapon
KEL: why
KEL: how
KEL KO TAR: who is he/can we trust him
KEL KA: how many
KEL KA NAYA: how many tribes
KETA: retaliate
KO: we/us
KO: all together (UNAS KO KEKA/all the unas fight)
KO: share
(KO) CHA: to stay
KO KA CHA: relocate, move
(KO) NO NAY: away from your home
KOR: iron
KOR ASEK: refers to the alpha male - his name, actually (iron shirt)
L
LOTA: wait
M
MAK TAL: a sacrifice
MAKA: sorry, apologies
MA KAN NOK: stop fighting immediately
MOO TA: marked for death/going to die
N
NAK: enemy
NAN: feed/eat
NAY A: tribe
NO NA: home
O
ONAC: the Goa'uld
S
SOSEKA: a large number, 20 (two tens)
SHA: yes/I agree
SHA NAT: to free (from a prison/danger)
SHESH: I don't know, I don't understand
SHEISH: an exclamation for alarm
SHO: this
SKA NAT: stop fighting
SKA NAT: save lives
SKA NAT TE: alliance, to preserve life.
T
TA: speak, negotiate
TA: say, how do I say ("TA relocate?")
TATAK: attack
TAR: who
TAK: trick, deception
TAR MAN KAN KO: do you wish to help us
TE: particle used for introduction (TE KOR ASEK/I am Iron Shirt)
TE: particle (Chinese "a")
TOK: against/resistance
TONOK: that (referring to the most recent object)
TONOK SHESH: that is unclear
TONOK TOK ONAC: to fight the Goa'uld
U
'UMAN: humans/Tau'ri (derived from "human")
'UMAN TA TOK: will the humans attack
UNAS NAY A TOK: all the tribes will fight
Z
ZO: particle (Chinese "a")
ZO: will
Notable Phrases
KEL KO KEKA: why did you attack us?
DAN'AL CHO'EE'CHE, 'UMAN KO KEKA UNAS: while you Dan'al (Daniel Jackson) spoke peace, the humans killed Unas.
A TOK 'UMAN: a human that is different than the rest, a better human
KA CHA: away from harm
SHA NAT KA KEKA: to help one escape from impending doom (eg, "I was helping you escape the executioner.")
KA KEK: you don't have to kill
KA NAN TOK: Get out of my way!
SHO EYAY JAY: this thing is good (as in moral)
UNAS KO TOK ONAC: the Unas fight the Goa'uld
MAK TAL KO KAKEKA 'UMAN ONAC NAYA, ONAC KEKATA KEKA MAKTAL: The sacrifices fight the human hosts, but the goa'uld's staff weapons kill the sacrifices.
A CHA'KA AKANA, CHO'EE'CHE: hello, Akana. Please, sit.
AKANA, CHAKA KA CHA KA KEKA 'UMAN MAKTAL: Akana and Chaka don't kill the human sacrifices.
Notes on Translations
KA KEKA ONAC
From "Enemy Mine", although literally translated "not kill the Goa'uld", context suggests it should be understood "take the weapons of the Goa'uld", or "disarm the Goa'uld".
KEKATA
Mafdet theorizes that KEKATA simply means weapon, and applies to all weapons of any description, whereas I have translated it to mean solely the Jaffa Staff Weapon; If we break it apart, we see KA TA or don't speak; thus it can be assumed that something that silences someone for good kills them, a weapon. This debate will remain open however, for there is yet no translation for KE.
Also may be composed of KEKA meaning danger and TA meaning speak.
SESEKA
A large number, or twenty. Although the second translation is never given, it can be assumed to mean approximately that number, as the size of the army in "Enemy Mine" is approximately 300 Unas, which is twenty times KOR ASEKs tribe of between seven and fifteen. Elsewhere it has been speculated that SESEKA means "forty-four" or "four and four tens". This is still a plausible number with the lower end of the estimated tribe size.
BERNAR KA CHA
This can be translated both "retreat only" and "retreat, and don't hurt". In this case, the multiple meanings of KA CHA lead to the same meaning; however, in some other cases, they do not. Presumably, KA CHA means "only", because if it is only a couple of people, then they must trust each other, and therefore KA CHA "not hurt" each other.
Relation to Goa'uld
The Goa'uld language has numerous similarities with Unas, leading some to believe that the former was derived from the latter. Whether or not this is true, there are some similarities, not least of which is the subject-verb-object word order. There are also vocabulary similarities, as follows:
*KEKA/Khek: "Kill" or "death" in both Goa'uld and Unas.
*ONAC: In Goa'uld, "onac" means "sentient being". In Unas, it means "Goa'uld".
*TOK: In Unas "tok" means "against" while the Tok'ra are the Goa'uld against Ra.
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