Monday, October 2nd, 2006
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — Former Rep. Mark Foley is in an alcoholism treatment center three days after resigning from Congress amid allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to teenage pages, Foley’s attorney confirmed Monday. The FBI and Florida state law enforcement officials were beginning investigations into the case concerning allegations that e-mails and instant messages between Foley, a Florida Republican, and pages contained sexually suggestive material. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, has also asked the Justice Department to look into the congressman’s electronic correspondence and the response of congressional Republican when the allegations were first raised. Foley resigned Friday after his alleged e-mail and instant-message contacts with pages were reported by the media. Foley, a six-term congressman, was co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus and a prominent backer of legislation to crack down on online predators and criminalize child pornography on the Internet.
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Friday, September 29th, 2006
Manifesto # 1 1) NO COVER SONGS. EVER. 2) No banter with the audience. Get onstage. Play songs (I.E. rock) and go home. Let the music stand alone. 3) Being paid for a gig is a benefit, not a requirement. 4) Make a list of venues to play before you even get a gig. Also have a list of venues you would refuse. 5) Dictate to your audience. Don’t be dictated to by your audience. If you like it, someone else will. And they will find you. 6) Look the part. Dress to be taken seriously. 7) Discover new approaches to songwriting through the collaboration of ideas. 8) You’re only as good as you think you are. If you think you are local bar band that is what you are. Aim high. 9) Know when not to play. Silence is a note. 10) Consistently challenge yourselves to create your own sound. Be compared to no one. Friday, September 29th, 2006
Egg Hunt was a short-lived project started by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson in early 1986. This ran concurrent with the tail end of Ian’s Revolution Summer era band Embrace (9 shows over 9 months 1985-1986). MacKaye and Nelson went to England and recorded the 2 song 7†‘We All Fall Down’/’Me and You’. ‘We All Fall Down’ is said to be Ian’s feelings regarding the end of Revolution Summer and perhaps the impending break-up of Embrace. Following Embrace, Ian and Jeff went into the basement with ex-members of Gray Matter but the project failed to coalesce. Nelson and the Gray Matter people left and formed the band 3. MacKaye found ex-Rites of Spring people and an ex-Beefeater Roadie and formed Fugazi. We All Fall Down Why do we act like we just learned how to walk when we’ve been walking all this time? What was carved in granite just wiped off like chalk What was ours is now yours or mine I guess in our own minds we’re never wrong and I swear to you this is the last time I’ll write this song I’m sure you’re sick and tired of hearing from this child I’m feeling kind of lonely, I won’t be dying for a while In search of the quiet life We all fall down In search of the righteous life We all fall down We are falling down We all fall down Thursday, September 28th, 2006
BAILEY, Colorado (CNN) — As Park County, Colorado, Sheriff Fred Wegener was deciding whether to enter the high school room where an armed gunman had been holding six girls hostage, he was “scared to death.”Police eventually stormed the Platte Canyon High School classroom where the gunman was holed up Wednesday afternoon with two hostages, after releasing four. Then, the gunman fatally shot a 16-year-old girl and killed himself, police said. Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
These are my favorite Christmas cartoons/claymations
Starring George Gobel and Joel Grey Clocks, mice and too much education.
Seems to have been forgotten by many. I remember seeing in the late 1970′s on the ABC affiliate in Syracuse, NY. Best cast in Christmas entertainment anywhere.
“Pull up an iceberg and lend an ear.†This is all about unions and stuff.
Rankin/Bass is the mark of quality in Christmas programming. I saw this on Christmas Eve 1978 in Hamilton, NY. It started at 9 pm. The snow started at that time as well. The programme ended at 9:30 pm but they snow ended 36 inches later at 9 a.m. Christmas Day. Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 Â
These are the most depressing Christmas entertainments around. And they rule.
This is the one where Capra invents the concept of suicide.
This is a 30 minute film that was made the the Church of the Latter Day Saints. People who like to dress in black. Stewart, in his last role plays a grieving widower who lives alone in his basement apartment with a tiny Christmas tree and a cat named George. He steals a glove from a little girl. Totally disturbing.
Arguably the best Version of Dickens’ classic tale.
Truly twisted as only fundamentalist christians can be. Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
Shakesperean Headshop existed within a cold shed in Roselle, NJ during the winter of 1988. The 3 who played music were also in a band called Logic Downwards. LD played a sort of post-punk song.The 1 who did not play an instrument was not in LD. SH found a structure but they were not songs. They were not statements. They were more like descriptions of a room. The room they were in. And within the room the whole world existed. This music was pure and it was not pure. It was experimental and it was not experimental. It was political and it was not political. It was an attempt at a piece of art. And sometimes it was unwieldy. And oftentimes it failed. And some failures were worse then others. And occassionally it all came together and worked and the room was no longer cold. The 3 players and the 1 other chanting the words. And there was no difference between the word and the note, the lyric and the chord. It was completly equal. And it was a communion of friendship. It was an acknowledgement of frienships falling apart. It was a notice of personal economic disaster. And it was a cry of hope. There was no way this band could have existed beyond the winter of 1988, it was of the moment. And the moment was fleeting. And forgotten. This could not be repeated again and there was no reason for it to exist beyond its own space time. The shed was cold and adolescence was falling apart and adulthood was being fought at every turn. And this was once and never again. This was taking over time and using it for a means to an end. … (quiet now-someone askes “did it ever really begin?”) Shakesperean Headshop existed for approximately 90 days in the winter of 1988. SH was a learning curve. There was nothing better then SH. Nothing more, nothing less. Sometimes I wonder if it ever existed at all. Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Things I know nothing about: Balinese Dance Mechanized Welding Cricket (the sport) Hammond, Louisiana The process of making paper out of trees Things I need to know more about: Alchemy Malian music Car Repair The Significance of the number 7 The science behind the Wishbone Offense Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson This book starts many years after the war. So many years that only one person actually remembers it. Yet it feels like its set at the beginning and time. Its the alpha and the omega. On the Beach by Nevil Shute So the war was fought among the Northern Hemisphere. The people in the south (Australia) are just waiting for the radioactive fall out to be blown in and kill them all. How would that make you feel? Not with a bang but a whimper. War Day by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka Easily the best book Whitley Strieber’s ever been involved with. 2 writers decide to trek across the United States 5 years after the bombs have fallen. What is left? Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 1. Threads (1984) BBC
2. Testament (1983) PBS (An American Playhouse Production) 3. The Day After (1983) ABC Threads is probably the most disturbing movie this side of ‘Requiem for a Dream.’ You’ll never hear the song ‘Johnny B. Goode’ in the same way (and people wonder why I still feel guilty for voting Kerry). Testament is the most subtle film made on this subject and is absolutely brilliant and quietly harrowing. OK, perhaps this is even more disturbing then Threads. Not sure on this. The Day After works better today then it did at the time. Mainly due to all we know of 1983 truly died in the cultural changes of the 1990′s. |
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