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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
He also collects wild links on the web!
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Oct 4, 2005
Surf W/Cleopatra, Crossdresser?!?
HOTTEST WAITRESSES, EVERYTHING FRACTAL, MYSTERY MEAT STEW, THE MAN BEHIND KINKO'S, WORLD'S BEST BEER MAKERS, CLEOPATRA: CROSSDRESSER!
Courtney Love talks about everything from White Stripes to her late husband's suicide attempts.
Who are the hottest waitresses in Chicago nightclubs?
Funny article covers subjects like: what if Freud had been a woman?
Fractal Infinities is a web site devoted to fractal imagery, games, coding, graphics, and algorithmic beauty in general. If you are looking for funky java applets, games, interesting graphics, or fractal generation tutorials, you've come to the right place. Enjoy!
Gaming revenues allowed the Oneida nation to build a $12 million elementary school shaped like a turtle. The turtle is a sacred animal and has significance in the Oneida creation myth. http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1128319844/3
Inside the sanctuary of the abbey of St. Sixtus of Westvleteren is a beer lover's dream and a businessman's nightmare.
Piety, not profit, is what these monks seek. The St. Sixtus monks break every rule in Business 101 except attention to quality. And therein may lie the secret of their success in brewing a beer that some rank among the world's best and that is so hard to get there's a black market for it.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2005-10-03-beer-usat_x.htm
The cells of early Christians have been found in the deserts of Egypt. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php
Computer-generated portraits of Tutankhamun in an exhibit coming to Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art in December have sparked criticism and protests by black activists who say they depict the boy king as white.
Researchers hired by the National Geographic Society, one of the exhibit's sponsors, say current forensic data and recent CT scans of his mummy were used to create the images.
African scholars and black activists dispute the portrayal and predict protests when the show moves here like those that have occurred in Los Angeles. The debate is similar to the question of whether Jesus was black. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-tut2505sep25,0,5185973.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
Cleopatra has for long been considered the epitome of beauty and she used her looks to seduce Julius Ceasar and Mark Antony for power. But a newly discovered stone slab depicts her as a man raising speculations about her being a crossdresser.
A relief image carved about 2050 years ago on an ancient Egyptian stone slab shows Cleopatra dressed as a man, recent analysis shows. http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=25725
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Among the greatest of the Ancient Olympic boxers – indeed one -of the greatest Olympic athletes –was Theagenes of Thasos. A boxer, pankratist (no-holds barred fighting) and runner, Theagenes captured the boxing title at the 75th Olympiad in 480 BC, and, four years later, he won the Pankration (no-holds-barred) title. Like all Olympic champions, Theagenes’ victories offered him immortality, and mythology was soon to follow..
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4805&more=1
Posted at 02:08 am by Psychomike
Oct 2, 2005
Surf W/ Most Censored Chicago Story!
FIND THE RUBBER DUCKY, LAWYERS FIGHT LAWYER JOKES, THE MOST CENSORED STORY IN ILLINOIS, THE CRIME LIBRARY!
The story of bra burning feminists has been reported for decades. It isn't true. So who first started the rumor? Prepare for a shock!
There’s a reward out for a yellow rubber ducky — a bounty that Curt Ebbesmeyer hopes will further the science of ocean currents and spread the word about ocean trash. Footing the bill, so to speak, is the company that made the ducks — 29,000 of them .
Getting beers at a bar is about to made easier. Using science! Thanks to Dave Holle In Illinois for this. The Beer Mat!
A chilly bit of Scandinavia is coming to the heart of London's West End Saturday with the opening of Absolut Icebar, a bar made entirely out of ice right down to the art on the walls and the glasses for the drinks.
The story no publication in Chicago is covering:
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes corruption, today announced that on January 17, 2006,Jesse Lee Peterson, et al., v. Jesse Jackson, et al. (BC 266505) will go to trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court after a ruling last week by Judge George H. Wu. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against Jackson, his son Jonathan, and others on behalf of Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who was the victim of a physical and verbal assault at an event hosted by Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. in December 2001. Rev. Peterson is an ordained minister, who has dedicated his life to working with underprivileged black youth and men in our society.
The Jacksons and the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, who had sought to have the case dismissed, will now face multiple civil charges, including: Assault, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress and a California Civil Rights Claim. Jonathan Jackson also will face the additional charges of Battery and False Imprisonment.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/jacksontrial.shtml
Ready to explore the hollow earth? http://www.voyagehollowearth.com/
Inspired by the 60s with 21st century technologies, the coolest looking guitars that play and sound great.
http://www.italiaguitars.com/
Good things in life don't come cheap. Here, a list of some 'most expensive' things available in the market. Bizarrely exorbitant!
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1234791.cms
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The Crime Library is a rapidly growing collection of more than over 600 nonfiction feature stories on major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics and criminal profiling by prominent writers. The stories focus mostly on recent crimes, but an expanding collection also delves into historically notorious characters, dating back to the 1400s and spanning the globe.
The Crime Library is a source of entertainment and education for millions of readers throughout the world, and it serves as an important resource for students researching current and historical subjects and for producers of television documentaries and book authors.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/
Posted at 10:39 pm by Psychomike
Sep 30, 2005
Surf W/ A Call From Brian Wilson!
VAN MORRISON SINGS ABOUT RINGWORM, THE REAL THINKING CAP, WORLD CHOOSES GREAT ROCK SONGS, QUICKSAND TRUE STORY, THE COOLEST WAY TO HELP KATRINA VICTIMS, THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD, PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ALIENS!
Computer scientists have created a hat that can read your thoughts. It allows you to stroll down a virtual street. All you have to do is think about walking.
Called a brain-computer interface, the device detects activity in certain brain areas linked to movement, and uses the signals to mimic that movement in a virtual world. The technology could one day help paralysed patients to move robotic arms, or help sufferers of motor neuron disease to type out words on a virtual keyboard. “Just thinking about movement activates the same neurons as actually moving,” explains Gert Pfurtscheller of Graz University of Technology in Austria, who has been working on the device for around four years. By picking up on these bursts of nerve activity, the computer can decide whether you are thinking about moving your hands or feet, and react accordingly. (Let's see, on my virtual Street I can run into Pamela Anderson and Adrianna Lima and....)
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050926/full/050926-5.html
As one party prepares to crack down on porn and the other party goes after video games, not to mention the war on downloaders- it turns out the call registry is pretty much a joke.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112785978695153775-HoabM7CHEzv7VGRgpaiJDUOEzrE_20060928,00.html?mod=rss_free
The winners of the 2005 Novartis and The Daily Telegraph Photographic Awards make an exciting and diverse set of images.
http://visions-of-science.co.uk/f-2005winners.htm
I was out delivering cards for the upcoming mashup night at Sonotheque ( http://djpsychomike.blogdrive.com ), was walking from Addison to Belmont on Clark when I looked into a store window and was confronted with Japanese pop culture. DVD's of Japanese, Korean and Hong Kong movies, Godzilla toys by the bunch and loads of cool toys. I walked in- I felt like I was in the museum of Japanese pop culture. The store, J1Toy.com is at 3326 N. Clark Street and just seeing the toys is worth the trip. Very cool stuff. There is also a website (hence the name) http://j1toy.com/ and they have a store in NYC at 102 St. Marks Place W and another in Arlington Hts. IL, 43 W. Golf Road. This place gets a ten for cool toys.
I don't care if you are left wing or right wing, some of these questions need to be asked. Sadly, the media isn't asking any of them. 25 disturbing questions about Katrina. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=8828
Van Morrison decided he wanted to leave his label and sat down and improvised 31 songs on topics ranging from ringworm to wanting a danish.
You can hear the MP3's here. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/09/van_morrisons_c.html
700,000 people were polled and asked to come up with their favorite songs.
I'm still in shock over which song came in second. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4291614.stm
A collection of photographs by Hollywood still photographer Fred Edgeworth, taken between 1914 and 1932. Subjects include silent-film celebrities.
187 images. http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowwhite/sets/983962 The space shuttle and International Space Station — nearly the whole of the U.S. manned space program for the past three decades — were mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin said Tuesday.
Asked Tuesday whether the shuttle had been a mistake, Griffin said, "My opinion is that it was. ... It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible." Asked whether the space station had been a mistake, he said, "Had the decision been mine, we would not have built the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in." http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-09-27-nasa-griffin-interview_x.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ WENDY'S WORLD
Kids Aren't All Right: The Many Hard, Strange Deaths of the Little Rascals http://www.eonline.com/On/Holly/Shows/LittleRascals/ Or maybe not… http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/ourgang.asp People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens: http://www.stopalienautopsies.org/ Tobias Schneebaum, Chronicler and Dining Partner of Cannibals, Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/obituaries/24schneebaum.html Giant squid! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/giant_squid/index.html Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html The Museum of Unworkable Devices http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm Mariners over the centuries have reported surreal, nocturnal displays of glowing sea surfaces stretching outwards to the horizon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3760124.stm For Mike, since he loves cats: http://www.catdiary.com/ Brian Wilson will PERSONALLY call you if you send $100 or more to help victims of Katrina plus he will match your donation.
Is the Clean Air Act Unconstitutional? http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1076/is_9_42/ai_67319835
"It is a staple scene of B-movies and Westerns: the cowboy stumbles into a patch of quicksand and is sucked under until only his stetson remains on top, or sinks up to his neck until hauled out by his sidekick.
Both scenarios have now been proved to fly in the face of physics. Research has shown that it is impossible for people to sink into quicksand much beyond the waist — but it is equally impossible to pull someone out once they are stuck." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1802439,00.html
Travel-Journal's cheap travel guide is an online "travel book" that tells travellers how to save money and avoid problems in hundreds of places around the world.
There is no cost for any of the information, or special features of the site, including:
- Take the Travel Quiz to learn your travel personality. Quick, fun and free.
- Contribute your thoughts in our Cheap Travel Forum. http://www.travel-journal.org/
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I know this wasn't supposed to be funny, but it is!
Christian group checks for violence and objectionable material. http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/games/home.html
Posted at 01:25 am by Psychomike
Sep 29, 2005
Surf W/Museum Of Yo Yo's!
TOP 50 SCIENCE FICTION FILMS, LIQUID SCULPTURE, MUSEUM OF YO-YO'S, HIGHLANDER TOLD BY BUNNIES IN 30 SECONDS, LAURA FLYNN BOYLE :
RAT HUNTER!
Philippe Dufour is a Swiss watchmaker. But not an ordinary one. He is clearly one of the most respected, most inovative and most talented master watchmakers working nowadays.
His creations are considered as the quintessence of watchmaking, above everything that can be bought from known and respected companies.
http://people.timezone.com/pchong/Dufour/05/philippe.html
Liquid Sculpture is the process of creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, or other liquids. These sculptures are then photographed, since they last only a few thousandths of a second. Creating and capturing these engaging forms requires careful manipulation of the materials and precise control of the lighting and timing.
Feel like a cartoon? They don't get much better than this: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD by Tex Avery.
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Posted at 07:36 am by Psychomike
Sep 27, 2005
Surf W/ New Breed Of Women!
THE NEW BREED OF WOMEN: RAUNCH GIRLS, TREASURE ISLAND FOUND, ODDEST STATUES EVER, THE MOST IMPORTANT WRESTLING EVENT OF
OUR TIME IS COMING, WHAT WOULD XENA DO?, DOG FLU SWEEPS NATION!
The archipelago is named after Robinson Crusoe, but perhaps it should have been called Treasure Island.
A long quest for booty from the Spanish colonial era appears to be culminating in Chile with the announcement by a group of adventurers that they have found an estimated 600 barrels of gold coins and Incan jewels on the remote Pacific island. "The biggest treasure in history has been located," said Fernando Uribe-Etxeverria, a lawyer for Wagner, the Chilean company leading the search. Mr Uribe-Etxeverria estimated the value of the buried treasure at US$10bn (Ł5.6bn).
Wait until you read who (what) actually found it! http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1578135,00.html
Ever hear of an obscure electronica music genre and did not know what it was?
Ever been confused between the differences of House, Acid Funk, Psytekk, Anthem Rave, & Ambient Trance? Ever wish there was a site that condensed all of this into an easy-to-navigate presentation?
http://www.ishkur.com/music/
Wait- THIS is the strangest statue ever in public: The idea is disarmingly simple. Two bronze sculptures pee into their oddly-shaped enclosure.
While they are peeing, the two figures move realistically. An electric mechanism driven by a couple of microproccesors swivels the upper part of the body, while the penis goes up and down. The stream of water writes quotes from famous Prague residents.
Visitor can interupt them by sending SMS message from mobile phone to a number, displayed next to the sculptures. The living statue then ‘writes’ the text of the message, before carrying on as before. Don't miss the videos of the sculpture in action! http://www.davidcerny.cz/EN/piss.html
Full-sized scan of a vintage Mexican fotonovela featuring the masked wrestling superstar El Santo
Monday Night RAW will be heading back home to the USA Network on Oct. 3. The historic three-hour RAW will start at 7:55 p.m. ET. (6:55 Chicago Time)
Many former WWE Champions will be on hand for "WWE Homecoming" on Oct. 3, including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, Mick Foley and the return of Triple H. Also, a host of WWE legends will be a part of the historic, star-studded evening. Many legends already confirmed for Oct. 3 include:
"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Jimmy Hart, Hillbilly Jim, Superstar Billy Graham, The Iron Sheik, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Harley Race, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Chief Jay Strongbow, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Nikolai Volkoff and Koko B. Ware.
Above: the many faces of Mick Foley
Also, several huge matches have been signed for "WWE Homecoming," including Edge vs. Matt Hardy in a "Loser Leaves RAW, Money-in-the-Bank Ladder Match" and General Manager Eric Bischoff vs. John Cena for the WWE Championship. FOLKS MARK YOUR CALENDAR, TATOO THE DAY AND TIME ON YOUR ARM, GET READY!
http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/rawonusa
Dogs across the country have come down with a virus that crossed over from horses last year and has spread across the country. Unlike kennel cough, the dog loses its appetite, has a runny nose and some dogs have died from it. There is no cure, no vaccine is expected for at least 6 months. I'd avoid dog parks and kennels if you can- and pass this article on to any dog owner you know. http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdogs274444675sep27,0,1842996.story?coll=ny-health-headlines
Guest houses of Japan. http://www.otsukayutaka.com/index.html
Teenage boys go on a rampage, hold down girls, fondle them and take pictures! Teachers have to deal with crap like this?
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 She and her friends talk about it constantly. How to go out and have a great time. How to make their way through a sexual landscape that somehow has upped the ante in racy behaviour. The challenge, says Shauna (not her real name), a 20-year-old third-year psychology major at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., is how not to feel like a misfit just because she thinks that the sexual titillation factor has gone too far. "One thing I have noticed more and more," she says of the student scene, "is that girls spend as much time, if not more, dancing provocatively with each other as they do with men. Many girls have made out with each other in front of a group of boys, or for their benefit after having been dared, or even without provocation. I was recently at a bar with a group of friends from high school," she continues, "and a group of girls came wearing short skirts and low-cut tops -- they had each written words on their breasts or upper thighs and were willingly showing this to the guys when asked.
Posted at 10:26 pm by Psychomike
Sep 26, 2005
Surf W/ The Late Don Adams, RIP
VISIT THE BATES MOTEL, ILLEGAL SUPERMAN COMIC, IRAN LOVES WESTERN WOMEN IN UNIFORM, GLORY YEARS OF THE PACKERS!
Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82. Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding that the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.
As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency CONTROL, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of KAOS. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack:
"Would you believe ... ?"
It became a national catchphrase.
The spy gadgets, which aped those of the Bond movies, were a popular feature, especially the pre-cellphone telephone in a shoe.
Before Katrina, Bob Dylan wrote on his favorite city, New Orleans. THE GHOSTS OF NEW ORLEANS is the title of the piece.
Illegal Indian Superman - Batman - Spider-Man - some Indian guy crossover! See Superman murder criminals with glee!
The story of how Herman Melville, and MOBY DICK were almost forgotten.
Matthew Hopkins is the most notorious name in the history of English witchcraft, and was more commonly known as "The Witch-Finder General". Throughout his reign of terror, 1644-1646, he was responsible for the executions of some 230 alleged witches, more than all the other witch-hunters put together during the 160-year peak of the country's witchcraft hysteria. http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Features/SpookyNorfolk/asp/EastNorfolk/Witchfinder.asp
The Iran Defense Force website has discussions by pro- Iranians on military strategies- and then oddly, a page of beautiful women in the militaries around the world.
They're Coming To Take Me Away: Napolean Complex, a collection of 21 international versions of Napolean XIV's 1966 hit single.
Why the Creature From The Black Lagoon is a great film series:
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Posted at 10:26 pm by Psychomike
TRUE STORIES ABOUT BOB DYLAN, KOSHER PET FOOD, BAD PUBLICITY EXISTS, THE MAN WHO LIVES IN A PLANE, IS CLONING PEOPLE TROUBLE?
VISA and MASTERCARD are on their way to court. They are fighting a lawsuit that claims they should inform consumers when their cards or numbers are stolen.
The story of the sad eyed lady of the lowlands, the woman Bob Dylan never got over.
PayPal is battling to fix a glitch that has been causing duplicate debit card withdrawals and deposits on some customer accounts since the
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Right? As long as they spell the name right. As long as your face and name is out there, as long as you're dancing in the public eye it doesn't matter whether your laces are untied or your sock has a hole or your hair looks like you combed it with a corkscrew. Any publicity is good publicity.
Right?
Well, no. http://www.lileks.com/institute/publicity/
The man whose voice was preserved forever on a bootleg yelling "Judas" at Bob Dylan for going electric tells all.
The renegade boat brigades ignored calls for them not to evacuate people in New Orleans- now many are faced with arrest warrents for saving lives.
Donovan tells about the time he met Bob Dylan
More and more people are getting upset with Yahoo's domain registration. Here's why:
This fellow lives in a jet!
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Until recently, the idea of cloning human beings was strictly the stuff of science fiction. But all that changed with the announcement that British researchers have produced a clone of an adult sheep, better known as Dolly. The first mammal ever to be cloned from an adult, Dolly has DNA that is identical to her only "parent," a 6-year old ewe.
So is cloning making trouble or not? http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/news/march97/mainstory_mar97.html
Posted at 10:18 am by Psychomike
Sep 23, 2005
Surf W/A Cure For The Common Cold
FINALLY: A CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD, GOOGLE GOES INTO TV, HIDDEN ART IN DA VINCI PAINTINGS, THE CLINTON CONDOM, SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY, SUPERBUG HITS CHICAGO STREETS, THE BLIND DEAD SERIES!
Three Chicago-area children have died of a toxic shock syndrome-like illness caused by a superbug they caught in the community and not in the hospital, where the germ is usually found.
The cases show that this already worrisome staph germ has become even more dangerous by acquiring the ability to cause this shock-like condition.
"There's a new kid on the block," said Dr. John Bartlett of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, referring to the added strength of the superbug known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Here's the entire collection of all 13 "Celebrity Jeopardy" episodes on Saturday Night Live. Enjoy! Some brilliant material here.
The flu vaccine, a cornerstone of public health policy, is only mildly effective in the population for which it is supposedly most critical: the elderly.
According to a study appearing in the Sept. 22 online issue of The Lancet, vaccines against influenza are only "modestly effective" in people in long-term care facilities and even less effective for elderly people still living in the community.
That research is twinned with another flu study, which found more bad news: that resistance to drugs used to treat influenza has risen 12 percent in the past decade.
This finding, the authors stated, raises questions about the government's policy of stockpiling such drugs. http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/09/21/hscout528105.html
They are called THE BLIND DEAD, heretic horsemen whose eyes were burned out to prevent them from finding their way back from Hell. Over the course of 4 unforgettable films, writer/director Amando de Ossorio created what fright fans worldwide consider to be one of the most startling series in horror history. This unique quartet of shockers delivers a relentless onslaught of creepy atmosphere, shocking violence, forbidden sexuality, and the still-chilling icons of EuroHorror: The eyeless undead who hunt by sound in their quest for human flesh. Don’t move… don’t breathe... don’t let them hear your heart beating: THE BLIND DEAD
Before we spend $200 billion on New Orleans disaster relief, can we just pause for about three seconds, please? That should be long enough to divide one number by another. The numbers I have in mind are, on the one hand, $200 billion, and, on the other hand, 1 million people—the prestorm population of the New Orleans area, broadly defined.
Two-hundred billion divided by 1 million is 200,000. For the cost of reconstructing New Orleans, the government could simply give $200,000 to every resident of the region—that's $800,000 for a family of four. Given a choice, which do you think the people down there would prefer?
http://www.slate.com/id/2126715
Great photos of Hong Kong! Hundreds of stunning shots!
Posted at 08:51 am by Psychomike
Sep 22, 2005
Surf W/ Bjork Movie Battles!
The Attempted Militarization of the Jetsons, BJORK FILM WARS, WHACKY STUPID RADIO DJ STUNT- TAKE DRUGS ON AIR, KEVIN SMITH'S BLOG!A lesser known episode of "The Jetsons" speaks directly to our current plight: the relentless but eternally floundering attempt to militarize a bourgeois society that is more interested in consumption and leisure than serving a mythical national ethos.
In the Jetsons' world of the future, people are pretty much the same as they are today, except that they have more gizmos and far more leisure time.
That's the future: it is an extension of today, just as today is an extension of everything that followed before. There is no dramatic hinge of history that causes all rules to change, as socialist or fascist or other totalitarian ideologies imagine. It is just the same old struggle playing itself out in different ways. http://www.mises.org/story/1920
Kate Moss was photographed doing LINES of cocaine in public.
She is losing work because of it.
She may now be facing arrest.
Once upon a time there were supermodels. Over 6 feet, goddesses for our rock stars.
Then this 5 foot 6 street punk comes along and not only changes our definition of beauty, but topples the "Supermodels". Without giving a damn.
She wore "vintage" clothes to an AIDS benefit in the early 80's and every thrift store raised their prices on used clothes and loads of art girls got into buying vintage.
Watching her destroy herself is very, very sad. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1970622005
Reviews of gadgets for national emergencies.
Howdy, Mike Flores here, also known as DJ PSYCHOMIKE
This is the place I'll be spinning at:
SONOTHEQUE
These are the details, Tuesday October 11, doors open at 8.
1444 W. Chicago Avenue
Check out the flyer:
Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark took Cannes' top prize. But relations between the director and his star, Björk,
almost led to disaster, recalls Catherine Deneuve
Ok, it was a movie, that became a play, that has now been made into a movie. And it looks great. And Uma looks hot.... THE PRODUCERS:
How you can brighten people's lives this Halloween with Chic religious tracts! Loads of insane ideas!
The host of a new Dutch talk show plans to take heroin and other illegal drugs on air in a program intended to reach young audiences on topics that touch their lives, producers said Wednesday.
The show, scheduled to premier on late-night television Oct. 10, is called "Spuiten & Slikken," or the "Shoot Up and Swallow" show.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/21/D8COLIUG1.html
This comes to us from Brian "Prime Minister of the Sinister/ PMS, from http://www.psychotronic.info - about a giant pink rabbit on a mountainside- with photo!
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Have you ever wondered how a Madonna track would sound if she were backed
up by The Sex Pistols, or what a certain Britney Spears single would have
been like if the guys from Kraftwerk had provided the music? Imagine that
Beyonce had had a career in the 1970's, and Soft Cell had chosen one of her
tracks for their break-through hit? Here's another one: how would Nirvana
have sounded in today's electro-revival? Wouldn't you like to hear that?
Well, believe it or not, all the above recordings already exist. And so do
many more unusual combinations for that matter. It's not that these
artists have ever been secretly together in a recording studio, but rather
that their tracks have been (re)mixed without them knowing it. Welcome in
the fascinating world of mash-ups.
A mash-up is a track in which the vocals of one track have been mixed over
the music of another track. No big deal - you might think - nothing new
there, people have already been doing that for years. That's right, but a
mash-up goes a tiny bit further then the so-called "megamixes" or remixes
you're probably thinking of right now. A mash-up is a completely new track
- a track that sounds like an original recording... as if it had always
been like that... as if it was actually recorded by the original
artists. But what really makes a mash-up unique - and different from the
mixes in the past - is that it uses elements of tracks from different
genres. So it is perfectly possible to hear Madonna go punk, Britney go
electro, or Beyonce do it '80s style... Apart from using elements of
different artists who perform in different music styles, maybe the most
important characteristic of a mash-up is that the tracks being used blend
seamlessly into the new track. A track that should be at least as good as
- and in most cases, better - then the original versions. That's why it's
often called "the best music the original artists never made"...
Posted at 02:52 am by Psychomike
Sep 21, 2005
Surf W/Music Of New Orleans
FLEXIBLE GIRLS OF THE UKRAINE, JAPANESE SAMBA PARADE, THE MUMMY MUSEUM, HOW THE C WORD BECAME SO BAD, NEW QUESTIONS ON NEW ORLEANS FLOOD!
You folks owe me for this one. Buy me a brew the next time we meet. MP3's of the music of New Orleans.
If you live in California you need to know about the BLAB! Art opening. If you don't, you still need to see this cutting edge illustration work.
4000 women in Japan parade and dance in skimpy outfits for the Samba Parade!
Japanese politician comes out as a lesbian! Not ok for work.
Betty Boop, the saucy cartoon character who first appeared in 1930, is now making the rounds as the latest Hooters Girl.
Miss Boop is now appearing on a series of lapel pins for the infamous wing eatery. Ten pins are available featuring the buxom and leggy Boop in the traditional Hooters tank top and orange shorts.
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/0824bettyboop0824.html
Muslims in the UK have made it clear they consider the Holocaust Memorial Day to be offensive.
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy092005.shtml
New Orleans flood- I Smell A Graft- I Mean, Rat: Louisiana's top hurricane experts have rejected the official explanations for the floodwall collapses that inundated much of New Orleans, concluding that Hurricane Katrina's storm surges were much smaller than authorities have suggested and that the city's flood- protection system should have kept most of the city dry.
The Army Corps of Engineers has said that Katrina was just too massive for a system that was not intended to protect the city from a storm greater than a Category 3 hurricane, and that the floodwall failures near Lake Pontchartrain were caused by extraordinary surges that overtopped the walls.
But with the help of complex computer models and stark visual evidence, scientists and engineers at Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center have concluded that Katrina's surges did not come close to overtopping those barriers. That would make faulty design, inadequate construction or some combination of the two the likely cause of the breaching of the floodwalls along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals -- and the flooding of most of New Orleans.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Televangelist Jim Bakker's PTL Christian Theme Park has gone to wrack and ruin. an illicit photog has crept through the ruins of this soi-dissant Jesusland and shot roll after roll of rotting Christian "amusements."
Posted at 12:30 am by Psychomike
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