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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 26, 2005
Surf W/White Sox:World Series Champs!
DEAN MARTIN AND JERRY LEWIS: A LOVE STORY, ELMO BUSTED, LIZ PHAIR PODCASTS, SAKE GETTING NOTICED IN U.S., FREE ODD MUSIC!
Watch movies, cartoons and newsreels at this site- for free and without registering! Many politically incorrect! Over 100 movies, and loads of cool shorts- including a pro- marijuana film made to encourage farmers to grow it in World War 2 (HEMP FOR VICTORY)! You are gonna love this site!
"Free Albums Galore is a full-album mp3 blog for listeners of eclectic music.
In plain sight of children and tourists, Elmo - or at least, a man named Don Harper in a knockoff Elmo costume - was arrested here by the Los Angeles Police Department. Elmo was taken down by a special task force created to combat a growing nuisance in the Hollywood tourist district: famous costumed characters who try to be photographed with tourists and sometimes badger them relentlessly for tips.
Coming. To Berwyn just outside of Chicago. Shimmer Wrestling. All women wrestling! Click on the poster for details!
LAPD officers...also busted Mr. Incredible, the superhero from the animated hit "The Incredibles," as well as a man dressed as the villain from the "Scream" movie franchise. All three icons were arrested and could face charges ranging from illegal vending to aggressive begging.
"The Characters," as they're known in the neighborhood, are getting out of hand these days...today, police estimate anywhere from 70 to 80 characters work the one-block stretch that includes not only the Chinese Theater, but also the Kodak Theater...and a new retail and entertainment center called Hollywood & Highland. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1024wsj-costumed-characters24-ON.html
Currently touring in support of her latest album, "Somebody's Miracle," Liz Phair says she's found a positive outlet for downtime while on the road.
I'm all about podcasting," Phair told Billboard.com. "I'm totally fixated on it. It's what I'm into. We usually do a couple of live songs and then there are interviews. We're going to do it every Friday. It might be a little late here and there, but pretty much (it's up) every Friday."
Posted on Phair's Web site (http://www.lizphair.com), the podcasts have been well received. Last week's second update featured live performances of "Polyester Bride," from 1998's "Whitechocolatespaceegg" and the title track from the new Capitol album. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051025/wr_nm/phair_dc
The one time I saw CREAM with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce they opened for THREE DOG NIGHT. The audience was half redneck straights and 1/2 long haired hippies. There were no fights between the two groups, the straights had never been that close to hippies and the hippies showed off a bit more in front of their audience. The Atlanta police force only had three people on narcotics detail in those days who mainly watched the black neighborhoods so police and straights didn't realize the cigarettes being passed were actually joints. When Cream came out however, the boozers and the pot heads united in cheers. Cream had been top 10 with the single off their first album, and they clearly had cross over appeal. Whether you were a stoned freak or a drunk frat boy, CREAM was cool. For my taste, Clapton was never as good once CREAM broke up. Here is the review of their re-union show.
Why nazism is socialism, and socialism is totalitarian. Video lecture takes apart the Nazi state.
BEST SITES OF THE DAY:
Who's the real Jerry Lewis?
The childlike buffoon darting around the stage and screen like Daffy Duck?
The sentimental humanitarian we see every year on his telethon for Muscular Dystrophy?
The self-described "total filmmaker" whose movies are filled with inventive uses of sound, color, editing, and performance style?
Lewis takes the stage Monday night at the Jacob Burns Film Center as the most famous entertainer and the most underappreciated artist ever to appear there.
Many great directors, actors, and writers have appeared at the Pleasantville theater, but none can boast a 60-year career on stage, screen, and television — excelling as director, actor, producer, and writer.
And none have elicited such a unique and mixture of public adoration and disdain.
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051022/LIFESTYLE01/510220321/1031
The top ten best Martin and Lewis movies: http://humor.about.com/cs/martinandlewis/tp/martin_lewis.htm
He's been labeled a genius and an oversized goofball. His movies have been hailed as masterworks and derided as dumb. He considers himself an accomplished auteur, authoring a textbook on what it takes to be a "Total Filmmaker". But there will always be two things that cannot be taken from Jerry Lewis. He has raised billions of dollars as chairman and host of the annual Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy, and for 10 years during the 1940s and 1950s, he was part of the most famous and celebrated comedy duo of all time.
Along with the dashing Dead Martin, a talented crooner from Steubenville, Ohio, a 19-year-old Lewis suddenly found himself in a maelstrom of unbridled popularity. Money was pouring in, movie offers were waved under both neophytes' noses, and the accolades were unmatched. Martin and Lewis were the post-war pulse of a battle weary nation, and the resulting hilarity and hi-jinx looked like it would never end. So when the duo officially called it quits, 10 years to the day after getting together, fans were flummoxed -- and the confusion continued as neither man spoke to the other (at least, not in public) in 20-plus years.
The legend of Martin and Lewis has been done to death in the media. But the story of their breakup, the emotional and psychological elements that lead to their demise has long been left to speculation and myth. Now, decades after the fact and years after Martin's passing, the "monkey" part of their partnership (as Lewis routinely referred to himself) is here to expose the reasons behind the Martin and Lewis demise. Over the course of 352 pages, Dean and Me (A Love Story) hopes to show how fame becomes its own self-fulfilling prophecy. Eventually, even in the most successful enterprises, ego will wipe out years of goodwill and free-flowing friendship. http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/d/dean-and-me-love-story.shtml
Posted at 11:15 pm by Psychomike
Surf W/The Werewolf Bongo Party!
The White Sox game is going into the 13th inning! Thought I better post before I passout...
CHICAGO SLIPS IN COLLEGE ACADEMIC LIFE, TRY SOME NEW SUGAR, AMAZON READER REVIEWS OF TOP 100 NOVELS, HITLER'S WAR ON SMOKING, MAO MORE THAN EVER?
Shaws is getting geared up for the big Oyster festival in Chicago this Friday- and it is a great party:
Every year Playboy lists the top ten party colleges. Sadly, no Illinois institution of higher learning made the list. What in the hell is wrong with our kids?
People have been making jack-o-lanterns at Halloween for centuries. The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed "Stingy Jack."
According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks...
Recently, Time magazine published a list of the 100 best novels. But the praise of professional critics hardly matters to the book-reviewing readers at Amazon.com. A compilation of the best of the worst… about the best.
The following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. Some entries have been edited. http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/reviews/lone_star_statements.php
"Thirty years a China hand, I was pretty sure I had Mao Zedong pegged. The serial butcheries that the late chairman of the Chinese Communist Party had visited on his own people were well-known to me. I had visited the graves of peasants who died in Mao's famines, interviewed survivors of the prison system he had established, and witnessed forced abortions by his communist cadres. My opinion of this brutal and tyrannical ruler could sink no lower -- or so I thought -- but I was wrong. And so, it turns out, are the standard biographies.
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" is so chock full of revisionist bombshells that almost every chapter left me shaking my head in surprise. Yet it is so meticulously researched that its groundbreaking conclusions are unlikely to be seriously challenged in the future. Critical to this success is the unparalleled access the authors enjoyed inside of China. Not only did they interview dozens of individuals close to Mao about every detail of his personal life and rise to power, they had privileged access to party archives still closed to other researchers, and of course to the Chinese people themselves. Myths and lies that even today continue to prop up Mao's image -- and the People's Republic of China itself -- fall one-by-one before a no-holds-barred indictment of the man who is arguably the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century.
Take the tale of the Long March. PRC history books recount how Mao, guns blazing, fought his way out of encircling Nationalist armies and through hostile provinces to reach the red base of Yenan. But this heroic epic is a complete fabrication."
Here is the entire list of films which it turns out were selected by one magazine staff.
The problems with these kinds of lists are:
1. The age of the people doing the lists
2. The standards
A quick look over the list reveals no SEVEN SAMURI, only 1 silent film (where is CITY LIGHTS, THE GOLD RUSH, BIRTH OF A NATION, WINGS, THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD?)and most of the titles are really, really recent.
In art, you aren't an artist until people show an interest in your work after you've died. The rules for being an artist or a great artist for any museum are much tougher than becoming a CEO for a major corporation. Yet film squeaks by many rules because it is profitable and mass oriented.
These lists are always fun, but if the rules of museums was used to judge films, the list would be over 80% silent films.
And there would be underground films, too. http://forum.totalfilm.com/viewtopic.php?t=1440
Historians and epidemiologists have only recently begun to explore the Nazi anti-tobacco movement. Germany had the world's strongest antismoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, encompassing bans on smoking in public spaces, bans on advertising, restrictions on tobacco rations for women, and the world's most refined tobacco epidemiology, linking tobacco use with the already evident epidemic of lung cancer. The anti-tobacco campaign must be understood against the backdrop of the Nazi quest for racial and bodily purity, which also motivated many other public health efforts of the era.
Perhaps some of you out there might be amused and enlightened armed with the knowledge of exactly when stereo recording was first realized (1931), who was the first band to contract a touring PA system (The Beach Boys), when was the first transistor produced (1951), or what was the first hollywood movie with an all-electronic music score ("Forbidden Planet" - remember Robby The Robot?). http://penny100.home.mindspring.com/info/timeline.htm
Soldiers have always made decorative or souvenir objects in their spare time. During the Napoleonic Wars, French prisoners of war interned in British prison camps created a variety of elaborate boxes, models and other pieces made from soup bones as well as marquetry boxes and similar items using plaited straw. The Crimean War produced interesting souvenirs such as inkwells made from cannon balls. Soldiers in the American Civil War decorated powder horns, canteens and snuffboxes with personal and patriotic engravings and fabricated game pieces from bone and spent bullets. Sailors also have rich traditions of creating scrimshaw and needlework pieces. http://www.trenchart.org/
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
HamletWorks.org offers deep levels of information on Hamlet and related works for scholars, students, theater practitioners, and fans. The site, a continuing work in process, already allows users to:
-- Compare early Hamlet editions from the First Quarto (Q1, 1603), Second Quarto (Q2, 1605), First Players' Quarto (Q6, 1676) and First Folio (F1, 1623).
-- Build a Shakespeare concordance
-- Survey textual notes in editions from Q2 to the present
-- Compare commentary notes from the eighteenth to the twentieth century by clicking on a line number
-- See Hamlet facsimiles
-- Explore Global essays on Hamlet around the world
and much more...
http://www.leoyan.com/global-language.com/ENFOLDED/index.html
Posted at 12:28 am by Psychomike
Oct 25, 2005
SECRETS OF 2001 REVEALED, THE RETURN OF MYTHS, THE ROOTS OF LOUNGE MUSIC AND LIFESTYLE, COOKING WILD GAME, ROAD HEAD!
It is the missing part of a cinematic classic. Almost four decades ago, Stanley Kubrick gathered the world's scientific minds and asked them to predict the future. Their thoughts would then form the opening sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, his epic about a mission to Jupiter which becomes a life or death battle between the space crew and their on-board computer HAL 9000.
But the interviews were never screened and the collective thoughts of 21 eminent men and women of science appeared to have been lost for ever.
Now the musings are to be made public for the first time when they are published next month, giving Kubrick enthusiasts an insight into his ultimate vision for the classic film. http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/article321643.ece
Hunter S Thompson shot himself in February. Eight months on, his widow, Anita, talks to Rachel Cooke exclusively and for the first time about their time together, his sudden death, and living with the memories and memorabilia of a literary giant
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1598398,00.html
The truth behind myths: http://www.sundayherald.com/52415 The beauty of myths: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/classics/0,6121,1598412,00.html The man whose publishing company may just revive interest in myths again: http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2119532005
BRIAN ENO, the avant-garde British musician, brought the sound of silence to an ancient park in the heart of Beijing yesterday where, for centuries, emperors have offered up sacrifices to the sun.
The Altar of the Sun is usually frequented by old men flying kites, young soldiers practising martial arts and elderly women performing their early morning tai chi exercises. Yesterday the altar received what must be one of the strangest offerings to have come its way since it was built in 1531. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1837018,00.html
For those not familiar with Road head, it is performing oral sex on the (male) driver of a car while he's driving. Be sure to check out the FAQ
Not safe for work. http://www.iloveroadhead.com/
You shot it. Now what are you gonna do with it? Recipes for cooking wild game. http://www.recipegoldmine.com/meatwild/meatwild.html
A Nazi war criminal's contribution to medicine is being slowly written out of the medical record.
Until a few decades ago, "Reiter's syndrome" was the term used to describe the painful disorder in which a patient simultaneously suffers the infection-triggered symptoms of arthritis, conjunctivitis and urethritis.
The syndrome was named after Hans Reiter, the German doctor who identified it in 1916. Reiter later became an enthusiastic Nazi. He ran Hitler's Reich Health Office, and during the second world war designed typhoid inoculation experiments that killed more than 250 people at the Buchenwald concentration camp. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8194
According to sparse historical writings, the Greek mathematician Archimedes torched a fleet of invading Roman ships by reflecting the sun's powerful rays with a mirrored device made of glass or bronze.
More than 2,000 years later, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona set out to recreate Archimedes' fabled death ray http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/10/23/mit-students-fail-to-recr_n_9332.html
THE good news is that the bad news didn't stop The New York Times from publishing a lengthy front-page article last Sunday about the issues facing Judith Miller and the paper, or from pushing Ms. Miller to give readers a first-person account of her grand jury testimony.
The details laid out in the commendable 6,200-word article by a special team of reporters and editors led by the paper's deputy managing editor answered most of my fundamental questions. At issue, of course, was Ms. Miller's refusal to divulge her confidential sources to the grand jury investigating who had leaked the identity of a C.I.A. undercover operative. But the article and Ms. Miller's account also uncovered new information that suggested the journalistic practices of Ms. Miller and Times editors were more flawed than I had feared.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/opinion/23publiceditor.html?ei=5090&en=5592e589f27775a7&ex=1287720000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Celebrating the thoroughly unexamined life. Roots or retro, cocktail or kitsch, exotica or nostalgia--these may be topics that lack substance, but we'll be plumbing the depths of shallow in these pages. If it's covered or linked here, it fits our definition of Lounge...and beyond...
http://gonix.com/rol/
Posted at 12:27 am by Psychomike
Oct 24, 2005
THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES PROJECT, iPODS AND HEARING LOSS, GODS OF JAPAN, THE COLUMBIAN EXHIBIT IN CHICAGO, BANNED BRITNEY BABY PICS, RUPERT EVERETT'S DARK SHERLOCK HOLMES!
I noticed that Masterpiece Theater was showing Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes so last night I decided to watch it and check out the re-broadcast of
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES this coming Saturday. The opening scene, of Holmes in an opium den getting wasted let me know this was a wise choice.
This is one dark Holmes, and if you are a fan you will love this. It is re-broadcast different days and times around the country- but here in Chicago
More and more people with repetitive motion injuries are showing up at Doctor's offices. Are blackberries to blame?
The Arab version of the Simpsons isn't getting many laughs! From Bryan Wendorf with the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
A brief article about Count Felix Von Luckner,a WW1 German naval officer commanding a merchant raider that sank 50,000 tons of allied shipping.The how,the with what and the fate of his 'victims' may surprise you.. http://www.yeoldeeditor.com/vonluckner.htm
The Sherlock Holmes stories are illustrated with artwork by Sidney Paget, Richard Gutschmidt, Frank Wiles, Frederic Dorr Steele and other artists. Explanatory notes will be added eventually, but as this will be a long-term project, your patience is requested.
From the who to the how, here are the Nigerian scams that keep working on Americans.
Old Roadie is the brain child of Mike Artz - part of the most famous road crew ever - the Allman Brothers Band roadies. He was also a member of the all-roadie band the Almost Brothers. Now he grows the best datil peppers around and turns them into a killer sauce.
This site is the home for old roadies everywhere. Come on in and read the old war stories (or post one if you have one!), catch up with the current happenings of other old roadies, and buy some sauce! http://www.oldroadie.com/index.php
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The Columbian Exposition is still considered a major expo that took place in Chicago.
Posted at 12:16 am by Psychomike
Oct 21, 2005
Surf w/ Belly Dancing Music!
FREE 411 CALLS, PILLOW BOOKS, THE FROZEN PILOTS OF SIERRA NEVADA, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE SOUTH PARK, BELLY DANCING, HOLLYWOOD CARTOONS TELL ALL!
The Serbian fairy tale, “The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan“, with beautiful QTVR panoramic artwork by award-winning illustrator Jelena Obradovic.
1-800-FREE411 was created to provide callers with a free alternative to the skyrocketing rates being charged by phone companies for directory assistance (411). The service is made possible by thousands of national and local businesses who sponsor this service with brief valuable audio advertisements that are played to callers who request businesses in their yellow pages category. This advertising model allows businesses to acquire new customers over the phone, cost effectively, with little or no risk. Meanwhile callers get free directory assistance, potentially saving each of them thousand of dollars per year.
Dusty Springfield, the white lady of soul!
What: Party for "John Woo: Interviews," the first oral history of the director's life & legacy
Where: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago
When: Tonight: Reception and signing: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m
“The Killer” screens at 8 p.m., tickets $8, with introduction by me
More signing: 9:30 to 10 p.m.
Advanced tickets on sale at Ticketmaster on the Gene Siskel box office.
More details and updates at: www.johnwoointerviews.com
Returning New Orleans residents think of themselves as survivors, and many are lining up to get tattoos that celebrate New Orleans.
An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals — and where a Seattle man died doing so with a horse —
It was a plane crash back in 1942 that wasn't discovered until 1947. Now, hikers made a frozen discovery in connection with a World War II plane crash.
Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Sequoia National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing.
It's believed the airman has been frozen in the glacier for decades until a pair of climbers got much more than ever imagined on a hike.
The Sierra Nevadas are apparently littered with crashes from the WWII era, which I suppose is what you'd expect when you put hundreds of low-time pilots in an area where most of the landscape points up.
Selected scenes from Big Trouble in Little China, remade using South Park characters and animation paired with the original audio track.
Some of these clips require the DIVX codec to work properly. http://www.wingkong.net/video/index.html
Ever have trouble downloading Flash and the different codes, so you can watch films on the net? Here you can find many of these programs free-
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Radio Bastet is a web radio show devoted to vintage belly dance music.
They have past programs, a gallery of album covers, links to belly dancing books and info, and more.
They also post an album each month, for your mp3 downloading pleasure. This month's selection is "How to Belly Dance For Your Husband" by Sonny Lester
Posted at 05:05 am by Psychomike
Oct 20, 2005
CATS CAN BE ALLERGIC TO HUMANS, ARTIFICIAL INTEL COMES TO GOOGLE,
CHOKE YOUR CHICKEN, I LOVE PICKLES, SARAH SILVERMAN IS COOL,
IS THE BIRD FLU REAL OR A HOAX?
Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Mother Teresa are being deployed as behaviour cops in posters in the car-clogged streets of Mexico City in a campaign to stamp out bad driving,
corruption and aggression.
"If you want to change lanes never use your indicator," a Chilango recently advised a newcomer. "It gives away your strategy. Everyone will squash up to stop you getting in."
Now you can choke your chicken this X-Mas. This has to be the strangest toy I've seen. It does look funny.....
Cats are blamed for triggering asthma attacks in humans but veterinarians in Scotland say it may also work the other way around. Irritants such as cigarette smoke, dusty homes and human dandruff can increase inflammation in feline lungs and worsen asthma in cats.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1485585.htm
Two tests may one day be able to diagnose Alzheimer's disease by detecting beta amyloid protein in the eye.
Widespread fears about a world in a perpetual state of war are unfounded, a study says today. It emphasises that the number of conflicts between nations, civil wars, battle deaths, coups and genocides has been falling steeply for more than a decade.
While the authors note that bloody wars continue in Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo, they argue that there are substantial grounds for optimism.
Comedy is probably the last remaining branch of the arts whose suitability for women is still openly discussed.... [Sarah] Silverman presents herself as approachable though deranged, a sort of twisted Gracie Allen, and she never breaks character. She talks about herself so ingenuously that you can't tell if she is the most vulnerable woman in the world or the most psychotically well-defended.
Silverman crosses boundaries that it would not occur to most people even to have. The more innocent and oblivious her delivery, the more outrageous her commentary becomes...
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051024fa_fact
Is the bird flu real, or a hoax?
Daryl Bradford Smith interviews Henry Niman and Geri Guidetti
Two microbiologists speak about it.
Click the links below for the MP3 audio files
Hour_1, Niman, Oct 7, 2005
Hour_2, Guidetti, Oct 17, 2005
Click your right mouse and select download. Then play them, post them on your site, or burn them to CD and share with everyone who has ears.
How do you find out what products have been recalled by the government? http://www.recalls.gov/
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Rada Mihalcea of the computer science and engineering department received a $107,112 award in a national competition from the search engine company Google to support her research.
Her project, “Finding Important Information in Unstructured Text: Algorithms for Keyphrase and Sentence Extraction,” will benefit a new division at Google, named Google Print, which is building an online electronic database of books.
Google is working with the libraries at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford and the New York Public Library to digitally scan books and provide users a way to search the database for specific books and their content.
http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/19/4355dd55d6459 Posted at 12:19 am by Psychomike
Oct 18, 2005
THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE MAGIC FRUIT, THE COUPLE THAT CHANGED ROCK MUSIC, THE CHIEF OF POLICE WHO SAID NO, NEW ORLEANS VOODOO DECLARED BEST!
Star anise, the unusual fruit of a small oriental tree, is sold in supermarkets in the UK to consumers seeking its pungent, liquorice-like flavour.
But the herb has a vital function as the source of shikimic acid from which the drug Tamiflu is made, the only defence the world currently has against the threatened flu pandemic. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=665640
Gallery of new wave music sleeves. Really cool.
As the 60s dawned, two bustling restaurants on the ground floor at 1619 Broadway (Manhattan's legendary Brill Building) were pumping out roast beef sandwiches and porterhouse steaks for hungry Times Square patrons.
Meanwhile, upstairs, seven songwriting duos - most barely out of their teens - sat in airless cubicles, huddled around banged-up pianos, cooking up the classic pop confections we still can't get enough of today, songs like "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" "Chapel of Love," "Jailhouse Rock," "Be My Baby," "Walk on By," "Up on the Roof," and "Leader of the Pack" - get the picture?
These are the songs that have jump-started pulses, accelerated birthrates, and enriched wedding and bar mitzvah bands across the planet for more than four decades now. Just the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " by itself - radio's most played pop song ever - has been heard more than 10 million times.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1018/p16s01-bogn.html
Because of a lawsuit by the New York Times, major censored portions of 911 reports have been released. Many would like to see the uncensored portions of the cities response. http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0542,murphy,68951,5.html
The former police chief of Seattle has seen enough. He wants drugs legalized.
Here is some of what he says:
It's not a stretch to conclude that our draconian approach to drug use is the most injurious domestic policy since slavery. Want to cut back on prison overcrowding and save a bundle on the construction of new facilities? Open the doors, let the nonviolent drug offenders go. The huge increases in federal and state prison populations during the 1980s and '90s (from 139 per 100,000 residents in 1980 to 482 per 100,000 in 2003) were mainly for drug convictions. In 1980, 580,900 Americans were arrested on drug charges. By 2003, that figure had ballooned to 1,678,200. We're making more arrests for drug offenses than for murder, manslaughter, forcible rape and aggravated assault combined. Feel safer?
I've witnessed the devastating effects of open-air drug markets in residential neighborhoods: children recruited as runners, mules and lookouts; drug dealers and innocent citizens shot dead in firefights between rival traffickers bent on protecting or expanding their markets; dedicated narcotics officers tortured and killed in the line of duty; prisons filled with nonviolent drug offenders; and drug-related foreign policies that foster political instability, wreak health and environmental disasters, and make life even tougher for indigenous subsistence farmers in places such as Latin America and Afghanistan. All because we like our drugs — and can't have them without breaking the law.
As an illicit commodity, drugs cost and generate extravagant sums of (laundered, untaxed) money, a powerful magnet for character-challenged police officers.
Although small in numbers of offenders, there isn't a major police force — the Los Angeles Police Department included — that has escaped the problem: cops, sworn to uphold the law, seizing and converting drugs to their own use, planting dope on suspects, robbing and extorting pushers, taking up dealing themselves, intimidating or murdering witnesses.
In declaring a war on drugs, we've declared war on our fellow citizens.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-legalize16oct16,0,3428942.story?track=hpmostemailedlink
Christians review teen magazines. http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/10/172005a.asp I don't know, so few people read anymore, I think if a kid is reading something inapproriate they will still be several notches above other kids their age.
Are you ready for smoked bacon butter? http://www.indigo.org/food/stash/baconbut.html
New Orleans voodoo is still around. In fact, you can even have a voodoo wedding.
http://www.voodoospiritualtemple.org/
Now you can have a virtual autopsy! http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/titlpag1.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Ever wonder what the world press thinks of an issue? Find out here:
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/english.php Posted at 11:33 pm by Psychomike
Surf W/ Beach Boys Meltdown: Uncut!
HOW THE NEWS IS STAGED, MUMMIFICATION FOR YOU AND YOUR PET, STRANGE FOOD, DOCTOR PRESCRIBED POT SPRAY!
A Swedish man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has been ordered to pay child support for their three children.
In the early 1990s the man, now 39, donated his sperm to a woman in a lesbian relationship. She had three sons, the oldest of whom is now 13 years old.
Although the man signed a document confirming he was the biological father of the children, he told the court the women agreed he would not be involved in their upbringing in any way. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1571037.html?menu=news.quirkies
Can men have women pals? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1593217,00.html
This prankster has, the head in a jar! http://www.madhauscreative.com/head%20in%20a%20jar.html
Angelina Jolie is in talks to play Vesper Lynd in CASINO ROYALE
http://www.megastar.co.uk/movienews/news/2005/10/17/sMEG01MTEyOTU0NjYzMTE.html
This company is offering mummification of you and your pet. http://www.summum.us/mummification/
Strange new products is a website devoted to some objects for sale that live up to the name. http://www.strangenewproducts.com/
And if you liked that, the same webmaster does this link on crazy food! http://www.junkfoodblog.com/
How a pulverized, liquefied, and doctor-prescribed form of marijuana could transform the drug-war landscape http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/11/Respectable_Reefer.html
Here is the website of the group. http://www.drugdevelopment-technology.com/projects/sativex/
This is amazing and should be seen even if you aren't a fan. Great science fiction cover site- with an ingenious way to view them.
http://www.krazydad.com/visco/
The Beach Boys enter the studio to record what will become their second number one hit, Help Me Rhonda. Well into the session, a drunken Murry Wilson (Brian, Carl and Dennis' Dad) arrives and proceeds to commandeer the session with psychodrama, scat singing and weepy, abusive melodrama.
You'll even find the Peter Bagge animated films on Brian's dad, too. Not ok for work. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/im_a_genius_too.html
Tombstones that come with a video screen. http://www.vidstone.com/
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
This amazing news footage shows why you should take news broadcasts with a lot of salt. Bet you send this around.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/14.html#a5377
Posted at 01:18 am by Psychomike
Oct 17, 2005
Surf W/ Outhouses Of America!
CUBS WIN, LOST SHOPPING MALLS, WILLIAM GIBSON'S NEUROMANCER, KITTEN WAR, MONSTER FROM THE TSUNAMI!
Lost shopping malls of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's.
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WENDY'S WORLD
This future is a future that revolves around the information superhighway that is the internet, so much so that we don't use our computers or cell phones or PDAs to log on, but out mind. Body modification isn't piercings and tattoos but bionic parts and computer implants. Everything else is just as miserable as it is right now.
| As it is with most hackers, Case was a little too confident in his ability to get away with it until he stopped getting away with it. By law his nervous system would be burned with acid to impede his ability to jack into the internet. Now feeling lost and useless and contemplating suicide, he's offered an opportunity to have his old nervous system intact, regaining his ability to jack in - but at what price? |
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Born in 1914, William Gibson spent most of his childhood in the Bronx. His mother tutored him so that he could skip grades in school. In sixth grade, the budding author started buying notebooks, hoping to fill them with a novel about an uncle killed during wartime. Though he never wrote the novel, his interest in writing never diminished. nearly 30 years later, Gibson was supported by his wife and occasionally sought income by playing the piano or working other part-time jobs so that he could realize his childhood dream. |
Posted at 09:18 am by Psychomike
Oct 13, 2005
Surf W/ The New James Bond!
NEW TIKI PLACE OPENS IN CHICAGO 'BURBS, THE JENNA JAMESON GUITAR, THE WORLD'S STRANGEST HAT, ESQUIRE HAILS BUTTER: CHICAGO'S
BEST NEW RESTAURANT, OLDEST NOODLES FOUND IN CHINA, THE MAN WHO SAVED 1 BILLION LIVES- AND IS HATED FOR IT!
Then came the Bush version!
Interesting argument put forward about the life of Jesus and how it stands next to other religions tales throughout time.
Robert Plant has a new band, an acclaimed album and a bright future. And he's learned to live with the ghosts of Led Zeppelin.
He is public enemy number 1 to the Greens and anti- genetic engineered food crowd. Yet he is credited with saving in his lifetime, over 1 billion lives. How is it a man who saved over 1 billion people walks the earth- and you've never heard of him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug A sad story of how one scientist can make a difference in the lives of people on this planet- yet because his work is controversial his name is unknown in schools, never mentioned in the press. The modern age, indeed.....
How demanding are rock musicians in the studio? This person reveals what it was like to work with Kate Bush and U2.
There is a new Tiki bar and restaurant opening in the burbs. Folks, this looks like it will be hot! Sign up ASAP for a VIP membership for the opening night party in November!
Is America in a period of cultural decay? "Among the conceits of our elite and media is the assumption that America, in the form that they wish to imagine it, is immortal. Part of this is the arrogance of the big, part comes from an admirable if naive faith in progress, part of it is pathological delusion. For a host of reasons, beginning with our own survival, it is long past time to permit the question to be raised: is America collapsing as a culture?"
Jackson, the top guitar maker, has made a limited edition model that features Jenna Jameson's likeness on the body. Not ok for work.
Esquire has published their list of the best new restaurants in America.
IS THIS THE NEW JAMES BOND?
Tabloid reports this week have said the role will go to Daniel Craig, a blue-eyed British actor who would be the first blond Bond.
Although he’s not well known in the United States, Craig, 37, has a busy British career that includes roles in the landmark 1990s TV drama Our Friends in the North; and films including The Mother, Enduring Love; and Layer Cake.
He played Paul Newman’s sinister son in Road to Perdition, was poet Ted Hughes opposite Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia Plath in Sylvia; and appeared in this year’s thriller The Jacket; with Adrien Brody.
Craig is also the tabloids’ dream Bond. He once dated headline-grabbing model Kate Moss and has been linked to Sienna Miller, his Layer Cake co-star. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1823863,00.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
To perpetuate and preserve the game and history of our national pastime: baseball. The Old Timers Baseball Association! New and old baseball!
Posted at 11:49 pm by Psychomike
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