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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, 2007
Posted at 08:12 am by Psychomike
Oct 3, 2007
Surf W/Hello Kitty- SEXY?!?
AMSTERDAM POT BUSTS, GUITAR HERO 3 SONGS, 7 SUBMERGED WONDERS OF THE WORLD, BOB DYLAN'S MUSICAL ROOTS, SEXY HELLO KITTEN!
Ron Paul’s 114 percent increase is in stark contrast to the decrease suffered by Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain.
Lamborghini painted in a most unusual way
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Bob Dylan's musical roots and influences!
Posted at 09:16 pm by Psychomike
Oct 2, 2007
SurfW/Kerouac, Beauty + Brains
RADIOHEAD LAUNCH MUSIC BUYING REVOLUTION, JAMES RANDI BETS AUDIOPHILE'S: $7000 AUDIO CABLES NO BETTER THAN REGULAR!, OAK LAWN SCHOOL TO BAN CHRISTMAS TO NOT OFFEND MUSLIMS!
A convent in Italy is being shut down after a fight between its last three remaining nuns. So badly did relations deteriorate between the sisters of Santa Clara in Bari that the Mother Superior ended up in hospital with scratches to her face. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7023245.stm
A federal judge's decision to slice a few years off a lengthy prison term has brought to the Supreme Court the racially tinged issue of harsh sentences for dealing crack cocaine.Derrick Kimbrough, a black veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, received a 15-year-prison term for selling both crack and powder cocaine, as well as possessing a firearm in Norfolk, Va. Most crack defendants in federal court are black. http://www.nbc10.com/news/14249416/detail.html
Ever wish you could live at the mall? This guy did, and set up a secret apartment in a parking garage there. Of course, the mall wasn't too happy when they discovered it. Four years later http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3678911
What do you think when you see the kind of beautiful woman who can stop conversation by walking in the room? That people both male and female stare at, or get in trouble for staring at? These ten women are reminders that one of a kind beauty can mask- a brilliant mind. http://www.topsocialite.com/beauties-with-big-brains/
Roughly 12,000 albums are released in an average year, so the announcement late Sunday night that the new Radiohead record, In Rainbows, will be out Oct. 10 is not itself big news. Sure, Radiohead is on a sustained run as the most interesting and innovative band in rock, but what makes In Rainbows important — easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business — are its record label and its retail price: there is none, and there is none.
In Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" — and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Jack Kerouac does his poetry
"The social organization which is most true of itself to the artist is the boy gang," Allen Ginsberg once observed. It's a sentiment that Frank Sinatra would have appreciated. The time of "Howl" and "On the Road" was also the time of "Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely" and the original "Ocean's Eleven," and although by many measures a taste for the product of North Beach is incompatible with a taste for the product of Las Vegas, the Beat Movement writers and the Rat Pack entertainers were shapers of a similar sensibility.
When "On the Road" came out, in September, 1957, it was praised in the New York Times as the novel of the Beat Generation, equivalent in stature and significance to "The Sun Also Rises," the novel of the Lost Generation. The book was a best-seller, and it made Jack Kerouac, who had worked on it for ten years, a celebrity. It is sometimes said of Kerouac that fame killed him—that he was driven crazy by being continually addressed as the spokesman for a generation and by endless unwelcome requests to explain the meaning of the term "Beat." Kerouac was certainly undone by something. After the success of "On the Road," he continued to write at a manic pace, as he always had, but he became a suicidal alcoholic, and he died, of a hemorrhage caused by acute liver damage, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven. (He had by then written more than twenty-five books.) The notion of the Beat Generation was hardly thrust upon him, though.
"Beat" is old carny slang. According to Beat Movement legend (and it is a movement with a deep inventory of legend), Ginsberg and Kerouac picked it up from a character named Herbert Huncke, a gay street hustler and drug addict from Chicago who began hanging around Times Square in 1939 (and who introduced William Burroughs to heroin, an important cultural moment). The term has nothing to do with music; it names the condition of being beaten down, poor, exhausted, at the bottom of the world. (It's used often in this sense in "On the Road.")
(Best article on Kerouac ever) http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/10/01/071001crat_atlarge_menand Posted at 01:03 pm by Psychomike
Oct 1, 2007
THE UNSOLVED TYLENOL MURDERS, AMAZING JAPANESE MAGIC ACT, LEARN THE BLUES, GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY, MY TRIP WITH DUANE ALLMAN, SLAP THAT NAUGHTY BODY SONG, HIDDEN PARIS!
So you are curious about blues music but don't know where to start? Right here:
Ever wonder what 1000 women in bikinis on the beach look like? Found out here!
25 years ago today the Chicago area was in the midst of their own terrorist scare. Someone tainted Tylenol with poison.... some people died and a LOT of people were scared senseless. The ONLY thing that came out of this was tamper-proof packaging.
For those who lost loved ones or investigated the case, pain, anger and frustration remain. Part of the reason is that nobody was ever charged, much less convicted of the crime. The greatest song ever written? Ghost Riders In The Sky. And here are loads of versions for you to hear:
Roelfzema's wartime exploits are the stuff of legend. He wrote an autobiography, called Soldaat van Oranje, which was turned into a Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film by Paul Verhoeven.
My first and only time I saw the Dead:
The first major concert I went to- Jimi Hendrix 8/17/68. Tickets were $3.50 and I went to both shows!
One of Japan's hottest bad girls, Tsuchiya Anna is set to embark on a world tour, which can only presumably lead to world domination. Being dubbed the 'First world tour by a Japanese female singer', she'll visit a whopping four countries in a twelve show tour. The first show will be in Los Angeles on the 30th of June at Anime Expo 2007, before heading to Korea, Taiwan and then ending back in Tokyo two months later.
 Her planned best of album will also be released in 43 countries and a new single titled 'Bubble trip/sweet sweet song' is also scheduled to be released in August in Japan. Tsuchiya Anna is probably most well known for lending her musical voice in the anime 'Nana' where she sings as Nana Osaki, fronting the rock band Black Stones. Last year she also went to perform in Paris, where she was dubbed as the 'Japanese Madonna'. This year she also starred in 'Sakuran', a movie about an expensive prostitute. http://www.jpop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=346&Itemid=1 BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Paris is a city of endless surprises, and walking is the best way to get to know it. Walk, if you can do so. Walk a lot. And if you tire of walking, there are plenty of scenic places and cafes along the way in which to rest. There also is a good Metro system to help you out on the longer stretches. And now, some of my favorite discoveries, to take you into Hidden Paris. http://www.parisnotes.com/hidden/hiddenparis.htmlPosted at 10:25 am by Psychomike
Sep 29, 2007
SurfW/Blade Runner Secret!
CONFESSIONS OF A 911 'TRUTHER', AT&T VS FREE SPEECH?!?, DOCTORS BRINGING HEART ATTACK VICTIMS BACK TO LIFE!, RIDLEY SCOTT REVEALS BLADE RUNNER SECRET, THE SECRET OF AIRPLANE, THE WORSE CARS OF ALL TIME!
Miss Moneypenny from the Bond films DR. NO and on, has died.
Doctors in Philadelphia are testing a revolutionary new treatment that is restoring life and bringing people back from the dead. CBS Station KYW-TV in Philadelphia Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details.During cardiac arrest, the heart stops beating. It's a trauma alert and people are often declared dead within minutes. But now doctors at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital are bringing people back from the dead. Dr. Lance Becker and his team are challenging fate with breakthrough new treatments that could save hundreds of thousands of lives. http://wcco.com/health/health_story_271115428.html
A team of scientists says it has found a string of vast, rich forests in an unexpected setting: far below the coral reefs found in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The new forests are made out of kelp plants that harbor a huge range of plants and animals.
Ridley Scott finally answers the question Blade Runner fans have been arguing about for years, is Deckard a replicant?
AT&T has brought down new Terms of Service for its network customers. From now on, AT&T can terminate your connection for conduct that "tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries." So AT&T customers aren't allowed to write/podcast/vlog critical things about AT&T, its billing-practices, or its cooperation with illegal NSA wiretapping, on pain of having their connections disconnected
There are only a few days of September left, so here are 38 versions of Kurt Weill's beautiful (and misleading) September Song. The forgotten history of the song is a must read
Living Small: A Tiny (400 sq. ft.) Manhattan Apartment Becomes a Home. How a drummer and web designer built one on his own. Photos and video
Airplane! is indeed a spoof of the disaster movie genre, but it cribs mostly from one film: Zero Hour!.
None of this is surprising when you find out that the producers of Airplane! purchased the script and remake rights to Zero Hour! after accidentally catching the film on late night television. Airplane! is half parody - and half loyal remake. Link includes a clip. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/09/out-of-context-.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
My name is Mike Metzger, MikeyMetz for short, co-founder of 9/11 Truth UAlbany. I will not go on about my past accomplishments in the "truth" movement, but I invite you to check out the official site and our stuff on GoogleVideo if you're that interested in my background.
I figure the best way to start this all out is by reposting a Facebook note that explains my "sudden change of heart" to anyone who was interested.
Posted at 09:56 pm by Psychomike
Sep 27, 2007
THE BEST FAST FOOD FRANCHISE THERE EVER WAS, ARGUABLY THE BEST ALBUM EVER MADE, THE BEST BODY MODIFICATION, THE BEST POLITICAL COVER-UP OF ALL TIME, THE BEST LSD INFLUENCED PHOTOGRAPHERS!
The best story of the year: Towns that pass laws against illegal immigrants discover they hadn't thought their brilliant plan all the way through
The US Navy is about to spend a fortune on covering up this little embarrasment! Unbelievable but true photo! Best Embarrasing Military Story!
What was your favorite chain restaurant that is no longer around? If you say BURGER CHEF, there are many people that agree with you.
My talk on the CIA Vs. Joe McCarthy is now online, and is culled from declassified CIA documents. You will be shocked because.....
Everything we know is wrong.
So you end up in prison. Bored you come up with an idea. Get everyone together to re-create THRILLER. The best prison musical number ever, Maybe, the only one!
Really extreme body modification. I wonder what bank these people work at.
May not be ok for work
The best metamorphasis!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The making of one of the best albums ever made, BLONDE ON BLONDE by Bob Dylan, is as interesting as the album.
Posted at 09:59 am by Psychomike
Sep 24, 2007
SurfW/Chivalry Vs Sexism!
SECRETS OF THE JENA SIX, IRAN HAS NO GAYS, WORLD'S STUPIDEST CONSPIRACY THEORIES, SKIRTS FOR MEN, DETROIT HAS GONE TO HELL, 10 GREAT CLASSIC FILMS ONLINE!
"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in your country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who told you that we have this." Oh brother.....
Skirts for men!
Six common misconceptions concerning the Jena 6 case corrected. Strangely, Rev. Jesse Jackson actually being a church reverend is not one of them
BEST SITE OF THE DAY!:
Posted at 09:22 pm by Psychomike
Sep 23, 2007
SurfW/Man Who Saved World!
AMSTERDAM SHUTTING DOWN BROTHELS, THE RETURN OF INDIAN MOTORCYCLES, ASTONISHING 3-D GRAFFITI ART, 23 ALBUM COVERS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING, THE MAN WHO SAVED MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, TRENT REZNOR: STEAL MY MUSIC!!
Oxford scientists mathmatically prove quantum theory of multiple universes. Shift happens
In 1983 one man saved tens of millions of American lives. Yet few Americans know his name. A story you won't ever forget
Do you normally think of graffiti as subversive art spray-painted illegally on the walls of a city? Some artists, including Edgar Mueller, Julian Beever and Kurt Wenner, defy that stereotype, painting and chalking openly on city streets and sidewalks. Check out these brief bios with 20 amazing images of their work from around the world!
A false belief among young HIV patients that the virus can be cured is fuelling a rise in infection levels, a specialist has claimed. Dr Veerakathy Harindra says a quarter of his young HIV patients wrongly believe a cure has already been found. This leads them to fail to take adequate precautions to prevent the spread of the virus, he said.
Looking to draw the shades on part of its infamous red-light district, Amsterdam will pay $35 million to the city's "Emperor of Sex" for 18 of his brothels and convert them to housing and shops. That deal will eliminate 51 storefront windows where women conduct business — nearly one-third of the spaces used for prostitution, which is legal in the Netherlands and is a magnet for Amsterdam's tourists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7005768.stm
Reznor to Fans:
"Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means - STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'. Because one way or another these motherfuckers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that that's not right." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ5iHaV0dP4
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
It may only be seen from planes, but Japan's rice field art is amazing:
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/09/23/rice-field-art/ Posted at 11:24 am by Psychomike
Sep 21, 2007
Surf W/Toys For The Rich!
BORN INTO BROTHELS, AERIAL CHICAGO, THE 30 GREATEST GHOSTS IN POP CULTURE, WOMEN OF WIKIPEDIA, FETISH DOLLIES, MR. S MY LIFE WITH FRANK SINATRA :JAW DROPPING!
For decades, Charles Peavey's family has passed down what he admits is a most unusual family heirloom: the tiny corpse of a mummified baby whose mysterious history has been filled with legend. But Peavey, 41, of Concord had never considered the keepsake a problem until the Concord police learned of the remains last week and took them for testing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_fe_st/mummy_baby
Fifty years ago, Ayn Rand published Atlas Shrugged and inspired millions of readers. This book, her masterpiece, has motivated individuals to pursue their own individual happiness and achieve the best within themselves, while it influenced philosophy, politics, ethics and aesthetics. The book also created the Objectivist movement. Join The Atlas Society and the CATO Institute in a day-long conference and gala banquet in Washington, D.C.
http://www.atlasevents.org/
From Shakespeare's plays to great literature, from comic books to cartoons, ghosts have long played an endearing role as characters. Here's a list of the greatest ghosts to haunt pop culture history. http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/halloween/ghosts/index.html
MR. S - My Life With Frank Sinatra was written by his valet. It is also PACKED with jaw dropping gossip and wild Hollywood stories! Soon to be a movie, this is a must read book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060596740?ie=UTF8&tag=sinatraclub-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060596740
A new fashion mag in Japan caters to the new level of cosplay- Devil Girls! http://web-jpn.org/trends/fashion/fas070831.html#
Revealing Chicago: Beautiful aerial photos of Chicago! http://www.revealingchicago.org/
Artist and writer Alex Wald has a blog! http://astromonster.blogspot.com/
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Brothel documents Briski's years spent photographing in Calcutta's red-light district. Living for months at a time alongside the women and children of the brothels, she quickly developed a relationship with many of the kids who, often terrorized and abused, were drawn to the rare human companionship she offered. These relationships led to her teaching the children photography, a story documented in her Academy Award-winning film Born into Brothels.
Posted at 11:54 am by Psychomike
Sep 18, 2007
SurfW/Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Be ye ready to talk like a pirate? Wednesday Is Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Mary Read the female pirate at work!
Avast! Be ye prepared for tomorrow? Be ye ready to trade salty insults with mumping dogs across the seven seas? Basically, what we be talkin' about be this: did you know that tomorrow's International Talk Like A Pirate Day?
Across the globe, ordinary people will spend Wednesday conversing in the manner of a pirate, in a glorious celebration of all things piratical.
Talk Like A Pirate Day started in 1995, when two friends from the American colonies, John Baur and Mark Summers, decided that talking like a pirate was excellent and that it deserved its own day.
Pirate to Not Pirate Phrasebook:
Ahoy! - Hello
Avast! - Oi, you!
Yarrrr! - Used to intensify the previous statment, e.g. 'I quite fancy a cup of tea. Yaarrrr!'
Arrrr! - Innit (see also)
Dog - Person who is disapproved of
Lubber, Landlubber - One who is not a seaman, an incompetent person (c.f. Muggle)
Mumping villain - see 'Dog'
Slab-sided bugger - see 'Dog'
Wretched scrofulous whoreson bilge rat - see 'Dog'
Splice the mainbrace - What you say to make people do something on a ship
Luff, me hearties! - What you say when 'splice the mainbrace' doesn't work
Aye - Aiiee
Yo ho - Hello woman
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66631&in_page_id=2
Blackbeard faces Robert Maynard
The site that started it all:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
Pirates attack Havanna
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (TLAPD), which adopted Treasure Island star Robert Newton as its patron saint, now attracts fans from as far afield as Britain and Australia and even boasts a special Wikipedia site on the Internet.
The day even has its own unofficial anthem -- American Tom Smith has written and recorded "Talk Like a Pirate Day" -- and Canadian sketch comedy troupe Loading Ready Run produced an educational video on how to swashbuckle with the best of them.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL1888712020070918?rpc=401&
When Pirates seized monks, hilarity reigned!
Do you live in Seattle? Then get in on the Pirate Parties!
http://pirates.meetup.com/111/calendar/6376562/
A prisoner is forced to drink to excess
September 19 is Talk Like A Pirate Day, but in New Orleans it won’t be the only time to celebrate all things piratical. The organizers of PyrateCon 2008, to be held in New Orleans April 18-20, 2008, are taking advantage of the holiday to raise awareness of next year’s pirate convention.
So what do pirates do at a convention? Among other things, they learn about pirate history and literature from scholars and authors, compare tips on pirate costume creation, buy, sell, and trade pirate themed merchandise, attend rum tastings, and watch pirate movies. They also invade the French Quarter, parade down Bourbon Street, pARRHty heARRHty, and even raise money for charity.
And, they mingle with stars from all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, including Marty Kleba, Isaac C. Singleton, Jr., Vince Lozano, Lauren Maher, Vanessa Branch, and Treva Etienne, with others in discussion with the organizers about participating.
http://www.free-press-release-center.info/pr00000000000000007070.html
Where Blackbeard was killed
Here are the facts and myths about Pirates!
http://www.piratesinfo.com/
The true story of Henry Morgan the pirate http://tv-links.co.uk/listings/9/5574
There were hundreds of Chinese female pirates. Whole families of pirates lived at sea, including mothers, wives, daughters! Here is a list of some of the most famous female pirates! http://www.deadmentellnotales.com/onlinetexts/womenlist.shtml
Get your Anne Bonny action figure here: http://camelot-treasures.com/pirate/index.htm
Anne Bonny and crossdresser Mary Read are the most famous female pirates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bonny
Blackbeard's skull! The golden age of piracy http://www.cindyvallar.com/goldenage.html
Blackbeard the pirate! http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pirates/bbeard.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Captain Kidd- and the hunt for his treasure!
http://www.captainkidd.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Posted at 11:10 am by Psychomike
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