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check out Clear Channel's Political Agenda; it seems that this goes back to the whitehouse (why am i not surprised?) e.g., Howard Stern read Al Franken's book and then raved about it on the air ('If you read this book, you'll never vote for George Bush...'). my BF claims it's simpler: HS was fired shortly before the CEO of Clear Channel was to testify at a congressional hearing on broadcasting decency. one of the commentors to this item noted that the timing was awfully suspicious. we figure they may have just fired HS as a stunt to look good in front of congress and to boost stern's ratings after he's hired back. thoughts?

yay, Rantin Richie, you made it. finally/endlich! love, r xxx

yay, Richie. this dude breaks his ass for the band and does a sterling job at the Penitentiary where every day, people from all over amerika beg the Alabama 3 to tour the states again. he's also an excellent poet. if any of you dig the themesong of the sopranos, you'll love the rest of alabama 3's output. as well, we were lucky enough to catch THE CUNTS last june in london, when i got to see my BF in action at the impromptu moshpit in front of the stage. if i say the place was packed, it would be an understatement (so i won't). if y'all are sick and tired of clone boy/girl bands, top 40 this/that or if you consider yourself the slightest bit edgy, check out A3 (as they're known in the states) as well as the cunts. (warning: lots of literary references, drugs references and cursing, and that's the way i love my music). :P

this statement is harmful to all the medical marijuana users and those others who've been pushing for decriminalisation of cannabis (like the folks at NORML). i think there's more to this story we're not hearing about, but hey. and it's obvious that yes, i smoke pot but thank fuck it's not an issue over here. last night i spent about an hour on the phone w/my mom, telling her how good it is not to feel like a criminal anymore.

hee hee, LMAO, thankyou, Umma. B) :P

whoa, never saw those (offline for the month around that day). we were visiting fam in the midwest that day and were to leave the states later in the afternoon. we were all packed for the quick flight to NYC and changing of planes at JFK and instead found the TVs on just in time for the second crash. what got me was exiting the subway in downtown manhattan to find every available wall covered w/readymade photocopied 'Missing' posters. bah...the day that made gwb what he is today.

i'm using midnight metal as well (the closest thing to black w/o the white). somehow it's comforting to me. and thank you for the choices, it's just nice to know they're there. B)

i know--i was surprised to see the smiley in a song title by alabama 3 so i spelt it out like 'too s.i.c.k. to pray;' that's the only way i got around it.

have you googled them yet? i would but no time now--i will later if nobody's done yet. where did you hear/read of them? the only one i've ever heard of is My Bloody Valentine but don't remember when or where. sorry i can't be of any help.

me too. but it's the principle of the thing which touches on free speech &c that galls me. thank you--you said it better than i ever could. and it's distressing that payola is not only legal now but SOP--the only way a label can get whatever played on the most-listened to US stations). alan freed most be rolling in his grave. :angry: fuck the FCC and fuck Clear Channel and their 'morality.' i'll choose for myself, thank you...thank fuck i have the brains to know how to change stations when i don't dig what i hear.

i know, but this is frightening to me...like an extension of ashcroft's idiocy w/the statue but worse, affecting everyone by minimising choice.

bah...this is such bullshit. we're well on the way back to our puritanical roots and i don't wanna go.

one of a slide show of alabama 3-related images (made in amerika where they're known as A3). :P

a few weeks ago, i was horrified to see a TV programme (auf Deutsch of course) where a group of amerikan teenagers sculpted a toiletbowl from snow and then took turns dropping trow and using it. that wouldn't have been so bad but the cameraman insisted on close-ups of the results. as my sister in NYC says 'we're all slobs.' ok, where's the puking smiley?

were you switching trains at the Bahnhof, method? or like hiking through? i've been told it's a good thing we came after they switched the capitol back to Berlin cause there were 10X the number of people on the street at any given time.

we've been living in bonn (DE) since september 01. it's a major difference from the lower east side of NYC. it's incredibly friendly here and to my urban eyes, very beautiful. apart from decriminalised cannabis, one of the things i like best is that it stays light out until 10,30 PM in summer. but whatever the season, people walk around alone way after midnight w/no fear and no hassle. i know i'm gonna go through heavy withdrawels when we have to go back to the states, but hey. this is the view around the corner from our place (we live in a similar type house).

malicious, i feel your pain. but if that hadn't happened, you maybe wouldn't be here, so welcome aboard. B)

yes but they won't, if clear channel has anything to say about it (too political, too many light-hearted cursing and drugs references for mass consumption in the states). their gigs are like contagious spectacles--it's impossible to stand there unmoved. :P here's the very reverend d wayne love B)

w/all due respect, i think you might be missing the point. the basic problem w/windows is its fundamentally flawed architecture. integrating more apps deep into the OS is prolly what MS will do for marketing strategy reasons but it doesn't make a lot of sense from a security standpoint; integrating more tools is going to exacerbate the problem and moreover you're trusting the people who fucked it up in the first place, to fix it. windows security updates routinely break apps. this isn't such an issue for the home user but for corporate machines and servers this is a huge problem and simply autodownloading isn't going to fix it. and this isn't strictly a MS issue--there have been Mac sec updates that break stuff too. once you let MS begin to change your software whenever they want (now win XP and the forthcoming longhorn) they own your computer--not you. please see what robert x cringely has to say about halfway down the page here starting at the 5th 'graph here: 'and speaking of annoying the legal system...' and he goes on, relating a typically horrible MS story. bah. disclaimer: yes i have huge issues w/the way MS does bidness and receives only a slap on the wrist for its crap monopolistic practises. and i'm on a dell box w/win 98. bah me.

well, goodbye McAfee and Symantec. bah, when will the bush administration grow brains and turn around and slap gates & company down? 'trustworthy computing' my ass. :angry:

and Cyndi Lauper.

what about chrissie hynde?

saturday night we finally saw julien temple's the filth and the fury (took 3 weeks to get here). excellent stuff.

mozilla definitely. i'm on a windoze box and once i remembered not to click links in outlook express, haven't opened IE for some time now. i love the tabs.

this tells us nothing, really (some tests) but it sounds real good. yeah, it's very scarey--i'm already freaked about invasive measures and my privacy. i'm wondering about unintended consequences, actually.