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WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will be called to testify on behalf of his former chief of staff in the CIA leak case, defense attorneys said Tuesday, ending months of speculation over what would be historic testimony. "We're calling the vice president," attorney Ted Wells said in court. Wells represents defendant I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who is charged with perjury and obstruction. Sitting presidents, including Clinton and Ford, have testified in criminal cases, but presidential historians said they knew of no vice president who has done so. Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files. The 10 pages contain new details about Lennon's ties to leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s, but nothing indicating government officials considered the former Beatle a serious threat, historian Jon Wiener told the Los Angeles Times in Wednesday's editions. The FBI had unsuccessfully argued that an unnamed foreign government secretly provided the information, and releasing the documents could lead to diplomatic, political or economic retaliation against the United States. Read More

Dont Let Him Waste Your Time - Jarvis Cocker Lead cut from the new Jarvis cd

Another stocking gift for the M77

I was cutting a film; I had planned to put up the Mr. Boo thing when I was done and forgot

I met her once at a toy store - very friendly. She did a movie for us at Orion

PassionofWeiss gets down and dirty and names NAMES on the worst musical artists in the music business today. He has a fine wit, but speaks a lot of truths as well. This is a must read :) Part I Jaret Leto Richard Reed Perry - Arcade Fire Chris Martin - Coldplay PDiddy Dave Matthews Part II Fall Out Boy/My Chemical Romance/Panic at the Disco! Bono, Lead Singer of U2 (Pictured Below) Bright Eyes 50 Cent John Mayer Part III Fergie - Black Eyed Peas Pharell Brandon Flowers - The Killers Madonna Kanye West "But the real reason to hate Kanye West isn't for the fact that he's wildly overrated, nor is it because he's arguably the most materialistic and shallow person working in hip-hop today, it's the fact that he's just a flat-out bad person. Don't believe me? Than think about these comments Kanye made about the girl who he lost his virginity to at 17 "She had great tits even by my standards today. She had a bit of a gut though. I wouldn't fuck with that shit now. ...Class act. And definitely obnoxious.

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The list was old school pioneers - your band came later

Stylus Magazine takes a look back and examines what they feel are the most influential progressive bands - any thoughts? 10. Univers Zero The Belgians. Well, they know something about beer. They also (damn their sacred sugar beets) know a good deal about chocolate. They also happen to know about combining classical music and progressive rock without boring the audience to tears... 09. Gentle Giant Somewhere between classical, rock, and folk lay the world of the Giant. With a medievalism that was almost fetishistic, they avoided Incredibly Silly Band territory by exploring a hitherto unknown connection between Bardic rondos and R&B—multiple percussionists and a focus on rhythm keeping the fusions of modal singing and heavy rock from sounding like conceptual soup. .. 08. Aphrodite's Child Being Greek gets you points.... Getting Top Ten European pop hits and then making a concept album about the apocalypse puts you way over the top. Breaking up immediately afterwards? ... 07. Van Der Graaf Generator The band that saw the end of the proverbial line. Generic Alterna-logic dictates that the Velvet Underground were the band that demolished the hippie dream, but they struck from the outside. Van Der Graaf were the hippies that went too far— 06. Magma They invented their own language in which they tell a ten-album long tale of a future Earth at war with hostile planets in the wake of a global ecological holocaust. Not a concept album, a concept band. Need we go further? 05. Genesis (Peter Gabriel Years Only, My Friend) Say what you will about either post-Gabriel Genesis (though it had its moments) or our boy's solo career (which did too), but during their Foxtrot/Nursery Cryme/Lamb Lies Down... heyday, these gents were pretty much unstoppable. 04. Goblin Equally at home constructing rambling psych-guitar epics, proto-Italo-disco, creepy horror themes, Bacharach-esque EL soup, and subterranean electro rumblings, Goblin were the answer to a question that was never asked: what if Prog went Pop? 03. Soft Machine The ultimate all-purpose crazy great prog act, the Soft Machine were just as comfortable with dada whimsy (the debut) as with side-long jazz-based improv (the classic third record). In addition to giving the world UK national treasure Robert Wyatt and beating Led Zep to the rotating cover sleeve concept by two whole years, they were one of the only groups to stand at the nexus point of psychedelic, prog, and jazz-rock, delving into all three while maintaining a distinct identity 02. Gong The band that should have been God. Gong did it all—funky oddities, space jazz, psych mindscrew, hippie folk nonsense—hell, they even had a logo and a cartoon mascot. Albums like Angel's Egg, You, and Camembert Electrique redefined rock on the edge of madness without stooping to the clichés of most popular prog. 01. King Crimson All right so, fantasy rock is invented. Prog-hard rock, then prog-metal are invented. After which, Mr. Fripp finds time to invent prog-ambient, prog-FX pedal wanking, prog-MOR pop, and prog-"I'm just going to fling giant objects constructed out of clustered noise and speaker effects at you while I duck under this huge gallumphing guitar riff." ...Oh, which is followed in timely fashion with the reactivation of a previous lineup dedicated to showing the Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, System of a Down, and anyone else who's actually had the cojones to own up to a King Crimson influence exactly how the shit gets done. Read the full review RIGHT HERE

We got killed last week by a return hacker...

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I'm not surprised - the party girl is finally getting her comeuppance

Yep...and we deserve it! Now if we can keep the momentum up, then we can take back the controls from big media - here is hoping

Metafilter has a pretty good dialogue going on this genre. I've listed some of their examples below and you can check out the rest RIGHT HERE

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It seems Google is on the move everywhere - I don't think I've ever witnessed a more aggressive company... *** ...When Google introduced Checkout in June, it was seen as a formidable rival to PayPal, eBay’s online payment service. And with Google aggressively promoting Checkout during the holiday season and beyond, its use with some merchants has already surpassed PayPal’s. But Google’s plan for Checkout has always been about more than online payments. The service is a calculated effort to expand Google’s base of advertisers, which provide the bulk of the company’s revenues. And Google has made a substantial financial commitment to the service’s success. Goldman Sachs estimates that Checkout promotions will cost Google about $20 million in the current quarter. Read more at the NYTimes

Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose computers were harmed by antipiracy software on some CDs sold by the record company, California officials said on Tuesday. The agreement between Sony BMG and the attorneys general of Los Angeles County and the state of California settles a lawsuit charging that the company secretly embedded digital rights management software on CDs that potentially opened the door to hackers. Read more at CNet