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Reactor a maze of hallucinogenic layers Posted: 01.27.2005 Metropolis Records/TECHNICIAN Jake Seaton It may quite possibly be inevitable that with Juno Reactor's every release, the UK-based sound system strikes gold in its fading genre of Jungle-Trance. Labyrinth is the fifth full-length album -- not including Luciana, which was a 61-minute Jungle opus -- from Ben Watkins, the pivotal member of Juno Reactor since 1994. The album marks a four-year point of little turn-over from Watkins besides his contributions to The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions soundtracks, with which he worked closely with producer/engineer Don Davis. Read more here: http://technicianonline.com/story.php?id=010925

Music Reviews by Nicholas LoFaro February 03, 2005 John Frusciante, "Curtains"/New Folk Music From Chili Peppers Guitarist John Frusciante was with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the early '90s and carried them through their albums "Californication" and "By The Way" after Dave Navarro left the band after 1995's "One Hot Minute." After almost dying from drug addiction in the starting days of the RHCP, Frusciante left the band and went off to recovery. His brush with death and his struggles with personal ambivalence and relationships have given him enough force to create solid and recognizable music, both with RHCP and as a solo artist. For fans of his past two solo albums - "To Record Only Water for Ten Days" and "Shadows Collide With People" - "Curtains" will meet expectations, but for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers who have never heard Frusciante alone, don't expect the sounds you'd hear on a Chili Peppers album. Frusciante as a solo artist is almost entirely folk-oriented, and the funk and fusion, as well as the hard rock, elements of the Chili Peppers are absent from the guitarist's work. http://www.collegian.com/vnews/display.v/A...3/4201ce976b937

Jackson Goes to Court: to Moonwalk or to Tiptoe? By MIREYA NAVARRO Published: February 6, 2005 LOS ANGELES ON Day 1 he looked angelic in his white three-piece suit with a rope of jeweled baubles at the waist and a gold armband. On Day 2 he chose a black suit and a red shirt accented with a choker pendant, a brocade vest and a royal crest. As his trial on charges of molesting a 13-year-old boy began last week, Michael Jackson did not play the part of the criminal defendant ordered by his lawyers to buy a respectable suit and tie. Instead he was his flamboyant pop-star self. With the trial expected to last as long as six months, court-watchers seemed to be in for a long parade of Mr. Jackson's music-videoworthy outfits. But some criminal defense lawyers, including some who have represented celebrities, question this not-so-incidental aspect of the defense strategy. Wardrobes do not make or break cases, they said, but Mr. Jackson's choices are an important piece of the image projected to the judge and jury who will decide his fate. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/fashion/06JACK.html

Still in Play Selling out or selling soap, classic rock gets a new spin as the modern ad jingle BY CHIP JONES TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Jan 30, 2005 If you could travel back in time to the late 1960s and landed outside the recording studio of the Jefferson Airplane, it might, as they used to say, "blow your mind." Imagine giving the band's lead singer, Grace Slick, a glimpse of the future, such as the ultimate fate of their song "Volunteers of Amerika" which proclaimed in 1969, "Look what's happening out in the streets/Got a revolution got to revolution." The song was considered so seditious that their record company refused to put the complete title on the album. Eventually the title was cut to "Volunteers." That was only the start. "One day," you tell the shocked singer, "your song will be used in TV commercials to sell stock for a company called E*Trade and cell phones for something called nTelos." Read more here: http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satel...d=1031780532392

Word that the four original Meters have agreed to reunite April 23 at Jazzfest is music to the ears of funk fans. Starting in the late 1960s, keyboardist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter Jr. and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste defined slinky New Orleans funk with a succession of classic albums. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/ind...68510191480.xml

Letter From Ethiopia Decades After His Death, Bob Marley's Vision Unites By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, February 5, 2005; Page C01 ADDIS ABABA -- Under the Rastafarian yellow, green and red flags unfurled around the city to celebrate what would have been reggae hero Bob Marley's 60th birthday, African Americans from Brooklyn, draped in the continent's colorful dress, came together with Ethiopian royalty returning from exile and dreadlocked Rasta pilgrims from Jamaica, England and Japan (yes, Japan). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...8-2005Feb4.html

50 Cent fans will want to mark their calendars for February 13, when 50 guest stars on the animated series "The Simpsons." MTV reports that during the episode, called "Pranksta Rap," Bart sneaks out to see 50 Cent in concert. Then to avoid getting grounded, Bart fakes his own kidnapping. http://netmusiccountdown.com/inc/news_article.php?id=7407

Friday, February 4, 2005 Singer Kinky Friedman begins run for Texas governor By RALPH BLUMENTHAL THE NEW YORK TIMES HOUSTON -- As threatened, Kinky Friedman, the gadfly country singer and humorist, declared for Texas governor yesterday as an independent candidate in the 2006 race, saying, "The choice should be something besides paper or plastic." Appearing live from the Alamo in San Antonio on the Don Imus television and radio show broadcast nationally on MSNBC, Friedman, 60, said that although "a fool and his money are soon elected," he had high hopes of beating the Republican incumbent, Rick Perry, who "appears to be more interested in ironing his shirts than ironing out the problems of Texas." "I'm a Jew," said Friedman, who provided a rabbi for an invocation, "trust me; I'll hire good people." He said he had received 37 write-in votes in the Iraqi election. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/210720_kinky04.html

Colorado Teens Fined for Giving Cookies to Neighbor Fri Feb 4,10:49 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters DURANGO, Colo. (Reuters) - A Colorado judge ordered two teen-age girls to pay about $900 for the distress a neighbor said they caused by giving her home-made cookies adorned with paper hearts. The pair were ordered to pay $871.70 plus $39 in court costs after neighbor Wanita Renea Young, 49, filed a lawsuit complaining that the unsolicited cookies, left at her house after the girls knocked on her door, had triggered an anxiety attack that sent her to the hospital the next day. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../odd_cookies_dc **** Unsolicited Cookies!!!!!??? :reallymad: :reallymad:

It's So Cute! He's Going After Junior's Backpack! Fri Feb 4, 2:25 PM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters By Astrid Poei TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian couple has launched a business offering worried parents (or concerned employers) private drug-detection services that will search homes and offices for everything from marijuana to heroin. Russ Rathy of Pense, Saskatchewan, started the home-based business, Crusader Resources, along with his wife, after buying a young German shepherd trained to sniff out drugs. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e_canada_dog_dc

Pa. Man Sues Trooper Over 'Finger' Ticket Fri Feb 4, 5:14 PM ET Strange News - AP PITTSBURGH - A man says a traffic ticket a state trooper gave him is for the birds — or at least for flipping the bird. Stephen Corey, 42, filed a federal lawsuit because he says he had a First Amendment right to flip his middle finger at the trooper in July. Trooper Samuel Nassan III gave Corey, a flight attendant from Pittsburgh, a ticket for following another vehicle too closely, then wrote him up for giving "an improper hand signal while passing my patrol car, namely middle finger up," according to Corey's lawsuit. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e_finger_ticket yepFU

Speaking of which: 2005-02-04 17:13:00 Sex games end with electric toothbrush in young man's rectum The operating center of the Moscow rescue service has recently received a very strange, albeit a very funny call. A 25-year-old Muscovite called and said that his girlfriend had pushed an electric toothbrush up his anus. The toothbrush was turned on during the process, the young man specified. An operator said that the man was extremely shy to talk about such an intricate occurrence. His voice was trembling when the operator was asking him for details. As it became known, the young man was having a session of sex games with his girlfriend. It suddenly occurred to the girl to use a vibrating electric toothbrush in order to experience an absolutely different kind of pleasure. The enterprising lovers decided to turn the toothbrush on, and the girl carefully forced it inside the man's rectum. It just so happened that the toothbrush slipped out of the girl's hands because of abundant lubricant that she had applied on the "extreme vibrator." The dental-care device made its way down the rectum alone. It became impossible to take the toothbrush out as a result of such a daring sexual experiment. The two lovers made their way to a hospital, but doctors refused to help them: medics said that they did not have appropriate tools for it. The desperate young man decided to dial the number of the Moscow rescue service. However, when the rescue squad arrived to the hospital, they did not find either the unfortunate man or his "resourceful" girlfriend. The young people and the toothbrush apparently decided to find a different way out of the situation, without attracting any public attention to their delicate problem. http://funreports.com/2005/02/04/58100.html

Estero student feels 'booty' suspension is bum rap By DAVE BREITENSEIN February 4, 2005 You can kick some booty. And you can shake your booty. But as 17-year-old Brad Devlin found out, you are not allowed to say you love booty. During his daily sports report last week on Wild 4 News, the Estero High junior and another student were recapping the girls soccer team's 8-0 shutout win against North Fort Myers. The script, pre-approved by their TV production teacher, said that the team really kicked some booty. Then Devlin, wanting to inject a little energy into his broadcast, responded with a quick-witted joke: "I love booty," he cracked. Instead of a laugh, though, Devlin's statement got him called into the administrative office. He then got the boot from school, suspended for five days in what Assistant Principal Howard Wendland termed "inappropriate comments on live school television broadcast." http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar.../502040427/1075 *** Florida idiocy strikes again!

Morning Briefing: Jackson at large: Snippets from Geraldo Rivera's recent interview with Michael Jackson, to air on Fox News Channel's "At Large With Geraldo Rivera" on Saturday, are seeping out. Here's Jackson on why certain charges have been made against him: "The bigger the star, the bigger the target. I'm not trying to say I'm the super-duper star, I'm not saying that. I'm saying the fact that people come at celebrities, we're targets. But truth always prevails. I believe in that." On "Mr. Eminem's" recent video lampoon of him, which he called "pretty painful" and "sad": "I've been an artist most of my life and I've never attacked a fellow artist. Great artists don't do that. You don't have to do that." On his sister Janet's infamous Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction": "Actually, I was looking right at it and I didn't see it ... be strong. This too shall pass. Don't worry about it. I've seen worse things." And on watching the press coverage of his child-molestation case: "It's like looking at a fictitious movie. Because it's fiction. It's like watching science fiction." (Associated Press, N.Y. Daily News, N.Y. Post) http://www.salon.com/ent/col/fix/2005/02/04/fri/index.html

Top 15 Firefox Extensions 02.02.05 By Matthew D. Sarrel By itself, Firefox is a lean and fast browser (see Firefox 1.0 review), but it lacks some of the functions that we've come to take for granted from Microsoft Internet Explorer. It's easy to remedy that situation with small add-on extensions. Extensions can do loads of tasks, from blocking pop-up ads to playing card games—and even viewing a Web page as if it were in IE—so they can make Firefox a versatile and customizable platform for your browsing activities. But where to start? Which extensions are worth downloading and installing? We evaluated dozens of extensions and present the best 15 for your perusal. It's easy to add them; just go to the Tools | Extensions | Get More Extensions menu to get started. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1758849,00.asp

Will someone please report Hunter to the SPCA

Fla. Couple Accused of Child Abuse Caught INVERNESS, Fla. (AP) - A Florida couple accused of torturing and starving five adopted children - including pulling out their toenails and subjecting them to electric shocks - were captured Friday in southeastern Utah after police tracked them through their cell phones, officials said. The family included seven adopted children between the ages of 12 and 17. Five of the children told investigators they were tortured by the couple, subjected to electric shocks, beatings with hammers and having their toenails yanked out with pliers. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050205/D882DKUO0.html :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad: :reallymad:

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Paralyzed Broadcasting System When Bush's education secretary objected to a lesbian couple in a children's cartoon, PBS instantly caved in. Is the network becoming the White House's lap dog? - - - - - - - - - - - - By Eric Boehlert Feb. 3, 2005 | On Wednesday afternoon at 5:30, elementary school children and their parents in the Boston area who were watching public television got to see perhaps the only educational cartoon ever forced to fend off efforts to ban it. Given the Bush administration's success in keeping the show off the air -- except in Boston and a handful of other PBS markets -- it might not be the last time, as cultural conservatives and the Public Broadcasting System seem destined to continue to do battle over programming. And considering how quickly PBS conceded defeat this round, that battle may become increasingly lopsided. The controversy surrounding the children's series "Postcards From Buster," featuring a cartoon bunny who, in one episode, visits Vermont to make maple syrup and meets children from two families headed by lesbian couples, generated headlines last week when incoming Education Secretary Margaret Spellings lambasted the episode as inappropriate. Many observers likely viewed the showdown as little more than another head-shaking episode in the ongoing culture war. (The "Buster" flap erupted the same week that Christian talk show host James Dobson warned parents that a classroom video on intolerance featuring SpongeBob SquarePants "could prompt [teachers] to teach kids that homosexuality is equivalent to heterosexuality.") But for PBS insiders and longtime supporters, the skirmish, and the speed with which PBS backed down in the face of threats from the Bush administration, mark a new low point for the broadcasting institution and a dangerous development for the public. Low because the content of the "Buster" episode was so innocuous. And dangerous because it highlights the inside-the-Beltway environment in which PBS is forced to operate, in which funding concerns often trump programming decisions, and the fear of upsetting conservatives has become a driving force. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/...ives/index.html