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The Zombies: - Odessey and Oracle [Remastered] [Fuel 2000] by Liam Singer The Zombies' 1968 classic is generally categorized as a psych-pop treasure, but despite what its cover art and legacy suggest, its complex arrangements and baroque instrumentation-- much like The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society-- were idealized harbingers of today's indie pop. Decades ahead of its time, Odessey and Oracle is the final statement from an unfortunately short-lived band, and stands as one of the late 60s' greatest achievements. You can read the full review here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-revie...nd-oracle.shtml

Two beautiful young scientists find the answer here: http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/goldschlage...ldschlager.html

Smarty Jones Is Leaving as Quickly as He Arrived By JOE DRAPE Published: August 3, 2004 Smarty Jones was retired to stud yesterday almost as suddenly as he captured the nation's imagination last spring, when he rolled to victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes before sustaining his only loss at the Belmont Stakes in a gallant, but ultimately leg-wobbling defeat just yards away from capturing the Triple Crown. You can read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/sports/o...3smarty.html?hp

yep -must be that kryptonite thingy...

Ted Turner takes on Big Media in this column in the Washington Monthly. Here ere are some excerpts: My Beef With Big Media How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me. By Ted Turner In the late 1960s, when Turner Communications was a business of billboards and radio stations and I was spending much of my energy ocean racing, a UHF-TV station came up for sale in Atlanta. It was losing $50,000 a month and its programs were viewed by fewer than 5 percent of the market. I acquired it. When I moved to buy a second station in Charlotte--this one worse than the first--my accountant quit in protest, and the company's board vetoed the deal. So I mortgaged my house and bought it myself. The Atlanta purchase turned into the Superstation; the Charlotte purchase--when I sold it 10 years later--gave me the capital to launch CNN. Both purchases played a role in revolutionizing television. Both required a streak of independence and a taste for risk. And neither could happen today. In the current climate of consolidation, independent broadcasters simply don't survive for long. That's why we haven't seen a new generation of people like me or even Rupert Murdoch--independent television upstarts who challenge the big boys and force the whole industry to compete and change. It's not that there aren't entrepreneurs eager to make their names and fortunes in broadcasting if given the chance. If nothing else, the 1990s dot-com boom showed that the spirit of entrepreneurship is alive and well in America, with plenty of investors willing to put real money into new media ventures. The difference is that Washington has changed the rules of the game. When I was getting into the television business, lawmakers and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took seriously the commission's mandate to promote diversity, localism, and competition in the media marketplace. They wanted to make sure that the big, established networks--CBS, ABC, NBC--wouldn't forever dominate what the American public could watch on TV. They wanted independent producers to thrive. They wanted more people to be able to own TV stations. They believed in the value of competition. So when the FCC received a glut of applications for new television stations after World War II, the agency set aside dozens of channels on the new UHF spectrum so independents could get a foothold in television. That helped me get my start 35 years ago. Congress also passed a law in 1962 requiring that TVs be equipped to receive both UHF and VHF channels. That's how I was able to compete as a UHF station, although it was never easy. (I used to tell potential advertisers that our UHF viewers were smarter than the rest, because you had to be a genius just to figure out how to tune us in.) And in 1972, the FCC ruled that cable TV operators could import distant signals. That's how we were able to beam our Atlanta station to homes throughout the South. Five years later, with the help of an RCA satellite, we were sending our signal across the nation, and the Superstation was born. That was then. Today, media companies are more concentrated than at any time over the past 40 years, thanks to a continual loosening of ownership rules by Washington. The media giants now own not only broadcast networks and local stations; they also own the cable companies that pipe in the signals of their competitors and the studios that produce most of the programming. To get a flavor of how consolidated the industry has become, consider this: In 1990, the major broadcast networks--ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox--fully or partially owned just 12.5 percent of the new series they aired. By 2000, it was 56.3 percent. Just two years later, it had surged to 77.5 percent. In this environment, most independent media firms either get gobbled up by one of the big companies or driven out of business altogether. Yet instead of balancing the rules to give independent broadcasters a fair chance in the market, Washington continues to tilt the playing field to favor the biggest players. Last summer, the FCC passed another round of sweeping pro-consolidation rules that, among other things, further raised the cap on the number of TV stations a company can own. Read more here: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/...407.turner.html

During the summer of 1970, such iconic acts as Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band and others travelled across the country by CN train to play music festivals in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary over five crazy days. The entire experience, on-stage and off, was filmed extensively but the footage remained scattered across the country, until now, due to a feud between the concert promoters and the film's original producer. And even if Smeaton is no Martin Scorsese in the style department (Woodstock, The Last Waltz), he has some pretty amazing footage to work with. http://64.4.16.250:80/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang...fpCCVbafpL9g%2f

Jul 26, 2004 Krist Novoselic, former bassist for Nirvana, will become a published author in September. Novoselic's book, Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!, will hit book stores in the fall from Akashic Books/RDV Books. The publisher describes the book as a combination personal memoir and political commentary. Since Nirvana broke up in the wake of Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide, Novoselic played music sporadically, though none of his bands ever gelled. http://by22fd.bay22.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bi...dfcf07215ad8b8c

I heard a new version of Suffragette City called Suffragette Killer, that was rock'n...Im told it was part of the promotion of the tour, but its not on the new album, which you can hear excerpts of at http:www.davidbowie.com **** Here is a review from Zboneman.com (http://www.zboneman.com/music/563.html): Reality Music Review: If Low, Heroes, and Lodger were David Bowie albums that should be seen as connecting works, then I guess that last years Heathen album would have to go hand in hand with Bowie's new output Reality. Both have Tony Visconti behind the boards, and both contain two cover songs surrounded by new upbeat material. Reality, however, seems to be the more rocking and just plain dominant release of the two. Opener "New Killer Star" is rousing with Bowie sounding very energetic. His cover of the Modern Lovers "Pablo Picasso" is also very spry, and truth be told, Bowie's version turns out to be even better than that of which Jonathan Richman sang about over 20 years ago. "Looking For Water" has a chugging desperation about it which keeps the listening intriguing, and ending tune "Bring Me the Disco King" has a spunky jazz twinge to it. The only real pratfall here happens to be the other cover song, George Harrison's "Try Some, Buy Some." Bowie's version comes out sounding flat and insipid. Definitely the worst of the four cover songs in the last two years. But overall, yet another fantastic album in less than two years from this ageless legend. **** Last but not least, I came across the David Bowe fansite that has a wealth of information about David Bowie: http://www.bowiewonderworld.com

Nice cut. I particularly like the opening. Like to hear what others think of this rock/metal band of tenth graders - I think they are talented... :good job:

I think Jude Law will grow into the part perfectly...hes just a little young...

You must be hungy - its not even Tuesday

He's out of his mind...

according to npr today, haliburton was in charge of protecting trucks and equipment in Iraq, and cant account for a third of its charge how do you lose a truck?

Being a deadhead, this is good news that they are touring again...

Bruce Becvar - Tropic of Daydram

Its not well known - tit for tat

Couple kicked off Miami-New York flight because of T-shirt MIAMI — A couple returning home from a Costa Rican vacation was ejected from an American Airlines flight because the man was wearing a T-shirt depicting a bare breast. Oscar Arela and his girlfriend, Tala Tow, were removed from Flight 952 on Saturday after he refused to change the shirt or turn it inside out at Miami International Airport. The flight left 90 minutes late without them. The couple, making a connecting flight from Costa Rica, said nobody on the earlier flight objected to the shirt and claimed the airline violated their constitutional right to free speech. "It's a picture of a man and woman, and the woman's breast is showing," Tow said. "The flight attendant basically walked up to us and yelled, 'You have to take off that shirt right now.'" http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/...per_Attire.html

Theres some truth to Gate's proclamations.s I have a friend who has a new Mercedes. Unfortunately, the car is a lemon due to a hands off phone system in the car whose electronics has screwed up the rest of the car and Mercedes wont take it back or exchange it and dont know how to fix it :rotfl:

Nice post JCore and welcome to Beatking :strumma:

Yep...

Dont forget, redneck, gore won the popular vote

Redneck...You will become a liberal democrat...You will become a liberal democrat...You will become a liberal democrat...You will become a liberal democrat...You will become a liberal democrat...

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