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Sounds like the site was a barrel of laughs to watch as a voyeur.. I've only read articles on the owners--they seem quite the provocateurs...

Hard to take analyses like these very seriously, when they are filled with pejorative and imflammatory statements. Mr. Kerry has suggested rolling back the tax cuts, and using those to help fund universal healthcare, while at the same time, giving corporations tax break incentives for hiring and growth. On the surface, that seems as reasonable, as cutting taxes and promising future job growth before it happens. How about everyone meeting in the middle like they did in the Clinton years and getting something done? I dont understand why every other western country can have a health care program, but the richest country of all can't. In any event, given the fact we've gone from a surplus to a deficit in a few years, why would anyone believe what the conservatives have to say on the subject??????????????

Communications often seems skewed over the internet. In any event, I'm looking forward to returning our focus on fun and music here at BK... Since many of the members here are vets of other forums, it will be great to learn from their past experiences so we can continue to make this site the best it can be for everyone..

lol. believe it or not we havent had any discussions about them yet. well, umma did suggest tshirts and hats yesterday, and I want a dark blue hat that has beatking in white letters across the front of it. we will look into it, i guess.. maybe we should start a poll and see if people want them, and what they would like them to look like. frankly, beyonce would be welcome to model them if shes interested

The NY Times explores the once frosty relationship between the technology business and Hollywood. Technology and Show Business Kiss and Make Up By EVELYN NUSSENBAUM Published: April 26, 2004 AN FRANCISCO, April 25 - "Content is king," trumpeted Carleton S. Fiorina, the chairman and chief executive of the Hewlett-Packard Company, as she opened the National Association of Broadcasters convention last week in Las Vegas. The slogan was old, but still sweet to the entertainment community, which packed the show to hear her. The company tossed out technology goodies as well, like a new system that could sharply lower the costs of animation. Hewlett also announced plans to develop film restoration and post-production technology with Warner Brothers. Advertisement Not to be outdone, Apple Computer Inc. introduced a special-effects program and the newest version of its editing technology. The Microsoft Corporation showed off a program to edit and broadcast high-definition television content in real time. The techies played so hard to the show business crowd, it was easy to forget the two industries were ever at war. It was just two years ago, that Michael D. Eisner, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, and a top executive at the Intel Corporation screamed at each other across a packed Senate hearing room. Mr. Eisner accused the technology industry of encouraging the theft of music and movies over the Internet and of enabling Napster and its file-swapping clones to flourish. The Intel executive, Leslie L. Vadasz, fired back that Mr. Eisner needed to "deal with the new digital world." The fight was bigger than Intel and Disney. Each industry thought it was battling for survival. Things had not gotten that ugly since Jack Valenti, the longtime chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, famously said the VCR was "to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to a woman home alone." But a funny thing has happened since those Senate hearings. The combatants went home. The rhetoric died down. And lately they have started working together. Why? With growth slowing in both entertainment and technology, players on both sides started to accept an uncomfortable reality: they simply could not afford to go on fighting. The ability to deliver movies and music over the Internet in a pirate-proof format could mean big money for movie and record companies, which have long complained about the expenses of manufacturing and distributing their wares. And as Apple is proving - it now sells more iPods than Macintoshes - there are equally fat profits for those who can ease the distribution and consumption of digital entertainment. The result is what looks like a beautiful new friendship. Joint ventures, strategic alliances and photo opportunities materialize every week, as tech companies jostle for position in the entertainment world, and producers enjoy the courtship. While Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, rules the digital-entertainment world so far, Ms. Fiorina is running hard to catch up. In the last year, Hewlett licensed iPod technology for its own digital music player; began a music café with the Starbucks Corporation, where coffee drinkers can burn CD's; and provided financing and laptops to Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival. That last move earned Ms. Fiorina the Sundance Institute's "Risk-Takers in the Arts" award for her contributions to film, and an introduction by Sally Field at a ceremony last Thursday night in New York. Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, is also eager to cash in. MSN.com, Microsoft's Internet portal, offers video games, music and Disney movies for downloading; the company hopes it will seed the market for its digital media player and antipiracy software. Microsoft also powers Movielink, the film download service backed by the major studios. Intel has developed its own antipiracy technology, which has been licensed by Warner Brothers. And consumer electronics makers are making their own digital media players. The benefits to consumers are just beginning to show. While downloading music onto an iPod or a similar music player is commonplace, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and others are pushing for a completely digitized home. Their vision starts with a central media player used for personal computing, downloading movies and television and listening to music. Content from that system could be sent wirelessly to any other media players or computers in the house. Technologists have talked up the concept for years, but it is just now becoming feasible. This cross-industry romance did not happen overnight. While the notion makes some techies grit their teeth, Mr. Jobs deserves much credit. He was not the first to explore digital entertainment, but he was the first technology figure embraced by the entertainment industry. You can read the rest of the story here: :read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/26/business...6entertain.html

:shootin: :duck hunt: :shootin: I wouldnt go empty-handed; maybe you should recruit Redneck and his posse :)

Well if need your own ammo, redneck is the man to go to

A friend of mine repped him as a music atty during MJ's heydey--he couldnt stand him and was always doing 'whiny' imitations of needy and greedy Michael

You can pick up second hand ones pretty cheaply these day that are almost like new

yahoo might try that. i think google makes enuff in advertising revenue. welcome back, sg--the place has been missing its nightly edge without you

lol

i assume you have a second home there??? ;)

He'd probably be singing in Vegas like Elvis. He always did like the desert lol

:rotfl:

Actually it was censored in the thirties. Bulgakov lost the first version--Im not sure how, but it was burned. He dictated it the second time around when he blind... Ironically, Stalin got a kick out of him and spared him further grief. Bulgakov was also a doctor and a theater director. His book Heart of a Dog, about an experiment gone wrong, in which a man's brain and testicles are switched is also a classic I almost got the rights to the Master and Margarita--even spoke to Ms Giinsburg about it. I think Roman Polanski tried to do a version--he submitted a version to the studio I worked with and I talked to Saul Zaentz about it.. Problem is with communism gone, the book no longer has the social relevance it once had. But it stll remains hysterical to this day Try it--you will like it. I almost forgot. In addition to the modern story, where the Devil turns Moscow upside down, there is a parallel story about a writer who is sent to the nuthouse for writing about Pontius Pilate and Christ's crucifixtion-that part is timely due to the Gibson take..

Well, they dont do a good job of projecting humans in a good light. BUT...their tactics pale in comparison to the horrors inflicted on the animal kingdom by mankind...

I like www.spinsanity.com. They guys who run it are liberals--but they are pretty even handed about dissing both political parties. David Horowitz's FrontPage is a pretty lively conservative board. I almost gave David Horowitz a heart attack when i posted the dictionary terminology for liberal lol I did get kicked off one site for mentioning the world democrat--I think that was a bircher site rotfl I will be back with the website address for those who are curious...

It's a distorted view, but I understand why they think that...

What stereotype would that be. I will occassionally hear of some atypical horror story about cops ...but not about Americans in general

I hope they didnt threaten to blow it like in the video ;)

Good. This is a place you can let your hair down and everyone will respect you. So relax and join in...I suspect ZP threads like this will rapidly disappear...

lol. nice post, newbie - glad you're quickly getting into the spirit of things. hopefully, we wont have to run into those guys since we have a ninja protector here.

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After several decades away from the stage, Judas Priest will hit the road again. Rob Halford has rejoined the band and will handle lead vocals for the band. You can read all about it on their website: :read this: http://www.judaspriest.com/

Ian Astbury has been chosen to fill Jim Morrison's role in the Doors latest tour. You can read the full story here: :read this: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../music_doors_dc