Have you ever seen the Red Windmill? Well have you? ..%%%%...%%%%%%..%%%%%%. .%%..%%....%%......%%... .%%%%%%....%%......%%... .%%..%%....%%......%%... .%%..%%....%%....%%%%%%. 15400 0201111228 Aight, who changed my Shakira??? Why'd you make her look, act and sound like you added Jewel to Britney and divided by two? You ruined her!!! Give her back. She was talented when she was singing in Spanish and bringing tones true to Colombia. Now she just seems like a cheap flamenco dancer singing a couple bars of "Oops I did it again," or something. Do any of you know how to produce something without ruining it? Can you be true to sound of a song without refrying it for mainstream over-consumption? I can see it now. "Wow, nice traditional tones, nice movement, nice wow, it's got something no other song before it we've ever heard. Get rid of all that. Have her shake her rump and sing 'oo la la' a couple times, yeah. Now the breasts, have her cup her breasts and sing a couple of those high notes but not too many. Nope, too many. Just one and a half of those notes. Nah, never mind, we'll dust that out with ProTools." When can we have Shakira back - was her contract one year? Or two quarters or what? Because the world needs her. Not you money grubbing scum. What do you think you are, top-of-the-world? Control freaks. ` ` ` [23:34] you know, I own an expensive pair of koss headphones, but I also have a pair of very old radio shack nova 40s that I bought for $5 in a pawn shop that are about 10 times better. ` ` ` LETTUCE: (i wish i had a blog to post this on) So my mom got one of those nifty new white iBook for Xmas. It came with OS 9 installed, and with the installation CDs for OS X. We stuck the CD in, clicked OK, rebooted once, and she was running OS X. The next day we went to my grandparents house. Two of my uncles were also visiting, but we didn't see them much. It seems they were trying to install Windows XP on my grandparents PC which was running Windows 98. Not just any two uncles, but my uncle from Seattle who is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft, and my uncle from San Francisco who is a very expensive PC consultant. Well Seattle uncle spent Wednesday trying to install Windows XP. After many hours he managed to install it, but Office stopped working. The rest of the day was spent trying to debug Office. Thursday was spent attempting to re-install Windows 98. The hard drive was erased and re-formatted. 3 times! Between the two of them, total man hours were about 18. Early evening they got a fresh, install of Windows 98 running on the many times reformatted hard drive. However it would take until 11pm before the modem would work, and lots of downloading drivers to this or that laptop and freighting them over by floppy. (though they had never had to install drivers for this modem before) We left to come home Friday afternoon. Last I saw they were 2 hours into a struggle to re-install Front Page. Grandpa was confused about why his bookmarks were gone. (hint: they probably disappeared with one of those 3 disk re-formats) and Grandma was promising to never, ever complain about a computer problem again. (the whole exercise began because she mentioned that the computer had been crashing a lot lately) kellan [ed note: woah. Remember that old slapstick routine where the guy can't get his car-door to fully close because it's bent up to much and then he un-bends it and gets it closed but the next time opening it falls to the ground? Then he picks it up and places it on, hits it once, smiles and the back door falls off? Touches the back door about to pick it up and put it on and one of the wheels falls off, so he kicks the wheel really hard and the trunk pops up?] . . . Marco, according to my calculations you are number 452,278,001 in line to become president of Argentina. At the present rate of presidential traffic I suggest that you ask your boss for if you can take the afternoon off on Wednesday of next week. I'm sure your boss won't mind -- it won't tie you up for very long ... you'll be back at work by Thursday morning. Michael . . . Dear kokopeli@___.com For a very small fee, we can supply you with direct contact information of many music industry resources in the U.S.A. Our database contains thousands of contact names and address of : Record Labels (Indie & Major with A&R names), College Radios (Hundreds), Distributors, Record Retailers, Producers & Engineers, Managers & Booking... {snippage} [wait, is this like getting me higher in the search engines?] . . . to ati Los contemporary poesy & art http://home.earthlink.net/~lospoesy . . . NUMBUS: http://newsisfree.com http://www.monbiot.com http://www.o-o.lt/asco-o http://www.buzzflash.com http://www.stretcher.org http://www.badmovies.org http://www.mysticdisc.com http://www.louandpeter.com http://www.hackersclub.com http://www.indiemusicsite.com http://www.ccc.de/congress/2001 http://drugsigns.freeyellow.com http://www.onepeoplesproject.com http://www.deism.com/paine_essay01.htm http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/anarc.html http://www.xmission.com/~sleon/WeatherHome.html http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=115208 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=114965 http://www.thetruth.com/sections/features/infect/index_h.cfm http://www.google.com/search?q=bin+laden+commander+in+chief+taliban+aug+30&btnG=Google+Search http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/12/Laden/tapes8_French.html http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/27/1634210 http://pigdog.org/auto/bad_people/link/2395.html http://www.multimania.com/protesta/dublet.mp3 http://www.multimania.com/protesta/jungle.mp3 http://www.geocities.com/casa_maria_worker http://free.freespeech.org/xaa/xaa0004.txt http://www.planetkrulik.com/index2.htm http://www.geocities.com/comprhension http://www.peoplesvideo.org http://www.sover.net/~mjez http://www.monkeybomb.com http://www.buzzflash.com http://www.zinebook.com http://drew.corrupt.net http://www.raspage.com http://www.zefrank.com http://www.gimpix.com http://www.gabber.ca http://mytwobeadsworth.com http://www.nativeamericanmusic.com http://www.igac.infoliberationfront.org http://www.msnbc.com/news/679996.asp?cp1=1 . . . OVERTIME a poem by BMC Getting high, not intentionally, I stain, you sprays lacquer - no masks. Doors, moldings, pieces I can no longer identify circling, singing, surrounding me with work for the low low price of life energy. Talking, inhaling, breathing, finally resting. Begging for cigarettes, tilting a pinball machine, bending a coat hanger up into the chips dispenser. This is break time. Sitting at a table, talking about ambitions like owning CD players and getting drunk. Pete's fucking Kim from accounting, But Trent stays late to delay the inevitable. His girlfriend waits from him at home, So he hides in the back of a truck in the shipping bay. Rumour is Roger's been showing pictures of passed out women on rubber sheets, says Roy, whose ears are dripping pus - again, poor fuck and half the builders are out back for some secret reason. I think steel toed shoes don't prevent some things like staples in the hand 120 decibel harmonies spun by an orchestra of machinery melamine cuts deeper than you can see through the blood miter saws don't discriminate clamps pop fingertips plus tiredness, depression, anxiety, hopelessness brain cells fried on stain break's over. http://flag.blackened.net/ati/opm/neo-comintern.mp3 http://www.neo-comintern.com . . . If questioning wars past and future is unamerican then I ask you what the hell was Tom Paine thinking? . . . A Prime Anarchist "not necessarily publisher's column" Rant Alicia Keyes just got called a "piano genius by CNN. Hmmm. How much is this year's Christiane Amanpour raise? A million or two? Small peanuts? CNN is trying to train us to have a one- track mind. All sex aside they're picking one topic at a time and beating it to death. They've been doing that since long before OJ Simpson. Remember not knowing whether Michael Jackson did it or not? We STILL don't know. Settling out of court for high hundreds of thousand or low millions means almost NOTHING in his world, right? Nada. Zilch. Face it, they're the front lines of the dumbing down of Amerika. Have they always been like this? Did we just never notice til this became so obvious? That'd be a study all to itself. Pre and post Ted Turner; or maybe pre and post "Chicken Noodle News" or something. FAVOR: A Note From your not so humble publisher. I am an American. I think our international readers here must know this because they (you) never give me a hard time about this. When my voice and tone are clearly "american," it hasn't even seemed to bother anyone. Or you're afraid to speak up maybe. I know I've worked really hard the last 15 years to get rid of everything ethnocentric about me, everything "whitebread," or neo-colonialist. I know I've still got a ways to go, but I'm quite satisfied with my success so far. I fell I can tell you that, you'll know what I mean. A favor I could ask of you maybe, if you notice further ways I can be less the "bad american" and more the "good american" without losing the good qualities I've acquired which may or may not be typically "american" at all, (yeah I know, a shallow dozen or so. hehehe) please give me a hollar, ok? And in other news... I saw a moose on CNN. Moose Encounters, they called it. Parents, you know what? If your daughter comes in having seen a moose and she says "mommy, there's a donkey in the back yard," school didn't fail america, clergy hasn't failed, nope -- hollywood did NOT fail her. The failure is NOT CNN, (at least not this time) Western society didn't fail here (again this time) you did. For shame -_- are you daft? Have you gotten that disconnected from your environment? Holy Shit, this is frightening really, I'm more scared of this than I am of George Bush's Enron deathsquads. You know the real definition of intelligence, right? Your ability to adapt to the dynamics of your environment. NOT YOUR ABILITY TO ALTER THE ENVIRONMENT TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS/ WANTS. And your ability to pass that on to children is something clost to "intelligence" also. I'm not sure we have a word for that. A donkey? I'm nervous. [/Prime Anarchist "not necessarily publisher's column" Rant] \\\\\GOOD \\\\ RESEARCH \\\ PROJECT \\\\\ IDEA: \\\\\\\\\ Synthesize Steve Ambrose going down for plagiarizing in at least two of his books with the Photoshop job that the US Government just leafletdropped over Afganistan. \\\\\\\\\OH YEA\\\\AND BRITNEY\\\\\\LIP\\\\SYNCS\\\\\\\\ __________________________________ Notice to the Rest of the World Please do not attack the US in rainy weather. Our missile defense system only works in clear skies. __________________________________ The Pentagon had to postpone its recent missile defense test because of inclement weather. However, they announced that, when the weather cleared, the test would be considered successful even if it failed to hit the target. On the next attempt, the test was declared a success. ' ' ' "Well, what is the value of Jewel or Enya?" --Gerald Levin, CEO AOLTimeWarnerCNNsorship (who basically OWNS Jewel and Enya, eh?) | / \ OK, sort of a movie review. Why didn't you tell me they made a love story out of a Moliere Play??? Nicole Kidman overdoes the "dweem" fonetics (she's singing "dream" and it comes out "dweem") involved in training a voice even more overdone than Bob Dylan got his last three CDs, but that is the ONLIEST weakness I can find about the production "Moulin Rouge." "You kwazy fool, I won't..." I never liked Bowie's "Heros" or Elton John's "Your Song," before. Listen, to make me like these two songs in a hundred twenty eight minute soundtrack? Wow. Now that's a brilliant setup. So there you go. Sort of a movie review. [/OK, sort of a movie review.] ` ` ` What profits a man who has almost everything yet still he must steal from the poor... | / \ AFFIRMATION A Poem Written by Assata Shakur (reprinted from Covert Action Information Bulletin) [http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/096.html] I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs; And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic of the hands. And in the wisdom of the eyes. I believe in rain and tears. And in the blood of infinity. I believe in life. And i have seen the death parade march through the torso of the earth, sculpting mud bodies in its path I have seen the destruction of the daylight and seen bloodthirsty maggots prayed to and saluted I have seen the kind become the blind and the blind become the bind in one easy lesson. I have walked on cut grass. I have eaten crow and blunder bread and breathed the stench of indifference I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down. I believe in living I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port. ` ` ` ________________________________________________ Music enjoyed while making this 'zine ________________________________________________ "Royal Scam" by Steely Dan (On Vinyl, how cool is that???) Three Dog Night "Three Dog Night" Marco Capelli "Hootenany Green" Tracy Chapman "Tracy Chapman" Weavers "At Carnegie Hall" George Carlin On DCIndyAudio (http://r1.loudeye.com:8000/dcimc) Chicago Transit Authority Ozomatli Embrace The Chaos David Rovics Living In These Times Tom Paxton "New Songs For Old Friends" ------ |MY ATI| your TRUSTED FRIEND ------ til the very END a dress all lettuce 2: ati@etext.org Find the webpages somewhere near: [strike] http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist [/strike] http://flag.blackened.net/ati/zine/infomaniack.html (interim page for a while i guess. quite unmaintained. more updates soon, promise..) "Quietly now while I turn the page, Act 1 is over without costume change, The principal would like to leave the stage, The crowd Don't --Rod Stewart Under Stand."