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2006.07.06 11.18
So, because Ken Lay is now dead, under the Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals, his ten (10!) grand-jury convictions may very well be considered abated. And now, since he's a corpse, claimants in the case against him cannot seek punitive damages, only compensatory damages. Hmm. Isn't that interesting. I wonder if... no, no, it was definitely a massive heart attack. After all, he was 64. And, come October, he would have been setenced to 30 years in prison. So this heart attack-- the one that saved him from spending the rest of his life in prison, abated his convinction and saved his estate from undergoing massive finacial losses from punitive damages sought-- was just a good ol' fashion coronary failure and absolutely not premeditated or artificially-induced or any other thing, just a random death, that's it, that's all, plain and simple.
I hope Bush is a pallbearer at the funeral.
"Ken who?"
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2006.06.22 12.27
Skaggs' tour bus hits, kills Ohio man near Bonnaroo
From USA Today, 6/18/06:
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) — A man was killed when he was hit by a tour bus carrying bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs after a performance at the Bonnaroo music festival has been identified.
Joshua Overall, 21 of Hamilton, Ohio, was hit by the bus as it traveled south on Interstate 24 at 7:50 p.m. about a mile from the exit for the festival, said Melissa McDonald, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Safety.
"The young man just walked out into traffic," she said. "There was no fault on the part of the bus driver. It was unavoidable."
The bus was estimated to be traveling around 55 miles per hour before the accident. No charges will be filed against the driver, McDonald said.
There was no indication of alcohol use by Overall or the driver. Drug tests will be done on Overall's blood, McDonald said.
Overall was wearing a Bonnaroo admission armband when he was killed, although authorities have not found anyone at the music festival he was traveling with, McDonald said. It appeared he had jumped over a fence to reach the highway from the direction where the festival was being held, she said.
Ashley Capps, president and even producer of A.C. Entertainment, said he was stunned.
"We'll certainly be cooperating with the THP," he told The Tennessean. "The safety of our patrons is our number one concern, and we're deeply saddened when something like this happens ... that seems like an extraordinary bit of bad luck for whoever was driving down the interstate."
Carrie Anne, a 25-year-old Skaggs fan from Portland, Maine, said she was disappointed to hear of the death, but felt "there are worse ways to go than to be hit by Ricky Skaggs' tour bus."
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Weird tidbit: I went to middle school with this kid. The one hit by the bus. He was always threatening to light other kids' hair on fire. He was really funny. The cynical part of me wants to laugh about Ricky Skaggs' involvement in Josh's death, but the other (smaller) part of me knows better.
At least it wasn't Tom Petty's bus, I guess.
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2006.04.13 18.00
"The narrator of my nonfiction pieces is not the same person I am--she is a lot more articulate and thinks of much cleverer things to say than I usually do." -- Janet Malcolm
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2006.03.26 12.59
"Farce Of The Penguins"
Saget said he got the idea for the film while watching the original "March of the Penguins" at a friend's house.
"I couldn't stop doing the voice-overs of the penguins, reminiscent of when I did those animal voices on that video show back in the day," he said.
...Yeah, because those voices were so funny and everything.
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2006.03.24 10.46
From Defamer--
"Defamer brother site Fleshbot shares their review of a spunk-filled tribute to a blockbuster that hasn't even been released yet. That's right-- The Da Vinci Load may offer even more Vatican ire-raising intrigue and thrills than its source material. A synopsis:
Operatives of the Priory of Semen, including penile profiler Dr. Nadia Saint (Missy Monroe) discover that Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa using his own sperm. Determined to resurrect Da Vinci and overjoyed that the master’s sperm was not all “lost up a man’s ass”, they steal the painting and kill anyone who gets in their way. "
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2006.03.23 10.00
Page Six on a Rolling Stone Pete Doherty piece
MARK BINELLI: Over the next three hours, Doherty will also smoke crack, shoot heroin and take an ecstasy pill. He does all of this casually, and openly, except for the shooting up, which he performs near the kitchenette, with his back to us. He offers me heroin and ecstasy but not crack. I decline. The more drugs Doherty does, the more he seems to relax. He never becomes incoherent, though occasionally he seems confused.
...REALLY? What's that? Heroin? MORE relaxed? Well. This has to be a hoax.
Why can't we hold the media accountable for anything anymore?
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2006.03.10 08.28
They adapted Ask The Dust by John Fante into a movie with Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek.
Weird.
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2006.03.08 09.47
Wait... I just realized something.
If the whole point of emo is to be unabashedly earnest and sincere (or "emotional"),
but all your song titles and lyrics are faux tongue-in-cheek, and display a 10th grader's grasp of irony,
then you're really taking away the only thing that made emo decent or unique in the first place.
Which is, of course, that unabashed sincerity: The total opposite of anything ironic.
So that's why Panic ("!") At The Disco is so annoying. You can't be snotty and blasé jaded and ironic if you play music that's supposed to be anything but. Think about it. The only thing pop-punk/emo/core had going for it was that "really sappy, embarrassingly simplistic and revealing, yet somehow amazingly cathartic" vibe. Which I realize I probably shouldn't like but of course I kinda do.
But trying to make emo or pop-punk "cool" by trying to turn it "smart" and "ironic" makes about as much sense as building a Rodney King ride at Disneyland.
If you think you're smarter than lines like "She's so important/And I'm so retarded"... fine.
But don't try to dress it up in all-black and Max Factor eyeshadow and gratuitous synthesizers and drum machines to overcompensate. There are plenty of different genres out there. And if you-- Panic ("!") At The Disco --think you're smarter than pop punk: Don't play pop punk (or "emo," or however you'd categorize it).
But don't try to suddenly "smarten it up" with asinine afterschool observations like "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off." Because it doesn't sound "smart." It sounds like someone trying to be smart. And that just comes off like a moronic 12 year-old who started watching South Park reruns, and now he's going to do all the voices and repeat all the funny lines ad nauseam.
It's not funny, or cute, or novel. It's just irritating.
I'm sorry: Pop-punk/emo can never be "hip." It's always going to be a little dorky.
But that's the idea.
Trying (and, by the way, failing) to make it hip just feels... sad.
(And "feeling sad"-- ironically-- is actually very emo.)
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2006.02.26 01.30
Conservative author Ann Coulter drew a large crowd to the IU Auditorium Thursday night. More than 2,500 of the auditorium's 3,200 seats were full, but that number dwindled throughout her speech as many students were ejected for disruptions and others simply walked out after certain comments.
One comment by Coulter that drew strong audience reactions from the IU Auditorium came from a young man who asked her if she didn't like Democrats, wouldn't it just be better to have a dictatorship? Coulter responded with a jab at the way the student talked.
"You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?" she said.
IU College Republicans President Shane Kennedy defended Coulter's comments saying, "If you are going to talk like you are gay, then Ann Coulter is going to call you gay."
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2006.02.25 17.04
Sex Pistols decline Hall Of Fame invite...
Johnny Rotten gets grammatical:
"Next to the Sex Pistols, rock and roll and that Hall of Fame is a piss stain. Your museum, urine in wine. We're not coming. Fame at $25,000 if we paid for a table, or $15,000 to squeak up in the gallery, goes to a nonprofit organization selling us a load of old famous. [?!?] Congradulations. If you voted for us, hope you noted your reasons. Your [sic] anonymous as judges, but your [sic] still music industry people. We're not coming. Your [sic not paying attention."
Which translates to:
A) We don't even have $5,000 between the three of us that are still alive, let alone $25,000.
B) A Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nomination normally requires some sort of halfway-decent performance element-- something we were not capable of in our heyday and most definitely not capable of 30+ years after the fact.
C) But thank you, from the bottom of our aged, no-longer-anywhere-near relevant hearts for not forgetting about the VH1-created myth that we "created punk rock."
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2006.02.22 01.30
Jennifer Aniston
Last year on Feb. 11, her birthday, Jennifer Aniston partied with 50 friends at a moonlit party thrown by Brad Pitt, from whom she was separated, at their $28 million Beverly Hills home.
Fast-forward to Feb. 11, 2006: Jen, now living in a small rented beachfront home in Malibu, Calif., celebrated her 37th birthday by staying indoors with beau Vince Vaughn — venturing out just once "to walk up and down the beach all by herself," an eyewitness tells Star.
This year, it seems, she just didn't feel like celebrating. "She's in a totally different place than she thought she'd be at 37," says a close friend of Jen. "She's almost 40, and she has no husband, no baby and no Oscar. I think it's a scary time for her."
HAHAHAHHAHAAH
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2006.02.06 18.08
Just a quick note:
The new "Tab Energy" drink is, without even so much as a shadow of a doubt, the most vile beverage ( I have ever consumed in my entire life.
That is all.
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2006.01.31 18.36
Coachella 2k6
The good
Sigur Ros
Common
Atmosphere
My Morning Jacket
Cat Power
Animal Collective
The Juan Maclean
Imogen Heap
Lady Sovereign
Deerhoof
Lyrics Born
The New Amsterdams
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
TV on the Radio
Sleater-Kinney
Mogwai
Gnarls Barkley
Phoenix
Mylo (DJ Set)
Seu Jorge
Wolf Parade
The Go! Team
Art Brut
Dungen
The Magic Numbers
Giant Drag
The bad
Tool
cant wait
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2006.01.27 19.23
"A lot of people do feel it's spoiling their party if someone says sex before marriage is wrong. But where exactly is this party? Oh, maybe some people are having fun, but people on the whole are having a miserable time. You can't cut the statistics to read any other way. AIDS, millions of divorces, adulteries, abortions and unwanted pregnancies add up to something other than fun."
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"I went to books for help. I hoped that I'd find something I could relate to. All the fiction I read talked about celebrating your homosexuality, but I sure didn't want to celebrate how I felt. Meanwhile, the non-fiction I read didn't tell me what I wanted to know: how to be a normal guy.
I felt like I was keeping a secret bomb inside me that would go off at anytime."
-- from my new favorite web page, Christianitytoday.com.
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2006.01.24 12.29
"While the spare acoustic arrangements suit Lewis' voice, they don't lend themselves to the hooks and idiosyncracies that made Rilo Kiley. Lewis put far more on the line in her band's "I Never", and although that song has a bit of kitsch, its ruby red cowboy boots stomp on the toes of most of this album. In fact, more than any indie country album in months, Rabbit Fur Coat makes me question why indie singers put on their cowboy hats in the first place. The classy folk and Americana that Lewis invokes here never goes deeper than an aesthetic decision, and she's better at talking about bad times than bringing them to life-- or making them go away.
That's also why the lone cover on the record, of the Traveling Wilburys' "Handle With Care", doesn't bug me. Some Fork staffers hate this cut with a burning bile, especially when Lewis invites Conor Oberst, Ben Gibbard, and M. Ward to sit by her campfire and share the vocals. I just think it's cute that the quartet set themselves up as aged Bob Dylans or Roy Orbisons-- even if it's an easier sell to aim a few years younger and call them our generation's Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Stephen Stills, and, of course, Linda Ronstadt."
--tha FORK's review of Jenny Lewis's solo album.
So annoyingly right on. As opposed to the Elected review:
"Sennett's aesthetic is less problematic when he sticks to maudlin anglicanisms: "But man I loved/ Yeah I loved/ When I loved/ It was love." Simple and credible, endearingly obvious and courageously scoffable. This is country music that mythologizes the affluent 'burbs and their attendant heartaches more than those of impoverished backwater outposts, and when Sennett sings faux-soulful lines like "That's all right, Jack", it scans as equal parts young-white-dude-irony and young-white-dude-longing-for-authentic-experience, which isn't necessarily an attractive combination. But for what it's worth, while it seems as if the former child-actor has only outgrown half of the hyphenation, the aforementioned conflict is probably the realest thing to be found on Sun, Sun, Sun."
...which was just beyond snobby without being clever.
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2006.01.22 14.48
Pandora.com's assessment of my taste in hip-hop:
"West coast rap roots, a poetic rap delivery, rhythmically complex rapping, slow-moving basslines, tight lyrics and use of modal harmonies."
Fair enough.
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2006.01.19 22.01
Sassy Hollywood Post
I'm tired of this shit. You know who this is? It's Jared Leto! But --get this-- he's actually put on weight in order to honor the lunatic who killed John Lennon in some quarter-assed, presumably Ray-tinged Hollywood biopic co-starring Lindsay Lohan. Dude's probably already bet Ryan Phillippe $220 that he'll win a Golden Globe. Because, you know, if you gain a few pounds to play a role, it's beyond simply being "method." That shit is pure fucking craft.
Retarded, statue-obsessed actors: "transforming" yourself for a role by bingeing on In 'N Out isn't impressive; it's a crutch. It's like the technique Zach Braff used when he relied on Simon And Garfunkel to deliver Garden State's emotion for him: the audience got the point, but it's cheating if you couldn't pull it off yourself.
Jared, you of all people shouldn't have to resort to gimmick-y weight gain to portray a rejected loser-- just recall how it felt being dumped for Justin Timberlake. Or what it was like the first time 30 Seconds To Mars got booed off stage. Getting fat isn't acting. If it was, Kirstie Alley would be starring in a Jenny Craig biopic instead of a Jenny Craig commercial.
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2005.12.13 11.01
from an email sent to rock@wers.org:
"I wasnt? No. You were the one who brought charges, a rare thing for any of your group to do then, in or out of the field. A number of the army people tried to stop you but they couldnt. ... Well go into it later, discuss it later. I want to discuss it now, said Jason firmly. That man is with the Jackal, right there in front of our eyes. I want to know who he is and what he is and why hes here in Moscow-with the Jackal. Later- Now. Your friend Krupkin is helping us, which means hes helping Marie and me and Im grateful for his help. The colonel here is also on our side or we wouldnt be seeing whats on that screen at this moment. I want to know what happened between that man and me, and all of..."
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2005.12.08 11.16
Mel Gibson's Holocaust
"A WORLD authority on Hitler's Final Solution has called on Australian actor-director Mel Gibson to publicly repudiate the Holocaust denial of his father Hutton Gibson and to clarify his own position on the extermination of the Jews.
Rafael Medoff of the US-based David S. Wyman Institute of Holocaust Studies issued the ultimatum after the Walt Disney-owned ABC television said a Gibson company would produce a four-part Holocaust mini-series for the US network next year.
Tentatively titled Flory, the telemovie will tell the true story of Flory Van Beek, a Dutch Jew who survived the Holocaust through the bravery of three Christian families who sheltered her from the Nazis in Holland.
Gibson's Con Artist Productions reportedly clinched the deal with a breathtaking pitch for a climactic "Braveheart-style" battle scene where thousands of Jewish and Nazi combatants rush at each other across an open field."
the whole link is here .
Good god.
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2005.12.02 23.30
from the FBI interview with Monica Lewinsky,
"On July 19, 1996, The President telephoned LEWINSKY at 6:30 a.m. and had phone sex. Near the end of the call the President said "good morning" in such a way that LEWINSKY was convinced that he had climaxed. The President then said something like, "What a way to start a day.""
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2005.11.28 09.30
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/live/d/death-cab-for-cutie-05/
This is one of the douchiest Pitchfork "features" ever.
Some highlights:
"Nota bene: Death Cab shows actually begin on time."
Nota bene?
"I'd lost touch with Death Cab. I didn't actively dislike them; I'd just gradually phased them out, feeling as if I'd outgrown such frank sentimentality."
"...as the band performed in a wash of purple lights, their shadows looming much larger than their bodies on the rear curtain (easy metaphor)..."
"There's a very fleeting and intense mental state that I can now recognize in people several years younger than me, with their blameless arrogance and effortless charisma."
etc etc
sigh
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