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.

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[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?]

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. .

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 
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contact names and address of : Record Labels (Indie 
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     {snippage}

     [wait, is this like getting me 
      higher in the search engines?]

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to ati

Los
contemporary poesy & art
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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
.thetruth.com/sections/features/infect/index_h.cfm
           ?   ?   ?
.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

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. .

  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

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. .

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 "white
bread," 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]

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    __________________________________

     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.

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' '

"Well, what is the value of Jewel or Enya?"
  --Gerald Levin, CEO AOLTimeWarnerCNNsorship
    (who basically OWNS Jewel and Enya, eh?)


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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.]


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What profits a man who has almost everything 
yet still he must steal from the poor...


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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.

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       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"

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|MY ATI|           your TRUSTED FRIEND
 ------            til the very END


           
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