It's, it's the Beatman from Canada. Emo, emo, emo...!

The Nads Online

"Congress is now pushing a law that would end the free and open Internet as we know it. Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. So Amazon doesn't have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Many members of Congress take campaign contributions from these companies, and they don't think the public are paying attention to this issue. Let's show them we care - please sign this petition today. "

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Don't stop this guy!

By far the most unlikely star of a prospective fall situation comedy is that still-active lead singer of the Rolling Stones, who has signed on to an ABC pilot for its fall schedule. Just to increase the degree of unlikelihood, Mr. Jagger shot his scenes for the New York-based pilot in a hotel room in Auckland, New Zealand, last week.

That was the culmination of a saga at least as whimsical as the premise of the show, which, for now, anyway, is titled "Let's Rob Mick Jagger."

The writing team that came up with the idea, Rob Burnett, long David Letterman's executive producer, and his partner, Jon Beckerman, had previously created the NBC comedy-drama "Ed." As Mr. Burnett outlined the tale in a telephone interview, he and Mr. Beckerman "wondered if there was a way do a serialized comedy — something like a comedy version of 'Lost' or '24.' "

Hatched in numerous meetings, the concept centered on a janitor for a prominent New York building, to be played by the character actor Donal Logue. Down on his luck, the janitor sees a celebrity on television wallowing in his wealth during a tour of his new Manhattan penthouse. Enlisting a crew of similar ordinary but frustrated accomplices, the janitor conceives a plot to rob the big shot's apartment, a story line that would unfold over a 24-episode television season.

From an article in the New York Times

Johnny Depp is supposed to play Michael Hutchence (INXS)

Miramax is developing a biopic of Timothy Leary for the bigscreen after snapping up rights to the upcoming tome "Timothy Leary: A Biography" by Robert Greenfield this week. (Variety)

And Quentin Tarantino is working on a Jimi Hendrix-movie....And Lenny Kravitz will play Jimi.... Sad, sad world....

"The sad fact is that more and more of us, as we invest ourselves in the web, entrusting intimate personal information to garish pages, are destined to leave hastily-constructed, poorly-designed memorials online when we die, trivial shrines whose guest books and comments sections will continue to grow even as we rot, puffing up slowly with hackneyed, repetitive, ghoulish, unintentionally funny tributes.

Eventually, of course, these pages, too, will follow us into oblivion. Tribute activity will level off, some administrator or relative will delete us, the networking brand itself will fall out of favor, its elderly owner will also die, and even his satirists will stop maintaining their spoof page about him. Out of fashion, replaced by new technologies as yet unimagined on infrastructure as yet unbuilt, the network will change hands a few times and close."

Wired

Znet: Six Nations Does Not Stand Alone

"Back in the day, us grown-ups had orgies. Real live orgies, with real live people having real live group sex. It was part of the zeitgeist of the age, NYC during the economic boom, before the Energy Crises of the Seventies, and after the Sexual Revolution of the Sixties. And it's making a comeback, despite AIDS and STDs.

Here's some tips to make your next orgy a success.

Medienrauschen über die debile Krombacher-Kampagne mit Rudi Völler, Jauch und Otti Fischer.

Lars Trebing: "Die ganze Aktion hilft dem Regenwald geradezu lächerlich wenig, während sie andererseits die neu erworbene Position der Krombacher Brauerei als größter Brauerei Deutschlands festigt - und das Ganze mit dem »guten Namen« WWF drauf und dem guten Gewissen für den Endverbraucher, der Natur vermeintlich sehr zu helfen. Dabei könnte er mit einer Spende von 11,50 Euro soviel Regenwald schützen wie mit über 150 Kästen Krombacher Bier und würde gleichzeitig die Gefahr vorzeitigen Leberversagens meiden."

Monty Python's Flying Circus -The Money Programme

" U.S. and Iraqi inspectors have discovered abuse of prisoners in detention centers run by Iraq's Interior Ministry that were visited as recently as February, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

Citing U.S. and Iraqi sources involved with the inspections, the Post said U.S. troops did not respond by transferring all of the detainees to safety, as they did after finding 173 prisoners, some of whom showed signs of torture, in a secret Baghdad bunker in November."

Story by Reuters

"The Rolling Stone splashed out £3,600 a night for the suite days before the US leader tried to book it.

Now Mick, 62, who has been a fierce critic of the Bush-led war in Iraq, is refusing to give it up.

The veteran rocker hired the luxury Royal Suite at the five-star Imperial Hotel in Vienna, Austria, for June when the Stones are due to play a gig in the city. (...) “Bush’s people seemed to be under the impression that they would just hand over the suites but there was no way Mick was going to do that.”"

Story in The Sun

Another one by Alex Jones. Haven't seen it yet!

"BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Just ays after U.S. troops were ordered to plug a security breach at their base here, the black market trade in computer memory drives containing military documents was thriving again Monday. (...) Documents on flash drives for sale at a bazaar across from the American military base over the weekend contained U.S. officers' names and cellphone numbers and instructions on using pain to control prisoners who put up resistance. A study guide on one of the drives describes tactics for interrogating and controlling detainees by pinching or striking nerve and pressure points on their face, neck, arms and legs."

Story in the LA TIMES

"Der Handel mit Speichersticks, die geheime US- Militärdaten enthalten, geht weiter. Auf einem Markt in Afghanistan wurden jetzt Datenträger mit Folteranleitungen verkauft. (...) Wie die «Los Angeles Times» meldet, enthalten am Wochenende auf dem Basar gehandelte USB-Sticks unter anderem Informationen wie die Namen von US-Offizieren und deren Handy-Nummern. Noch brisanter: Es sind darauf Anleitungen zur so genannten «Schmerzkontrolle» widerspenstiger Gefangener zu finden. Ein Ratgeber, der beschreibt wie man Festgenommene durch das Kneifen oder Schlagen auf bestimmte Nerven und Druckpunkte am Körper verhört und kontrolliert, ist nicht anderes als ein Folterhandbuch." Story in der netzeitung

Tags: Bush, NSA, CIA, Rumsfeld, War, Torture,Iraq, Afghanistan , BAGRAM

This funny flash-site has some nice new stuff.

Ich würde es mal mit dieser Erklärung versuchen: Wenn Sie am Potsdamer Platz nur Taubendreck abkriegen, fahren Sie doch gleich in die gruseligen Gropius-Passagen .

Neukölln

...hat man ja neuerdings total die prominenten Freunde als Weblog-Besucher! Seid willkommen!

Und jenseits des kleinen Wettbewerbs, den ich da mit Frau Geffen laufen habe, findet man richtig geile Musik bei den vielen Freunden, die man jetzt neuerdings hat. Und hier, DJ Patfisch hat sich umgetauft und meint, ich merke das nicht!

Metafilter mentioned this film today and it looks great. Actually it looks like the Blueprint for "Pulp Fiction". "When released for a one week run at the Laemmle's Monica 4Plex in Santa Monica California, the film only made 70 dollars (meaning only seven or eight tickets were sold). When later released at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in Hollywood, CA as a midnight movie, the theater was sold out.

Started production in the 1970s/80s, project completed in mid-'90s, released 2005.

When the plot completely changes 2/3 into the movie, it is because Director Rad, John S. fired the lead actress."

From IMDB

Great, great photos of good old Gotham!

Via del.icio.us

I've been asking myself the same question....

"Often small things provide the most disturbing evidence for world-changing events, as when naturalists observe the quiet disappearance of some little known species. The CIA's firing of senior officer Mary O. McCarthy is a political event of just this nature.

Ordinarily, the firing of some middling CIA officer is not an event to interest many other than John Le Carre fans and those who linger over cappuccino at the CIA's Langely cafeteria. (...) But Ms. McCarthy's case is different, and it is of interest to the world. She is responsible, reportedly by her own admission during a furious round of polygraph tests, for information supplied to The Washington Post concerning the CIA's vast secret prison system."

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Spiegel: Iraq Gets Its First German Restaurant

Quote: Despite the kidnapping of two German engineers in Iraq in January and continuous sectarian violence in the country, Völker maintains that the north is safe and that the German government's strict warning against travelling to Iraq is "totally exaggerated". "(The Berlin district of) Kreuzberg is far more dangerous than the Kurdish regions in the north," Völker dubiously alleges.

Hey, Kreuzberg is probably the most peaceful place on earth, asshole!

Iraq

"To make by money by appealing to the stupid human instinct to collect things."

Plasticbag

Kettcar geben bekannt: "Am ersten August Wochenende veranstalten wir die ersten Grand Hotel van Cleef-Festivals!

Die Termine sind: Hannover – Gilde Park Bühne am 4. August, Trier – Kaiserthermen am 5. August und Bonn – Museumsmeile am 6. August.

Mit dabei sein werden: PALE HOME OF THE LAME OLLI SCHULZ UND DER HUND MARIE KETTCAR TOMTE und... es ist uns eine ganz besondere Ehre zu bestätigen, daß die WEAKERTHANS exklusiv und mit alle Mann den ganzen weiten Weg von Winnipeg [CAN] bis nach D [EU] antreten werden. Unser aller Lieblingsband...

Am Freitag und Samstag - also in Hannover und Trier - werden im Anschluß an die Festivals noch After Show-Parties nach dem beliebten Franchise-Prinzip ”Indie Ballermann” stattfinden! Festivalbesucher haben mit ihrer Karte selbstverständlich freien Eintritt! Wir freuen uns auf Abende von Freunden, mit Freunden, für Freunde, unter Freunden! Der Sommer kann kommen...

Vorverkaufsstart ist am Samstag, dem 22. April 2006 Tickets ab 30 Euro [zzgl. Gebühren]: telefonisch unter 01805 – 33 24 33 [12 ct/min.] und im Netz über www.creative-talent | www.kartenhaus.de

"Jean Baudrillard is best known for his formulation of the notion of hyperreality, and in particular hyperreality in the United States. According to Baudrillard, America has constructed itself a world that is more 'real' than real, and where those inhabiting it are obsessed with timelessness, perfection, and objectification of the self. Furthermore, authenticity has been replaced by copy (thus reality is replaced by a substitute), and nothing is "real," though those engaged in the illusion are incapable of seeing it. Instead of having experiences, people observe spectacles, via real or metaphorical control screens. Instead of the real, we have simulation and simulacra."

Someone worthwhile checking out again and again

Reality Of Simulation (the most complete online collection of articles by Baudrillard.)

"How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.

The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal."

informationclearinghouse.info has the videos

Why is America so scared of nudity?

"Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday." Cnet on Shoutwire