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Activist Times Inc. Issue 306
Your posture sucks, no wonder you get some back pain now and then...
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http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=111853
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/27/1634210
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0377.html
http://www.essentialmedia.com/Shop/Articles.html
http://www.xmission.com/~sleon/WeatherHome.html
http://www.freespeech.org/kokopeli/esther.html
http://home.zonnet.nl/gha_files/portal.html
http://www.geocities.com/casa_maria_worker
http://free.freespeech.org/xaa/xaa0004.txt
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2001
http://www.louandpeter.com
http://www.monkeybomb.com
http://www.mysticdisc.com
http://newsisfree.com
http://www.sli.net.nz
http://nodo50.org
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And The "phemous" Prime Anarchist AftrKrsms Publisher Column
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0112292323
DEATH OF ART: In the Media Mix, What Happens to Music?
My third favorite Melanie Safka song is "What Have They
Done To My Song, Ma." I like it so much I have it on four
albums. "Candles In The Rain," "Best Of," "Beautiful,"
and "The Four Sides Of." We ought to take a look at what
they've done to EVERYONE'S songs!
"At the end of November, the day after George Harrison died,"
Norman Solomon reports in FAIR's Media Beat, "the NPR program
'Fresh Air' treated listeners to reminiscences and tributes to
his work. The show ended with Harrison's transcendent song
'All Things Must Pass' -- while a voice-over intoned a slew
of underwriter credits, closing with a promotional pitch for a
'wealth management' company. As an interlude, airing on what
passes for public radio, the incongruous mix was business as
usual, offering artistic quality while undercutting it with
routine corporate-driven messages. Guitars gently wept."
[ref]=[ http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1229-06.htm ]
(I'll lift one more quote from Solomon's story - if you want
the rest get it yourself at commondreams.org or fair.org, ok?)
[ref]=[ http://www.fair.org/extra/writers/solomon.html ]
"Economic powerhouses are well-positioned to trivialize music
by foisting audio schlock onto vast audiences of innocent
bystanders -- and also by recycling popular music to hook
people into buying specific products. Large quantities of
rock songs, ranging from the mediocre to the marvelous, have
become snippets of soundtracks for TV commercials. It all
adds up to a concerted assault on meaning, with music very
functional as a heavy battering ram."
What are my first two favorite Melanie songs?
You had to ask.
"Close To It All" and her version of "Purple Haze," I think.
With dozens of close 4ths I must add.
"NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION.
NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE."
marco
-=[{ LETTUCE }]=-
This was a week of short ones for sure. Maybe people
had less time to type in between drinks or something.
to ati@etext.org
Do you really like Melanie that much???
sid
[ed note: what were you looking over my shoulder? yikes.]
to ati@etext.org
LimeWire yes, AudioGalaxie no, Morpheus no.
hvck
to marco
Hey, are you gonna drop a few hits and see LOTR?
lion g. ink
to Marco
The 3 stages of getting sick: ill, pill and bill.
Garlic Bulb
PRESS RELEASE
MUSIC BEYOND BORDERS
a birthday celebration of martin luther king
and his vision of peace
monday january 21st 9pm at the bloomfield bridge
tavern.. this is our twelth anniversary having this
celebration at the BBT
music provided by: life in balance, karl mullen,
phat mandee and ATS
proceeds will go to the refugees of afghanistan,
specifically rebuilding a hospital in pakistan..
more info, hit:
http://rawa.false.net/malalai1.htm
organized by duncan and porter
house of hospitality and resistance
http://notowar.com
"'Here in Iraq,' Riad told me, 'we make something from nothing -
especially the peace.' And isn't that the most precious gift of
all?"
--Kathy Kelly director of http://www.vitw.org
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OK, someone had to say it, you ready for this?
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=109959
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Make no mistake
This world is full of hate
People can't relate
And theres nothing left to take,
We all been used as bait
Some say this is fate
But let me open the gate
'cos its never too late:
We livin' in a police state
- Wonko The Sane
[ref] =
http://antiwar.notnethosting.com/Propaganda/policestate.txt
Concrete Wishes Within Crystal Dreams
[reprinted from Map of Austin Poetry #214-1]
If the original format of Claibie's poem gets altered in the
relay, I invite you to play with it to reconstitute the shape
of the champagne glass.
o
o
o o
o
This is the shape of things expected,
sparkling with domestic or imported,
waiting to wet the lips and whet a
desire for good luck, health, or
happinesses. Sip or gulp the
hopes of tomorrows. Ahh,
all springs eternal with
wishes of peace for
all. The "tink" of
Salud! Cheers
gathered
within
stem
of a
gla
ss
rai
se
it
now
I wish you all love, peace, hugs
Claiborne Walsh
FATWA BLUES
by Marco May 20, 1995
A fatwa on George Bush
A fatwa on the NRA
A fatwa on Newt Gingrich
GOP, FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA
A fatwa on every 3-letter word in the government.
A fatwa on every 4-letter word out of
Anyone's fatwa mouth.
Neo nazi training camps?
Militant subversive overthrow groups
Whether left, right or center.
And racist magazines?
Fat wa on all of them!
A fatwa on anyone who continues to
use the words "politically correct."
20 years for George Bush --
NRA can do his other 30.
GOP, FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA? 2 years each.
All other three letter words get 1
Except for the IRS
They get forever!
A day for each "fuck."
Half a day for each "shit."
All the rest get an hour.
All neo-nazis except Newt Gingrich
Get 6 years and 3 months.
Gingrich? He can rot in hell.
OK. A large toaster.
OK. A tanning salon.
People who use the words "Politically Correct?"
Don't get me started...
A fatwa on everyone who fatwa'd
Salmon Rushdie.
Fatwa on cops, lawyers congressmen and
Rap singers.
And a fat fucking wa on
Anyone who ever uses the word
Fatwa
again.
And we end this year, and this zine with a poem.
It's called:
AMERICAN DAYLIGHT
by Minnesota poet Charlton Metcalf
waking up
like a roller coasters first drop
accelerate aware
American daylight
hair of the dog
French maid toast
breakfast in bed
covers hog
stretching,
armpit close...
chewing like a tropical Gauguins best girl,
murmuring a name with the occasional vowel...
Id like to trade her for a New York slice
That's all for ati306.
Feedback? ati@etext.org
See you next year.
