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the man in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a Ballroom Blitz.
We Mean It-Man!
O.k., am I boring you yet? You know,
with the constant going on about you and your copy rights. Boring at times yes, but very important things we all
need to know. Well prepare yourself because here comes the latest version of "the nation's top cop"
- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, and if you break any copyright laws, rest assured he's gonna' get you- literally-
no joke about it! The music industry, movie studios and retailers want prosecution to the fullest extent of the law and in
Atty. General John Ashcroft they're singin', "ain't it good to know- I've got a friend."
Last week the Atty. General, along with
the U.S. Department of Justice announced a plan to broaden and introduce new prosicutorial power on intellectual
property crimes and piracy, including of music and movies.
Unveiling a 100 page report, the department's
Intellectual Property Task Force presented a long list of proposals for beefing up the anti-piracy enforcement laws, giving
federal prosecutors more power to pursue those everyday infringements.
Holding a news conference here in our Los
Angeles, U.S. Atty. General John Ashcroft said the Dep. of Justice would immediately implement the organizational
changes included in the task force's 55 page proposals.
Wow, a task force yet-and in L.A.!
Ashcroft said he will seek the proposed
legislative changes when the new Congress convenes in January.
Of course the music and movie industries
praised the new initiative, so did VSDA retail groups. "VSDA applauds the Task Force's recognition that video piracy and other
forms of intellectual property theft are a growing problem that has global implications and also real world consequences for
consumers," VSDA president Bo Andersen stated.
Global implications-sounds kinda' like
a nuc bomb exploding, or global warming, doesn't it? But we are talking $$$ here peeps, guess now $
has gone global!
Among the many changes to the current enforcement
efforts, the department will expand the number of special units dedicated to combating intellectual property theft, which
are centrally located inside U.S. attorney offices across America.
As you read on, Computer Hacking and Intellectual
Property Units are operating in 13 cities, with offices to be set up in 5 new states. Existing offices here in L.A. and San Jose
will be beefed up to deal with its "hotbed of intellectual property theft."
Hmm, San Jose, a hotbed
of intellectual theft -who knew?
Joining their foreign counterpart in international
trafficking infiltration, the F.B.I. will place federal prosecutors with expertise in intellectual property at U.S. embassies
in Hong Kong, Budapest and Hungary. The report notes that economic development in Asia has increased piracy by boosting manufacturing
capacity, resulting in more counterfeit product on U.S. shelves. And John Ashcroft doesn't like that-or you!
Yes, you-if
you dare purchase, take, or participate in any form of intellectual property theft of any kind! Ashcroft would like the Congress
to criminalize the possession of counterfeit and swapped goods rather than just the distribution, which would make
prosecution so much easier.
But wait-Ashcroft also wants to give prosecutors
authority to use wiretaps and other techniques typically used in white-collar and organized crime crackdowns, and he is confident
the Justice will join the industry groups in obtaining prosecution.
"It's going to take people outside of government
to both help us prepare cases and to report cases, and to educate the public. We don't think this is something that can just
be regulated to the federal government," says John.
By one means or another, controversy continues
to cling to entertainment. Oh the politics of creativity and having fun. Yes, and "the politics of dancing."
Speaking of having fun...did you catch
Steven Tyler kickin' off the World Series by singing the National Anthem at Fenway Park...with no crotch grabbing, dangling
cigarette, glossy eyes - and he hit all the right notes too! Very impressive Stevie!
Major League Baseball : News... Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler sings the national anthem before
Game 1 of the
World Series on Saturday night at Fenway Park. (Elsa/Getty Images). ...
arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/
news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20041023&content_id=903910&vkey... - 56k - Oct 24, 2004
And for even more fun-be on the
lookout for the Ronald McDonald in a stage dive commercial. Yes, Ronald is a punk rocker now-owow-owow,
as he takes a hefty dive off the stage and crowd surfs! Sadly, I did not have the Micky D urge for a pre-fab chow.
Which leads us to The Burger King, who
insists we must have it our way! The King has bestowed Mr. Puffman, P.Diddy himself, to tell us so in a 30 sec commercial.
Actually, Burger King wants you to vote while you eat their food, your way.
"I don't care who you vote for-just vote," states
Mr. P.D.
Joe Greenlight: Burger King wants you to vote... Does it get more diverse than P. Diddy, Michelle Branch, Ted Nugent, Snoop
Dogg
and Good Charlotte? ... Burger King, fast food for the peoples! ...
joegreenlight.typepad.com/
blog/2004/10/burger_king_wan.html - 12k
And what about that mislabeled and lost old Beetles
footage which has just been found...
First the lost Hendrix footage,
now Beetles footage? Never mind Lucy, make that loopy in the sky, what were these peeps thinking? YOU'RE
FIRED-am I right!
*Our
fav Lost in Space boy BILL MUMY and his band THE JENERATORS are gigin' around town-look for them
and go!
B5TECH.COM - The Babylon 5 Tech-Manual.
... Crusade. Bill Mummy, Former child star Bill Mummy played Babylon 5's
Lennier,
loyal attaché to Delenn who became a Ranger. Peter ...
www.b5tech.com/links.htm
- 63k
Speaking of classic favorites... according
to Nick at Night, this is TV's Top 5 favorite songs of all time:
# 5. Scooby, Scooby Doo, hey
where are you?
# 4. Cheers, where everybody
knows your name
# 3. I Love Lucy, and she loves me
# 2. Happy Days, good bye grey skies, hello blue
# 1. Gilligan's Island, with
Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire, and his Wife, the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary-Ann, here on Gilligans Isle!
Yeah baby - I know that one always sends
chills down my spine as I'm reaching for my lighter! A 3 hour tour huh, so how come everyone has suitcases? Well, everyone
but the Professor, and Gilligan, and the Skipper. And why was Ginger wearing an evening gown on
a 3 hour tour of the ocean anyway? So
many un-answered questions plague me ...
So, where will you be going in your evening
clothes...
Or as,
this Halloween. . .
Tues 10/26:
*L.A. Opera presents Bizet' Carmen, featuring Placido
Domingo as alternate conductor @ MUSIC CENTER, DOROTHY CHANDLER
PAVILION thru Nov 7 www.losangelesopera.com
Bizet - Carmen / Berganza, Domingo, Cotrubas, Milnes, Abbado 
*That
fab 50's vocal queen Keely Smith performing Las Vegas'58, featuring fav tunes from 1958 @
CINEGRILL thru Oct.30
Keely Smith is mostly known as the duet partner of Louis Prima, she took the straighter role in their raucous, just-this-side-of-parodical
blends of jazz, jump blues, and Italian pop, on record and on their Vegas-oriented shows. Smith, however, was also a reasonably
talented singer of straight pop material, although not in the same class as the leading female vocalists of the 1950s. Her
most respected solo recordings are her earliest Prima-less outings, made for Capitol in the late '50s with... Full Keely Smith Biography
*Veteran Jamaican drummer Sly Williams with bassist reggae legend Robbie Shakespeare @
HOB SUNSET
*Alice Cooper @ VENTURA THEATRE
*Conflict @ VAULT 350
*Gorr king Clive Barker reads and signs his latest book, Days of Magic, Nights of War @
Vroman's, Pasadena 626. 449-5320
*Scum of the Earth features Riggs (rob zombie) @ WHISKY A GO-GO
Wed 10/27:
*Trumpeter-ickster Jack Sheldon
@ CHARLIE O'S
*Son of the late and great - Josh Ritter @
DOUG'S TROUB
Josh Ritter.com
Enter Joshritter.com Josh at Bumbershoot, Seattle - Sept 2004 Photo: Kristy Cameron { Enter
}.
www.joshritter.com/ - 2k |
Thurs 10/28:
*Every Thurs, it's Trumpeter-ickster
Jack Sheldon @ JAX
*The Voluptuous Horror
of Karen Black @ Gary's daddy's KEY CLUB
Fri 10/29:
*RAY
- starring In Living Color' Jamie Foxx opens nationwide, go see it! The soundtrack features 17 classics songs from the genius
of soul, Ray Charles.
*Steel Pulse@ SANTA ANITA PARK
*Megadeth and
Exodus @ HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM
*our
doggy style boyz, KottonMouth Kings @ VAULT 350
*First
there was HAIR BANDS, then there was W.A.S.P.! our very own Blackie Lawless (remember, and no, Lucy is not his daughter!)
and his band W.A.S.P. Halloween Costume Ball @ KEY CLUB
Blackie Lawless (WASP)traffic statistics BLACKIE LAWLESS (WASP). Interviewed by Michael A. Capozzoli
www.geocities.com/mcapozzolijr/blackielawless.html
- 20k
*Angel
City Outlaws featuring John Corabi (mot crue) Bobby Blotzer (ratt) Keri Kelli (slash snake pit) @
MURPHY'S IRISH PUB SIMI VALLEY
*hALLOWEEN bONDAGE bALL @ HOLLYWOOD ATHLETIC CLUB
www.bondageball.com **FETISH/BONDAGE DRESS CODE ENFORCED
Sat : 10/30:
*Juliette
Lewis and her Licks and the TRULY scary and whacked Courtney Love
@ WILTERN THEATRE
Juliette and the Licks
... including 'Shelter Your Needs,' 'Hey You Hey Man' and 'Comin' Around.' Meet Fiddler Records
at: www.fiddlerrecords.com IS JULIETTE LEWIS CRAZY?: Entertainment ...
www.julietteandthelicks.com/
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*Ronnie
James Dio and AnthraX @ THE GEEK
*Marilyn
Manson Halloween Costume Ball @ VAULT 350
*our peeps, Youth Brigade @ TROUBADOR remember
"Punk Rock Melrose Place" It's still there, and still rockin'
BYO Records - Punk Since 1982
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... YOUTH BRIGADE YOUTH BRIGADE was formed at the end of summer 1980
in Los Angeles, amid the explosion of the punk scene in Southern California by brothers Shawn ...
www.byorecords.com/bandpage.php?band=youthbrigade
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*Eek A Mouse @ CLUB 705 HERMOSA BCH
*our very own groovy ghoulies The Cramps - with
Dinah Cancer & the Grave Robbers @ HOLLYWOOD ATHLETIC CLUB, also featuring
our fetish masters Gary and Pierre Silva's Spooky Photo Booth, along with a Costume Contest
*bAR sINISTER hALLOWEEN-Usual Bar Sinister Attire Enforced!
Bar Sinister - the seductive sinful ...decadent world
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... DarK & DecaDent @ Bar Sinister For rental information & dark guidance to
your ambiant affair contact us @ 323.769.7070 or sinner@barsinister.net. ...
www.barsinister.net/home.php
- 17k - Oct 24, 2004
Enter Bar Sinister. ...
www.barsinister.net/
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*Spooky Sci-Fi - an audio/visual presentation Costume Ball, featuring an after-hours
viewing of Renoir To Matisse @ L.A. COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART - LACMA
*Nightmare on 18th Street
- Festival of Frights and Delights features live music and DJ's, 8PM-2AM @ 18th Street Arts Center,
SMonica www.18thstreet.org/halloween.html
Sun 10/31: All Hallows Eve
*The
Roots with Martin Luther @ HOB SUNSET
*Steel
Pulse @ VAULT 350
Steel Pulse Official Web Site
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Steel Pulse Official Web Site. This is the official web site of in the Internationally known
band Steel Pulse Steel Pulse Reggae ...
www.steel-pulse.com/
- 2k
One of Bob Marley's favorite bands, Steel Pulse became one of reggae's most successful bands in the late '70s
and early '80s. After releasing their debut album, Handsworth Revolution (1978, Mango), and its successors, Tribute to the
Martyrs and True Democracy (both for Elektra) in the early '80s, with their innovative blend of straight-ahead reggae, flamenco
and Euro-pop containing potent pleas for social reform, critics and fans alike hailed them as Marley's successors. By the
late '80s, Steel... Full Steel Pulse Biography |
Mon 11/1: All Souls Day - remember all of our loved peeps who are no longer with
us on this earth.
*B.B. Chung King @ COZY'S
Art - for Art's Sake...
* Every Picture
Tells A Story features works from Robert Williams and others @ 1311 Montana, SMonica
310. 451-2700 thru Halloween
* Celebrities, Friends, and Strangers:
Portraits by Don Bachardy features portraits of Truman Capote and Anais Nin, among others. Don was writer Christopher
Isherwood's life partner @ HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS, SAN MARINO thru Feb.
6, 2005
Truman once said that "in California you lose a point off
your I.Q. every year"
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote. Americas most colorful and controversial literary genius. His illustrations of Truman's
book The Stories of Truman Capote became Andy Warhol's first solo exhibit. ...
www.swinginchicks.com/truman_capote.htm
- 25k
"I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama." - Feb. 5, 1934, from Incest, by Anais
Nin
Anais Nin Quotations is a site containing many quotations from the writer Anais Nin.
www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/2187/
- 4k
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
... Christopher Isherwood
| * Close To Home: An American
Album featuring b&w/color Americana photos of the way we were from 1930-1960, from various photo artists @ GETTY
CENTER thru Jan. 16, 2005
* The Times They Were A Changin': Baseball in the Age of Aquarius featuring baseball artifacts and photos from
1960-1976 @ Burbank Central Library thru October 29
*Honorable Peeps we love Mentions**
*Mississippi
Delta Blues, ain't nuthin' like it! Next time you find yourself in Tower
Rec, pick up Living Blues 'LB' Magazine www.livingblues.com Centered in Mississippi, LB is the BEST authentic Delta Blues magazine that you are
not reading but should! Take a southern Delta Blues road trip; check out Living Blues magazine and learn something new,
then go out and tell Hollywood where our music came from!
*Mac Africa - today's
queen of LA clubs promotions. From A to Z, you wanna be on her list! MacAfrica1@earthlink.net
*Mayhem Publishing,
the best in Written Words. Guy heavy, chic sensitive word slam! chris@mayhem publishing.com* to get on the Mayhem list,
so get it on!
*Frenchie -
that's his name and he was visiting from France, but
now he's back in France. Be continental, send him an email, and
french the scene!
*I wish they all could
be California...South Bay Cali girl Deb
L. has the BARFLY on the South Bay scene. BarflyDebL@aol.com - Whether it's food, gigs, or dance clubs you're lookin' for,
don't leave for the south beaches without her!
*Catching air legend, and punk musician rockerboy
Kevin Staab rides for Punk Rock Skateboards, with a manic panic
pink spiked mane - remember when he had long silky straight hair? www.punkrockskateboards.com
*Enrich your life, discover your town's
heritage, impress your next date, and expand your mind! Visit the Gene Autry National Center; see
how your great grandfolk lived, and count your 2004 blessings! Featuring a beautiful courtyard and lovely dining, the Autry
is totally the best of L.A! Truly get away from it all @ www.museumoftheamericanwest.org and embrace the beauty which surrounds you.
*Mark Vallen's website will blow you away! www.art-for-a-change.com
From the 70's to present day, from the Germs to classic Slash Magazine covers, Mark's unbelievable true to
life pencil on paper portraits of an era gone by will give you shivers of delight! vallen@art-for-a-change.com to join his email list.
*LA Cacophony Society: Current EventsThe, Los Angeles Cacophony Society, Current Events. Date and Time TBA: LA
Cacophony is not old and tired.
It's not, it's not! The first ...
losangeles.cacophony.org/current.htm - 5k
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Speak Up For Yourself - If You Don't, Who Will?
-The Good, Bad, and the Ugly-
I hope you voted, as if your rights depended
on it, because they do. Before the 108th
Congress in Washington headed home for the election last week, a so close and yet so very far haggling session took place. Supporters of the several major anti-piracy measures on Capitol
Hill nearly managed to get their bills to the floor of the House or Senate for a vote.
It's all about convincing the people in
charge and sadly, those measures most highly prized by the entertainment industry came up a little short.
Although Congress is expected to return
briefly after the election, it usually deals with appropriations bills and must-pass legislation.
In practical terminology, the Inducing
Infringement of Copyright Act, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, and the Protecting Intellectual Property Against Theft
and Expropriation Act - the last two containing provisions banning the use of camcorders in theaters - bit the dust and died
last week with this particular Congress.
That means in order to become law, they
will have to be re-introduced in the 109th Congress which convenes next year, and go through the whole process again!
Whew, that's a lot of talk!
The odds of the 109th Congress ruling in
their favor somewhat depends on how the election turns out. Although copyright issues are out of the traditional party norm,
legislation is held captive to the congressional committee system. Committee chairs have leverage over which bills are
considered, and votes on which bills get sent to the floor for action by the full House or Senate.
Should the Democrats gain control
over the House or Senate, there would be a complete turnover of committee chairmanships. Although the major anti-piracy bills
have bi-partisan sponsors, the new committee chairs may not consider them priority, thus pushing the piracy bills back to
the legislative line.
Now for the bonus track-
Senator Hatch, remember him? The author of the Induce Act is getting the
boot! The Senate Judiciary Committee will appoint a new chairman next year, even if the Republicans retain control. Under
the Senate term-limits, Orrin Hatch must relinquish his gavel at the end of the 108th Congress.
With pure fury before stepping down, Orrin attempted
to strong-arm supporters and opponents of his Induce Act into a compromise that would allow the bill to go forward! What
a bully! After locking the parties in a room for a week of round the clock negotiations to no avail, Orrin called it
quits, the measure never coming up for a vote again.
The failing of Orrin's Induce Act was a
double A kick for the major labels and studios. Not only do they have to start all over next year but
the uncertain outcome could persuade the Supreme Court to turn down their appeal of the Grokster case, while it waits
to see what Congress does.
The Induce Act would effectively overturn
the Ninth Circuit's decision in Grokster by legislation. Faced with the possibility of having its judgement rendered moot,
the Supreme Court might just decide to pass on it for now. Ouch, because that would leave the labels and studios, for now
at least, with no bill and a negative court ruling on the books!
The Induce Act is a high legislative priority
for many, with many lobbying heavy for its passage. Despite the bill's failure- a silver lining: "Our efforts in this area
were recognized during House debate on the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act," says VSDA president Bo Andersen.
Whether bein' reco'nized will have
any meaningful legislative action on piracy must await the election results, along with the convening of the 109th Congress.
Did you know that Oggy Pop is featured in the movie The Crow-City of Angeles?
He gets stabbed in the eye with a tattoo needle by an Asian dominatrix!
And speaking of the movies...Tupac Shakur' Resurrection is an excellent
view.
Tupac: Resurrection (2003)... Tupac: Resurrection (2003). ... Documentary Tagline: In his own words Plot
Outline: Home
movies, photographs and recited poetry illuminate the life of Tupac Shakur. ...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0343121/ - 40k
Remember father of Kermit, Jim Henson 1980's HBO series Fraggle Rock? I
don't either, but it's being released on DVD, Jan. 4, with snappy titles such as " Dance Your Cares Away, not to mention those
lovable fraggled looking moppets! The release was forced by popular demand by an internet based group calling itself "Fraggies,"
or "Fraggle Rockers," and they aren't kids! This group's Fan Web sites, along with their 30, 000-signature on line petition
demanding a DVD release caught the attention of HIT Studios, perhaps even yours?
So...where will you be catching
some attention this week?...
Tues
11/2:
*Brian Wilson unveils "SMiLE" with his 10 piece band, backed by Swedish strings and a brass octet.
The gig also features classic and favorite Beach Boy songs @ L.A. PHILHARMONIC DISNEY CONCERT HALL
tonight and tomorrow
*L.A. Sax great Gil Bernal, ( lional
hampton 1949, R&B solo releases, spike jones +) @ CHARLIE O's
The Coasters - Recording Sessions... with Gil Bernal,ts; Willard McDaniel,pno/celeste-4; Charlie "Chuck"
Norris,gtr; Ralph "Waldo" Hamilton,bs;
John "Jessie" Sailes,dms. ...
www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/disco.html - 101k -
*Sonny Rollins accompanist Jim Hall
and his trio @ THE JAZZ BAKERY tonight and tomorrow
The Complete Sonny Rollins
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... Chet Baker < Art Pepper < Art Blakey< Sonny Rollins< Wayne Shorter<
Dexter Gordon< Stan Getz< Freddie Hubbard< Keith Jarrett< Oscar Peterson< Mel Torme< Jazz ...
home.ica.net/~blooms/home.html - 17k
... Auctions and zShops sellers and our other stores recommend: Pat Metheny & Jim
Hall - Pat Metheny & Jim Hall - CD - Brand New - Still Sealed (Price: $10.99). ...
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ tg/detail/-/B00000IFTK?v=glance - 79k |
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*Frankie Sinatra accompanist, guitarist
Al Viola @ THE FOUR POINTS HOTEL SHERATON LAX, ATRIUM CLUB
*X Flipsider, Pooch's Condors @
ANARCHY LIBRARY, Downey
*Election Night Fever featuring the Negro
Problem's Stew @ THE DERBY
*Politically Correct Slam and Jam spoken
word + DJ @ FAIS DO-DO
*
our very own Babyland with Psychic TV @ KNITTING
FACTORY
Wed 11/3:
*Trumpeter-ickster Jack Sheldon @ CHARLIE O'S
*Late Great musician and movie star of the 20th
century, Jose'Iturbi Gold Medal Series features piano and violin @ Cerritos Center for the Performing
Arts www.cerritoscenter.com
Jose Iturbi's grave (photo)
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A photo of the grave of concert pianist Jose Iturbi, at Holy Cross Cemetery near Los Angeles,
California. ...
www.seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/ JoseIturbiGravePhoto.shtml
... This is the only Jose Iturbi image on the site. Browse the other Movie Stars
by using the following Links. ... Jose Iturbi 1948. Buy This Poster $14.99. ...
www.picturegoer.net/JoseIturbiMay48.htm
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*Veteran jazzbo Cal Bezemer whips the 88's
@ MICELI'S Las Palmas
*Fly Poet Showcase @ THE
CONGA ROOM
*Mike Stinson and Ben Vaughn @ THE SCENE,Glendale
*Glenn Tilbrook (squeeze) and the Fluffers
@ KNITTING FACTORY
Big Squeeze: The Very Best of Squeeze [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING
REMASTERED] [IMPORT]
Squeeze
*Boz Scaggs (the dirty, dirty,
dirty low-down) @ VAULT 350
*from Italy, Bastard Noise
@ THE SMELL
Thurs 11/4:
*Every Thurs, it's Trumpeter-ickster
Jack Sheldon @ JAX
*Trumpet Master Carl Saunders
and his sextet @ CHARLIE O's
*New Orleans funkmasters The
Neville Brothers @ H.O.B. SUNSET
The official Ivan Neville website
... Funk. Be sure to also visit www.Nevilles.com to catch information on the new Neville
Brothers CD, Walkin' In The Shadow Of Life. The ...
www.ivanneville.com/
- 15k |
*ASCAP showcase featuring
Michelle Shocked @ MOLLY MALONE'S
*Carlos
Guitarlos and Jake LaBotz @ TAIX LOUNGE
*hard hair rockers BangTango @ CLUB 7969, 7969 S&M BLVD, home of the original Fetish Club, 1990's
Fri 11/5:
*Oh Superman! Laurie Anderson, NASA's first artist in residence @ UCLA
ROYCE HALL tonight and tomorrow www.uclalive.org
*Old
Skool vibe masters Cameo @ MALIBU INN
MTV.com - Cameo
... the ex-Juilliard student and New York City club-goer instigated a funk band with
a ... City offshoot, and shortly after that, the group changed its name to Cameo. ...
www.mtv.com/bands/az/cameo/bio.jhtml
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*America
@ VAULT 350
America (band)
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America (band). America was a light rock band, most popular in the early 1970s
and now best known for their #1 hit "A Horse With No Name". ...
www.fact-index.com/a/am/america__band_.html
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*Boz Scaggs (the dirty, dirty,
dirty low-down) @ THE CANYON
Sat : 11/6:
*Old Skool vibe masters Cameo @ VAULT 350
Sun 11/7:
*Juvenile @ VAULT 350
Mon 11/8:
*Dedicated to
Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Wallice Black Elk -Warriors Against Aids Concert- a tribal celebration featuring tribal
music and dancing along with special appearances by Gary Busey, Tom Hayden, honoring Dan Aykroyd and Liz Taylor + some! @ H.O.B Sunset
*Camper Van Bethoven @ AMOEBA MUSIC
*X Velvet Underground, John Cale and band @ Key Club
Art - for
Art's Sake...
* Tear Down This Wall: Paintings From The 1980's , during the museum's first decade features
works from Warholian Jean-Michel Basquiat @ California Plaza Museum of Contemporary
Art thru Jan. 3, 2005
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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... "The only thing the market liked better than a hot young artist was a dead hot young artist,
and it got one in Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose working life of ...
www.artchive.com/artchive/B/basquiat.html
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Jean Michel Basquiat
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... Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New ...
It was also in 1983 that Basquiat was befriended by Andy Warhol, a relationship ...
www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Basquiat.html - 13k
Jean-Michel Basquiat | American Painter
... Me - Author: Maya Angelou, Jean-Michel Basquiat (Illustrator ...
Wright does a brilliant job portraying Basquiat. ... stars David Bowie as Andy Warhol, Michael
Wincott ...
www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/basquiat.html - 13k | | | * Contemporary Nativa American Art: Special Exhibition
@ SOUTHWEST MESEUM, MT. WASHINGTON thru Feb. 6, 2005
* The Shock of Modernity: Criminal Photography From the Casasola Archive
document crime scenes and police in the first half of the 20 century @ Pomona College Museum Of Art,
Claremont thru Dec. 19
* NecroComicon-the 50th Anniversary of The creature From The Black Lagoon
features Penis Flytrap along with Elvira Cassandra Peterson, son of Lon-Ron Chaney, + some @ SPOOKY HOUSE HAUNTED THEME PARK thru Nov.7 www.necrocomicon.com
*Honorable
Peeps we love Mentions**
*Mississippi
Delta Blues, ain't nuthin' like it! Next time you find yourself in Tower
Rec, pick up Living Blues 'LB' Magazine www.livingblues.com Centered in Mississippi, LB is the BEST authentic Delta Blues magazine that you are
not reading but should! Take a southern Delta Blues road trip; check out Living Blues magazine and learn something new,
then go out and tell Hollywood where our music came from!
*Mac Africa - today's
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*Mayhem Publishing,
the best in Written Words. Guy heavy, chic sensitive word slam! chris@mayhem publishing.com* to get on the Mayhem list,
so get it on!
*Frenchie -
that's his name and he was visiting from France, but
now he's back in France. Be continental, send him an email, and
french the scene!
*I wish they all could
be California...South Bay Cali girl Deb
L. has the BARFLY on the South Bay scene. BarflyDebL@aol.com - Whether it's food, gigs, or dance clubs you're lookin' for,
don't leave for the south beaches without her!
*Catching air legend, and punk musician rockerboy
Kevin Staab rides for Punk Rock Skateboards, with a manic panic
pink spiked mane - remember when he had long silky straight hair? www.punkrockskateboards.com
*Enrich your life, discover your town's
heritage, impress your next date, and expand your mind! Visit the Gene Autry National Center; see
how your great grandfolk lived, and count your 2004 blessings! Featuring a beautiful courtyard and lovely dining, the Autry
is totally the best of L.A! Truly get away from it all @ www.museumoftheamericanwest.org and embrace the beauty which surrounds you.
*Mark Vallen's website will blow you away! www.art-for-a-change.com
From the 70's to present day, from the Germs to classic Slash Magazine covers, Mark's unbelievable true to
life pencil on paper portraits of an era gone by will give you shivers of delight! vallen@art-for-a-change.com to join his email list.
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*
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making the scene in your scene. qUESTIONS & cOMMENTS should be directed to
the man in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a Ballroom Blitz.
We Mean It-Man!
So have you checked out the singing,
songwriting, The Inducing Copyright Infringement Act of 2004 creator and drafter, Senator
Orrin Hatch yet? Well here's the latest blabla on the Induce Act copyright ruling controversy, and how it's affecting you
at this very moment:
On August 19, a federal appeals court ruled
that file-sharing networks such as Grokster and Morpheus cannot be held liable for copyright infringement committed by their
users. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholds an earlier lower-court decision, which dealt that Kapow
blow to the studio and record company attempts to kill peer to peer technology.
According to Judge Sidney Thomas, we "live
in a quicksilver technological environment with courts ill-suited to fix the flow of internet innovation, the introduction
of the new technology is always disruptive to old markets and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold
through well established distribution mechanisms. Yet history has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium
in balancing interests."
Do these men really speak like this at home, parties, or the jym?
Judge Sidney adds, "it is prudent for courts
to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories for the purpose of addressing specific market abuses, despite
their apparent magnitude." gatta love the guy!
Handed down last year, the lower court
ruling had been the first major peer to peer case to go against the studios. Appealing that decision, studios and record companies
hoped to restore their clean record and maintain the legal grip against unauthorized online file sharing.
By ruling against copyright owners, the
appeals court has guaranteed that the controversy continues. In the Aimster and Napster cases, the federal courts ruled peer
to peer networks were liable, ordering them to shut down unless they could filter infringing files from their systems. Those
earlier systems relied on more centralized network control than Grokster and StreamCast, a point underscored by the court.
The court claims Grokster and StreamCast
architecture made them more like VCRs, which are protected under the Supreme Court's 1984 Sony vs Universal ruling. Although
the studios and record companies have a right to appeal the Ninth Circuit's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, more than likely
they will head back to Capitol Hill in an effort to get Congress to clarify standards for secondary liability in cases of
copyright infringement.
"In Sony-Betamax, the court spoke quite
clearly about the role of Congress in applying copyright law to new technologies," Judge Sidney states. So
There!
That means the studios and record companies
only hope for congressional action lies in last week's bass subject, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. His
bill, the Induce Act would explicitly create liability for intentionally "aiding, abetting, inducing or procuring" copyright
infringements by third parties.
So it seems, for the moment, the people
reign over the majors...but do we really?
Speaking of reality, Andy Warhol is alive
and selling his new Andy Warhol Area Rugs Collection! Andy's collection includes scatter, shoes throw, hall runners,
and area rugs in a variety of designes and colors from black and red circles, squares, to pastel
purple daisies. View the collection at Robinson's May, and experience those prices!
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And speaking of collecting...4get
Barbie and Ken, here come the pint-sized politicos of Kerry and Bush! So you say you can't get enough of the candidates...
you need something real to hold on to...check out the 12-inch action figure dolls of Bush and Kerry! And of course, they are
talking dolls which are dressed in military garb and true to form, talking trashy soundbites thanx to tiny microchip inplants!
www.herobuilders.com You say you don't much care to own either personality? Not to fret, your pic of personalities also include
Ronnie Reagan and Donny Rumsfeld! At www.talkingpresidents.com you can pick up the pre-diet version of the talking Clinton Doll, the company calling it a "fuller form."
If you ask me, those doll guys look like they've been hangin' out with G.I. Joe, well everyone but Arnold Schwarzenegger-cuz'
no one messes with the "Governator Doll."
So,
where you gonna'
be messin'around this week...
Tues 10/19:
NOTE: CANCELLED SHOW
Smut Peddlers ILLNESS >
*Smut
Peddlers @ LIGHTHOUSE CAFE HERMOSA BEACH
Long before Eminem, the Smut Peddlers were pushing the boundaries of good taste. In the
early '90s, the Smut Peddlers' frontman Cage rapped about violence and drug use. In 1999, the group hit it big with their
release Home Field Advantage. Cage started a rivalry with Eminem, claiming that the platinum-haired rapper had ripped off
much of his act. The two were at odds for quite awhile, continually dissing each other on their records.
Full Smut Peddlers Biography
Wed 10/20:
*Veteran jazzbo man Cal Bezemer whips the 88s @ MICELI’S
*Hydra, featuring Son of Steve, guitarist Trevor
Lukather @ THE BAKED POTATO
stevelukather.net - Albums
... My son Trevor confirmed so far ... The CD will be out late September for Xmas ... Hahaha."
After the
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*West Coast
cool from sax master David Pell @ CHARLIE O'S
*Nashville,TN,
kool kat Hal Ketchum a.k.a. "the King of Love" @ MALIBU INN
Singer/songwriter/drummer Hal Ketchum was raised in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. He began
drumming at age 15 and soon joined an RB trio. At age 17, Ketchum moved to Florida and then to Texas, where he quickly got
involved playing at a local dance hall and began to hone his songwriting skills. He went to Nashville in 1986 to write songs,
and three years later released his debut album, Threadbare Alibis; soon after, Ketchum signed with Forerunner Music, which
eventually led to a...
Full Hal Ketchum Biography
Thurs 10/21:
*Every Thurs, it's Trumpeter-ickster
Jack Sheldon @ JAX
*The Misfits' Dr. Chud @ ANARCHY LIBRARY, DOWNEY
Interpunk.com - The Ultimate Punk Music Store... Dr. Chud's X-Ward - Diagnosis For Death. Dr. Chud's X-Ward Diagnosis For Death
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*Bob Dylan @
UC SANTA BARBARA EVENT CENTER
*Alice Cooper @ GROVE
OF ANAHEIM
Fri 10/22:
*our boyz
Los Lobos @ UNIVERSAL AMPHITHEATRE
*Our
south bay boyz Pennywise @ VAULT 350 LONG BEACH & tomorrow night
*Digital
Underground @ 14 BELOW c'mon baby...
While hip-hop was consumed by the hardcore, noisy political rap of Public Enemy and the gangsta rap of N.W.A.,
Digital Underground sneaked out of Oakland with their bizarre, funky homage to Parliament-Funkadelic. Digital Underground
built most of their music from P-Funk samples and developed a similarly weird sense of style and humor, highlighted by Shock-G's
outrageous costumes and the whole band's parade of alter egos. Of all these alter egos, Shock-G's Humpty Hump -- a ridiculous
comical...
Full Digital Underground Biography
*Jesse
Colin Young @ McCABES
Jesse Colin Young got his start as a folksinger in Greenwich Village coffeehouses in the early '60s, releasing
two major-label albums, The Soul of a City Boy (April 1964) and Young Blood (March 1965). He met guitarist Jerry Corbitt in
Cambridge, MS, and with keyboardist/guitarist Lowell "Banana" Levinger and drummer Joe Bauer, they formed the Youngbloods,
initially playing in the jug band, good-time style of the Lovin' Spoonful. Signed to RCA, they released their debut single,
Corbitt's...
Full Jesse Colin Young Biography
Label: One Way Records Inc
Release
Date: 04/01/1964
*Dave
Mason @ THE CANYON
After serving as road manager for the Spencer Davis Group and meeting Steve Winwood, singer/guitarist Dave Mason found
fame as one of the founding members of the jazz/rock/pop fusion group Traffic. However, conflicts between Winwood and Mason
over the group's direction led to the latter's departure in 1969 after three albums. Mason moved to Los Angeles and joined
Delaney Bonnie before beginning his solo career. His 1970 solo debut, Alone Together, went gold and has proven to be arguably
his... Full Dave Mason Biography
*General
Public @ MALIBU INN
Considered by many as nothing more than an offshoot of the better-known '80s British outfit the English
Beat, General Public still enjoyed several substantial hits on their own during their short career. Immediately after the
split of the ska-pop outfit the English Beat in 1983, former members Dave Wakeling (vocals, born February 19, 1956) and Ranking
Roger ("toaster," born February 21, 1961) formed General Public, which turned out to be more pop-based than its predecessor,
with elements of...
Full General Public Biography
Label: A&M Records Release Date:
01/01/1984
Sat : 10/23:
*The
Pixies @ VERIZON WIRELESS
*John
Waite doin' acoustic @ MALIBU INN
*Vanity
Fair presents Camp Freddy featuring Billy Morrison (cult) Stephen Perkins and Chris Chaney (jane's addiction) Dave
Navarro, Donavan Leitch, Macy Gray, Stephan Jenkins (3rd eye blind) Terri Nunn, Jerry Cantrell ( alice in chains) + some
@ WILTERN THEATRE
*The
NA Punk Fest
3330 Civic Dr. N.
Torrance, CA 90503
ALL AGES!!!
12 noon (Smut Peddlers play @
6:30pm)
$12. adv. / $15. at the door
with: Retreads, Oppressed Logic, Dinah Cancer & the Grave Robbers, Wasted Ones,
Instigator, Decry, Dr. Know, Smut Peddlers, Channel 3 & D.I.
SMUT
PEDDLERS wrote:
Hey everyone, John Ransom, singer for SMUT PEDDLERS, is sick right now. We're not sure what's going on
yet, but he finished his Rebatron Party and it looks like he may have developed Lupus. He feels like shit and needs to know
everyone out there is routing for him. Shoot him and email at: john@smutpeddlers.net and let him know you're thinking good thoughts about him!!!
LOoK!!!Ok kids, John’s feeling a little better.
In his own words:
“I
think i might be getting better, so I am planning to show up for that gig on saturday, for better or worse, contrary to what
I told you a couple of days ago. but I definitely won't be jumping around like david lee roth, that's for sure. I don't even
know if i'll be able to stand or sing. sorry if it's a bad performance on my part. I just don't like to cancel and I'm sure
the rest of the band is about to snap.“
So we’ll see you at the show!
10/23/04
@ the NA Punk Fest
3330 Civic Dr. N.
Torrance, CA 90503
ALL AGES!!!
12 noon (Smut Peddlers play @ 6:30pm)
$12. adv. / $15. at the door
with: Retreads, Oppressed Logic, Dinah Cancer & the Grave Robbers,
Wasted Ones, Inostigator, Decry, Dr. Know, Smut Peddlers, Channel 3 & D.I.
Sun 10/24:
*...Do
the Humpty Hump with Digital Underground @ GALIXY THEATRE ANAHEIM
*A
soothing treat for the soul-visit the Madrona Marsh; take a walk in the marsh and visit with the wild ones that call the
marsh home! Listen to the wild ducks calling, enjoy the pond and all the critters-All this + some-FOR FREE! Today the Marsh
presents artist Beth Shibata and her "Further Reflections on Earth and Sky" exhibit. The best free time you haven't enjoyed
in a very long time! www.friendsofmadronamarsh.com
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Mon 10/25:
*Ramones-Around The World Spoken Word with Marky Ramone @ KNITTING FACTORY
*"Cruisin
down the street, smokin' Indo, sippin' on jin and juice..well he claims to be sober now, our fav LBC hoodie Snoop Doggy Dog
presents Need For Speed Underground 2 Launch Party. Taped for Spike TV broadcast, the PAR-TA features a Snoop Dog special
performance with the world debut of his latest song, featured in NFSU2. Not to mention, racing cars @
IRWINDALE SPEEDWAY http://nfs.ea.comlaunchevent
As the embodiment of '90s gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg blurred the lines between reality and fiction. Introduced to the world
through Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Snoop quickly became the most famous star in rap, partially because of his drawled, laconic
rhyming and partially because the violence that his lyrics implied seemed real, especially after he was arrested on charges
of being a murder accomplice. The arrest certainly strengthened his myth, and it helped his debut album, 1993's Doggystyle,
become... Full Snoop Dogg Biography
Art - for
Art's Sake...
* Cezanne in the Studio:
Still Life in Watercolors @ GETTY CENTER thru January 2, 2005
* For The People: Americana Folk Art from the Collection of Thomas H.
Oxford and Victor Gail features art from the 18th & 19th centuries found in middle class homes @
LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART
* Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips
features paintings from Cezanne, Degas, van Gough, Monet, Matisse, Picasso and Renoir @ LA COUNTY
MUSEUM OF ART thru January 9, 2005
* Cotton
Puffs, Q-tips, Smoke and Mirrors" The Drawings of Ed Ruscha features 200 + works from the last 40 years @ MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART thru January 17, 2005
*Honorable
Peeps we love Mentions**
*Mississippi
Delta Blues, ain't nuthin' like it! Next time you find yourself
in Tower Rec, pick up Living Blues 'LB' Magazine www.livingblues.com Centered in Mississippi, LB is the BEST authentic Delta Blues magazine that you are
not reading but should! Take a southern Delta Blues road trip; check out Living Blues magazine and learn something new,
then go out and tell Hollywood where our music came from!
*Mac Africa - today's queen of LA clubs promotions. From A to Z, you wanna be on her list! MacAfrica1@earthlink.net
*Mayhem
Publishing, the best in Written Words. Guy heavy, chic sensitive word slam! chris@mayhem publishing.com* to get on the Mayhem list, so get it on!
*Frenchie
- that's his name and he was visiting from France, but now he's back in France. Be continental, send him an email, and
french the scene!
*I
wish they all could be California...South Bay Cali girl
Deb L. has the BARFLY on the South
Bay scene. BarflyDebL@aol.com - Whether it's food, gigs, or dance clubs you're lookin' for,
don't leave for the south beaches without her!
*Catching air
legend, and punk musician rockerboy Kevin Staab rides for Punk Rock Skateboards,
with a manic panic pink spiked mane - remember when he had long silky straight hair? www.punkrockskateboards.com
*Enrich your
life, discover your town's heritage, impress your next date, and expand your mind! Visit the Gene Autry
National Center; see how your great grandfolk lived, and count your 2004 blessings! Featuring a beautiful courtyard
and lovely dining, the Autry is totally the best of L.A! Truly get away from it all @
www.museumoftheamericanwest.org and embrace the beauty which surrounds you.
*Mark Vallen's website will blow you away! www.art-for-a-change.com
From the 70's to present day, from the Germs to classic Slash Magazine covers, Mark's unbelievable true to
life pencil on paper portraits of an era gone by will give you shivers of delight! vallen@art-for-a-change.com to join his email list.
Fast Freddie Says- Don't Bogart The Bass -please forward
to friends, or e me to join the bassLine list, be taken off the list, place your event on the bass,
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-"Don't Let ANYONE Grind You Down"-
Your Peeps**
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bassLine
10/12 - 10/18
**Dedicated to the memory of our beloved original LA scene promoter
English Frank Kennington**
**Brought to you
by your peeps from the 80's
@ Xposer
Kiki & Video Louis
SOON Xposing new Dave Vanian !
Who's Exposing You?
Xposer
* From The Outer Scenes - To The InnerViews * sCENE dISCLAIMER: The creator of the bassLine assumes no responsibilities of any scene,
scenes, and anything which might have been seen, or reflecting a scene, at any scene. "yOUR sCENE"
exclusively used as a generalization; may or may not reflect any present scene, wanna-be scene, used to be scene, scenes,
a scene in general, making the scene, or being seen at the scenes making the scene in your scene.
qUESTIONS & cOMMENTS should be directed to the man in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a Ballroom
Blitz. We Mean It-Man!
Speaking of inducing scenes...Word Up-
Senator Hatch wants to "destroy" your "computer" should you violate his proposed copyright rules...sounds like a thug threat,
doesn't it!
Sure, no one likes to get ripped off. And so a long time ago, out of basic necessity, Congress drafted the original Copyright Act of 1909. Problem solved!
Until the need for a revision, which created the Copyright Act of 1976, which
took more than a decade to draft!
And the next revision, the most controversial 1984 Betamax case in which
the principals to protect intellectual property are balanced against protecting the freedom to innovate.
Did you get that?
The principals to protect intellectual property
are balanced against protecting the freedom to innovate. Think about it.
Next came the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, actually a revision of the
'76 act, which this time took Congress only 4 years to draft and pass!
So, have we covered our assets? Evidently not, get ready because here comes
the latest revisions copyright act...
The Inducing Copyright Infringement Act of 2004 (Induce Act.) The Inducer
is apt to be released upon us in the near future, so User Beware!
A scheduled vote on the bill by the Senate Judiciary Committee was
postponed last week for the second time in a row by the bill's author, Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. After postponing
the vote, Orrin called the voting party to the hill for an intensive, fine tuning the bill, session.
ZDNet AnchorDesk: Why Orrin Hatch's INDUCE Act is insane
... AnchorDesk. Why Orrin Hatch's INDUCE Act is insane. ... Orrin
Hatch should be the first person sued if the bill passes, for inducing people to infringe on copyright. ...
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The Induce Act claims support from both sides of the Senate leadership,
including the bill's die hard opponents who, unable to prevent it, hope to narrow its scope for the better.
So who is Orrin Hatch, and what 'up with his bill?
Orrin is a singing, songwriting Senator with a few CD's to his credit, he
created the bill in response to a federal court ruling earlier this year favoring peer to peer network giants Grokster and
Morpheus.
The Music of Senator Orrin Hatch
|
The Music of Senator Orrin Hatch, Exceptional Singer, Songwriter and Composer. Listen or Buy
Music Online. History Songs
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Citing the 1984 Supreme Court
Betamax ruling, the court stated the companies maintaining the networks
could not be held liable for the infringing activity of their users. That meant a K'POW
blow to the legal strategies of the studios and record companies, which had succeeded so well in shutting down Napster and
Aimstar on grounds of knowingly contributing to infringement.
But wait, Orrin's Induce Act holds liable anyone who "intentionally aids,
abets, induces or procures" copyright infringement by others.
Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading... how legitimate rediculous laws like the ones Orrin obviously abides ... Hatch
and the
RIAA cronies would love nothing more ... for you to buy music (on CD's that have ...
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That means it not only closes that legal 1984 loophole of escape, it effectively
overturns the Supreme Court's ruling in Betamax, which for the last 20 years has formed the foundation of the copyright policy
in the U.S.
"Third parties should not be held legally liable for the criminal acts
of others solely to appease Hollywood millionaires and their trial attorney friends," the American Conservative Union
states.
"This misguided legislation would hold manufacturers of computers
and software criminally liable if their legal products were misused to reproduce copyrighted material."
And just how far the Induce law will reach is the main concern being
hammered out in those Senate Judiciary Committee negotiations.
VSDA president Bo Anderson endorses the Induce act as it is, casting the
blame on P2P networks for encouraging a "culture of lawlessness" built on the "plain theft" of music and the movies.
VSDA (video software & dealers association) has joined both the
studios and record companies in lobbying those lawmakers on its behalf.
But even closing the loophole, the bill represents a drastic departure from
established approaches to copyright in that it takes the law into uncharted territory, with potentially far reaching implications!
Not only does it affect the studios' ability to control online piracy, it
will hold significant implications in the future for everyone from entertainment to computer technologies, which could severely
limit technological innovation.
In various countries today there exists such a thing as the Television Tax;
you must pay to have and watch TV. But isn't that just like our cable TV? And when you include the electricity you pay to
run the radio, CD, and computer, our music and entertainment is surely not free! Not to mention those high CD prices!
We are graced with eyes and ears, courtesy of life. Leave it to the
legal system to make it a crime to see and hear certain things for free! What else? What about pay toilets and metered parking?
And we can't receive something for free and give it to someone else? And we can't record or burn something and give
it away? What's next, big brother cameras monitoring every household?
If we can't do it, could they please PRINT the violations
a little larger so everyone reads and understands the very fine print! Or at the very least, how about a monthly rules and regulations newsletter so we know exactly which laws we
continue to break daily!
Oh but wait, that knowledge is our responsibility to know. So
much for ignorance being bliss. Today if you don't know you are breaking the law, it's a crime punishable to the highest extent
of the law!
So much for the Constitutional right to our pursuit of happiness...
Ironically Senator Hatch's website uses unlicensed software, go figure
that one. Has his computer self destructed yet? read all about it in Wired...
Wired News: Orrin Hatch, Software Pirate?
Orrin Hatch, Software Pirate? By Leander Kahney | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1. 11:56 AM Jun.
19, 2003 PT. Sen. ...
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html - 26k - Oct 9, 2004 |
We lost Rodney Dangerfield on October
5th. He was the first legendary white comedian to have a hit rap song, "No Respect," which came out in 19 He will
be missed and respected by all.
You know you're in good hands when an album opens with
the line, "No respect at all-when I was a baby I was breast-fed by my father!" From there the barbs come sharp and quick.
Dangerfield's sweaty swagger, corrosive New York tone, and quick-draw delivery are physically captured on audio; you can almost
feel his full-body twitches through the speakers. If you only know Dangerfield from his antics in such classically coarse
flicks as CADDYSHACK and EASY MONEY, revisit a prime moment in stand-up history with NO RESPECT. You'll still respect yourself
in the morning.
Rodney Dangerfield's 1980 Grammy Winning Best Comedy Album "No Respect"
features two of his routines, "No Respect" (19:29) and "Son of No Respect"(21:44). For someone who claims that he doesn't
get any respect Rodney Dangerfield ( born Jacob Cohen) is one of the most respected entertainers today. As a tribute to him
you can find Dangerfield's trademark white shirt and red tie at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
And speaking of pursuing happiness...Billy Joel got married last week. That's all I know!
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Mic Fleetwood has released his latest
CD, "Something Else." he went his own way!
Then there's Elton John, and Elton and
Madonna, more Elton, more Madonna blablabla-ba-bla! "So when is lip syncing playing live?" When you're getting paid millions
to do it! But Elton remains on Mad's Xmas list. This kind of moronic topic makes the news, as if any of us really care,
o.k.!
So...
who you gonna see
playing live this week?...
Tues 10/12:
*Former Freddie Hubbard–Miles Davis pianist
John Beasley‘s Beas, featuring Miles Davis' brother, funk-jazz bassist Melvin Davis @
THE BAKED POTATO
*The dinamic
duo of trumpeter Jack Sheldon and pianist Ross Tompkins @ CHARLIE O’S
*Well
toured (with Miles Davis, Art Blakely, Sonny Rollins) bassist Buster Williams‘ quartet, featuring pianist George Colligan,
reed man Steve Wilson, drummer (Bitches Brew, even) Lenny White @ THE JAZZ BAKERY
Tonight thru Thurs
Crystal Reflections
Label: 32. Jazz Records Release Date: 01/01/1976
*Fusionmaster
guitarist Allan Holdsworth, with drummer Joel Taylor, bassist Ernest Tibbs @ LA VÉ LEE
3 Fusion Masters,Holdsworth,Wackerman & Johnson
Allan Holdsworth (guitar); Jimmy Johnson (bass); Chad Wackerman
(drums). Recorded live at Roppongi Pit Inn, Tokyo, Japan on May 5, 2002
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All Night Wrong featuring Chad Wackerman (Zappa drummer)
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*Vocalist Melissa Manchester has penned and crooned “Midnight Blue,” “Don’t Cry
Out Loud,” and many other tunes @ THE CINEGRILL Tonight thru Thurs
Essence Of Melissa Manchester
1997 Melissa Manchester (vocals, piano, electric piano, Clavinet); Peabo Bryson (vocals);
Dave Appell, Lee Ritenour,Steve Lukather (guitar); Stanley Schwartz (clarinet, tenor saxophone,
piano, electric piano, Clavinet); Billy Payne (piano); Tower Of Power Horn Section.
*G. LOVE &
SPECIAL SAUCE with Slightly Stoopid @ JOHN ANSON FORD
*Michael
Penn @ Largo
*Former Blaster Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men @ AMOEBA MUSIC
Wed
10/13:
*Veteran jazzbo man Cal Bezemer whips the
88s @ MICELI’S
*Performer Robbie D. presents Telekinesis
4 Halloween, an evening of dark and spooky music and costumes @ Casita del Campo, 1920
Hyperion Ave., Silver Lake; every Wed. 9 p.m thru Oct. 27. $10.00 (323) 969-2530
*R.E.M. @ GEEK THEATER
*Magic
Box featuring music from the Blue Hawaiians’ Tom Maxwell and on-the-spot painter Norton Wisdom
@ LAVA LOUNGE
Thurs 10/14:
*Trumpeter Roy Hargrove (who blew old-school at Aretha Franklin’s private party a couple of weeks ago)
leads a quintet that will likely focus on his recent electric modernizing side. (Greg Burk) @ CATALINA
BAR & GRILL
*Every Thurs, it's
Trumpeter-ickster Jack Sheldon @ JAX
*The Purpose Gospel Choir
stirs up the soul @ The WILSHER EBELL THEATER 6:30pm
$20 includes appetizers. Full bar. (323) 931-1277.
*Spanish classical
guitarist Jeff Briggs @ SABOR & CULTURA CAFÉ
*Cody
Bryant’s Riders of the Purple Sage, celebrating Les Buffham’s retirement, with a visit from Mrs. Foy
Willing, widow of the singer who led the the Riders to their greatest heights of 1940s-era success @
VIVA CANTINA
*R.E.M.
at SANTA BARBARA BOWL
*Nancy
Sinatra groupies Bono and Morrissey rediscover already-famous musicians, starting with the Ramones and the New York Dolls,
and continuing this week with Nancy Sinatra, with whom they worked on her latest comeback album, To Nancy, With Love
@ GROVE OF ANAHEIM
Fri 10/15:
*Every Fri,
Sat, & Wed is the outstanding Bill Clark & the Mighty Balls of Fire, with guests Ray Bailey and Miss Mickey Champion
$5 (includes free fried chicken dinner on Fri) @ BABE’S & RICKY’S
INN
*Hiroshima
@ CERRITOS CENTER
Hiroshima 1979
Sat : 10/16:
*Legend
of Acid Jazz, Mr. Red Holloway with bassist John Heard @ CHARLIE O’S
An exuberant player with attractive tones on both tenor and alto, Red Holloway is also a humorous blues
singer. Whether it be bop, blues, or RB, Holloway can hold his own with anyone. Holloway played in Chicago with Gene Wright's
big band (1943-1946), served in the Army, and then played with Roosevelt Sykes (1948) and Nat Towles (1949-1950), before leading
his own quartet (1952-1961) during an era when he also recorded with many blues and RB acts. Holloway came to fame, in 1963,
while touring...
*R.E.M.
@ Verizon Wireless
*Johnny
Winter @ VENTURA THEATER
Blues guitarist Winter became a major star in the late '60s and early '70s. Since that time he's
confirmed his reputation in the blues by working with Muddy Waters and continuing to play in the style, despite musical fashion.
Born in Beaumont, TX, Winter formed his first band at 14 with his brother Edgar in Beaumont, and spent his youth in recording
studios cutting regional singles and in bars playing the blues. His discovery on a national level came via an article in Rolling
Stone in 1968,...
Full Johnny Winter Biography
Sun 10/17:
*Go
out to a nice dinner with someone you love
Mon 10/18:
*Take
a rest!
Art - for
Art's Sake...
* Check out the truly scaarrry true story of H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer.
Holmes was a medical-school graduate pharmacist who built a hotel of horrors complete with secret passages, acid vats, and
torture chambers to accommodate visitors of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. He trapped his unsuspecting guests, killed them in grisly ways, stripped off their flesh, sold their skeleton to medical
schools, even managed to cash in their life insurance policies... all this while juggling multiple wives and mistresses,
and achieving prominence as a respectable member of the community! get down with your bad
self! The DVD includes archival material nightmares are truly made of. Scheduled for DVD release on October
26. Rent, or buy it for $24.95
* I'll stop the world and melt with
YOU! The China Syndrome: Restored Special Edition, first run in March 1979, is back to the future!
Written and directed by James Bridges and featuring Janey Fonda as the victim, the streets of San Francisco version of Michael
Douglass, a nuke plant, and a really big mistake! Includes previousley unreleased footage (Jane the TV reporter "is groped
by a co-worker at a pool party,") along with commentary from various people including Bridges' former partner Jack Larson
(Jimmy Olsen on the 50's TV show Adventures of Superman,) and surviving cast. The film was actually fused from two disparate
film projects dealing with the dangers of nuclear power -one produced by Douglass, the other by Jane
and the movie's producer Bruce Gilbert. Fonda's character replaced one originally intended for Richard Dreyfuss, and
Jack Lemmon initially refused to help promote the pic when several of his scenes didn't make the final cut! All
those uncut scenes have been restored, and included in this remastered in high definition version. James Bridges,
who passed away in 1993, couldn't have done a better job of reminding us What can happen today,
and What might happen tomorrow. Rent, or buy it for $19.94
*Cultivating Pasadena: From Roses to Redevelopment photography”
exhibit pairs archival photos dating back to the 1880s with contemporary images of the same locations in Pasadena @
PASADENA MUSEUM
OF CALIFORNIA ART thru Feb. 12, 2005
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Saluting Voodoo Spirits: Haitian Flags From the Fowler Collection exhibits 40 examples of drapo (ritual flags) @ UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF
CULTURAL HISTORY thru Dec. 12.
*Honorable Peeps we love Mentions**
*Mississippi
Delta Blues, ain't nuthin' like it! Next time you find yourself in Tower Rec,
pick up Living Blues 'LB' Magazine www.livingblues.com Centered in Mississippi, LB is the BEST authentic Delta Blues magazine that you are
not reading but should! Take a southern Delta Blues road trip; check out Living Blues magazine and learn something new,
then go out and tell Hollywood where our music came from!
*Mac Africa - today's
queen of LA clubs promotions. From A to Z, you wanna be on her list! MacAfrica1@earthlink.net
*Mayhem
Publishing, the best in Written Words. Guy heavy, chic sensitive word slam! chris@mayhem publishing.com* to get on the Mayhem list, so get it on!
*Frenchie
- that's his name and he was visiting from France, but
now he's back in France. Be continental, send him an email, and french
the scene!
*I wish they
all could be California...South Bay Cali girl Deb L. has the BARFLY on the South Bay scene. BarflyDebL@aol.com - Whether it's food, gigs, or dance clubs you're lookin' for,
don't leave for the south beaches without her!
*Catching air legend, and punk
musician rockerboy Kevin Staab rides for Punk Rock Skateboards,
with a manic panic pink spiked mane - remember when he had long silky straight hair? www.punkrockskateboards.com
*Enrich your life, discover
your town's heritage, impress your next date, and expand your mind! Visit the Gene Autry National Center;
see how your great grandfolk lived, and count your 2004 blessings! Featuring a beautiful courtyard and lovely dining,
the Autry is totally the best of L.A! Truly get away from it all @ www.museumoftheamericanwest.org and embrace the beauty which surrounds you.
*Mark Vallen's website will blow you away! www.art-for-a-change.com
From the 70's to present day, from the Germs to classic Slash Magazine covers, Mark's unbelievable true to
life pencil on paper portraits of an era gone by will give you shivers of delight! vallen@art-for-a-change.com to join his email list.
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