sonic1988

I actually didn't know about this, but its good to know.

happy new year everyone :yeah:

:word:

-met Sam & Angel from the boards -graduated high school aka 4 years of hell -got a myspace and now can be in contact with one of my childhood friends -started playing bass -started college -met a bunch of new people -finally dating someone cool and worth the effort -getting an upright bass (the kind used in orchestras) sometime in January, but it was "given to me" on x-mas

it sounds pretty cool, but the sampling is too repetitive for me. I wish more of the song was used.

Hey You - No Doubt (live acoustic version, I'm watching "Live in the Tragic Kingdom" )

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=...ast_lennon_file The Last Lennon File by JON WIENER [from the January 8, 2007 issue] After twenty-three years of litigation, on December 19 the FBI agreed to release the last ten documents in its file on John Lennon. The Bureau had withheld them on the grounds that they contained "national security" information and that releasing them could cause "military retaliation against the United States." The Lennon FBI files, which I requested under the Freedom of Information Act in 1981, shortly after Lennon's murder, document the Nixon Administration's attempt to deport him from the United States after he said publicly that he planned to campaign against Nixon in the 1972 election. The newly released documents contain only well-known information about Lennon's ties to New Left leaders and antiwar groups in London in 1970 and 1971. The information was provided by a foreign government, obviously Britain, whose name remains classified. These reports describe an interview with Lennon published in 1971 in the Red Mole, a London underground newspaper, in which, according to the document, "LENNON emphasized his proletarian background and his sympathy with the oppressed and underprivileged people of Britain and the world." Not exactly a national security threat--and not really secret; the interview was published in the United States as a cover story in Ramparts magazine under the title "The Working Class Hero Turns Red." The documents, posted on the Internet at LennonFBIfiles.com, did contain one bit of information that had previously not been public: Lennon promised to help "finance the establishment of a left wing bookshop and reading room in London." It's hard to see any national security threat there. The documents emphasize Lennon's ties to London New Left leaders Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, who were members of the International Marxist Group--again, not a secret. Today both are prominent intellectuals on the left. However, the British report concludes that Lennon had "apparently resisted the attempts of any particular group to secure any hold over him." So in the end this turns out to be a story not about Lennon but about excessive government secrecy. These reports were withheld under the national security exemption to the Freedom of Information Act by four Presidents--Reagan, Bush I, Bush II and also, notably, Bill Clinton--whose Justice Department under Janet Reno had agreed to release all the other Lennon documents in 1997, but withheld these. Why did four administrations fight in court to prevent the release of information that was already public? Why did it take twenty-three years of litigation by the ACLU of Southern California (and attorney Dan Marmalefsky of Morrison & Foerster, working pro bono) to get the government to concede that these weren't national security secrets, and that releasing them would not cause "foreign military retaliation"? The answer, I think, has nothing to do with John Lennon. It has everything to do with the FBI and the Justice Department, and what they see as the principle they are defending: that they alone should define what constitutes a national security secret. They argued repeatedly in this case that the courts should defer to the FBI, which supposedly has expertise on national security that judges lack. The FBI and the Justice Department don't want the courts telling them they are wrong about what constitutes a national security secret--and they certainly don't want the ACLU telling them. For the ACLU too, it's not just about John Lennon, it's also about a principle--but a different one: the principle of freedom of information. In a democracy, the government's information belongs to the people; the people have a right to know the information in government files--and the FBI and the Justice Department do not get the last word in deciding what to release and what to withhold. That's what the Freedom of Information Act says: It gives the people the right to appeal decisions to withhold documents; it gives federal judges the power to examine documents the FBI is withholding; and most important, it gives judges the power to order federal agencies to release documents they conclude have been improperly withheld. That's the principle at the heart of the FOIA, and it's at the heart of the Lennon FBI files case.

That guy is a ingorant moron, how can you outlaw Opera and ballet? I'd personally take a JJFP concert over the ballet, but I can enjoy Opera and ballet especially since all the music is live and its a great art form. I know this is bad karma, but good riddance he's gone. "In January 2006 he ordered an end to paying pensions to one-third of the country's elderly people, cutting pensions to another 200,000, and ordering to pay the pensions received in the past two years back to the state." sounds like here.....and that's sad.

me and my friend Steve were at the beach clean up (the surfing photo was the first one) and we found a big branch and decided to erect it (now stop laughing at my use of the word "erect" :P ) and another friend is admiring it, lol. and this is the whole crew who did the beach clean up.....in our typical fashion, it was a bunch of guys and one female, lol.

I'm probably going to hang out with Julie (girl I'm dating) tomorrow (24th) We already excahnged gifts but were probably gonna see a movie (I'm going to try to talk her into seeing pursuit, because I wanna see it as well). And get something to eat. Then I'll come home, wait for my dad to come home from a gig (he's a musician, and he plays for about 3 churches on x-mas, one midnight mass, one 8 am mass and one noon mass.) then open presents and go to sleep, probably the evening of the 25th, I'm going to eat dinner with my parents.

True to what AJ said, but also you gotta remember that there are different kinds of love. You may think you don't love her just because you aren't as passionate as you once were, but that's how it can be. Sonetimes love is filled with passion, and other thimes its just being comfortable with the other person, its just comfort and familiar. I trust you did the right thing, but this is good to keep in mind for future refrence as well.

great we finally have a date!!!!

good stuff

I saw Ebert and Roper today, and it got 2 thumbs up :D

I remember they advertised this when Spike TV was first coming in the states.

the +44 album

google video has entire movies on there, try them as well

lorettas unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

thanks :2thumbs:

I need a program that will allow me to burn a DVD. I have the burner and all, but the program that is on the computer stinks. Can someone just give me a link to an easy dvd burning program?

yeah FP and LL would be nice. I still would like to hear some FP and the beastie boys.

:word: but still a good read

oh boy, wikipedia can mess with you.

Its really hard to say, if you want so sub-catergeorize everything: in the genre of "party-rap" or "pop-rap" Will would clock in at number one, no contest. however in general, its harder. I think that Will and Jeff are important figures in the world of rap, and Will has done more than he gets credit for, and that's a fact. I would say that JJFP are in the top 5, but I don't know about solo Will Smith

http://topartists.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...=music.topBands hopefully this link will work for you.... But its cool to see Jeff up there. EDIT: forget about my link.