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Great Site!
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Review
Filk Part II
By Dave Romm
Of Cecilia Eng's three CDs, I only have Harmony in Practice, but I'll have to rectify that omission at some point. She and her fellow musicians sing so sweetly about being a faster-than-light space merchant in Star Rovers, do an a cappella Star Chanty about flying to the future ("... as the stars in the aft port Doppler away..."), warble about her feathered friends in Birds of a Feather, and do songs of the X-Files and vampires and an Indian war in Idaho in Heart of the Appaloosa. Sure voices, strong arrangements, good production values, great songs.
Barry and Sally Childs-Helton started off in the Black Book Band with the tape/CD First Contact, and then released a solo album Tempus Fugitives. First Contact is a good album, with all the strengths and weaknesses of a live recording and features Hope Eyrie, Leslie Fish's archetypal filk-that-might-be-too-good-to-be-filk song about Apollo 11. ("But the Eagle has landed, tell your children when. Time won't drive us down to dust again.") They do a nice version of Van Morrison's Moondance and several others. Still, to my ears, Tempus Fugitives is the better of the two; better produced, more interesting songs. Monorail to Atomland, ("A Cold-War nostalgia lament for a Disneyesque future that never was") is much better in the studio than live. (Goin' Down the) Cosmic Drain, about the black hole in the middle of the galaxy and Alpha-Male Star Pilot, a sort of Barry White-ish silver-suited come on, are my other favorites.
Bill Sutton's Passing Through is another album, not necessarily filk, where the conviction of the singer/songwriter is more important than vocal quality. (Face it, Bob Dylan writes great songs, but is a terrible singer...) Sutton is a very good storyteller, specializing in blue-collar science fiction, as in Bask Ye Samplers, a space miner's chanty or The Pilot's Eyes, the ballad of a blind pilot who seeks redemption, or his take on Jack Chalker's Midnight At The Well (of Souls). He even takes on white-collar science fiction in my favorite cut, 9-5 Barbarian ("...I'm a killer with a vengence and a profit sharing plan..."). Around veteran performers/Recording engineers Gretchen and Bill Roper, Tom Jeffers and Dave Clement, Bill Sutton's performances of his own songs transcend the filk circle.
Half the fun of filk is seeing your friends perform in public and/or singing along with them. It's even better when they're singing good songs and performing them well. I don't know any of these filkers, but their audiences must be very appreciative.
Dave Romm is a conceptual artist with a radio show and a web site and a very weird CD collection. He reviews things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music recommendations from Bartcop-E here.
PS: I gave you (and you used) a link to the Very Secret Diaries of
Middle Earth several weeks ago. A different url (there are at least
three) that link to the same diaries. I don't think there's been a
new one for a couple of months. Still, they're pretty good and
deserve more than just the one mention...
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"The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand
to be heard!" -- Mad Magazine
Thanks (again), Dave!
Is This The One, Dave?
The Secret Diaries Of Cassandra Claire
The Secret Diaries Of Cassandra Claire
BartCop E, Saturday, 11 May.
Reader Suggestion
Book Reviews
From Marianne
Thanks for the kind words. And the link.
Bookreviews
< snip> ''James Carville and Paul Begala, who've waged an ideological war on all Americans, have joined forces to tell the fascinating tale of how two of the ugliest Southerners ever to slither out of a swamp find themselves on television every other day. They've learned a thing or two along the way, and now they share these insights with the world.''
Jeez, who'da thunk it! LOL
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
While watching '60 Minutes' started wondering when it became an official propaganda organ of the White House.
Tried 'Dinotopia' for a while, but when the 9-year old dyed-in-the-wool dinosaur fan and science fiction fiend asked if he could go take a bath...
Also watched 'X-Files'. Talk about re-cycling. At least the last episode is next week.
Tonight, Monday, it's all fresh on CBS with 'King Of Queens', 'Yes, Dear' (the season finale), 'Raymond' (part 2 of 2) and 'Becker'. The evening is capped with the 'Mary Tyler Moore Reunion Special'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Liza Minnelli and Robert DeCanio, Survivor Castaway.
Scheduled on a fresh Craiggers are ? Even the net website says ''TBA''.
It's also all fresh on NBC with 'Fear Factor', 'Third Watch', and the season finale of 'Crossing Jordan'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Noah Wylie, Earvin 'Magic' Johnson and Diana Krall.
It's the traditional Monday night rerun on Conan with Roseanne, Jamie Kennedy and Dave Attell.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are Ed McMahon and 311.
ABC has part 2 (of 3) of 'Dinotopia' and follows it with 'TV Guide's 50 Best Shows Of All Time'.
Scheduled on a fresh Bill Maher are C.U.R.E. President Star Parker, Radio Host Tavis Smiley, Comedian Paul Provenza, and TBA.
The WB is fresh with '7th Heaven' and 'Angel'.
Faux has fresh episodes of 'Boston Public' and 'Ally McBeal'.
UPN is all fresh with 'The Hughleys', 'One On One', 'The Parkers' and 'Girlfriends'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Important Link
Who Owns What
Who Owns What
Celebrity Wrestling?
Jon Stewart vs Susan Sarandon?
It was celebrity wrestling at its finest Friday when Jon Stewart and Susan Sarandon grappled over politics and world affairs at Pace University.
The activist actress urged Americans to try to learn what is behind the hate that leads to terrorist acts.
"When you have a guy who thinks the best act is to blow himself up, along with others, you have to ask, 'What leads to that?'" she asked. "And is
the response more violence? A cowboy shoot-'em-up?"
Stewart immediately retorted: "Getting us to understand that is like asking black people to understand why the Klan puts on pointy white hats." He
then called Sarandon a "pinko."
The two joined playwright Wendy Wasserstein, performer Spalding Gray and painter Karin Batten, whose studio was on the 91st floor of Tower One, in a
Tribeca Film Festival panel on life after 9/11.
For more, Jon Stewart vs Susan Sarandon?
In NYC Sunday
Storm Troopers
Star Wars Storm Trooper characters walk past New York City Police officers outside the New York premiere of "Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones" in New York City, May 12, 2002. The
premiere of the film was held to benefit the Children's Aid Society which was co-hosting the premiere of Star Wars with the first annual Tribeca Film Festival.
Photo by Mike Segar
His Kids Are Unhappy About Wedding
Paul McCartney
Former Beatle Paul McCartney admitted Sunday his children were finding it difficult to accept his forthcoming marriage to fiancee Heather Mills, but said
they had to realize "it's how it is and how it must be."
The 59-year old star, who has said he "cried for a year" after his wife Linda died of breast cancer in 1998, is due to marry former model Mills, 33, on June 6
in a star-studded ceremony in New York.
McCartney -- who will turn 60 next month -- has three children from his marriage to Linda as well as a daughter from Linda's previous marriage.
He is currently on tour in the United States -- his first American concert tour in almost 10 years.
Paul McCartney
Miss Cleo, Missed Another One...
Dionne Warwick
Singer Dionne Warwick was arrested Sunday when baggage screeners at Miami International Airport said they found 11 suspected marijuana cigarettes inside her lipstick container.
Warwick, 61, of Miami Beach, was charged with possession of less than 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana. She signed an affidavit promising to appear in court and was released.
Warwick was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles when screeners noticed a suspicious item in her carry-on bag. She missed the flight.
Dionne Warwick
BartCop TV!
Research For Rush?
Joel C. Rosenberg
A former senior adviser to ex-Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Knesset officials has written a thriller about how Israel might respond to a nuclear
threat from Iraq. Joel C. Rosenberg, who was also chief speechwriter for presidential candidate Steve Forbes and Rush Limbaugh's research director, says his
novel, "The Last Jihad," is ahead of its time. "No doubt, the Israeli government has enough to think about right now," Rosenberg said.
Joel C. Rosenberg
Very Useful Link
Cyber Paperboy
WORLD NEWSPAPERS ONLINE | WORLD NEWS | Cyber Paperboy Front Page
Stages First Peace Concert
Rome's Colosseum
Rome's Colosseum, scene of bloody battles between lions and gladiators 2,000 years ago, changed its tune on Saturday staging for the first time in its history a
music concert promoting world peace.
Artists from all over the world performed songs promoting peace and equality, with particular emphasis on the Middle East conflict.
Before the concert began, silence filled the vast space inside the auditorium, a marked contrast to its inauguration in 80 AD when some 50,000 spectators crammed
into the stadium for a 100-day-long festival of ferocious gladiator warfare.
The concert, dubbed "Time for Life," is part of a three-day gathering of mayors, development experts, World Bank officials and others for the "Global Forum,"
an event which is trying to define how globalization can work better at a local level.
Rome's Colosseum
Graduation Speaker At Berklee
David Foster
Record producer David Foster told the 662 graduates at Berklee College of Music to expand their horizons while pursuing their artistic passions.
"Be open to things other than music," said Foster, who has won 14 Grammy awards. "Remember the first words you learned in grade school: Look and listen.
Learn as much as you can about everything. Because knowledge is power."
Foster produced Natalie Cole's "Unforgettable" and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You."
David Foster
Archive Of Free E-Books
Blackmask Online
Blackmask Online
He's Been Busy, Again!
The Worried Shrimp
The Worried Shrimp
Plans For The Future?
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaquille O'Neal may be even more fun dead than alive. After the 7-foot, 330-pound Lakers center lost his grandmother recently, he started thinking about
his dream mausoleum. "I thought it would be all marble, with Superman logos everywhere. There would be stadium seating, and only my family would have the key,
and they would be able to go in there and sit down, like in a little apartment," he tells Rebecca Mead in next week's The New Yorker. And not far from his massive
coffin would be a constant reminder of Shaq Diesel's livelier days. "My grave would be right there, and there would be a TV showing, like, an hour-long video of
who I was." Just who is he? O'Neal says, "Shaquille is corporate, nice looking, soft-spoken, wears suits and is very cordial to people, whereas Shaq is the
dominant athlete who is the two-time champion." The baller has yet a third identity, an evil alter ego he's named Elliuqahs Laeno. "That's my name spelled
backward . . . He stays out all night, tries to practice the next day, isn't focused. He's dead, though. I killed him."
Shaquille O'Neal
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Surprised By J-Lo's Wedding
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs
Rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs says his relationship with Jennifer Lopez was under stress even before his trial on gun charges but he was surprised that she married so quickly after their breakup.
"Yeah, I was surprised," Combs told Newsweek in an interview in the issue on newsstands Monday. "I mean, I didn't know it was coming, but if getting married made her happy, then I'm happy she's married."
Combs was acquitted last year by a jury that found him and his bodyguard, Anthony "Wolf" Jones, innocent of gun possession and bribery charges. The charges stemmed from a Dec.
27, 1999 shooting in which three people were injured.
Combs spoke to Newsweek in Orlando, Fla. where he was opening for 'N Sync.
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs
''Hollywood & Whine'' By Boze Hadleigh
Quote
"I don't know what that mystery ingredient is that makes some of us make it, and some of us cross the line and never come back. I think of all the times I wanted
to kill myself, I think of all the times I wanted to kill other people, and I don't know why I'm here" - Robert Blake quoted in Boze Hadleigh's "Hollywood & Whine."
Robert Blake Quote
Diving For 2nd Base
At The Expos/Giants Game
A baseball fan wearing a g-string dives into second base during San Francisco Giants and Montreal Expos NL action after running onto the field of play during the
eighth inning in Montreal Saturday May 11, 2002. The fan was escorted off the field by security.
Photo by Andre Forget
Home Destroyed In Fire
Tom Hamilton
The Cape Cod home of Aerosmith bass guitarist Tom Hamilton was destroyed in a fire, authorities said.
No one was in the house when a fire started just before 7 p.m. Saturday, firefighter James Murphy said. An addition to Hamilton's home was under construction.
One firefighter was treated for minor injuries.
The Boston-based band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.
Tom Hamilton
Constant Hum In Kokomo
Unknown?
People say pulses of low-frequency sound are pounding neighborhoods with an unseen fist; making them hurt, making them sick.
They say their houses crack and vibrate from the same mysterious force that drives spikes of pain through their eyes and ears, bones and joints; churns their guts
in bouts of diarrhea and nausea; robs them of sleep and nearly their sanity; wakens their children in the middle of the night with bloody noses.
Some in this city north of Indianapolis, blame a phenomenon called "the Kokomo Hum."
It's a catchy title, though somewhat of a misnomer.
There is a nearly continuous noise that can be heard in some parts of town; a muted rumble that sounds like a train or truck engine idling in the distance, or the muffled roar of a far-off furnace.
Yet what you can't hear accompanying this noise - a sound beyond the range of human hearing - is what really hurts, according to residents who say they have been sickened by this force during the last three years.
For a lot more, The 'Kokomo Hum'
Time To Do Some Reading
H.A.A.R.P.
HAARP Home Page
Earthpulse Press: HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Project)
Secret Government Research, H.A.A.R.P.
60 Greatest Conspiracies | HAARP
Time To Do Some More Reading
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla: inventor, engineer, scientist
Nikola Tesla Page, Tesla Coils (Bill Beaty's Homepage)
TESLA Home Page - New Version
PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning
Muzej Nikole Tesle - Nikola Tesla Museum - Homepage
The Tesla Wardenclyffe Project
Tesla: The Electric Magician
The Complete Nikola Tesla Complete U.S. Patent Collection - Jim Bieberich
Sacagawea's Son
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Sacagawea carried her infant son on her back when she trudged along with Lewis and Clark on their Voyage of Discovery to the Pacific.
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was 55 days old when the explorers left Fort Mandan in present-day North Dakota in 1805 and headed west into the unknown.
"This was the first child this woman had boarn and as is common in such cases, her labor was tedious and the pain violent," Meriwether Lewis wrote in his journal.
Interpreter Rene Jessaume suggested a folk remedy - a rattlesnake rattle crumbled in water. Sacagawea drank it, and because of it, or in spite of it, Jean Baptiste entered the world 10 minutes later on Feb. 11, 1805.
When he left it 61 years later at an obscure ranch in Oregon's southeast corner, he had lived in a German castle and toured Europe and Africa with a prince, learned several
languages, lived among the elite mountain men and worked as a trapper, a gold miner, a scout and interpreter.
His father was Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian trapper whose life also is spotty. Charbonneau won Sacagawea, one of his several wives, as a gambling prize.
Sacagawea, a Shoshone, was captured by the Hidatsa at about age 12. She, Charbonneau and their newborn son were living at the Mandan village when the Corps of Discovery wintered there in 1804-1805.
For more, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
National Council of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
National Park Service
Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in Oregon
Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
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'The Osbournes'
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