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'MY WAR HAS JUST BEGUN'
by Alvin
MIDI
MY WAR HAS JUST BEGUN
{Sung to 'We've Only Just Begun' by The Carpenters}
{As Sung By Dubya Bush}
{instrumental intro}
My war has just begun, Saddam
We'll bomb your hiding place
We'll kick your ass, you will run away
Before the chosen one, you'll bow
You'll have to pay your dues
Saddam is done, Iraq's oil is mine
My war has just begun
Target Hussein with bunker-buster bombs
We'll fire cruise missiles where he sleeps
Invade Iraq to kill Saddam and sons
We'll bomb Baghdad to kingdom come, whatever!
And when Saddam is gone, I'll smile
So much of war ahead
Is there a place that you want to blow?
My war has just begun
Target Hussein with bunker-buster bombs
We'll fire cruise missiles where he sleeps
Invade Iraq to kill Saddam and sons
We'll bomb Baghdad to kingdom come, whatever!
And when Saddam is gone, I'll smile
So much of war ahead
Is there a place that you want to blow?
My war has just begun...
alvindover@hotmail.com (-.-)
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Overcast morning, sunny afternoon.
The kid took great pride in having 2 fingers taped together today.
Bill Maher's show on HBO was more than worth watching, again. Can do without Larry Miller, but I loved Tim Robbins' t-shirt - 'Who
Would Jesus Bomb?', and Connie Rice ROCKS!
Tonight, Saturday, CBS is supposed to have March Madness infringe on prime time to the point that all that's scheduled is
a RERUN 'The Agency'.
NBC is supposed to piss another night away on RERUNs, again. First, a
RERUN 'Law & Order', followed by a RERUN
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', then a RERUN 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
SNL is also a RERUN - from way back on 22 February, with Christopher Walken and Foo Fighters.
ABC is supposed to have the movie 'Good Will Hunting'.
The WB here has basketball imposing on primetime, but they also have a RERUN 'Everwood' scheduled, too.
Faux has the usual FRESH 'Cops', followed by a RERUN
'Cops', then 'America's Most Wanted'.
UPN has the movie 'Assassins'.
Depending on your time zone, somewhere between late morning & mid-afternoon, AMC provides a couple of movies of note -
first, it's Forbidden Planet (1956), followed by
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
TCM starts out in a romantic comedy mode, and then switches to a cowboy musical followed by a cowboy movie. The evening opens with
Moonstruck (1987), follows it with
It Happened One Night (1934) (the movie that nearly killed the undershirt market), then
That Touch of Mink (1962), followed by
Oklahoma! (1955) (check out Charlotte Greenwood (Aunt Eller)'s leg kicks - and also marvel at
Eddie Albert cast as an Arab), then, finally, it's
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Journalist Maria Shriver, left, U2's Bono, center, and Queen Noor of Jordan, chat at a party hosted by The Landmine Survivors Network to launch Noor's new book entitled 'Leap of Faith,' Thursday, March 20, 2003, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Photo by Chris Weeks
Outdrawn by Comedy Repeats
TV's War
U.S. television networks, facing a bill of up to $20 million each per day to cover the Iraq war, found that "Friends" are more popular than enemies as a repeat episode of the top sitcom on Thursday night beat live war cover on ABC in the ratings.
With networks wondering just how deep the American appetite for war cover will be, preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research on Friday showed ABC's live coverage running second throughout Thursday evening, behind NBC's entertainment programming, and later in the night an edition of its news show "Dateline."
Goldman Sachs research estimated this week that the cost to the networks of continuous coverage of the war could be $5 million to $20 million per day, in a worst-case scenario, depending on the network.
TV's War
Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom of Speech Award
Michael Moore
Michael Moore, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker and political activist, accused resident Bush Thursday night of exploiting the public's fears after the Sept. 11 attacks to launch what Moore called an unnecessary war.
"This is all a cover and what's so outrageous about all of this is that this man, George W. Bush, would use the deaths of Sept. 11 ... as a cover for his right-wing agenda," Moore said as he accepted the Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom of Speech Award from the Southern California chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal activist group.
He told the crowd of nearly 400 Thursday night that it was "high immorality" for the Bush administration to attempt to link Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks without providing evidence.
"'Because they died, let me go bomb another country that had nothing to do with Sept. 11,'" Moore said sarcastically. "This is an absolute disgrace. It dishonors those who died."
Michael Moore
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams...
Toyota Prius & Oscar Celebrities
With no glitzy red-carpet arrival planned for this year's Academy Awards, environmental activists are hoping they can toss out another Oscar tradition - of arriving in stretch limousines.
By providing gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles for celebrities, they're trying to start a new trend in which movie stars arriving for the Academy Awards help promote the use of fuel-efficient cars.
Cameron Diaz, Harrison Ford, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams were among those who committed to arriving at Sunday's Academy Awards in such a vehicle, a chauffeured Toyota Prius, said Matt Petersen of Global Green USA, an affiliate of Green Cross International.
"This is to show that there are people who care about lessening our dependence on foreign oil and increased fuel efficiency," Petersen said Friday.
Toyota Prius & Oscar Celebrities
On The Town
Bill Clinton
While resident Bush was on TV announcing the first missile strikes on Iraq Wednesday night, his predecessor Bill Clinton was having drinks with Whoopi Goldberg and other friends at the Hudson Hotel. Clinton and company considered going to the Hudson penthouse to watch coverage of Bush's address on the TV there, but he opted to stay in the cozy confines of the hotel's Library Bar, spending much of the time talking excitedly on his cell phone.
Bill Clinton
The Peace Pin, an anti-war symbol modeled after Picasso's Dove of Peace, commissioned by Global Vision for Peace, is pictured March 21, 2003. The pin, also made in gold and diamonds, will be worn by a group of Academy Award nominees, including Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese and Nicole Kidman as they arrive at the Oscar ceremony March 23 in Hollywood. The pin was created by Henry Dunay for Global Vision for Peace, a coalition of peace and human rights leaders and concerned individuals that use the global reach of media to further the message of peace.
Photo by Fred Prouser
Will Be Attending The Oscars
National Guard
A National Guard mobile lab will be stationed at the Oscars ceremony Sunday to test suspicious substances for biological or chemical agents.
"The National Guard is equipped to do it in 30 minutes so we don't need to delay the festivities if anything is found," Gov. Gray Davis said at a news conference Thursday. "We don't think anything will be found."
He said his chief of staff spoke with the head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week to discuss security at the awards show. He said there was no security reason for the show not to go on.
National Guard
Estate Gets Favorable Court Ruling
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix estate has notched another court victory--this time in its continuing battle in England for control of some of his early recordings.
An appeals court in London ruled in favor of the family-run Experience Hendrix LLC, which is suing PPX Enterprises Inc. for breaching a 1973 agreement between that company and the British administrator of the Hendrix estate at that time. Experience Hendrix is seeking unpaid royalties for 71 recordings Hendrix made with Curtis Knight & The Squires in the early '60s in PPX's New York studios, prior to his solo career. Experience Hendrix is also seeking an injunction barring future releases of the recordings.
The three British appeals judges overturned a prior court ruling in favor of PPX and ordered that the company provide an accounting to determine what royalties it owes Experience Hendrix. The panel also ruled that PPX will be liable for "reasonable" damages to be determined at a later date.
Jimi Hendrix
Favoring Faux 'News' Over CNN
Viewers
Continuing its winning streak, Fox News Channel outdrew CNN in their ratings rivalry as the curtain rose on the war with Iraq.
Fox averaged 5.8 million viewers between 9:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday and 3 a.m. EST Thursday, according to Nielsen Media Research. CNN, the only U.S. network with its own news team in Baghdad at the start of the war, drew about 5 million viewers during the same period, while MSNBC attracted 2.3 million.
resident Bush's four-minute address to the nation (roughly 10:15-10:19 EST) was viewed by an average of 9.7 million on Fox News Channel and 8.5 million on CNN.
Viewers
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
To Play On Diego Garcia For U.S. Military
Canned Heat
Canned Heat is getting ready to perform for military personnel overseas. The band will play at a base on the island of Diego Garcia on May 23 and 24.
Located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia is a major refueling and support location for American and British military forces, as well as being a regional base for B-1 and B-52 bombers. It was from Diego Garcia that the U.S. launched bombing raids against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001, following the September 11 terror attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. The island is also a major staging area for troops involved in Iraq.
Canned Heat--which releases a new album, Friends In The Can, next month--has been on tour in Europe since March 5. The band has been following the news coverage there of the current situation, which has been very different from what U.S. audiences see. The reports tend to say that this is a U.S. war for oil and control in the Middle East, and that most Americans don't support the war, but that the government is doing this to show off America's strength.
The band hasn't felt any negative backlash against Americans and has limited its political statements to "Make love, not war" at the end of "Going Up The Country" every night.
Canned Heat
Victor, left, and Marcela stand at the Sun Pyramid while people raise their hands in front the sun at dawn at Teotihuacan Arqueologic Place in the Mexico City, Friday, March 21, 2003. Friday marks the spring equinox and the people wait for the first sun light to get energy in the new season.
Photo by Jaime Puebla
Keeps Dog From Jennifer Lopez
Cris Judd
A chocolate Labrador retriever named Buster is one of the few things Cris Judd has left from his brief marriage to Jennifer Lopez.
The dog was a gift from Lopez to Judd, her second husband, to whom she was married for nine months. She and the choreographer split up in June, and Lopez, 32, is now engaged to her "Jersey Girl" co-star, Ben Affleck.
Judd, 33, acknowledges that it's difficult seeing Lopez and Affleck's highly publicized romance. He said he doesn't talk to the singer-actress anymore, and hasn't seen her latest movie, "Maid in Manhattan," or Affleck's action film, "Daredevil."
"It's always awkward," said Judd, the recent winner on the reality series "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!" on ABC. "I mean, how would you feel if you saw your wife with some guy on the TV every day?"
Cris Judd
Full Production In China
'Cats'
Broadway's longest-running show, the musical "Cats," will debut in China this spring, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday.
The report said an agreement has been signed with creator Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group International Touring Productions to allow the blockbuster musical to debut in China on May 20.
The report did not say how long the musical will run or where it will be staged.
'Cats'
Tiger Woods' Girlfriend
Elin Nordegren
Tiger Woods accompanied his girlfriend Elin Nordegren to the hospital after the Swedish model collapsed during a rain delay at the Bay Hill Invitational.
According to witnesses, Nordegren was walking next to the clubhouse when she passed out shortly before 2 p.m.
"She looked as white as a ghost," said caddie Glenn Parry, who works for his brother Craig. "She was walking along and she just crumbled at the knees. She was still conscious but she couldn't get up."
Parry said that Woods had been summoned from the nearby locker room and quickly arrived to comfort his girlfriend. Nordegren was taken inside the clubhouse by first aid personnel, where she remained until an ambulance arrived.
Woods jumped into the ambulance to keep Nordegren company on the way to a nearby hospital.
Nordegren, 23, has been 'dating' Woods for more than a year.
Her collapse, likely from food poisoning, occured during a weather delay during the second round of the tournament.
Elin Nordegren
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
War "Live on TV"
'Openness' Or Propaganda
For the first time in history, television networks are carrying simultaneous broadcasts of an ongoing military offensive, but a new and more subtle form of disinformation may lie behind the "live on TV" spectacle of war in Iraq, some experts fear.
While presenters go into raptures over the stream of images from the front-line, the New York Times noted that the television networks had carried more live war coverage in 24 hours than in the whole of the 1991 Gulf War.
It has all come about thanks to the invention of the videophone, a telephone system which can transmit images of mediocre but broadcastable quality, and the decision of the Pentagon to allow some 500 journalists to accompany combat troops.
But US media-watchers and campaigners for impartial reporting are concerned that all may not be what it seems.
"It's a total orchestration. They know that television needs pictures, characters. It's about story-telling, it's Hollywood," said Danny Schechter of the internet site Mediachannel.org which specialises in scrutiny of the media.
"This is a new level of manipulation, that conceals it's own intention."
"The Pentagon is running the public relations in this war they way it would run a political campaign. And the whole idea of a political campaign is always create photo-ops, action situations in which your candidate looks good," he said.
Schechter's comments were echoed by Rachel Coen, an analyst with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), an NGO which monitors the media and its activity.
Coen acknowledged that televised coverage of the conflict in Iraq was turning up new information, but she warned that appearances can be deceptive.
Coen fears that the US public will be able to sit at home and feel that they have all they need to know at their fingertips, when in fact the access granted by the military provides "superficial, patriotic images of our troops doing their job."
"It would be naive to assume that overnight the military had a sudden change of heart and no longer wanted to manipulate the news. It's a natural military goal. It's up to the journalists not to let that happen. That's why this access is a double edge sword," she warned.
'Openness' Or Propaganda
Ricky Roberts spray paints a giant Oscar statue as preparations are underway for the 75th annual Academy Awards, Friday, March 21, 2003, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Producers of the Academy Awards said late Tuesday that they still planned to go on with the show on Sunday, but have canceled the splashy red carpet arrivals for celebrities because it would set an inappropriate tone.
Photo by Amy Sancetta
Accepts Libel Payout Over Jagger Story
Emma Woollard
A British former model accepted a "substantial" libel payment from the Mail on Sunday newspaper on Friday over a story blaming her for the break-up of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger's relationship with Jerry Hall.
Emma Woollard lodged her claim at London's High Court over the article titled "Stone Me! Look who's telling his daughter's boyfriend that he's too old for her at 44 -- Mick the old strolling bone himself!"
Woollard's lawyer Rachel Atkins said the allegation in the article blaming her for the split was based on the paper's misreading of an earlier article printed in 1988. She said Woollard, a well known British model in the 1980s, was concerned the article would be understood to mean that she had a relationship with Jagger -- although she never had.
Atkins said the paper had published an apology and offered an undisclosed but substantial compensation offer to her client on the basis that she agreed to drop her action.
Emma Woollard
Memphis In May
Beale Street Music Festival
Sheryl Crow, ZZ Top, Jerry Lee Lewis and LL Cool J are among the headliners scheduled for the Beale Street Music Festival.
The May 2-4 festival along the Memphis riverfront will feature more than 60 acts, including Willie Nelson, Nappy Roots, Susan Tedeschi and Steve Winwood, promoters said this week.
"This is the `Year of the Blues,'" said George Hunt, who designed the concert's promotional poster. "And I think that this festival will give you that kind of feel where this music really came from."
Beale Street Music Festival
Memphis in May
Hotel Bans U.S. Tourists in War Protest
Pavilion Resort
A hotel on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui has banned American tourists in a protest against the U.S.-led war in Iraq, its owner said on Friday.
Virach Pongchababnapa, owner of the 62-room Pavilion Resort on the island, 550 miles south of Bangkok, said U.S. visitors were not welcome because he was against the U.S. campaign to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
He said he had already turned away two American tourists, provoking protest letters and emails from other U.S. citizens.
"I have politely told them that I am opposed to the policies of their government, and Americans are not welcome here," he told Reuters. "My resort is against war mongers."
Pavilion Resort
A three month old baby polar bear plays in the sand after his first steps outside with mother Vera to search for food after hibernation at the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenens, the Netherlands, March 21, 2003.
Photo by Michael Kooren.
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