YOUR NAME ON A GRAIN OF RICE. Live from just outside the Brill building looking in, it's : <><><><><\><|><><><><> <> <> <> AA TTTTTT IIIIII <> <> A A TT II <> <> AAAA TT II <> <> A A TT II <> <> A A TT IIIIII <> <> <> <><><><><2><8><0><><><><> Activism Time International. Last nite was Violent Femmes at Summerfest and I missed it. :( Specializing in Anarchy, Music and Poetry mostly, but a little of this and a little of that too. Here we have the 280zine for early Monday 0107020848 hrs. JOURNAL NOTE AS NEWSPAPER COLUMN - by The Prime Anarchist. FALL INTO THE FOURTH - I'm way behind on my 'zine too. I got too caught up in my duties at Indymedia. Which is no excuse really. I could've focused on it WHILE I was doing all that stuff. I just didn't. Just that I never put more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time on the zine during the week, so I got to deadline with the actual doom feeling right before a looming minute. You know the feeling I'm sure, or at least can empathise, right? But I do have some letters to the editor and a full #'s run, so the rest should all come together pretty easily. So Land O' Lakes just bought out Lake To Lake Cheese? Did anyone else hear that? I'm guessing by all these billboard ads I see in every town I go to. I recorded my own version of Hendrix' SSB the other night. Just in time to give away for 4July!!! Classical guitar to Soundforge with lots of reverb, distortion and noisegate. A couple mistakes that I chose to "live with" for the usual reasons. (One take, one track recording Black Sabbath style; and there were other parts right next to the mistakes that were so inspired I know I'll never get them again on any fretboard no matter how hard I try) Overall I'm pretty happy with how it came out. I thought "disapproval" came through as a tone poem, especially the four beat tremelo at the very end. http://radio.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=545 Did it end on D? B? Octaves I remember that -- so much for theory, but then that never mattered much to me, huh? Maybe I'll TAB it out so people can "see" it while they hear it. :) What next? I'm enjoying the heck out of this Soundforge thing. It comes at the recommendation of Dak from Holiday Inn Cambodia BBS, remember him? Oh back to the tone poem I built inside of a Jimi Hendrix rippin' solo. I say "disapproval" because I tried to leave behind some of the rage that's usually there and let general dislike or disapproval outweigh it rather than getting lost in a blaring rapid-fire Hendrix scream. Happy 4th of July. Hope your Charmglow is in order. Are your rocks clean? And remember, Independence is NOT just a fake clear plastic graffito on a window at the GAP, it's how you live your life. ~a~ & NOW 4 SUM NUMERATIONS http://www.manuchao.net http://free.freespeech.org/xaa http://www.channel4.com/forums http://www.robertmcchesney.com http://www.geocities.com/spectropop/hbrill.html http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=600 http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=48994 http://radio.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=545 http://www.vh1.com/sounds.visions/vh1.0/hr_violent_femmes_1.jhtml http://www.digitalfarmers.com/conspiracy/english/ingegbg.html http://www.ochlocracy.org/theatre/greed-flash.html http://www.geocities.com/undothecoup/links.html http://www.dubroots.co.uk/pages/index1.html http://www.blackmesais.org/needslist.html http://www.diyrevolution.com/index2.html http://www.politechbot.com/p-02189.html http://www.savepacifica.net/strike/news http://www.politechbot.com/p-02189.html http://www.infoshop.org/matchmaker.html http://gir.no.sapo.pt/Pedro/ingles.htm http://www.elksoft.com/gwa/?gapsucks http://www.justsayblow.com/index.htm http://www.thenotefactory.net/twckma http://www.oddsock.org/tools/sripper http://free.freespeech.org/delacruz http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm http://www.mcspotlight.org http://www.gregpalast.com http://www.hoganview.com http://www.nuyorican.org http://www.spotlight.org http://peacefire.org http://www.com & NOW 4 SUM LETTUCE ./\. .\/. Hey Prime! Who told you that "40,000 words by friday" shit? What, you think you're HST or something? Josh [hehehe. Actually, it was 760 and thursday. But yeah. Thanks.] ./\. .\/. to ati@etext.org Did you ever ghostwrite songs for like, Traffic or Aerosmith? SM [I'm old, but I'm not that old. Roger Bunn might have written for Traffic. Look him up. And hey, who do you think I am, Glen Ballard? Chevy Chase? Dave Barry? Diane Warren?] ./\. .\/. It was reported today that at a White House staff meeting last week there was a heated discussion about the health of Vice President Cheney and his angina problem. President Bush interrupted and stated emphatically that "Men do not have anginas." The president was especially perplexed when a staffer said that Cheney has "acute angina." -anon. (Marco, don't ask me for permission to run this in ATI -- I didn't make it up and I don't know who did, so you are on your own.) ./\. .\/. Hello- My name is Bob Nelson and I am inviting you to attend the 2001 Inkzilla Zine Festival, to be held in Arizona this coming November. This festival offers you the opportunity to gain important exposure for your publication. [no thanks, maybe next year.] ./\. .\/. Hi capelli, You're Web site has been submitted to the SearchHound.com search engine in the general listings, but you have not completed the process to activate your Keyword Account. PLEASE TAKE THIS NEXT STEP TO ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT Next step: deposit $25 into your account and place... [ummm, do the words "I think not" mean anything to anyone here??] ./\. .\/. ATTN:PRIME. Business Relationship. It is my pleasure and keen interest to seek your mind in this business proposal. I am the personal assistance ( P.A ) to the Chief Accountant General of the Federation, ALHAJI IDRIS ABUBAKAR. He is the owner of this letter I am sending to you. Here is the story of the deal. We have US$38.5m... [sound familiar?] ./\. .\/. Marco, "We have put this opportunity under a microscope and all we see is cash, cash, and more cash. Who would have thought something as simple as copying and pasting could be this profitable? If you are one of the lucky few to... [Doesn't show up here, but I get a kick out of the ones that are in two different fonts.] ./\. .\/. Sisyphus sent this along: Say, I've been reading in Thoreau's _Journal - 1851_ and found something: {(he -Thoreau- had been holding forth in a rather sentimental tone, typical, I think, of the times, then:} We believe that the possibilitie of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with commonsense-but we anticipate the future with transcendal senses. In our sanest moments we find ourself naturally expecting far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory-only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten- Perchance there are revolutions which create an interval impassible to the memore." The interesting thing about this is that he said it in 1851! They didn't even have electricity then! STEAM POWER was barely known! There was a railroad nearby. It went all of 40MPH. ][ ][ ][ ][ Since It's Uranium At The Front Of It All a poem about, well, yeah... Since it's uranium at the front of it all, Your cause is mine and mine yours, really. I mean, even though at first glance we each Look so different, busied at such differing Issues. Issues. Since Uranium is at the roots of it all, Your issue is mine, and mine yours, really. That's what I mean - roots. Look deep. Cause and effect. Where is it all going - Rights. Rights. Since Uranium is under the surface of it all, Your life is mine, and mine yours really. Our meaning is interconnected. Again, look deep. Humanity. Where are we going with this. Relocation. Relocation. Are you Navajo? Chiapaneco? Timorese? Tibetan? Why do you suffer? I suffer for Uranium really. Our plight is the same, you and me. I mean it. Busy yourself, but think about all this please. Since it's Uranium at the front of it all. Marc Frucht June 2001 Green Bay ][ ][ ][ ][ SUMMARY OF PART OF A WEBPAGE: In retaliation for the investigative story about the finances of the George W. Bush campaign, Barrick Gold Mining of Canada has sued my paper, the Observer of London, for libel. The company, which hired the elder Bush after his leaving the White House, is charging the newspaper with libel for quoting an Amnesty International report, which alleged that 50 miners might have been buried alive in Tanzania by a company now owned by Barrick. [ref]=[ http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=86&row=1 ] ./\. .\/. WOULD NOW BE AN APROPRIATE TIME TO REPRINT To The Editor: [previously printed in a November '95 University of Connecticut newspaper, New London Day and the Hartford Courant, and then issue 234 of ATI (the more things change...)] "Psst," I imagine someone whispering to defense chief William Perry, "Apologize for our raping that little Japanese girl - maybe they'll get off our back about Nagasaki." Our military raped a 12-year old girl??? Japan deserves an apology and then some. Didn't we demand 300 years ago that English soldiers stay out of OUR bedrooms? Don't Japanese people deserve the same basic human rights? Or are we still blinded by our imperialistic misbehavior the whole world over? This just shows me we're getting too big for our britches. If the U.S. government truly wants to have good diplomatic relationships with Japan, then 47,000 troops should be moved somewhere else. It's time to stop shoving our soldiers down peoples' throats. We've gone to decay when our soldiers begin gang-banging children. Let's go beyond the lip service, Washington. Let's get out of Japan. Marc Arnold Frucht ./\. .\/. & NOW 4 SUM Poetry as a rather long ending to this 'zine. Napkins stacked Like so many tortillas Next to the St. Pauli Girl Behind the ashtray In front of The bartender. ./\. .\/. Def Found Poem by marco Sam Goody #730 Sale. 10894616 Lucky Boys Confusion 14.99 + 82c tax. RESERVE YOUR COPY OF THE NEW N'SYNC CD, AVAILABLE JULY 24TH! Um, I don't think so. ./\. .\/. DREAM "Who did this to you?" she asked touching his arm with a horrified look in her eye, like maybe she should call the Red and Black Cross or something. "I'll be OK, but if you must know, it was paramedia death squads." ./\. .\/. Batikish an opensource poem Safety pin Reattaches spaghetti Strap to pinkish paisley Sundress, wine red And pink. ./\. .\/. [small] First edition. The text of this zine is typeset in ASCII, with hand-set .txt display type. Composition printing, and binding are by Marco Capelli Music Group. MCM is a subsidiary of His Own Damned Record Company, LLC. Unincorporated since 1965; using the copyleft and GNU licencings available all over the place. The icon showing up: ./\. .\/. as a demarcation between letters, stories and images was typed out on a used Compaq keyboard on the spur of the moment. It turned out to be so beautiful and articulate in the author's opinion that he named it Rangzen Bracelet. For an explanation in full, the reader should pour a cup of organic Timorese coffee and scour the web for exactly 23 minutes looking for nothing in particular, and then type "rangzen bracelet" into the browser of choice. [/small] feedback: ati@etext.org ATi gives sad farewell to Rene Villanueva; another of the greats who dies before I get to meet. Oy!!!