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Activist Times Inc. Issue 345
I keep trying to figure out how to make my guitar stop
Bush in his tracks and otherwise radically transform
the world as we know it, but all it seems to do is
produce various melodic notes of one sort or another.
Oh well. So I'm trying a little gimmick here.
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY, like, say, til the end of March,
I have EVERY song from my FIVE most recent CDs available
for free download on http://www.mp3.com/davidrovics. The
idea is to instigate a flurry of emails that people will
send to everyone they know, turning new people on to these
songs with the exciting prospect of being able to download
EVERYTHING for free, rather than just the usual selection
of a few songs from each CD.
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Fre3dom, sl4ck and cyberpunk5 0302100844hrs
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Those were the words of my friend David Rovics. Please do
what you can for him. He totally rocks.
We'll discuss David Rovics a little more later.
So welcome to ATI issue 345. It's Friday, 7 February. 2003.
I guess lots of slow in southern new england, eh? None here.
Just really really really cold.
Wow, when I think of the number 345, "45" sticks out.
Besides being a particularly devastating handgun caliber,
the number 45 represents something else, which at first
will seem totally unrelated, but quickly become quite
connected in your minds' eye.
The 7 inch record. Yup, the 45. 45 RPMs. Now what the
heck would a .45 gun have to do with a hit single? Well,
two things to take a quick peek at which should be quickly
representative of everything else.
Jennifer "Puff Daddy" Lopez, and Ronnie "Phil Specter" Ronnettes.
Yup. Guns, guns, guns.
Hey Phil Spector, Ashleigh Banfield and Bill O'Reilly.
Live by the corporate media, die by the corporate media.
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ATI - It's the Rag Read Round The World
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Oh yeah, one more thing. Yippie!!! I found a .mid of
one of my favorite Carulli songs in the world.
Ready?
http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/Carulli_Trois_Jours_Op331.mid
http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/c-f.html#CARULLI
yay!
NUMBERS
http://www.uncoveror.com
http://www.annoyances.org
http://www.44an.com/latuff
http://www.filmmovement.com
http://electroniciraq.net/news
http://cryptome.org/mi6-mi6.htm
http://home.graffiti.net/chaylon
http://www.uncoveror.com/burqa.htm
http://www.artpolitic.org/news.php
http://www.homelessnessmarathon.org
http://www.baringwitness.org/Helena.htm
http://www.anpierle.net/english/home.htm
http://atlanta4palestine.org/events.shtml
http://www.caw.org/articles/WhatIsCaw.html
http://www.bubblemonkey.org/cheesencrackers
http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/c-f.html
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/hackethic.html
http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati244.txt
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/News/guernica.htm
http://www.zoulstory.free.fr/v3/tdmtofs/favela.htm
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/vh1counter1.html
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0212/S00150.htm
http://www.dailyrotten.com/source-docs/patriot2draft.html
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/opinion/0203/07special_ian.html
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/1579/notesfromunderground.html
http://www.totse.com/en/technology/cyberspace_the_new_frontier/165800.html
http://members.freespeech.org/irishpows/bb3//january_2003.htm
http://www.law.emory.edu/10circuit/june97/96-1367.wpd.html
http://www.infoshop.org/rants/solstice_reflections.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/29/215523/088
http://www.gonzo.org/articles/other/screwrev.html
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/cyberanthropos.html
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=6358
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4706
http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html
http://www.nsa.gov/programs/kids/index.html
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/links.htm
http://www.unpronounceable.com/dave
http://members.chello.nl/jsteenis
http://www.iqpoetry.com/index.php
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org
http://www.nationalhomeless.org
http://www.2600.net/offthehook
http://www.kwru.org/index.html
http://www.evilgopbastards.com
http://www.poetix.net/war.htm
http://www.accuracy.org/2003
http://www.jasonbuckley.com
http://www.elsewhere.org/gm
http://christmascoup.com
http://www.gulli.com
http://standdown.net
http://dadapop.com
LETTUCE:
to ati:
that account of senseless death was heartwrenching, shocking,
and just plain bewildering from a historical point of view.
Nothing has seemed to change in the old west.
Don
to Marco:
February 4, 2003
Dear friends:
I'm currently recording a CD of original songs, and I'm writing
to ask if you'll help me achieve this goal. Recording and mass-
producing compact discs, usually involving a minimum order of 500
units, can be expensive, so I'm asking if you'll "pre-order" your
CD's to help me cover my costs.
Each completed CD will sell for $15, and every "pre-order" I
receive will help me to cover recording and manufacturing costs.
When the CD's are completed, hopefully in March, you'll receive
yours "hot off the press" (be sure to blow on them before putting
them in your CD players).
Thank you all for being in my life, and thank you for considering
supporting me in this way.
Please feel free to contact me via the
Internet if you have any questions:
http://www.michaelkrieger.com
or
MAKrieger@aol.com.
With love,
Michael Krieger
[REPLY: Michael, I can't afford a CD right now because of my
current lifestyle, but I'll certainly tell many people about
your project. -- marco ]
LETTUCE FROM THE DEEP SOUTH:
Prezados irmãos e irmãs-em-artes,
Que bom ter Marco Capelli como meu irmão-em-artes.
E que bom também apresentar a arte dele a todos voces.
Ele é um cantor e compositor.
Suas canções são poderosas mensagens político-sociais.
Vale a pena ouvir:
http://www.frucht.org/music/mp3notcom.html
http://www.frucht.org/anicmusic.html
Obrigado!
Latuff
AND NOW A NOTE FROM THE MIRC PEOPLE:
Join the Global Protest against War. (February 3rd 2003)
IRC has always been about communication, about dialogue.
We are against any war and violence, as long as talk is
still possible. On the 15th of February, the day after
Valentine's day, millions of people around the world
will take part in anti-war protests. More than half a
million people are expected to take part in an anti-war
march in London alone to protest the war against Iraq.
Be one of them. See the Stop the War website to find
out about protests in your city.
[ref]=[http://www.mirc.com]
As Maureen Dowd, writing for the New York Times, wrote,
"Mr. Powell can't very well seduce the world into bombing
Iraq surrounded on camera by shrieking and mutilated women,
men, children, bulls and horses."
Dear Editor:
I am honored to submit the enclosed
collection of poems for your consideration.
This work is submitted on a free basis,
so no charges are made for its use
in your magazine. Let it serve the cause
of faith, democracy, and freedom.
Meanwhile, I regret to inform you that email submissions
are the only real outlet for me. Sending snail-mail
from Russia overseas is madly expensive - sending
a single message may cost almost as much as two
hours of internet connection. More than that, as my
previous experience shows, traditional mail messages
often either get irretrievably lost or arrive to
editors almost torn to pieces. I have received numerous
complaints to that effect. Email submissions, provided
they contain no attachments, are much safer in this age
of terrorism and other malicious activities.
Yours faithfully,
Vladimir Orlov.
v_orlov@vistcom.ru
BLACK NIGHT.
The arid fields of dusty silver
lie fallow for years and years that pass
in the farewell trembling hues
of the night too black and dazzling
to look real.
The placid ponds of gilded lilies ripple
with the sinking shades of this suffocating
twilight, the black nights faithful employee.
The corrupted fates of grandeur,
formerly sparkling, now vexed and weary,
lie scattered on the banks
which the nightly Rider of Justice haunts.
Vladimir Orlov, POBox 237, 400006,
Volgograd-6, Russia.
v_orlov@vistcom.ru
THE MARBLE TOMB TO CROWN LIFE.
It was caused by nothing,
aimed at nothing
but popular outrage.
Frustration, discontent, unrest --
all these offsprings
of the disabled single party rule
are now issuing their pervasive yells
all around the new
and the same old country
caught up in complex implications
of its discarded but
thoroughly tenacious past.
The unknown present day
breaks in upon the petrifications
of what has been sanctified
by the multitudes of the ever-marching
purple, red, bloodstained, bleeding
banners now carried high
by the staunch advocates
of the good old totalitarian days.
Their lofty calls
seem to fail to chime
with the somewhat less lofty
cries of those butchered
in Stalins prison cells,
now wafted to the marchers ears
from the cells
of their own lingering memories -
The marching former convicts
crave for Stalin whose much lamented death
let them out of the prison cells
but buried them
in those of their wounded souls -
Are these parading relics just the guns
Stalin triggers off
from under his marble tomb?
The marchers never question.
They are called up from the past
and are here to obey.
Vladimir Orlov, POBox 237, 400006,
Volgograd-6, Russia.
v_orlov@vistcom.ru
I WILL SEND MY MESSAGE COLLECT.
I will send them all the torn-out copies
of my last message collect,
as I stand breathing in the sight
of the frozen silver, its faulty light
fettering the rivers glassy ice.
My memory, in its inveterate longing
to plunge into the sweet water of hope,
is being thrown to the gusty summit
where regiments of ghastly ghosts gather
to perpetrate their ghoulish parade.
Time rumbles down the bumpy street
of my crumbling consciousness, as
I am being effectively run down by its heavy cart
which used to stop at my beck and call before,
but which now will positively not,
even if I vociferously plead with it.
Days are being sipped out of me,
with relish, by the subtle connoisseurs
of the delicious wine of time and age.
I will send them all the torn-out copies
of my last message collect.
Vladimir Orlov, POBox 237, 400006,
Volgograd-6, Russia.
v_orlov@vistcom.ru
CAGED RESPITE.
Lifes refugees used to willingly
lock themselves in these endless fields
of the golden cages unfolding all around
in the menace of their deceptive splendor
that the lifes loyal martyrs eagerly fall for,
longing for a minutes respite
from the uncanny pain
of vulgar day-to-day existence.
Anticipating the audacity of a departure,
shunning the rip-off of a return,
the poor convicts on the death row
of the guillotining golden cages
are still readily reaching out to them,
to the stretching swampy fields of them
running far beyond the lifes horizon,
so peacefully and joyfully serene
in their placating, inviting, vermilion green
of the countless time-chariots of pastures
affording the ready oblivion
the convicts are yearning for.
Vladimir Orlov, POBox 237, 400006,
Volgograd-6, Russia.
v_orlov@vistcom.ru
CAGED GARDEN OF LIFE.
In a gloomy garden of the golden cages
suspended on the golden chains
at the whim of a wistful gardener,
trees of a quashed joy rustle alive,
alive to the roaring wind rudely stripping them
of their yellow apparel of an anticipated slumber.
Lawns of gilt offer their own
rampaging yellow, lawns of a decaying life
stifled to death by the marauding weeds.
The whole garden is an ungainly cage
of rust which is the golds aftermath.
Vladimir Orlov, POBox 237, 400006,
Volgograd-6, Russia.
v_orlov@vistcom.ru
PERSONAL DATA.
I am 29, born on October 29, 1973, in Volgograd, Russia.
In 1996, I graduated from Volgograd Pedagogical University,
the Foreign Languages Department.
My current mailing address is:
Vladimir Orlov, POBox 237, 400006,
Volgograd-6, Russia.
Email: v_orlov@vistcom.ru
Id be grateful if you added these addresses to
the published poems, if it is consistent with your
policies.
[ED NOTE: It's not consistent with; but I will keep
them there, because that's how YOU started with them.
Cheers, marco.]
6.. Anarchists - are committed to distributing illegal (or at least
morally suspect) information, including but not limited to data on
bombmaking, lockpicking, pornography, drug manufacturing, pirate radio, and
cable and satellite TV piracy. In this parlance of the computer underground,
anarchists are less likely to advocate the overthrow of government than the
simple refusal to obey restrictions on distributing information. They tend
to read Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) and Activist Times Incorporated (ATI).
7.. Cyberpunk - usually some combination of the above, plus interest in
technological self-modification, science fiction of the Neuromancer genre,
and interest in hardware hacking and "street tech." A youth subculture in
its own right, with some overlaps with the "modern primitive" and "raver"
subcultures.
[ref]=[http://begfor.tripod.com/glossary.htm]
====================
There is a place where the culture of text-based zines
will live again. And you, my friend, when you want to
read zines in the .txt format in the internet, you will
want to visit a site where you can read the most recent
the zine world has to offer. And if you haven't heard
of http://www.textscene.com by that time, you will sulk
the night away, wishing that you had some way to get your
hands on subversive writings by up and coming writers.
So find out about textscene.com. Find out about it right
on your computer.
====================
Taking The Dump
a public domain poem
by marco
You must to scream
When dumping at the dump
Sure,
You jumped for joy when you received stuff,
You're grunting -
As you lift it;
Out of your truck
Why not scream while it leaves
Your hand
And sails into the landfill
Let it go
With catharsis
And screaming
Screaming
It can be your
Scapegoat. Sure.
Instead!
Of your best friend
Or lover, or co-worker
Acquaintance (sp?)
Or guest.
Scapegoat.
Even your Charlie Brown Tree
Can go to the dump
In the composting section.
So you'll feel good about yourself;
The world around you,
Filling up with catharsis.
And scapegoating
And screams
And dumps.
Sure,
You must to scream
When dumping at the dump.
PECULIAR DONATION
a found poem
by marco
2 boxes
1)
Canned goods, canned goods, and
Canned goods. Too numerous to list.
but here's where the story really begins.
2)
Digital pocket AM/FM radio
2 cans of Enfamil
Campbells tomato noodle
1 8 oz bottle Jovan Musk
1 half pound bottle Hand and Body lotion
1 Caldecott award-winning childrens book
1 avon butterfly bottle of cologne
1, 2, wait, no 3 pair clip-on earrings
6 packets non-dairy creamer
1 2 oz bottle foaming milk bath
1 best western 33ml bottle of hand lotion
1 clairol daily defense shampoo
1 "1st christmass" mini-popup book.
Oh, wait, still more. Set of ten (count 'em 10)
assortment of Colorado Springs Current Company
balls of curling ribbon.
Donation.
Local shelter.
In from the burbs.
Now THAT tells a story.
HAPPY FIFTH BIRTHDAY TO N-COM
a very short SONG
by marco
Happy Birthday NeoComintern,
Happy Birthday NeoComintern,
Happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuu,
Happy birthday NeoComintern
Dostoevsky
a poem
by marco
You can drape Lady Justice
You can cover Guernica
You can cancel poetry symposiums
You can block all sorts of research
But you can't fool mother nature
And you canNOT kill the spirit.
George Bush
You can't hide.
I charge you
With genocide.
AFTRA And SAG Will Merger With AFL And CIO.
(PAWN) - Follywood Fills, CA. - The world's two largest
union conglomerations would merge into one organization
with seperate affiliates for each type of worker under a
proposal to be considered this war.
The proposal would require 60% of members from both
SAGAFTRA and AFLCIO.
Supporters say this maximizes the unions' strength at
the bargaining table with other corporations who mergered
already.
SAG rejected merger plan in 1999 but many bosses have
retired, resigned or died every other month or so the past
few years. The newer bosses say they are hopeful.
The new mega-union will be called CIAFASTGLADFRAG.
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