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Juventudes ! - 4/28: : Backlash PPV countdown 3,2,1.....pfffffffffffftttttttttt

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M@@N-eyes , R.F., hotrod and tiki stuff. This is Fink country! "


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"This site includes historical materials that may contain negative stereotypes or language reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place and we're posting them anyway. These items are presented as part of the histarical record."


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Juventudes ! ..and spoilers 4/27

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Seven Sisters :


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oop's, I'm the Juventude ! 4/26

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A geek is a geek is a geek.


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Giuliani Shocker : Innocent Black Man Framed! (fwd) Got this as an e.mail, must be going around......


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Juventudes ! - 4/25 : There are two U's in Juventude

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Juventudes ! - 4/24

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Juventudes ! 4/21 - You want jimmies on that ?

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Juventudes ! 4/20 - Yes we have no Juventudes !

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Juventudes 4/19 - "The bee's got our president"

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Area 51 in powers of 10


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Von Dutch, late period Amerikan precisionist artist and King of Southern Kalifornia Kar Kulture.


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Hairy Smith - Most people have in their home a bag bag. The shopping bag you keep your all the other shopping bags in. Hell, I even have a battery of dead batteries. Harry was a human bag bag, a list of lists keeper and a links link.


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Juventudes report 4/17 - "My mother was a Bozo"

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Underground radio from So.Viet Nam, DJ "Radio First Termer (aka: Dave Rabit)". Download raunchy and demented 1971 era acid rock broadcasts by this American G.I. freak.


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MEKAS

”I want to speak for the small, invisible acts of human spirit, so subtle, so small, that they die when brought out under the clean lights. I want to celebrate the small forms of cinema, the lyrical form, the poem, the watercolor, etude, sketch, portrait, arabesque, and bagatelle, and little 8mm songs. In the times when everybody wants to succeed and sell, I want to celebrate those who embrace social and daily tailor to pursue the invisible, the personal things that bring no money and no bread and make no contemporary history, art history or any other history. I am for art which we do for each other, as friends.”


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steal this, read that


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more better ART STRIKE


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Head Dr*gs vs. Body Dr*gs


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Gordon Matta-Clark, images :
Splitting, Conical Intersect, Pier In/Out, Bronx Floor, Several, Days End


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Eve of destruction, tax deduction......
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I was hoping it wouldn't come to this.... "On one level, what Barthes seems to be doing in Mythologies destabilizing the boundary between `high culture' and `popular culture'. Barthes accords popular culture a complexity, a density and richness of texture thought to be the sole preserve of high culture. One key example of this is wrestling discussed in the article `Le monde où l'oncatche' (Barthes: 1970 pp.13-24). Wrestling is often thought of as the least intellectual pastime in our culture and is dismissed as vulgar fodder to the uneducated masses. What Barthes does, in a striking and provocative gesture, is claim that wrestling and its audience are in fact every bit as sophisticated as high drama or opera. Wrestling is a modern variant of the classical theatre or of an ancient religious rite in which the spectacle of suffering and humiliation is played out. Like these high cultural forms, wrestling is a formal spectacle informed by fixed codes and conventions and played out in rigorously formalized gestures and movements. It is every bit as codified, conventionalized and choreographed as classical tragedy - the dramatic genre to which Barthes compares wrestling throughout the article. Another important article which adopts a similar approach is `Au Music-Hall' (Barthes: 1970 pp.176-179) about, as the title suggests music hall. In this article Barthes invokes the nineteenth-century poet Charles Baudelaire to describe the formalized beauties of the spectacle."
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Fuck art, lets dance..
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No Juventudes ! 4/11
Cummon' down off your high horse n' climb aboard the Pro-wresteling fun machine. This strain of sport-tainment is at the peak of it's game. I am wendel and wendel is an occasional contributor for this interactive Pro Wresteling newsletter called No Juventudes which closely follows the various storylines of the three majors : WWF, WCW and ECW.We are (I am) very fond of the gender crunching aspects of Pro-Wresteling / Positive (any) response will result in additional postings.

No Juventudes ! 4/8

WWF Attitude has taken a bizarre, unsettling turn with the latest twist (And I do mean "twist") in the ongoing saga of the McMahon's, "America's Most Dysfunctional Family." Stephanie McMahon, who just one week ago was so bitter her greatest wish was to slap her own father on national television, has taken to kissing her blushing daddy square on the lips. Don't even try to suggest it's all in innocent fun, either. The WWF knows their audience better than anyone, and is fully aware of what's going through their collective mind during these strange skits. It's not like the WWF is above pushing incest as a comedic subject either. Mark Henry was shown sleeping with his own sister. Of course he is an African-American, and a dark-skinned one at that, so the lily-white management didn't push the issue as a big deal. The whole point of Stephanie McMahon's heel marriage to Hunter Hearst Helmsley is that her latent sexual fire was awakened when Triple H drugged and raped her. She had plenty of virile sexual power just waiting to be tapped because she is, after all, a McMahon. Perhaps more unsettling is her love/hate obsession with her Daddy Dearest, the God of Wrestling. If nothing else, the McMahon Family once again proves they have balls the size of grapefruits, since there is a segment of their audience who is going to believe there's more to it than an effort to entertain the fans. This could make the steroid stigma look tame. The Incest Card does open up some creative storylines for the summer TV that keep the spotlight on the McMahons, and would outshine any issues the Rock or Stone Cold might have. Triple H goes face when he discovers that his wife betrayed him. Linda gets revenge on Vince by "siding" with Shane. It turns out it's Shane, not Vince, who's "close" to Steph. the possibilities are endless.

NO JUVENTUDES REPORT 4/11
OTIS BRAWL-REPORTMEISTER

WWF'n News DINNER WITH FOLEY BRINGS IN BIG $$$ AT AUCTION
The New York Daily News had an interesting wrestling related note today, concerning a fund raising auction held for the Westmark School in Encino, California.  One of the items up for bid was dinner with Mick Foley, and two couples wanted the prize so badly, they are each paying $31,000 for the right to sit down for a meal with Mick. Unfortunately, one of the couples is Triple H and Stephanie, who are expected to eat with their mouths open and generally display bad manners. By comparison, clothing autographed by GG Allin went for $2,500, and a limo ride with Carrot Top to his next movie premiere earned $3,000.   

THQ and WWF are working together to publish a WWF online game as part of THQ's strategy to develop content specifically for the internet.
Brawl Says-Hey! Alright! Who's in? Email me back! Woo! Hubba! Actor Larry Linville, who portrayed Wrestler Frank Burns on CBS's M*A*S*H (1972-77), died this evening of complications of pneumonia, age 60. He suffered from cancer and had a lung removed in 1998.

Questions, we get questions! Bluntie was wondering, "A while back I was at an indie show. If my memory serves me right I think it was a production by AWA. One of the wrestlers was Doink the Clown and I was just wondering if this could be the same one that was in the WWF. Thanks." Brawl says-Yes, that was probably the same Doink that was in the WWF. Not the Doink that was a heel, though. The Doink that was with Dink. This Doink is the other Doink and the Dink Doink is a drunk.

Lizzard is a bottomless pit of questions. I think she's hooked. Here is her latest missive. "You have a great Q&A. I was wondering if Edge and Christian are supposed to be heels right now. The fans don't seem to give them any heat so I cant really tell. Also, when the Undertaker comes back, what role do you think he will play. Will he be a face or a heel? Will he be main eventing or not? I really like the Undertaker so I want to know. I am going to my first WWF show in MSG on april 15 and I was wondering if my seats in section 4, Row C, and Gate 61 are any good. If you know that would be great."

The Kid has been staring at fan's signs. "You Know how RVD calls himself 4:20 what does 4:20 mean?" Brawl says-4:20 has something to do with the time of smoking weed or something. I'm not a weed head, so I can't say for sure.

MickF has a terrific memory! "O, if the WWF decided to pick up the Austin getting hit by the car angle, which they should and maybe will, who do you think will be revealed as the driver? I think it was the Rock because they made it look like HHH did it and thats too obvious.So it can be HHH, Rock, Vince, Shane, Big Show. Who do you think?" Brawl says-The Rock would be the perfect person to have been behind the wheel of the car. If you remember correctly, it was The Rock's car that hit Stone Cold Steve Austin. They could do an angle where The Rock claimed that his car was reported stolen, but he lied. Or they could do a gay tag team angle. Either or.

troubleman is still sending stuff in, despite the fact that he doesn't subscribe and died in 1993. "Hey, great stuff in the Q+A. My question is why do T&A keep losing? They really have talent in that team!"
Brawl says-Who wants to field this one?

Awesome Stuff
Paul Heyman's legal team forced Mike Awesome to be pulled from last night's Nitro. However, WCW and ECW officials came to a settlement during the Nitro broadcast which allowed Awesome's appearance on Nitro. The settlement will also allow Awesome to honor the WCW contract he had already signed despite being under an ECW deal. In exchange, ECW received what sources described as a six–figure monetary settlement, plus a guarantee that Awesome will appear at Thursday night's ECW show (in Indianapolis, Indiana) to drop the ECW Title and in the shower to drop the ECW soap. His appearance on Nitro was something of a letdown. After dropping the ECW Belt in the trash, he lit it on fire. Goldberg came out and doused the fire with 'Little Goldberg' (his words). Awesome then ripped Goldberg's head from his body and shit down his throat. Goldberg was left all choked up.

Just like Bogey & Bacall
Wendell loves to send postcards: Wow, I think Luna may pop the question ! We are already talking about a world tour honeymoon ! All the hot spots.....San Francisco, Provincetown, Chelsea ! Catch us if you can ! I feel giddy...

...he he he - W and L

I can't get over how big the Moon is down here......and the salt air goes great with the margareta's and cellery. Pich me. I haven't thought about wresteling in 10 or 15 minutes.

I think as long as we keep one step ahead of Luna's parole officer and the Latino Heat loan shark back in J.C.(who doesn't think wet willies are funny) we have a brite future. I can smell lizards a mile away and in my sleep. I caugh up little balls of lizard bones when I'm done.

Luna hawked his Gold tooth, so we've really been living high on the hog. Howard Johnston, was a genius. Did you know he has his own cola and it's called HOJO. Thats so cute !

W and L>>

Satisfied Subscribers
GumParker writes in, "Hey... I am the REAL GUM PARKER... the "johnny come lately" imitator you speak of has the name; "GUMPARKER1" [He's the Chemical Brothers sound-a-like in the NYC area.] I'm a Hillbilly! Please adjust your set, redo your address book or face a 300 pound bodyslam ...heh... heh... All hail the Oti"

Brawl says-Hey pantsuit! Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss says you are an ass lick. pantsuit Oh yeah? Who's this sperm gargler anyway? A felch belcher? I never licked an ass in my life that I didn't chew, swallow, digest, and shit out my own colon. Buddy.

In a message dated 4/7/00 10:11:53 AM, pantsuit@badattitude.com writes: I'm dim on titles. Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss says you are just dim. And a taco muncher deviant.

pantsuit Brawl, Brawl, you're such a pantywaist. We always used to say that about you behind your back. "That Brawl," we'd say. "What a pantywaist." Always stirring up trouble. You're an instigator, that's what you are. A pantywaisted instigator. Stronger Than Dirt Pete Moss is the salt of the earth. A real mensch. I won't be baited.

In a message dated 4/7/00 12:03:55 PM, pantsuit writes: Brawl, you're such a pantywaist. Looking for some online trouble?

Brawl says-I AM online trouble. Pantywaist.

In a message dated 4/7/00 1:30:41 PM, pantsuit writes: A Pantsuit takes a Pantywaist every time. Here's the thing. You taunt me for being an ass lick, and then you ask me to lick your ass. I guess that makes sense. Although that is an underhanded and weaselly way to get me. Bah. I'll die before I submit completely, though. You can have my tongue, but you can't have my soul. Brawl says-Where would I put it? Your soul, that is.

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Just because it is so damn important I'm going to mention it twice : There is a serious Quintron alert. Please see below for details. To hold you over till then, the bad livers are playing live on WFMU's The Stork show this Sunday 4/9 from 7 - 9 pm.
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Just heard about two interesting music fests :

Jim O'Rourke is booking the"New Music Series" shows for the month of April at Tonic . I saw his band open for Stereo Lab (forget them), he plays guitar like John Fayhe and laptop like Eno. Jim seams to be Thurstons darlin' du jour but please dont let that put you off, besides you can stop by and say hey to J and MB enroute. Of particular note is Daniel Johnston on 4/18.


QUINTRON ALERT!!! :

"The other is a three day goofball fest in our own bklyn."

Beer and Sausage at the Polish National Home

New York, NY—March 19, 2000 Red Stone Sound Productions presents “Beer and Sausage at the Polish National Home,” a three-day festival of experimental music to be held in Greenpoint, exciting musical event in Brooklyn this year.

For those unfamiliar with the Polish National Home, it is easily accessible from the G train Nassau Ave. stop. Facilities include a ballroom with high ceilings, a great stage, a balcony and massive oil paintings. Of course, having the Polish National Home as host to this event also has its culinary advantages. Food will include pierogies, kielbasa, meatballs and all the beer a rational human can swallow. Ticket prices are $13 advance purchase, $15 “night of” and $35 for a 3-day pass; they can be purchased at Other Music (15 East 4th St.), Earwax Records (Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn), or by calling (212) 252-6800 on or after April 1st.

Schedule is as follows:

Weds., May 10, 2000
8:00 PM Andrew W.-K.
8:45 PM TBA
9:30 PM The Melted Men
10:30 PM People Like Us
12:00 PM Mr. Quintron & Miss Pussycat
[DJ: Bill Bronson]

Thurs., May 11, 2000
8:00 PM Electrophilia ("Yes our Steve Parino !" - Ed)
8:45 PM Flux Information Sciences
10:00 PM Speedranch^Jansky Noise
10:45 PM To Live and Shave in L.A.
12:00 PM Matt Wand (of Stock, Hausen &
Walkman/Vicki Bennett (of People Like Us)
[DJ: Otefsu]

Fri., May 12, 2000
8:00 PM Larry Seven
8:45 PM Electro-Putas
9:45 PM Pita/Christian Fennesz
11:00 PM Ed Quist
12:00 PM Pan Sonic
[DJ: Fabio]
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THE (UN)OFFICIAL MARIANNE NOWOTTNY TRIBUTE SITE :

Homeless Again, Naturaly

Some folks will remember the Marianne Nowottny performance @ Tonic last Christmas time and that Steve Doughton filmed a stunning video for her on his 5th St roof top last summer.

Since her parents split up when she was still quite young M.N. has bounced back and forth between her Moms house in South Jersey and her Dads digs in North Jersey. Never made to feel quite welcome in either place, her Moms got a creepy used car-salesman boyfriend and her Dad (an over medicated house painter) has always favored her brothers. Instead of celebrating her 17th birthday last Oct 31st, she was packing up her clothes in the face of eviction for nonpayment of rent. On that last day of the month, she, her dad and her brother moved from the 1 br half cape cod housette in Sparta NJ to a 1 room flat elsewhere in town. “Not so fast !” the new landlord said “This is a room for two, as agreed". The single room had previously been a photography studio and Dad had promised her the darkroom to be her own.

This “goth girl” (we affectionately refer to as “Pasty” as in "Pasty Princess”, as coined from a positive review in a Buffalo music zine) tends to land on her feet.So when her dad and brother stayed on at the photo studio, M.N. found lodging with a girl pal from her class named Lindsey. The idea was that after a month her dad would have found more suitable long term housing. She got back her job at the Sparta Burger King and continued her studies as a Junior @ S.H.S. Her boyfriend also works at the BK and she would see her little brother in the halls in between classes at school.

Last night Lindseys Dad found an empty 12 pack of Bud hid in their back yard. It was left over from a party Lindsey had last weekend while her dad was away and did not belong to Marianne. It is entirely possible that if the dad did search MN’s stuff, he probably could find adequate reason to bounce her out anyway. So, with a phone call from Lindseys Dad to MNs Dad the pleasant home life she had enjoyed over the last 4 months was over. When Pasty called her Dad he just said “You better call Mark and Laurie” (her manager and producer couple). M and L had offered an open invitation all along for her to stay with them but it’s different. They live in near by Newton plus they're moving to Jersey City in May or June. So many things are now up in the air, including her senior year.

Don't forget to pick up the new CD from her band “SHELL” from the “Other Music” record store, it will be out in a couple of weeks....and it’s Hot.
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Hey Joe !

“.....there was this song called ‘Hey Joe’ that everybody and his fuckin’ brother not only recorded but claimed to have written even though it was obviously the psychedelic mutation of some hoary old folk song which was about murderin’ somebody for love just like nine-tenths of the rest of them hoary folk ballads”

- Bangs, Lester “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : A tale of these times, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (New York : Random House, 1987)

Note : Despite Lesters’(Our Hero) confident tone, we can’t really advance our cause from this quote, since : A) He does not say who wrote Hey Joe, and B) We have not found any real connection to any recorded (or preformed) call and response type song about a guy named Joe involved in a (double) murder over an adulterous spouse previous to Billy Roberts obtaining publishing rights in January 1962.

On Thursdays Mr. Wilson and I often meet for pints of Bass at Toad Hall after work. Over the ales one day Mr.W. brought up a personal quandary, the mystery of ‘who wrote Hey Joe ?’. On various albums from the 60’s and 70's, writing credits went to : Dino Valenti, Chester (or Chet or C.) Powers, Jesse Oris Farrow, William (or Billy or W. or B.) Moses Roberts Jr. At the time, I had internet access and he didn’t. So I started doing word searches on different search engines and found a little info and more than a little disinfo.

After checking the net for answers, I found more questions :

Who recorded it first ?

Is the (!) part of the title ?

Who all have covered (recorded) the song ?

Is there a pre-Byrds, David Crosby version, possibly with Les Baxter & the Baladeers ?

What is the deal with a fast version vs. a slow version ?

Why can't we find it recorded by Valenti or Roberts ?

If it is a Hoary old folk song (as Hendrix believed) why are there no "real close" versions on record prior to the 60’s ?

I have done quite a bit of checking around for answers to these questions and will start posting ASAP some of the answers that I do have (with links when available). Jim B. will enabled this page to be as interactive as possible so we hope you can all can join in and contribute towards resolving some of the questions at hand.
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Finita La Comedia, Occidentalis Technicus Neo Barbarus

There is a nice fellow who does the books in my office. We call him Uncle Charlie or Charlie Bacsi (Bacsi Hungarian for Uncle), he turned 88 last December. Charlie Balintitt started life as Baron in Transylvania but lost everything to the communists on March 3rd and 4th in 1949.They threw him in jail for a couple of years. He immigrated to the U.S. on Feb. 15th. 1957, eventually settling on Staten Island, a comfortable commute to his clerical position at The Bank of America on Broad street.

Although a tad to the right for my political liking he is a great reader (loves Huxley and Orwell) and his speech is peppered with unusual quotations. A few week ago I realized I kept hearing him murmur "Finita La Comedia" I quizzed him for the source but he didn't quite know where he had picked it up. I ran it through Dogpile which revealed that it was a line from the Chekhov play Uncle Vanya. A cursory inspection of an English translation of that text (altogether different than a well read play) indicates the words are spoken in Act IV, the last act.Chekhov appears to have made a quotation from the Italian language in the body of his Russian text. Depending on the quality of the Russian/English translation it may also turn up as "The comedy is over" which would be an over translation since it should be kept in Italian for English readers as well.Dogpile pulls-up The Italian version frequently in sites and news groups published in cyrillic indicating the term is (or has become) a Russian colloquialism. I think it is also a computer term as well since dog pile brings that context up also. I am wondering whether the Russians picked it up from Chekhov or visa versa a hundred years ago. Why in Italian ? It would seam that there must be a specific Italian literary origin such as Dante Alighiri's, Divine Comedy. (?)
Any Ideas ?

Last week Uncle Charlie slipped me a note, which read : "HOMO OCCIDENTALIS TECHNICUS NEO BARBARUS" (Western Technician, New Barbarian). He attributed it to Toynbee. I once saw Keith Richards band "The New Barbarians" from the last row of seats in NYC‚s Madison Square Garden. That was probably back in 1977 or '78. I guess Keith dropped the part about "Western Technicians". After that Keith had another side project band called "The Old Winos".
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