Month: March 2003

I hadn’t been on to MP3.com for quite a while but was shooting through the Top 40 and found the song ‘Bring Me To Life from Evanescence. I really like this song a lot. I’ve been listening to it over and over… I like it for the same reason I like System of a Down […]

Rented Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys last night. I hadn’t seen it in many many years but after seeing Lost in La Mancha I revisited. I remember being bored when I first saw the film – but this time around I loved it. I admire Gilliam’s visual style so much – his composition of image is […]

Things the New York Times seems to leave out of current Iraq coverage: (via Lying Media Bastards via Body and Soul

The United States is conducting a secret ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq.

Satirist and composer Tom Lehrer pipes up: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. With audiences nowadays I see it with these late-night [TV show] people, Jay Leno, David Letterman and so on the audience applauds the jokes rather than laughs at them, which is very discouraging. Irreverence is […]