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jonas - issue dirteen - november 13, 1995
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jonas is produced roughly monthly by edicius. jonas and the materials
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contained therein, are all copyrighted by edicius, too. jonas may
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be distributed freely as long as this copyright notice remains
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in place, so don't move it, bucko!
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if you have no idea, change your religion.
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if you have a religion, change your idea.
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one thousand mona lisas % "green light"
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+---- --- -- - -----------+ edicius' editorial +------------- - -- --- ----+
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in memory: yitzhak rabin, shannon hoon.
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hey-ho. i'm so big, i'm so cool, i'm just so fuckin' elite. "hey
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man, you got the garbage file?!1 thats ELiTE!@1" anyhoo; i have a question
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for you.
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since when did halloween become the most exploited holiday in the
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history of mankind? all of a sudden, it seems that all of the rules of
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halloween have been thrown out. the ethics of this hallowed day that i grew
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up with as a kid, have been thrown out the window.
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let's go back to a different time. (cue wavy lines on your monitor
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right now.) a few years ago, i was younger, you were younger. i lived in a
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different town, not far away from where i live now. i was walking around
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town, trudging a wet pillowcase filled with candy. my "jason" hockey mask
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flung over my head. i was tired, wet, yet happy.
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they were simpler times. kids dressed up in creative constumes (hey,
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don't knock "jason", its creative, read on..), getting candy, seldom seeing
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a decorated house. it was all good, it was simple back then.
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suddenly, things changed. it didn't happen over a few years, you
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didn't see it here, and then there, and then everywhere. it just happened.
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maybe its because i'm older, and i notice more things now, but other people
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have noticed it, too. it's not just me.
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suddenly, people are decorating their houses. sure, people did that
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in the past for halloween, maybe a pumpkin and some corn stalks, but now,
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people put ten tombstones, these big ass sheets that they call 'ghosts',
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and a whole lot of other stuff. stores are making big bussiness off of it,
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too. no more of this thanksgiving then christmas crud. now its halloween,
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thanksgiving, and then christmas. they'll just extend it more, soon labor
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day will be mass marketed and exploited, too.
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also, another thing that peeves me about the whole halloween dealy
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deal, is that since when do kids get by without dressing up? i admit, it
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gets annoying giving out candy and all, but then i think back a few years,
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and remember how much fun it was to get the candy, thank the person, and
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scamper off to the next house.
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something different is happening now. i notice that _alot_ of kids
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that i go to school with, like high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors,
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are going out trick or treating. i had one kid come to my house, regular
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clothes, paper bag, must have been 16 or 17. my mom gave him candy, and
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asked him what he was, he said "i'm an undercover fbi agent." dickhead.
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why don't kids dress up anymore? i see kids that are like 8 going out
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in regular clothes, without dressing up. i've lost all faith in major
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holidays now; they've exploited christmas, easter, and thankgiving. saint
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nick, the easter bunny, and the turkey, yest we add the great pumpkin to
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this list? i think not.
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STOP EXPLOITING ALL THE HOLIDAYS. LEAVE SOME FUN IN THEM FOR KIDS
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STILL. DOWN WITH THE ARISTOCRATS WHO DAMAGE OUR HOLIDAYS. BAD BAD.
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wee-haw. that was fun. now, if you excuse me, i'll be gettin' my
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prozac pills. now, for some news.
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this issue of jonas will be alittle longer then most previous issues.
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i've done some capturing of messages that i've found, and typed up some
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interesting newspaper articles. overall, its just longer.
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also; this issue will be the best issue jonas has ever put out.
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"really?!@1", you ask yourself. really. i've done much more work then i
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have the previous issues, i've been on a creative streak. i've had some
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pretty good ideas for this issue too. i think this issue will redefine the
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word "'zine".
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maybe it _won't_ redefine the word "'zine". oh-kay. maybe it won't
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redefine anything, but i'm still pleased with how this issue is coming out
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_so-far_. (yes, as always, i'm writing this way ahead of time.)
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thats weird. that last comment i put in here. most prior issues of
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jonas, i got my articles that were submitted to me, wrote some stuff on my
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own, and then put it all together. beginning to end time was maybe a week,
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tops. but this issue, its different. i actually started writing this way
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ahead of time. right after issue 12 came out, i started work on this.
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i think i like this method, too. i put down all of the different
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story ideas in my head, and worked on them seperately. i'm really happy
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with how my editorial came out, too. all and all, i'm really pleased with
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this issue. except for one thing;
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as of _this_ writing of my editorial (note the 'this', i sometimes can
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write parts or the whole editorial a bunch of times.) its about 2 weeks
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before my target release date, and i have _no_ submissions. terminal
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velocity said he would do some stuff, but thats it. i have _nothing_.
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everything in here is written by me. ack!@ i should just go elite, and go
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solo. yeah, thats an idea.
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(* late editorial note, terminal velocity _didn't_ contribute
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anything, asshole *)
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i can change the name of the 'zine to "edicius". i'd be a solo 'zine.
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i'd scoff at the non-believers, and just say that i'm leeter then them.
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yeah, that'd be rad. i think i will do that.
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"ralph, get the guns. we have a lamer on the loose."
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ok, i get the point. i think i'll be leaving now.
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but before i go, i want to remind you of something that we're doing.
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the next issue of jonas shall be out on december 14, yeah, exactly at that
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time. there will be a really special issue of jonas that will be put
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together, especially for a special person's birthday (hint, hint, nudge
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nudge..) so, be waiting, it shall be a really good issue. submit for it,
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too! you'll be pleased.
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also, take a few minutes, and fill out the survey. just use a regular
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text editor, and fill it out. its not that hard. i'd like to get a real
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good sampling of people for this survey, i want a really good survey result
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article to write. so fill them out, fuckas!
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one last thing, i swear. if you're hep to the net and looking for the
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ultimate in 'zine madness, point your web browsers to 'zineworld, the
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ultimate experience - http://www.pla-net.net/~jwapienn/zineworld/ - got
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that? you better. thanks to mercuri, this page lists an amazing and
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growing number of links and web papges for many underground computer 'zines.
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WE LOVE MERCURI!
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ok, thanks enough for now.
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buhbye.
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xoxo
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elite edi.
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oh yeah, if you want to reach us here at jonas-land. here:
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world head quarter type board -- avalon, (908) 739 4274. check out
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elyte jonas matrix option.
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email -- edi@raven.cybercomm.net
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web page -- http://www.vitinc.com/~rmini/jonas.html
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(thanks to fat slayer. send inquiries to rmini@vitinc.com)
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you can also retreve the latest issues of jonas via ftp --
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ftp.etext.org /pub/Zines/Jonas
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more information about jonas can be found by fingering edicius.. (o0o,
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you nasty boy).. -- finger edi@raven.cybercomm.net
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+-- - --+
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AT&T AND MICROSOFT HEAR ME WALKING DOWN THE STREET WITH MY LINEMAN'S
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HANDSET AND BETA VERSIONS OF WIN97, AND SAY TO THEMSELVES "DAMN HE'S FUCKIN'
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ELiTE!@1"
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+---- --- -- - ------+ open letter to michael stipe +-------- - -- --- ----+
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dear mister stipe and rem:
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i am petitioning you and your band to change your lyrics. in one your
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songs, "end of the world (and i feel fine)", you have a line that reads as
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follows:
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"the other night i tripped a nice continental drift divide, mount saint
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edelite, leonard bernstine"
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i am asking that you change the lyric to read:
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"the other night i tripped a nice continental drift divide, mount saint
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EDICIUS, leonard bernstine"
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edelite? who's heard of 'mount saint edelite'? who's heard of 'mount
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said edicius', for that matter. no one, really. but edicius, its the same
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amount of letters and sounds like 'edelite'. the word edicius is ten times
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cooler then the word edelite, too. you won't have to change _that_ much,
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just one word. consider it.
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thank you for your time. i'm sure that you and rem will follow
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through with this lyric change, for the better of mankind.
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edicius.
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+---- --- -- - ---+ i sold my soul to satan + by edicius +--- - -- --- ----+
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"i've got a one-way ticket to hell on an amtrack train; and the sons
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of gestapo won't be stopping me!@" -- edicius
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"tom. wake up tom. come towards the light," the deep voice
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beckons me in the nighttime.
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startled, i jump out of bed. the big lcd clock stares me in the face,
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"two in the morning? who the hell is this?" i turn around, and see a mist
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in the room. a ghoulish figure is standing near my closest.
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"hey, who the hell are you?", i ask.
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"me? well, i'm satan. i have a proposition for you," he replies, "i
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would like you to join me."
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"join you? how?"
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"sell your soul to me, i will grant you immortality in hell."
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"really? that sounds good, how much?"
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"WHAT? he's actually going for it? no one actually goes for it," he
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mumbles to himself, "uwhm. lemme think, how much would it cost you to sell
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your soul to me?"
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"hm. lemme write down a figure, we'll play it from there." i grab a
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piece of paper from the desk, and scribble down some numbers. i hand it to
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the man, and by the smile on satan's face, i can tell its no dice.
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"six million dollars? this is properous. what do you think we do in
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hell? we don't have that much money. geezus, who do you think i am?"
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"well, you're satan. ok, so no deal there, eh? lesse, here's another
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figure. tell me how this looks." with that, i scribble another number down
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on the paper, tear it off, and give it to him.
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"eighty-two cents? you're gonna sell your soul to me for eighty-two
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cents?"
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"eh-yup. hey, everlasting immortality is something that only comes
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along once in a lifetime, i'm not gonna be that stingy in trying to get it.
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"eighty-two fuckin' cents. wow. tom, you have a deal. welcome to
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hell."
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"cool. okey, so, when do i get there?"
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"well, lemme look here," he grabs a notebook from his jacket,
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"salvidor, sinclare, stevens, ah, here it is, sullivan, tom sullivna. ok,
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you should be arriving into the firey pits of hell in twelve years. from
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lung cancer, you'll be smoking too much. haha. i just made a hell joke!
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haha. get it? smoke, fire, hell! haha."
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"wow," i say to him, "not only are you the demon of demons, but you
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have a sense of humor too. pretty nifty, if you ask me."
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"well, you know, i try to be modest, but when you're the supreme ruler
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of evil, you have to have some funny side in you."
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"hah. i hear you buddy, i hear you. ok, so tell me, when's the
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presidental elections down there?"
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"what? presidental elections? what the hell is this rubbish? i'm
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the dictator, there is no president down in hell. i'm the leader."
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"eech. that must suck. hey, here's an idea. when i get down there,
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give me four years to run it, i promise you a bigger population, and more
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money coming into the budget. hell will be the hep place to be."
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"really? a four year vacation? i never really thought about.. wait a
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second, what the hell are you saying to me, the ruler of evil? i'm the
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leader down there, you cannot take that away from me."
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"thats the problem, you're uptight. you have this whole
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"god complex? sorry to interupt, but there is no god in hell."
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"uhm, sure, whatever. anyway; you have this whole ego thing. you're
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uptight. you need some time off. no offense or anything, but people don't
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think too highly of you."
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"really? i never knew that," satan says. his face grows deeper, and
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looks to be saddened by this news. "i've always tried to keep my image
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came about, i'm not really that horrid looking, am i?"
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"no you're not, satan. we could have this whole big never-world going
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down in hell, trust me. you and me, we'll do good."
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"really? hey, that could be good. wait a fucking second, you're sly
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there tom. but i'm not buying into this. i'll come back at a later time."
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"but satan, wait!" but it was too late, he had already left. back to
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sleep i went, still amazed about the transaction that took place.
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the next few days were spent thining up ideas for the "new hell", that
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i would create. since satan is the root of all evil, i really knew i had to
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do a good job, or something horrid would be in store for me. i really
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didn't want to find out exactly what would happen.
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i had ideas, visions of the new hell. something beautiful, something
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that has been never seen before. swimming pools, casinos, hotels, family
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entertainment. it all would be there. hell would surely become the hip
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place to be.
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it happened again. right in the middle of my wet dream, satan
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appeared to me. his vast, expressionless face staring at me in the middle
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of the night.
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"tom, what do you wish of me? i can sense your mood, i know you need
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to speak to me."
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"ok. i have these ideas, take a look at them. remember, its
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still a rough draft, but take the things into consideration," i said, as i
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took out a large portfolio of various plans, blueprints, and charts. "look
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at them, tell me what needs to be changed, and i'll work on it."
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"what?? what is this crud? blueprints, charts.. hey, is there really
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going to be a eight-teen hole golf course next to the tropworld casino?
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hey, that could be pretty nice. i've been looking for a place to work on my
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backswing."
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"but thats not all. i was planning on changing a few more things.
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first off, we need to have a stable currency. we're not looking to compete
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with the us dollar, or the japanese yen, just something that we can use. we
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will be having a large population now, ya'know what i mean?"
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"true, very true."
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"but wait, thats not all. we'll have a full run of commenrative
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stamps -- all the people in hell, joseph stallin, adolf hitler, jimmy buffet
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population of hell was dissatisfied with the way the postal service was.."
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"dissatisfied my ass. give me names, i'll make their eternal
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damnation even worse."
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"no! thats another thing we need to change; your attitude. many
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people, well, you know. they're kinda scared of you."
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"they're supposed to fear me (not that pesky mogel guy.) i am the
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death bearer, i'm not a real people person. i am eviler then evil. i'm not
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supposed to be nice."
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"well, it looks like your attitude will be hard to change. i'll work
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on that more later. i called all-state today, inquiring about an insurance
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policy.."
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"insurance? why do we need insurance?"
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"with people coming, we need some type of tourist spot insurance
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coverage, so when people get hurt, we don't get sued."
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"fuck them. cast them into the firery pits if they get hurt."
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"thats the thing that is hampering the whole insurance dealy-deal; the
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fire. you know, hell is just one _huge_ firepit. did you ever notice it?
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all-state said they can't insure a bad fire risk as ourselves. so, i told
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them i'd start a few voulenter fire departments, have fire safety classes at
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the ymca, and mcgruff and smokey the bear put on a really bitchin'
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performance for the kids."
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"fire department? ymca? smokey the bear? enough of this bullshit,
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tom. i do not want to hear this crud any much longer. you are banished
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from hell!@ do not come down here! get out of my sight!@"
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"but satan.. what about me being president?"
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"get out of my sight you creaton!"
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"can i have my soul back?"
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"oh. that thing. yes, you can have it back.. here.. and my money?"
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"oh. that. i kinda spent it on gum. want a stick of big red?"
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"no! just take your soul, thats all i want. i don't need money. i
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am the leader of hell!@ i make my own money."
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"well. ok, in that case, i don't want to go to hell, you asshole."
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"me? asshole? why you annoying little twirt," he says with a voice
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full of anger. he runs, and lunged toward me. i duck, he hits the wall.
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"pit pat spat. why you fucking asshole.." boom. he hits me square in the
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jaw. so, i kick him.
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"don't fuck with me nigguh! i'll beat you; and i don't care if you
|
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are the prince of darkness." i hit him again. he hits me. this escapade
|
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|
continues for 5 minutes. we cease hitting each other while we catch our
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breathe.
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i stand up in the middle of the room. "is that all you can do?!
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|
the big and almighty satan can't even kick a fifteen year-old's ass? what
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are you? like, a ga-zillion years old? HIT ME RIGHT HERE," i pound on my
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chest, "right here you fuckin' asshole. NOW!"
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fists a-flyin', satan runs towards me screaming, "aaaahhh!@ you
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little prick!"
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just before he is about to catch me, i knee him in the groin. he
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|
falls to the ground in agony. "oouh. muh. muh.. ouuch. oww. muh nuts.
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|
oww. yoou.. f-fuck.. in.. oww. oouuch. oww, my crotch. my crotch. my
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crotch is on fire."
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"yeah, thats what i thought. hooo-pbbt," i spit on him. "some people
|
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are just so fuckin' egotistical. you won't let someone else take over for
|
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awhile, and look what you're doing now. on the ground, rolling around, in
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wretched agony. you wuss."
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"vengence will be mine. oh yes, it will be mine." puff. smoke, he
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disappears. a dark drool spot is easily noticed against the grainy blue of
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the carpet where he fell.
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"a drool spot. just one big fucking drool spot is left."
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+---- ----- - -------+ music, smhusic + by edicius +-------- - -- --- ----+
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is it just me, or is there a major conspiracy to ruin all of the good
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music in the world?
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i think there is, if not, somethings tragically screwed up. now, one
|
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|
of my favorite bands, currently, is civ. i got their 'debut' (if you want
|
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to call it that) cd just after it came out, and a day after i saw them in
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concert. i've loved it ever since, i think its a really rad cd.
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|
i happen to have a 'zine cover with a picture of civ (the leader
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|
singer of civ - coincidence?) on it. i was bored the other day, so i
|
||
|
started drawing it in my sketchbook. soon enough, i had a pretty good
|
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|
picture out of it.
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|
the next day, i was sitting in my art class. i was bored with the
|
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project i was working on, so i whipped out the ole' sketchbook to finish the
|
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|
picture. some kids asked me who it was, so i told them, "its the lead
|
||
|
singer of the band called 'civ'. ever hear of it?" out of the three or
|
||
|
four kids that i asked if they heard of civ, only one person said "yeah, i
|
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|
think so, i think i've heard of them."
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|
god damnit. no one listens to anything if its not played on a big
|
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|
time radio station, or mtv. civ has been being played on mtv, rarely
|
||
|
outside of 120 minutes, thank god, but today, i'm clicking around the
|
||
|
channels, and i hear a familar tune on the grind. yup. it was "can't wait
|
||
|
one minute more" by civ. these preppy wanna-be skinhead dancers are slam
|
||
|
dancing, almost definally choreographed, too. you could see that they
|
||
|
planned how they would dance to this particular song.
|
||
|
|
||
|
afterwords, the music dies out, and idalis comes on; "hey, now wasn't
|
||
|
that groovey? thats right. that was civ with 'can't wait'. now, after the
|
||
|
commercials, we'll have a live performance from shaggy!@"
|
||
|
|
||
|
c'mon, shaggy and civ in the same sentence? sigh. it just saddens
|
||
|
me. why the hell can't mtv leave the good stuff on "120 minutes"? why must
|
||
|
they do this? they do this with every good band, and then they promote the
|
||
|
bad bands, like greenday and offspring. fuckin' assholes.
|
||
|
|
||
|
to create a format that appeals to all, they must play what 'everyone'
|
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|
is listening to. or so they think. not everyone is listening to offspring
|
||
|
and green day. thats why radio stations like whtg 106.3 (eatontown, nj), do
|
||
|
good; they play what other stations _aren't_ playing. sure, they do play
|
||
|
some green day and offspring, but not to the extext that many other stations
|
||
|
play it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
you have a major cable channel, and a million radio stations; all with
|
||
|
the same format -- boring and "alternative". you get a few stations that
|
||
|
play what the "minority" wants to hear -- mainly indie rock and punk,
|
||
|
generally "unheard" music anywhere else. both stations do well, in their
|
||
|
own aspects; they just get a different listening audience.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+---- --- -- - -+ million man march? % by david letterman +-- - -- --- ----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
[.. from the david letterman show ..]
|
||
|
|
||
|
> from the home office in grand rapids, michigan ...
|
||
|
|
||
|
top ten signs you're not at the real million man march
|
||
|
|
||
|
10. everybody's singing john denver songs
|
||
|
|
||
|
9. keynote speaker: mark fuhrman
|
||
|
|
||
|
8. entire march consists of you and that urkel guy
|
||
|
|
||
|
7. you're surrounded by people dressed as their favorite "star trek"
|
||
|
characters
|
||
|
|
||
|
6. everywhere you look -- osmonds
|
||
|
|
||
|
5. you seem bumper stickers that say, "don't blame me, i voted for
|
||
|
pat buchanan"
|
||
|
|
||
|
4. it's held at the dmv and the "march" is moving very slowly
|
||
|
|
||
|
3 lots of handmade signs that say, "yanni!"
|
||
|
|
||
|
2. the marge schott t-shirt booth
|
||
|
|
||
|
1. grand marshall: kathie lee gifford
|
||
|
|
||
|
+---- --- -- - --+ computers go hollywood -+- by edicius +-- - -- --- ----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
in our history, many movie makers have tried to make a movie revolving
|
||
|
around computer crimes, some have been successful; others have not. the
|
||
|
classics, such as wargames and sneakers, will live forever in the hearts of
|
||
|
computer enthusists around the globe. other movies, such as johnny
|
||
|
mnemonic, can be written off and forgotten.
|
||
|
|
||
|
in jonas' ever expanding cultural emphasis, we would like to give you
|
||
|
now a review of the best, and worst, computer-related movies ever made.
|
||
|
there have been alot of computer-related movies made, specifically, the ones
|
||
|
we'll concern ourselves with are those that deal with some form of computer
|
||
|
hacking and/or phone phreaking.
|
||
|
|
||
|
now, without further ado, edicius reviews computer movies.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+---- --- -- - ---------------------------------------------- - -- --- ----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
"three days of the condor" (1976?) - robert redford plays an fbi agent on
|
||
|
the run from his own superiors after his whole office is gun downed and
|
||
|
killed while he is at lunch. story-line is pretty good. redford plays a
|
||
|
really good part in the movie. surpurb co-stars, also.
|
||
|
|
||
|
as far as the computer-relatedness. they have _really_ big computers in the
|
||
|
office. redford 'boxes' his way into a hotel phone line, and uses a tape
|
||
|
recorder and dtmf decoder to figure out numbers a person is dialing. he
|
||
|
also picks a credit slip out of the garbage to figure out what a person's
|
||
|
name is, before he carjacks and kidnaps them. you cannot forget, either,
|
||
|
that at one point, kevin mitnick used the handle "condor" before he went
|
||
|
into hiding in the mid 80's.
|
||
|
|
||
|
really great movie all around. if you can find it at your local
|
||
|
blockbuster, i would definally suggest renting this movie.
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) ***1/2.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
"wargames" (1982) - matthew broderick, alley shedy, and a "whopper" of a
|
||
|
computer. (te-he. i made a funny.) this is the clasic computer hacker
|
||
|
movie. kid breaks into school computer, changes grades, wardials, finds
|
||
|
governmental computer, and plays a game of "thermonuclear global war." now
|
||
|
is that just rad, or is it rad?
|
||
|
|
||
|
personally, my favorite part of the movie, is when alley shedy's caracter
|
||
|
says to broderick's caracter, after he has been on the run from the
|
||
|
government, "is this about what you did to my grades?" har har.
|
||
|
|
||
|
you have hacking and phreaking in this movie. movies just don't get cooler
|
||
|
then this without having an nc-17 rating.
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) ****
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
"sneakers" (1989/1990. one of them) - not a particulary bad movie.
|
||
|
hacking, phreaking, carding, trashing, and a blind guy that can type really
|
||
|
fast!@ hell, these guys are _paid_ to hack your computer, if you want them
|
||
|
too. they're the best, dE\x/D. they're eXpERtZ.
|
||
|
|
||
|
as i alluded to above, the only part in the movie that i was particularly
|
||
|
pissed off about, is the fact that the blind dude can type. ok. i can see
|
||
|
him typing -- they can have brail keyboards -- but how does he know what is
|
||
|
being done by the computer? it just didn't fit.
|
||
|
|
||
|
if you want a real good flick night, rent this and "wargames" the same
|
||
|
night. watch the clerk look at you funny.
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) ***
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
"johnny nmemonic" (1995) - i really don't know where to begin with this
|
||
|
movie. i saw it with fellow cybergeeks, rattle and tut, and well, i think
|
||
|
rattle sums it up best by saying, "it was the best comedy i've seen in
|
||
|
awhile, but it was meant to be a drama."
|
||
|
|
||
|
let's just say, keanu reeves shouldn't have been casted for this part. if
|
||
|
it was another actor, the movie would have been better. keanu reeves just
|
||
|
cannot act for his life.
|
||
|
|
||
|
henry rollins got killed in the movie, that was a cool part. :)
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) *
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
"the net" (1995) - you have to divide this one up into two different
|
||
|
sections; as far as pure entertainment goes, this movie was pretty damn
|
||
|
good. _any_ movie with sandra bullock in a bikini is good in my book. as
|
||
|
far as computers go, it was a bad movie. i did like some of the things that
|
||
|
they did with the computers, tho.
|
||
|
|
||
|
bullock is a pretty good actress. the movie, overall, was pretty decent.
|
||
|
storyline wise, it could have used some work, but still was good. accuracy
|
||
|
wise, it needed alot of work with the computers.
|
||
|
|
||
|
if you can catch this still in the theraters (find a cheap second-run movie
|
||
|
near you), definally go there and watch it. you shalln't be disappointed.
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) ***
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
"hackers" (1995) - "boot up or shut up." as far as the accuracy goes, this
|
||
|
is one of the most accurate, if not the most accurate, 'hacker' movie in a
|
||
|
long time. it was still pretty far-fetched in some aspects, others it was
|
||
|
pretty good. some of the computers they had, of course, were too advanced,
|
||
|
even for our own age.
|
||
|
|
||
|
i've hung out with computer geeks in person, i don't think i've ever said
|
||
|
the word "ELITE" as much as they did in this movie. there is also a scene
|
||
|
in which some 'haqurs' are looking at a new computer, and they say, "whoa,
|
||
|
elite. she has a brand new laptop... 16 megabytes of ram.. a 28 point 8 bps
|
||
|
modem too!"
|
||
|
|
||
|
they did make up for it by having an actual red box (that still does work in
|
||
|
some areas), and by reading "the hackers manifesto" by 'the mentor'. i was
|
||
|
surprised to see them go that far.
|
||
|
|
||
|
with everything in, i think this movie will go down as being highly regarded
|
||
|
in the computer movie field as being one of the better movies of our time.
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) ***1/2.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
other stuff:
|
||
|
|
||
|
"disclosure" (1995) - ok, so this really isn't a true computer movie. the
|
||
|
job that michael douglas and demi moore work at, makes cd-roms and other
|
||
|
computer equipment. plus, the terminals that they use on all the computers
|
||
|
for email and stuff is really rad. i'd love to have that type of software
|
||
|
on my computer.
|
||
|
|
||
|
oh, seeing demi moore half-naked isn't bad, either.
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) ***1/2.
|
||
|
|
||
|
"masters of deception: the gang that ruled cyberspace" (1995) - it's a book.
|
||
|
not a fully accurate book, but it is an interesting read. i shelled out 20
|
||
|
bucks for it, i'm not sure if it was really worth it, but it is worth the
|
||
|
read if you can get it.
|
||
|
|
||
|
rating: (out of four stars) **
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
i noticed something, something eerie. in "the net", they all drink a
|
||
|
martini-type drink called a "gibson". in "hackers", the name of the big
|
||
|
mainframe operating system, is "gibson". coincidence? maybe.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+---- --- -- - -------+ 3Di'Z CaPTuRe F1LE izZ eLiTE +------- - -- --- ----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
from: "matthew b. wood" <devtrix@netcom.com>
|
||
|
posted to: alt.fan.cult-dead-cow
|
||
|
subject: re: his eyes were bleeding
|
||
|
|
||
|
carrie@cascade.cascade.net (carrie) writes:
|
||
|
|
||
|
...
|
||
|
|
||
|
>then one day we're driving through the onion fields of walla walla,
|
||
|
>washington, on this road that stretches farther than intestines, past the
|
||
|
>paper mill, and we come across this accident in the road, except it's not
|
||
|
>roadkill it's like humans, and this guy is there, laying on the road, and
|
||
|
>his eyes are bleeding (just like his face and arms) and we look at each
|
||
|
>other, and we grin, and scoop him up into the car, and drive off, kind of
|
||
|
>like thelma and louise except we can't take credit (yet) for any of the
|
||
|
>pain.
|
||
|
|
||
|
wow. and i thought i was having fun when i got %15 off at foot locker
|
||
|
with one of those coke caps.
|
||
|
|
||
|
--
|
||
|
matthew b. wood mbwood@netcom.com
|
||
|
they can't play baseball, they don't wear sweaters
|
||
|
they're not good dancers, they don't play drums
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
from: rotiserrie <rotiserrie@aol.com>
|
||
|
posted to: alt.sex.stories
|
||
|
subject: adult hot chats
|
||
|
|
||
|
help needed:
|
||
|
|
||
|
i am in the process of collecting materials relating to "hot chats" on
|
||
|
bbs's. this material is very important to a final research project i am
|
||
|
undertaking. i would appreciate hearing from any of you who have engaged
|
||
|
in adult "hot chats" on bbs's or on the internet. i especially am
|
||
|
interested in receiving through email transcripts of recorded hot chats
|
||
|
you may have had. complete confidentially of the source is guaranteed.
|
||
|
|
||
|
jason
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
from: sekiried
|
||
|
subject: downtown julie brown
|
||
|
posted to 'people who shouldn't be famous' folder on america on-line.
|
||
|
|
||
|
i swear to god, if i ever see this woman walking down broadway, i will
|
||
|
kindly ask her to go back to her native england. let's see if they will
|
||
|
take her back, cuz here in america--we are suitably annoyed with her
|
||
|
transparent clinging to the show biz/post-mtv world with a sad vehemence.
|
||
|
get a real job julie!
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
from: the-concourse-on-highthu
|
||
|
posted to: alt.fan.cult-dead-cow
|
||
|
subject: wed. oct. 11th is national coming out day come out! do it! life is
|
||
|
easier...
|
||
|
|
||
|
have courage! life is so much easier when you're out of the closet. i'm
|
||
|
coming out because i went to the l.a. gay & lesbian parade this past summer
|
||
|
and of the more than 700,000 people there i personally counted fewer than 80
|
||
|
in drag or leather or other outrageous get ups.
|
||
|
|
||
|
when i turned on the news that night it was like my personal count had made
|
||
|
the news. every single one of those 80 or so people. the broadcast made it
|
||
|
seem like a couple thousand people had shown up, and showing only those in
|
||
|
drag or leather made it seem like that's all that showed up, like that's all
|
||
|
there is to gays and lesbians. the other 700,000 to 800,000 of us who are
|
||
|
boring and average didn't make it onto the tv.
|
||
|
|
||
|
when you come out you give non-gay people and accurate picture and concept of
|
||
|
who and what gays and lesbians really are. since it's perfectly legal in 44
|
||
|
states to fire us from our jobs or evict us from our homes just for saying
|
||
|
we're gay or lesbian, coming out is a very difficult thing to do. i know
|
||
|
that, and i have experienced all the fear and anxiety you have. please,
|
||
|
please, please come out!!! life really is so much better now.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
from: tomviolent
|
||
|
subject: yanni
|
||
|
posted to the 'cybersex' folder on america on-line
|
||
|
|
||
|
..yanni is the best cyber-lover i've ever had....
|
||
|
|
||
|
+---- --- -- - ---------------+ news items +----------------- - -- --- ----+
|
||
|
|
||
|
here are a few news articles that i've found in the newspapers that i
|
||
|
thought were pretty interesting.
|
||
|
|
||
|
+-- - --+
|
||
|
|
||
|
concert-goer sues love
|
||
|
|
||
|
courtney love is being sued by a a man who says she beat him up during
|
||
|
a hole concert in palo alto, calif., last year. jonathan james hogan said
|
||
|
the widow of urt cobain lured him onstage, hinting of a dance, and instead
|
||
|
kicked him in the groin. love told police that he reached under he dress
|
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and grabbed her crotch while she crowdsurfed above her fans. hogan, who
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insists that he was out of grope range, says he suffered emotional stress at
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being publicly humilated.
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aclu joins high school discord over 'oi' vs. 'oy'
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newark -- three hasbrouck heights high school students who were
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suspended from school for using a word some people interpreted as
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anti-semitic were reinstated yesterday pending an appeal before the school
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board, said david rocah, staff attorney for the american civil liberties
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union of new jersey.
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rocah said the suspensions where ilegal and that he was surprised the
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school board was continuing to pursue them.
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"there's no doubt in our minds that a violation of the students'
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rights, under the federal and state constitution and state law, has
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occured," rocah said.
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the school should drop the suspensions, apologize tothe students and
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clear their records, roccah said. if neccessary, the school should provide
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the students with tutors to help them catch up in courses they missed since
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they were suspended last week.
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the three 16-year-old bous -- len longo, j.m. burr, and albert min --
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were suspended from school for a week after performing as the band utter
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confusion at a high school talent show last thursday night.
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because the music they play is sometimes call "oi", the three band
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members started yelling "oi!" to warm up the crowd.
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some people in the audience complained that "oi" was a play on the
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yiddish expression of grief, "oy vey," and was anti-semetic.
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"oi" is a gritty subcurrent of punk rock born in british garages in
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the late 1970's. a right-wing sub-cult of "oi" includes german skinhead
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bands whose members sing about bashing black people, jews, turks and
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leftists.
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rocah said the suspensions where unjustified, especially since the
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concert was not a school-sponsored event but was part of an after-school,
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student-sponsored talent show.
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"these kids should not have been suspended," said rocah, who is
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representing one of the teen-agers, whom he declined to identify. "students
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do not lose their free speech rights when they walk through the schoolhouse
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door."
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although the students insisted their song was not intended to be
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anti-semetic, rocah said that was not the issue.
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"speech by racists is just as protected as speech by nonracists," he
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said.
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if school officials did not respond to the teen-agers' concers, the
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students and their families could take them to court, rocah said. there was
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no indication that would be necessary.
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"the issues here are clear. it's not a difficult case, and it can and
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should be resolved amicably," rocah said.
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schools superintendent howard herbert did not immediately return a
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telephone message from the associated press yesterday.
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the rabbi of the borough's only synagogue said the school overreacted
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and that is actions could encourage an anti-semetic backlash.
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"it is a tempest in a teapot. i think the punishment is definitely
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inappropriate," rabbi fredric dworkin of temple beth elohim told the record
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of hackensack. "people make too much of an ordinary item. the word has no
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significanes," he said.
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dworkin, who said he had received no complaints from temple members,
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said a false alamr over racism could spark the real thing.
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[oh the same topic; on "the week in rock" on mtv, for the week of
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october 21-27, they had a story about the above situation, and actually had
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the band on at the end of the show. 'utter confusion' played the <their?>
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song "oi is not a crime", now being boosted to stardom by their peers for
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appearing on mtv. :) they weren't all that bad, for a group of 16 year
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olds.]
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