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Underground eXperts United
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[ Middle Cuts ] [ By The Chief ]
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Middle Cuts
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AT THE MOVIES
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Sometimes...
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we just know what is going to happen, when watching a movie, you know?
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But what is really happening with movies these days? Especially american
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movies? I mean, take "Seven" for instance. The end was pretty damn
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obvious ten minutes into the movie. And what about "The Usual Suspects"?
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Come on! On the other hand, one would think that a James Bond movie would
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be similar to the other James Bond movies. That's really something everyone
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expects, so howcome they figured "We have to get those Van Damme scenes
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in there guys!"? Right. Give me a "Short Cuts", "Smoke", "Mighty Aphrodite",
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or "Pulp Fiction". Or a complete movie based on the intro-scenes from
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"Seven", thank you.
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ON THE ROAD
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When you're in a hurry...
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everything just goes to hell. Am I right or am I right? Like when I was
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going home for the christmas holidays last year. The day before I would
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take my car and drive down to the boat that would take me to the island
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my parents live at, the skies were clear, the sun shined and the birds
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made my ears scream in pain. You know what I mean. By the time I woke
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up the morning after, a blizzard had changed all that. The blizzard, still
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in progress at the time, really made it pretty hard for me to get to the
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boat in time for its departure, but I dug out the car from the massive
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amount of snow, and drove off. Now, the roads were slippery, full of
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walls of snow here and there, and the traffic was moving way way way
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slow, which ment that I had to pass several cars, trucks and tractors
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in order to make it to the boat. When there's a meter of snow on the road,
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this is not an easy task. And when grandparents, people with regular tires
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(at this time of year) and Mrs. Jones are on the road, it's even worse.
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Anyway, staying on the road, managing to pass most of the cars on the way,
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I was about 2 miles from the harbour with ten minutes left. I really thought
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I would make it! Then I got stuch in a traffic jam. Of course. Everything
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moved in slowmotion. Compared to the speed the traffic on the way had,
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_this_ was really a nightmare. And when I was five minutes late, I saw
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that the first car really had a clear road, but was driving in 5 mph,
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probably because they were not used to this kind of road condition. WHY
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THEY LEFT THEIR COMFORTABLE HOME, I do not know.
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Luckily enough, the boat was still in the harbour when I got there, so I
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went into the ticket office building to get my ticket. Yeah, you know what's
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coming don't you? The guy in front of me in the line was an "original" from
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the island. Drunk too. Or at least on something. He didn't have his ID with
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him (he probably did, but in that condition, one is not able to find
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_anything_), so the girl behind the screen couldn't really validate his
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already bought ticket. He could have stolen it. Who knows? The guy was
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going on the _next_ boat that would leave in twelve hours, and I was going
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(I hoped I was at least) on _this_ boat, that should have left fifteen
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minutes ago. They argued and argued and argued. And then they argued some
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more. By the time the girl gave up and handed him his ticket, I was thinking
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about how fun it would be to spend christmas on a wooden bench in a cold
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ticket office in the harbour.
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The girl just smiled when I asked for a ticket to the next boat because
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I figured that I had missed _my_ boat, thirty minutes late as it were.
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"No, your boat has been delayed two hours due to the blizzard, so there's
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no problem at all", she said. COULD SOMEONE HAVE TOLD ME THIS A BIT
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EARLIER PERHAPS? MAYBE A SIGN SOMEWHERE? I guess not.
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IN YOUR DAMN LIFE
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When you're in a hurry...
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and you've got ten mailing lists to handle, WWW pages that needs to be
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updated every day, a part-time job, you've got to study for your exams,
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and you have a girlfriend and friends, time is not something you value
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less than gold. Especially when there's about eighty e-mails in the mailbox
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every day, of which half needs a reply pretty fast. Especially when it's
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also time to edit/fix/correct/compile the latest uXu release and send it
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out on various mailing lists / FTP sites and bulletin board systems.
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Especially when it's also the very same day you're going on a small
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"vacation" from Sweden to the US.
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I hear someone saying "Plan your life bud!". Yeah, I know. But it's pretty
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hard to do that, when everything is always half-ready. And everything is
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always only "probable". I guess that's why I take care of my e-mail and
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the WWW updates regularly, which are the only things that isn't just
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"probable".
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That's why I have friends who are willing to help me out. At least with
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the uXu release. Thanks guys!
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You know, I just have to tell you this. I'm driving down to Gothenburg
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in a couple of minutes to catch a plane to the US. An hour ago, the
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weather was excellent. Perfect for a 300 kilometer drive. No problem
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getting there in time. You know what? It's snowing outside now. Thank
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you lord of the weathers. Thank you for NOTHING.
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ON THE INTERNET
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When you get those letters...
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from people with WWW pages, who wants you to give them money, and they
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will include a link from their pages to your pages, it just makes me sick.
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Why would I pay someone for adding a link to my pages on their pages? Why
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would I pay someone, in order to make him able to give away "free" CDs,
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because "I believe everyone should have the opportunity to have music that
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they like."?
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It makes me so sick, that I have a standard reply that I send to these
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"people". Here's an edited version of it, that I sent to the guy with
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the "free" music, with his "independent" WWW pages:
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I'm sorry but I hope that your message is meant as a joke. If not,
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I must tell you that we are very much opposed to the idea of
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commercializing the Internet, and "give away music for free" doesn't
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sound right when you're looking for sponsors to give you money to
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give away this "free" music.
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We run our pages completely without sponsors, and we still give away
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free CDs, t-shirts and whatnot, and every penny comes from our own
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pockets. That's one of the meanings behind the word "independent" by
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the way.
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It's pretty sickening to see people trying to make money out of the
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Internet.
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Thank you,
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I think everyone should have something like this ready for them, if
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we want the Internet to be free for everyone.
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AT THE END
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When it comes to...
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end this file somehow, I just want to say HURRAY HURRAY HURRAY.
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uXu #313 Underground eXperts United 1996 uXu #313
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Call UNDERWORLD_1994.COM -> +1-514-683-1894
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