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Live, from half way between Dahmer's house and Peltier's
first police beating it's ATI. Activism Trumps Idiocy. 


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Hello, I'm Prime Anarchist and 
here's some numbers and stuff.

http://137.229.36.56
http://www.osmth.org
http://adam4shadow.com
http://www.tompaine.com
http://mojomusicstudio.com
http://www.jumptheshark.com
http://www.mp3.com/martharedbone
http://www.flagstaffactivist.org
http://sanderhicks.com/helms.html
http://www.justenough.net/home.php
http://www.chrisandjackie.com/23.htm
http://www.nodo50.org/cartelera_libertaria
http://home.earthlink.net/~dare2b/bush.htm
http://www.frucht.org/poems/knucklehead.html
http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/midweeks
http://home.earthlink.net/~emulsional/raw.htm
http://www.hereinreality.com/familyvalues.html
http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/MISSION.TXT
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=35913
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/redbone.html
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,55838,00.html
http://www.flagstaffactivist.org/campaigns/walfacts.html
http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/movies/jul02/59337.asp
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7672/index.html
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=103582



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  "This album cost me twenty bucks. It costs fifteen 
on the Internet. Or it can be downloaded for free. 
And it's been better therapy than any medical 
authority has ever offered me for many times that 
price."
  That's publisher Al Giordano awarding Eminem 
"Journalist of the Year." 
[ http://www.narconews.com/eminem1.html ] Giordano 
made a solid point I'd like to develop here. Can I?
  The music industry is out of control. Yes, I said 
that. I'd sooner toss it out on its ear than waste 
such energy trying to save it. I feel there's no hope 
industries that give about a buck to inventors, four 
to slave-masters, seven to the self and then charge 
what can only be called 2000% markup. Yes, of course 
these numbers are rough, but I hit it on the head, 
don't I?
  Face it. You've asked yourself for years -- "Just 
who IS the 'music industry' and who do they think 
they are?" I'm telling you, I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S 
REFORMABLE AND HERE'S WHY.
  How many bands never cut a "record" for each that 
do? I'm not sure, but it feels like 1/100 odds to me. 
And how many published musicians still survive on part 
time junk jobs? Again, I don't know but tons of 
anecdotal stories imply they're the hefty majority. 
  I tried looking up industry statistics (why the word 
"industry" anyhow? This is no machine screw being 
invented, rather stories, myths, ideas. "Industry" 
implies actual factories - there are, but more on 
that later.) and I only found out each hit song comes 
next to $6.3 million in losses on other records 
tanking. They claim fewer than 5% of signed artists 
ever get a hit.
  I would question whether 95% had chances, or got 
dropped right away for no "return on investment." 
Places like Billboard were no help and for all I know 
NYTimes was, but I'm not paying their online archival 
fee to find out. But again, anecdotal evidence tells 
me many artists got tossed like the weekly trash.
  Last year someone ripped a Rage Against The Machine 
CD which meant mp3's were freely downloaded. Instead 
of suing, RATM put the same tunes on their own web-space 
asking politely that people just consider getting it 
from their site. And tell friends. 
  What did their slave-master, er, uh, I mean record 
label do? What "everyone does," of course. They sued. 
If I read the legalese right, RATM lost the battle and 
was forced to remove their own mp3's, agreeing to 
cease all self-promotion. When Seagrams bought the 
rights to Aimee Mann's music and dropped many artists 
at the same time, she was among the cuts. I'll spare 
you the long complicated story how she got the rights 
to distribute her own music, but essentially, she put 
her current record on her own page selling about 
30,000 copies in a year. When VH1 asked if she'd ever 
return to major labels she chuckled saying it's not 
possible for them to give her the markup she gets. 
By their current structure they'd put themselves 
right out of business trying to match the profit 
she commands. (pronounced "deserves.")
  Spitfire Tour brought Jello Biafra to Green Bay last 
campaign season where he called the industry an 
"electronic plantation." He said typical contracts 
give a million cash, but it's really just "front 
money" because Record Plant and Hit Factory each 
bill you half a million even if they  don't record 
you or mix you down. Most labels give a year to sell 
a million records or you're cut right away. In some 
cases it's even worse. Many artists say they've now 
got one quarter (three months!) to sell 250,000 copies 
or they need a good line assuring they'll have better 
luck in the next couple quarters. Or an attorney, 
right?
  What's next, selling your own product door to door 
for them? Actually, I asked Biafra after the show why 
he wasn't selling any of his own stuff or even tabling 
literature; and he admitted he just forgot to even 
think about it this tour. But he also pointed out 
you'll see Michael Franti's newest album absent from 
vending tables. Only place you're allowed to get it 
is stores. Biafra said that if Franti's label is 
typical he gets a free box of CD's and then must buy 
others "at cost," and is forbidden from selling 
current CDs until at least a full year out. 
  The fifth annual Native American Music Awards 
ceremony came to Milwaukee this year during Indian 
Summer. Now if you know anything about the NAMMYS 
you know there's almost nothing grandiose about it. 
A commercial endeavor sure; but it usually breaks 
about even or loses a small manageable amount of 
money each year. It's grown organically and holds 
to its original path year after year. NAMMYS-5 was 
a production and performance success, but failed 
other ways, serving as a learning experience I guess. 
What transpired was what I'll call a "feeding trough 
of misunderstanding." 
  I won't detail much because I don't want anyone 
feeling libelled, but let me say each step of the 
way people outside the NAMMYS jacked the prices up, 
or did their own personal bait-and-switch tactics 
trying to get a little extra for themselves. Taking 
a cold hard look I suddenly felt like we were building 
a nuke submarine or a stealth bomber, rather than 
showcasing music, know what I mean? Maybe kickbacks 
and cost overrides are the norm for Grammys and Music 
Video awards, but the NAMMYS are trying to do 
something different here. Top priority in the NAMMYS 
each year is first and foremost the human beings 
honoring each other for their incredible creative 
work. Do you see these same values at Radio City 
Music Hall or the Staples Center? I won't even answer 
that. 
  Every winter I watch Superbowl and Grammys. Why? To 
see talent. But seldom do I see any in the actual show. 
Ads showcase the year's best creativity, but not the 
Grammys or the Superbowl. So I watch the ads. The 
show's more like sub-theme for me now.
  I have a friend at my volunteer tech job 
[ http://www.indymedia.org ] who I won't name because 
his father's brother resigned last year as CEO of a 
major label when his board members were out of their 
minds -- guess what they're entering this Christmas 
season with? Yes, a new boyband and one more preteen 
girl they can train to sing, dance and fashion a tiny 
bit of clothing. And you heard right: they planned 
this Christmas season last year. Another feeding 
trough, but I digress. He found them a great 
songwriter, and a couple bands who write AND perform 
well; but his own board of directors rejected them, 
voted him down. I'll bet he feels forsaken by not 
just his company, the whole business. Has the industry 
(dare I call it a machine) lost touch with humanity?
  Speaking of machines, Digital Audio Tape recorders 
go for almost $800. Do you know how much they were in 
'89? Same price. Ever wonder why? Other electronics 
drop naturally working their way into almost every 
audiophile's home, but not so with DAT. The industry 
felt threatened maybe? Well, it's about to get worse 
for them. While DAT relied on proprietary machines 
that can be locked up Sony-style; new technologies 
don't. MP3s, "oggs" and gnutella might do the 
"industry" worse than what DAT did in the 80s. What's 
different here is once you have a recording, there's 
almost no signal loss passing it to others. Just get
it somehow; then send it some other how. Free and easy. 
Industry soon loses its stranglehold on human 
consumption of music. Music transfers between any two 
networked computers. And I'm learning that ogg vorbis 
is even more devastating since it overcame the 
remaining little tricks that industry can still do to 
make an MP3 somewhat proprietary. Just how did "ogg" 
do this? Stayed "open source" and "freeware" from 
beginning to end.
  As Aimee Mann proves, you no longer need a record 
label to get your music to lots of people. But some 
lawyers and accountants are starting to sound 
desperate, aren't they? Record companies are "like 
cartels, like countries, for God's sake," says Tom 
Waits, "It's a nightmare to be trapped in one. I'm on 
a good label now that's not part of the plantation 
system. (Epitaph) But all the old records I did for 
Island have been swallowed up and spit out in 
whatever form they choose. These corporations don't 
have feelings and they don't see themselves as the 
stewards of the work."
  "In the past 20 years," says Dixie Chicks manager 
Simon Renshaw, "an industry that was led by visionaries 
and music lovers has become dominated by accountants, 
financial analysts and people who can't think ahead 
more than 90 days."
  So download Eminem's songs, or buy them, but listen 
and live with them. Have an opinion. Share if you can. 
He crosses boundries between singer, songwriter, poet, 
rapper and journalist; but I've yet to see him enter 
the realm of corporate thuggery. Which is more than I 
can say for some "artists" out there; not to mention 
names of course. 
  So, what have I written here that you don't already 
know, or at least feel in your heart? Not much. Should 
I really suggest tossing the industry out on its ear 
without offering something constructive about what 
could come along and take its place?
  Sure.
  Download all my music for free at: 
http://www.mp3.com/marcocapelli 
or if you don't want those pesky pop-ups and 
nasty banner ads they run you through, just 
go to: 
http://www.frucht.org/anicmusic.html






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SITTING IN FRONT OF DAHMER'S OLD HOUSE

  Trick Or Treating is rather weird around here. You can
imagine why. It began yesterday around 3pm and ended around
5. Well before dark. Hmmm. No one wants to be near Dahmer's
house after dark on All Hallows Eve?
  Hmmm.
  So yes, for this feature I hop on my mountain bike and
ride over to the plot of land where Dahmer's house used
to sit. As you know from last feature, the place is fenced
in, locked and overgrown. I don't get much vibe when I come
here yet. Each time I feel trepidation, but it's my own. I
don't sense any other spirits yet. But that's not the only
thing I came here for. You know that. I come for the quiet.
The thinking. And especially to wrestle with issues of 
 violence. Non-violence is a constant struggle. And what 
  better a place than the subtle shrine to such horror 
   could there be for doing this. Right?
C   So this weekend somewhere between 99,000 and 250,000 
L people protested George W Bush's plans for war. And that 
O number's just for Washington! Another 100K protested in 
S SF at the same time, give or take an hour or a time zone. 
E And at least a million other people were dotted around the 
  globe by the hundreds and thousands in just about every 
D major and medium sized city in the world. Almost all of 
O them stand against the upcoming new invasions in Iraq. 
W The No-Fly zones are coming under question, as is 
N national autonomy. Of course George isn't trying to 
  hear this. He spent the weekend in Mexico, avoiding 
T the press at all cost. He only spoke up to give condolences 
H to people who grieve for Senator Wellstone who just died 
E in a plane crash a week or so before his next election.
    George W. Bush is a fairly violent man. Saying this borders
S on understatement. Check out his rhetoric each time he executed
O a young black man in Texas. So now he's going to lead a whole
A nation to attempt bloodbathing another nation. AND WITHOUT THE
  SUPPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. No matter how hard he
! tried to manufacture consent -- and try he did, you can see it
  oozing out of each pore -- he couldn't get any support. So the
 Untied States are going to go it alone. How many more humans
need to die before someone in the world has the courage to call 
Washington for what it is. 
  A belligerent.


            The red brick driveway 
    Next to the Munson Company cyclone fence
             Between Hong Fat Co.
                And Ameritech


  So Jeffery Dahmer killed many young boys, mostly black.
  George W Bush is currently killing many young boys, mostly
black. Just a different way, huh? You could almost say Dahmer
has more courage, he did so with his bare hands.
  George W Bush does the Franco thing. Sticks out his hand,
essentially, pointing someone out, saying "Matalo," (spanish
for "kill it") and hours or days later the person ends up
dead. That's what high tech war is like. You spin your globe
around, point out a thumbtack on it, and say "matalo." And
a month or two later, a year or two later, a decade or two
later, the genocide has been complete. 
  So I've called the pResident of the Untied States a mass
murderer. Many will not say it out loud, but how many don't
feel it? How many don't have that thought in mind? Really.
I wonder that.
  And lastly, on the topic of violence. George W Bush hasn't
applauded the use of biochem agents on "terrorists" in Russia
this weekend. But he refuses to write a position paper speaking
out AGAINST it either. This is frightening. If you read Ari
Fletcher's rhetoric carefully, he's reserving the right to do
likewise in the EEUU. It's already wishy-washy in this nation's
psyche what is a terrorist and what is not a terrorist. How 
quickly could Bush give the go-ahead say, to gas the next
David Koresh, Randy Weaver or Winona Ryder?
  AND WHAT THE PLUCK FLUCK GRUCKETY GUCK, GIVES US THE RIGHT
TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST HUSSEIN "GASSING HIS OWN PEOPLE" WHEN
WE ALL BUT APPLAUD OUR TENUOUS ALLY RUSSIA DOING THE SAME
TO THEIR OWN??? Never mind the fact that there's a strong
likelyhood that the gas used in Iraq, and the gas used in
Russia came from our very own Pfizer, Warner-Lambert or 
Squibb?
  So that's the wider violence I'm wrestling with today.
Narrower is stuff like road-rage, flipping off a patrolman
at a signal light or browbeating a desk clerk, right?
  And what about calling the cops on someone. Am I one of 
the only ones who recognizes right away that clamping
down on someone using the State as your enforcer, is not
all that much different from punching their teeth down
their throat?
  A policeman yesterday told me at the homeless shelter
I help run, that if a certain loiterer is as he says, a
guest of ours then he can't do anything to him. Would I
be willing to say he's not our guest. 
  Wow, to look him in the eye and say yes, the deed is
done. I lock this person up for 3 months to a year. It
hinges on my word.
  I will only say that in the 4 months I've been here he
has never been our guest. I don't know he hadn't lived 
here many years ago, or that he's not related to someone
who lives here currently, and I will NOT give a list of
who does. And I will not comply beyond that. 
  The cop thanked me for my time, offered to run my name
date of birth and address and go about his business.
  I've dealt with this kind of energy for almost 9 years
now at various different shelters I've run. It's icky
every single time. Whenever I've had to call the police
because there's no other non-violent way to get a particular
person to leave, I've felt downright icky. Wrestling with
it the next 4 days or so, I'm always left wondering if
I wouldn't have less to process had I picked him up, carried
him to the porch and punched him a few dozen times before
throwing him down the stairs, shouting "and stay out."
  Jefferey Dahmer is dead. The Bush administration is not.
And we as people are still alive.
  So far.

   =30=

  [ed note: this feature was conceived just a
   few weeks ago - shortly after a Milwaukee man 
   was beaten to death by children ages 10-14 here 
   in Milwaukee. Vigils began out in front of the 
   house where the beating happened. Candles and 
   prayer. Ummm. About 10 blocks walking distance 
   from Dahmer's house? Perhaps an even more 
   fitting memorial would be a weekly midnite walk
   from that house to Dahmer's; while addressing
   issues of nonviolence. Are we ready for that?
   How many decades?? ]




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I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket.
Hmmm.
  It's been a long time since I've turned off the
car but kept the radio on until a song ended before
going inside. 
  There just weren't any worthy songs in a long 
while. This one got me. Catchy or something. Well,
that's Cake for you.





LINDOWS NOTE:

Straight from the Associated Press

"Users are logged on automatically as an administrator
making the system vulnerable to hackers and self-destruction."

Can you say, root@irc.dot.net ?



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T-Shirt. 
Picture of a Helicopter over a large palatial building:

Big black, block letters: 

WAR IS OBSOLETE AND THE DRACONIAN CURRENT "PRESIDENT" 
SHOULD BE NOT CONSIDERED FOR RE-ELECTION.
  IMPEACHMENT IS TOO GOOD FOR HIM AND MURDER IS JUST
PLAIN WRONG.
  I SAY WE SURROUND HIS HOUSE BY THE MILLIONS BANGING
ON POTS AND PANS FOR HOWEVER MANY DAYS IT TAKES BEFORE
HE TAKES A HELICOPTER OFF THE ROOF TO SOMEWHERE ELSE.



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BOOK PREREVIEW
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  "The Pinochet File."

  Can't wait to get my hands on this book. Can't wait 
to read any new info about Victor Jara and I especially 
cannot wait to make guesses based on what's included
about the SOA, and what's been excluded during the
upcoming censorship process that the galley pages are
no doubt gauntletting through right now.
  Author: Peter Kornbluh, Isbn: no idea yet, additional
reading: "The Condor Years" by John Dinges. Both pubbed
by The New Press.


LINGUISTICS ALERT :

How come China and Iraq have "gulags" while at the same 
time Leavenworth, USA; and Guantanamo, Cuba are "prisons?"




TAKE NOTE: Nice Quarter-page ad A27 of NYTimes for 
http://www.tompaine.com
  "Independent, commerical-free Public Affairs reporting
and commentary." 
  Wow, they've come a long way in a couple years. I 
remember when it was something more akin to a blog. Have
you seen the pages lately?







Got feedback?
  ati@indymedia.org

dedication: Paul Wellstone.
Soon as you're done mourning, get organizing, ok???