You want one of these doncha' plastique??? By the way the winning bid was $81 U.S. with $9 shipping....ninety smackers for a trip to bountiful!!

Most of that was indeed stuff that looked like it jumped out of the nineties... the water was very nice, and the driving game alerted me to the fact that Blender has a game engine now... which is cool.

Great director, does amazing things practically.

The piece gets a bit wrong in that they say that he directed videos in the nineties for bands like the White Stripes, while showing a video from 2002... a little wrong there...

One of the WORST "good" songs of the nineties.

Real DJs don't take requests. From an early nineties list of pointers for chill DJs:

practice saying "I am not a jukebox" and use this when you get any crap requests

from: So You Want To Be An Ambient DJ

The spiral is tightening, just like the wave of copy-the-sitcoms- feature films that schlocked outta Hollowwood in the nineties, the fads burn out before they do anything but remind the world, how talent-free one can be, and everyone will parrot, laugh, and aspire to rise to similar levels of mediocrity, until the next crack-induced fad, reality show, popular music, or half-decent idea manifests, then everyone goes to copycatting........meh!
See so so many youtube rip-off type efforts in the future, with nothing but different flavours of cheese, to adorn the "display-only" entre's, on the cart at the entrance, to the 24-hour, non-nutritional, media cafe'.

A short film highlighting the work of Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) in Israel. RHR is an organization of Israeli rabbis committed to defending the human rights of all people in Israel and in the territories under Israeli control: Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims, Christians, and Jews, young and old, rich and poor, citizens and foreigners.

Who they are:

Rabbis for Human Rights on January 21st, 2000

“Happy are those who keep the judgments, and practice righteousness at all times”. - Psalm 119

Rabbis for Human Rights is the only organization in Israel today concerned specifically with giving voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights.

Rabbis for Human Rights teaches a different understanding of the Jewish tradition.

Rabbis for Human Rights is the only Israeli rabbinic organization comprised of Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and students.

Rabbis for Human Rights counts among its members rabbis in national leadership positions, as well as educators and congregational rabbis capable of influencing change from the grass roots.

Rabbis for Human Rights is an important outlet for information on human rights in Israel and the territories.

Rabbis for Human Rights is widely respected by journalists and other human rights organizations, and is often quoted in international media.

Rabbis for Human Rights received the “Speaker of the Knesset’s Award for the Quality of Life in the field of Enhancing the Rule of Law and Democratic values, Protecting Human rights, and Encouraging Tolerance and Mutual Respect.

Rabbis for Human Rights is the rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel.

Rabbis for Human Rights was founded in 1988, in response to serious abuses of human rights by the Israeli military authorities in the suppression of the Intifada. The indifference of much of the country’s religious leadership and religiously identified citizenry to the suffering of innocent people seen as the enemy was a cause of concern toRabbis for Human Rights organizers.

Rabbis for Human Rights reminds and demonstrates to both the religious and the non-religious sectors of the public need to be reminded that Judaism had another face. Human rights abuses are not compatible with the age-old Jewish tradition of humaneness and moral responsibility or the Biblical concern for “The stranger in your midst.”–even in the face of the danger to public order and safety which the uprising represented.

Rabbis for Human Rights membership includes some ninety ordained rabbis,plus a number of rabbinic students.

Rabbis for Human Rights has no affiliation with any political party or ideology. Its members are Israeli citizens.

Rabbis for Human Rights brings specific human-rights grievances to the attention of the Israeli public and to pressure the appropriate authorities for their redress.

Rabbis for Human Rights is involved in ecumenical dialogue and educational activities. In addition to dealing with violations of human rights of West Bank Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.

Rabbis for Human Rights concerns itself with foreign workers, the Israeli health care system, the status of women, Ethiopian Jews, an Israeli bill of rights, to name only a few issues.

Rabbis for Human Rights publishes scores of timely books and articles. Our latest book, Life, Liberty and Equality In the Jewish Tradition by Noam Zohar has been very warmly received.

http://rhr.israel.net/

Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer who emigrated to the United States, living in Los Angeles until his death in 1963. He was a member of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts. Through his novels and essays Huxley functioned as an examiner and sometimes critic of social mores, societal norms and ideals. Huxley was a humanist but was also interested towards the end of his life in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, about which he also wrote. By the end of his life, Huxley was considered, in many academic circles, a 'leader of modern thought' and an intellectual of the highest rank.

* On truth: "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."

* On psychological totalitarianism (1959): "And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."

* On social organizations: "One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters."

* On heroin: "Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water, and potatoes till ninety-five? One passes his twenty-four months in eternity. All the years of the beef-eater are lived only in time."

* On words: "Words form the thread on which we string our experiences."

* On experience: "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." – Texts and Pretexts, 1932

* After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.- Music at Night, 1931

* "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - - Aldous Huxley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

sorry he says advanced and most advanced like ninety times, it had to be a tag.

Interesting bit of trivia, one of the reasons that this track is remarkable is that is shows off Richie using his brand new Devilfish modified 303 that was sent to him by the creator in 1994.

Back in the early nineties crazy technoheads in Australia went absolutely berzerk, drilling a dozen tiny holes in the faceplate of their Roland TB303. They hacked the circuitry and more than doubled the number of knobs and switchs. Suddenly the quirky, liquid sound of the TB303 is even more eccentric than ever before.

The 303 is just smoking me . . We've never heard
anything like it . . just freaking out and literally bouncing
off the walls shouting 'Yeah! Yeah! This is what we want! This
is what we want!'"

Then I designed some circuit boards and a front panel so I
could do the modifications properly. The first one was my own
303 - which later went to Richie Hawtin. This is serial number
-001.

from: http://www.firstpr.com.au/rwi/dfish/dfspank.html

That's right, they loved it so much, they sent it to their favourite 303 wizard, Richie Hawtin, AKA Plastikman. The very first, and only one in the world. Serial number -001. Negative One.

This track is what Richie came up with. So hot!

Currently the idea of drilling holes in your 303 is terrifying. They are fetishized and totally collectors items. If you want a devilfish, you have to send your 303 to Australia and pay them to mod yours. They are so hard to find that they have sold for over $1000 on eBay. Sometimes WELL more. And this is for an instrument that has essentially one sound.

...

But what a sound.

I <3 ACIEEED!

I'm 'pounding' out the doves here, but they are an amazing band. They used to be called sub sub (a dance act) back in the early nineties (I would only have been ten and non the wiser, but I remember saying they were my favourite group) They released a few singles of note. These were 'Space face' and 'Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)'. They bought a studio with the money... Things went wrong, it burnt down, and they were lost to all for a number of years until they came back strong in 2000 as Doves with the album 'Lost souls', a melancholic masterpiece of beauty. I saw them live when they toured their second album 'The last broadcast'. They were awesome.

boy i can´t stand those english german-war-jokes anymore. it´s like the only thing their boulevard like "The Sun" has to offer. It was horrible at the time of the soccer world cup. obviously the English are deeply traumatized.

If you visit England as a German i swear AT LEAST ninety % of all people you meet will greet you with "Heil!" or will clap their heels. It seems whereas every other country as succeeded in coming over the war the English haven´t.

It just makes me sick.

best part is when they give the mime some money, and then both do a double back flip away from him...

I sort of wanted some cheesy circa late nineties block test to pop out saying "SCHOOLED"