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6. The Knux, "Fire" (video). C'mon, that hook! I am a superhater but even I'm sayin just relax & give in.
Confessions of a Superhero is a feature length documentary that chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one mortal woman who make their living working as superhero characters on Hollywood Boulevard. The Hulk sold his Super Nintendo for a bus ticket to LA; Wonder Woman was a mid-western homecoming queen; Batman struggles with his anger, while Superman’s psyche is consumed by the Man of Steel. This deeply personal view into their daily routines reveals their hardships and triumphs as they pursue and achieve their own kind of fame. 
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2003-2006, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die. Their story echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.
The Least of These explores one of the most controversial aspects of American immigration policy: family detention. As part of the Bush administration policy to end what they termed the “catch and release’” of undocumented immigrants, the U.S. government opened the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in May 2006 as a prototype family detention facility. The facility is a former medium-security prison in central Texas operated by CCA, the largest private prison operator in the country. The facility houses immigrant children and their parents from all over the world who are awaiting asylum hearings or deportation proceedings.
Crawford: In 1999, then Governor George W. Bush bought a ranch in the one-stoplight town of Crawford, Texas, calling it “home” just in time to set his sights on the White House. Having invented Bush’s “folksy image,” the campaign’s victory thrusts Crawford onto the world stage and an insular community of barely 700 explodes overnight. While the high school band plays the inauguration and the Baptist pastor declares a miracle, Crawfordites sell souvenirs hand over fist, finding themselves nearly trampled under the heels of the international press corps, patriotic tourists and boomtown opportunists. Then, four and a half years into Bush’s tenure, Cindy Sheehan and her peace movement arrive at the doorstep of the “Western White House.” Crawford takes center stage.
"Designed as a jumping-off point for parents to discuss drug use with their children, the "Sound Advice Project" converts voice recordings into bracelets with rings representing the waveform of a parent's recorded admonishment. They're $18. It's unknown if there is any sort of vetting process for each recording, but I can testify that "Drugs can be fun and informative. And used responsibly can be part of any healthy person's cognitive life" will just fit into the Flash applet's six-second recording space."
Obscenity (from the Latin obscenus, meaning “foul, repulsive, detestable”) generally covers sexual or scatological references to the body or bodily functions (i.e. f*&k and s#$t). The term is also used in a legal context to describe expressions (whether words, images or actions) that offend the sexual morality of a given time and place and are not protected by the First Amendment.
In this legal context, though, we’re still grappling with what counts as obscene and what does not. Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once famously said that he couldn’t define what kind of material was obscene, but he knew it when he saw it. We’ve came little further with the Miller Test, which comes from the 1973 ruling of the Supreme Court of Miller v. California. If an expression meets these three criteria, then it’s obscene:
1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.
2. The work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law.
3. The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
If the expression fails to meet any one of those criteria, then you’re off the hook. “Average person,” “community standards,” “patently offensive” and “serious value” are all fairly subjective terms, though. Even with the Miller Test, there’s no national standard for what classifies as obscene, and distinctions between protected expression and unprotected obscene expression vary among federal court districts.
If you’re being profane, you don’t need to worry about the Supreme Court (it has no legal definition), but if you believe in an immortal soul, you might be in trouble. Profane (from the Latin profanes, meaning “outside the temple”) originally referred to things not belonging to the church. (oohh, bonus nerdage!) Later it meant blasphemy, sacrilege or taking the Lord’s name in vain (we just call that blasphemy now).
Today, profanity is an expression that is specifically offensive to members of a religious group. The definition also extends to expressions that are scatological, derogatory, racist, sexist, or sexual. What is and isn’t profane largely depends on the context and the company you keep.
Finally, vulgarity (from the Latin vulgis, meaning “the common people,”), which used to refer to text written in a vernacular instead of Latin, has two definitions today, depending on who you ask. For some, vulgarity is generally coarse or crude language. For others, it is more specifically the act of substituting a coarse word in a context where a more refined expression would be expected."
Habana Bar Backyard - Rhymesayers Presents Sure.
1:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. - BK One (Minneapolis, MN)
12:45 a.m. - 1:15 a.m. - Freeway & Jake One (Philadelphia, PA/Seattle, WA)
12:00 a.m. - 12:35 a.m. - Brother Ali (Minneapolis, MN)
11:15 p.m. – 11:45 p.m. - P.O.S (Minneapolis, MN)
10:30 p.m. - 11:05 p.m. - Eyedea & Abilities (St. Paul, MN)
10:00 p.m. - 10:20 p.m. - Abstract Rude (Los Angeles, CA)
9:30 p.m. – 9:50 p.m. - I Self Devine (Minneapolis, MN)
9:00 p.m. - 9:20 p.m. - Toki Wright (Minneapolis, MN)
8:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m. - Plain Ole Bill (Minneapolis, MN)
Dirty Dog Bar !!!!!
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. - 8Ball & MJG (Memphis, TN)
The Independent - LA Record Presents Yes please.
1:00 a.m. – 2:00 a.m. – Blu & Exile (Los Angeles, CA)
12:00 a.m. – 12:40 a.m. – Busdriver (Los Angeles, CA)
Friday March 20th
Austin Music Hall Youknowit.
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. – Tricky (Los Angeles, CA)
the situation depicted above frightens and confuses me.
Boys' stuff is always so much fresher than what they make for the ladies.
No idea who this Charles Herron human is. And unfortunately, the battle for Worst Producer Name in North America is heating up with our newest contestant, Apple Juice Kid. He has the misfortune of looking like some Ed Hardy doofus behind me in line at Whole Foods (the hair, the glasses, it all makes me so cranky):
Van--tortured/brilliant. Substance abuse problem. Per my dad, fell off the stage in Berkeley in 1972 before his show started due to intoxication. Super G, DGAF. "Astral Weeks" is next-next-NEXT-levels aurally pleasing to me, an album so romantic that it's sacred in my world and I don't want to say any more about that and expose my heart on the Internets. 
The Pogues in general, and Shane MacGowan specifically--tortured/brilliant. Substance abuse PROB-LEMMM. If you listen to "Fairytale of New York" on Christmas Day it makes baby Jesus happy (also, the video with a young Matt Dillon is lovely). I have added 18 points to their overall score due to the Elvis Costello factor (produced Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash. Sorry for music-nerd-ing out yet again. Sigh.).
Phil Lynott...no words can express. Tortured/brilliant to the nth + fond of chemicals; no longer with us due to both of those qualities. Everybody talks about Prince's influences...Prince & James Brown, Prince & Sly Stone--C'MON. Listen, I know we've all bro'd down at least once to "The Boys Are Back in Town" at the bar, but hear me when I say that "Jailbreak" is the true jammy.
I have been to the other side, and I have returned with this urgent message to share with all of you:
Diplo & Lil Jon are working together and that is a situation I can endorse.
I'm already labeling this "Ear Candy" and I ain't even heard it yet.
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