So the Navy has given it's highest civilian honor to Nancy Reagan on the occasion of the christening of the USS Reagan... wonder what they gave Jane Wyman?

Just an FYI...Charter is repeating the Nightmares show on channel 13.

Apparently the main problem with "The Brown Bunny" is that it's considered quite tedious except for the sex. What's wrong with the sex is that you see a penis (most certainly a prosthetic stand in.) BUT STILL!!! So it goes. By sheer volumn, I'm sure more has been written in the press about the depiction of this act than "Irreversible's" rape scene and "Breaking the Waves" put together. What's interesting to me is that neither of these brutal films, although controversial, ever reached the pitch of scandal Gallo achieved through a scene, that from all I am able to gather, featured neither violence or nor coercion. It's a strange world we live in.

Movies...Anybody heard about the shit-storm at Cannes over Vincent Gallo's "Brown Bunny?" Seems those legendary European purveyors of cinematic sexuality are aghast because there's fellatio in it. Oh dear, oh dear...And of course what the American press has done with the story has been completely inaccurate as far as I can tell; I watched the press conference too and Chloe Sevigny did not appear to me to show "increasing distaste for Gallo's remarks," nor did he brag about firing Winona Ryder. He DID say she was too tanked on some kind of pill to work, which clearly was breaking some It-Girls club code of silence and made a lot of the press corps visibly nervous. Oh yeah, and Meg Ryan was sitting on his jury. So now his movie's being called "possibly the worst film ever shown at Cannes." (I'd like to see a list...Wasn't "The Night Porter" shown there, too?) It's like having your horse shot out from under you at the starting gate- twice, because he got robbed with "Buffalo '66," too. NOW I've got something to be mad at the French about.

Ok, so in spite of the largest increase in the deficit in recent memory, if not ever, Bush and Co. have decided to give us a tax cut in order to create jobs. Since the time Bush proposed his first tax cut, his leadership has cost America 2 and a half million jobs. Gee, thanks guys!

Ok so, still no WMD's found in Iraq,,, is just possible that we were hoodwinked?

Dink:

In re to The Bystanders - it died a natural death:

Rob Russell is now, appropriately, Rob Russell & the Sore Losers
Bass player Brandon Story is with Reel Time Travelers.

I haven't played much music since.
Not sure about drummer Alan Gamble and Robert Alfonso in regards to musical endeavors.

In regards to the Buccaneers name:

My theory is that they wanted something that sounded like Volunteers and Mountaineers was already taken
by Appalachian State (whose athletic programs precede ETSU's).

I have no facts to back this up.

Giant fake objects...perfect symbolism for giant fake programs inside. The mini dome has been entirely given over to the athletics program (apparently there are still sweaty jock-types running around post-football excision) except for Ditty's lab. That's right, the former Ms. Hagardorn is braving it almost solo except for a handful of other toxicologists in the last outpost of the Medical School still left in the mini dome, all other departments having been moved to "Valhalla 2" some time ago. She tells me the athletes think the eye wash station is a water fountain. I look for some experimentation to occur on these sub-rat creatures in the near future. Resources are scarce and "waste not, want not" should be the new watch words for every college department. And wasn't Donnie's dad practically the whole Geology department?

Would anyone be interested in raising funds to have a brass plaque placed on the Washington County Courthouse with Matthew, Chapter 6, Verses 5 and 6 engraved on it? We could put it on the wall with the 10 commandments!

Heck, are there any songs about how Osama Bin Laden went to war on the US to remove troops from Saudi Arabia, and now we are removing our troops from Saudi Arabia,,,, remind me again, we are winning aren't we???

You mean there's no songs about Mel Bay in the Mel Bay songbook? Awww...

That would be Marty Tinglehoff, now of Atlanta I understand. Final Curtain did something resembling a song about him,,, It concluded with Heather chanting: "The devils in my uterous Marty,,,,, HE'S YOURS MARTY, HE'S YOURS!!!!

1.this rocktalk got me to dig out my rocket from the tombs thingy and soonthereafter by accident i came across peter laughner's review of coney island baby, pure shredding(i now think lou reed, not an overdose, may have actually killed him).

dos. has anyone written a song for/about mel bay? (if i knew html i would display emoticons here)

C. what was the name of that preacher in kingsport who used to burn records? barney or martin tingelhoff? or am i thinking of the late night juicer salesman?