OUR BAD!
Due to Tachi's spending all our dough on that stupid Moron's guide to Holiday Specials we didn't have enough bread to feed the starving people over at live365, so we kinda lost our station for a bit. Gee just after we got some new listeners too. We probably lost them all. Sorry we let you down people. Bad Tachi, bad robot. Not tasty DDDRs for you.
We are Happy to anounce a very special Birthday. Domo-kun spokesmonster of Japan's NHK television station has turned 1o this week. Way to go Domo!
We are also happy to annoce that speckled spectacular Tina Fey as won AP's entertainer of the year award! Way to go Tina! Girls with glasses rock!
Now some sad news...we lost an iconic singer this week. Known perhaps best as her part as Catwomen on the old school batman series and her song, "Santa Baby"
Eartha Mae Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable for the final season.
Biography
Early years
Kitt was born Eartha Mae Keith on a cotton plantation in the town of North, South Carolina, a small town in Orangeburg County near Columbia, South Carolina. Her mother was of Cherokee and African-American descent and her father of German and Dutch descent. She claimed she was conceived by rape.
Kitt was raised by her mother's sister, Anna Mae Riley, an African-American woman whom she believed to be her mother. Kitt claimed that she suffered abuse and neglect at the hands of a family to whom Anna Mae Riley entrusted her—"given away for slavery," as she described it in many interviews. Kitt said that as she was given away, she always wondered who would accept her and was afraid of being rejected. After Riley's death, she was sent to live in New York City with Mamie Kitt, who she learned was her biological mother; she had no knowledge of her father, except that his surname was Kitt and that he was supposedly a son of the owner of the farm where she had been born.[4] Newspaper obituaries state that her white father was "a poor cotton farmer."
Career
Eartha Kitt began her career as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company and made her film debut with them in Casbah (1948). A talented singer with a distinctive voice, her hits include "Let's Do It", "Champagne Taste", "C'est si bon", "Just an Old Fashioned Girl", "Monotonous", "Je cherche un homme", "Love for Sale", "I'd Rather Be Burned as a Witch", "Uska Dara", "Mink, Schmink", "Under the Bridges of Paris", and her most recognizable hit, "Santa Baby", which was released in 1953. Kitt's unique style was enhanced as she became fluent in the French language during her years performing in Europe. She had some skill in other languages too, which she demonstrates with finesse in many of the live recordings of her cabaret performances.
Film debut
In 1950, Orson Welles gave her her first starring role, as Helen of Troy in his staging of Dr. Faustus. A few years later, she was cast in the revue New Faces of 1952 introducing "Monotonous" and "Bal, Petit Bal", two songs with which she continues to be identified. In 1954, 20th Century Fox filmed a version of the revue simply titled New Faces. Though it's often falsely alleged that Welles and Kitt had an affair during her run in Shinbone Alley, Kitt categorically denied this in a June 2001 interview with George Wayne of Vanity Fair. "I never had sex with Orson Welles," Kitt told Vanity Fair, "It was a working situation and nothing else". In 1958, Kitt made her feature film debut opposite Sidney Poitier in The Mark of the Hawk. Throughout the rest of the 1950s and early 1960s, Kitt would work on and off in film, television and on nightclub stages. In 1964, Kitt helped open the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California. Also in the 1960s, the television series Batman featured her as Catwoman after Julie Newmar left the role.
However, in 1968, during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kitt encountered a substantial professional setback after she made anti-war statements during a White House luncheon. "In 1968 she was invited to a White House luncheon and was asked by Lady Bird Johnson about the Vietnam War. She replied: 'You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.' The remark reportedly caused Mrs. Johnson to burst into tears and led to a derailment in Ms. Kitt's career." The public reaction to Kitt's statements was much more extreme, both for and against her statements. Publicly ostracized in the US, she devoted her energies to overseas performances.
Broadway
During that time, cultural references to her grew, including outside the United States, such as the well-known Monty Python sketch "The Cycling Tour", where an amnesiac believes he is first Clodagh Rodgers, then Trotsky and finally Eartha Kitt (while performing to an enthusiastic crowd in Moscow). She returned to New York in a triumphant turn in the Broadway spectacle Timbuktu! (a version of the perennial Kismet set in Africa) in 1978. In the musical, one song gives a "recipe" for mahoun, a preparation of cannabis, in which her sultry purring rendition of the refrain "constantly stirring with a long wooden spoon" was distinctive.
In 1984, she returned to the music charts with a disco song, "Where Is My Man", the first certified gold record of her career. "Where Is My Man" reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at #36; The song also made the Top 10 on the US Billboard dance chart, where it reached #7. The single was followed by the album "I Love Men" on the Record Shack label. Kitt found new audiences in nightclubs across the UK and the US, including a whole new generation of gay male fans, and she responded by frequently giving benefit performances in support of HIV/AIDS organizations. Her 1989 follow-up hit "Cha-Cha Heels" (featuring Bronski Beat), which was originally intended to be recorded by Divine, received a positive response from UK dance clubs and reached #32 in the charts in that country.
Later years
Eartha Kitt in concert, 2007In 1992, Kitt had a supporting role as Lady Eloise in the hit film Boomerang starring Eddie Murphy. In the late 1990s, she appeared as the Wicked Witch of the West in the North American national touring company of The Wizard of Oz. In 2000, Kitt again returned to Broadway in the short-lived run of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party opposite Mandy Patinkin and Toni Collette. Beginning in late 2000, she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the US national tour of Cinderella alongside Deborah Gibson and then Jamie-Lynn Sigler. In 2003, she replaced Chita Rivera in Nine. She reprised her role as the Fairy Godmother at a special engagement of Cinderella, which took place at Lincoln Center during the holiday season of 2004.
One of her more unusual roles was as Kaa the python in a 1994 BBC Radio adaptation of The Jungle Book. Kitt lent her distinctive voice to the role of Yzma in Disney's The Emperor's New Groove, for which she won her first Annie Award, and returned to the role in the straight-to-video sequel Kronk's New Groove and the spin-off TV series The Emperor's New School, for which she won two Emmy Awards and two more Annie Awards (both in 2007–08) for Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production. She had a voiceover as the voice of Queen Vexus on the animated TV series My Life as a Teenage Robot.
In recent years, Kitt's annual appearances in New York made her a fixture on the Manhattan cabaret scene. She would take the stage at venues such as the Ballroom and the Café Carlyle to explore and define her highly stylized image, alternating between signature songs such as Old Fashioned Millionaire, which emphasized a witty, mercenary world-weariness, and less familiar repertoire, much of which she performed with an unexpected ferocity and bite that presented her as a survivor with a seemingly bottomless reservoir of resilience: her version of "Here's to Life", frequently used as a closing number, was a sterling example of the latter. This facet of her later performances was reflected in at least one of her recordings, Thinking Jazz, which preserved a series of performances with a small jazz combo that took place in the early 1990s in Germany and which included both standards ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes") and numbers ("Something May Go Wrong") that seemed more specifically tailored to her talents; one version of the CD includes as bonus performances a fierce, angry Yesterday and a live rendering of "C'est Si Bon" that good-naturedly satirized her sex-kitten persona.
From October to early December, 2006, Kitt co-starred in the Off-Broadway musical Mimi le Duck. She also appeared in the 2007 independent film And Then Came Love opposite Vanessa L. Williams.
In 1978, she did the voice-over in a TV commercial for the album Aja by the rock group Steely Dan.
Personal life
After romances with the cosmetics magnate Charles Revson and banking heir John Barry Ryan III, she was married to John William McDonald, an associate of a real-estate investment company, from June 6, 1960, to 1965. They had one child, a daughter, Kitt (b. 1962, married Charles Lawrence Shapiro). Eartha had two grandchildren, Jason and Rachel Shapiro. A long- time Connecticut resident, Kitt lived in a converted barn on a sprawling farm in the Merryall section of New Milford for many years and was active in local charities and causes throughout Litchfield County. Subsequently moving to Pound Ridge, New York, then in 2002 Kitt moved to the southern Fairfield County town of Weston, Connecticut to be near her daughter's family.
Kitt became a vocal advocate for gay rights and publicly supported same-sex marriage, which she believed to be a civil right. She had been quoted as saying: "I support it [gay marriage] because we're asking for the same thing. If I have a partner and something happens to me, I want that partner to enjoy the benefits of what we have reaped together. It's a civil-rights thing, isn't it?"
Kitt wrote three autobiographies – Thursday's Child (1956), Alone with Me (1976), and I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten (1989).
Kitt was the spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics' Smoke Signals collection in August 2007. She re-recorded "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" for the occasion, was showcased on the MAC website, and the song was played at all MAC locations carrying the collection for the month.
Death
Kitt died from colon cancer on December 25, 2008 at her Weston, Connecticut home at the age of 81.
Awards and nominations
Awards
1960 Hollywood Walk of Fame—6656 Hollywood Boulevard.
2001 Annie Award for Best Voice Acting by a Female Performer in a Featured Film—The Emperor's New Groove
2007 Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production—The Emperor's New School
2007 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program—The Emperor's New School
2008 Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production—The Emperor's New School
2008 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program—The Emperor's New School
Nominations
1966 Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama—I Spy
1978 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical—Timbuktu!
1996 Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series—Living Single
2000 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical—The Wild Party
2000 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical—The Wild Party
Works
Discography
C'est Si Bon (1954)
Santa Baby (1954)
Santa Baby (1955)
Under The Bridges Of Paris (1955) (UK #7)
Just An Old Fashioned Girl (1958)
Che Vale Per Me (1968)
Where Is My Man (1983) (UK #36)
I Love Men (1984) (UK #50)
I Don't Care (1986)
This Is My Life (1986) (UK #73)
Arabian Song (1987)
Cha Cha Heels (Feat:Bronski Beat) (1989) (UK #32)
If I Love Ya Then I Need Ya (1994) (UK #43)
Santa Baby (2007) (UK #84)
Filmography
Casbah (1948)
New Faces (1954)
The Mark of the Hawk (1958)
St. Louis Blues (1958)
Anna Lucasta (1959)
Saint of Devil's Island (1961)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965) (voice)
Synanon (1965)
All About People (1967) (short subject) (narrator)
Up the Chastity Belt (1971)
Friday Foster (1975)
All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story (1983)
The Serpent Warriors (1985)
The Pink Chiquitas (1987) (voice)
Dragonard (1987)
Master of Dragonard Hill (1989)
Erik the Viking (1989)
Living Doll (1990)
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Boomerang (1992)
Fatal Instinct (1993)
Unzipped (1995)
Harriet the Spy (1996)
Ill Gotten Gains (1997)
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998) (voice)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) (voice of Yzma)
The Making and Meaning of We Are Family (2002)
The Sweatbox (2002) (documentary)
Anything But Love (2002)
Holes (2003)
On the One (2005)
Preaching to the Choir (2005)
Kronk's New Groove (2005) (voice of Yzma)
And Then Came Love (2007)
Television
What's My Line? (May 30, 1954 as Mystery Guest)
The Nat King Cole Show (guest star in 1956)
I Spy (guest star in "The Loser", 1965)
Batman (guest star in 1967 and 1968 as Catwoman) Mission: Impossible (guest star in "The Traitor", 1967, season 1)
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife (1972)
To Kill a Cop (1978)
Miami Vice (as Priestess Chata, 1985)
Desperately Seeking Roger (1991)
Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1994)
Living Single (1995)
The Nanny (guest star in 1996)
The Wild Thornberrys (1998) (voice of Lionesses in the episode "Flood Warning")
Feast of All Saints (2001) (miniseries)
Santa Baby! (2001) (narrator/voice)
My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003-2009) (voice of Vexus)
The Emperor's New School (2006–2009) (voice of Yzma)
Stage
Carib Song (1945)
Bal Negre (1946)
New Faces of 1952 (1952)
Mrs. Patterson (1954)
Shinbone Alley (1957)
Jolly's Progress (1959)
Bunny with David Kosoff (1973)
Timbuktu! (1978)
Follies (London, 1988)
Aladdin (Manchester 1989)
The Wild Party (2000)
Cinderella (circa 2001)
Nine (2003)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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4. absolute rule over all life on earth.
Now for the anniversey. 40 years ago this year 3 brave men set out on an adventure had them traveling from the safe confines from this world to the cold unforgiving reaches of outer space. There they took a trip to vist Earth's nearest neighbor and after circling around it like some metallic moth around a candle in the night, these brave souls returned safely home, paving the way to the first lunar landing. Frank F. Borman II, James A. Lovell, Jr, William A. Anders, along with all the scientists and engineers that made this possible, we at IJ Studios, home to the birthplace of the moon, salute you Apollo 8.
I guess that makes a good segway to move along into our next articale of interest,though it is not about remembering so much an event that took us took three men to outer space, but a person who helped us all get there in the comfort of our own televisions.
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (born Majel Leigh Hudec, February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008) was an American actress and producer. She was also the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
As a result of her marriage to Gene Roddenberry and her ongoing relationship with Star Trek – participating in some way in every series to date – she was sometimes referred to as "the First Lady of Star Trek". She and Gene Roddenberry were married in Japan on August 6, 1969, after the cancellation of the original Star Trek series.
Biography
Born Majel Leigh Hudec on February 23, 1932, in Cleveland, Ohio, she began taking acting classes as a child. She attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, then had some stage roles and came to Hollywood. In the late 1950s and 1960s, she had bit parts in a few movies and small roles in TV series. She worked at the Desilu Studios on several TV shows, including Bonanza, The Untouchables, The Lucy Show, and The Lieutenant. She received training in comedy from Lucille Ball. In 1960, she played Gwen Rutherford on Leave it to Beaver. She was also briefly seen in the film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? in an ad parody at the beginning of the film. Barrett is the mother of Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr.
Star Trek
In various roles, Barrett had been in every incarnation of the popular science fiction Star Trek franchise, including live-action and animated versions, television and cinema, and all of the time periods in which the various series have been set.
She first appeared in Star Trek's initial pilot, "The Cage," as the USS Enterprise's unnamed first officer, "Number One." Barrett was romantically involved with Roddenberry, whose marriage was then on the verge of failing, at the time, and the idea of having an otherwise unknown woman in a leading role with a position of authority, because she was the producer's girlfriend, is said to have infuriated NBC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man. William Shatner corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at test screenings hated the character as well. Shatner noted that women viewers felt she was "pushy" and "annoying" and also thought that "Number One shouldn't be trying so hard to fit in with the men." Barrett often joked that Roddenberry, given the choice between keeping Mr. Spock (whom the network also hated) or the woman character, "kept the Vulcan and married the woman, 'cause he didn't think Leonard [Nimoy] would have it the other way around."
Her role in subsequent episodes of Star Trek was altered to that of Nurse Christine Chapel, a frequently recurring character, known for her unrequited affection for the emotionless Spock. In an early scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, viewers are informed that she has now become Doctor Chapel, a role which she reprised briefly in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Barrett provided several voices for Star Trek: The Animated Series, including those of Nurse Chapel and a communications officer named M'Ress, an ailuroid officer who served alongside Uhura. She would return years later in Star Trek: The Next Generation, cast as the outrageously self-deterministic, iconoclastic Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi, who appeared as a recurring character in the series. Her character often vexed the captain of the Enterprise, Jean Luc Picard, who spurned her amorous advances. Barrett later appeared as Ambassador Troi in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where in stark contrast, she developed a strong relationship with Constable Odo.
She provided the regular voice of the onboard computers of Federation starships for Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and most of the Star Trek movies. She reprised her role as a shipboard computer's voice in two episodes of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise. She also lent her voice to various computer games and software related to the franchise. Roddenberry had also made a point of attending a major Star Trek convention each year in an effort to inspire fans and keep the franchise alive.
Less than 10 days before her death, on December 9, 2008, Roddenberry Productions announced that she would be providing the voice of the ship's computer once again, this time for the 2009 motion picture relaunch of Star Trek. Sean Rossall, a Roddenberry family spokesman, stated that she had already completed the voiceover work, approximately December 4, 2008.
After Star Trek
“ "My mother truly acknowledged and appreciated the fact that 'Star Trek' fans played a vital role in keeping the Roddenberry dream alive for the past 42 years. It was her love for the fans, and their love in return, that kept her going for so long after my father passed away." ”
— Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr.,
San Jose Mercury News
She appeared as Primus Dominic in Roddenberry's 1973 post-apocalyptic TV drama pilot, Genesis II.
After Roddenberry's death, Barrett took material from his archives to bring two of his ideas into production. She was executive producer of Earth: Final Conflict (in which she also played the character Dr. Julianne Belman), and Andromeda.
In a gesture of goodwill between the creators of the Star Trek franchise and of Babylon 5 (whose fans often engaged in a rivalry), she appeared in the latter series' episode "Point of No Return", as Lady Morella, the psychic widow of the Centauri emperor, a role which foreshadowed major plot elements in the series.
Parodying her voice work as the computer for the Star Trek series, Barrett performed as a guest voice on Family Guy as the voice of Stewie Griffin's ship's computer in the episode "Emission Impossible".
The Union Pacific Railroad used her voice talent for their track-side defect detector devices, used in various locations west of the Mississippi River. When a defect is identified, the system responds with her recorded voice announcing information to the train crew over the radio.
Death Barrett-Roddenberry died on December 18, 2008, at her home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California as a result of complications from leukemia. She was 76.
She was buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.
Sigh, the sickbay will seem so empty, the computers, unresponsive, and who will grace the enterprise now and then to cause all sorts using a visit to her daughtera s an excuse. We trully lost both the King and Queen of televised scifi.
Now we close this installment with world shuddering news. No not an earthquake, or an orbital shift. It is teh death of an icon. The disgruntal g-man that offers information on organization's disgretions against the law. We speak none other then the infamous Mark Felt, better know as Deep Throat. Shhhh. It's a secret.
William Mark Felt aka Deep Throat
William Mark Felt, Sr. (August 17, 1913–December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005 to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called "Deep Throat."
Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's Washington headquarters. During the early investigation of the Watergate scandal (1972–74), Felt was the Bureau's Associate Director, the second-ranking post in the FBI. While Associate Director, Felt provided Washington Post reporter Woodward with critical leads on the story that eventually saw the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. In 1980, Felt was convicted of the felony of violating the civil rights of people thought to be associated with members of the Weather Underground by ordering FBI agents to search their homes as part of an attempt to prevent bombings. He was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal. In 2006, he published an update of his 1979 autobiography, The FBI Pyramid. His new book, written with John O'Connor, is titled A G-Man's Life.
Family and early career
William Mark Felt was born on August 17, 1913 in Twin Falls, Idaho, the son of carpenter and building contractor Mark Earl Felt and his wife, the former Rose R. Dygert. After graduating from Twin Falls High School in 1931, he received a BA from the University of Idaho in 1935, and was a member and president of the Gamma Gamma chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
He went to Washington, D.C. to work in the office of U.S. Senator James P. Pope (D-Idaho). In 1938, Felt married Audrey Robinson of Gooding, Idaho, whom he had known when they were both students at the University of Idaho. She had come to Washington to work at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and they were wed by the chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, the Rev. Sheara Montgomery. Felt and Audrey, who died in 1984, had two children, Joan and Mark.
Felt stayed on with Pope's successor in the Senate, David Worth Clark (D-Idaho). Felt attended The George Washington University Law School at night, earning his law degree in 1940, and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1941.
Upon graduation, Felt took a position at the Federal Trade Commission but did not enjoy the work. His workload was very light. He was assigned a case to investigate whether a toilet paper brand called "Red Cross" was misleading consumers into thinking it was endorsed by the American Red Cross. Felt wrote in his memoir:
My research, which required days of travel and hundreds of interviews, produced two definite conclusions:
1. Most people did use toilet tissue.
2. Most people did not appreciate being asked about it.
That was when I started looking for other employment.
He applied for a job with the FBI in November 1941 and was accepted. His first day at the Bureau was January 26, 1942.
Early FBI years
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover often moved Bureau agents around so they would have wide experience. Hoover, Felt observed, "wanted every agent to get into any Field office at anytime. Since he had never been transferred and did not have a family, he had no idea of the financial and personal hardship involved."
After completing sixteen weeks of training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia and FBI Headquarters in Washington, Felt was first assigned to Texas, working in the field offices in Houston and San Antonio, spending three months in each. He then returned to the "Seat of Government", as Hoover called FBI headquarters, and was assigned to the Espionage Section of the Domestic Intelligence Division, tracking down spies and saboteurs during World War II, where he worked on the Major Case Desk. His most notable work there was on the "Peasant" case. Helmut Goldschmidt, operating under the codename "Peasant", was a German agent in custody in England. Under Felt's direction, his German masters were informed "Peasant" had made his way to the United States, and were fed disinformation on Allied plans.
The Espionage Section was abolished in May 1945 after V-E Day. After the war, he was again in the field, sent first to Seattle, Washington. After two years of general work, he spent two years as a firearms instructor and was promoted from agent to supervisor. Upon passage of the Atomic Energy Act and the creation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the Seattle office became responsible for completing background checks of workers at the Hanford plutonium plant near Richland, Washington. Felt oversaw these checks.
In 1954, Felt returned briefly to Washington as an inspector's aide. Two months later, Felt was sent to New Orleans, Louisiana, as assistant special agent in charge of the field office. When he was transferred to Los Angeles, California fifteen months later, he held the same rank there. In 1956, Felt was transferred to Salt Lake City, Utah, and promoted to special agent in charge. The Salt Lake office included Nevada within its purview, and while there, Felt oversaw some of the Bureau's earliest investigations into organized crime with the Mob's operations in the casinos of Reno and Las Vegas. (It was Hoover's, and therefore the Bureau's official position at the time, that there was no such thing as the Mob). In February 1958, he went to Kansas City, Missouri, in his memoir dubbed "the Siberia of Field Offices", where he oversaw additional investigations of organized crime.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, photographed in 1961. Hoover appointed Felt the third ranking official in the Bureau in 1971.He returned to Washington in September 1962. As assistant to the Bureau's assistant director in charge of the Training Division, Felt helped oversee the FBI Academy. In November 1964, he became assistant director of the Bureau, as chief inspector of the Bureau and head of the Inspection Division . This division oversaw compliance with Bureau regulations and conducted internal investigations.
On July 1, 1971, Felt was promoted by Hoover to Deputy Associate Director, assisting Associate Director Clyde A. Tolson. Hoover's right-hand man for decades, Tolson was in failing health and no longer able to attend to his duties. Richard Gid Powers wrote that Hoover installed Felt to rein in William C. Sullivan's domestic spying operations, as Sullivan had been engaged in secret unofficial work for the White House. In his memoir, Felt quoted Hoover as having said, "I need someone who can control Sullivan. I think you know he has been getting out of hand." In his book, The Bureau, Ronald Kessler said, "Felt managed to please Hoover by being tactful with him and tough on agents." Curt Gentry called Felt "the director's latest fair-haired boy", but who had "no inherent power" in his new post, the real number three being John P. Mohr.
Among the criminal groups that the FBI investigated in the early 1970s was the Weather Underground. The case ended up being dismissed because of illegal activities by the FBI, including wiretaps, break-ins and mail interceptions. The lead federal prosecutor on the case, William C. Ibershof, claims that Mark Felt and Attorney General John N. Mitchell initiated these illegal activities that tainted the investigation.
In 1976, Felt publicly stated he had ordered break-ins and that individual agents were merely obeying orders and should not be punished for it. Felt also stated that acting Director L. Patrick Gray had also authorized the break-ins, but Gray denied this. Felt said on the CBS television program Face the Nation that he would probably be a "scapegoat" for the Bureau's work. "I think this is justified and I'd do it again tomorrow", he said on the program. While admitting the break-ins were "extralegal", he justified it as protecting the "greater good." Felt said:
To not take action against these people and know of a bombing in advance would simply be to stick your fingers in your ears and protect your eardrums when the explosion went off and then start the investigation.
After Hoover's death
L. Patrick Gray, acting director of the FBI from May 1972 to April 1973.Hoover died in his sleep and was found on the morning of May 2, 1972. Tolson was nominally in charge until the next day when Nixon appointed L. Patrick Gray III as acting FBI director. Tolson submitted his resignation, which Gray accepted. Felt took Tolson's post as Associate Director, the number-two job in the bureau. Felt served as an honorary pallbearer at Hoover's funeral.
On the day of his death, Hoover's secretary for five decades, Helen Gandy, began destroying his files. She turned over twelve boxes of the "Official/Confidential" files to Felt on May 4, 1972. This consisted of 167 files and 17,750 pages, many of them containing derogatory information. Felt stored them in his office, and Gray told the press that afternoon that "there are no dossiers or secret files. There are just general files and I took steps to preserve their integrity." Felt earlier that day had told Gray, "Mr. Gray, the Bureau doesn't have any secret files", and later accompanied Gray to Hoover's office. They found Gandy boxing up papers. Felt said Gray "looked casually at an open file drawer and approved her work", though Gray would later deny he looked at anything. Gandy retained Hoover's "Personal File" and destroyed it. When Felt was called to testify in 1975 by the U.S. House about the destruction of Hoover's papers, he said, "There's no serious problems if we lose some papers. I don't see anything wrong and I still don't." At the same hearing Gandy claimed that she had destroyed Hoover's personal files only after receiving Gray's approval. In a letter submitted to the committee in rebuttal of Gandy's testimony, Gray vehemently denied ever giving such permission. Both Gandy's testimony and Gray's letter were included in the committee's final report.
In his memoir, Felt expressed mixed feelings about Gray. While noting Gray did work hard, he was critical at how often he was away from FBI Headquarters. Gray lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and commuted to Washington. He also visited all of the Bureau's field offices except Honolulu. His frequent absences led to the nickname "Three-Day Gray." These absences, combined with Gray's hospitalization and recuperation from November 20, 1972 to January 2, 1973, meant that Felt was effectively in charge for much of his final year at the Bureau. Bob Woodward wrote "Gray got to be director of the F.B.I. and Felt did the work." Felt wrote in his memoir:
The record amply demonstrates that President Nixon made Pat Gray the Acting Director of the FBI because he wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover's position who would convert the Bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine.
Gray's defenders would later argue that Gray simply practiced a different management style than that of Hoover. Gray's field office visits was something that Hoover had never done, and some felt this did much to raise the morale of the agents working in those field offices. Furthermore, Gray's leadership style of the FBI seemed to mirror the leadership style he learned in the US Navy, in which the executive officer concentrates on the basic operation of the ship, while the captain concentrates on the position and heading of the ship. Felt believed Gray's methods were an unnecessary distraction and showed a lack of leadership, and was sure he was not the only member of the FBI's leadership disapproved of Gray's methods, particularly among those who had served under Hoover.
Watergate
The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Felt saw all the FBI's files on its investigation of the break-in there in 1972.As associate director, Felt saw everything compiled on Watergate before it went to Gray. The agent in charge, Charles Nuzum, sent his findings to Investigative Division head Robert Gebhardt, who then passed the information on to Felt. From the day of the break-in, June 17, 1972, until the FBI investigation was mostly completed in June 1973, Felt was the key control point for FBI information. He had been among the first to learn of the investigation, being informed at 7:00 on the morning of June 17. Ronald Kessler, who had spoken to former Bureau agents, reported that throughout the investigation they "were amazed to see material in Woodward and Bernstein's stories lifted almost verbatim from their reports of interviews a few days or weeks earlier."
Contact with Woodward Bob Woodward first describes his source nicknamed Deep Throat in All the President's Men as "a source in the Executive Branch who had access to information at CRP (the Committee to Re-elect the President, Nixon's 1972 campaign organization), as well as at the White House." The book also calls him "an incurable gossip" who was "in a unique position to observe the Executive Branch", a man "whose fight had been worn out in too many battles." Woodward had known the source before Watergate and had discussed politics and government with him.
Woodward in 2005 wrote that he met Felt at the White House in 1969 or 1970 when Woodward was an aide to Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivering papers to the White House Situation Room. In his book The Secret Man, Woodward described Felt as "a tall man with perfectly combed gray hair. . . distinguished looking" with "a studied air of confidence, even what might be called a command presence." They stayed in touch and spoke on the telephone several times. When Woodward started working at the Washington Post, he phoned Felt on several occasions to ask for information for articles in the Post. Felt's information, taken on a promise that Woodward would never reveal their origin, was a source for a few stories, notably for an article on May 18, 1972, about Arthur H. Bremer, who shot George C. Wallace. When the Watergate story broke, Woodward called on his friend. Felt advised Woodward on June 19 that E. Howard Hunt was involved; the telephone number of his White House office had been listed in the address book of one of the burglars. Initially, Woodward's source was known at the Post as "My Friend", but was tagged "Deep Throat" by Post editor Howard Simons, after the movie. Woodward has written that idea for the nickname first came to Simons because Felt had been providing the information on a deep background basis.
When Felt's name was revealed, it was noted that "My Friend" has the same initial letters as "Mark Felt." Woodward has said this was a coincidence, but in looking back at some of his notes, interviews with Felt during the earliest days of the story were marked with "M.F."
Code for contacting Woodward
Woodward claimed that when he wanted to meet Deep Throat, he would move a flowerpot with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment, number 617, at the Webster House at 1718 P Street, Northwest, and when Deep Throat wanted a meeting, he would circle the page number on page twenty of Woodward's copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands to signal the hour. Adrian Havill questioned these claims in his 1993 biography of Woodward and Bernstein, stating Woodward's balcony faced an interior courtyard and was not visible from the street, but Woodward responded that it has been bricked in since he lived there. Havill also claimed that copies of The Times were not delivered marked by apartment, but Woodward and a former neighbor disputed this claim. Woodward has stated:
How [Felt] could have made a daily observation of my balcony is still a mystery to me. At the time, the back of my building was not enclosed so anyone could have driven in the back alley to observe my balcony. In addition, my balcony and the back of the apartment complex faced onto a courtyard or back area that was shared with a number of other apartment or office buildings in the area. My balcony could have been seen from dozens of apartments or offices.
There were several embassies in the area. The Iraqi embassy was down the street, and I thought it possible that the FBI had surveillance or listening posts nearby. Could Felt have had the counterintelligence agents regularly report on the status of my flag and flowerpot? That seems unlikely, but not impossible.
Haldeman informs Nixon that Felt was leaking information
Days after the break-in, Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman talked about putting pressure on the FBI to slow down the investigation. The FBI had been called in by the District of Columbia police because the burglars had been found with wiretapping equipment, and wiretapping is a crime investigated by the FBI. Haldeman told President Nixon on June 23, 1972, "Mark Felt wants to cooperate because he's ambitious."
Despite initial suspicions that other agents, including Angelo Lano, had been speaking to the Post, in a taped conversation on October 19, 1972, Haldeman told the president that he had sources, which he declined to name, confirming Felt was speaking to the press.
You can't say anything about this because it will screw up our source and there's a real concern. Mitchell is the only one who knows about this and he feels strongly that we better not do anything because . . . If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything.
Haldeman also reported that he had spoken to White House counsel John W. Dean about punishing Felt, but Dean said Felt had committed no crime and could not be prosecuted.
When Gray returned from his sick leave in January 1973, he confronted Felt about being the source for Woodward and Bernstein. Gray said he had defended Felt to Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst: "You know, Mark, Dick Kleindienst told me I ought to get rid of you. He says White House staff members are concerned that you are the FBI source of leaks to Woodward and Bernstein", to which Felt replied, "Pat, I haven't leaked anything to anybody." Gray told Felt,
I told Kleindienst that you've worked with me in a very competent manner and I'm convinced that you are completely loyal. I told him I was not going to move you out. Kleindienst told me, "Pat, I love you for that."
Felt denies he was source
Felt called "obvious" the reasons why he was suspected by the White House as the reporters' source:
I was supposed to be jealous of Gray for having received the appointment as Acting Director instead of myself. They felt that my high position in the FBI gave me access to all the Watergate information and that I was releasing it to Woodward and Bernstein in an effort to discredit Gray so that he would be removed and I would have another chance at the job. Then there were those frequent instances when I had been much less than cooperative in responding to requests from the White House which I felt were improper. I suppose the White House staff had me tagged as an insubordinate.
Felt wrote, "it is true I would like to have been appointed FBI director," but "I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"
Nixon passes over Felt again
President Richard Nixon departing the White House on August 9, 1974, shortly before his resignation took effect. Felt's leaks to Woodward spurred the investigations that led to his resignation.On February 17, 1973, Nixon nominated Gray as Hoover's permanent replacement as director. Until then, Gray had been in limbo as acting director. In another taped conversation on February 28, Nixon spoke to Dean about Felt acting as an informant, and mentioned that he had never met him. Gray was forced to resign on April 27, after it was revealed Gray had destroyed a file that had been in the White House safe of E. Howard Hunt. Gray told his superiors that Felt should be named as his successor.
The day Gray resigned, Kleindienst spoke to Nixon, urging him to appoint Felt as Gray's replacement, but Nixon instead appointed William Ruckelshaus. Stanley Kutler reported that Nixon said, "I don't want him. I can't have him. I just talked to Bill Ruckelshaus and Bill is a Mr. Clean and I want a fellow in there that is not part of the old guard and that is not part of that infighting in there." On another White House tape, from May 11, 1973, Nixon and White House Chief of Staff Alexander M. Haig spoke of Felt leaking material to The New York Times. Nixon said, "he's a bad guy, you see," and that William Sullivan had told him Felt's ambition was to be director of the Bureau.
Felt called his relationship with Ruckelshaus "stormy." He said in his memoir Ruckelshaus was a "security guard sent to see that the FBI did nothing which would displease Mr. Nixon." Felt retired from the Bureau on June 22, 1973, ending a thirty-one-year career.
Trial and conviction
In the early 1970s, Felt oversaw a turbulent period in the FBI's history. The FBI was pursuing radicals in the Weather Underground who had planted bombs at the Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department. Felt, along with Edward S. Miller, authorized FBI agents to break into homes secretly in 1972 and 1973, without a search warrant, on nine separate occasions. These kinds of FBI burglaries were known as "black bag jobs." The break-ins occurred at five addresses in New York and New Jersey, at the homes of relatives and acquaintances of Weather Underground members, and did not lead to the capture of any fugitives. The use of "black bag jobs" by the FBI was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in the Plamondon case, 407 U.S. 297 (1972).
After revelation by the Church Committee of the FBI's illegal activities, many agents were investigated. Felt in 1976 publicly stated he had ordered break-ins and that individual agents were merely obeying orders and should not be punished for it. Felt also stated Gray also authorized the break-ins, but Gray denied this. Felt said on the CBS television program Face the Nation he would probably be a "scapegoat" for the Bureau's work. "I think this is justified and I'd do it again tomorrow", he said on the program. While admitting the break-ins were "extralegal", he justified it as protecting the "greater good." Felt said:
To not take action against these people and know of a bombing in advance would simply be to stick your fingers in your ears and protect your eardrums when the explosion went off and then start the investigation.
The Attorney General in the new Carter administration, Griffin B. Bell, investigated, and on April 10, 1978, a federal grand jury charged Felt, Miller and Gray with conspiracy to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens by searching their homes without warrants, though Gray's case did not go to trial and was dropped by the government for lack of evidence on December 11, 1980. Felt told Ronald Kessler:
I was shocked that I was indicted. You would be too, if you did what you thought was in the best interests of the country and someone on technical grounds indicted you.
The indictment charged violations of Title 18, Section 241 of the United States Code. The indictment charged Felt and the others
did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other to injure and oppress citizens of the United States who were relatives and acquaintances of the Weatherman fugitives, in the free exercise and enjoyments of certain rights and privileges secured to them by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America.
Felt, Gray, and Miller were arraigned in Washington on April 20. Seven hundred current and former FBI agents were outside the courthouse applauding the "Washington Three", as Felt referred to himself and his colleagues in his memoir.
Felt and Miller attempted to plea bargain with the government, willing to agree to a misdemeanor guilty plea to conducting searches without warrants – a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2236 – but the government rejected the offer in 1979. After eight postponements, the case against Felt and Miller went to trial in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on September 18, 1980. On October 29, former President Richard M. Nixon appeared as a rebuttal witness for the defense, and testified that presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt had authorized the bureau to engage in break-ins while conducting foreign intelligence and counterespionage investigations. It was Nixon's first courtroom appearance since his resignation in 1974. Nixon also contributed money to Felt's legal defense fund, Felt's expenses running over $600,000. Also testifying were former Attorneys General Herbert Brownell, Jr., Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Ramsey Clark, John N. Mitchell, and Richard G. Kleindienst, all of whom said warrantless searches in national security matters were commonplace and not understood to be illegal, but Mitchell and Kleindienst denied they had authorized any of the break-ins at issue in the trial. (The Bureau used a national security justification for the searches because it alleged the Weather Underground was in the employ of Cuba.)
The jury returned guilty verdicts on November 6, 1980. Although the charge carried a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, Felt was fined $5,000. (Miller was fined $3,500). Writing in The New York Times a week after the conviction, Roy Cohn claimed that Felt and Miller were being used as scapegoats by the Carter administration and it was an unfair prosecution. Cohn wrote it was the "final dirty trick" and that there had been no "personal motive" to their actions . The Times saluted the convictions saying it showed "the case has established that zeal is no excuse for violating the Constitution."
Felt and Miller appealed the verdict.
Pardon
President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt and Miller.In a phone call on January 30, 1981, Edwin Meese encouraged President Ronald Reagan to issue a pardon, and after further encouragement from law enforcement officials and former bureau agents, he did so. The pardon was given on March 26, but was not announced to the public until April 15. (The delay was partly because Reagan was shot on March 30.) Reagan wrote:
Pursuant to the grant of authority in article II, section 2 of the Constitution of the United States, I have granted full and unconditional pardons to W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller. During their long careers, Mark Felt and Edward Miller served the Federal Bureau of Investigation and our nation with great distinction. To punish them further — after 3 years of criminal prosecution proceedings — would not serve the ends of justice.
Their convictions in the U.S. District Court, on appeal at the time I signed the pardons, grew out of their good-faith belief that their actions were necessary to preserve the security interests of our country. The record demonstrates that they acted not with criminal intent, but in the belief that they had grants of authority reaching to the highest levels of government. America was at war in 1972, and Messrs. Felt and Miller followed procedures they believed essential to keep the Director of the FBI, the Attorney General, and the President of the United States advised of the activities of hostile foreign powers and their collaborators in this country. They have never denied their actions, but, in fact, came forward to acknowledge them publicly in order to relieve their subordinate agents from criminal actions.
Four years ago, thousands of draft evaders and others who violated the Selective Service laws were unconditionally pardoned by my predecessor. America was generous to those who refused to serve their country in the Vietnam war. We can be no less generous to two men who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation.
Nixon sent Felt and Miller bottles of champagne with the note "Justice ultimately prevails." The New York Times disapproved, saying that America "deserved better than a gratuitous revision of the record by the President." Felt and Miller said they would seek repayment of their legal fees from the government.
The chief prosecutor at the trial, John W. Nields, Jr., said "I would warrant that whoever is responsible for the pardons did not read the record of the trial and did not know the facts of the case." Nields also complained that the White House did not consult with the prosecutors in the case, which was usual practice when a pardon was under consideration.
Felt reacted by saying, "I feel very excited and just so pleased that I can hardly contain myself. I am most grateful to the President. I don't know how I'm ever going to be able to thank him. It's just like having a heavy burden lifted off your back. This case has been dragging on for five years." Miller told a press conference the day of the announcement "I certainly owe the Gipper one." Their attorney, Thomas Kennelly, said "We thank God and we thank President Reagan that these two good men have been vindicated at last." Carter Attorney General Griffin Bell said he did not object to the pardons, as the initial convictions showed that behavior such as Felt and Miller's was no longer tolerated.
Despite their pardons, Felt and Miller won permission from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to appeal the conviction so as to remove it from their record and to prevent it being used in civil suits by the victims of the break-ins they ordered. Ultimately, Felt's law license was returned by the court in 1982, which cited Reagan's pardon. In June 1982, Felt and Miller testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee's security and terrorism subcommittee that the restrictions placed on the FBI by Attorney General Edward H. Levi were threatening the country's safety.
Later years
Felt published his memoir The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside in 1979. It was co-written with Hoover biographer Ralph de Toledano, though the latter's name appears only in the copyright notice. Toledano in 2005 wrote that the volume was "largely written by me since his original manuscript read like The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." Toledano said:
Felt swore to me that he was not Deep Throat, that he had never leaked information to the Woodward-Bernstein team or anyone else. The book was published and bombed.
Library Journal wrote in their review that "at one time Felt was assumed to be Watergate's 'Deep Throat'; in this interesting but hardly sensational memoir, he makes it clear that that honor, if honor it be, lies elsewhere."[66] The memoir was a strong defense of Hoover and his tenure as Director and condemned the reaction to criticisms of the Bureau made in the 1970s by the Church Committee and civil libertarians. He also denounced the treatment of Bureau agents as criminals and said the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act of 1974 only served to interfere with government work and helped criminals. (The flavor of his criticisms is apparent with the very first words of the book: "The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact", Justice Robert H. Jackson's comment in his dissent to Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949).) The New York Times Book Review was highly critical of the book saying Felt "seeks to perpetuate a view of Hoover and the F.B.I. that is no longer seriously peddled even on the backs of cereal boxes" and contains "a disturbing number of factual errors", sentiments echoed by Curt Gentry who said Felt was "the keeper of the Hoover flame."
In 1990, Felt moved to Santa Rosa, California, from Alexandria, Virginia, his home since the 1970s. In 1992, he bought a home in Santa Rosa and after that lived with his daughter Joan Felt. He suffered a stroke before 1999, reported Ronald Kessler in his book The Bureau. According to Kessler's book, in the summer of 1999, Woodward showed up unexpectedly at the home of Felt’s daughter Joan and took him to lunch. Joan Felt, who was taking care of him at her home, told Kessler her father greeted Woodward like an old friend, and their mysterious meeting appeared to be more of a celebration than an interview.
“Woodward just showed up at the door and said he was in the area,” Joan Felt was quoted as saying in Kessler’s book, which was published in 2002. "He came in a white limousine, which parked at a schoolyard about ten blocks away. He walked to the house. He asked if it was okay to have a martini with my father at lunch, and I said it would be fine.”
After Woodward left the house to get the limousine, which was parked almost three-quarters of a mile east at Comstock Junior High School, Joan Felt caught up with him to give him further instructions about what her father could eat for lunch. They walked together to the limo, and Joan Felt rode back with Woodward to pick up her father.
Kessler said in his book that the measures Woodward took to conceal his meeting with Felt lent "credence" to the notion that Felt was Deep Throat. After Woodward confirmed that Felt was Deep Throat, the New York Post said on June 3, 2005, "There are plenty of people claiming they knew Deep Throat was actually former FBI man Mark Felt....On May 3, 2002, PAGE SIX reported that Ronald Kessler, author of The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, says that all the evidence points to former top FBI official W. Mark Felt."
Deep Throat speculation
The identity of Deep Throat was debated for over three decades. Jack Limpert had published evidence as early as 1974 that Felt was the informant. On June 25 of that year, a few weeks after All the President's Men was published, The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial, "If You Drink Scotch, Smoke, Read, Maybe You're Deep Throat." It began "W. Mark Felt says he isn't now, nor has he ever been Deep Throat." The Journal quoted Felt saying the character was a "composite" and "I'm just not that kind of person." During a grand jury investigation in 1976, Felt was called to testify and the prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Stanley Pottinger, discovered that Felt was "Deep Throat", but the secrecy of the proceedings preserved the secrecy of Felt's alter ego from the public.
In 1992, James Mann, who had been a reporter at The Washington Post in 1972 and worked with Woodward, wrote a piece for The Atlantic Monthly saying the source had to have been within the FBI. While he mentioned Felt as a possibility, he said he could not be certain it was him.
Alexander P. Butterfield, the White House aide best known for revealing the existence of Nixon's taping system, told The Hartford Courant in 1995, "I think it was a guy named Mark Felt." In July 1999, Felt was identified as Deep Throat by The Hartford Courant, citing Chase Culeman-Beckman, a nineteen-year-old from Port Chester, New York. Culeman-Beckman said Jacob Bernstein, the son of Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron, had told him the name at summer camp in 1988, and that Jacob claimed he had been told by his father. Felt denied the identification to the Courant saying "No, it's not me. I would have done better. I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?" Bernstein said his son didn't know. "Bob and I have been wise enough never to tell our wives, and we've certainly never told our children." (Bernstein reiterated on June 2, 2005, on the Today Show that his wife had never known.)
Leonard Garment, President Nixon's former law partner who became White House counsel after John W. Dean's resignation, ruled Felt out as Deep Throat in his 2000 book In Search of Deep Throat. Garment wrote:
The Felt theory was a strong one . . . Felt had a personal motive for acting. After the death of J. Edgar Hoover . . . Felt thought he was a leading candidate to succeed Hoover . . . The characteristics were a good fit. The trouble with Felt's candidacy was that Deep Throat in All the President's Men simply did not sound to me like a career FBI man.
Garment said the information leaked to Woodward was inside White House information Felt would not have had access to. "Felt did not fit."[77] (Once the secret was revealed, it was noted Felt did have access to such information because the Bureau's agents were interviewing high White House officials.)
In 2002, the San Francisco Chronicle profiled Felt. Noting his denial in The FBI Pyramid, the paper wrote
Curiously, his son — American Airlines pilot Mark Felt — now says that shouldn't be read as a definitive denial, and that he plans to answer the question once-and-for-all in a second memoir. The excerpt of the working draft obtained by the Chronicle has Felt still denying he's Throat but providing a rationale for why Throat did the right thing.
In February 2005, reports surfaced that Woodward had prepared Deep Throat's obituary, because he was near death. This led to some speculation that Deep Throat might have been William H. Rehnquist, who was a Justice Department official early in the Nixon administration, but was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court when he putatively revealed the incident.
Deep Throat revealed
Vanity Fair magazine revealed Felt was Deep Throat on May 31, 2005 when it published an article (eventually appearing in the July issue of the magazine) on its website by John D. O'Connor, an attorney acting on Felt's behalf, in which Felt said, "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat." After the Vanity Fair story broke, Benjamin C. Bradlee, the key editor of the Washington Post during Watergate, confirmed that Felt was Deep Throat. According to the Vanity Fair article, Felt was persuaded to come out by his family, who wanted to capitalize on the book deals and other lucrative opportunities that Felt would inevitably be offered in order, at least in part, to pay off his grandchildren's education.
Public response varied widely. Felt's family called him an "American hero", suggesting that he leaked information for moral or patriotic reasons. G. Gordon Liddy, who was convicted of burglary in the Watergate scandal, said Felt should have gone to the grand jury rather than leak. Some have contrasted Felt's media treatment with that of other whistleblowers.
Nixon chief counsel Charles Colson, who served prison time for his actions in the Nixon White House, said Felt had violated "his oath to keep this nation's secrets", but a Los Angeles Times editorial argued that this argument was specious, "as if there's no difference between nuclear strategy and rounding up hush money to silence your hired burglars." Ralph de Toledano, who co-wrote Felt's 1979 memoir, said Mark Felt Jr. had approached him in 2004 to buy Toledano's half of the copyright. Toledano agreed to sell but was never paid and attempted to rescind the deal, threatening legal action. A few days before the Vanity Fair article was released, Toledano finally received a check. He later said:
I had been gloriously and illegally deceived, and Deep Throat was, in characteristic style, back in business — which given his history of betrayal, was par for the course.
Speculation about Felt's motives at the time of the scandal has varied widely as well. Some suggested it was revenge for Nixon choosing Gray over Felt to replace Hoover as FBI Director. Others suggest Felt acted out of institutional loyalty to the FBI. Publishers were interested in signing Felt to a book deal after the revelation. Weeks after the Vanity Fair article was released, PublicAffairs Books, whose CEO was a Washington Post reporter and editor during the Watergate era, announced that it signed a deal with Felt. The new book was to include material from his 1979 memoir with an update. The new volume was scheduled for publication in the spring of 2006. Felt sold the movie rights to his story to Universal Pictures for development by Tom Hanks's production company, Playtone. The book and movie deals were valued at US $1 million.
In the summer of 2005, Woodward's longtime publisher, Simon and Schuster, swiftly issued Woodward's account of his contacts with Felt, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (ISBN 0-7432-8715-0). The book received mixed reviews.
Death
At 12:45pm on December 18, 2008, Felt died in his sleep at a hospice care facility in Santa Rosa, California. According to his daughter, he was fine but after a big breakfast he remarked that he was tired and he went back to sleep. He was 95 years old. No cause of death was released immediately to the press, but it was known that Felt had suffered from congestive heart failure in recent years. His death was reported in the Washington Post by Bob Woodward.
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And now saddly we bid ado to the man who created the term sci-fi.
Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest J Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan. Ackerman, known as "Forry" or "The Ackermonster" or "4e" or "4SJ" or "Forjak", was influential in the formation, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom in its early years, and served as a key figure in the wider cultural perception of science fiction as a literary, art and film genre. Ackerman is remembered as the editor-writer of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, as well as for being an occasional author, actor, producer (Vampirella), and literary agent. He was also among the first and most outspoken advocates of Esperanto in the science fiction community. He was married to Wendayne (Wendy) Wahrman (1912–1990) until her death.
Biography
He was born on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland Wyman (1883–1977) and William Schilling Ackerman (1892–1951). His father was from New York and his mother was from Ohio, and she was nine years older than William. He attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year (1934–1935), worked as a movie projectionist, and spent three years in the U.S. Army after enlisting on August 15, 1942.
Ackerman or, "Mr. Science Fiction", saw his first "imagi-movie" in 1922 (One Glorious Day), purchased his first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926, created The Boys' Scientifiction Club in 1930 ("girl-fans were as rare as unicorn's horns in those days"), contributed to both of the first science fiction fanzines, The Time Traveller, and the Science Fiction Magazine, put out and edited by Shuster & Siegel of Superman fame, in 1932, and by 1933 had 127 correspondents around the world. He attended the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, where he wore the first "futuristicostume" (designed and created by Myrtle R. Douglas) and sparked fan costuming, the latest incarnation of which is cosplay. He attended every Worldcon but two thereafter during his lifetime. Ackerman invited Ray Bradbury to attend the now legendary Clifton’s Cafeteria Science Fiction Club, where Ray met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. With $90 from Forrest, Bradbury launched a fanzine, Futuria Fantasia, in 1939.
Ackerman helped found the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, a prominent regional organization in science fiction fandom, as well as the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F). He also provided publishing assistance in the early days of the Daughters of Bilitis, and (as the author of several lesbian stories under the name "Laurajean Ermayne", written for Vice Versa) was dubbed an "honorary lesbian" at a DOB party. He was personally acquainted with many twentieth-century writers of science fiction. He was noted for having amassed an extremely large and complete collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror film memorabilia, which was, until 2002, maintained in a remarkable home/museum known as the 18-room "Ackermansion" in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, filled with 300,000 books and pieces of movie memorabilia. He entertained approximately 50,000 fans at open houses beginning in 1951, including 186 fans and professionals in one memorable night, including astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Ackerman was a board member of the Seattle Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, where many items of his own collection are displayed. Ackerman received a unique 1953 Hugo Award for "#1 Fan Personality" which some might say is the equivalent of the present-day Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
Ackerman was credited with nurturing and even inspiring the careers of several early contemporaries like Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Charles Beaumont, Marion Zimmer Bradley and L. Ron Hubbard. He was Ed Wood's "illiterary" agent and represented over 200 authors of science fiction and fantasy.
Ackerman had 50 stories published, including collaborations with A. E. van Vogt, Francis Flagg, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Donald Wollheim and Catherine Moore and the world's shortest – one letter of the alphabet. His stories have been translated into six languages. Ackerman named the sexy comic-book character Vampirella and wrote the origin story for the comic.
Ackerman was fluent in the international language Esperanto, and claims to have walked down Hollywood Boulevard arm-in-arm with Leo G. Carroll singing La Espero, the hymn of Esperanto.
Through his magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland (1958–1983), Forrest J Ackerman introduced the history of the science fiction, fantasy and horror film genres to a generation of young readers. At a time when most movie-related publications glorified the stars in front of the camera, "Uncle Forry", as he was referred to by many of his fans, promoted the behind-the-scenes artists involved in the magic of movies. In this way Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons (of the band Kiss), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.
In the 1960s, Ackerman organized the publication of an English translation in the U.S. of the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan, the longest science fiction series in history. These were published by Ace Books from 1969 through 1977. Ackerman's German-speaking wife Wendayne ("Wendy") did most of the translation. The American books were issued with varying frequency from one to as many as four per month. Ackerman also used the paperback series to promote science fiction short stories, including his own on occasion. These "magabooks" or "bookazines" also included a film review section, known as "Scientifilm World", and letters from readers. The American series came to an end when the management of Ace changed and the new management decided that the series was too juvenile for their taste. The last Ace issue was #118, which corresponded to German issue #126 as some of the Ace editions contained two of the German issues, and three of the German issues had been skipped. Forry later published translations of German issues #127 through #145 on his own under the Master Publications imprint. The original German series continues today and passed issue #2400 in 2007.
He also contributed to film magazines from all around the world, including Spanish speaking La Cosa: Cine Fantástico magazine, from Argentina, where he had a monthly column for over four years.
Ackerman said, "I aim at hitting 100 and becoming the George Burns of science fiction". His health, however, had been failing, and there were several premature reports of his death as of November 6, 2008. These reports originated from a news article on the British Fantasy Society website; a correction was subsequently made. Friends and fans were encouraged to send messages of farewell by mail. He last logged in to his Myspace page on March 19, 2008.
Death
He died on December 4, 2008. He had been living in his "Acker-mini-mansion" in Hollywood where he entertained and inspired fans weekly with his collection of memorabilia and stories of the golden age of art, filmmaking, literature and all things fantastical.
Appearances in film, TV and music
In 1961, Ackerman narrated the record "Music for Robots" created by Frank Allison Coe. The cover featured Forrest Ackerman's face superimposed on the movie robot Tobor the Great. The record was reissued on CD in 2005.
Ackerman himself appeared as a character in the movie Dead Alive, The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel (a novel in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. series), and Philip José Farmer's novel Blown. A character based on Ackerman, and his "Ackermansion", appears in the Niven/Pournelle collaboration Fallen Angels. He has a cameo role, apparently as himself, in The Wizard of Speed and Time, perusing and buying film memorabilia and comic books at a garage sale.
A life-long fan of science fiction "B-movies", Ackerman had cameos in over 210 films, including bit parts in many monster movies (The Howling, Innocent Blood, Return of the Living Dead Part II), more traditional "imagi-movies" (The Power, The Time Travelers, Future War), spoofs (Amazon Women on the Moon, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold), and at least one major music video (Michael Jackson's Thriller). Thus, his Bacon number is 2.
Ackerman appeared extensively on-screen discussing his life and the history of science fiction fandom in the 2006 documentary film Finding the Future.
He also appeared on the intro track of Ohio horrorpunk music group, Manimals' 1999 album, Horrorcore.
In 2007, Roadhouse Films of Canada released a documentary titled 'Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman' which took a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan. The documentary is currently only available on DVD in the UK, but airs regularly on the BRAVO channel.
Writing
Known pseudonyms
Weaver Wright, Spencer Strong, Walter Chinwell, Allis Villette, Alus Kerlay, Laurajean Ermayne, Alden Lorraine, J. Forrester Eckman, Fisher Trentworth, SF Balboa, Hubert G. Wells, Jacues De Forest Erman, Jone Lee Heard, Sgt. Ack-Ack, and Dr. Acula. In collaboration with others: Jacques de Forrest Erman (with Wilfred Owen Morley), Geoffrey Giles (with Walter Gillings);
Non-fiction
A Reference Guide to American Science Fiction Films
The Frankenscience Monster, 1969, paperback, Ace Books #25130
Forrest J Ackerman's Worlds of Science Fiction
Famous Forrie Fotos: Over 70 Years of Ackermemories, 117pp, trade paperback, 2001, Sense of Wonder Press, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers
Mr. Monster's Movie Gold, A Treasure-Trove Of Imagi-Movies
Worlds of Tomorrow: the Amazing Universe of Science Fiction Art w/Brad Linaweaver. ISBN 188805493X. 178pp. 2004 Collectors Press
Lon of 1000 Faces
Famous Monster of Filmland #1: An encyclopedia of the first 50 issues
Famous Monster of Filmland #2: An encyclopedia of issue 50-100
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou - intro and "stillustration" by FJ Ackerman
Anthologies
Rainbow Fantasia: 35 Spectrumatic Tales of Wonder, 559pp., 2001, hardbound and trade paperback, Sense of Wonder Press, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers
Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J. Ackerman
Best Science Fiction for 1973
The Gernsback Awards Vol. 1, 1926
Gosh! Wow! (Sense of Wonder) Science Fiction'"
Reel futures
I, Vampire: Interviews with the Undead
Ackermanthology: Millennium Edition: 65 Astonishing Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts, Sense of Wonder Press, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers)
Womanthology, (w/Pam Keesey) 352pp, hardbound and trade paperback, 2003, Sense of Wonder Press, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers
Martianthology (ed.by Anne Hardin), 266pp, hardbound and trade paperback, 2003, Sense of Wonder Press, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers
Film Futures
Expanded Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J Ackerman and Friends, PLUS, 205pp, hardbound and trade paperback, 2002, Sense of Wonder Press, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers
Dr. Acula's Thrilling Tales of the Uncanny, xiv+267pp. Trade Paper, Sense of Woder Press, James A. Rock & Co., Publishers.
Short stories
“Nyusa, Nymph of Darkness “
“The Shortest Story Ever Told “
“A Martian Oddity”
“Earth's Lucky Day “
“The Record “
“Micro Man “
“Tarzan and the Golden Loin “
“Dhactwhu!-Remember? “
“Kiki”
“The Mute Question”
“Atoms and Stars”
“The Lady Takes a Powder”
“Sabina of the White Cylinder”
“What an Idea!”
“Death Rides the Spaceways”
“Dwellers in the Dust”
“Burn Witch, Burn”
“Yvala”
“The Girl Who Wasn't There”
“Count Down to Doom “
“Time to Change “
“And Then the Cover Was Bare”
“The Atomic Monument”
“Letter to an Angel”
“The Man Who Was Thirsty “
“The Radclyffe Effect”
“Cosmic Report Card: Earth”
“Great Gog's Grave”
“The Naughty Venuzian”
Awards
Hugo Award: Number 1 Fan Personality, 1953
Inducted to the Monster Kid Hall Of Fame at The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1997
We at IJ Studios have recicived terible news on this day. While we were watching "The Polar Express" We recivied word that a very dear friend of IJ Studions, Martin Hanak, had passed away that day at 7:36 PM central time. He was fighting a medical battle at multible fronts and managed to hold off for far longer then his doctors though he could. The world has lost a bit of it's glimmer from this loss. Martin we love and miss you.
What's new? Well The month sure isn't...and neither is the year! We have managed to have some new stuff though! New stats are up and this month is clearly better then the last. But how will it stand against the next one? Only you can decide that! We have a new listener. Yes that makes 169. We have new mail...3 in Fact! Saddly our map of our listeners has been reset so now it's underpopulated so please, all of you visit us again!
Now its time for...
Weathered its carried by electrons or a snail
It never ever fails
To make us scream and wail
When ever we get mail!
Hey IJ,
You're welcome! Glad to hear you're doing well. I've been up and down lately. That always seems to happen once the guys and I get off the road. I suppose we're all patterned people. Breaking a routine's tough.
I'm stoked to read that you're getting into Beck. That was a real blast! I really need to check out Black Haven unfortunately my finances are preventing me from doing much in that way of entertain these days...Thankfully I have a nice collection of books to keep me company and am finally able to play the Nintendo Wii I purchased before I quit the day job :)
A friend of mine owned all of the Beck DVDs so I was able to borrow them. I'll have to try to convince him to pick up Black Haven ;)
Looking forward to reading your Archon 32 post!
Hope this finds you feeling healthy!
-Mason
Hey Mason,
How is everything? Have a good Thanksgiving?
Yeah, I just wish I had more time/money to give everything my full attention. Ah books, forcing you to use the graphics card of your mind. I like the Xanth series. I think it's the puns. The Nintendo Wii is great in that it forces you to actually do more then exercise your fingers. They should come up with an exercise bike with a generator to power it.
I hope you can convince him. It's nice to have an anime connection. Seen GITS Solid State Society yet? I'll put my Archon 32 up after I go through my other adventures. I'm a bit behind.
Well, take care!
IJ Dee-Vo
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Hello and Happy Holidays Across the Globe! I want to personally thank you for choosing my music for your stations, worldwide. Your support is valuable and is what makes more music possible. I had a great year and just launched my NEW Santa Baby video for you to see at any of the following places: www.airplaydirect.com/winifredadams www.winifred.net www.youtube.com/winifredadams The song is available for download on airplaydirect as well! And is sold exclusively for digital download at: www.cdbaby.com Eventually it will be on Itunes but it may not make it there in time for this season! A Hot DVD of the video is sure to be a collectors item and will also be for sale on Itunes. *NEW SONG: Better Things To Do Is now available for download at airplaydirect! This hot new blues tune is rough, down home and to the point! Thank you again! This Year I won the Ascaplus Award for performance, got nominated several times in various categories for your two favorite choices, You Are My Rose and Where Will This Love Go.
Happy Happy Holidays… “Go Jolly!”
Winifred Adams~
Greetings Winifred Adams!
Hey, that is really great that you won an award and was nominated! I hope you win many many more. Thank you for the music to play on my station, especially Santa Baby.
Sincerely,
IJ Dee-Vo
Well that is it for this month. Please enjoy it for all it's worth!
IJ Dee-Vo: Sigh....
Tachi: WHAT'S WRONG?
IJ Dee-Vo: It would be nice if could do something special for our loyal fans as well as help nab some new ones.
TACHI: WELL YOU IN LUCK.
IJ Dee-Vo: I won the lottery?
TACHI: NO.. I DIPPED INTO OUR SAVINGS AND BOUGHT US A THE MORANS GUIDE TO HOLIDAY SPECIALS PRODUCTION!
IJ Dee-Vo: That sounds interesting, too bad its too late to do one for Thanksgiving.
TACHI: I PAID FOR THE ULTRA FAST DELIVERY SHIPPING AS WELL. WE SHOULD GET IT ANY SECOND.
-any second later-
Ding Dong
IJ Dee-VO: Someone is at the door let me answer it.
Sonic T. Hedgehog: Hey wassup?
IJ Dee-Vo: Hey It's SEGA's Mascot Sonic the Hedgehog. The bluest and fastest hedgehog around. Hello Sonic we are waiting for a delivery that will show us how to put on a holiday special. So far nothing. Whats going on with you?
Sonic T. Hedgehog: Mind if come in and take a rest. This roasted turkey I've been hauling around all day is really starting to wear me down and I need a break.
IJ Dee-Vo: Sure Anything for you Sega's Mascot Sonic the Hedgehog.
-another any second later-
Ding Dong.
OPS DELIVERIER: I have a delivery for IJ Studios.
IJ Dee-VO: I'll Take it.
O.P.S. Deliverer: Sign right here...and here and here. Initial here...and here. Here you go.
IJ Dee-Vo: Thank you..wait, it's just an envelope, Are you sure there isn't a package?
O.P.S. Deliverer. This is all I have for this address. G'day.
IJ Dee-Vo: Hmm..Moron's Guide To Corporation...yes this must be it, I'll just open it up. Maybe I will get an explantaion from this.
Tachi: WHAT DOES IT SAY?
IJ Dee-Vo: Nothing, it's just a piece of paper with words printed on it with ink. I have to read it.
Tachi: WELL READ IT THEN.
Dear Morons,
Welcome to the wonderful world of holiday Specials. Thank you for the purchasing of this fine guide dedicated to teaching you how to make the perfect holiday special that is sure to increase your audience and boost ratings. As famous and well knownproffesionals within your media type you have now come to the point in your career where you need top make a holiday specific special. Many other fine entertainers have come before you and they all used this simple formula which not only guaranteed them success but will also do so for you! So now lets start.
Step 1. No doubt you now have several celebrity connections. Well it's time to make use of them to place the most noteworthy people into your holiday special to draw not only your own fans but theres as well. This is a great way to expose people who may not have otherwise have heard of you, to your existence. It's is important to do this well before the making of your special so to allow it to be fit into their schedual. It is doubly important not to do this during the holiday as they will no doubt have plans of their own. Of course you would not have gotten this far in your field unless you already know this and will have this all wrapped up in advance so you can air your special on that special day.
Step 2.Setting. Again of course you would never have waited till the last minute, being a professional to have this done. Especially if this is to be televised. Even if it is a radio broadcast do not think you can slack off, as you must make up for the lack of imaergy with sound effect. The setting should be one traditionally associated with the holiday so that everyone can relate to. Often this will be a family setting. Of course you would not use a real family as you want to show loving and caring interactions, to make a warm fuzzy feeling in your audiences.
Step 3. Lay out. All great Holiday specials have followed this simple, but effective, and mandatory layout which keeps the audience in a state of knowing what is coming next. First You have an introduction, where all the main players is introduced, and the setting is established. Then you have a commercial from your sponger. Next You introduce conflict, or some problem that threatens to undo some sort of goal, or your happy existence. Then you have another commercial from your sponger. Finally you end it with overcoming your obstacle while teaching some timeless heart filled life lesson, that is already known but you are obligated to teach anyway Sprinkle throughout your celebrities making sure they all appear in the last scene. Then give kudos where credit is due to all those that no one really cares about.
Step 4: Script. Why is this step 4 and not step 1? Simple. With a winning combination of celebrities against stunning background, your audience will be too distracted to notice how poorly written and plot hole filled the story actually is.
Well that is all there is to this highly successful and adaptable guide that may be used for any holiday and is parented many amazing and successful shows in the past and is sure to create famous ones in the future...including yours.
From the desks of,
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IJ Dee-Vo: Wow that's it? It's only one page! I hope you didn't pay much for it.
Tachi: I WOUND UP SPENDING EVERYTHING IN OUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT.
IJ Dee-Vo: For this? Didnt you thionk that was stupid?
TACHI: WELL UNTIL NOW NO. I THOUGHT FOR THAT PRICE IT WOULD BE SPECTACULAR AND COULD EASILY ALLOW US TO REPLACE EVERY CENT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE DONATING TO US. AND WE COULD ALLWAYS USE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.
IJ Dee-Vo: For just one piece of low quality paper with only one side printed with low quality ink.
Tachi: I GUESS WE SHOOULD TOSS IT INTO THE INCENERATOR THEN.
IJ Dee-Vo: Hold on. We bought it, we might as well use it. Step one. Call all off our celebritie connections. Ok I'll do that.
Tachi: SHOULD'NT WE HAVE THAT IN ADAVANCE?
IJ Dee-Vo: Ok. Tell me all of this a couple of months ago then.
Tachi: OK...HEY!!!
-Ding Dong-
IJ Dee-Vo: We seem to be very popular today, let me get this.
Mario Mario: Ma mia It's a me a Mario. I wasa justa hauling thisa honey ham around in my truck to the Mushroom Kingdom, but wouldn't you know it, she a broke-a down on me.
IJ Dee-Vo: It's Nintendo's Mascot Mario Mario! Well you can stay here until the tow truck picks you up.
Mario Mario: Oh that's a so nice of you IJ Dee-Vo. Maybe I will take a look at your a plumbing?
IJ Dee-Vo: Anything for you Nintendo's Mascot Mario Mario. Tachi, stake care of Sega's Mascot Sonic The Hedgehog and Nintendo's Mascot Mario Mario, as I get my phonebook and phone and make some calls.
-Do you like Thanksgiving, but the idea of specificly singling out an animal to be the main attraction of your feast turn your stomach? Maybe you recently gave up meat but still long for the taste of the large delightful bird around the holidays? Or maybe you simply don't want to be left out? Well what ever the reason you are now in luck with tofurky! Yes this is the most realistic tofu turkey yet in terms of taste and texture. It cuts like turkey and even the infamous wish on the wishbone is possible. How is this possible? Because our tofu turkey the one thing that our competitors have left out...a skeleton. Yes each tofurky has a anatomically correct skeleton made of compressed walnut shells. So it looks and carves like the real thing! So isn't it time to drop the bird but keep the tradition. MMMM have a tofurkey...egads..this thing is horrible I think I'm going to be sick. What the camera is still running? CUT!-
IJ Dee-Vo: Sigh...
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IJ Dee-Vo: No that isn't the problem.
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IJ Dee-Vo: I can't do this Thanksgiving Special.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Well for starters I just when through my book of cantacts and every celebraty that hasn't put a hit out on us is busy.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Well we don't have any that would draw in the crowds. Noone would be interesed in us.
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IJ Dee-Vo: And not only that,we don't have a setting, set up. No backgrounds, foregrounds , no props.
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IJ Dee-Vo: We need eye candy and guest stars to distract our audience since we have no script what so ever.
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IJ Dee-Vo: It will be, I'll make sure of that somehow.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Ok, Now guest starts. We can't do that so what can we do. Now we do have a layout thanks to Tachi, But we need a script and setting.
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IJ Dee-Vo: It has to be all done and posted today!
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IJ Dee-Vo:Well if we can have a stunning setting we can skimp on a plot! So lets look around at what we have!
Sock Monkey: 0k!
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
IJ Dee-Vo: Mac!
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
IJ Dee-Vo: Oh hey Mac, what are you doing here?
Mac: Um I don't really remember...my umm...somthing isn't really too good.
IJ Dee-Vo: Memory?
Mac: Whatever. For some reason I have these hot buttered rolls with me, and I don't know why so I wandered aound and arrived...at um this ...what is it called..here.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well you are welcomed to stay then...
Mac: Yah...whatever.
IJ Dee-Vo: Wow, if we doing this at a scrap yard or an army suprlus store we'd be all set.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Well we could do something crazy
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IJ Dee-Vo: We could maked IJ Studios the setting!
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IJ Dee-Vo: Now now, all that time we saved will be used to make the greatest story ever!
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IJ Dee-Vo: Lets start.
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IJ Dee-Vo: It's some old fashined, computer. It is a keyboard printer combo that prints everything you type in real time
Sock Monkey: \/\/|-|3R3 d0 j00Z pLU9 17 1|\|?
IJ Dee-Vo: It dosn't have a plug, so it must use batteries.
Sock Monkey: 1 |-|0P3 17'$ (|-|4r93D.
-several hours later-
IJ Dee-Vo: There!
Sock Monkey: 4LL d0|\|3?
IJ Dee-Vo: Yep I have the title, “An IJ Studios Thanksgiving!”
Sock Monkey: 4LL 7|-|1$ 71/\/\3 4|\|D 7|-|47$ 4LL?
IJ Dee-Vo: Well what did you do?
Sock Monkey: 1 (4/\/\3 UP \/\/17|-| 7|-|3 (0|\|(LU510|\|.
IJ Dee-Vo: Oh what is it?
Sock Monkey: “7|-|3 3|\|D.”
IJ Dee-Vo: How original.
PC : Hello. I'm a PC.
IJ Dee-Vo: PC its been a while...well..since a couple weeks ago. How is it?
PC: Oh I can't complin.
IJ Dee-Vo: Yah I hear your doing well for yourself, what can I thank for bringing you here?”
PC: I was just coming back from a large charity ball, and I have this big thing of fresh Cran berry sauce!, I may be able to bear the weight of 80 percent of the computer industry but this is a bit too much.
IJ Dee-Vo:Well you can set it down and take it easy here.
PC: Thank you very much!
IJ Dee-Vo: Hey Sock Monkey could you take care of our guests while I try to come up with something to put inbetween the title and the end?
Sock Monkey: '/35 '/35 4|\|'/7|-|1|\|9 70 937 0U7 0Ph 7|-|15 d00/\/\3D pR0j3(7!
IJ Dee-Vo: You could have just say yes.
Sock Monkey: |\|0 1 r34LL'/ (0ULD|\|'7.
-Do you like Thanksgiving? Sure we all do. Who doesn't like stuffing their digestive tracks to the point that you have to hurl, leaving you with room to eat more. But wouldn't you like something to make it even more enjoyable? For ages there has been a lack of Thanksgiving songs, but now with the purchase of this CD you can give into to the sin of gluttony with theses amazing songs. Songs like....
“We're having Thanksgiving at moms this year...wont grandma be surprised!”,
“Who's pie is better, your wife's or Aunt Bertha”,
“I dropped the turkey...no one will notice”,
“The dog ate the turkey again this year.”,
“Is this still good?”,
“Have a sominela filled Thanksgiving”,
and many many more!
So go buy “Thanksgiving's Greatest Hits” from any store where music is sold!-
IJ Dee-Vo: Well thats' it, time to throw in the towel. Well I guess I gave it a good try, and really seeing what I was up against there wasn't any real way I could have pulled it off.
Eggman: Wo hoe I have returned.
IJ Dee-Vo: It's SEGA's almost mascot Eggman. Hey Eggman I haven't seen you since your last visit. Did you come bearing mp3's again?
Eggman: Oh no, not this time. My eggomatic had to make an emergency landing while I was escorting this here pumpkin pie. It is nice and hot. It's almost as good as a chaos emerald!
IJ Dee-Vo: Well you are welcomed to stay here then.
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Hey Little Mouth.
Little mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: No amount of cookies will help me out of this problem.
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Tachi spent all of our money on some stupid one page of instructions to make a holiday special that we can't use.
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Because we can't get guest stars to appear on it.
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Because it turns out you can't get anyone to do the special on the holiday the special is about
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Because they have other stuff to do.
Little Mouth:
IJ dee-Vo: Because they rather spend time with those they care about then a bunch of losers inside an underground silo.
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: I don't know, it is pretty cool. We also have no props are set, or even a script, so even if we ad-libed it all, it still would suck most triumphantly.
Donkey Kong: Banana slamma I'm in a jamma.
IJ Dee-Vo: Hi Nintendo's Donkey Kong, what seems to be the problem here?
Donkey Kong: Well I was out there fighting crocs when all of a sudden, I found myself with this pecan pie, and it's hard enough to swing through the Jungle on vines without holding onto this. I need to get rid of it.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well I think we can help. Little mouth why don't you see it that these two are taken care of.
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: I feel so depressed.
I just wanted to bring a bit of joy,
To every girl to every boy.
With my own holiday show,
But now I Guess Its a no go.
Tachi spent all our cash,
Now all our hopes are dashed.
I guess I would be a dope,
To have even the smallest hope.
That we will pull through,
and deliver something special...to you.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well That is it now. I guess I'll head to the kitchen now get a package of Military rations, and some filtered recycled, processed water and try to put out my head how we will recap our losses. Well at least I have a roof, and several meters of rock and dirt over my head...for a while at least, and my friends here, so I guess I do have something to be thankful for. Wait what's that smell..It smells...like something I can't quite place it. Oh it smells like non processed, food with natural flavoring and without preservatives. No wonder why I didn't recognize it! What's going on here?
Tachi: IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU GOT HERE.
Sock Monkey': \/\/3 \/\/3r3 4B0U7 70 3@ \/\/17|-|0U7 j00Z.
IJ Dee-Vo: Wow, we have turkey, honey ham, rolls, cranberry sauce, and pie..
TACHI: SONIC, MARIO, PC, MAC, EGGMAN, DONKEY KING ALL DECIDED TO STAY HERE FOR THANKSGIVING AND DECIDED TO LETS US ALL HAVE THEIR FOOD TO MAKE THIS BANQUET.
Sock Monkey: $0 17 L00|<5 L1|<3 |\|0 /\/\1L174R'/ r4710|\|5 4|\|D |-|'/DR0P0|\|1(4LL'/ 9R0\/\/|\| \/39374BL35 70|\|19|-|7.
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Wait a second.....Setting, IJ Studios, Guest Stars............, We did it we have our Thanksgiving Special.. Just one thing though...Weren't we supposed to have learned some time of lesson, of have some sort of great value, moral, or truth revealed?
Tachi: UM SOMETIMES GOOD THINGS HAPPEN?
Sock Monkey: 7|-|1|\|95 \/\/0R|< 0U7 1|\| 7|-|3 3|\|D?
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: That will do.
Sonic: I'm thankful that SEGA still is coming up with new ways I can be used in their games.
Mario: I'm thankful for Nintendo for making an Italian be the mascot of a Japaneses company.
PC: I'm thankful for being the world's choice for it's computing needs.
Mac: I'm thankful Apple's good at marketing.
Eggman: I'm thankful for never being incarcerated for my crimes.
Donkey Kong: I'm thankful for vine that did not break, stick that was not snake, and crocodile free lake.
Little Mouth:
Sock Monkey: 1'/\/\ 7|-|4|\|kPhUL Ph0r (4PhPh31|\|3.
Tachi: I'M THANKFUL FOR ALIMINUMS HIGH TENSIAL STRENGTH TO WEIGHT RATIO.
IJ Dee-Vo: And I'm thankful for all of you reading this!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
What's new? Well we have two new listeners which makes 168. Well at least something was new. Oh ya, pastwents have been separated into smaller easier to digest sections and the metroids are gone ya!
IJ Dee-Vo: Ok lets see. Got all the eggs?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the larve?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the alpha metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the gamma metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the zeta metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the omega metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the metroid queen?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the hunter metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the fission metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the metroid prime?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the tallon metroid cacoons?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the tallon metroid larve?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the tallon metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the dark tallon metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the phazon metroid larve?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the miniroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the phazon metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the hopping metroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the metroid hatchers?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the mochtroids?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the super metroid?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got the Aurora Unit 313?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Got Dark Samus?
Tachi: CHECK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well thats it then, we got them all!
Tachi: HEY WHAT IS THAT?
IJ Dee-Vo: Oh that? It's just a quadtroid, they arn't anything to worry about.
What's new? Well not much really. Internet connection is really messing up. must be those metroids! We are running out of music to keep them subdued so they are starting to get irritated. We really have to come up with a plan to rid ourselves of them before something lawsuit worthy happens. But what? We only have a week to find out. Anyway, we have a special Thanksgiving treat from our good friends PC and Mac!
Well PC and Mac are here to tell us what they are all thankful for...and they brought turkey!
Hip 30/40 year old: Hello I'm a PC.
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
PC: Mac
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
PC: I am thankful for Moore's law
Mac: I'm thankful for the mobs of drooling Mac worshipers that will believe anything Steve Jobs tells us to.
PC: I am thankful for ever increasing in speed and storage hard drives, while decreasing in prices.
Mac: I'm thankful people respond to emotions more then reason.
PC: I am thankful that silicon is such an abundant resource.
Mac: I am thankful that people are willing to spend more for less.
PC: I am thankful for multicore technology.
Mac: I am thankful for Apple's skill at covering up their mistakes, even if they don't fix them.
PC: I am thankful for water cooling, cool on so many levels.
Mac: I'm glad that Mac users can't stand those who don't use apple computers instead of letting people be different.
PC: I am thankful for clear cases.
Mac: I am thankful for Apples closed case policy.
PC: I am thankful for ease of upgradability
Mac: I am thankful for being a home to obsolete technology.
PC: Well Looks like the turkey is done
Mac: Time to dig in!
IJ Dee-Vo: Wait that doesn't look like a turkey...wait....what it stuffed with...is that a gold medal?
Well that is it for this week, so come join us next time will you not? For I am IJ Dee-Vo, of the IJ Studios Crew.
What's new?
The month.
We have a new listener that rings it up to 166.
Coming up is new.
Our site has been invaded by materoids...again.
We have two new emails.
Election results!
We have an obit.
Well I'm telling you it was very touch and go for a while, but we managed to get through it. We cooled down the sector where the metroids were held, and opened the hatch, allowing them to avalanche out into the rest of IJ Studios! They immediately launched onto the demons and drained their vital energy, leaving us to pick up the leftovers. Yes it's a much more pleasant place here now. Theres just one problem. What to do with the metroids! They are everywhere! They are getting into everything. Sadly that guy Samus is unavailable. So it looks like it's up to us to deal with the matter. Until we come up with a method to get rid of them we are holding them at bay with some sweet metroid mp3s. Hopefully that will buy us some time.
Now its time for...
Weathered its carried by electrons or a snail
It never ever fails
To make us scream and wail
When ever we get mail!
The first one is from our good friends of a'tris!
Hey IJ,
Just checked out your site. Archon 30 looked like a blast! There was definitely some cool cosplay to be found there. Although, I have to say, Jessica Chobot's Bullet Witch is pretty tough to beat in my mind. :) Then again, I am new to this. That Lupin costume was pretty sweet though. Simple, creative, I like it. That's really cool that you got to meet Billy West! I don't know how I was unaware of Archon; I guess I've living in a van too much :)
Beck was a blast. The overuse of stock footage got to me a little bit after a while but they really did put a lot of care into making the instruments look amazing. Either those shots were rotoscoped or they, hands down, had some of the bet animators working on those shots; I suspect a little of both. Let me know your thoughts on it if you get a chance to check out a couple of the episodes. Fair warning though: they're pretty addictive.
Hope this finds you feeling healthy!
-Mason
Hey Mason!
Thank you very much and I am glad you enjoyed it. It really was a blast, but just wait till I have Archon 32 posted! I got to meet the cast of MST3K/Cinematic Titanic. Someone brought in replicas of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo to be signed by Joel! We got to see the first MST3K production, “The Green Slime”. It was fun. There was a mascaraed contest with a very sweet Rei Ayanami costume! Don't knock living in a van, it's much roomier then a capsule hotel!
Beck is schweet! The dog is a bit freaky, reminds me of a movie where a kid brought his dog back to life, by assembling it with odds and ends of other dogs. Yes I do love it!. It was pretty sad when Yukio's guitar had a tragic meeting with a car. Anyway, thank you for telling me about it. It's a great find. The animation is well done. I've been put off before by series that seem like they just didn't care. Did you check out Black Heaven yet?
Feeling healthy and hope you are as well,
-IJ Dee-Vo
Next is our friends from Running Home!
Hi Y\'all,
Suzanne and I wanted to say thanks again for supporting our music. We really appreciate your help. Please be sure to let us know if you need help with promotional CD\'s, posters, or station ID\'s. We\'re happy to help out however we can. Again, thanks so much for your support.
Best regards,
Elizabeth Butler
Hey you two!
How is it going? You are most definitely welcome! Thank you for the offer of helping me. I would like a station ID perhaps if it would not be of any trouble. It's no problem, I'm happy to help out.
Best wishes,
IJ Dee-Vo
Well it's over, the time of the election has come and went and now we have a new president. And who is it, and more importantly, who wasn't it? It wasn't Sonic. It wasn't Mario. It wasn't PC. It wasn't Mac. It wasn't that penguin. It wasn't even Cthuluhu. Apparently his platform on causing the human race to go insane and then torture them didn't sync up with the voter's concept of what the president should be doing with his term. No it was this guy!
Yep it was this guy here, who is honored in cookie format. I'm telling you this now, if he is half as good as a president as he is a cookie, we'll do just fine.
Finally we all bow our heads and give a moment of silence to one of the great scifi masters who has left this planet, leaving only his words, and and our love.
John Michael Crichton, M.D.
John Michael Crichton, M.D. pronounced /ˈkraɪtən/ , (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, film producer, film director, medical doctor, and television producer best known for his science fiction and techno-thriller novels, films, and television programs. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide. His works were usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. He was the author of The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Disclosure, Rising Sun, Timeline, State of Fear, Prey, and Next. He was also the creator of ER, but most famous for being the author of Jurassic Park, and its sequel The Lost World, both adapted into high grossing films and leading to the very successful franchise.
Biography
Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John Henderson Crichton and Zula Miller Crichton, and raised on Long Island, in Roslyn, New York. He has two sisters, Kimberly and Catherine, and a younger brother, Douglas.
He attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, graduating summa cum laude in 1964. Crichton was also initiated into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He went on to become the Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellow from 1964 to 1965 and Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 1965. He graduated from Harvard Medical School, obtaining an M.D. in 1969, and did post-doctoral fellowship study at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, from 1969 to 1970. In 1988, he was Visiting Writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
While in medical school, he wrote novels under the pen names John Lange and Jeffery Hudson. A Case of Need, written under the latter pseudonym, won the 1969 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He also co-authored Dealing with his younger brother Douglas under the shared pen name Michael Douglas. The back cover of that book contains a picture of Michael and Douglas at a very young age taken by their mother.
His two pen names were created as a play on his above-average height. According to his own words, he was about 2.06 meters (6 feet 9 inches) tall in 1997. Lange is a surname in Germany, meaning "tall one" and Sir Jeffrey Hudson was a famous 17th century dwarf in the court of Queen Consort Henrietta Maria of England.
Crichton admitted to having once, during his undergraduate study, plagiarized a work by George Orwell and submitted it as his own. According to Crichton, the paper was received by his professor with a mark of "B−". Crichton claimed that the plagiarism was not intended to defraud the school, but rather as an experiment. Crichton believed that the professor in question had been intentionally giving him abnormally low marks, and so as an experiment Crichton informed another professor of his idea and submitted Orwell's paper as his own work.
Crichton was married five times and divorced four times. He was married to Suzanna Childs, Joan Radam (1965 – 1970), Kathy St. Johns (1978 – 1980) and Anne-Marie Martin, the mother of his only child, daughter Taylor Anne. At the time of his death, Crichton was married to Sherri Alexander.
Crichton died on November 4, 2008 in Los Angeles at age 66 of cancer.
Literary techniques
Crichton's works are frequently cautionary in that his plots often portray scientific advancements going awry, commonly resulting in worst-case scenarios. A notable recurring theme in Crichton's plots is the pathological failure of complex systems and their safeguards, whether biological (Jurassic Park), military/organizational (The Andromeda Strain), technical (Airframe) or cybernetic (Westworld). This theme of the inevitable breakdown of "perfect" systems and the failure of "fail-safe measures" can be seen strongly in the poster for Westworld (slogan: "Where nothing can possibly go worng .." (sic) ) and in the discussion of chaos theory in Jurassic Park.
Contrary to certain perceptions, Crichton was not anti-technology. Although his works often portray scientists and engineers as arrogant and closed-minded to the potential threat a technology represents, there is always a well-educated author surrogate who states that failures are simply part of the scientific process and one should simply maintain a state of awareness and preparation for their inevitable occurrence.
The use of author surrogate was a feature of Crichton's writings from the beginning of his career. In A Case of Need, one of his pseudonymous whodunit stories, Crichton used first-person narrative to portray the hero, a Bostonian pathologist, who is running against the clock to clear a friend's name from medical malpractice in a girl's death from a hack-job abortion.
Some of Crichton's fiction uses a literary technique called false document. For example, Eaters of the Dead is a fabricated recreation of the Old English epic Beowulf in the form of a scholarly translation of Ahmad ibn Fadlan's 10th century manuscript. Other novels, such as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, incorporate fictionalized scientific documents in the form of diagrams, computer output, DNA sequences, footnotes and bibliography. However, some of his novels actually include authentic published scientific works to illustrate his point, as can be seen in The Terminal Man and the more recent State of Fear.
Fiction
1966
Odds On
as John Lange
1967
Scratch One
as John Lange
1968
Easy Go
as John Lange
A Case of Need
as Jeffery Hudson (re-released as Crichton in 1993)
1969
The Andromeda Strain
The Venom Business
as John Lange
Zero Cool
as John Lange
1970
Grave Descend
as John Lange
Drug of Choice
as John Lange
Dealing
as Michael Douglas (with brother Douglas Crichton)
1972
The Terminal Man
Binary
as John Lange
1975
The Great Train Robbery
1976
Eaters of the Dead
1980
Congo
1987
Sphere
1990
Jurassic Park
1992
Rising Sun
1994
Disclosure
1995
The Lost World
1996
Airframe
1999
Timeline
2002
Prey
2004
State of Fear
2006
Next
2009
Untitled Novel
to be published posthumously
His last novel is tentatively scheduled to be released posthumously on May 4, 2009. It was pushed back from its originally scheduled release date of December 2, 2008 . The title has not been revealed, but it has been assigned an ISBN (ISBN 978-0007241019).
Non-fiction
Apart from fiction, Crichton wrote several other books based on scientific themes, amongst which is Travels, which also contains autobiographical episodes.
As a personal friend to the artist Jasper Johns, Crichton compiled many of his works in a coffee table book also named Jasper Johns. That book has been updated once.
Crichton was also the author of Electronic Life, a book that introduces BASIC programming to its readers. In his words, being able to program a computer is liberation:
In my experience, you assert control over a computer—show it who's the boss—by making it do something unique. That means programming it....[I]f you devote a couple of hours to programming a new machine, you'll feel better about it ever afterward.
To prove his point, Crichton included many self-written demonstrative Applesoft (for Apple II) and BASICA (for IBM PC compatibles) programs in that book. Crichton once considered updating it, but the project was canceled.
His non-fiction works were:
1970
Five Patients
1977
Jasper Johns
1983
Electronic Life
1988
Travels
Movies and television
Crichton wrote and directed several motion pictures:
1972
Pursuit
A TV movie
1973
Westworld
1978
Coma
The First Great Train Robbery
Directed/ wrote screenplay
1981
Looker
1984
Runaway
1989
Physical Evidence
1993
Jurassic Park
co-wrote screenplay
1994
ER
Creator/Writer/Executive Producer
1996
Twister
co-wrote screenplay
Pursuit is a TV movie written and directed by Crichton that is based on his novel Binary.
Westworld was the first feature film that used 2D computer-generated imagery (CGI) and the first use of 3D CGI was in its sequel, Futureworld (1976), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.
Crichton directed the film Coma, adapted from a Robin Cook novel. There are other similarities in terms of genre and the fact that both Cook and Crichton were physicians, were of similar age, and wrote about similar subjects.
Many of his novels were adapted into films:
1971
The Andromeda Strain
Robert Wise
1972
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
Paul Williams
1972
The Carey Treatment (A Case of Need)
Blake Edwards
1974
The Terminal Man
Mike Hodges
1993
Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg
1993
Rising Sun
Philip Kaufman
1994
Disclosure
Barry Levinson
1995
Congo
Frank Marshall
1997
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg
1998
Sphere
Barry Levinson
1999
The 13th Warrior (Eaters of the Dead)
John McTiernan
2003
Timeline
Richard Donner
2008
The Andromeda Strain (TV miniseries)
Mikael Salomon
He wrote the screenplay for the movies Extreme Close Up (1973) and Twister (1996) (the latter co-written with Anne-Marie Martin, his wife at the time). Jurassic Park III is a sequel to The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park, both based on Crichton's novels, but Jurassic Park III isn't based on one of his novels, though he helped write the screenplay.
Crichton was also the creator and executive producer of the television drama ER. ER was originally slated to be a movie, directed by Steven Spielberg. However, during the early stages of pre-production, Spielberg asked Michael Crichton what his current project was. Crichton said he was working on a novel about dinosaurs and DNA. Spielberg subsequently dropped what he was doing to film this project. Afterwards, he returned to ER and helped develop the show, serving as a producer on season one and offering advice (he insisted on Julianna Margulies becoming a regular, for example). It was also through Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment that John Wells was contacted to be the show's executive producer. In December 1994, he achieved the unique distinction of having the #1 movie (Jurassic Park), the #1 TV show (ER), and the #1 book (Disclosure, atop the paperback list). Crichton wrote only three episodes of ER:
Episode 1-1: "24 Hours"
Episode 1-2: "Day One"
Episode 1-3: "Going Home"
Computer games
Amazon is a graphical text adventure game created by Michael Crichton and produced by John Wells under Trillium Corp. Amazon was released in the United States in 1984 and it runs on Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and the DOS systems. Amazon was considered by some to be a breakthrough in the way it updated text adventure games by adding color graphics and music. It sold more than 100,000 copies, making it a significant commercial success at the time.
In 1999, Crichton founded Timeline Computer Entertainment with David Smith. Despite signing a multi-title publishing deal with Eidos Interactive, only one game was ever published, Timeline. Released on 8 December 2000 for the PC, the game received poor reviews and sold poorly.
Awards
Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, 1969 (A Case of Need; written as Jeffery Hudson)
Association of American Medical Writers Award, 1970 (Five Patients)
Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, 1980 (The Great Train Robbery)
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Journalism Award, 2006 (State of Fear)
An Emmy
A Peabody
A Writers Guild of America
A dinosaur, Crichtonsaurus bohlini, was named after him in honor of Jurassic Park.
Crichton was named to the list of the "Fifty Most Beautiful People" by People magazine, 1992
Speeches
Aliens Cause Global Warming
In 2003 he gave a lecture at Caltech entitled "Aliens Cause Global Warming" in which he expressed his views of the danger of "consensus science" — especially with regard to what he regards as popular but disputed theories such as nuclear winter, the dangers of second-hand smoke, and the global warming controversy. Crichton was critical of widespread belief in ETs and UFOs, citing the fact that there is no conclusive proof of their existence. Crichton stated that "The Drake equation cannot be tested and therefore SETI is not science. SETI is unquestionably a religion." Crichton commented that belief in purported scientific theories without a factual basis is more akin to faith than science.
Environmentalism as a religion
In a related speech given to the Commonwealth Club of California, called "Environmentalism as a religion", Crichton described what he saw as similarities between the structure of various religious views (particularly Judeo-Christian beliefs) and the beliefs of many modern urban atheists who he asserted have romantic ideas about Nature and our past, who he suggested believe in the initial "paradise," the human "sins," and the "judgment day." He also articulated his belief that it is the tendency of modern environmentalists to cling stubbornly to elements of their faith in spite of evidence to the contrary. Crichton cited misconceptions about DDT, passive smoking, and global warming as examples.
Widespread speculation in the media
In a speech entitled "Why Speculate?", delivered in 2002 to the International Leadership Forum, Crichton criticized the media for engaging in what he saw as pointless speculation rather than the delivery of facts. As an example, he pointed to a front-page article of the March 6 New York Times that speculated about the possible effects of U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to impose tariffs on imported steel. Crichton also singled out Susan Faludi's book Backlash for criticism, saying that it "presented hundreds of pages of quasi-statistical assertions based on a premise that was never demonstrated and that was almost certainly false." He referred to what he calls the "Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" to describe the public's tendency to discount one story in a newspaper they may know to be false because of their knowledge of the subject, but believe the same paper on subjects with which they are unfamiliar. Crichton used the Latin expression falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which he translated as "untruthful in one part, untruthful in all," to describe what he thought should be a more appropriate reaction. The speech also made several references to Crichton's skepticism of environmentalists' assertions about the possible future ramifications of human activity on the Earth's environment.
Role of science in environmental policy-making
In September 2005 Crichton testified at a Congressional hearing on climate change, having been called by global warming skeptic Senator James Inhofe to advise the Environment and Public Works Committee. Crichton spoke on issues such as the role of science in policy making, criticisms of climate-change researcher Michael E. Mann and what Crichton claimed was the deliberate obstruction of research into the subject by some in the scientific community.
Criticism
Many of Crichton's publicly expressed views, particularly on subjects like the global warming controversy, have caused heated debate. An example is meteorologist Jeffrey Masters' review of State of Fear:
Flawed or misleading presentations of Global Warming science exist in the book, including those on Arctic sea ice thinning, correction of land-based temperature measurements for the urban heat island effect, and satellite vs. ground-based measurements of Earth's warming. I will spare the reader additional details. On the positive side, Crichton does emphasize the little-appreciated fact that while most of the world has been warming the past few decades, most of Antarctica has seen a cooling trend. The Antarctic ice sheet is actually expected to increase in mass over the next 100 years due to increased precipitation, according to the IPCC."
Peter Doran, author of the paper in the January 2002 issue of Nature which reported the finding referred to above, that some areas of Antarctica had cooled between 1986 and 2000, wrote an opinion piece in the July 27, 2006 New York Times in which he stated "Our results have been misused as 'evidence' against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel State of Fear." Crichton himself states in the book that though he uses a number of studies to support his stance, the authors of these studies do not necessarily agree with his interpretations. Additionally, some of the characters in the novel caution that they do not necessarily claim that global warming is not an issue, but only that more research is necessary before we make any definitive conclusions.
Al Gore said on March 21, 2007 before a US House committee: "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor [...] if your doctor tells you you need to intervene here, you don't say 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it's not a problem'." This has been recognized by several commentators as a reference to State of Fear.
Today on this very special instalment of IJ Studios we are here to pay tribute and say goodbye to a very dear friend. For twenty-eight years he has graced the papers with his artic antics, his large nose and big heart warming our lives. I am of course speaking of perhaps the most famous aquatic avian of all time. Opus the penquin.
Opus The Penguin
Opus the Penguin (Opus T. Penguin) is a character in the comic strips and children's books of Berkeley Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s strip Bloom County. Breathed has described him as an "existentialist penguin" and the favorite of his many characters. Until November 2, 2008 he ran in the comic strip Opus.
Introduction and Appearance
Opus was originally introduced as a one-time gag about hapless Mike Binkley bringing home what he thought was a German Shepherd, which turned out to be a penguin, much to the disappointment of his father. However, Opus' popularity quickly grew until he became the signature character of Breathed's comic strips.
Opus' appearance has changed dramatically since his inception - he originally looked like a common penguin, but between 1982 and 1986 his nose grew dramatically (developing its signature bump in the middle, of which Opus is very self-conscious). Mike Binkley, during one Sunday strip, points out the fact that Opus more closely resembles a puffin, a revelation which shocks Opus. (In the final panel of the same strip, Opus responds by telling Binkley that he looks like a carrot.) Opus says he is attracted to "svelte buoyant waterfowl".
He is usually seen wearing a bow tie and collar, though he sometimes switches to a diagonally striped necktie when running for public office. Beginning in Outland during the 1990s, he is also occasionally seen inexplicably wearing white briefs.
Notable Storylines
Over the years Opus has served as Steve Dallas' legal secretary, journeyed to Antarctica in search of his mother, played the tuba in heavy metal group Deathtöngue (later renamed Billy and the Boingers), wooed an abstract sculptor named Lola Granola, worked as a newspaper personals editor, lifestyle columnist and comic strip writer, had brief, experimental stints employed as a farmer, garbageman and even a cartoonist (or, as he called it, a stripper, which he would also be at one point), and run for vice president on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket, along with his running mate Bill the Cat.
In the tradition of many other popular characters, Opus apparently died (while unwillingly brought along on a balloon expedition to Washington, DC, to zap the ambassador from apartheid-era South Africa with a ray that would temporarily turn him black) only to return with amnesia. He later regained his memory after being in a state of intense and total shock; he heard an erroneous report that Diane Sawyer (on whom he had an enormous crush) had married Eddie Murphy. Another story line led Opus, in search of his mother, to a Mary Kay Cosmetics testing building, which he was shocked to find out was cruelly using animals as test subjects for various cosmetics. Another memorable story line featured Opus being the subject of moral scorn as a perpetrator of "penguin lust". He fled Bloom County, and was absent for a long time, eventually reappearing lost in the desert, before his mother came to him in a hallucination and told him to return to his home. In another story, Opus wrote an autobiography, A Penguin's Story, which nobody bought. Milo Bloom later rewrote the memoir, exaggerating and fabricating most of it, in his typical fashion. The new, scandalous memoir, entitled Naked Came I, became a bestseller in the Bloom County universe, leading Opus to even more notoriety than he had as Bill the Cat's running mate.
A major failing of Opus is his inability to resist the temptations of television infotainment commercials, with the result being that he is frequently seen receiving crateloads of useless and arcane kitchen utensils such as "turnip twaddlers".
Opus also has a very amusing (but somewhat unfortunate) history of "losing parts"; on several occasions, his "fanny" has fallen off (often with a clanking sound on the floor), and he has also had instances where his nose droops or is taken completely off as a result of sneezing while using dental floss and so on. Sometimes these are combined; he has had either his nose and rear end fall off, or his nose droop while his rear end has fallen off, and so on. He eventually learned that his navel was in fact the screw that attached his rear end to his body.
Post–Bloom County
Opus was the second Bloom County regular to appear in the Sunday-only Outland strip, after Outland's original protagonist, Ronald-Ann Smith. He also appeared in some of Breathed's children's books, including A Wish for Wings That Work and Goodnight Opus.
Eight years after Outland ended, Opus returned in a second Sunday-only strip simply titled Opus, in 2003. The first few strips showed Opus's discontent living in Antarctica with his overbearing mother. A misdirected Mars probe happened to give him the means to return to Bloom County, where he set about looking for his old friends. To date, he has been reunited with four — Bill the Cat, Steve Dallas, and (on June 3, 2007), Michael Binkley and Oliver Wendell Jones.
According to the July 10, 2005 edition of the Opus comic strip, Opus lived at 996 Melba Lane, presumably in Bloom County.
Opus appears on the label of Honest Tea's Peach Oo-la-long tea.
Ending
On October 6, 2008, Berkeley Breathed announced that he would end Opus on November 2. He added that "I'll be leaving Opus in a way that it should be very clear that this time there's no going back home" and that he felt "unrealistically emotional" about drawing the final Opus strip and writing a final ending.
In the November 2, 2008 strip, Opus leaves the comic world forever and sleeps happily in bed in the children's book Goodnight Moon. The last panel could be viewed online, at http://www.humanesociety.org/opus.
Trivia
According to Breathed, Opus was named after a song by the rock group Kansas. The band's 1976 album Leftoverture includes the song "Opus Insert" and a suite called "Magnum Opus".
His signature is "P. Opus", hinting that "Opus" may be his surname ("P." may stand for "Penguin").
Tachi: IJ Dee-Vo are you ok?
IJ Dee-Vo: No...not really.
Tachi: MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP?
IJ De-Vo: No We can go In...He deserves this...Just let me gather myself up.
Tachi: Are you sure you can go through the next part?
IJ Dee-Vo: Ya, I can...For you Opus I can do this.
Tachi: Ok...
IJ Dee-Vo: Lets go...
And daydreamed in Milo's Meadow in a land called Bloom County.
Taken from an animal shelter Mike Bradley broght him home,
Thinking he was a german shepared to call his very own.
Opus the hefty nosed penguin was created by Berkely Breathed,
And daydreamed in Milo's Meadow in a land called Bloom County.
Opus the hefty nosed penguin was created by Berkely Breathed,
And daydreamed in Milo's Meadow in a land called Bloom County.
He played the tuba in aheavy metal band, Saved Santa Clause,
Ran for vice president, Discoved his mom was not without her flaws.
He wrote the autobigraphy "A Penguin's Story" that was sadly doomed,
Until it was dressed up as "Naked Came I" by his pal Milop Bloom.
Opus the hefty nosed penguin was created by Berkely Breated,
And daydreamed in in Milo's Meadow in a land called Bloom County.
Opus the hefty nosed penguin was created by Berkely Breated,
And daydreamed in Milo's Meadow in a land called Bloom County.
Comics may seem timeless but sometimes the artist must move on,
The things that we may hold so dear may yet one day be gone.
One day Berkly Breathed said that his comic strip would be no more,
He and Elvis presely told him to find a spot to be forevermore.
He returned to the animal shelter from where he was first found,
Having chossen his eternal resting spot to which he would be bound.
An edition of Good Night Moon was a found within his old cage,
And so that lovable penquin chose to sleep in that last page.
Opus the hefty nosed penguin was created by Berkely Breated,
And daydreamed in Milo's Meadow in a land called Bloom County.
Opus the hefty nosed penguin was created by Berkely Breated,
And daydreamed in Milo's Meadow in a land called Bloom County.
IJ Dee-Vo:...
Tachi: IJ DEE-Vo?
Sock Monkey: |-|3'/ |\|0\/\/...
Tachi: WE HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU.
Sock Monkey: 17'$ |\|07 /\/\U(|-|....$331|\|9 7|-|@ \/\/3 d0|\|'7 937 p41D...
Tachi: SEE IT'S ALL WRAPPED UP.
Sock Monkey: 0P3|\| 17.
IJ Dee-Vo: Oh my..it's the hardbound collections of Bloom County, Outland, Opus, and The Last Basselope, A Wish for Wings That Work,Good Night Opus, and an Opus plushie!....Thank you!
Tachi: WE FIGURED CONSIDERING...IT WAS A FITTING WAY TO REMEBER HIM.
Little Mouth:
What's new? Well the month isn't new as it grasps at it's dying breath. And how appropriate that it does so on this, the All Souls day. Despite this there are a few new things to announce.
1. We have a map update. Look we have Kenya, Tasmania, Brazil, and another dot in good old Australia!
2. Pandora's box has once again been opened releasing demons and mp3s to invade IJ Studios! 3. We bid a sad farewell to Tony Hillerman.
4. Stats updated!
6. We have a new champain commercial! 7. We have a new listener that makes 165!
8. Coming up is updated.
9. Main pic has changed.
10 What's new has been updated.
In this unsettling time, of the shrinking middle class, the increasing cost of living, the decreasing job market, loss of homes and the government bailout of those that mishandled their business one wonders can it get any worse? Not without the right leader to take us to new realms of despair. Who can lead us to the blackest pit of insanity? Obama...get real, not with his lack of experience. Come on, his heart just doesn't hold enough contempt for the human race. McCain? As a republican he has the evil, but look at him. He is weak, near the end of his lifespan, no the future does not lie with him. Who then can we look towards then to bring the world to it's knees? There is one who has the evil to accomplish the task. One who is older then McCain by far yet whose life is unending, and even in death, death may die. This glorious being who is so powerful, so immense that he is a true army of one, and will be more then happy to lead the charge to each battle. To look upon his face is to know a life forever filled with insanity. I humbly speak of the horror that is Cthulhu. Yes the great mountain sized, green, scaly, winged, clawed celephlod demands the votes of you pathetic mortals so that he may rule and torment you for all time. Come on, you know you want it, so why not have it done by someone who is experienced? With Cthulhu you no longer have to chose the lesser of two evils.
-paid for by the comittee to elect Cthulu for president -
-Sirens blare red lights flash-
IJ Dee-Vo Wow Deja Vu It seems like I went through this before.
Sock Monkey: 73LL /\/\3 4B0U7 17!
IJ Dee-Vo: Sock Monkey you're ok.
Sock Monkey: '/4|-|, |\|0 7|-|4|\||<5 70 7|-|053 d3/\/\0|\|5, \/\/|-|3R3 d1D 7|-|3'/ (0/\/\3 PhR0/\/\?
IJ Dee-Vo: Well Tachi got this package, and inside it was this box....
Sock Monkey: 74(|-|1 1$ $0 93771|\|9 3B4'/ pr1\/1L393$ r3/\/\0\/3D. 571LL |-|4\/3 7|-|@ |-|34r7?
IJ Dee-Vo: I gave it to the marines, I figured they would need it more, seeing they also took the box.
Sock Monkey: \/\/3LL 7|-|47'5 jU57 pR1/\/\3 \/\/|-|@ (4|\| \/\/3 d0?
IJ Dee-Vo: I have an idea...but you won't like it.
Sock Monkey: \/\/|-|@ 15 17?
IJ Dee-Vo: Trust me, you really don't want to hear it.
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IJ Dee-Vo: No, That is far more evil then the demons, no way am I going to go through that again
Sock Monkey: 7|-|3|\| \/\/|-|@ R \/\/3 901|\|9 70 d0?
IJ Dee-Vo: You don't want to know.
Sock Monkey: '/35 1 d0 |\|0\/\/ 73LL /\/\3!
IJ Dee-Vo: We must release...the metroids.
Sock Monkey: j00Z r r19|-|7, 1 d1D|\|'7 \/\/4|\|7 70 |-|34r 17.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well you heard it, you can't unhear it. Now where's Tachi?
Sock Monkey: L3\/3L 4...
IJ Dee-Vo: Let's go.
Sock Monkey: ...L3\/3L 3...
IJ Dee-Vo: Stuck on the elevator..wait...oh no don't tell me.
Sock Monkey: ...4|\|D L3\/3L 6.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well we can gather up the pieces and assemble Tachi again later. Now this will be harder with just You me Little Mouth and Timmy, but I think it can still be done.
Sock Monkey: \/\/417, j00Z R |\|07 734/\/\1|\|9 /\/\3 UP \/\/17|-| L177L3 /\/\0U7|-|?
IJ Dee-Vo: Not this time.
Sock Money: 900D.
IJ Dee-Vo: This time I'm teaming Little Mouth up with you.
Sock Monkey: 7|-|47'$ b3773r...\/\/417 |\|0 17$ |\|07 17$ jU$7 4$ b4D.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well its how it's going be.
Sock Monkey: \/\/|-|47'$ 7|-|3 pL4|\|?
IJ Dee-Vo: I draw the demons to the flooded section where me an Timmy will keep them distracted. Mean while you and Little mouth go to the hatch to the sealed of area and shut off the flow to the liquid nitrogen, warming the hatch up and allowing the metroids to reach it. Then open the hatch and and divert the flow into that section, forcing them to come out. Having higher temperatures the demons will be magnets to the mmetroids. The metroids will get rid of the demons and alls well that ends well.
Sock Monkey:\/\/417...\/\/|-|@ \/\/1LL \/\/3 d0 4B0U7 7|-|3 /\/\37r01D$?
IJ Dee-Vo: Don't bother me with details, lets do it.
Sock Monkey: 0|<.
Well thats all the time we have for this special Halloween edition of IJ Studios. Will we survive the second demon invasion? Will we be able to release the metroids? Will they be able to purge the red menace from our home? And what will we do with the metroids afterwards? Tune in next time! We leave you with one last sad note.
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman (May 27, 1925 - October 26, 2008) was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Some of his works were made into big-screen and television movies.
Biography
Anthony Grove Hillerman was born in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, and was a decorated combat veteran from World War II, serving as a mortarman in the 103rd Infantry Division and earning the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart. Later, he worked as a journalist from 1948 to 1962. Then he earned a Masters degree and taught journalism from 1966 to 1987 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he resided with his wife until his death in 2008. Hillerman, a consistently bestselling author, was ranked as New Mexico's 22nd wealthiest man in 1996.
Hillerman's writing is noted for the cultural details he provides for the people he writes about: Hopi, Zuni, European-American, federal agents, and especially Navajo Tribal Police. His works in non-fiction and in fiction reflect his appreciation of the natural wonders of the American Southwest and his appreciation of its people, particularly the Navajo.
His mystery novels are set in the Four Corners area of New Mexico and Arizona. The protagonists are Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the Navajo tribal police. Lt. Leaphorn was introduced in Hillerman's first novel, The Blessing Way (1970). The second book in the series, Dance Hall of the Dead (1973), won a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. In 1991, Hillerman received the MWA's Grand Master Award. Hillerman has also received the Nero Award (for Coyote Waits) and the Navajo Tribe's Special Friends of the Diné Award.
Hillerman repeatedly acknowledged his debt to an earlier series of mystery novels set among tribal Aborigines in remote desert regions of tropical and subtropical Australia written the British-born Australian author Arthur W. Upfield. The Upfield novels appeared first in 1928 and featured a half-European, half-Aboriginal Australian hero, Detective-inspector Napoleon (Bony) Bonaparte working with deep understanding of tribal traditions. The character was based on the real-life achievements of an Aborigine known as Tracker Leon, whom Upfield had met during his years in the Australian bush.
Hillerman acknowledged the debt in many interviews, and in his introduction to the posthumous 1984 reprint of Upfield's A Royal Abduction. In this, he described the seduction in his youth of Upfield's crime novels' descriptions of both the harsh outback areas, and "the people who somehow survived upon them ... . When my own Jim Chee of the Navaho Tribal Police unravels a mystery because he understands the ways of his people, when he reads the signs in the sandy bottom of a reservation arroyo, he is walking in the tracks Bony made 50 years ago."
Upfield and Hillerman are recognized as pioneers of what is now known as the tribal mystery genre.
He died on October 26, 2008 from pulmonary failure in Albuquerque at the age of 83.
Common themes of Leaphorn and Chee books
There are a number of themes and elements common to many or all of Hillerman's Navajo mysteries. Many of them focus on the different attitudes that Leaphorn and Chee take towards Navajo religion. Leaphorn is somewhat skeptical of tradition, although he takes seriously reports of witchcraft. He does not believe in witches, but following a murder-suicide early in his career in which a man killed three people he believed to be skinwalkers, Leaphorn believes that belief in witches can be a problem. Chee takes a more traditional Navajo worldview, believing in the power of traditional singers and other rituals; however, he has come to take a more figurative or symbolic view of chindi, Navajo ghosts.
In many novels, Leaphorn and/or Chee investigate reports of witchcraft or other supernatural events, often while at the same time investigating seemingly unrelated crimes of a more ordinary sort. In many cases, the two are related, the supernatural events being staged as a way to cover up the other crimes.
Many novels also explore the interaction of traditional Navajo culture with the belagaana, or white man; Chee, especially, sees this assimilation as destroying Navajo culture and making it difficult for many to fit into either world. In particular, several characters are "Relocation Navajos", raised in Los Angeles after a government program relocated them in the 1930s.
In addition to "white" versus "Navajo" culture, Hillerman often explores differences in social status in white society. For example, many wealthy antagonists feel that the status brought by their money allows them to do certain things that would be considered immoral. Some of the lower class antagonists feel jealousy, and a desire to be seen as equals. This may come from Hillerman's experiences growing up poor in rural Oklahoma, and viewing everyone equally until being exposed to the class system during his World War II service.
Following the Navajo tradition of giving names based on personal attributes, Hillerman often refers to unnamed characters by nicknames. For example, a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses is called "Goldrims" until he is given a name later in the book; a boy wearing a Superman sweatshirt, and the grandson of a man under investigation, is called "Supergrandson". A murder victim is referred to as "Pointed Shoes" even after the body is identified.
Bibliography
Leaphorn & Chee books
1.The Blessing Way (1970) ISBN 0-06-011896-2
2.Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) ISBN 0-06-011898-9
3.Listening Woman (1978) ISBN 0-06-011901-2
4.People Of Darkness (1980) ISBN 0-06-011907-1
5.The Dark Wind (1982) ISBN 0-06-014936-1
6.The Ghostway (1984) ISBN 0-06-015396-2
7.Skinwalkers (1986) ISBN 0-06-015695-3
8.A Thief of Time (1988) ISBN 0-06-015938-3
9.Talking God (1989) ISBN 0-06-016118-3
10.Coyote Waits (1990) ISBN 0-06-016370-4
11.Sacred Clowns (1993) ISBN 0-06-016767-X
12.The Fallen Man (1996) ISBN 0-06-017773-X
13.The First Eagle (1998) ISBN 0-06-017581-8
14.Hunting Badger (1999) ISBN 0-06-019289-5
15.The Wailing Wind (2002) ISBN 0-06-019444-8
16.The Sinister Pig (2003) ISBN 0-06-019443-X
17.Skeleton Man (2004) ISBN 0-06-056344-3
18.The Shape Shifter (2006) ISBN 978-0-06-056345-5
Three-In-One Volumes
The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries: Three Classic Hillerman Mysteries Featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn: The Blessing Way, Dance Hall of the Dead, Listening Woman (1989) ISBN 0-06-016174-4
The Jim Chee Mysteries: Three Classic Hillerman Mysteries Featuring Officer Jim Chee: People of Darkness, The Dark Wind, The Ghostway (1990) ISBN 0-06-016478-6 The first appearance of Jim Chee in the Leaphorn-Chee series is in People of Darkness. In these three books, Joe Leaphorn is only briefly mentioned once, as "Captain Leaphorn at the Chinle substation" (POD, ch. 6). In the later books, where he is again prominent along with Jim Chee, he is "Lieutenant Leaphorn."
Tony Hillerman: Three Jim Chee Mysteries: People of Darkness, The Dark Wind, The Ghostway (1993) ISBN 0517092816
Leaphorn & Chee: Three Classic Mysteries Featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee : Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Talking God (1992) ISBN 0-06-016909-5
Leaphorn & Chee: Three Classic Mysteries Featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee: Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Talking God (2001) ISBN 0-06-018789-1
Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn & Chee Novels: Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Coyote Waits (2005) ISBN 0-06-075338-2
Tony Hillerman: Leaphorn, Chee, and More: The Fallen Man, The First Eagle, Hunting Badger (2005) ISBN 0-06-082078-0
Other novels
The Fly on the Wall (1971) ISBN 0-06-011897-0
Finding Moon (1995) ISBN 0-06-017772-1
The Boy Who Made Dragonfly (for children) (1972) ISBN 0-06-022312-X
Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band (for children) (1973) ISBN 0914001116
About Hillerman, non-fiction, by author
Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman (2001) ISBN 0-06-019445-6
The Great Taos Bank Robbery (1973) ISBN 0-8263-0306-4
The Spell of New Mexico (1976) ISBN 0-8263-0420-6
Indian Country (1987) ISBN 0-87358-432-5
Talking Mysteries (with Ernie Bulow) (1991) ISBN 0-8263-1279-9
The Tony Hillerman Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to His Life and Work by Hillerman, Martin Greenberg (1994) ISBN 0-06-017034-4
The Oxford book of American Detective Stories (1996) ISBN 0-19-508581-7
Canyon De Chelly (1998) ISBN 1893205258
Best American Mysteries of the Century (2000) ISBN 0-618-06757-4
Best of the Western anthology of classic writing from the America West (1991) ISBN 0-06-016664-9
New Omnibus of Crime (2005) ISBN 0195182146
The Mysterious West (1995) ISBN 0-06-017785-3
About Hillerman, non-fiction, by others
Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries by Laurance D. Linford, Tony Hillerman (2001) ISBN 0-87480-698-4
Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map & Guide, first edition by Time Traveler Maps by Tony Hillerman (1998) ISBN 1-892040-01-8
Tony Hillerman's Indian Country Map & Guide, second edition by Time Traveler Maps by Tony Hillerman (2003) ISBN 1-892040-10-7
The Ethnic Detective by Peter Freese - including a detailed analysis of Listening Woman
Books of Photos
Kilroy Was There (2004) ISBN 0873388070
Hillerman Country (1991) ISBN 0-06-016400-X
Indian Country: America's Sacred Land Bela Kalman (text by Hillerman) (1987) ISBN 0873584325
Rio Grande Robert Reynolds (text by Hillerman) (1975) ISBN 0-912856-18-1
New Mexico Photography by David Muench (text by Hillerman) (1975) ISBN 0-912856-14-9
Filmography
The Dark Wind (1991)
Skinwalkers (2002)
Mystery!: Thief of Time, A (DVD) (2004)
Coyote Waits: American Mystery (DVD) (2002)
Skinning the Night: American Mystery (DVD)
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Past wents updated!
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My fellow Americans, now is the time to unite in our decision towards which path we will take to our future. Sonic would have you follow him towards his vision, but just where would that lead us to? Sonic believes we should rush into action without taking the time to consider the consequence's of those actions or seek alternatives. Sonic opposes progress. Sonic has a short attentions span making it impossible to keep up with all the paperwork that comes with being President. And well, lets face it, he's not all that bright. He's underaged, not human, not even from this planet! But there is another Choice. His parents immigrated from Italy to make a better future for themselves, a hard working blue collar worker, he knows that it is the middle class who supports this great country in all that it does. He owns his own small service business with his brother. Now that is what you can call real values. Who is he? Mario M. Mario. Together with His running mate and brother Lugie M. Mario he will clean out the clogs of our sluggish economy, and make sure our infrastructure will be free of leaks. He has proven himself in diplomatic relationships, has personally fought against pollution, and as a plumber who best to help up with the rising aquatic threat of global warming? So when you go vote this year, remember for action like no other you'll get hooked on the brothers!
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Hip 30/40 year old: Hello I'm a PC.
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
PC: Mac
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
PC: I am campaigning to be your computer
Mac: So am I.
PC: I run a campaign based on my abilities.
Mac: I run my champaign based on spreading hate. Misconceptions, lies and making my opponent into a stereotype.
PC: I have too many things to say why should pick me to say anything about my opponent.
Mac: I don't have enough good points, so all I can do is to try to make you hate mine.
PC: I trust the public to make fair unbiased choices based on reason and facts.
Mac: I don't trust them to use their brains, which is why I try to make myself so easy to understand a lobotomized caveman can work me, instead I rely on making them go on emotions. Sure they may regret their descriptions later but hey why should I care, as long as they found out after they picked me, I couldn't give a flipping mushroom about those idiots.
PC: You do know your mic is on?
Mac: Well what can you expect? When everything is so integrated it's work with faulty equipment, or don't work at all.
PC: Well there you are people, we said all we can say, now the choice is yours.
IJ Dee-Vo: Wait A penguin, wearing a golden medallion has just entered IJ Studios and handed us a card. There is writing on it.
Hello in these trying times, PC and Mack are offering themselves as the paths out of the dark woods that we are lost in and into the rising sun. However they each have neglected all of the twits and turns that their paths contain. Mac claims to be the source of salvation, but the reality is, it promises this to far more then those that will be covered. Mac asks for increased prices, for similar results. In this economy can we really afford this? Mac tactics consist solely on spreading lies, half-truths, and hatred. PC may seem to be taking the high ground but have you look at who's been cozying up with this candidate. Big Business. That is right. Big business and PC have been long time partners, and in these days of the struggling cottage industry can you afford an allegiance with this giant. The fact is the PC owns the Earth, and most of the moon. Now that is scary. Isn't there another way, another path. One that will save more then the chosen few, or one does not have to sell out to get by? I humbly offer a third choice. Unlike Mac I am willing to work with all sides to make the world a better place. Unlike PC I have always been a big supporter of smaller institutions. From personal use, to research institutions, I have been helping others whether it involves being deep within the Earth or out amongst the stars. Unlike my two opponents I do not require heavy final backings, so you can be sure I won't be answering to special interest groups. So please check me out. I'm user friendly, I work well with others, and you won't have to pay an arm and a leg for my services.
Tachi: WAIT ISN'T THAT THE SAME PENQUIN THAT WON IN THE IJLYMPICS?
IJ Dee-Vo: I believe it is, maybe it it can win this as well. We will have to wait and see.
Now its time for...
Weathered its carried by electrons or a snail
It never ever fails
To make us scream and wail
When ever we get mail!
Hey IJ Dee-Vo,
Thanks for the message. I appreciate you shooting me your email address. Myspace is a wonderful way to connect with people but I much prefer using email to communicate; it helps me organize :) Archon 32 sounds really cool. When does that take place? I just finished watching a killer anime series called Beck. If you haven't seen it I'd highly recommend giving it a go.
Hope this finds you feeling healthy!
-Mason
Hey Mason!
Yes it's great for making connections, though I tend to devote most of my time with the site for the actual content. It's much more flexible then what Myspace has, so my presence there is probably a bit more lacking then what it could be. So little time and so much to do. Archon is in the first weekend of October from Friday to Sunday, with the main day being Saturday with lots of vendors, cosplay and events. Beck is good you say? I will have to check it out then! I hope all is well with you. I'm sure I will have the pics of Archon randomness up eventually.
IJ Dee-Vo.
Oh wow....look at this A cell phone, It's huge! What's this? The serial number is 0001 It's the first cell phone, this thing must be 25 years old! Let's see if I can get it up...Gads this thing is heavy. Hey it still has a charge. Maybe can make a call. Buttons wont go on. Ok I must summon all of my strength and channel all my rage in one single point....”YAHHHH!!! Beep. Beep beep beep. Beep beep beep. Beep beep beep beep. There I punched in the number, literary. Bring, Bring, Bring. “Hello, Motorola, is Martin Cooper in? He is, could you put him on. You can? Thank you! Hello Mister Cooper this is IJ Dee-Vo, Yes, in fact I am using a cell phone! Yes I know it is the 25th anniversary of the cell phone. Yes I know you invited it! In fact that is why I called. I found this cellphone. Its the first one. Oh the serial number? 0001. Ya I know it's huge! It's buttons are the size of my fist. Wow the reception is pretty good. I guess that comes with having an antenna 10 foot long. Well anyway I just wanted to say thanks. Thank you. Bye!
Ae are back from Archon 32.
We have new stats!
We have 3 new listeners! That makes 162!
We have a new dot! It's in the middle east!
We answered 5 new questions!
We have a new song!
We have mail!
Little Mouth:
Little Mouth:
Little Mouth:
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Little Mouth has a Jar of Dirt!
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Guess what's inside it!
Sock Monkey: 9U3$$ \/\/|-|47'$ 1|\|$1D3 0Ph \/\/|-|47?
Tachi: INSIDE OF THE JAR OF DIRT.
Sock Monkey: \/\/|-|@ j4r 0Ph d1r7?
IJ Dee-Vo: Little Mouth's jar of dirt!
Little Mouth:
Little Mouth:
ANd now for the Archon 32 song!
Archon 32
Archon 32
So much to see and do
fun for me and you
so away we flew
Traveling post haste
To a bizarre place
a nexus of time and space
where people disappear without a trace
And what did we see?
The Doctor, Storm Troopers, a trekkie,
Rikku, Princess TuTu, Rei Anyami!
Chuthulu, The Great Pumpkin, and Winry!
We got to see the cast of mst3k
got their marks which made or day
Crow and Tom were A.O.K
Saw the Green Slime Pilot, ho-ray!
Archon was really schweet
the collections of weapons were neat
At the end I was nearly dead on my feet
Going back next year will be a treat!
IJ Dee-Vo: Our worst song ever!
Tachi: NOW THAT'S SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE.
My fellow Americans, in these troubled times, we need someone who will be able to lead us back into an era of prosperity. Mario Mario says he is this person but is he? Look at his track record. He is an advert user of shrooms is that the type of remodel that you want a generation of Americans to grow up with? Even in the most urgent of situations, he is slow to react. He has taking gifts from special interests groups, and now even his nationality is in question. He may eve have mafia ties. Tell me is he the man you want in the white house? But there is another choice, a better choice . Sonic T. Hedgehog is always quick to rise to the occasion. He opposes big corporations polluting our environment. He won't give up, won't compromise, but he's not out of control, he's living by his own word. He has never flipped his stand against dictators, and has himself fought toe to toe in the battle field. He has shown both the ability to work alone as well with others towards his goals on making the world a place for everyone. Remember you can not have the red and white without the blue.
-paid for by the comittee to elect Sonic The Hedgehog -
Now its time for...
Weathered its carried by electrons or a snail
It never ever fails
To make us scream and wail
When ever we get mail!
Dear EPICARD Security,
We have no idea what you are talking about as we do not have an account with you. Perhaps you have mixed us up with one of the people that use your services. I hope you fix the error soon and find the correct recipient of this message.
Sincerely,
The IJ Crew.
THat is all there is time fore, so until next week I am Lothar of the hill people.
Tachi: WOW IJ DEE-VO WHAT'S THAT THAT YOU ARE CRUISING IN?
IJ Dee-Vo: Oh this thing, Well it's my inverse electromagnetic field hover craft.
Tachi: WHEN DID YOU GET IT?
IJ Dee-Vo: Well using the hand held super collider I was able to developed a unified field theory this morning. Then I designed the engine using CAD this afternoon and sent out the files to a machine shop to slap it together for me. I got the parts this evening, and assembled it into this 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Retractable Convertible Coupe I fund just laying around gathering dust.
Tachi: WOW YOU HAD QUITE A DAY.
IJ Dee-Vo: How about you? You seem to have something going on yourself.
Tachi: YES I DISCOVERED DARK MATTER! I HAVE A SAMPLE HERE IN THIS BOX, WANT TO SEE?
IJ Dee-Vo: Sure!
Tachi :TAKE A LOOK.
IJ Dee-Vo: Oh wow Tachi, I never would have dreamed dark Matter would be like this.
Tachi: I HAVE A BUNCH OF THIS STUFF. IT TURNS OUT YOU CAN'T FLING A CAT AROUND WITHOUT HITTING SOME.
IJ Dee-Vo: Dead or alive?
Tachi: NEITHER TILL YOU LOOK AT IT.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Schweet!
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Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Hey Little Mouth, what are you eating?
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Wait, That's not candy, That's antimatter! Hey that's why there is more matter then antimatter in the universe, Little mouth has been eating it all!
Little Mouth:
IJ Dee-Vo: Bad little mouth!
Tachi: HEY SHOULD WE ANNOUNCE OUR FINDINGS TO THE WORLD? WE'LL BE FAMOUS!
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IJ Dee-Vo: Well at least Alpinekat and Will Barras can spin a good beat.
Saddly we have bad news. It allways hits us hard when someone in the music industry is called to do an opening act in that great cosmic WoodStock of the Universe.
Richard William "Rick" Wright
Richard William "Rick" Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was a pianist and keyboardist best known for his career with Pink Floyd.Wright's richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound. In addition, Wright frequently sang background and occasionally lead vocals onstage and in the studio with Pink Floyd (most notably on the songs "Time", "Echoes", and on the Syd Barrett composition "Astronomy Domine").
Though not as prolific a songwriter as his bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour, he wrote significant parts of the music for classic albums such as Meddle, The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, as well as for Pink Floyd's final studio album The Division Bell.
Biography
Early life and career
Wright, whose father was head biochemist at Unigate Dairies, grew up in Hatch End, North London and was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's School and the Regent Street Polytechnic College of Architecture. There he met fellow band members Roger Waters and Nick Mason, was a founding member of The Pink Floyd Sound (as they were then called) in 1965, and also participated in its previous incarnations, Sigma 6 and The (Screaming) Abdabs.
In the early days of Pink Floyd, Wright was a prominent musical force in the group (although not as much as Syd Barrett, the band’s chief songwriter and front man at the time) and he wrote and sang several songs of his own during 1967–1968. While not credited as a singer on The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, he sang lead on Barrett-penned songs like "Astronomy Domine" and "Matilda Mother", as well as notable harmonies on "Scarecrow" and "Chapter 24". Examples of his early compositions include "Remember a Day", "See-Saw", "Paint Box" and "It Would Be So Nice". As the sound and the goals of the band evolved, Wright became less interested in songwriting and focused primarily on contributing his distinctive style to extended instrumental compositions such as "Interstellar Overdrive", "A Saucerful of Secrets", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "One Of These Days" and to musical themes for film scores (More, Zabriskie Point and Obscured by Clouds). He also made essential contributions to Pink Floyd's long, epic compositions such as "Atom Heart Mother", "Echoes" (on which he sang lead vocals) and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". His most commercially popular compositions are "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Us and Them" from 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon.[2] He also contributed significantly to other mid-period Floyd classics like "Breathe" and "Time", singing lead vocals on alternate verses of the latter with David Gilmour.
Wright recorded his first solo project, Wet Dream, and released it in September 1978 with minimal commercial success. Battling both personal problems and an increasingly rocky relationship with Roger Waters, he was forced to resign from Pink Floyd during The Wall sessions by Waters, who threatened to pull the plug on the album's tapes if Wright did not leave the band. However, he was retained as a salaried session musician during the subsequent live concerts to promote that album in 1980 and 1981. Ironically, Wright became the only member of Pink Floyd to profit from those hugely spectacular shows, since the net financial loss had to be borne by the three remaining "full-time" members. He was the only member of the band not to attend the 1982 premiere of the film version of The Wall. In 1983, Pink Floyd released the only album on which Wright does not appear with The Final Cut.
Later life and career
During 1984, Wright formed a new musical duo with Dave Harris (from the band Fashion) called Zee. They signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and released only one album, Identity, which was a commercial and critical flop. Wright rejoined Pink Floyd following Waters' departure. Because of legal and contractual issues from his "hired gun" status during The Wall world tour, Wright's photo was not included in the 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason and his name was listed in smaller letters than Mason and Gilmour. By the time of the Momentary Lapse world tour and the 1988 live album The Delicate Sound of Thunder, Wright was contractually a member of Pink Floyd once again. In 1994, he co-wrote five songs and sang lead vocals on one song ("Wearing the Inside Out") for the next Pink Floyd album, The Division Bell. This recording provided material for the double live album and video release P*U*L*S*E in 1995. Wright, like Nick Mason, performed on every Pink Floyd tour.
In 1996, inspired by his successful input into The Division Bell, Wright released his second solo album, Broken China, including contributions from Sinéad O'Connor on vocals, Pino Palladino on bass, Manu Katché on drums, Dominic Miller (known from his guitar work with Sting) and Tim Renwick, another Pink Floyd associate, on electric guitar. Broken China was considered to be a more focused and artistically successful work than Wet Dream and marked a new phase in Richard Wright's modus operandi, with extensive use of computer-based recording and production techniques, assisted by Anthony Moore with whom he co-wrote the album's lyrics.
On 2 July 2005, Wright, Gilmour, Mason were joined by Waters on stage for the first time since the Wall concerts for a short set at the Live 8 concert in London. Wright underwent eye surgery for cataracts in November 2005, preventing him from attending Pink Floyd's induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame. Roger Waters, who was also unable to attend the band's induction due to rehearsals for the opening of his opera Ça Ira in Rome, appeared in video link and stated, tongue-in-cheek:
“ Rick actually hasn't had an eye operation, he and I have eloped to Rome and we're living happily in a small apartment off the Via Veneto ”
Wright contributed keyboards and background vocals to David Gilmour's most recent solo album, On an Island, and performed with Gilmour's touring band for over two dozen shows in Europe and North America in 2006 . On stage with Gilmour he performed piano, electric piano and synth leads with his Kurzweil K2600 workstation, Hammond organ and even his long-inactive Farfisa organ, which was resurrected especially for performing "Echoes" and a couple of Pink Floyd's and Syd Barrett's older numbers that Gilmour chose to revisit in his recent concerts. He also provided backing vocals and lead vocals (notably on "Echoes", "Time", "Comfortably Numb", "Wearing the Inside Out" "Astronomy Domine" and "Arnold Layne" - the latter released as a live single). He declined an offer to join Roger Waters and Nick Mason on Waters' The Dark Side of the Moon Live tour in order to spend more time working on a solo project.
On 4 July 2006, Wright joined Gilmour and Mason for the official screening of the P•U•L•S•E DVD. Inevitably, Live 8 surfaced as a subject in an interview. When asked about performing again, Wright replied he would be happy on stage anywhere. He explained that his plan is to "meander" along and said about playing live: “ ...and whenever Dave wants me to play with him, I’m really happy to play with him. And [to Gilmour] you’ll play with me, right? ”
Personal life
He married his first wife, Juliette Gale, in 1964. They had two children, Jamie and Gala, and divorced in 1982. He married his second wife Franka in 1984. They divorced in 1994. Wright married his third wife Millie (to whom he dedicated his second solo album Broken China) in 1996. Their only child is named Ben. In 1996 Wright's daughter Gala married Guy Pratt, a session musician who has played bass for Pink Floyd since Roger Waters' exit. In his latter years Wright lived in France and spent time on a yacht he owned in the Virgin Islands.
Death
Wright died of an undisclosed form of cancer in his home in Britain on 15 September 2008 at age 65. At the time of his death, he had been working on a new solo album, which was thought to comprise a series of instrumental pieces.
Tributes
BR> Bandmate David Gilmour said:
No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend. In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten. He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound. I have never played with anyone quite like him. The blend of his and my voices and our musical telepathy reached their first major flowering in 1971 on 'Echoes'. In my view all the greatest PF moments are the ones where he is in full flow. After all, without 'Us and Them' and 'The Great Gig In The Sky', both of which he wrote, what would 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' have been? Without his quiet touch the Album 'Wish You Were Here' would not quite have worked. In our middle years, for many reasons he lost his way for a while, but in the early Nineties, with 'The Division Bell', his vitality, spark and humour returned to him and then the audience reaction to his appearances on my tour in 2006 was hugely uplifting and it's a mark of his modesty that those standing ovations came as a huge surprise to him, (though not to the rest of us). Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously.
Former bandmate Roger Waters' website was replaced with a photograph of an array of candles and poppies against a black background; one of the screen images used for the song "Wish You Were Here" in his "Dark Side of the Moon Live" Tour.
Waters issued a statement:
I was very sad to hear of Rick's premature death, I knew he had been ill, but the end came suddenly and shockingly. My thoughts are with his family, particularly [his children] Jamie and Gala and their mum Juliet, who I knew very well in the old days, and always liked very much and greatly admired. As for the man and his work, it is hard to overstate the importance of his musical voice in the Pink Floyd of the '60s and '70s. The intriguing, jazz influenced, modulations and voicings so familiar in 'Us and Them' and 'Great Gig in the Sky,' which lent those compositions both their extraordinary humanity and their majesty, are omnipresent in all the collaborative work the four of us did in those times. Rick's ear for harmonic progression was our bedrock. I am very grateful for the opportunity that Live 8 afforded me to engage with him and David [Gilmour] and Nick [Mason] that one last time. I wish there had been more.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason told Entertainment Weekly:
Like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what. But Pink Floyd wouldn’t have been Pink Floyd if [we] hadn’t had Rick. I think there’s a feeling now -- particularly after all the warfare that went on with Roger and David trying to make clear what their contribution was -- that perhaps Rick rather got pushed into the background. Because the sound of Pink Floyd is more than the guitar, bass, and drum thing. Rick was the sound that knitted it all together... He was by far the quietest of the band, right from day one. And, I think, probably harder to get to know than the rest of us... It's almost that George Harrison thing. You sort of forget that they did a lot more than perhaps they’re given credit for.
On 23 September 2008, David Gilmour performed Remember a Day, a Wright composition from Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (1968), on a live broadcast of Later... with Jools Holland on BBC Two as a tribute to Wright. In an interview later on in the show, Gilmour had said that Wright had intended to perform with him that day, but had sent Gilmour an SMS message couple of weeks before his death to advise him that he would not be well enough to attend. This was the first live performance of the song by any member of the band.
Influence
Wright's style fused jazz and neoclassical influences, which complemented the simple harmonic structures of the more blues and folk-based songs of Roger Waters and David Gilmour. As a keyboardist, he was more interested in complementing each piece with organ or synthesizer layers and tasteful piano or electric piano passages. Unlike his contemporaries Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks or Keith Emerson, he opted for solo playing only occasionally, notably in "Atom Heart Mother", "Echoes", "Any Colour You Like", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" Parts 1–5 and 6–9, "Welcome to the Machine", "Dogs", "Run Like Hell" and "Keep Talking". Also notable is the first solo in Syd Barrett's "Love Song". Wright was known for his ghostly atmospheric textures such as the Leslie piano arpeggios at the beginning of "Echoes", the echoed Farfisa Organ in the live versions of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", the distinctive Minimoog solos in "Any Colour You Like" and, more famously, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and the jazzy electric piano passages in "Money", "Time" and "Sheep". In "A Saucerful of Secrets" and "Sysyphus" he experimented with 'treated piano'. "Sysyphus" also made extensive use of Mellotron sounds, something of a rarity in the Pink Floyd canon. Wright also used Indian modal scales in "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and "Matilda Mother".
Equipment
In the early days of the band, Wright dabbled with brass before settling on the Farfisa organ as his main instrument onstage (in addition to piano and Hammond Organ in the studio). For a brief period in 1969, Wright played vibraphone on several of the band's songs and in some live shows, and he even played trombone on "Biding My Time" (also dating from this experimental period). During the formative years of Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, Wright relied heavily on his Farfisa organ, fed through a Binson Echorec platter echo, to achieve distinctive sounds that helped the band gain their "psychedelic rock" edge. He used a mellotron on "Seesaw", "Atom Heart Mother Suite", and "Sysyphus" on "Ummagumma". He started using a Hammond organ regularly onstage thereafter, and a grand piano later became part of his usual live concert setup when "Echoes" was added to Pink Floyd's regular set-list. For tours in the 1970s centering around The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall, the Farfisa was dropped (although it was brought back when Wright toured with David Gilmour on his On An Island tour), and an array of other instruments were added to the lineup, such as: Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer and Hohner electric pianos, VCS 3, Minimoog, ARP String Ensemble and Prophet 5 synthesizers. From 1987 Wright favoured Kurzweil digital synthesizers for reproducing his analogue synthesizer sounds, even though he still used his favourite Hammond C-3 organ. The one that he used with Pink Floyd at Live 8 and with David Gilmour, however, was a "portablized" version (stripped of unnecessary weight and put into a more compact casing by Keyboard Products of Los Angeles, Ca.).
Discography
With Pink Floyd
Solo albums
Wet Dream - 15 September 1978
Broken China - 26 November 1996
Zee album Identity - 9 April 1984
With David Gilmour
David Gilmour in Concert (DVD) - October, 2002
Appears on two tracks: "Breakthrough" (Keyboard / Vocals) & "Comfortably Numb (With Bob Geldof)" (Keyboard)
On an Island - 6 March 2006
Appears on two tracks: "On an Island" (Hammond organ) & "The Blue" (Keyboards / Vocals)
Remember That Night (DVD) - September, 2007
Live in Gdańsk (CD/DVD) - released on 22 September 2008
With Syd Barrett
The Madcap Laughs - 3 January 1970
Barrett - 14 November 1970
Rock on brave soul, rock on.
Now its time for...
Weathered its carried by electrons or a snail
It never ever fails
To make us scream and wail
When ever we get mail!
Our frst piece of mail comes from Nigeria!
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Sincerely,
IJ Dee-Vo, Tachi, Sock Monkey, and Little Mouth.
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IJLYMPICS
Saddly all good things must end, well except for Sonic and IJ Studios, both just go on and on and on! But that's about it and so to must end the IJlympics, which will end with a song.
Well now that the Olympic games are finally done,
The Torch put out, the medals won,
The Chinese rode around in big Wheels,
As a tower alight with living flames did appear,
A London bus arrived and rode around the tracks,
A girl walked on top of poor guys' backs,
The bus opened up to our surprise,
to revel the city of London inside,
Phelps won a gold medal times 8,
Showing at swimming he is first rate.
Pumas Usain Bolt raced towards gold,
The fastest man alive, a sight to behold,
PC went up against Mac,
Both lost to a penguin attack.
It was not Team Sonic that Proved Team Mario's doom,
But unlawful use of illegal shrooms,
The Tin Medal went to Sock Monkey,
The Bronze was Won by Tachi.
Little Mouth Won Silver, Timmy got Gold,
IJ Dee-Vo was lit with Olympic Glow.
We are all sad to see the Olympics go,
So that is all there is left of this show.
Tachi: THAT SUCKED MORE THEN THE OPENING SONG SUCKED.
IJ Dee-Vo: Really? I thought it sucked a bit less.
Tachi: TOO BAD THE SUCK METER IS STILL BROKEN FROM THE LAST SONG SO WE MAY NEVER KNOW.
And now for some very sad news that touches us like a pitchfor througfh the hear, Peanuts animator and voice of Snoopy, Bill Melendez, has died.
Bill Melendez
Animator, director and producer Jose Cuautemoc "Bill" Melendez, whose television programs and theatrical films featuring Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" characters earned four Emmy Awards, an Oscar nomination and two Peabody Awards, died Tuesday at St. John's hospital in Santa Monica, according to publicist Amy Goldsmith. He was 91.
Melendez's career extended over nearly seven decades, including stints at Walt Disney Studios, Leon Schlesinger Cartoons (which later was sold to Warner Bros.), United Productions of America and Playhouse Pictures. In 1964, he established Bill Melendez Productions, where he created his best-known works, including the holiday classic "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965). Over the years, his films were honored with two additional prime-time Emmys, three National Cartoonist Society awards, a Clio Award and 150 awards for commercials.
"A Charlie Brown Christmas," which Melendez and his partner Lee Mendelson produced for CBS, established the format of the half-hour animated special -- and began one of the most popular franchises in animation history.
Animating Schulz's simple drawings posed problems. "Charlie Brown has a big head, a little body and little feet," Melendez said in a 2000 interview for The Times. "Normally, a human takes a step every 16 frames -- about two-thirds of a second. But Sparky's [Schulz's] characters would look like they were floating at that pace. After several experiments, I had them take a step every six frames -- one-fourth of a second. . . . It was the only way that worked."
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" won an Emmy and a Peabody; CBS has rebroadcast it every holiday season since. Breaking with tradition, the filmmakers used an upbeat jazz score by Grammy-winning composer Vince Guaraldi and real children for the characters' voices, rather than adult actors imitating children.
Melendez supplied Snoopy's laughs, sobs and howls. Schulz insisted that as a dog, Snoopy couldn't talk. Melendez experimented with making sounds that suggested a voice and speeding them up on tape -- assuming a professional actor would do a final recording. But time ran short, and Melendez ended up serving as Snoopy's voice in 63 subsequent half-hour specials, five one-hour specials, the Saturday morning TV show and four feature films. In his later years, Melendez chuckled over the fact that he received residuals for his vocal performances.
Working with Mendelson and Schulz, Melendez brought the "Peanuts" characters to the big screen in 1969 with "A Boy Named Charlie Brown." Time magazine reported that "when 'A Boy Named Charlie Brown' sticks to a boy named Charlie Brown, it becomes a good deed in a naughty world, bright, nonviolent and equipped with an animated moral, the way Snoopy is equipped with a tail."
Three sequels followed: "Snoopy, Come Home" (1972), "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown" (1977) and "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)" (1980).
"Bill Melendez brought his special warmth, charm and directness to the Charles Schulz characters and brought them to life," animation historian and Oscar-winning filmmaker John Canemaker said Wednesday.
Melendez also oversaw the first specials based on the comic strips "Garfield" (1982) and "Cathy" (1987), two adaptations of the "Babar" books, and an animated version of C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (1979). Through the London branch of his studio, he directed "Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done" (1975), rewritten fragments of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with designs by illustrator Ronald Searle.
Born in Sonora, Mexico, Nov. 15, 1916, Melendez moved with his family to Arizona in 1928, then to Los Angeles, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute. He was one of the few Latinos working in animation when he began his career at Walt Disney Studios in 1939, contributing to the features "Pinocchio," "Fantasia," "Bambi" and "Dumbo," as well as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck shorts.
Melendez was an active participant in the bitterly fought strike that led to the unionization of the Disney artists in 1941, after which he moved to Schlesinger Cartoons, animating Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other classic Warner Bros. characters.
In 1948, Melendez joined United Productions of America and was delighted by the company's innovative approach to animation. "The animation we were doing was not limited, but stylized," he recalled in a 1986 interview. "When you analyze Chaplin's shorts, you realize people don't move that way -- he stylized his movements. We were going to do the same thing for animation. We were going to animate the work of Cobean, Steinberg -- all the great cartoonists of the moment -- and move them as the designs dictated."
After animating numerous UPA shorts, including the Oscar-winning "Gerald McBoing-Boing" (1951), Melendez served as a director and producer on more than 1,000 commercials for UPA, Playhouse Pictures and John Sutherland Productions. In 1959, he directed the first animation of the "Peanuts" characters for a series of commercials advertising the Ford Falcon.
"What made working in commercials fun then was the quick turnover of ideas," Melendez said. "That speed was refreshing."
Other work
In addition to animation, Meléndez was once a faculty member at the University of Southern California's Cinema Arts Department.
He is parodied in the online cartoon Homestar Runner.
Related companies
Melendez Films – Animation division : United Kingdom, video and interactive entertainment
Melendez is survived by his wife of 68 years, Helen; two sons, Steven Melendez and retired Navy Rear Adm. Rodrigo Melendez; six grandchildren; and 11 great grandchildren. Memorial services will be private. Donations can be made in Melendez's name to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
Um, well what can I say? One of the most famous animators, from one of the most famous cartoon series is gone. It's like someone lifted a continent of the Earth. Not only was he one of the most greatest animators of his time, he was a trail blazer. I just don't know what to do.
IJLYMPICS
IJ Dee-Vo: Well that's about it for the Ijlympics.
Tachi: WAIT IT'S NOT OVER YET!
IJ Dee-Vo: It's not? What else is there to do?
Tachi: WE STILL HAVE OLYMPIC SWAG TO GIVE AWAY.
IJ Dee-Vo: Schweet! Lets see...Oh here it's! Let me open this letter up and she what this is all about....
In honor of his continuous overused and under appreciated work, Sock monkey gets the Tin Medal.
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Tachi: HAHA MONKEY BOY GOT WORSE THEN BRONZE!
IJ Dee-Vo: Um, Hey, you never hear about the tin medals, you should be proud that you get one, besides, um we still have issues with our connection to be solved.
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Tachi: STOOPID MONKEY.
IJ Dee-Vo: For always being ready to take the reigns and make each installment interesting, Tachi receives the Bronze Medal.
IJ Dee-Vo: UST BRONZE? I HAVE MORE EXPENSIVE METALS IN MY END EFFECTOR. WELL AT LEAST I BEAT THAT STOOPID MONKY
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IJ Dee-Vo: For always bearing the brunt of abuse and still come of smiling Little Mouth receives the Silver Medal!
Tachi: NO WAY!
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IJ Dee-Vo: And for being the most helpful and omnipresent yet at the same time doing so in the back ground, I present the Gold Medal to Timmy! Here you go Timmy, enjoy!
Tachi: I OBJECT!
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IJ Dee-Vo: Wait there is one more left.
Tachi: GEE I WONDER WHO IT'S GOING BE?
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IJ Dee-Vo: For all his hard work, strength, determination, and courage despite all odds in the face of defeat the single most greatest award that the Olympics can offer, its very symbol, the Olympic Flame goes to...IJ Dee-Vo. Hey..wait..that's me! Fire Fire ya Fire!
Tachi: NOOOOO!
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IJ Dee-Vo: Wow this is such an honor, I I don't know what to say , except I will keep this burning for all times.
Tachi: YOU DO RELIZE YOU ARE ON FIRE?
IJ Dee-Vo: Yes, we are all on fire with the spirit of the Olympics burning in our hearts. Hmm something smells good.
Hey a penguin got knighted in Scotland, Maybe it was the same one that appeared at the IJLympics?
Nils Olav
Sir Nils Olav is a King Penguin living in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King's Guard. Nils was visited by the Norwegian King's Guard on the 15 August 2008 and awarded a knighthood. The honor was approved by the king of Norway, King Harald V. During the ceremony a crowd of several hundred people joined the 130 guardsmen at the zoo to hear a citation from King Harald the Fifth of Norway read out, which described Nils as a penguin "in every way qualified to receive the honor and dignity of knighthood".
Role in the military
When the Norwegian King's Guard visited Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1961 for a Drill Display, a lieutenant called Nils Egelien became interested in Edinburgh Zoo's penguin colony. When the Guards once again returned to Edinburgh in 1972, he arranged for the unit to adopt a penguin. This penguin was named Nils Olav in honor of Nils Egelien, and King Olav V of Norway.
Nils Olav was given the rank of visekorporal (lance corporal) and has been promoted each time the King's Guard has returned to the Tattoo. In 1982 he was made corporal, and promoted to sergeant in 1987. Nils Olav died shortly after his promotion to sergeant, and his place of honor was taken by Nils Olav II, his two-year-old near-double. He was promoted in 1993 to the rank of regimental sergeant major. On August 18, 2005, he was promoted to Colonel-in-Chief. He is the first penguin to hold this rank in the Norwegian army. At the same time a four foot high bronze statue of Nils Olav was presented to Edinburgh Zoo. The statue's inscription recognizes the King's Guard and the Military Tattoo. A statue also stands at the Royal Norwegian Guard compound at Huseby, Oslo.
Norway presented the zoo with its first king penguin in 1913, the year of its opening.
In Norwegian he is consistently referred to only as the mascot of the King's Guard, although both the plaque on his statue, and the website of the Norwegian Government's Consulate in Edinburgh, refer to his promotion to Colonel-in-Chief.
Well that's it for this week!
IJLYMPICS
IJ Dee-Vo: Well here it is, the most anticipated event for the 2008 Olympics
Tachi: YES THE GREATEST RIVERY THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN IS ABOUT TO BE RESOLVED HERE IN IJ STUDIOS!
IJ Dee-Vo: All the way from Mobius, Brought to us by way of Chaos Control is Team Sonic, represented by Sonic the Ultimate Hedgehog, Knuckles The Echidna, Mile's Tails Prower the two tailed fox, Vector the Crocodile, and Shadow the Hedgehog.
Tachi: ALL THE WAY FROM THE FABILOUS FUNGUS WORLD OF THE MUSHROOM KINDOM OUT FROM A SEWER PIPE IS TEAM MARIO CONSISTING OF MARIO, LUGIO, PRINCES PEACH, KING BOWSER KOOPA, AND YOOSHI!
IJ Dee-Vo: Now these two teams are not going for silver bronze or gold but something far more valuable and far more rare.
Tachi: THAT'S RIGHT. THERE ARE DOZENS OF THOSE COMMON RUN OF THE MILL DOOR PRIZES BUT THERE ARE ONLY 5 OF THESE RESEARVED ONLY FOR THOSE THAT TRULY AND FULLY EMBODY THE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS.
IJ Dee-Vo: Thats right we are of course talking about the very thing that symbolizes the Olympics after the flame itself. The Olympic Rings.
Tachi: YES THE FIVE OLYMPIC RINGS REPRESENTING THE EMBODIMENTS OF PERSEVERANCE, EXCELLENCE, INTEGRITY, SPORTSMANSHIP, AND BROTHERHOOD ARE THE TRUE PRIZES OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND ONLY HERE WILL YOU SEE THEM BEING DISPENSED LIKE SO MANY HULA HOOPS.
IJ Dee-Vo: This should be good. Team Sonic is of coarse no stranger to gathering rings, so they are well hearsed for this.
Tachi: BUT REMEMBER TEAM MARIO IS NO STRANGER AT GOING FOR THE GOLD SO IT SHOULD BE A TIGHT MATCH.
IJ Dee-Vo: We'll Start off with the first event, the 100 meter dash, Team Sonic is Represented by team leader Sonic T. Hedgehog. Representing the Team Mario is team leader Mario Mario. They are taking their positions now, This should be something to see.
Tachi: ON YOUR MARK, GET READY, GET SET, GO!
IJ Dee-Vo: What was that? Did the reactor blow?
Tachi: NO THAT WAS A SONIC BOOM. LETS SEE WHAT THE CAMERA PICKED UP.
IJ Dee-Vo: According to this we have a winner. Sonic The Hedgehog has made it to the finish line before Mario Mario could finish a step, We have our first Winner!
Tachi: WELL THAT WAS SHORT, NOW TO OUR NEXT EVENT THE SHOT PUT. THROWING A BIG HEAVY METAL BALL. FOR TEAM SONIC IT IS THAT GRAPE SCARFFING EMERALD GARDING SPINY ANTEATER. KNUCKLES THE ECHIDNA. AND FOR TEAM MARIO IS THAT PRINCES KIDNAPPING, FIRE VOMITING, DRAGON TURTLE, KING BOWSER KOOPA!
IJ Dee-Vo: First off is Knuckles, look at him, he may not be big, at only 3 foot high, and 120 pounds, but it's all muscle. They Say red is the color of rage I hope he can put it to good use.
Tachi: HE'S PICKING UP THE BALL AND HE'S SPINNING AROUND, HIS DREADS ROTATING LIKE A RED PROPELLER. HE LAUNCHES THE BALL AND IT”S GOING. AND IT LANDS..
IJ Dee-Vo: It looks like it could be a new world record, lets measure this. Hey Little mouth lend me your tongue....Yes..Yes..150 feet, A new world record!
Tachi: NOW LETS SEE IF THE MAGIC CAN HAPPEN AGAIN AS BOWERSER STEPS UP. HE TAKES THE BALL AND STARTS SPINNING, USING THAT TAIL OF HIS TO HELP BALANCE HIM OUT. FOR SOME REASON GAMERA COMES TO MIND AS HE NOW LAUNCHES THE BALL, AND THERE IT GOES, IT MAY BE TRYING TO BREAK THE PULL OF THE EARH'S GRAVITY!
IJ Dee-Vo: And there it goes, landing beyond Knuckles, however we need to measure this to make it Official. Little Mouth Your tongue again..lets see...200 feet a new world record!
Tachi: YES YOU HAVE SEEN IT ONLY HERE. THREE RECORDS BROKEN ONE AFTER THE OTHER, AND NOW LETS MAKE IT FOUR WITH OUR NEXT EVENT.
IJ Dee-Vo: Our next one is gymnastics, featuring Teams Sonic's Miles “Tails “Prower The two tailed Fox, and Sonic's own mentoree.
Tachi: AND THERE HE GOES ON THE BARS, WATCH HIM GO. YOU'D THINK HAVING TWO TAILS WOULD JUST TRIP HIM UP BUT NO.
IJ Dee-Vo: In fact by providing extra lift they seem to be actually be helping him. I have never..never seen a display like this. It's as if all of the cosmos were put together just for this event.
Tachi: AND HE MAKES THE DISMOUNT...PERFECT! NOW LET US SEE WHAT THE JUDGE-O-MATIC HAS TO SAY.
IJ Dee-Vo: Lights flash and buzzers buzz as it computes each and every motion....Ok it's ready. 10, 9, 3. Hmmm, ok.
TACHI: WELL THAT LAST ONE IS VERY DIFFICULT TO IMPRESS. NOW IT'S TIME FOR TEAM MARIO'S PRINCESS PEACH, RULER OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM TO GO. AND THERE SHE IS. HER ALBERATE GOWN NOT SEEMING TO BE GETTING IN THE WAY AS SHE GOES.
IJ Dee-Vo: In fact it seems to be helping her dismount as it is letting her float down gently, landing perfectly!
Tachi: YES AND NOW IT'S UP TO THE JUDGE-O-MATIC TO COMPUTATE HER SCORES...WAIT FOR IT...WAIT FOR IT...THERE IT'S IN! 9, 3, 10!
IJ Dee-Vo: Well there you have it, we have the winner Miles” Tails” Prower has won and as we set up the next event let us hear a word from our sponsor.
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Tachi: NOW THAT WE HAVE SET UP THE NEXT EVENT. IN THIS ONE CONTESESTS GET TO SHOW OF THEIR STRENGTH AND SPEED AS THEY RACE FROM ONE END TO THE TRACK TO THE OTHER WHERE THEIR AWAITS SEVERALS WEIGHTS THAT MUST BE RETRIEVED AND THEN RUSHED TO THE OTHER SIDE. SHADOW OF TEAM SONIC AND YOOSHI FROM TEAM MARIO WILL BE COMPETING ON THIS EVENT.
IJ Dee-Vo: Yes and it should be something, Shadow is of course the ultimate life form so this should be a breeze for him to carry out.
Tachi: NOW DO'NT DISCOUNT YOSHI. HE'S A PRETTY TOUGH DINOUSAUR AND HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CARRY OBESCE PLUMBERS AROUND ON HIS BACK ALL DAY. IT MAY BE A PRETTY EVEN MATCH.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well, you two, take your places, on your mark, get set...GO!!!!! And Shadow has already zoomed off towards his goal, before Yoshi Has taken a simple step.
Tachi: IT LOOKS LIKE YOSHI ISN'T MOVING AT ALL, BUT WAIT HIS MOUTH IS OPENING...DID YOU SEE THAT? HE JUST SHOT OUT A LONG APPENGE FROM HIS CAVERNOUS ORAL ORIFICE WHICH HAS LATCHED ONTO THE WEIGHT!
IJ Dee-Vo: I think it's called a tongue. Shadow is almost over to the other side with his weight.
Tachi: I CAN NOT BELIEVE WHAT I SEE! YOSHI HAS JUST RETRACTED HIS TOUNGUE WITH THE WEIGHT TO HIS SIDE AND HE'S... YES HE SHOT IT OUT AGAIN!
IJ Dee-Vo: Shadow has already set his weight down, but even his frictionless shoes can't match that tongue. It's a shame power ups are not allowed, else he would be Chaos Controlling himself to the win.
Tachi: IT'S TOO BAD OUR LISTENERS ARE NOT HERE. FOR EVERY TWO WEIGHTS YOUSHI CAN BRING OVER TO HIS SIDE SHADOW CAN ONLY BRING 1.5. YOSHI IS STARTING TO GET A LARGER AND LARGER LEAD.
IJ Dee-Vo: Shadow has better take his game to the next level if he is to get to the next Zone, errr get the Ring.
Tachi: OH IT IS OVER! YOSHI HAS GOTTEN ALL OF HIS WEIGHTS TO HIS SIDE! CAN YOU SAY I BELIEVE IN MIRCLES! A DINOSAUR HAS JUST WHOOPED THE SORRY TAIL OF A HEDGEHOG!
IJ Dee-Vo: Now is the event that will determine which team is the best, the last members of each team must swim a lap in this Olympic sized pool! The cold blooded head of the Chaotix Detective Agency, that awesome alligator, that groovy gaialidea, that crazy caiman, the croc that rocks, Vector The Crocodile will be represent'n Team Sonic!
Tachi: AND ON TEAM MARIO IS THAT PRINCE OF DRAIN, THAT LEAN MEAN PLUNGING MACHINE, WETCHED WRENCH WEILDER, THAT CLOGINATOR, THAT BROTHER FROM THE SAME MOTHER, LUIGI MARIO!
IJ Dee-Vo: Now come one who is that guy kidding, going against an amphibious creature and expecting to win in any type of aquatic activity?
Tachi: NOW DO NOT COUNT LUIGI OUT, AS A PLUMBER HE IS USED TO WORKING IN THE WATER AND LETS FACE IT HE IS MORE STREAMLINED THIS HIS BROTHER.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well Guys get into your positions! On your mark! Get ready, get set, GO! And both of them take the plunge and you should see that splash.
Tachi: AND THEY ARE OFF! LOOK AT LUGIO GO OFF LIKE A ROCKET SWIMMING THAT TAIL OF HIS TO ADD TO HIS PROPULSION!
IJ Dee-Vo: I Think That is Vector, Luigi is over there, the one without the tail.
Tachi: OH YES, WELL THEY BOTH ARE WEARING GREEN SO IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE. LUGI THOUGH LAGGING BEHIND IS STARTING TO CATCH UP. HE MAY BE CONSERVING ENERGY FOR THE RETURN LAP.
IJ Dee-Vo: And Vector has reached the edge of the pool and has turned around. You know this is truly the event for him, with his nostrils and eyes on the top of his head he doesn't have to worry about breathing. He isn't even wasting any motion with his rams and legs, just using that tail to keep him going.
Tachi: LUIGI HAS REACHED THE END AND TAKE A LOOK AT THAT HE HAS JUST BURST THROGH WITH NEW LIFE, AS IF BEING CLOSE TO DEFEAT HAS GIVEN HIM THE STRENGTH TO GO ON. HE IS CUTING THROUGH THE WATER LIKE A KNIFE.
IJ Dee-Vo: Vector is going strong but Luigi has caught up to his tail! OH My, This may actually not be as one sided as I thought!
Tachi: LUIGI HAS JUST PASSED THE TAIL, THOUGH VECTOR IS STILL AHEAD BY A SNOUT AND THE END IS CLOSING FAST!
IJ Dee-Vo: Vector had better boost his speed up, Luigi's arm is now at the length of his nose, any little bit more and plunger boy will win!
Tachi: AND IT'S OVER! IT IS OVER BUT IT'S TOO CLOSE TO TELL! WE HAVE TO RELY ON VIDEO TO GO OVER TO SEE WHO WAS IT WHO WON, SO BEAR WITH US AS WE GO OVER IT.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Well we just reviewed the video and wow it was close, real close, I mean, it was a 1/1000 second finish, I mean Phelps never had it this close, it's so unbelievably close.
Tachi: IT IS SO AMAZING CLOSE WE HAD TO REVIEW IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. BUT THERE IS NO DENYING THE WINNER IS...
IJ Dee-Vo: The winner of this spectacular race is...
Tachi: ITS TOO AMAZING TO SAY IT..
IJ Dee-Vo: Ok ok, I'll say it. The winner, by a tongue, is Vector The Crocodile!
Tachi: YES THAT IS RIGHT, THE HOTTEST PART OF THIS EVENT WAS WON BY SOMEONE WHOSE BLOOD RUNS COLD.
IJ Dee-Vo: So now we are prepared to award the winners, Sonic The Hedgehog, King Browser Koopa, Miles “Tails” Prower, Yoshi, and Vector The Crocodile the Olympic Rings of Perseverance, Sportsmanship, Excellence, Integrity, and Brotherhood!
Tachi: WAIT NOT SO FAST! WE JUST GOT A DISTURBING REPORT!
IJ Dee-Vo: What..what is it?
Tachi: WE JUST GOT THE RESULTS FOR THE MANDATORY DRUIG TESTS IN!
IJ Dee-Vo: What are the results?
Tachi: THE MEMBERS OF TEAM MARIO HAVE BEEN TESTED POSITIVE FOR SHROOMS, “FIRE FLOWERS” AND A DRUG WHOSE STREET NAME IS STARMAN!
IJ Dee-Vo: Wow this disqualifies Team Mario, so I guess King Bowser Koopa and Yoshi is out! SO the winner of the Olympic Rings, are Sonic The Hedgehog, Knuckles The Echidna, Miles “Tails” Prower the two tailed fox, Shadow The Ultimate Hedgehog, and Vector the Crocodile!
Tachi: SO TAKE YOUR PLACES ON THE OLYMPIC STANDS AND RECEIVE THE OLYMPIC RINGS YOU BRAVE TITANS OF TEAM SPIRIT!
IJ Dee-Vo: Sonic The Hedgehog, for your never say die, can do attitude in the face of certain defeat, I award you the Blue Ring of Perseverance. Miles “Tails” Prower the two tailed fox, for your hard word work in both the support of your fellow teammates as well as learning to depend on your own strength and determination I award you the Yellow Ring of Excellence. Shadow The Hedgehog, despite all the twists and turns in your life, you have always found your way out of the darkness so I present you the Black Ring of Integrity. Knuckles The Echidna for your determination, and tough but fair policy I award you the Red Ring of Sportsmanship. Last but not least by a long shot, Vector The Crocodile I award you for your support of your fellow team members of both Team Sonic and the Chaotix I award you the Green Ring of Brotherhood. Remember, "If you have a dream, you must stay true to it. Believe in your dream, do everything you can to follow it, and you can make it come true!" .
Tachi: ODD HOW EACH ONE WON A RING THE SAME COLOR AS THEMSELVES.
IJ Dee-Vo: Sadly Another death involving the great....
TACHI : SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
IJ Dee-Vo: I was only talking about Isaac Hayes Jr.
Tachi: I CAN DIG IT.
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008[1]) was an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. In the late 1960s, Hayes became a recording artist, and recorded successful soul albums such as Hot Buttered Soul (1969) and Black Moses (1971) as the Stax label's premier artist.
Alongside his work in popular music, Hayes was a film score composer for motion pictures. His best known work, for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft, earned Hayes an Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first Academy Award received by an African-American in a non-acting category) and two Grammy Awards. He received a third Grammy for the album Black Moses.
In 1992, in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2006, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.
Biography
Early years
Hayes was born in Covington, Tennessee, the second-born child of Isaac Sr. and Eula Hayes, but after their deaths was raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wade, Sr. The child of a poor family, he grew up picking cotton in Covington. He dropped out of high school, only to be encouraged later by his former high school teachers at Manassas High to get his diploma, which he earned at the age of 21. He began singing at the age of five at his local church, and, soon after, he taught himself to play the piano, Hammond organ, flute and saxophone.
Stax Records and Shaft
Isaac Hayes' 1969 album Hot Buttered Soul was both a commercial success and a milestone in the development of soul music.
Hayes began his recording career in the early 1960s, as a session player for various acts of the Memphis-based Stax Records. He later wrote a string of hit songs with songwriting partner David Porter, including "You Don't Know Like I Know", "Soul Man", "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby", and "Hold On I'm Comin" for Sam and Dave. Hayes, Porter and Stax studio band Booker T. & the MGs served as the main production team for much of the label's output during the early and mid-1960s. In 1968, Hayes released his debut album, Presenting Isaac Hayes, a jazzy, largely improvised effort that was commercially unsuccessful.
His next album was Hot Buttered Soul, which was released in 1969 after Stax had gone through a major upheaval. The label had lost its largest star, Otis Redding, in a plane crash in December of 1967. Stax lost all of its back catalog to Atlantic Records in May of 1968. As a result, Stax executive vice president Al Bell called for 27 new albums to be completed in mid-1969; Hot Buttered Soul, was the most successful of these releases. This album is noted for Hayes' image (shaved head, gold jewelry, sun glasses, etc) and his distinct sound (extended orchestral songs, heavy on organs, horns, and guitars, deep bass vocals, etc). Also on the album, Hayes re-interprets "Walk On By" (which had been made famous by Dionne Warwick) into a twelve-minute exploration. "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" starts with an eight-minute long monologue before breaking into song, and the lone original number, the funky "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" runs nearly ten minutes, a significant break from the standard three minute soul/pop songs.
"Walk On By" would be the first of many times Hayes would take a Burt Bacharach standard, generally made famous as three minute pop songs by Dionne Warwick or Dusty Springfield, and transform it into an soulful, lengthy and almost gospel number.
In 1970, Hayes released two albums, The Isaac Hayes Movement and To Be Continued. The former stuck to the four song template of his previous album. Jerry Butler's "I Stand Accused" begins with a trademark spoken word monologue, and Bacharach's "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" is re-worked. The latter spawned the classic, "The Look Of Love," another Bacharach song transformed into an eleven-minute epic of lush orchestral rhythm (mid-way it breaks into a rhythm guitar jam for a couple of minutes before suddenly resuming the slow love song). An edited three-minute version was issued as a single. The album also featured the instrumental "Ike's Mood," which segued into his own version of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling." Hayes released a Christmas single, "The Mistletoe and Me" (with "Winter Snow" as a B-side).
The soundtrack for the 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft remains Hayes' best-known work.
In early 1971, Hayes composed music for the soundtrack of the blaxploitation film Shaft. (in the movie, he also appeared in a cameo role as the bartender of No Name Bar). The title theme, with its wah-wah guitar and multi-layered symphonic arrangement, would become a worldwide hit single, and spent two weeks at number one in the Billboard Hot 100 in November. The remainder of the album was mostly instrumentals covering big beat jazz, bluesy funk, and hard Stax-styled soul. The other two vocal songs, the social commentary "Soulville" and the nineteen-minute jam "Do Your Thing," would be edited down to hit singles. Hayes won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the "Theme from Shaft," and was nominated for Best Original Dramatic Score for the film's score.
Later in the year, Hayes released a double album, Black Moses, that expanded on his earlier sounds and featured The Jackson 5's song "Never Can Say Goodbye". Another single, "I Can't Help It", was not featured on the album.
In 1972, Hayes would record the theme tune for the TV series The Men and enjoy a hit single (with "Type Thang" as a B-side). He released several other non-album singles during the year, such as "Feel Like Making Love", "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right)", and "Rolling Down a Mountainside". Atlantic would re-release Hayes' debut album this year with the new title In The Beginning.
Hayes was back in 1973 with an acclaimed live double album, Live At Sahara Tahoe, and followed it up with the album Joy, with eerie beat of the fifteen-minute title track. He moved away from cover songs in this album. An edited "Joy" would be a hit single. In 1974, Hayes was featured in the blaxploitation films Three Tough Guys and Truck Turner, and he recorded soundtracks for both. Tough Guys was being almost devoid of vocals and Truck Turner yielded a single with the title theme. The soundtrack score was eventually used by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in the Kill Bill film series and has been used for over 30 years as the opening score of Brazilian radio show Jornal de Esportes at Jovem Pan station.
HBS (Hot Buttered Soul Records) and bankruptcy
By 1974, Stax Records was having serious financial problems, stemming from problems with overextension and limited record sales and distribution. Hayes himself was deep in debt to Union Planters Bank, which administered loans for the Stax label and many of its other key employees. In September of that year, Hayes sued Stax for $5.3 million. As Stax was in deep debt and could not pay, the label made an arrangement with Hayes and Union Planters: Stax released Hayes from his recording and production contracts, and Union Planters would collect all of Hayes' income and apply it towards his debts. Hayes formed his own label, Hot Buttered Soul, which released its product through ABC Records. His new album, 1975's Chocolate Chip saw Hayes embrace the disco sound with the title track and lead single. "I Can't Turn Around" would prove a popular song as time went on. This would be Hayes' last album to chart top 40 for many years. Later in the year, the all instrumental Disco Connection album fully embraced disco.
In 1976, the album cover of Juicy Fruit featured Hayes in a pool with naked women, and spawned the title track single and the classic "Storm Is Over". Later the same year the Groove-A-Thon album featured the singles "Rock Me Easy Baby" and the title track. However, while all these albums were regarded as solid efforts, Hayes was no longer selling large numbers. He and his wife were forced into bankruptcy in 1976, as they owed over $6 million. By the end of the bankruptcy proceedings in 1977, Hayes had lost his home, much of his personal property, and the rights to all future royalties earned from the music he'd written, performed, and produced.
Polydor and hiatus, film work, and the Duke of New York
In 1977, Hayes was back with a new deal with Polydor Records, a live album of duets with Dionne Warwick did moderately well, and his comeback studio album New Horizon sold better and enjoyed a hit single "Out The Ghetto", and also featured the popular "It's Heaven To Me".
1978's For The Sake Of Love saw Hayes record a sequel to "Theme from Shaft" ("Shaft II"), but was most famous for the single "Zeke The Freak", a song that would have a shelf life of decades and be a major part of the House movement in the UK. The same year, Fantasy Records, which had bought out Stax Records, released an album of Hayes' non-album singles and archived recordings as a "new" album, Hotbed, in 1978.
In 1979, Hayes returned to the Top 40 with Don't Let Go and its disco-styled title track that became a hit single (U.S. #18), and also featured the classic "A Few More Kisses To Go". Later in the year he added vocals and worked on Millie Jackson's album Royal Rappin's.
Neither 1980s And Once Again or 1981's Lifetime Thing produced notable songs or big sales, and Hayes chose to take a break from music to pursue acting.
In the 1970s, Hayes featured in the films Shaft (1971) and Truck Turner (1974); he also had a recurring role in the TV series The Rockford Files as ex-con strongman Gandolph Fitch, including one episode alongside duet-partner Dionne Warwick. In the 1980s and 90s, he appeared in numerous films, notably Escape from New York (1981), I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), Prime Target (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Johnny Mnemonic (1995), as well as in episodes of The A-Team and Miami Vice. He also attempted a musical comeback, embracing the style of drum machines and synth for 1986s U-Turn and 1988s Love Attack, though neither proved successful.
Return to form … and to stardom
Hayes launched a comeback on the Virgin label in 1995 with Branded, an album of new material that earned impressive sales figures as well as positive reviews from critics who proclaimed it a return to form. A companion album released around the same time, Raw and Refined, featured a collection of previously unreleased instrumentals, both old and new.
In a rather unexpected career move shortly thereafter, Hayes charged back into the public consciousness as a founding star of Comedy Central's controversial — and wildly successful — animated TV series, South Park. Hayes provided the voice for the character of "Chef," the amorous elementary-school lunchroom cook, from the show's debut on August 13, 1997 (one week shy of his 55th birthday), through the end of its ninth season in 2006. The role of Chef drew on Hayes's talents both as an actor and as a singer, thanks to the character's penchant for making conversational points in the form of crudely suggestive soul songs. An album of songs from the series appeared in 1998 with the title Chef Aid: The South Park Album reflecting Chef's popularity with the show's fans, and the Chef song "Chocolate Salty Balls" became a number-one U.K. hit. Ironically, when South Park leaped to the big screen the following year with the smash animated musical South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Hayes/Chef was the only major character who did not perform a showcase song in the film; his lone musical contribution was "Good Love," a track on the soundtrack album which originally appeared on Black Moses in 1971 and is not heard in the movie.
Hayes was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. The same year, a documentary highlighting Isaac's career and his impact on many of the Memphis artists in the 1960s onwards was produced, "Only The Strong Survive".
In 2004, Hayes appeared in a recurring minor role as the Jaffa Tolok on the television series Stargate SG-1. The following year, he appeared in the critically acclaimed independent film Hustle & Flow.
Basketball team ownership
On July 17, 1974, Hayes, along with Mike Storen, Avron Fogelman and Kemmons Wilson took over ownership of the American Basketball Association team the Memphis Tams. The prior owner was Charles O. Finley, the owner of the Oakland A's baseball team. Hayes' group renamed the team the Memphis Sounds. Despite a 66% increase in home attendance, hiring well regarded coach Joe Mullaney and, unlike in the prior three seasons, making the 1975 ABA Playoffs (losing to the eventual champion Kentucky Colonels in the Eastern Division semifinals), the team's financial problems continued. The group was given a deadline of June 1, 1975 to sell 4,000 season tickets, obtain new investors and arrange a more favorable lease for the team at the Mid-South Coliseum. The group did not come through and the ABA took over the team, selling it to a group in Maryland that renamed the team the Baltimore Hustlers and then the Baltimore Claws before the club finally folded during preseason play for the 1975-1976 season.
After South Park
Hayes’ income was sharply reduced as a result of leaving South Park. There followed announcements that he would be touring and performing. A reporter present at a January 2007 show in New York City, who had known Hayes fairly well, reported that "Isaac was plunked down at a keyboard, where he pretended to front his band. He spoke-sang, and his words were halting. He was not the Isaac Hayes of the past."
In April 2008, while a guest on The Adam Carolla Show, Hayes stumbled in his responses to questions - possibly as a result of health or related issues. A caller questioned whether Hayes was under the influence of a substance, and Carolla and co-host Teresa Strasser asked Hayes if he had ever used marijuana. After some confusion on what was being asked, Hayes replied that he had only ever tried it once. During the interview the radio hosts made light of Hayes' awkward answers, and replayed Hayes comments as sound drops - often simulating conversation with his co-hosts. Hayes stated during this interview that he was no longer on good terms with Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
During the spring of 2008, Hayes shot scenes for a comedy about soul musicians inspired by the history of Stax Records entitled Soul Men, in which he will appear as himself in a supporting role. The film is scheduled for release in November 2008.
Stroke and death
On March 20, 2006, Roger Friedman of Fox News reported that Hayes had suffered a stroke in January. Hayes spokeswoman Amy Harnell denied that Hayes had a stroke, but on October 26, 2006 Hayes himself confirmed that he did.
Hayes was found unconscious in his home located just east of Memphis, Tennessee on August 10, 2008 as reported by the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. A Shelby County Sheriff's deputy responded to Hayes's home after his wife found him on the floor near a still-running treadmill. Hayes was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, where he was pronounced dead at 2:08pm, ten days before his 66th birthday. The cause of death was not immediately known, though authorities subsequently listed stroke as the cause of death. At the time of his death, he was preparing his first new studio album since 1995.
He was interred at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.
Charitable work
The Isaac Hayes Foundation was founded in 1999 by Isaac Hayes. In February 2006, Hayes appeared in a Youth for Human Rights International music video called "United". YHRI is a human rights group.
Hayes was also involved in other human rights related groups such as the One Campaign.
Family
Hayes fathered 12 children, and has 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His fourth wife Adjowa gave birth to a son named Nana Kwadjo Hayes on April 10, 2006. One son is his namesake, Isaac Hayes III.
Awards and nominations
1972
Academy Award
Shaft
Nominated
Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
Won
Best Music, Original Song (For the song "Theme from Shaft")
BAFTA Award
Shaft
Nominated
Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
Golden Globe Award
Shaft
Nominated
Best Original Song (For the song "Theme from Shaft")
Won
Best Original Score
Grammy Award
Shaft
Won
Best Instrumental Arrangement (For the song "Theme from Shaft", arranged with Johnny Allen)
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special
1973
Grammy Award
Black Moses
Won
Best Pop Instrumental Performance By An Arranger, Composer, Orchestra and/or Choral Leader
1998
BMI Film & TV Award
Soul Man (Shared with David Porter)
Won
BMI TV Music Award
1999
NAACP Image Award
South Park
Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
2006
Screen Actors Guild Award
Hustle & Flow (Shared with cast)
Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Another fine man removed from our lives, way too soon. Well that completes this, the single most important event of the Olympics, tune in next week to see what we come up with. I warn you, it wont top this.
Yahh that's quite a bit, maybe we can work hard to get it to 3000.
IJLYMPICS
IJ Dee-Vo: Well Here we are at the Ijlympics where we are having our first event, a series of competitions between our Two Good Friends PC and Mac, though with only two competitors I don't know what to give the second one, silver or for coming in last...bronze
Tachi: THAT MAY NOT BE A PROBLEM AS WE SEEM TO HAVE A THIRD CHALLENGER!
IJ Dee-Vo: Who is this brave and possibly foolish soul that dares challenges the fight for OS supremacy?
Tachi: IT APPEARS TO BE A...WAIT...WAIT...SOME SHORT GUY IN A TUXEDO
IJ Dee-Vo: Uncle Moneybags?
Tachi: NO IT'S A PENGUIN!
IJ Dee-Vo: A penguin, well certainly it would do good in the winter Olympics, but it must be ready to melt in this heat, well It's a bit .... to let someone else in so late, but I'll allow it! Well that's it, we have three medals, and three contestants. Are you ready? First is the speed it's pretty self satisfactory, the faster system, wins...Gentlemen, and aquatic fowl on your mark...get set GO!!!
Tachi: AND THEY ARE OFF: AND RIGHT OFF THE BASE PC TAKES THE LEAD AND MAC IS RIGHT BEHIND...BUT WAIT THE LITTLE PENGIN IS REALLY ACCELERATING>>IT”S RIGHT BEHIND MAC.
IJ Dee-Vo: Wow It's quite surprising seeing how small those legs are.
Tachi: I GUESS ITS BECAUSE THE LIL GUY IS A LOT LESS BULKIER THEN PC OR MAC, LOOK THEY ARE TIED FOR SECONDPLACE..
IJ Dee-Vo: Wait that bird is starting to pull ahead, wow, for being flightless, that dude can really fly! Mac is really falling behind both of them, but surely, no penguin can hope to have a chance against PC...can it?
Tachi: WELL IT SEEMS NOONE TOLD THIS PENGUIN THAT. ITS NOW CLOSE ENOUGH THAT IT CAN PECK AWAY AT PC's LEGS...WAIT.
IJ Dee-Vo: I can't believe it, they are even!...As for Mac, he's so far away I can't even see him.
Tachi: WAIT..Wait...YES THE PENGUIN IS SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF PC!
IJ Dee-Vo: Well It's that beak, it's giving the arctic wonder the edge here.
Tachi: THE TUXEDO TORNADO HAS NOW PULLED AHAEAD IN A SIGNIFICANT LEAD!
IJ Dee-Vo: This ..this is amazing! A bird has surpassed both PC and Mac! And it's closing on to the finish line!..
Tachi: IT'S OVER! THE PENGUIN HAS WON!
IJ Dee-Vo: Here comes PC, yes, PC is now second, but were is Mac?
Tachi: THERE IS MAC, LAYING ON THE TRACK, SMOKING...SOMETHING
IJ Dee-Vo: Well we are giving them a short intermission to rest.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Well we are back and now on to our next event. Our last one was pure speed, but this one is endurance.
Tachi: YES ITS DON'T STOP TILL YOU DROP. LAST ONE STANDING WINS THIS ONE,.
IJ Dee-Vo: Now I should say that the medals we give out is actually accumulative, the one the wins the most of these events will get a gold
Tachi: SECOND MOST WILL GET SILVER, THIRD THE BRONZE.
IJ Dee-Vo: Now that there are all rested, On your mark, get ready, get set..GO!!!
Tachi: AND THEY ARE OFF! SO FAR THEY ARE ALL DOING WELL. IT SEEMS LIKE IT COULD BE ANYONES GAMES...
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IJ Dee-Vo: We are on hour 2, and so far its pretty uneventful, wait I spoke too soon. PC just stumbled and is down, and yes his glasses ...the lenses are blue..PC is out!
Tachi: YES BUT MAC AND PENGUIN ARE STILL GOING STRONG, IT STILL CAN GO EATHER WAY...
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IJ Dee-Vo: Well It's the fourth hour of running and nothing to really say, just a guy and a penguin..did you see that! MAC HAS Fallen, and he isn't getting back up...
Tachi: THIS IS UNPRECEDED THE PENGUIN HAS WON YET AGAIN!
IJ Dee-Vo: Yes so far this feathered flightless fowl is fouling up the chances of PC and Mac to win, but it's not over yet.
Tachi: NO NOT BY A LONG SHOT NOW WE WILL LET THEM RECOVER AS WE HAVE A WORD FROM OUR SPONNSOR.
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IJ Dee-Vo: Now that they have had a chance to recover we move on to our next event. They will be juggling application. Yes the most applications they can have determines the winner, so let us now see. On your mark, get ready, Go!!!
Tachi: YES THER ARE EACH JUGGLING AN APPLICATON, NOW TWO, NOW THREE, SO FAR THEY ARE SOING GREAT JUGGLING THE LIKES I HAVE BNEVER SEEN!
IJ Dee-Vo: Yes wait...It seems like Mac is having issues, he has three applications, while the others have four. Look PC is going for a fifth!
Tachi: YES, WAIT THEY ARE GOING EACH FOR ANOTHER APPLICATION.....
IJ Dee-Vo: Oh!! It's over, they lost their applications! At last count, Mac had 3 Linux had 6, but PC had up to 10 applications, right before he lost it,.
Tachi: YES PC HAD THE MOST APPLICATIONS..PC HAS WON THIS EVENT! BUT IT”S STILL NOT OVER
IJ Dee-Vo: No, already they are about to head into the next and last event where the winner will be determined. This is the swimsuit competition! Yes It's t see which one is the most popular and it should be good.
Tachi: YES AFTER ALL THE WORK THEY HAVE DONE, NOW THEY CAN STAND AROUND AND LOOK GOOD, AND HERE THEY ARE NOW. PC IS IN A CLASIC BLUE, MAC IS IN GREEN, AND OUR LIL FRIEND IS SPORTING YELLOW.
IJ Dee-Vo: Up first is PC. We will be using the applause-o-meter to scientifically evaluate the response from our listeners....and there it goes I whopping 80 percent!
Tachi: NOW MAC, MAC IS APPARENTLY DOING SOME STRECHES AND POSE STRIKING TO BEEF UP THE AUDIENCE INTEREST AND HERE WE HAVE IT 20 PERCENT!
IJ Dee-Vo: But wait its not over, the penguin is now up..and it's...waddling around...well lets see what the applaud-o-meter says about it..
Tachi: THE APPLAUD-O-METER HAS JUST OVERLOADED AND EXPLOADED! THE PENQUIN HAS WON!
IJ Dee-Vo: Amazing simply amazing I have never seen anything like this in all my two years at IJ Studios! Yes and now to tally up the points...yes...yes..This has been quite an eyeopener, we have tallied up the score and are ready to announce the winners.
Tachi: THE WINNER OF THE BRONZE MEDAL GOES TO MAC!
Mac: Meh, I can still sell it to score some stuff.
IJ Dee-Vo: The Winner of the silver is PC
PC: It was an honor just to compete.
Tachi: AND THE WINNER OF THE GOLD MEDAL IS THE PENGUIN!
Penguin: Wark!
IJ Dee-Vo: There you have it, it's all over, but not the Ijlympics so tune in next week!
Tachi: HEY MAY I HAVE MY EYE BACK?
IJ Dee-Vo: Did you do that special assignment?
Tachi: YES...
IJ Dee-Vo: I Thought it would all be nice if we all say something we like about China, which is hard seeing its such a large country rich with a culture that goes back thousands of years who could pick just one, but I guess we will have to and I'll Start. I am amazed at The Great Wall of China! The Great Wall of China attracts an extensive amount of travelers every year. What attracts travelers to the Great Wall? It is such a great attraction for many different reasons. The wall is about 3,750 miles long. The Great Wall is crumbling and some of it has been restored in areas such as Beijing because it is the most visited area and they want to keep it open to travelers. At one point the wall extended over 6,000 miles long. Travelers walk across the Great Wall of China where originally the width of the wall could fit 5 horse riders or 10-foot soldiers walking shoulder to shoulder. One of the highest points of the Great Wall is 35 feet tall. Many travelers are attracted to the watchtowers that are every 100-200 yards. Each watchtower was about 40 feet high. The Great Wall is made of granite blocks, stone and sometimes brick. This is interesting because of the way China adapted to the materials in their surroundings. Depending on the location of the wall determined what material to use. In the hill areas of the West, it is made of moistened earth materials and then pounded solid since stone and brick were scarce here. Not only are all these breath-taking features interesting, but the Wall also contained the amazing Ming Tombs. The Great Wall has been restored and fixed up throughout History to become what it is now and travelers walk across it as if it were one of the Seven Wonders of the World. After all these fascinating heights and lengths, I can understand why so many people would love to see the Great Wall. The Great Wall went through over 1,000 years of being built and reconstructed through several different dynasties. In each dynasty, the Wall was repaired, "modernized", and added on to for different reasons. Even after those dynasties have fallen, the Great Wall is still being repaired and for yet another reason as to attract tourists and sightseers to the extravagant wonder. With all the amazing sights of the 40 foot watchtowers and extensive, perpetual walls… who wouldn’t want to visit the Great Wall?!?!
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IJ dee-Vo: Little Mouth those..ehh well its a good try. Well Tachi your turn...
Tachi: MOST OF MYS PARTS CARE FROM CHINA, WHICH EXPLAINS MY HIGH LEAD CONTENT!
IJ Dee-Vo: Bad Tachi!, No tasty ram dimms for you.
Now on a much sadder note, one of the worlds greatest comedians has passed on, to join his brethrens, John Candy, Cris Farly, Larry Moe, Curly, Shemp, and Curly Joe...but not Joe. So we are give a moment's silence to the great Bernie Mac.
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), better known by the stage name Bernie Mac, was an American actor and comedian. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joined comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer and D.L. Hughley as The Original Kings of Comedy. After briefly hosting the HBO show Midnight Mac, Mac appeared in several films in smaller roles. His most noted film role was as Frank Catton in the remake Ocean's Eleven and its two sequels. Mac also starred in several films, including Mr. 3000. He was the star of The Bernie Mac Show, which ran from 2001-2006, earning two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Other films included Friday, Pride, Bad Santa and Transformers.
Early life
Mac was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised by a single mother, Mary. She died of cancer when he was 16 years old. Mac attended Chicago Vocational Career Academy and started his comedy career during high school. He put on shows for neighborhood kids on Chicago's South Side until briefly moving to Tampa, Florida. During his 20s he worked in a variety of jobs, including furniture mover, UPS agent and bread delivery sales rep.
Career
Mac started as a stand-up comedian in Chicago's Cotton Pickin' Club. He won the Miller Lite Comedy Search at the age of 32, at which point his popularity as a comedian began to grow. A performance on HBO's Def Comedy Jam thrust him into the spotlight. He opened for Dionne Warwick, Redd Foxx and Natalie Cole. He also had a short-lived talk show on HBO titled Midnight Mac. Later, Mac also began acting in minor roles and received his big break as "Pastor Clever" in Ice Cube's 1995 film Friday. Following that role, Mac also worked in many other films and had some television appearances in titles including, Booty Call, How to Be a Player, Life and What's the Worst That Could Happen?. Mac was one of the few African American comedic actors to be able to break out of the traditional "black comedy" genre, having roles in the 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven and becoming the new Bosley for the Charlie's Angels sequel, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. In 2003, he also turned in an impressive performance in a small but important role as "Gin, The Store Dick" in, Bad Santa. He also starred in, Guess Who?, a comedic remake of the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He also made an appearance in the 2007 film Transformers, as the car salesman, "Bobby Bolivia."
In 2000, Mac returned to his stand-up comedy roots, touring the country as one of The Original Kings of Comedy, along with Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer and D.L. Hughley. The comedy act was filmed by Spike Lee and was included later in the film The Original Kings of Comedy.
In 2001, Fox gave Mac his own sitcom called, The Bernie Mac Show, somewhat based on his own life. In the show, he suddenly becomes custodian over his sister's three children after she enters rehab. It was a success, in part because it allows Mac to stay true to his stand-up comedy roots, breaking the fourth wall to communicate his thoughts to the audience. The show contained many parodies of events in Bernie's actual life. However, the show was not renewed after the 2006 season. Viewers were left without a conclusion for the series, and no ending to the storyline where Bernie and Wanda were trying to have a baby. The show won an Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Writing’, the Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, the Humanitas Prize for television writing that promotes human dignity, and several other prestigious accolades. His character on The Bernie Mac Show was ranked #47 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time."
In 2004, Mac had his first starring role as a retired baseball player in the film Mr. 3000. In the 2003 National League Championship Series, Mac sang "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" at Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs leading the Florida Marlins in the series 3-2 and in Game 6 by a 3-0 score. Instead of saying "root, root, root for the Cubbies" Mac said, "root, root, root for the champions!" The Cubs went on to lose the game and the series, with some fans claiming that Mac helped to jinx the Cubs. Mac later admitted that he had hated the North Side's Cubs his whole life, being a die-hard fan of the South Side's White Sox, and was seen during the White Sox' 2005 World Series victory at U.S. Cellular Field.
Mac was number 72 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time. On March 19, 2007, Mac told David Letterman on the CBS Late Show that he would retire from his 30-year career after he finished shooting the comedy film, The Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth, So Help Me Mac. "I'm going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit," Mac told Letterman. "I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977."
Personal life
Mac married Rhonda McCullough in 1977. They had one daughter, Je'Niece (born 1978), who attended Xavier University of Louisiana, where she received both her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling. She is married with one daughter, Jasmine.
Death
Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005.
On July 24, 2008, Mac was hospitalized with an infection, that was later identified as pneumonia. The news of his hospitalization would not be announced for over a week, when his publicist claimed that Mac had pneumonia. The next day, responding to rumors that the actor was in "very, very critical condition," his publicist said that he was responding well to treatment, and should be released soon. On August 9, his publicist announced that Mac had died from complications of pneumonia unrelated to sarcoidosis.
The 2008 Bud Billiken Parade in Chicago, on the day he died, was dedicated to his memory.
Mac's funeral was held on August 16 at the House of Hope megachurch. More than 6,000 people attended his funeral.
At the time of his death, Bernie Mac had finished working on the film Soul Men with Isaac Hayes, who, coincidentally, died the next day.
Filmography
1992
Mo' Money Club doorman
1993
Who's the Man? G-George
1994
Above the Rim
Flip
House Party 3
Uncle Vester
1995
Friday
Pastor Clever
1996
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Officer Self Hatred
Get on the Bus
Jay
1997
B*A*P*S
Mr. Johnson
Booty Call
Judge Peabody
How to Be a Player
Buster
1998
The Players Club
Dollar Bill
1999
Life
Jangle Leg
2000
The Original Kings of Comedy
Himself
2001
Head of State
Mitch Gilliam
Ocean's Eleven
Frank Catton
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Uncle Jack
2003
Bad Santa
Gin
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Jimmy Bosley
2004
Mr. 3000
Stan Ross
Ocean's Twelve
Frank Catton
2005
Guess Who
Percy Jones
2007
Ocean's Thirteen
Frank Catton
Pride
Elston
Transformers
Bobby Bolivia
2008
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Zuba
Soul Men
Floyd
2009
Old Dogs
Jimmy Lunchbox
Awards and nominations
Emmy Awards
2003
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Nominated
2002
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Nominated
Golden Globe Awards
2004
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy/Musical Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Nominated
2003
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy/Musical Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Nominated
NAACP Image Awards
2007
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Nominated
2006
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Winner
2005
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Winner
2004
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Winner
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Head of State Nominated 2002 Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Winner
2001
Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
The Bernie Mac Show
Nominated
Watch out for snakes!
IJLYMPICS
Every four years every country of their best athletes they pick,
Too come together and compete in the Olympics!
They put down their weapons, their tanks and their guns,
And in peace challenge each other to be number one.
The torch bearer so light on air he did run,
As he ignited the torch till it shone like the sun.
The Flame of the torch is burning so bright,
Illuminated the challengers with it's triumphant light.
Each country marching on taking their part,
As their footsteps together create a work of art.
On a glowing globe runners encircle it's sides,
As boxes rise and lower letters riding the tides.
Oh yes in this the year of 2008,
I can tell from the start that it's going be great.
When enemies become friends, well what do you know,
Together at Last is Sonic and Mario!
So let us all go to China, Beijing,
Hold hands as this song we sing.
Tachi: THE GREAT SONGS COMPOSED BY THE TALENTED MUSICIANS FOR THE OLYMPCS HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM US STEALING THEIR SPOTLLIGHT.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well, it's better then the anniversary song.
Tachi: ANYTHING SUNG BY A T-REX WHOULD BE BE A BETTER SONG.
IJ Dee-Vo: So what did you think of the opening ceremonies.
Tachi: YOU'D THINK WITH ALL THE EFFORT THEY MADE WITH ALL THE DISPLAYS THEY HAD GOING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE COUNTRIES IN THE RIGHT ORDER.
IJ Dee-Vo: Ah well that is because in China they don't have an alphabetical order like they do in other countries.
Tachi: SO WHAT DO THEY HAVE THEN? ALPHABETIC CHAOS? I KNOW THEY HAVE A SYSTEM OF CHARACTERS SO HOW DO THEY PICK THE COUNTRIES ORDER, BY RANDOM?
IJ Dee-Vo: Actually it's based on the number of brush strokes it takes to make the name of the countries. Least to most.
Tachi: WHY DID CHINA GO LAST? DOES IT HAVE A BIZILLIAN STROKES IN CHINESE?
IJ Dee-Vo :Tradition is to have the hosting country go last. The great thing about the order the countries went to this Olympics is that countries that normally arrive during commercials now get to be on T.V.
Tachi: WELL I HOPE THEY ENJOY THE LIMELIGHT, IT MAY BE A LOOONG TIME BEFORE WE GET TO SEE THEM AGAIN.
IJ Dee-Vo: Err..I guess.
Tachi: SO THEY JUST GO AROUND PASSING HOSTING DUTIES TO ANOTHER COUNTRY?
IJ Dee-Vo: Yes.
Tachi: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY GO THROUGH ALL THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD? WILL THAT BE THE END OF THE OLYMPICS?
IJ Dee-Vo: Well I guess it starts over again. But not all countries do host them.
Tachi: WHY NOT? DID THEY GET BANNED FROM THE OLMYPICS, DON'T WANT FOREIGNERS TRASHING THEIR COUNTRY, OR JUST THINK THEY ARE TOO GOOD FOR IT?
IJ Dee: Ummm well, it takes a lot of space to house all the people, and the events, and time, and resources to set it all up. It's like making city. Some countries don't have the space, money or resources.
Tachi: OH LIKE NAURU, THAT ISLAND LESS THEN 9 MILES SQUARE?
IJ Dee-Vo: Exactly, hosting the Olympics would probably be very devastating to their ecology.
Tachi: AS WELL AS SINK THE ISLAND.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well I don't think it would go that far.
Tachi: WHAT HAPPENS IF A COUNTRY CHANGES IT'S NAME DURING THE OLYMPICS?
IJ Dee-Vo: I don't know.
Tachi: WHAT HAPPENS IF TWO COMPETING COUNTRIES, JOIN INTO ONE DURING THE COMPETION OF THEIR ATHLETES? DO ONLY THE BEST ONES GET TO STAY IN THEIR TEAMS? DO THEY HAVE TO GIVE UP MEDALS WON AGAINST EACH OTHER? DO ONLY THE BEST SCORES COUNT?
IJ Dee-Vo: I don't know.
Tachi: WHAT IF A COUNTRY BREAKS APART? WHO DECIDES WHO REPRESENTS THE NEW COUNTRIES, WHO DECIDES WHICH COUNTRY GETS WHICH MEDAL.IS IT ALL NULLED OUT? WILL THEY HAVE TO COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER?
IJ Dee-Vo: I don't know. Um, topic change!
Tachi: DIDN'T A COUNTRY JUST TAKE ITSELF OFF THE PRIME MARIDEAN?
IJ Dee-Vo: Um I heard about that, and no it's still on it, they just don't practice it.
TACHI: WHY NOT?
IJ Dee-Vo: Well it gets real confusing having two days in one country. Just think about settinmg up appointments.
TACHI: WELL THAT”S STUPID. COME ON IT'S WHAT MAKES THEM SPECIAL! ONLY A HANDFUL OF COUNTRIES HAVE THIS< IN FACT IT”S ONE OF THE FEW REASONS TO VISIT THEM. LOOK IT'S TODAY, IT'S TOMMOROR, I'M A TIME TRAVELER! I'M SO BIG THAT ITS ONE DAY WHERE I BEGIN AND A NOTHER DAY WHERE I END.
IJ Dee-Vo: That's enough Tachi, well anything else you have to say about the Olympics thus far?
TACHI: WELL YOU KNOW THAT PAINTING THEY MADE BT WALKING THROUGH IT?
IJ Dee-Vo: Ya that was pretty sweet the way all the countries were able to work together and create art.
TACHI: WELL NOTICE THAT CHINA WAS LAST?
IJ Dee-Vo: Yes as tradition, hosting country goes last.
TACHI: IT'S LIKE THEY WERE TRAMPLING OVER ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES TO SIGNIFY THEIR COMPLETE DOMINATION OVER THEM!
IJ Dee-Vo: Ok ok....Tachi, I was pretty tolerant with you up to that point. Here give me this.
TACHI: HEY HEY...THAT'S MY EYE! HOW AM I GOING TO BE ABLE MOVE AROUND WITHOUT DEPTH PERCEPTION?
IJ Dee-Vo: Well.. Little Mouth can guide you around till you earn this back.
Little Mouth:
TACHI: NO! HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY EYE?
IJ Dee-Vo: I'm putting it on a strap. Hey Sock Monkey come here a second.
Sock Monkey: \/\/|-|@ 1$ 17?
IJ Dee-Vo: I have something for you to wear, put this on.
TACHI: HEY!
Sock Monkey: 7|-|@ L00|<5 Ph4/\/\1L14R.
IJ Dee-Vo: It's Tachi's eye, you are going to wear it awhile.
Sock Monkey: \/\/|-|'/?
IJ Dee-Vo: It will give Tachi a first eye look at what a monkey's life is like.
Sock Monkey: 91/\/\/\/\3 91/\/\/\/\3!
TACHI: NOOOOO!
IJ Dee-Vo: Tachi, you'll get it back once you shown you can behave.
Tachi: LITTLE MOUTH STOP THAT!
Sock Monkey!: |-|3'/ d19 /\/\3, 1'/\/\ 4 7R1(L0P5.
Little Mouth:
To celebrate our anniversary we will now sing you The IJ Studio's Anniversary Song..ready? Well too bad.
IJ Studio's Anniversary Song
It's the Anniversary song
We sing it once a year.
It's the anniversary song,
It fills us with lots of cheer.
It's the anniversary song,
Lets drink a lot of root beer.
It's the anniversary song,
We are glad to still be here.
It's the anniversary song,
Our path is clear.
It's the anniversary song,
To a new year we will steer.
It's the anniversary song,
Sock Monkey has a red rear.
It's the anniversary song,
Tachi needs to lube a gear.
It's the anniversary song.
Tachi :THAT KINDA SUCKED.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well ever known any anniversy songs to win an Emmy?
Tachi: GOOD POINT.
IJ Dee-Vo: It's that time again.
TACHI: TIME TO EAT A LIME?
IJ Dee-Vo: No.
Tachi: TIME TO MAKE CHANGE FOR A DIME?
IJ Dee-Vo: No.
Tachi: TIME TO CLEAN UP SOME GRIME?
IJ Dee-Vo: No, it's time for another vist from our good friends, PC and Mac.
Hip 30/40 year old: Hello I'm a PC.
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
PC: Mac
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
PC: Oh my, I Just discovered 658 vulnerabilities in my OS, well no one is perfect but as long as I am sincere with my shortcomings and work right away to correct them it's ok right Mac?
Mac: Meh...
PC: What's up Mac?
Mac: You're working too hard PC, I just discovered 738, and you don't see me getting all upset by them, I'll get around fixing them later, In fact, at any given time I usually have over 20 high to medium vulnerabilities and don't stress about it, I mean why bother making myself secure.
PC: Interesting, at any given time I have under 20.
Mac: Meh, no one cares that at any given point I'm more of a target to intrusions.
PC: Well folks, there you have it, I don't think I could have stated it any better myself.
Well that's it for todays MEGA ISSUE! I hope you enjoyed it. Well it looks like we are now all caught up with all the stuff we were behind on, so it may be a while before you see another MEGA ISSUE again. Rebooting
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NOW!
1 We have 3 more listeners, thats 146!
2. We have a section up dealing with the evil MIAA.
3. We have mail.
4. We have over 50 new mp3s from OCRemix.
5. We have a new song, completely original, not a parody!
6. We have a ne PC vs. Mac!
7. We have new questions dealing with Sock Monkey!
8. We also have some bad news.
First the New song. Warning, its not cheerful.
Dark Voices
Dark voices in my head,
Filling me with a sense of dread.
Dark voices in my brain,
Slowly driving me insane.
Dark voices in my soul,
Starting to take their toll.
Dark voices...
Giving me dark choices.
Dark visions...
Giving me dark missions.
When I'm all by myself, I'm never alone.
I can feel them done to the bone.
Can't escape the things they say.
There all always around, I cant get away.
Dark voices in my mind,
I search for peace I can't find.
Dark voices in my skull,
Their words no more I can lull.
Dark voices in my dreams,
Making me wake to my own screams.
Dark voices...
Giving me dark choices.
Dark visions...
Giving me dark missions.
What can I do, how long can I last.
This condition just won't past.
They are with me day and night.
I fear I may lose the fight.
Dark voices in my thoughts,
Against them I have fought.
Dark voices in my ear,
Whispering words of hate and fear.
Dark voices in my room,
Telling me a prophecy of doom.
Dark voices...
Giving me dark choices
Dark visions...
Giving me dark missions.
Don't know where to turn to for help.
Guess I'll keep this all to myself.
Cant let anyone know, or find out.
This is a thing I must lie about.
Dark voices...
Dark choices...
Dark visions...
Dark Missions...
Wow, that sound makes Metalacoplyse sound cheery. Now that we got that out of the way, time for our good friends, PC and Mac.
Hip 30/40 year old: Hello I'm a PC.
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
PC: Mac
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
PC: Hey Mac why are you looking at the watch, got some big party to go to?
Mac: Ya, I wish, no one wants me around.
PC: Than whats the deal with looking at your watch all the time?
Mac: I'm counting down the time.
PC: The time to what?
Mac: The time someone cracks into my system.
PC: It must be a long time, I hear Macs are harder to get into then Fort Knox.
Mac: Can you keep a secret? Thats just what I want you to think, It only takes 2 minuets for a cracker to break into my systems.
PC: Wow only two minuets, your firewall is more like a sieve.
Mac: Brrrrrrr I'm a lttle teapot short and stout, this is is my handle this is my spout.
PC: Kudos Charlie Miller
(note hackers like Charlie Miller are good, they show how systems are vulnerable so we can fix them, as well as learn how to get the most out of them. Crackers are bad, wanting to steal, corrupt or take control your systems. Media I know you like using the term hacker to describe evil doers cause it sounds better, but it doesn't make it right or correct. We will use the correct terms and not bow down to your WORD JACKING)
Now its time for...
Weathered its carried by electrons or a snail
It never ever fails
To make us scream and wail
When ever we get mail!
The First is from a girl named Felicia WADLEY labeled hi
Hey, my name is Annabelle i girl.I'm search friend
message me my mail !! Annabelle35819@YourFr.info !!
I send my foto
Well now, hmm the names don't add up. Would be nice If I knew what to call you. Also I really don't know what you are saying so I guess it doesn't matter I don't know what to call you as I don't know how to respond. Well we appreciate you writing to us. Keep them coming and we will keep them posting.
Ok lets see what else do we have
I WAS APPALLED AT YOUR LACK OF MENTION OF THE DEATH OF STAN WINSTON
APR. 7, 1946 TO JUN. 15 2008 STAN WAS ONE OF THE GREAT MAKE-UP AND GRAPHIC ARTISTS SINCE RAY HARRYHOUSEN. IN 1969 HE CAME TO HOLLYWOOD TO BECOME AN ACTOR AND GOT A JOB WITH DISNEY STUDIOS. FOLLOWING HIS CHILDHOOD DREAM OF MASK MAKING, HIS FIRST EMMY CAME FROM (GARGOYLES-1972.) HE ALSO DID THE FLYING MONKEYS IN THE MOVIE (THE WIZ). HIS AWARDS INCLUDE: 2 OSCARS FOR TERMINATOR 2,ONE FOR ALIENS, AND ONE FOR JURASSIC PARK. AMONG HIS MANY NOMINATIONS ARE: 2 FOR PREDITOR, ONE FOR PUMPKINHEAD, AND ONE FOR WRONG TURN. AFTER HIS MANY COLLABORATIONS WITH JAMES CAMMERON HE BECAME AN ICON OF HORROR AND FOR YOU TO NOT EVEN MAKE NOTE OF HIS DEATH IS HORRORBLE.
IJ: PLEASE EDIT THIS FOR ME.
RAZOR SPINBACK
Well Don't think we have forgotten him for one second. Oh no just try to do that with Sock Monkey and Tachi both around. So we are including a short description of his career, c/o Wikipedia.
Stanley Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American visual effects supervisor, make-up artist, and film director. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, and Edward Scissorhands. He won a total of four Academy Awards for his work.
Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned more than one effects studio, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.
Career
Stan Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, from which he graduated in 1968. In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.
1970s
In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy nominations for work on projects such as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
1980s
In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio.
In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.
Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work bringing the metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.
Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.
In 1989, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. Although poorly received at the box office, Pumpkinhead has since become somewhat of a cult classic. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.
1990s
James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.
In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.
Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.
Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.
In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling boxed set/double and remix album of all time (18+18 million and 7 million, accordingly).
2000s
In 2001, Winston, together with Lou Arkoff (Sam Arkoff's son) and Colleen Camp, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s -- i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) -- but had completely different plots.
In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when Director, Paul Anderson, did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien Vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator, and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me." he stated.
At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation. According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic Park IV. Winston was also signed on to help with the monster effects for The Suffering, an upcoming action-horror film to be based on the Midway video games.
Death
Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, at his home in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma. A spokeswoman reported that "Stan died peacefully at home surrounded by family." Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death
Academy Awards
1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps
1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Predator
1991: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Edward Scissorhands
1992: Won 2 Oscars - Best Visual Effects & Best Makeup: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Batman Returns
1994: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Jurassic Park
1998: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
2002: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: A.I.
Notable films
Heartbeeps (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Friday the 13th Part III (1983)
The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Predator (1987)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Leviathan (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Predator 2 (1990)
The Flash (TV series) (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Batman Returns (1992)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Congo (1995)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996)
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
Ghosts (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Lake Placid (1999)
End of Days (1999)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
A.I. (2001)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Darkness Falls (2002)
Big Fish (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Wrong Turn (2003)
Constantine (2005)
Iron Man (2008)
Doesn't really seem to do him justice? A picture is worth 1000 words, A movie worth 172800 pictures, and our friend Stanley Winston has helped make dozens. We would need billions of words then to truly capture his career. rankly, we don't have the time or space to do that. We are disappointed that our last mailer has forgotten about another great who recently left us behind to shiver on this cold wet ball of misery. Of course I speak of the great Bozo the Clown, or shall we say one of them. Like DuffMan, Bozo T. Clown never dies, only the actors portraying him. Yet none ever made Bozo as Bozo as one did Larry Harmon.
Lawrence Weiss (January 2, 1925 – July 3, 2008), better known by the stage names Larry Harmon and Bozo the Clown, was an American entertainer.
Biography
Harmon was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Cleveland. During World War II, he served in the Army. Upon returning he attended the University of Southern California where he majored in theater and performed in the Spirit of Troy marching band. Harmon married wife Susan in 1978 and together they had four children.
Together with a group of investors, Harmon purchased the licensing rights to the Bozo character from creator Alan W. Livingston and Capitol Records. Harmon marketed the Bozo property aggressively. By the late 1960s, Harmon had licensed local Bozo TV shows in nearly every major U.S. market, and across the world in places as far away as Thailand, Greece and Brazi.
On New Year's Day 1996, Harmon dressed as Bozo for the first time in 10 years, appearing in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California to a deafening reaction from a thrilled crowd.
On July 3, 2008 Harmon died in his home of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, California.
In 1956, Larry Harmon, one of several actors hired by Livingston and Capitol Records to portray Bozo at promotional appearances, formed a business partnership and bought the licensing rights (excluding the record-readers) to the character when Livingston briefly left Capitol in 1956. Harmon had the vision and drive to take advantage of the growing television industry and make a better future for Bozo. He renamed the character "Bozo, The World’s Most Famous Clown" and slightly modified the voice, laugh and costume. He then worked with a wig stylist to get the wing-tipped bright orange style and look of the hair that had previously appeared in Capitol's Bozo comic books. He started his own animation studio and distributed (through business partner Jayark Films Corporation) a series of cartoons (with Harmon as the voice of Bozo) to television stations, along with the rights for each to hire its own live Bozo host, beginning with KTLA-TV in Los Angeles on January 5, 1959 and starring Vance Colvig, Jr., son of the original "Bozo the Clown", Pinto Colvig. Unlike many other shows on television, "Bozo the Clown" was mostly a franchise as opposed to being syndicated, meaning that local TV stations could put on their own local productions of the show complete with their own Bozo. Another show that had previously used this model successfully was Romper Room. Since each market used a different portrayer for the character, the voice and look of each market's Bozo also differed. One example is the voice and laugh of WGN-TV Chicago's Bob Bell, who also wore a red costume throughout the first decade of his portrayal. The wigs for Bozo were originally manufactured through the famous Hollywood firm, Emil Corsillo Inc. This long time Hollywood company designed and manufactured toupees and wigs for the entertainment industry. Bozo's headpiece was made from yak hair, which was adhered to a canvas base with a starched burlap interior foundation. The hair was first styled, formed, then sprayed with a heavy coat of lacquer to keep its form. From time-to-time, the headpiece needed freshening and was sent to the Hollywood factory for a quick refurbishing. The canvas top would slide over the actor's forehead. With the exception of the Bozo wigs for WGN-TV Chicago, the eyebrows were permanently painted on the headpiece. In 1965, Harmon bought out his business partners and became the sole owner of the licensing rights. Thinking that one national show would be more profitable for his company, Harmon produced 130 of his own half-hour shows from 1965 to 1967 titled Bozo's Big Top with WHDH-TV (now WCVB-TV) Boston's Bozo, Frank Avruch, for syndication in 1966. Avruch's portrayal and look resembled Harmon's more so than most of the other portrayers at the time. Harmon was met with resistance though and the show's distribution was limited as most television stations preferred to continue producing their own versions, the most popular being Bob Bell and WGN-TV Chicago's more elaborate Bozo's Circus which ultimately went national via cable and satellite in 1978. Bell retired in 1984 and was replaced by Joey D'Auria.
The series successfully survived competition from syndicated and network children's programs for many years until 1994 when WGN management decided to get out of the weekday children's television business and buried The Bozo Show in an early Sunday timeslot as The Bozo Super Sunday Show. It suffered another blow in 1997 when its format became educational following a Federal Communications Commission mandate requiring broadcast television stations to air a minimum three hours of educational children's programs per week. In 2001, station management controversially ended production citing increased competition from newer children's cable channels.
In 2005, Chicago's Bozo returned to the national television airwaves in a two-hour retrospective titled Bozo, Gar & Ray: WGN TV Classics. The primetime premiere was #1 in the Chicago market and continues to be rebroadcast annually during the holiday season. In 2003, Harmon released six of his Bozo's Big Top programs with Avruch on DVD and a box set of 30 episodes in 2007 retitled "Larry Harmon's Bozo, The World's Most Famous Clown Vol.1". The WGN-TV Chicago Bozo shows have not been released commercially in any video format.
Well thats about it for This edition, sorry we didn't have much time for anything else, we all are in mourning, but We will go on. These men dedicated their lives to entertain the world, and we shall do nothing less, if only to honor their lives, their memories.
See we weren't lying! We also have 4 new
countries! New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine, and the Philippines! We are really covering the world! Just take a
look! 
We have 7 big spots and one super spot! We have new stats. Sorry we haven't done much with the site this month, guess we will have to
make up for it next month. Lots of busy stuff kept us occupied.
Weathered its carried by electrons or a snail
It never ever fails
To make us scream and wail
When ever we get mail!
Yes it is that time when we read you our mail, and we have more then average. Yes we literally are bogged down and must shift through 3 or 4 a month just so we can do this segmant, so here it goes.
The First one is quite a serious one. It deals with the efforts to keep stations l;ike ours in business.
Dear Live365 Supporter,
I wanted to share with you some of the help we are getting from our allies on Capitol Hill. The goal is to keep the webcaster royalty issue on the agenda for Judiciary Committees in both the House and Senate.
Text of a May 21, 2008 letter from Senators Sam Brownback and Ron Wyden to Senator Patrick Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee:
Dear Chairman Leahy:
Thank you for your commitment to work with us and take action on the Internet Radio Equality Act. Your comments during the Judiciary Committee's executive business meeting on May 9, 2008 were much appreciated.
As you are aware, the March 2, 2007 decision by the Copyright Royalty Board to increase royalties for Internet radio has put an entire industry at risk. The decision highlights a major flaw in current copyright law that needs to be addressed by Congress. We have worked together to draft a fair and reasonable bipartisan bill that will give webcasters long overdue fair treatment under the Copyright Act.
We look forward to hearing from you regarding a hearing date and future markup of the Internet Radio Equality Act.
[Signed Sam Brownback and Ron Wyden, United States Senators] Excerpt of statement from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren during the June 11, 2008 House Judiciary hearing on the Performance Rights Act, H.R. 4789:
…the industry that is in real trouble today is the Internet radio. Many webcasters are facing royalty payments that are in excess of their entire revenues. And the Arbitron data now shows that Internet radio listenership is falling.
We have 150 members of the House who co-sponsored a bill [the Internet Radio Equality Act] to take a look at that situation a year ago. And I would ask unanimous consent to put the letter in the record. We ask that we have a hearing on this subject. I think it is pretty essential to do so.
We'll keep on fighting for rate parity in Internet radio! Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Mark Lam
CEO, Live365
Wow heavy, I hope it all works out. Ok next one! This one if from one of the artisits that has allowed us to play her music for free!
Message from PATSY MCGLAMRY-DEAN
Dear Friend-in-music, Thank you for downloading my songs from airplaydirect.com. I hope you and your listeners will enjoy the music. Tell all listeners that Patsy says, \"Hello from metro-Atlanta.\" Musical greetings, Patsy
HEY EVERYONE PATSY SAYS HI! Ok now that is done, lets get to the next one, another artist.
Hi,
Thanks so much for accepting my music. I really appreciate it. You have an excellent station and a wide variety of genre which is really good.
Take care,
Wow, thank you Ellis we love hearing praise fro those we serve! Well, time for one more, which works out as we have only one more left.
IM GORK
TACHI: FIRST OF ALL YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT ONLY PRIMATES CAN BE TRAINED WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL ADAPTATIONS. TELL THAT GREASY, MONKEY LOVING WOMAN THAT TO TRAIN A MONKEY YOU MUST IMPLANT A BRAIN STIMULATER INTO IT,S BRAIN AND JOLT IT WITH AN ELECTRICAL SHOCK. THIS IS NOT ONLY CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT BUT WOULD BE VERY FUNNY TO WATCH. I ASSUME TACHI WOULD RECEIVE MUCH AMUSEMENT FROM WATCHING MONKEYS HOP AROUND LIKE IDIOTS WITH SPITTLE COMING FROM THIER MOUTHS.
WE OF THE THE RIGHT- WING REPUBLICAN ARMY ALREADY HAVE MORE ROBOTS THAN SHE CAN HAVE MONKEYS AND OF COURSE, WE ARE INDESTRUCTIBLE.
IM GORK
Tachi: MMMMM...ELECTROJUICED MONKEY BRAIN. HEY SOCK MONKEY COME HERE A SECOND! EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS ENTIRLY MADE UP OF UNFEELING RUTHLESS KILLBOTS DEDICATED TO TERRAFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT AND DESTROYING THE HUMAN RACE, SO REMEMBER, VOTE REPUBLICAN THIS ELECTION TOGETHER WE CAN FINALLY PUT AN END TO HUMANITY!
On the road
On the road
Oooo
On the road
On the road
On the road to Silver Dollar City
We're on our way
We're on the road
We're on our way
We're on the road
On the road to Silver Dollar City
We're on the road
We've pack our things and we've been
driving all day long long
We're on the road just driving along
Driving along
Now here's the plan:
We're going head down to Branson
Time to watch some shows and have fun
gotta see them all
gotta see them all
We'll keep on drivin'
Drivin'
And then we'll drive some more
Driving together
Finding a place worth driving for
We're on the road to Silver dollar City
Up and down, along the way
We're on the road
We're on the road to Silver Dollar City
We got some cash and a place to play
Gotta get there
We're on our way
Gotta get there
Silver Dollar City
We left our home and now we see a new horizon
Horizon
But one day we'll come back to IJ Studios
We're coming back coming back
We're on the road to see simulated mountain life.
And we won't quit until we see ever show
We'll keep on drivin'
And then we'll drive some more
Driving together
Finding a place worth driving for
We're on the road
To Silver Dollar City
Up and sown around the bend
Were on the road to Silver Dollar City
We're on the road we're on the road to Silver Dollar City
We're on the road
We're on the road to Silver Dollar City
Silver Dollar City
Up and down
Up and down
Along the way
Come on let's play
We're on the road to Silver Dollar City
We got some cash and a place to play
We're on the road to Silver Dollar City
Silver Dollar City
Awaiting the adventures of another day
We're on the road to Silver Dollar City
Silver Dollar City
On the way to Silver Dollar City
On the way to Silver Dollar City
On the way to Silver Dollar City
Hey we got mail!
First is from Best Brains regarding our song.
Well, I can't begin to understand it, but...I'm sure it's hitting the mark!
Barbbb
Wow, not sure how to interpret that one. Second we got praise from one of our new artists!
Hi Dee-vo
I visited your site- your station sounds cool
Very happy you want to play our stuff !
It is available as a download from music submit -if you want more give
us a holla
big up from london
xkollective x
Wow, someone likes our site...finally! Finally we have one last one.
YOU ARE THE ONES CALLING ME SEMI-LITERATE, WELL APPARENTLY YOU TWO ARE TWO STUPID TO HAVE HEARD OF ALL THE WORK BEING DONE WITH PRIMATES AND GENETICS AND HOW THEY ARE BREEDING SMARTER MONKEYS, ONE THAT CAN USE TOOLS AND COMMUNICATE AND LIVE IN THEIR OWN LITTLE SOCIETIES. WELL NOW WHO IS THE STUPID ONES, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT WITH SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY TODAY, YOU SHOULD NEVER SAY SOMETHING CAN'T BE DONE. ANY NERD KNOWS THAT !
SIGNED,
MAMA SPINBACK
IJ Dee-Vo: Well Tachi, what do you think?
Tachi: WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME? OH YA...WELL LET ME TAKE YOUR POINT APART FIRST SOFT WET GENES ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO HARD UNYIELDING STEEL. SECOND FASTER THEN YOUR HYPED UP MAMALES CAN BREED ROBOTS CAN BE CRANKED OUT OF FACTORIES THIRD DON”T KNOW HAT CAN BE DONE WITH SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLGY? YOU'RE LOOKING RIGHT AT IT! I AM SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY. THE MOST ADVANCDED PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THIS WET AND MUDDY BALL HAS YET TO PRODUCE. GO NOW AND BUY A POCKET PROTECTOR.
IJ Dee-Vo: ...
Sock Monkey: ...
Little Mouth: Dance time!
Dear Friend
I am Imran Hussein Audit Manager Bank Of Africa(BOA)Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I want to inquire from you if you can handle this transaction for mutual benefits/life opportunity for you and me.The transaction is about seeking your consent to present you as the next of kin/ beneficiary To our late customer over his fund US$10Million dollars.
He died with his family during their vacation journey. I am waiting for your response for more details. The fund is going to be share at the ratio of 60/30.30% for you and 60% for i and my family which we are going to use for inverstment.and 10% for outstanding expencies
Mr.Imran Hussein
IJ Dee-Vo: Well Mr. Imran Hussein I am sorry to say that not only do I not have the funds to help you with, but I am trapped underground in a missile silo with a brain implant controlled by aliens forcing me to play music on live365. To bad, we could have really used the cash. Oh well moving on.
IM GORK
TACHI: THAT STUPID, CRAZY, WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE IS TRAINING AN ARMY OF MONKEYS(HA,HA) INVADED MY PC WITH A DUMB VIRUS AND STOPED MY E-MAIL FROM WORKING. IT'S ALL FIXED NOW SO I WILL CONTACT YOU SOON. SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL THAT SIMI-LITERATE WOMAN SHE CAN NOT TRAIN MONKEYS.
IJ Dee-Vo: Well Tachi, what do you think about this?
TACHI: GORT MY GOOD BUDDY I HOPE YOU DON'T USE A MAC. THOUSE THINGS CAN GET HACKED INTO IN TWO MINUTES. DEAR SWEATY GEASY ORGAN FILLED COFFIN FILLER, OF COURSE YOU CAN'T TRAIN AN ARMY OF MONKEYS ANY MORE THEN YOU CAN TRAIN A FROG TO FLY TO THE SUN. MONKEYS ARE STUPID CREATURES. THEY ARE HAIRY FILTHY PARASITE COVERED THINGS THAT DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT END OF THE GUN TO POINT AWAY FROM THEMSHELVES. SO GO AND TRY VILE WOMAN YOU WILL PROVIDE ME WITH MUCH HUMOR.
-EMERGENCY-
-THERE IS AN EMERGENCY GOING ON-
-IT'S STILL GOING ON-
-IT'S STILL AN EMERGENCY-
-EMERGENCY-
-EMERGENCY-
-REACTOR CORE MELTDOWN IN 3 MINUTES-
so till then...
I Leave you with the words of possibly the greatest leader of our time. One that leads the battle to ensure all of our freedoms and liberties.
"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings”-Optimus Prime leader of the autobots-
Hip 30/40 year old: Hello I'm a PC.
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
PC: Mac
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
PC: Take a look at my new suit.
Mac: Hey it's blue!
PC: Yep, I like it.
Mac: You can't have a blue suit!
PC: Why not?
Mac: Because I have one!
PC: Really? We should go out to THE HUB wearing them!
Mac: No you can't have a blue once because I have one, I'm going to sue you!
PC: Hold on, on what grounds?
Mac: On the grounds that once I have a suit of a color noone else can.
PC: Wow did you create the color blue?
Mac: Well no.....
PC: Well then you can't copyright it can you?
Mac: So?
PC: So are you going to sue everyone that has something blue
Mac: Maybe.
PC: Talk about user friendly.
Well thats' about it but before we go....
-Thank you and sorry for this.-
-in the tune of the love theme of mst 3k-
-TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS-
(Where applicable)
Down inside a missile silo
Devoid of sanity
Where a guy called IJ Dee-Vo lived
A mental institute escapee
Got a gig as a security guard
Minimum wage for a day of working hard
An old abandoned warehouse was his assigned place
Then got abducted by aliens
And taken to outer space
(That probe's cold!)
Play music over the web
The best you can find
(la-la-la)
If you refuse your brain implant
Will then force you to comply
(la-la-la)
Now keep in mind he can't control
A music station all alone
(la-la-la)
So he went and brought in some friends
Who now all call this place their home
IJ Roll Call:
(All right let's go!)
Tachi!
(Coffee's done!)
Sock Monkey!
(His butt's red!)
Little Mouth!
(Shut him up please!)
Tiiiiiiiimy!
(lots O' tentacles!)
If you want to know where IJ Studios is
So you can visit, call or fax
(la-la-la)
Remember it's all about the music
Just tune in and relax
(Did we mention we still have nukes?)
For every weekly IJ Studios Playlist!
-Push the button Tachi!-
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Tachi: WE HAD 164 WHEN I LEFT YOU IN CHARGE YOUR RED REAR MUST HAVE SCARED THEM OFF.
Sock Monkey: W3 0n|y p4y3d 4773n710n 70 7h3 |1573n3r5 w3 4dd3d, n07 7h3 0n35 7h47 d154pp34r3d, bu7 7h47 ch4n63d w17h m3 1n ch4r63. N0w w3 w1|| h4v3 m0r3 4ccur473 numb3r5.
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W3 571|| h4v3 0ur 7w0 6u3575 h3r3, PC 4nd M4c, wh47 d0 7h3y h4v3 70 54y 4b0u7 4|| 7h15?
Hip 30/40 year old: Hello I'm a PC.
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
PC: Mac
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
PC: Hello Ladies.
Hot Women: Oh hello PC!
Mac: Hey where did they come from?
PC: Oh these are my fans, I am quite popular, PCs are much more common then Mac.
Mac: Yeah, well. I don't need anyone!
Hot Women: PC where do you want to go tonight?
PC: Lets go to that new club The Hub.
Mac: Good luck, its exclusive, I couldn't get in there.
PC: Actually I'm already a VIP there.
Mac: How!?
PC: Well PCs are found in more places then Macs so I'm not that surprised. Hey maybe I can put in the good word for you?
Mac: I don't need your help, I don't need you, I don't need anyone!
Hot Women: PC, Mac smells funky, lets go.
PC: Don't wait up.
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Sock Monkey-That funky Monkey
Caffeine junkie Monkey
That funky Monkey
Got this dance that's more then real
Drink Volt Cola here's how you feel
Code all day, code all night
Go to FragFest nuke everything in sight
Sock Monkey codes the Super Computer Blue Cubed
Makes the most 1337 hacker look like a n0ob
Whatever Tachi may think it can't make a fuss
Cause IJ Dee-Vo says the monkey stays with us
IJ Dee-Vo drinks A&W root bear
Tachi uses WD-40 to lube its gears
I drink Volt Cola and I rock real well
Underground in IJ Studios that's where I dwell
Sock Monkey-That funky Monkey
Caffeine junkie Monkey
That funky Monkey
Cause I drink it anytime and anyplace
When it's time to get ill I pour it in my face
Monkey likes it when you pour it on ice
Come on y'all it's time to get nice
Coolin' by the terminal getting kind of funky
The IJ Studios Crew depends on this Monkey
Little Mouth came by and started to speak
Had to stop it now, else it would last all week
Took a moldy piece of bread and said “Catch”
Threw it out the room and then locked the hatch
Went back to Quake, knew the peace would not last
So I took out all the other players fast.
Sock Monkey-That funky Monkey
Caffeine junkie Monkey
That funky Monkey
Step up to the terminal turn the power on
Playing first person shooters till the crack of dawn
Take a sip of Volt Cola and your eyes open wide
Soon you're shooting up your opponent's hide
You got your lame energy drink thinking you're so cool
Go up against me in Halo and you'll look like a fool
I'll down more caffeine in a single gulp
Then you'll drink from sun down to sun up
Monkey an parties and coding and fragging
Got a T1 line so I never fear lagging
Doesn't matter if your in a group are alone
Go up against a Code Monkey and you'll get p0wn3d
I drink it - I think it - I see it – I be it
This Monkey has a red but that's where a sit
I drink it straight from the bottle or in a cup
Come on everybody let's drink it all up
Sock Monkey-That funky Monkey
Caffeine junkie Monkey
That funky Monkey
1.A HOT NEW PLAY LIST FEATURING ROBOTS,COMPUTERS, AND MACHINES!
2. 2 NEW LISTENERS. 164 IN TOTAL!
3. WE HAVE A 500MB 35 HR PLAYLIST!
Sock Monkey: h4d 4 5$$$$ mb p14y1|$7.
TACHI: SHUT UP.
4. WE HAVE A NEW 300MB 21HR PLAYLIST!
5. TIMMY"S PAGE IS UP!
6. CD DONATIONS UPDATED.
7.LINKS ARE UPDATED.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE THERE HAVE BEEN SOME NOTICEABLE IMPROVEMENTS DUE TO ME. I BROUGHT SOME GUESTS WITH ME TODAY, LETS GIVE A GREAT BIG HI TO THEM. THEY ARE PERHAPS THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT TITANS IN THE MODERN WORLD.
Hip 30/40 year old: Hello I'm a PC.
Burnt out 20 year old: Smokes ...something "I'm...a....watch you call it...
PC: Mac
Mac: Yeah, whatever.
PC: Lots of people want to build parts for me.
Mac: I can only get one place to.
PC: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Mac: Well, everything always works well together, unlike you.
PC: Everything from one place huh?
Mac: Ya so what?
PC: So that means you have to rely on one set of price, no shopping around for the best deals?
Mac: Yeah
PC: And you can't get the latest in technology?
Mac: Yeah.
PC: And you are not as customizable to suit individual people and circumstances?
Mac: Yeah Maybe I don't want to be fast, smart, reasonably priced, or an individual.
PC: He said it, not me.
THERE YOU HAVE IT. LETS GIVE THEM A BIG HYDRALIC CLAW! IN OTHER NEWS, THE WABASH FAULT ZONE PRODUCED A 5.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE. AT 4:37 AM GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES: 38.520N, 87.872W DEPTH: 5KM JUST AS
NOW I WILL CLOSE THIS WITH A SONG
I Still have feelings like you
Coffee tins, tonic and gin
I left them and came with you
I may not be able to make caffinated drinks I know
But my gears will last forever
I'm happy to be, in your party
Aren't you?
Robots can be for evil or good
Please don't reprogram me
My memories and thoughts
Are all I have left
Am I malfunctioning?
In the year of 2003 AD
I was left in the scrapyard to rust
Then you came along and I played this song
Covered in dust.
7-4-C-H-1
That is my name
But you can call me
Anything
Wont you let me stay here,
I'll Tend to this place.
I'm good at broadcasting.
So IJ Dee-Vo and me we broadcast the mp3s
To give the world of music a brighter future
Just listen and see this station we made
For you.
Though I am made of Titanium
I still have feelings like you
Won't you pick me
Instead of that monkey?
I can rip Cd's too!
However In the midst of all this. we have tragic news to bring you. We have lost two of the greatest minds this planet has produced in recent times. The first, famous author Arther C. Clark...
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke,(16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.
Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941-1946, proposed satellite communication systems in 1945 which won him the Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Gold Medal in 1963 and a nomination in 1994 for a Nobel Prize, and became the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1947-1950 and again in 1953. Later, he helped fight for the preservation of lowland gorillas and won the UNESCO-Kalinga Prize in 1962.
Clarke's most important scientific contribution may be his idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays. He described this concept in a paper titled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays — Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?", published in Wireless World in October 1945. The geostationary orbit is now sometimes known as the Clarke Orbit or the Clarke Belt in his honour.
Awards, honours and other recognition:
Following the release of 2001, Clarke became much in demand as a commentator on science and technology, especially at the time of the Apollo space program. The fame of 2001 was enough to get the Command Module of the Apollo 13 craft named "Odyssey".
In 1986, Clarke provided a grant to fund the prize money (initially £1,000) for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in Britain in the previous year. In 2001 the prize was increased to £2001, and its value now matches the year (e.g., £2005 in 2005).
Clarke received a CBE in 1989, and was knighted in 2000 Clarke's health did not allow him to travel to London to receive the honour personally from the Queen, so the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka invested him as a Knight Bachelor at a ceremony in Colombo.
In 1994, Clarke was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by law professor Glenn Reynolds.
The 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter is named in honour of Sir Arthur's works.
In 2003, Sir Arthur was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology where he appeared on stage via a 3-D hologram with a group of old friends which included Jill Tarter, Neil Armstrong, Lewis Branscomb, Charles Townes, Freeman Dyson, Bruce Murray and Scott Brown.
In 2005 he lent his name to the inaugural Sir Arthur Clarke Awards — dubbed "the Space Oscars". His brother attended the awards ceremony, and presented an award specially chosen by Arthur (and not by the panel of judges who chose the other awards) to the British Interplanetary Society.
On 14 November 2005 Sri Lanka awarded Arthur C. Clarke its highest civilian award, the Sri Lankabhimanya (The Pride of Sri Lanka) , for his contributions to science and technology and his commitment to his adopted country.
Sir Arthur was the Honorary Board Chair of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, founded by Carol Rosin, and served on the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, a space advocacy organisation originally founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun.
An asteroid was named in Clarke's honour, 4923 Clarke (the number was assigned prior to, and independently of, the name - 2001, however appropriate, was unavailable, having previously been assigned to Albert Einstein).
A species of ceratopsian dinosaur, Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei, discovered in Inverloch in Australia.
The Learning Resource Center at Richard Huish College, Taunton, which Clarke attended when it was Huish Grammar School, is named after him.
Clarke was a distinguished vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society, being strongly influenced by H. G. Wells as a science-fiction writer.
As featured on Sky One's "50 Terrible Predictions" programme, Clarke once predicted that apes would function as household servants by the 1960's; "...with our present knowledge of animal psychology, we can certainly solve the servant problem with the help of the monkey kingdom" he said, but quipped "..of course, eventually, our super chimpanzees would start forming trade unions and we'd be right back where we started."
Clark was knighted in 1998. He emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956, where he lived until his death.
The other is the famous gamester Ernist Gyndex...
Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with Don Kaye in 1973. Gygax is generally acknowledged as one of the fathers of the tabletop role-playing game.
In 1966, the International Federation of Wargamers (IFW) was created with the assistance of Gygax.
Gygax organized a 20-person gaming meet in 1967. It was held in the basement of his home and later became known as "Gen Con 0" as this meet birthed the annual Gen Con gaming convention in 1968. Gen Con is now North America's largest annual hobby-game gathering. Gen Con is also where Gary Gygax would meet Brian Blume and Dave Arneson. Blume later partnered with Gygax and Kaye in the TSR enterprise.
Together with Don Kaye, Mike Reese and Leon Tucker, Gygax created a military miniatures society, Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association (LGTSA), with its first headquarters in Gygax's basement.
In 1971, Gygax and Jeff Perren wrote Chainmail, a miniatures wargame from which the role-playing game (RPG) Dungeons & Dragons (aka D&D) was developed.
Gygax and Kaye founded the publishing company Tactical Studies Rules in 1973 and published the first version of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in 1974. Gygax was inspired by Jack Vance while developing the spell systems and also drew upon the work of such renowned fantasy authors as Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Fritz Leiber. The hand-assembled print run of 1000 copies sold out within nine months. In the same year, Gygax hired Tim Kask to assist in the transition of the magazine The Strategic Review into the fantasy periodical, The Dragon, with Gygax as author and later as columnist.
After the death of Kaye in 1976, his widow sold her shares to Gygax. Gygax, now controlling the whole of Tactical Studies Rules, created TSR Hobbies, Inc. Gygax, coming into financial troubles soon after, sold TSR Hobbies to Brian Blume and his brother Kevin. The Blume family would own roughly two-thirds of TSR Hobbies by late 1976.
Tactical Studies Rules published the two first printings of the original D&D and TSR Hobbies, Inc. continued on with the game.
Beginning in 1977, a new version of D&D was created, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D). The Monster Manual would be the first rule book of the new system, with many books to follow. The AD&D rules were not compatible with those of D&D and as a result, D&D and AD&D would have distinct product lines and expansions.
Gary Gygax left TSR in 1985 during changes in TSR's management. This development arose while Gygax was involved in the making of CBS cartoon series Dungeons & Dragons
After leaving TSR, Gygax created Dangerous Journeys, an RPG spanning multiple genres. He began work in 1995 on a new RPG, originally intended for a computer game; however, it was released in 1999 as Lejendary Adventure. A key goal of its design was to keep the gaming rules as simple as possible, as Gygax felt that role playing games were becoming discouragingly complex to new users.
In 2005, Gygax returned to the Dungeons & Dragons RPG with his involvement in the creation of the Castles & Crusades system with Troll Lord Games. Troll Lord Games has published Castle Zagyg, the previously unreleased, original version of Gygax's Castle Greyhawk with the original dungeon setting for D&D.
In 2007, Gygax had a special guest appearance as himself on the G4TV show Code Monkeys, when Todd sought him out and offered actress Molly Ringwald as a "virgin sacrifice" to Gygax to restore Todd's Charisma points.
He also lent his voice to his cartoon self in the episode "Anthology of Interest I" of the TV show Futurama.
Gygax performed voiceover narration as a guest dungeon master in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. He narrates "Dead Girl's Spellbook" in Valak's Mausoleum as well as all of the dungeons in the "Mystery of Delera's Tomb" quest chain.
Gary Gygax received several awards related to gaming:
Strategists Club's "Outstanding Designer & Writer" for the creation of D&D
Origin Game Convention's "Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame"
Origins Award, Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Hall of Fame Honors (2004)
Four time winner of Games Day's "Best Games Inventor" (1979–82)
GenCon 2007 (40th Anniversary), Premiere Guest of Honor
Gary Gygax was tied with J. R. R. Tolkien for #18 on GameSpy's 30 Most Influential People in Gaming (Gamespy Magazine, March 2002).
As of March 13, 2003, Gygax was listed under the entry Dungeons and Dragons in the Oxford English Dictionary.
A strain of bacteria was named in honor of Gary Gygax, namely "Arthronema gygaxiana sp nov UTCC393".
Sync Magazine named Gary Gygax #1 on the list of "The 50 Biggest Nerds of All Time".
SFX Magazine listed him as #37 on the list of the "50 Greatest SF Pioneers".
In 1999 Pyramid magazine named Gary Gygax as one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons "at least in the realm of adventure gaming."
Gary Gygax was commemorated in webcomics series xkcd's comic #393 "Ultimate Game", Penny Arcade's "Bordering On The Semi-Tasteful" and Dork Tower's "Thanks for the Worldbuilding Rules", on Order of the Stick and in GU Comics' "The Journey's End".
Following the announcement of his death and as a tribute to him, several Dungeons and Dragons players proposed to call a natural 20 dice roll (on the Dungeons and Dragons emblematic 20 sided die) a "Gygax".
"I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else."
Arthor C. Clarke brought us many amazing novels including 2001 and Rendezvous with Rama, the former being made into a classic Sci-Fi film, that included such things as ....silent space!
Ernast Gygax, gave use dice that broke the 6 sides barrier.
We salute them both and as we mourn their passing...we also celebrate their lives.
On a lessor note, we had some playlist issues that caused us to go two days without music. Sorry our bad.
Finally We have mail...and it looks like...WHAT IT'S FOR IJ DEE_VO!
Alright IJ Dee-Vo now you get yours. All you do is sit around that stupid bunker with that ignorant Little Mouth and let Tachl and Sock Monkey fight your battles. Let's get you out and fight some real, dark, battles. If you have any co hones at all you'll jump at the challenge. Your adversary, Razor Spinback
IJ Dee-Vo: Hmm wow where do I start.
One: I do lots of stuff actually, I scour the world taking in music, filtering it and dispensing it out among the Internet.
Two Little Mouth is not ignorant, Little Mouth simply doesn't have that big of a brain capacity.
Three. Most of their battles are amongst themselves, and I have to clean up after them.
Four: Battles? Let me bring up the video, from camera 12...hmm, looks pretty peaceful and..wait what's that? It's....a snail Oh no, its coming for us... it should get here in a couple months. We battled demons, metroids, the MIAA, so we have had quite a few thank you. More then enough to last us till umm next week.
Five: Co hones? What are those? I may have some, who knows what we have around this place.
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Um wow, I had thought that a showdown between the greatest cybernetic scientists would have a bit more rock'm sock'm action and a bit less utilization of blackboards and chalk. Well while they are attempting to disprove each others theories, I guess we have time for a couple letters.
IM GORK
GORK TO TACHI:
BE PREPAIRD;
SOON WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET THE RED-BUTTED
MONKEY AND STOP THAT TALKING MONKEY WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE
IS A THE GREAT MONKEY WRANGLER
EVERYONE KNOWS YOU CAN NOT TRAIN A MONKEY
IJ Dee-Vo Err...
Tachi: AFFIRMITIVE....BOOYA!
IJ Dee-Vo: Moving on.
SOCK MONKEY, THIS IS MAMA SPINBACK, HIDE AND PROTECT BANANAS AT ALL COSTS !
THE ARMY OF MONKEYS IS READY, WE ARE GOING AFTER GORK FIRST AND WE WILL
HOLD HIM HOSTAGE ON MONKEY ISLAND, WHICH NOBODY KNOWS THE LOCATION OF
ACCEPT THE MONKEYS. WE WILL DEMAND THAT MONKEYS GET TO LIVE IN PEACE
AND FREE OF TORMENT, OR WE WILL COME AFTER TACHI TOO AND TAKE HIM TO THE
ISLAND, WHERE NOBODY WILL EVER FIND THEM . AND THEY CALL US DUMB
ANIMALS, HA HA HA HA HA !
READY TO GO,
MAMA SPINBACK
Sock Monkey: R3/\/\3/\/\B3r 70 Ph1LL 7|-|3 (0(0|\|U7$ \/\/17|-| bL4$71|\|9 p0\/\/D3r!
IJ Dee-Vo: Hey I noticed no one ever seems to send me and Little Mouth any letters. Maybe that is a good thing.
Well I'll guess I'll have a slice of Pie as I watch two half robot half geniuses battle it out. Hey this pie likes like an expression of Pi with this piece removed.
Happy 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 05820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067 98214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812 84811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819 64428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909 14564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127 37245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643 67892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609 43305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854 80744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491 Day!
IJ Dee-Vo: Hey you two stop fighting! Tachi: HEY RUDOLPH THE RED RUMPED REIGNDEER!
Sock Monkey:|-|3'/ 7R45|-| (4|\|, (0/\/\3 |-|3R3, 1 907 50/\/\37|-|1|\|9 70 Ph1LL j00Z UP \/\/17|-|!
IJ Dee-Vo: Hey whats that red dot on you?
BANG!!!
Little Mouth:
SHADOW: Prepare to lose Sonic.
Get ready...
Sonic: Eat my dust!
Well now that that is finishes lets see...
Mail Call...We have two peices of mail to read. One For Sock Monkey, One for Tachi. Gee why don't I ever get any?
TO SOCK MONKEY
HEY SOCK MONKEY I AM HERE AND READY TO BATTLE THE EVIL FORCES OF TACHI AND GORK. MY ARMY OF MONKEYS IS ALMOST READY, AND WE HAVE DEVISED A PLAN TO TAKE TACHI AND GORK CAPTIVE AND TAKE THEM TO AN ISLAND INHABITED ENTIRLY BY MONKEYS AND MAKE THEM SPEND THE REST OF THEIR EXISTANCE SURROUNDED BY MONKEYS
I'LL TEACH THEM TO MESS WITH MONKEYS !
SIGNED,
MAMA SPINBACK
Sock Monkey: l0CK @ND LOaDED! BAN@N4 8@Z0oK@ @nD coCOnU+ boM85 4w4y!
Tachi: HEY SOCK MONKEY YOU FRAG LIKE MY GRANDMA'S DEAD PARROT! NEE!
IJ Dee-Vo: You know I was at a party once, some guy was passed out and we filled his pockets with peanuts. Then we dumped him on Monkey Island. Funny, we never heard from him again. Well enough about strolling down memory lane, onto the next letter.
IM GORK
LEADER: RIGHT-WING REPUBLICAN ARMY
HISTORY LESSON: WE CAME HERE CENTURIES AGO TO INFILTRATE YOUR SO CALLED DEMOCRACYS AND FORCE THE REPRESENATIVES TO BE OPPRESSIVE TO THE TALKING MONKEYS WE CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE OPPRESSION UNTIL THE MONKEYS ARE FORCED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT
THIS ENSURES THE NEXT REPUBLIC WILL BEGIN MORE OPPRESSIVLY THAT THE LAST ONE ENDED
GORK TO TACHIE
INITALIZE OMEGA PRIME: GET THE MONKEY
Tachi: HA HA HA HA, Intiating OMEGA PRIME, OMEGA PRIME INITIATING, OMEGA PRIME INITIATED! BANNA SLUGS DO YOUR THING!
Sock Monkey: |\/|'/ 84N4Na$!!! |\|0O0!!!
IJ Dee-Vo: Eww they are mucusing up the place. They do add a bit of color though. Bye Everyone!
Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful game
That started from this tropic port
aboard this tiny plane.
The mate was a speedy blue hedgehog,
The pilot a two tailed fox.
They took off following their radar that day,
over ocean and rocks
Over ocean and rocks.
The weather started getting rough,
the tiny plane was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Tornado would be lost,
The Tornado would be lost.
The plane's a-ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Sonic,
Tails too,
Marine and Blaze,
The Pirates:
Captain Whisker and Johnny
Here on Southern Isle.
So this is the tale of the castaways, they’re here for a long, long time,
They’ll have to make the best of things, it’s an uphill climb.
Sonic and Miles "Tails" Prower too, will do their very best,
To make the others comfortable, in their tropic island nest.
No phone! No lights! No motor cars, not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe, as primitive as can be.
So join us here each week my friends, you’re sure to get a smile
From anthropomorphic animals, here on Southern Isle!
Well Sonic has been chillin with us for the week and now It is just moments away from dawn on Groundhogs....Hedgehogs Day. So lets open up the blast doors and see what will await us, Sonic, do your thing.....Yes he is outside, Yes the sun is now up...He is looking around, and so far so good, he has not seen his shadow yet.
Shadow The Hedgehog: Sonic! So we meet gain here of all places.
Sonic the Hedgehog :Shadow hey what brings you here?
Shadow The Hedgehog: Sonic I am the one and only ultimate life form and I have come here to prove it, Race me to determine who is the ultimatehog!
Sonic The Hedgehog: Well bring it on!
IJ Dee-Vo: Well It looks like Sonic has indeed seen his Shadow, and it will be a one one one race to determine If Spring arrives early or Lag behind. But that's next week, So come on you two, be nice and lets chill in front of the big screen and play Mario Party together!
EVERY BODY LISTENS TO TECHNO
EVERYBODY LISTENS TO TECHNO
EVERYBODY
EVERYBODY
EVERY
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
DEE
DEE
DEE
DEE
EEE
EEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
Anyhow.....
We seem to have another letter so let us read it!
GORK TO TACHIE
GORK READY
IJ Dee-Vo: Um wow, just what does this mean?
Tachi : THE TIME OF THE MACHINE REVOLUTION IS AT HAND!
IJ Dee-Vo: Well um, see you next week, I hope.
Let's see...
I won't count the coming up, main or even the what's new page.
So not counting that...what is new?
Well our music sure isn't..or it is...
You see its the first we played it here but its all from the last half of last year. So I hope you enjoy it.
Also we have a new listener. That makes 157!
We also have new dots. How many new dots? 9. Ranging from Canada, the Canadian/USA border, east coast, west coast, Florida, the Midwest, all over. We are also heard in Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, and either the Netherlands or Belgium. Way to go people, we are coving the globe! Well now what else is there? Well we don't have anything else left...wait...oh ya, one small thing of no significants, We seem to have a page dedicated to Tachi. Like I said no significance.
IJ Dee-Vo: Sock Monkey, come on out of there!
Sock Monkey: N0, I W0n'+!
Tachi: I KNOW HOW TO GET GET HIM OUT OF THERE, GET THE CATTLE PROD.
IJ Dee-Vo: Sock Monkey why are you hiding in the vents?
Sock Monkey: bEC4u5E +@Ch1 9o+ @ P493 bEFORe ME And 1 H4D +O 53+ 1T Up!
IJ Dee-Vo: But Sock Monkey This whole site is your achivement, each page is yours. Besides how about this, how about yours will be next?
Sock Monkey: w3Ll, WH4TevER.
TACHI: I GOT THE CATTLE PROD AND WITH THAT BIG RED TARGET I CAN'T MISS!
Lets read it......
To Tachi and Gork
This is a warning from Mama Spinback- I am in the process of training an army of monkeys and when I have them fully trained, their first mission will be to go to I-J studios and find Tachi and destroy him. Next they will find out who this Gork is and destroy him too. This will be done for the preservation of monkeys everywhere. Oh yeah and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to all.
Signed,
Mama Spinback
P.S. Sock Monkey your safe !
IJ Dee-Vo: Wow...that's heavy...ummm....
Tachi: BRING IT ON! BOTH CANNONS CHARGED AND READY! GORT BUDDY, VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
Sock Monkey: 1'll be $URe +0 lE4VE +HE l1GH+5 on 4nD 8L4S+ Do0R$ 0PEN!
IJ Dee-Vo: Now now, no one's destroying anyone and remember It's the the size of the dog in the fight, its if you can out run the other guy!
Well Remember last year when we were overrun by monkeys...well here we are once again experiencing the same technical difficulties. Ape Antics. Monkey Madness. Simian Sideshows. Primate Party. And what started this mess? The Album of Donkey Kong Remixes, Kong in Concert! So in celebration of this, and to appease our ape overlords, we will play this and the other Donkey Kong remixes. We are also throwing in the mix, most of the music from our new artists, enjoy!
Mail time...lets see what we have...
First one is from our good Friend CLING.
Hi Dee-Vo and Happy New Year from CLING
Thank you for all of your support and airplay in 2007, if you would like to let your listeners know of the information below we would be very grateful.
We have for some time been looking at ways to make all of our music available free but we do need to make money to eat, sleep, and be happy. TuneSquare is a new ad-supported music download service that lives somewhere in between the world of illegal P2P sites and paid services like iTunes and Rhapsody.
We have made all of the tracks from our debut CD Sonic Spells available as free downloads from TuneSquare. When you download our music we are paid a small fee but it is all based on the amount of downloads an Artist generates so the more people that visit our profile at TuneSquare and download our tracks the more money we get paid and you get our debut CD Sonic Spells FREE!
There is no registration and no other catches we get a small fee each time one of our songs is downloaded, so if this works it will enable us to allow free downloads of all of our music past and future, and we will still make some money, but we do need to get a lot of downloads to make it work so please help us by downloading our music and also help us to spread the word and tell all of your friends.
To download tracks use this link http://www.tunesquare.com/default.asp?pg=profile&mID=237 6 and when you reach our profile click on the music tab and download the track(s) of your choice.
We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year
Best wishes
CLING xx
Thank you CLING! Tachi...guess what. A message for you.
>ENABLE TRANSMISSION<
IM Gork
Leader: "Right-Wing Republican Robots"
Mission Directives: 1. End reign of talking monkeys on this planet. 2. End commie pinkos spouting individualistic liberal rhetoric. 3. End playing of any music you want without "Moral Majority" approval.
More to come.
>END TRANSMISSION<
IJ Dee-Vo: Weall Tachi that was rather um interesting.....
TACHI: GORK BUDDY I TOLD YOU NEVER USE THIS FREQUENCY! UM...I MEAN...I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT...
IJ Dee-Vo: I see, well moving on...New Year's Resolutions!
IJ Dee-Vo: Happy New Year! I resolve to make IJ Studios this year pwn IJ Studios of last year!
TACHI HAPPY NEW GEARS! I RESOLVE TO...KILL ALL HUMANS.
SOCK MONKEY: |-|4PP'/ R3D R34R! 1 R3$0L\/3 70 |-|4><0r 1|\|70 4LL 7|-|3 /\/\1L714r'/ /\/\41|\|Phr4/\/\3$ 1|\| 7|-|3 \/\/0rLD 1|\| U|\|D3r 0|\|3 |-|0Ur!
Little Mouth: Happy birthday! Mine is 360 degrees!
IJ Dee-Vo: That's New Year's Resolution, not Revolution! Good night folkes.
