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Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk

It’s very likely that the title ‘week in review’ was too ambitious… I prefer to think of it as a meta-satire in the same way ‘the daily show’ airs four days a week when they’re not off the air entirely on one of their vacations. Then again, it was James what named it ‘week in review,’ I just keep it going every nine days or so. I’m not behind on my deadlines — everything is going exactly as planned. When I took over the week in review, I did so with this qualifier: I was only going to cover things that caught my attention, and I was only going to do it when I felt like it… you know, stuff like The Other Gods - Spotted on RapidShare.

To begin - there is a new podkkast from kkoagulaa - Aurum Nostrum II - available here, now:

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Joseph Matheny speaks with Greg Kuehn, who was fresh back from Warped Tour with TSOL. They talk about Greg’s life in TSOL, life as a musician and the new media landscape, and more. Music: Darker My Love (TSOL) and This Town’s Nowhere (The West Coast Dukes).

Greg Kuehn (composer)

An accomplished composer and musician, Greg’s career began in Orange County’s early punk scene, when he left his classical piano studies at Cal State Long Beach to join punk icons T.S.O.L. Together they made the groundbreaking Beneath The Shadows album, still a highly regarded and influential work. Following his tenure in T.S.O.L., he spent several years as a recording and touring musician working with artists including Bob Dylan, The Church, Berlin and Ian Astbury of The Cult.

Greg got his start in film working on the score for cult classic Repo Man, on which he arranged music and played keyboards. Since then, Greg has scored numerous films, including Bandwagon, winner of the Maverick award at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2005, and “Born to Lose”, Doug Cawker’s loser epic on Provisional Films.  Greg’s most recent film project is the acclaimed documentary, “Confessions of a Superhero”, produced by Morgan Spurlock. He is also set to begin composing on the feature  documentary “We Were Feared” about the punk Mecca, The Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa and directed by Jonathan Mills.

Greg has scored hundreds of television commercials, and recent campaigns include DirecTV, Netflix and Mini Cooper.  His company, Peligro Music and Sound Design continues to thrive as one of Los Angeles’ most sought after boutique music houses. As musical director for singer / actress Megan Mullally, Greg has produced two critically acclaimed cd’s: The Sweetheart Break-In, and Big As A Berry. Their band, Supreme Music Program, continues to perform nationally, and is in preparation for the recording their third album.

Greg is currently writing and producing albums for punk icons Jack Grisham (TSOL), and Duane Peters (U.S. Bombs, The Huns).

Greg’s teenage sons, Elvis and Max are members of The Diffs, a great American rock band appearing at last year’s SXSW music festival.  Their debut record on SOS records received high praise from numerous national publications, and their sophomore album will be released this year.

www.peligromusic.com
www.suprememusicprogram.com
www.myspace/thekuehnandjonesporchestra.com
www.myspace/thediffs

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So I have a stack of fiction in my inbox to review for Alterati - reviewing fiction is a struggle for me, in part because I want to balance my appreciation for the work with an honest assessment of quality in execution of the work for the readers of this blog, all while trying to get the review in somewhere close to the release date. And on top of that, I do want to read these books and savour them, enjoy them on their terms, in a leisurely way. This is a long-winded way of saying that this here review of Narcopolis is way over-due. I’ve been faithfully picking them up each month from the comic shop, but other than a cursory glance through the first issue I hadn’t actually opened them up to read until I had all four in front of me, precisely because I wanted to read the entire series in one sitting and get the full impact of Jamie Delano’s prose.

Years ago, my favorite comic series was World Without End, and I likely re-read that 6 part mini-series close to a hundred times. Many authors have developed a style of dialogue in their texts that fleshes out the internal culture of the world they’ve constructed - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess comes to mind - but few have taken that level of sophisticated word-smithery to the comic book panel. Jamie Delano is one of the gifted few who has consistently delivered ground-breaking writing, and this 4 part series is no exception.

Don’t let the splashy colors fool you, this is an instant dystopian lit classic. Ray Carney interviewed Jamie Delano prior to the release of the series, so I’ll let you read what the author himself says the book is about – I just wanted to add this personal recommendation.

Jamie Delano’s Website

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Just a quick announcement for those that have been following along here because I can’t contain myself- You read the title right. The film rights to Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning have been optioned by Invictus Films & SB Productions. Expect many more updates to come!

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Michael Arrington posits in a recent article that «sacrificing» internet radio company Pandora may be a clarion call that will be heard by music fans, artists and music biz execs alike. Hey, maybe we can sacrifice our wetlands and the powers that be will be so moved by the extinction of the manatees that they turn the great military-industrial-oil behemoth about. A new Eden where fluffy bunnies and jackals dance together to the song of little birdies in flower-covered meadows would surely ensue.

While it’s very generous of Mr. Arrington to offer up a company he’s had no hand in conceiving or growing to the wolves, and far be it for me to discourage his touching child-like innocence, but we here at Alterati Towers do not flinch from the sight of the ugliness that is the top of the societal pyramid.

The purpose behind the legislation that levied these charges was precisely to put services like Pandora, Live365 and Last.fm out of business. Do not think for a moment that they wanted the relative pittance they would be able to collect. What they want is a monolithic dominance of internet radio similar to the one Clear Channel has over terrestrial radio. “Sacrificing” any of these services is exactly what the lobbyists had in mind when they drafted and greazed palms to make this happen. One notices that we’re not seeing any stories on how this is having an impact on Yahoo music, as one example.

Well, there’s one counterproductive argument taken care of. On to some music.

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He really was a chipmunk and just as quick, clutching a miniature leather briefcase and wearing a little red hat.   I saw him from a distance.  I knew it was him because I had seen his picture on the cover of Time and Popular Science and The Chronicle of Higher Education.  He frantically leaped from bench to bench.  Bewildered freshmen dove out of the way, older faculty shook their heads and laughed.  A landscaper tried, rather viciously, to squirt him with a hose, but his efforts were useless.  He faked to the right then went left like a running back.  He jumped into the air and ninja rolled himself to safety underneath a picnic table.  The landscaper cursed and threw down the hose and stomped off.  I had been told that, although he was very quick, he tired easily, so I knew this would be a good chance to ask him about the summer job I desperately needed because I was broke, and my scholarship didn’t fund me again until September.  I approached, slowly.  I held out my hand for him to sniff, and he said, “Do I look like a dog?”

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Audrey Hepburn, track 7 from Algorhythms “Self-Titled EP” ( World-Around Records, 2008) **download full EP for free**

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Let’s start with the Bigfoot discovery in Georgia and the subsequent bigfoot news conference that was held today and carried live on CNN

According to BFRO.NET this is a hoax:

Here’s how it got started.

Here’s how it ended.

And here’s the costume used for the fake dead bigfoot.

Moving along…

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Today on RIPPLE:

Ray and the Rev interview Oliver Ackermann from the band A Place To Bury Strangers about touring this year and Death By Audio, the Brooklyn-based effects pedal company he founded.

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