October 31st, 2004 by POMP

I just picked up the November issue of Wired Magazine. The one with the “Sample the Future” cover story and the Beastie Boys, “The Remix Masters” feature.

This issue also includes a copy of The Wired CD, “a collection of 16 songs produced under the Creative Commons License.”

The musicians on this CD are saying that true creativity needs to be open, fluid, and alive, and they are encouraging you to, “Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can’t do a thing – it’s 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands.”

So, with the “swap till you drop” part in mind, “here are 16 songs that encourage people to play with their tunes, not just play them.”

:01 Beastie Boys/ Now Get Busy

:02 David Byrne/ My Fair Lady

:03 Zap Mama/ Wadidyusay?

:04 My Morning Jacket/ One Big Holiday

:05 Spoon/ Revenge!

:06 Gilberto Gil/ Oslodum

:07 Dan the Automator/ Relaxation Spa Treatment

:08 Thievery Corporation/ DC 3000

:09 Le Tigre/ Fake French

:10 Paul Westerberg/ Looking Up in Heaven

:11 Chuck D with Fine Arts Militia/ No Meaning No

:12 The Rapture/ Sister Saviour (Blackstrobe Remix)

:13 Cornelius/ Wataridori 2

:14 Danger Mouse & Jemini/ What U Sittin’ On? (starring Cee Lo and Tha Alkaholiks)

:15 DJ Dolores/ Oslodum 2004

:16 Matmos/ Action at a Distance

October 31st, 2004 by POMP

If this video doesn’t convince you to vote for Bush, nothing will.

October 28th, 2004 by POMP

From Slashdot:

“Mozilla has finally posted the first Firefox 1.0 release candidate on their FTP servers. This could very well be the last official release of Firefox before the big 1.0 launch date on November 9th.”

According to Mozilla’s changelog, they’ve fixed about 250 bugs since the Preview Release. Get the free download for Windows, or use the Mozilla FTP Servers.

October 28th, 2004 by POMP

The new Beastie Boys song, “This Government Needs A Tune Up” got me thinking that so many anti-war, and anti-Bush songs have come out in the past few years, that I could almost make my own album out of all of them.

So over the past couple of days I’ve been brainstorming, and I’ve put together a tentative list of songs that I may include on this CD. Some of them have been freely offered on the Internet, so I will provide the download links, but the rest will be links to watch the video, read the lyrics, or buy the CD. If you want something for nothing, you’ll have to download it yo-ur-se-lf–you filthy pirates.

1. Team America: World Police – America, Fuck Yeah *** (Read It)

2. Beastie Boys – In A World Gone Mad *** (Read It)

3. Corporate Avenger – Gay Muslims For Christ

4. Beastie Boys – Right Right Now Now *** (Watch It ][ Read It)

5. RX - Sunday Bloody Sunday (this song features GWB on vox)

6. Ministry - No "W" *** (Read It)

7. KoRn - Ya'll Want A Single (remix ft Howard Stern)

8. Eric Idle - The FCC Song

9. Green Day - American Idiot *** (Read It)

10. Beastie Boys - This Government Needs A Tune Up *** (Read It)

11. Nonpoint - The Truth *** (Watch It ][ Read It)

12. Eminem - Mosh *** (Watch It ][ Read It)

13. Ministry – Track 23 (Untitled)

14. Team America: World Police – Freedom Isn’t Free *** (Read It)

15. Beastie Boys – It Takes Time To Build *** (Read It)

16. Corporate Avenger – Voting Doesn’t Work *** (Read It)

17. Beastie Boys – We Got The *** (Read It)

18. Moby and Public Enemy – Make Love, Fuck War *** (Watch It)

19. A Perfect Circle – Imagine *** (Read It)

20. Team America: World Police – America, Fuck Yeah (Bummer Remix) *** (Read It)

Now I realize that this CD will be very Beastie Boys heavy, but that’s because they have been the most vocal about removing Bush from office. All in all, I still think there’s a pretty eclectic mix of musicians that have made their opinions known. Everyone from aging whiggers to nu-metal faygots, have spoken out musically.

October 25th, 2004 by POMP

If you’re the guy that visits my blog on a daily basis, then you might’ve noticed that POMP.us was down for most of the day. And if you’re really observant, then you’ve probably noticed that this blog looks totally different.

This is because I’ve dumped my cheesy old Xanga blog, in favor of Blogger. If it’s good enough for Jim Norton, it’s good enough for me. So far I’ve imported over 3 months of archives, this was a painstaking process, which involved individually posting each entry. I’m still tweaking the new blog, so I’ll figure out what do to with the rest of the archives in the upcoming weeks.

Blogger has many features that Xanga does not. If you’re a fan of Firefox, you should see this RSS icon on the bottom right corner of your browser. That’s because I’m syndicating the full content of this blog. If you don’t know, Firefox’s Live Bookmarks are a form of, “RSS integration that lets you read the latest news headlines and read updates to your favorite sites that are syndicated.” If you’re not a fan of Firefox, just point your RSS aggregator to my Site Feed URL.

If you’re a typical IE user, then you probably have no idea wtf I was just talking about, so you should heed my earlier advice on protecting your PC, and DESTROY the damn thing NOW! … or just watch the World Series and bang your girlfriend, you non-geeky asshole.

Here are some other notable Blogger features:

• Anonymous Comments – There’s no more need for the Flooble Chatterbox, because you Internet tough guys (or anyone else for that matter) can flame me anonymously. I already know that I’m a stupid faygot who resembles a medium bag of dicks, so please post something thoughtful and original.
  
  
• AudioBlogger – Lets you call Blogger from any phone and leave a message that is immediately posted to your site as an MP3.
• Google’s AdSense Program - This allows me to turn my blog into a potential source of revenue through Sponsored Links. The success of AdSense is dependant on whether or not you guys think what I had for breakfast, and my latest rant on politics is revenue worthy.
  
• Google’s SiteSearch - Once my blog is completely indexed you will be able to use the Blogger NavBar at the top, to search through my Archives. (more archives are coming soon)
• POMP’s Moblog – You can now see my recent image on the top right corner.
• POMP’s Poll – I probably could’ve done this on my old blog, I just didn’t think of it until now.
• Team Members – For better or worse, RaYzor can publish his RanTs directly to my blog without my intervention.
  

October 25th, 2004 by POMP

Get with it [flava flav] 3x

MCA

Got beats that are boomin to keep the crowd movin

Cause this administration needs some removin

Since 9/11 got war on the brain

This US Nation needs to show restraint

ADROCK

Oh no way, what’s that you say?

The UN don’t mean nothin to the USA?

Oh no way, what’s that you heard?

Bush is makin money off the oil, word?

MIKE D

Never ending Government spending

All for weapons of war they keep on spendin more

Trouble believing, all this deceiving

Is it really freedom that we’re fighting for?

CHORUS

This Government Needs a Tune Up [Chuck D]

MCA

Imagine public healthcare, public housing,

Public help without the religious founding

Imagine that, well it could happen yet

And we can make it happen, it’s a bet

ADROCK

Now I’m not trying to say I hate the USA

I’d live somewhere else if I felt that way

But go back to the fifty’s, if you think it’s all nifty

The President is acting mad shifty

MIKE D

FBI and the cops keep all filing

Who protest the war and who their dialing

So be careful what you say up on the Internet

We got a nosey Government that won’t forget

CHORUS

This Government Needs a Tune Up [Chuck D]

(MMM break)

MCA

Need a little democratic socialism

Eassssse up on the capitalism

Eassssse up on the militarism

Ease up on the campaign finance schism

ADROCK

The next thing they’ll want is abortion deaded

If you’re not straight, white and married it’s dreaded

Forget it, you know what they say, if you’re gay

You’re not a real member of society

MIKE D

If you’re with me say, “What is this?”

Our Government’s being run by big business

Wrecking shop, so, lets fix this

Come on somebody and get with this

CHROUS

This Government Needs a Tune Up [Chuck D]

Get with it [Flava flav]

October 25th, 2004 by POMP

They say on average, guys think about sex every 13 seconds. Well, I can’t stop thinking about the marionette sex in Team America: World Police, and how Trey Parker and Matt Stone ripped me off.

Don’t believe me? Check out An Animation I made way back in July of 1992. It was one of many crude animations me and ObSerVer made in High School. It stars: Gumby, Pokey, and Mr. T.

RaYzor proclaims, “wow that was fucked up … funny … Mr T rulz”