“It’s a known fact that grass increases creativity from 8 to 11 times. In fact more people find themselves creative stoned, than straight…” refuted. Let’s talk about sex baby.

(via Reuters)
Pablo Picasso, Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas had more in common than simple creativity. They also had active sex lives, which researchers said on Wednesday was no coincidence.

Psychologists at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University in Britain found that professional artists and poets have about twice as many partners as other people.

Their creativity seems to act like a sexual magnet.

But Dr Daniel Nettle, a psychologist at Newcastle University’s School of Biology, said it is a double-edge sword.

“Poets and artists have more sexual partners but they also have high rates of depression,” he told Reuters.

Well there are only two things that could make Arnie (pictured above) grin like that… good herb, or good head.

It is true that there is a 99.9% chance that Allan Cameron, the young man charged in the early morning slaying of an undercover police officer, is guilty. But one shouldn’t turn a blind I when the NYPD is obviously practicing some Jump Street justice.

This is evidenced in the fact that Cameron’s widely publicized front page arrest photo showed no incident of injury to the suspect, yet he showed up in court with a bandaged face.

Also some of the many cops that showed up at Cameron’s trial yesterday were quoted making ballsy statements. Said one cop, “I’m surprised they let us carry our guns in here,” insinuating that a cop might have tried to shoot Cameron in an NYC courtroom. “He doesn’t deserve a trial. Let us take care of it,” said another. And the head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Society feels that “There is no option in seeking death …[Cameron] is wasting the courts time with a not guilty plea … If this crime doesn’t warrant the death penalty, none ever has.”

The latest is that Cameron’s girlfriend is now an accessory to the crime, as cops believe she cleaned his prints from the murder weapon.

Cameron’s case should be scored by KRS-One’s Love’s Gonna Getcha

Here’s more scary Brooklyn news:
A Brooklyn man was charged with stabbing Jets fans in the Giants stadium restroom.

Yet another Brooklyn man was charged with stabbing and shooting a longtime friend on Valentines Day 2003.

Arkitip #31 comes chock full of goodies… as usual.

Andy Gilmore’s sketches, The Drawing Of Sound, Greg Lamarche (shown above), Wallace Burman, all great stuff.

Each issue features limited edition artwork, but this this issue is extra special because it features:
A MIXTURE OF TWO COLOR, FOUR COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE OFFSET PRINTED, PERFECT BINDING CUSTOM ARKITIP EMBOSSED CLEAR PVC BAG WITH SNAP CLOSURE
PACKAGED WITH SSUR 7″ RECORD
DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR ISSUE0031 BY SSUR
HAND NUMBERED LTD. EDITION OF 1000

Got that? Via the intelligence section I came across this… yikes!

Get your grits on the cheap this holiday season. All DVD and CDs are now only ten bucks at Fat Possum.

(via Fat Possum)
T-Model Ford
T-Model’s credentials are impeccable; if anything he’s over qualified. He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi. T-Model thinks he’s seventy-five but isn’t sure. He was plowing a field behind a mule on his family’s farm by age eleven, and in his early teens he secured a job at a local sawmill. He excelled and was later recruited by a foreman from a bigger lumber company in the Delta, near Greenville, and eventually got promoted to truck driver. Between that and working in a log camp T-Model was sentenced to ten years on a chain-gang for murder. He lucked out and was released after serving two. He says, grinning, “I could really stomp some ass back then, stomp it good. I was a-sure-enough- dangerous man.”

We Are Wolves
For the last few years, local trio We Are Wolves have been tearing up the stage with their electrifying guitar/drum/analog synth attack. With herky-jerky, shouted/sung vocals that sometimes bring to mind fellow electro-punks Les Georges Leningrad, Non-Stop… is a crunchy, distorted, overdriven mess. And what a beautiful mess it is! With tracks that move from upbeat dancefloor-fillers like opener “Little Birds” to Suicide-style, doom ‘n’ gloom burners like “La Nature” and the bopping electro go-go of “Snare Me,” We Are Wolves keep their rough-and-tough, buzzy attitude throughout the 11 tracks. A solid debut from a great live act.

Bob Log III

and yes, they also represent those ebony wonders the Black Keys.

This is ma mar eh. Be sure ta get her mustache right eh. But fill in all tha teets she’s missin’. This’ll cost me a couple toonies eh?

(via Reuters)
Canadian inmates can now get tattoos in prison parlors under a pilot program aimed at cutting down use of unclean needles and the spread of disease.

The Canadian government showed off its tattoo parlor program on Thursday at a prison in Bath, Ontario, where it is being tested.

“The program has advantages in that we can take a practice that already occurs, and make it safer,” said Holly Knowles, a spokeswoman for Correctional Services Canada. “We’re trying to reduce the amount of make-shift needles.”

The government believes secret tattooing contributes to the spread of disease in prisons because of the use of shared needles.

Prison authorities say rates of hepatitis B and C among prisoners are about 30 times higher than outside prison walls. HIV rates are about 10 times higher.

To be eligible for the program, tattoo designs must be approved by prison officials and must not be gang-related, or deemed racist. Participating inmates must have a good prison record.

Prisoners are allowed a one-hour controlled session with an inmate tattoo artist for C$5 (US$4.25).

Officials said that if the pilot project is successful, it may be expanded to more prisons across Canada.

And this old, but related, info …

(via Answers)
Some tattoo meanings:
A teardrop tattoo is said to indicate that the wearer has killed or a friend of his was killed in prison. It is worn by the eye.

A tattoo of a shamrock is associated with the white supremacist prison gang founded in California known as the Aryan Brotherhood.

A tattoo of the number “13″ is associated with the prison gang, Mexican Mafia, and affiliated California-based street gangs known as the Surenos. A tattoo of the number “14″ is associated with the prison gang,Nuestra Familia and associated California-based street gangs known as Nortenos. It is a common practice for California street gangs of all races and ethnic backgrounds to have the telephone area code in their neighborhood tattooed, e.g. 213, 818, 310, 714, 415 ; with the frequent changes in California area codes, this can quickly become outdated.

(via GoodGifts)
Re-unite children with families: As young as 7, children were abducted from their families and turned into soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Brutalized by war, they were abandoned to live rough in mean streets. But now, with your help, they can be clothed, rehabilitated and re-united with their families (a time and patience-consuming process, ultimately worthwhile). £50 helps one child and results are very promising.

Now that the turkey’s digested, and the gelatinous cranberry sauce is all slobbered away, let’s really give thanks.

William S. Burroughs
“The Thanksgiving Prayer”

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks for the KKK.
For nigger-killin’ lawmen, feelin’ their notches.
For decent church-goin’ women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.
Thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.
Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind the own business.
Thanks for a nation of finks.
Yes, thanks for all the memories– all right let’s see your arms!
You always were a headache and you always were a bore.
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

There is a new website that features obscure bands and music and … stuff. On this site is listed a band called ADULT. The cover artwork for their new CD Gimmie Trouble is really cool but even cooler, in a weird Hitchcockian kind of way, is the video for the album’s first single In My Nerves.

(via ADULT.)
Our new album is out! We won’t be able to sell it on the Ersatz Audio site because we are going on tour in one week, but it is available through THRILL JOCKEY as CD, LP (which looks amazingly beautiful) or MP3.

So don’t forget if you are living in North America, we will be coming to a town near you. All shows with Genders who’s most excellent new release “There’s Something In The Treats” will be released October 17th on Tigerbeat6. 10 of the shows will be with Numbers as well - yes! They have an awesome new record out called “We’re Animals” on Kill Rock Stars. We also have other special guests along the way, so look at the club in your town for complete line ups. We are in the middle of confirming our European tour for Jan./Feb. and hope to have those details up soon. Complete tour details here.

But I thought Christians hated fantasy? I guess they just hate fantasy by JK Rowling …

(via Reuters)
For Christian church leaders across Britain, Disney’s “Narnia” blockbuster film could be the ideal way to pack the pews.

Evangelical publishers have sent out special packs to churches, Methodists prepared themed sermons and one Anglican church is giving out free tickets to single parents for “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.”

For Walt Disney Co. the film based on the C.S. Lewis classic offers a chance to recover at the box office after its latest quarterly losses.

For churches, the movie being given its world premiere in London on December 7 is a golden opportunity to tap into mainstream culture and popularize religion.

The evangelical publishing company Christian Publishing and Outreach (CPO), which distributes material to 20,000 churches, approached Disney and was granted permission to use two images from the film for its “Narnia” packs.

“A lot of churches have been ordering and will be staging their own events. We have seen very big demand across the range,” said Russ Bravo, development director for CPO which is providing posters, DVDs, invitation cards and folders.

It’s also likely that the churches just hate Harry because he’s gay.

5 things I came across while ‘underground’ as an everyday consumer of media filth:

That ugly bitch died: Actually Sam, ‘the worlds ugliest dog’, was male. About his passing his owner Susie Lockheed says, “I don’t think there will be another Sam. Some people would think that’s a good thing.”

Raindrops keep falling on my head: “I’ve done it before in the shower. It’s, like, so sexy, you know, the temperature of your body and the shower is vary different.” Ricky Martin on the tantalizing tingle of golden showers.

Jungle boogie: Die-hard Usher fans are apparently upset about him mixing it up with the ‘other side’ in his new film. “I want people to think of ‘In The Mix’ as a romance, not an interracial romance”. BTW Guess Who was kinda funny.

Can you hear Elmo now?: Elmo Talking Cell Phone is named an NYPIRG “potentially risky gift” because of “excessive loudness.” I’m still waiting for the MTA to add ‘No fucking loud hip-hop musical cell phone ring-tone playing in subway cars’ to its rules of proper subway conduct.

Talking dead naked people: A man, a woman, nudity, two coffins, a cause, a message, some cold rain, Times Square, no fur, Chinese torture, $43,000 in eBay bids, spectators… chills, cigarettes, pneumonia, lack of health insurance, ER visit, regret, disdain.

Remember that time you bought a System Of A Down disc, popped it into your laptop, then inexplicably got hundreds of pop-ups promoting Cyndi Lauper’s new release as soon as you connected to the Ethernet?

What about when while listening to the hip-hop staple Ironman you suddenly started thinking, “Hey, that Fiona Apple aint so bad.”

Well now the lone star state plans to give an explanation as to why.

(via Red Herring)
The state of Texas sued Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Monday for allegedly installing spyware through its copyright protection software on music CDS, making it the first state to bring legal action against the music giant in the month-old controversy.

This is the third lawsuit that Sony faces over the issue, but the first action brought by a government agency.

“Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak-and-dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers,” said Greg Abbott, attorney general for Texas. “Consumers who purchased a Sony CD thought they were buying music. Instead, they received spyware that can damage a computer, subject it to viruses, and expose the consumer to possible identity crime.”

The EFF alleged Sony has “failed entirely” to respond to concerns not just about its XCP software but also another antipiracy tool, MediaMax, that the company uses. EFF has said that MediaMax affects over 20 million CDs—10 times the number of CDs that carry the XCP software.

And you saw no connection between gifting your mom with the Barbara Streisand Movie Album, and her new found interest in those “Dicky Chicks”.

Apparently a pimp named Ragin knows.

(via MTV news)
Ragin said the conversations initially revolved around 50 being a problem — a nuisance who, before his 2000 shooting, made a habit of disrespecting the Inc.’s biggest name, Ja Rule, on mixtapes. McGriff had told Ragin he’d had several meetings with 50 and told the rising rap star to stop targeting Ja and the Inc. in his rhymes. Several verbal agreements were made between the two, but 50 never held up his end of the bargain, Ragin recalled.

On May 24, 2000, Ragin — who’s in the Federal Witness Protection Program for reasons not related to the Gotti trial — said he received a call from McGriff, who said he had “hurt 50.” McGriff wanted to speak with Ragin, and a meeting was set up in a Brooklyn garage. Ragin told the court McGriff sounded “rushed” on the phone, and when he asked him “what was up,” McGriff told him, “We got him” — a reference to 50 Cent, Ragin later learned.

“He described how he caught him coming out of his grandma’s house,” said Ragin; 50 got in a car, “and they shot him many times at close range. They thought he was dead, because there was lots of blood.”

Ragin said McGriff wasn’t the gunman, but that one of his two underlings, who had ties to the Inc., was. The witness recalled seeing them in the garage during the meeting, scrubbing their hands with rubbing alcohol to remove any traces of gun powder. Ragin then said that, years later, the attempted murder of 50 Cent would serve as fodder for jokes around the Inc. offices.

“They’d joke about the way 50 was squirming in pain in his car and putting up his hands to stop the bullets” that kept coming, one after the other, he explained. The year before 50’s shooting, his track “How To Rob …” was a huge radio hit; the song was to appear on 50’s Power of the Dollar, an album he recorded for Columbia that has never been released. The shooting occurred two months after 50 was stabbed at New York’s Hit Factory recording studio — also something the prosecution tried to show, via text messages they claim were exchanged between Irv Gotti and McGriff, was Inc.-related.

One message, authored by Irv, said “Fuck half a dollar. Me and my niggas kill for fun. Got that? Murder for fun.” Another exchange, sent soon after the 50 shooting, claimed the label heads got 50 twice, with the stabbing and then the shooting. Yet another followed just hours later; Irv Gotti, according to the prosecution, text messaged someone to “turn on the radio” to listen to the news of 50’s shooting.

There will be no more 50 Cent coverage after this. We promise.

It was the culture that drew him to Vietnam; it was the corruption that made him stay. The new poster boy for overseas pedophilia, Gary Glitter, was detained at a Nam airport recently, after trying to flee allegations of statutory rape. We can only imagine his pick-up line, “Do you wanna touch me? Oh yeah.”

(via iOnline)
Two girls, one aged 12, told authorities they had sex with former rock star Gary Glitter at his home in Vietnam, police said today.

Glitter, 61, was detained by immigration officials on Saturday at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City while trying to board a flight for Bangkok. He was later turned over to provincial police in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau, police and immigration officials said.

Police had been searching for the former rocker, whose real name is Paul Gadd, since he fled his rented home in Vung Tau on November 12 amid allegations that he committed indecent acts with a minor.

Glitter, who rose to fame with a glam rock act in the 1970s, is perhaps best known for Rock and Roll (Part 2), which is still frequently played at sporting events.

Sleeping with teenagers? Fleeing police? Why are they still calling him a “former rocker”? Sounds pretty damn current.

It’s usually awkward when hip-hop goes high profile in the political scene. This is evidenced in Diddy and Russel making efforts at rallying the troops behind one political effort or the other. Are these more than publicity stunts to promote Sean John clothing or Phat Pharm sneaks? Let’s hope so.

A more ‘real’ cause is the one Snoop D-O-double G is getting behind.

(via Reuters) - Rapper Snoop Dogg, once a member of the Crips gang, called on Saturday for authorities to spare Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the gang’s co-founder, as hundreds gathered outside the prison to protest against his planned execution next month.

“Stanley “Tookie” Williams is not a regular guy, he’s an inspiration,” he said. “All I want to say to the governor is it’s about keeping this man alive because his voice needs to be heard.”

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will decide on Williams’ petition for clemency in the coming weeks.

The Williams case is shaping up as the fiercest battle over capital punishment in California for years. State officials believe Williams is a brutal and unrepentant murderer who deserves death by lethal injection as scheduled for December 13 for killing four people in 1979 during petty robberies.

Yet Williams, who has written a series of books warning youth about the dangers of gangs, has won over high-profile supporters, including actor Jamie Foxx, who portrayed him in a sympathetic film version of his life.

In an interview in prison on Wednesday, Williams said he was innocent.

Let’s hope Arnie doesn’t yell, “Terminate him!” For more info visit savetookie.org