Bionic Man?

This particular bionic man is a little less than that but he is nonetheless...

a Touch and Go/1/4stick band...

Upper right side of page - featured clips - Pinback - AFK from Summer in Abaddon - I am addicted; and I missed my chance to put out the album Summer in Easton with this track renamed as Doncaster. Also, I really have no idea what this track is about...

This is Mandrake.

The Life of Sterling Hayden

Brauereisterben - Don't let it happen.

"Over the past decade, German beer consumption has dropped dramatically. In 1990, every German man and woman drank an average of 147 litres (258 pints) of beer a year. The figure has now sunk to just 206 pints..."
"Germans remain intensely conservative about what they drink. They are proud of Germany's Rheinheitsgebot or beer purity law - an edict made back in 1516 by Bavaria's King Wilhelm IV and still in force today. He said that beer could include water, malt, and hops and nothing else. Foreign beers, which don't always conform to the law, account for a mere 3% of the German market..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1434074,00.html?gusrc=rss

plucked from the paper

King of Gonzo has the last word

Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday March 3, 2005
The Guardian



It might not have the majesty of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or the viciousness of his attacks on the American dream. But the last written word of Hunter S Thompson, who died last week, has left the literary world intrigued.

According to a sheriff's report, the author's body was found in a chair by his kitchen table, on which a typewriter had been placed and a page of writing paper had been lined up with the word "counselor" typed at its centre.

A fierce social critic, satirist, and anti-war activist, Thompson, 67, killed himself with a shot from a pistol at home in Aspen, Colorado.

The police report describes how his son, Juan Thompson, walked outside the house after discovering the body and fired three shotgun blasts into the air, later saying he had done it to "mark the passing of his father".

The significance of the writer's last word was unclear yesterday. It could have been the beginning of a letter addressed to a lawyer (one of the American uses of the word counsellor, along with therapist or adviser), he may have been describing himself, or he might simply have wished to confound those looking for neat explanations for his suicide - an echo of Rosebud, the central character's last word in the film Citizen Kane.

One possible clue is the paper it was written on - headed stationery of the Fourth Amendment Foundation, an organisation he had just set up to defend privacy rights against the threat of unwarranted search and seizure by the authorities.

In one of his last interviews, Thompson said: "There has to be some defence against having this government in vain, seize, take over, invade our lives and our personal privacy... every day." Thompson's friends said he was in despair over the state of civil liberties and President George Bush's re-election in November.

His family cancelled plans for a public funeral in favour of a private ceremony, but there are still plans to blast Thompson's ashes from a cannon, apparently one of his final wishes.