all of you 1970s post punk dancesters (if you're diggin' the Franz Ferd) check out:

Bloc Party: Banquet (Tony, they played this at MOD CLUB once but we didn't know what it was at the time)

The Rakes:
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/groups/index.jsp?groups=19723211
this is a concert- skip to 5min. that's probably they're lead single.
http://www.therakes.co.uk/

Moving Units: I Am. (it's an acceptable single)
The Futureheads: whatever Clarky would recommend.


and oldtimers "Gang of Four", and Wire

same damn thing.
TOP 40 WORST ALBUMS OF 2004

so... January 3rd... work day or replacement holiday? I don't think I was ever told. Do you guys know? both my parents have it off, but my brother's back in school. None of this makes sense. So I think I'll 'work' a bit today and call it even... but I just don't know. hmm

anyone want to throw in their judgement call?

and, on another note. y tu mama tambien ('and your mother too') is an incredibly sexy movie... but not in the north american/usa kind of sexy, this is smouldering latin sexy. if you plan on watching it, I suggest that you don't invite your parents along for the ride. It's also a coming of age movie, so it brings some of that early adulthood baggage into it too. but really, lots of sex and nudity. and the underlying subplot of exposing a lot of mexico's political unrest... very interesting how they wove that into the movie... great use of a narrator (a bit like Amelie in that regard) somehow it stays totally uncategorizable because it's just so different from everything else I've seen. it's no porn, though there sure is a lot of sex. anyway, good movie.

Al, Spywareblaster is another program that helps out with spyware. But for start page hijackers, you might want to use HijackThis to identify your IE startpage and remove that line, along with running your spyware programs

My Tentative 2004 best-of list (as originally posted on indecline.net):


Top 15 Albums of 2004:

01. The Blood Brothers - Crimes
02. TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
03. Converge - You Fail Me
04. The Wolfnote - This is the Getdown
05. Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
06. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
07. The All Purpose Voltage Heroes - TEODJP
08. The Franklins - s/t
09. Hot Cross - Fair Trades and Farewells
10. Whitey Houston 7"
11. !!! - Louden Up Now
12. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
13. Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
14. Mastodon - Leviathan
15. Bloc Party - s/t EP


Top 10 shows of 2004:

01. Coachella (especially seeing Basement Jaxx and Le Tigre back-to-back)
02. GWAR
03. Department of Homeland Security (easily the best surprise of the year!), The Wolfnote, Totheteeth/tothehilt, Downeastday, The Mark Birtles Project
04. Black Dot Halloween roller-rink show: The Wolfnote, The Frosted Tipz, The Operators, Shout Out Out Out Out, the James T. Kirks, Black Market Inc.
05. The Stars Wept (they were fuckin incredible), The Hollywood Ending, Tandum Vitalis
06. Xiu Xiu
07. The Franklins' vinyl release
08. Choke's 10th at New City
09. .moneen. at the Starlight
10. Sparta


Top 10 people/bands that played fuckin awesome music in 2004 but didn't get mentioned in my other lists:

01. Blacklisted
02. Change Methodical
03. Stillframe
04. Fractal Pattern
05. The Nouns
06. The Gun Bunnies
07. Bolide
08. Our Mercury
09. Eshod Ibn Wyza
10. Dance Floor Disasters


Top 3 favourite DJs for 2004:

1. Slipped Disc
2. Miss Mannered
3. Nik7


Favourite shows I got to play in 2004

with London Disturbance Force: The Intesives, Hit & Run, Hellthrasher, and the Homewrekers. This show was awesome. When we did our shitty cover of Motorhead's "Killed By Death" for an encore and everyone went nuts, that was the funnest thing I've ever done! Plus, all the bands were fuckin incredible that night.

with LIME: it's a tie. Either that one at Stars waaay at the beginning of the year with Totheteeth/tothehilt, Change Methodical, and Stillframe or else the recent one at the Shark Tank with the Fontanelles, the Mark Birtles Project and Fractal Pattern. Those were both really fun bills to play on.

Just a little something I was working on. Damn that Kampfer, I was suppose to be finishing Panzer off but instead I jumped to Kampfer instead. Oh well more time to draw mechas I guess. Yeah!

Thanks guys! I ran the scan with both those programs and the spyware is still on. It is your generic make your homepage some default ad page spyware. It isn't effecting firefox so yeah! I'm going to say good bye to that IE crap. One of these days that spyware will die.

Tabbrowser Extensions are also nice.

hey Al, using firefox won't stop spyware.
You will probably need Adaware and Spybot-S&D.
Not to say you should stop using firefox or anything.

The extensions I have are:

Adblock
Linkification
Word Count
Allow right click
BugMeNot

You can get them here and here

Beck or Ed what other stuff should I get for Firefox?