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Rhino goes back to the future 1/24...

Various Artists Future Retro
1. "The Walk" – The Cure (Infusion Remix)
2. "Situation" – Yaz (Richard X Remix)
3. "Lips Like Sugar" – Echo & The Bunnymen (Way Out West Remix Edit)
4. "Need You Tonight" – INXS (Static Revenger Mix Edit)
5. "Shake The Disease" – Depeche Mode (Tiga Remix)
6. "A Little Respect" – Erasure (Jaded Alliance 'Electrospect' Remix)
7. "New Song" – Howard Jones (Peter Black and Hardrock Striker Mix Edit)
8. "Forever Young" – Alphaville (Hamel Album Mix)
9. "Bizarre Love Triangle" – New Order (The Crystal Method Extended Mix)
10. "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" – Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel (Elite Force Mix)
11. "Girl U Want" – Devo (Black Light Odyssey Mix)
12. "Nowhere Girl" – B-Movie (Adam Freeland Remix)
13. "Boy" – Book Of Love (DJ Irene Rockstar Mix)
14. "Suedehead" – Morrissey (Sparks Mix)

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SUPER DELICIOUS

Last night I baked chicken, and let me tell you, I have become a chicken master. It was the tastiest chicken ever, for two reasons: the marinade and wrapping the pan in foil for half the process. So now we have chicken for life. Or at least the next couple days. And cooking also does not hurt my shoulder for some reason, so perhaps I should simply become a chef. I have almost no qualifications for this except of course being able to make shit.

i'm so behind

I used to be completely obsessed with celebrity gossip, but i got out of it around 2001 or so. And now I find that all the sources talk about Paris Hilton or the Olson twins or the cast of the fucking OC. candid recommends Drudge as a good source for older celebs' gossip. Anyone have any others?

SCHADENFREUDE ALERT

Readers who bought A Million Little Pieces from Random House get refunded.

NPR's Frey Fraud story

Smoking Gun's investigation: none of the crimes referred to in the book actually happened.

And he plagiarised a bunch of it.

From that last link:

...I suspect you are [allergic to the truth]. That's why you love this fake, Frey: because Frey's version of the drug world is false in every way. But it's a nice rightwing lie, so you're happy. He assures you that indeed, drugs equals addiction equals rehab or death. Which is utter, absolute nonsense.

Here's a stat to prove it: last year Italian pollution officials checked levels of chemical in the Po River, which drains most of Northern Italy. They discovered there was so much cocaine residue in the water that the residents of the area had to be using coke at more than ten times the rate cops had estimated. It meant that every young adult in the place was coked, every weekend. Two relevant facts: Northern Italy is virtually crime-free. The only crimes around are imports (Albanians, mostly), and they're not the coked-up partygoers whose piss was getting the river so high. (Lots of talkative, gung-ho fishies in the Po, I bet.)

Second key fact: coke is actually one of the more dangerous drugs, almost as bad as alcohol.

Combine these facts and stats and you see that (A) There are far more drug users than we admit out there; (B) They're doing fine, holding jobs, raising kids, snorting on the weekends and trooping back to work like the rest of us. They just have a better time on the weekends than you booze-suckers.

argh

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