This is not a test. This is a test of a test. Had it been a real test you would be listening to a real radio station that really plays real music. Not this washed up rehashed wound up ground up churned out burned out creepy crud passing for music these days. This is a test of a test of the Emergency 911 Wakeup Call, brought to you by the makers of Your Music Sucks Inuncorporated, in conjunction with Conjunction Junction Functions, International. By a wider definition than that of the Emergency Broadcast System, you can consider this a real emergency. This test of the Emergency 911 Wakeup Call has really been a test. Hope you passed. http://flag.blackened.net/ati/test.mp3 I have a confession to make. I'm still in love with Gloria from "All In The Family!" 234 230700 , _ || ' happy < \, =||= \\ fullmoon, /-|| || || wasn't (( || || || it? \/\\ \\, \\ I thought so! MAY CONTAIN PEANUTS Hey Al Gore, gotta ask you again... I suppose now's not a good time to bring up HR2911, huh? Greeting, I'm prime anarchist, and this is the 'zine for Sunday: the 23rd of July. AND NOW AN ATI RANTICLE - James Traficant - nice toupe. I'm tellin' ya - it takes at LEAST a year and a half off of you. Much better'n McCain's combover! He really should do what Jessy Ventura does - he gets 5-10 years shaving his head. I really think McCain can get down to looking 60 or so, you know? Of course he could jump on national TV with barbells and dumbells like Castro or Reagan. He'd look AND feel better, but who cares how the guy "feels" - that's what we have presidential sections of navy hospitals for. And senate gym and health spas at taxpayer expense, huh? So are you read for the emmys? The New Academy of Television Arts and Sciences should be a hoot. nATAS, spell it backwards, tell me what you come up with? Kudos to Michael from the Hollywood Reporter for calling the ATAS people "boobs." Of course, Al Gore wouldn't benefit from using dumbells, he already is one. C|Net is buying Ziff-Davis. Not just for cleaning products any more. You might know them for other things besides just vinegar and chlorine. Have you ever searched the internet? Have you ever read a 'zine that's a little more commercial than the one you're "holding in your hands" this moment? You're probably encountering a Ziff-Davis product. You're probably sitting on one of their, (oh yeah, that's a different product. But if you wear hairspray...) Consider this fairwarning, and a prediction which shall/should leave you adequately forwarned. George bush gives the foreshadowing, that when he announces his choice of running mate, we are going to say "oh yeah. Duh!" Well, I'll tell you who, and why. Are you ready? William Cohen. The only US citizen more outspokenly pro police-state than Cohen is Tipper Gore. And you know he won't pick her, right? Right? Hmmm. There's the ex-prez dad, "George Herbert Walker Texas Ranger" but how silly would that be? So we're back to the shortest short list ever, unless you count Al Gore who's left with only two choices, Bill Bradley or John McCain. Well, unless you don't rule out Tipper Gore. Let the brave new world begin... CORRECTION Louise Benally's correct address is: PO Box 1042 Hotevilla, AZ 86030 ATI issue 233 had it incorrectly listed as box 1942. "& a 1 uh and a 2 uh, and a three uh..." -Lawrence Welk. NUMBAS - http://digitaldarkness.com/zine/dd15/dd15_12.html http://flag.blackened.net/ati/23ati.html http://flag.blackened.net/ati/webzine2.html http://members.aol.com/rmckinzie/index.html http://members.tripod.com/GrassRootsOyate/pineridge.htm http://naac.8m.com http://spaceyideas.com/publicity/photos/photos.html http://www.cockybastard.com/2000/index2000.htm http://www.corpwatch.org/feature/prisons/c-parenti.html http://www.dkp-ml.dk/mp3/folk.htm http://www.gabgab.com/main.htm http://www.gis.net/~cht/links.html http://www.hpoo.com http://www.i-tribal.com/features/grammytalk.html http://www.iuma.com http://www.ljworld.com/section/frontpage/story/17422 http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/safe/notsee.html http://www.mp3.com/stations/marcos_ampstuff http://www.nativeamericanmusic.com/grammys.html http://www.phoaks.com/phoaks2/newsgroups/comp/society/cu-digest/index.html http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/8days.html#sat http://www.sirius.com/~bobstahl/zenlite.htm http://www.soapboxgirls.com http://www.soaw.org http://www.thegauntlet.com http://www.unitedstates.com/cgi-bin/farticle/137971?20000518153119 http://www.webzine2000.com http://x70.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=558260531&CONTEXT=963877114.893321446&hitnum=9 LETTUCE -=- It was about three years ago today that Adam and I were sitting in his basement writing "40/80". A story about getting harassed unjustly on 53 and Ogden. Today at that same intersection we signed a record deal with Elektra. Thanks to everyone that has been around and spread the word since the purple tape days, the Old School 420 Geeks. Thanks to Jeremy and everyone at WONC who were playing our music before we even had a band name, you guys are the shit. Thanks to Sean at Metro for hooking us up show after show, we appreciate it. Everyone that's on this list deserves a thanks too. I know that term "sellout" has been thrown around a lot, we just want to make this our lives and actually be professional musicians/songwriters. To do what we love to do and make a living off of it still baffles me. I promise we will continue to keep putting out the same type of music that we have been since we started, music from our hearts, shit that stirs up some sort of emotion in the 5 of us and hopefully you. If it wasn't for these label reps seeing all you crazy fucking 420 Geeks rip up the floors of the HOB and Metro none of this shit would be happening for us. You guys are the shit, I hope you feel as big a part of this as you should. Thanks, speaking for Joe, Adam, Ryan, Jason, our managers Thaddeus and Doug (ThugDaddy), Willie, Steve Busse, Rajiv, our trusty roadies, King our hairy traveling hippy, Nendick our traveling prankster, and of course Cockboy.............. 420 Geekin with a permagrin, Kaustubh [Stubhy, I can't see this happening to a nicer person. Congrats.] -=- To Marco: Ian and I spent our day off sleeping. I woke up in the middle of the afternoon, and for the first time in weeks, I really felt like fooling around, so I woke Ian up, and he was so mad, "What!" and I flinched back, and then he said sorry, and we made up. We hadn't messed around for so long, it's like it was new or something, but very weird, and I don't know why, but kind of sad. I don't think he loves me anymore, and I don't know, I love the guy, but he's still figuring out who he is. Tia -=- to ati@etext.org Be a Non-Smoker in as little as 7 Days !!! With Finally-Free Finally-Free Works 96% of the Time! Supresses your craving for smoking, AND Eating! Significant Smoking Reduction in just 48... [ed note: this one's poetically phunny, because yesterday after my gig I smoked my first cigarette, a camel, in 3 months. Almost a year before that.] -=- From: 61694504@ Subject: "I saw this site and thought of you!" Date: July 22, 2000 10:46:01 PM EDT To: ati@etext.org CC: everyone@www {yadda, yadda, yadda...} [ed note: nice try though...] -=- To The Editor: [previously printed in a November '95 University of Connecticut newspaper, New London Day and the Hartford Courant. (the more things change...)] "Psst," I imagine someone whispering to defense chief William Perry, "Apologize for our raping that little Japanese girl - maybe they'll get off our back about Nagasaki." Our military raped a 12-year old girl??? Japan deserves an apology and then some. Didn't we demand 300 years ago that English soldiers stay out of OUR bedrooms? Don't Japanese people deserve the same basic human rights? Or are we still blinded by our imperialistic misbehavior the whole world over? This just shows me we're getting too big for our britches. If the U.S. government truly wants to have good diplomatic relationships with Japan, then 47,000 troops should be moved somewhere else. It's time to stop shoving our soldiers down peoples' throats. We've gone to decay when our soldiers begin gang-banging children. Let's go beyond the lip service, Washington. Let's get out of Japan. Marc Arnold Frucht -=- to ati http://www.housewyfe.com/ a fun ATI link Lazar -=- Hey - just saw 231, one of the funnier ones I've seen in a while. I've never written to you I don't think, though I've read yer 'zine forever since the BBS days now and then. I'm the guy that started the cDc thing. Anyhow- just wanted to say I've been digging ATI. G. Ratte'/cDc -=- Wordless Song (To Speak Of) by Marco Capelli A7 and E is the entire chord structure, the melody goes: A7 E ----------------------------------------------- --2----2-------2-2-------2-----0--------------- ---------------------------------------2------1 ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------- this song doesn't have any words A7 E ---------------------------------0---------- --2----2-------2-2-------2-----4-------0---- -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- this song doesn't have any words... ...You might think you just heard a word But this song doesn't have any words I wrote this song just the other day And it didn't have any words So I just began to play and to play And I sang it without any words It went lalalalalalalalalalalala This song doesn't have any words lalalalalalalalalalalala This song doesn't have any words Wordless song wordless song You insist I'm singing it wrong Wordless song wordless song This song doesn't have any words (ch) this song... It goes lalalalalalalalalalalala This song doesn't have any words lalalalalalalalalalalala This song doesn't have any words Just like the ones on MTV This song doesn't have any words And so it goes with VH-1 No, this song doesn't have any words And Tnn and Cmt And Mt- empty mtv empty empty mtv no this song doesn't have any words. wordless song, wordless song I'll sing it all day and all night long wordless song, wordless song This song doesn't have any words. copyleft 2000 marco capelli frucht http://www.frucht.org (for instructions on copyleft, get ahold of cheshire catalyst) Chuckle, Chortle And Chew On This... This was put in Usenet by Reverend Regina Reaganchild > Thank you for purchasing a McDonnell Douglas military aircraft. In order > to protect your new investment, please take a few moments to fill out the > warranty registration card below. 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Your > answers will be used in market studies that will help McDonnell Douglas > serve you better in the future - as well as allowing you to receive > mailings and special offers from other companies, governments, > extremist groups, and mysterious consortia. > As a bonus for responding to this survey, you will be registered to > win a brand new F-117A in our Desert Thunder Sweepstakes! > Comments or suggestions about our fighter planes? > Please write to: > McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION > Marketing Department > Military Aerospace Division 0007190500 - Something really really weird just happened. I fell asleep with NPR on, and Al Gore was talking this last hour. The whole speech I dreamed it was Secretary Cohen talking using the same exact Harvard/Pentagon mannerisms and eyebrow twitches. So of course I woke up writing the following poem. Two Faces of the Same Batman Movie a poem by Marc Frucht Two wings of the same chicken Two cheeks of the same ass Two apples of the same threat Two threads of the same washcloth Two windmills of the same tilt Two treasons of the same charter Two chickens of the same roost Two redcoats of the same enemy Two engines of the same fraud Two Face. Meanwhile back in the land of bilk and money... Philadelphia/Republican, July 31 - Aug. 4 Los Angeles/Democratic, Aug. 14 - Aug. 18 =============== JUNIOR HIGH STUDENT ARRESTED WITH WEAPONS OF PROTEST [PAWN] - Lost Angels - Fifteen year old Angela Acuff was arrested Thursday for traficking what Calipornia Highway Underpass Motor Patrol charged were tools of terrorism which were going to be used in the upcoming demonstrations against Demopublican conventions. "She was riding in a Ford Escort," said CHUmps spokesperson Jeff Ramsey, "that had Dancing Bear decals on the rear windshield." He said CHUmps followed the car Acuff was riding in for an hour and a half before deciding their muffler was just a little too loud. Ramsey pulled them over and after generally beating the shit out of Acuff and driver Malissa Hubbard 16, they searched the vehicle and confiscated a dark blue Dickeys hoodie, two Krypto (tm) bike locks, a bandana and a water bottle that had what appeared to be "bleach and urine, bleach and urine, urine, maybe some water, and bleach and urine" in it [Ramsey's words.] Acuff was released after an hour where on the front steps of city hall she held a press conference announcing that prior to the arrest she was not a protestor, but now thanks to LA's finest, she and Hubbard will stay on and join the ranks at this year's conventions. "We were arrested by a police state gone way the hell out of control," said Acuff. "Let's see," she said pulling out a yellow Midas Muffler appointment slip which she'll have to reschedule now to make her upcoming court case. "CHUmps told us they didn't care about the appointment, if our muffler's too loud our persons and car gets searched and we're going to get detained. That's all there is to it. "What they found was a sweatshirt they insisted was a trenchcoat. I was wearing it because the temperature dropped to 60 degrees." She said the bandana was because she hadn't washed her hair in a day and a half "for pete's sake." "Let's see," she said, "The bike locks. They didn't seem to care that they were each on a bike in the back of our car either. And the water bottle? Oh, my, god, you'd think they'd never seen blue green algae before. To huge cheers Acuff told press and protest planners that what started out as just a trip to an L.A. bike trail will now be "full fledged activist relocation to exercise [their] First Ammendment rights to peacefully assemble in parks, forests and city street corners this end of summer." Hubbard will join her as soon as she too is released from prison. She's being held on suspicion of being a known environmentalist. Her crime? Spending $3400 last year to convert her Ford Escort to electric power. Spokespersons claim they still have no idea how they're going to make the original charge of "loud muffler" stick since there isn't a muffler on an electric car. Hubbard's appointment with Midas stems from an earlier written warning on the other side of LA where they will be required to prove they don't in fact use a muffler. Both charges are expected to be dropped this December if a peaceful lucritive settlement can't be reached between both parties, people versus city of L.A. "a thousand spiders can tie your kangaroo down." yiddish proverb (A)(C)(T)(I)(V)(I)(S)(T) (T)(I)(M)(E)(S) We end ATI with poetics. Why The Dove Is The Perfect Symbol Of Peace For Our Time by Richard Beban reprinted from "Will Work For Peace," [ed note: an anthology my friend Brett edited] Truth is, it's so skittish that it flees whistling at the slightest footfall. Ring your camp with doves & they'll hear your enemies at a thousand paces. Better than a watchdog. There's a difference between true peace & being warned in time to repel aggression; but our leaders, timorous birds, haven't figured that out yet. Send All, Tide Arm & Hammer to ati@etext.org