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but how about rediculously long/evil band names? There's an electro-death band I heard on KXLU in LA called -- and I'm not making this up-- Powers Of Darkness Shall Rain Blood Upon This City For 500 Years. Eeeeeevil!

The U.S. is often accused of upholding a "sexual apartheid" by denying gay people equal rights guarunteed to them by our own Constitution.

Wait, not funny. Sad.

I've been listening to Beck all morning--the Japanese release of "Stray Blues" Jeff copied for me. It has bioelectronic jogging suits and a Spanish language mariachi version of "Burro" that is so damn satisfying.

Also, the beck website ([link]) is a lot of fun.

Here are some fun snippets from Wikipedia ([link])

Beck and Scientology

Beck has been involved in Scientology for most of his life, but has only recently publicly acknowledged this fact. It is not clear what his involvement was during the 1990s, but he appears to have distanced himself from it to some degree.

His name appears in Scientology literature again in 2003, showing that he is a member and a donor. In April 2004, he married Marissa Ribisi, who is also a second-generation Scientologist. [And the twin sister of actor Giovanni Ribisi.]

Beck publicly acknowledged his affiliation with the Church of Scientology for the first time in an interview published in the New York Times Magazine on March 6, 2005. Further confirmation came in an interview with the Irish Sunday Tribune newspaper's i Magazine in June 2005, where he is quoted as saying, "Yeah, I'm a Scientologist. My father has been a Scientologist for about 35 years, so I grew up in and around it." When questioned, he was vague on Scientology's core beliefs.

Miscellanea

* Made a very brief voice-only appearance in 1998's The Rugrats Movie.

* Beck performed a guest voice in an episode of Matt Groening's animated show Futurama, playing himself. In keeping with Beck's sense of humor, there is much self-deprecation ("'Odelay' is a word! Just look it up in the Becktionary!"; "Like when I wrote Devils Haircut, I was feeling really... what's that song about?"). The Becktionary is subtitled "From Bzooty to Whiskeyclone", and a reference to a Rhyming Becktionary is also made.

* Has made cameo appearances in music videos for The White Stripes' "The Hardest Button to Button" and The Stone Roses' "Love Spreads".

* Contributed an infamous "phoned-in" rap to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion song "Flavor", and also appeared in the music video.

* Windows Media Player comes with a sample of Beck's song "Beautiful Way."

* Beck is featured as one of the artists performing in the North American Halloween Prevention, Inc. song, "Do They Know It's Halloween".

* Loser is #200 on Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of all Time" list.

foul play.