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Mallow Out By Matthew David Grange Tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. The concept of tradition, as the notion of holding on to a previous time, is also found in political and philosophical discourse.
More than one hundred metric tons of over ripe tomatoes are hurled in the streets, in a battle that rages for a solid hour. Tomatina has made the town millions of euros in tourism and has inspired many art-
The tradition at stake here is the annual Ocean Beach Marshmallow Fight held during the fire work display on our Independence Day, a day which represents the pinnacle of a free society. Nagging nay sayers wish to rip this tradition from our warm hands. Ocean Beach is not Del Mar or La Jolla, it
is an unique beach town which I have never seen the like of in all my extensive travels . Ocean Beach has an unprecedented number of diverse groups that live together in harmony under the banner of freedom and tolerance. While unique, we are not alone in this world.
Maybe we should abolish all world traditions! Let’s start with the Running of the Bulls in Pamploma, Spain. A seven-day festival in honor of Saint Fermin where fully Mature bulls are let loose in the streets to chase and sometimes maim the willing participants that flock there from all parts of the globe. Then we could move to eradicate the La Tomatina Festival in Buñol, a food fight held on the last Wednesday of August every year.
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ists, photographers and music videos. While we are at it we can pop over to India and stamp out all traces of the Holi Festival of Colors. Rich and poor, women and men regardless of status throw pigmented powders in the air, and at one another in an orgy of color to celebrate a bountiful harvest and pay tribute to Vishnu. Holi is now celebrated all around the world. Powders are sold on Ebay and Etsy, and a real sense of global culture is enjoyed by all. After which we can take a flight to Rio De
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madonna By Trevor, Ocean Beach 1984
I’d heard the new queen of pop was in town, I’m obviously referring to Madonna. I’d gotten the scoop that she had checked into the Ocean Beach Hotel under the name Louise Veronica, which of course is part of her real name, not too bright there Madonna! Amazingly enough I found her room number and got through. Layed on the British accent and boom, I was in for an interview. I grabbed by recorder and headed down to the hotel.
“I have sunglasses on right now because my eyes are killing me,” apologizes Madonna. “I haven’t slept in three days and a friend of mine is in jail right now and I just found out last night… ugh, forget it, it’s a long story, but never a dull moment in my life.” She’s just wrapped up a day’s worth of meetings between her manager and Nile Rogers, who’s producing her new LP “Like A Virgin.” The album, which will feature tracks called “Dress You Up,” “Material Girl” and “Angel,” will be released as soon as her debut album gives it some room on the charts. Mr. R, she admits, “is a very passionate man. He lives life to the hilt. When you deal with people who are that way you get good stuff and bad stuff, but it was really great working with him.” But right now Madonna- nattily turned out in a black leather jacket with silver graffiti, “kind of bluish” lipstick and the usual rubber jewelry and crucifixes – is content to unwind over a grapefruit and Campari, chewing on the questions as eagerly as she attacks her two sticks of Trident sugarless bubblegum. Trevor: Where did you learn to dance? Madonna: I really leaned on my own. I watched television a lot and I used to try to copy Shirley Temple when I was a little girl. I used to turn on the record player and dance in the basement by myself and give dance lessons to my girlfriends in my five year old manner. As I got older I started giving lessons to boys, too, and I remember the first guy I gave lessons to the song was “Honky Tonk Woman” by the Stones. It was really sexy, right, like stomping and grinding. When I was about 12 I decided I should try to get pro about this and started going to the schools where they teach jazz, tap, baton twirling and gymnastics. It was just a place to send hyperactive girls, basically. Trevor: Do you worry about your weight? Madonna: Sure, that’s why I swim 100 laps every day to keep in shape. It’s good to have a supple body, you can move around easily and it’s a lot more visually appealing. You feel better too when you’re at a normal weight. Trevor: What one thing would you change about yourself if you could? Madonna: I always wanted to be taller. I
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feel like a shrimp, but that’s the way it goes. I’m 5’4” – that’s actually average. Everything about me is average, everything’s normal, in the books. It’s the things inside that makes me not average. I’d also change my indecisiveness. Yes, no, yes, no YES! In my business career I feel I make good decisions but in my personal life I’m constantly creating havoc by changing mind every five seconds. Trevor: Who would you like to go out with: Rick Springfield, Simon le Bon, Lionel Richie or Trevor Lee Roth? Madonna: Ugh. UGH. Yeeeuch! C’mon. I wouldn’t go out with any of them if you want to know the truth. If I had to choose, I’d go out with Trevor Lee Roth, but I wouldn’t dress up for him. Trevor: Is there any item of clothing you have that you wouldn’t dare to wear in public? Madonna: Well, underpants. I wouldn’t wear just sexy underpants in public. I have to feel really comfortable and that my clothes look good, but not that I obviously tried to make them look good. My favorite clothes are my Vivienne Westwood skirt with Keith Haring designs, this ripped-up black net shirt and a denim jacket with my graffiti tag “Boy Toy written on the back. I used to go out with graffiti writers and I got into the habit of carrying markers around, but I really lost the zest for writing my name everywhere. Now I have suitors that do it for me. Trevor: What’s your most treasured possession?
Madonna: A picture of my mother when she was young and she was riding on a horse and smiling and laughing. She didn’t give it to me. My mother died when I was real young and when I moved to New York I stole it from my father. Trevor: What did you like best about Britain? Madonna: They have lots of good clothes shops. I always have a good time shopping there because fashion is so important to English people. I didn’t have time to find any good restaurants, but I like the way the cars are on the other side. Trevor: What is your wildest ambition? Madonna: Well, I’d love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual comic-tragic way. I’d like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people. Trevor: How do you see yourself in 30 years’ time? Madonna: Hopefully I’ll be incredibly mellow and wise with age. Not mellow, but very wise and still just as mischievous and childlike and wondering as I am now. Trevor: Do you go to church? Madonna: No. I never go to church anymore except to steal crucifixes. That’s a joke. But I get a lot of letters from religious freaks because of my name. Trevor: How does it feel to have a name like Madonna? Madonna: It feels like I have to live up to it. I didn’t get made fun of because I went
to Catholic schools and I never remember feeling tormented for my name. Trevor: What’s your favorite kind of ice cream? Madonna: I don’t like ice cream, but if I made a sundae it would have vanilla, chocolate chip and coffee ice cream with hot fudge topping and whipped cream and nuts. But none of those cherries on top. Those cherries are gross. Trevor: What happened between you and Simon le Bon and a certain birthday cake backstage at Madison Square Garden? Madonna: Huh? Was there a birthday cake? There was a lot of food and champagne. I fought over a piece of cake with Simon? That’s an interesting rumor. I never did anything of the sort. I actually got very ill and had to leave right when they were doing their first encore. Champagne on an empty stomach. I went to see them because Nile was going to do an encore, otherwise I didn’t think I would have found myself there. Trevor: What would you do if you could be invisible for a day? Madonna: I’d go to my record company and listen to all the people saying what they’re really going to do with my next record. Trevor: What do you think about Ronald Regan? Madonna: I don’t think about him very much but I think he’s a pretty good actor. I think he’s a puppet for all the people in cabinet, I think everybody else makes the decisions and he’s the guy that gets up there and hopefully doesn’t get shot at. Nancy? Give me a break. Trevor: Have you ever cried yourself to sleep? Madonna: Oh, so many nights. What’s the point, there’s so many, they’re horrible. You just cry yourself to sleep or you don’t go to sleep at all, that’s me anyways. I have insomnia terribly when I’m upset or excited by something that’s going to happen the next day. Trevor: Is New York City scary? Madonna: No, not at all, I find other places outside of New York scary where people are really backwards and they look like they want to shoot you for looking so different. Like the south, where there are some really ignorant people. Trevor: What’s your favorite place to go dancing? Madonna: There are not any great night clubs as far as I’m concerned in New York City, and I used to always think the best clubs were in New York. The last good time I had in a club was at the Paradise Garage in New York or the Rhythm Lounge in Los Angeles. Trevor: Who does your laundry? Madonna: Me. I take it to this Laundromat down the street and they do it for me.
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Celebrity Sightings in OB this Month I saw rocker Jon Bon Jovi chatting with Cyndee Love at her OB Attitude booth at Farmers Market last Wednesday. The look on Cyndee’s face was priceless!
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Robert Smith, frontman with the new Brit band – The Cure was caught in bed at the Ocean Villa Inn reading his favorite comic, The Beano. The Cure were in town for a gig at Mother’s Saloon. Simon Le Bon, frontman with the new Brit band, Duran Duran dropped by The Chameleon Hair Lounge. Struck up a conversation with a Chameleon regular that said he was a real gentleman.
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fter rocking out to a Smokey Hoof show at Winstons, my friend Joe Felix ‘on Bass’ and I were chatting as his band was packing up. We were on a pretty good role and looking for some fun, he was saying something about an after party at the ‘Gow House’. Never having heard about the ‘Gow House’, let alone The Brothers Gow, I said “Heck Yeah I’m down”. We walked the several blocks to the the fabled Gow House, and once there we were welcomed by the Brothers who were totally chill and down to earth. They were saying how they came from Arizona and were stoked to now be calling O.B their home. I was dunsky, so Joe and I left. A week or two later Joe called me and sad the Gow were playing at Mother’s Saloon. By the time I got there the place was packed, not only with familler faces, but also a mass of new young ones.I was thinking damn, the gows got somethin going on. It was only a mater of time before I was front stage getting down with the beautiful crowd. I could not describe their sound or style or how these guys shred so hard. I was blown away ‘world class jam band’ I thought. Things got fuzzy and next day I woke up thinking “those guys cant be that good? I must have been high” Fortunately I was wrong, and after seeing them again at Winston’s with The Acorn Project, I realized that there is fire still burning in the hearts of men. Now that I work with the Chronicle, I just had to interview these talented guys. It took me a while to set it up even though they live only a block and a half from my house. I managed to get the whole crew cozied up on the couch in their living room, the tape was rolling, they answered all my questions and more. Matt: When did you first move to ob? Carson: About a year ago, august 1st. Ethan: We passed over a year and we didn’t even know about it. We didn’t celebrate! Carson: Lets have a make up show Matt: Where did you move from?
Carson: We started the band in flagstaff AZ when we were going to college. We actually moved from the bay area, we lived there for a year. it wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t where we needed to be. Matt: How do you like it here in OB? LOVE IT Alex: We came here on tour to play gallaghers and before we even played the show we rolled down the windows and just said, “lets move here” Matt: Someone said you guys played one show and got the best response. Ethan: We just played that one show at Gallagher’s. When we drove into town we were like, “lets move here”. We were uncomfortable where we were (San Fran bay area) it wasn’t working out well for us and we knew that we needed a change. It was just kind of a joke at first. The show went extremely well and one month to the day of that show we were living in OB. Kyle: During set break was when we fully decided we were moving! Matt: What do you guys hope to achieve in the next year? Carson: We have a new album in the works already and we definitely have a big tour in Oc-
tober. Its very solid, were hitting up nine states. Ethan: were really stoked to be playing in Seattle at Nectar lounge. It was a really good show for us last tour, we played with two great bands, Groovesession and Earphunk. We’re also hitting Montana and Idaho and some places we haven’t been in a couple years. We actually headlined a festival in Wyoming called “whatfest”. People really want to see us get back out there again. Matt: how long have you been a band? Ethan: September will be six years. Nathan: It’s a team sport. Matt: You have such a diverse sound that seems hard to define. Can you guys explain it? Kyle: It’s just as hard for us! We get the question so much “what type of music do you play?” Ethan: You could ask any one of us right now in a different room and you would get six different answers. Kyle: You can also feel out the person, “well what type of music do you like?” Chances are we play that in our set. Matt: Some people are saying that you must have sold your soul to the devil to be so talented. What do you have to say to that? Carson laughs hysterically.
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By Trevor, Ocean Beach 1984 The buzz is out about the new Mac personal computer and Steve Jobs was in town hanging out Computer Guy Services on Santa Monica showing off his new product. I popped down and managed to get an interview. Jobs spoke candidly about the birth of Silicon Valley, the IBM-ization of America—and what defines a ‘nerd.’ No individual has become more a symbol of this land of opportunity than Steven Paul Jobs. In January, however, with the introduction of Macintosh, Apple began an aggressive counterattack, heralded by its “1984” TV commercial that portrayed a woman hurling a hammer through a screen image modeled after Orwell’s Big Brother. Jobs claims Apple will sell a half-billion dollars worth—250,000—of Macs this year, a number considerably less than demand, which has exceeded even Apple’s original hopes. .
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You grew up in an odd place here, surrounded by all this technology. Yes. The guy next door to my parents’ place was doing some of the foundation research on solar cells. Actually, I had a pretty normal childhood. It’s nice growing up here. I mean the air was very clean; it was a little like being out in the country.
Is the computer business as ruthless as it appears to be?
As a kid, were you already conscious of some sort of social structure forming, that there were people who were in the silicon business and there were people who weren’t?
No, not at this point. To me, the situation is like a river. When the river is moving swiftly there isn’t a lot of moss and algae in it, but when it slows down and becomes stagnant, a lot of stuff grows in the river and it gets very murky. I view the cutthroat political nature of things very much like that. And right now our business is moving very swiftly. The water’s pretty clear and there’s not a lot of ruthlessness. There’s a lot of room for innovation.
Hmmm, no. See, there wasn’t such a thing as the silicon business back in the early ‘60s when I was between the ages of 5 and 10. There was electronics. Silicon, as a distinct item from the whole of electronics, didn’t really occur until the ‘70s.
How did it affect the culture here?
Well, Silicon Valley has evolved into the heart of the electronics industry—which is the second largest industry in the world and will soon pass agriculture and become the largest. So Silicon Valley is destined to become a technological metropolis and there are pluses and minuses to that. It’s very sad in a way because this valley was probably the closest thing to the Garden of Eden at one point in time. No more.
Do you consider yourself the new astronaut, the new American hero?
No, no, no. I’m just a guy who probably should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I sort of got sidetracked here. The space guys, the astronauts, were techies to start with. John Glenn didn’t read Rimbaud, you know; but you talk to some of the people in the computer business now and they’re very well grounded in the philosophical traditions of the last 100 years and the sociological traditions of the ‘60s. There’s something going on here, there’s something that is changing the world and this is the epicenter. It’s probably closest to Washington during the Kennedy era or something like that. Now I start sounding like Gary Hart.
Why?
Because now there are too many square miles of concrete and asphalt.
Does that have something to do with the ruthlessness of the business? No.
You don’t like him?
Then was it because a lot of people realized they could make a fast buck here?
Hart? I don’t dislike him. I met him about a year ago and my impression was that there was not a great deal of substance there.
First of all, things happen in increments, right? They don’t happen all at once. But people didn’t start these companies just to make a buck. I mean they started businesses with very romantic notions. It wasn’t just money. Nobody would say to himself, “Jesus, I think next Monday my friend and I are going to start a company so we can make lots of money.”
So who do you want to see…
I’ve never voted for a presidential candidate. I’ve never voted in my whole life. Do you think it’s unfair that people out here in Silicon Valley are generally labeled nerds? Of course. I think it’s an antiquated notion. There were people in the ‘60s who were like that and even in the early ‘70s, but now they’re not that way. Now they’re the people who would have been poets had they lived in the ‘60s. And they’re looking at computers as their medium of expression rather than language, rather than being a mathematician and using mathematics, rather than, you know, writing social theories.
What do people do for fun out here? I’ve noticed that an awful lot of those who work for you either play music or are extremely interested in it.
Oh yes. And most of them are also left-handed, whatever that means. Almost all of the really great technical people in computers that I’ve known are left-handed. Isn’t that odd?
Are you left-handed? I’m ambidextrous.
But why music?
When you want to understand something that’s never been understood before, what you have to do is construct conceptual scaffolding. And if you’re trying to design a computer you will literally immerse yourself in the thousands of details
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and maybe you’d like it to help you with this routine. So about the third time it asks you: “Well, would you like me to do this for you every Friday?” You say, “Yes,” and before long it becomes an incredibly powerful helper. It goes with you everywhere you go. It knows most of the raw information in your life that you’d like to keep, but then starts to make connections between things, and one day when you’re 18 and you’ve just split up with your girlfriend it says: “You know, Steve, the same thing has happened three times in a row.”
Steve Jobs and his new Mac necessary; all of a sudden, as the scaffolding gets set up high enough, it will all become clearer and clearer and that’s when the breakthrough starts. It is a rhythmic experience, or it is an experience where everything’s related to everything else and it’s all intertwined. And it’s such a fragile, delicate experience that it’s very much like music. But you could never describe it to anyone.
In 1977 you said that computers were answers in search of questions. Has that changed?
Well, the types of computers we have today are tools. They’re responders: you ask a computer to do something and it will do it. The next stage is going to be computers as “agents.” In other words, it will be as if there’s a little person inside that box who starts to anticipate what you want. Rather than help you, it will start to guide you through large amounts of information. It will almost be like you have a little friend inside that box. I think the computer as an agent will start to mature in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s.
No, but you think you’d be the same person today if your aggregate wealth consisted of one Volkswagen van? Obviously not. But that’s sort of a meaningless question.
You once talked about wanting to have a computer that could sit in a child’s playroom and be the child’s playmate.
Forget about the child—I’d like one myself! I’ve always thought it would be really wonderful to have a little box, a sort of slate that you could carry along with you. You’d get one of these things maybe when you were 10 years old, and somehow you’d turn it on and it would say, you know, “Where am I?” And you’d somehow tell it you were in California and it would say, “Oh, who are you?” “My name’s Steven.” “Really? How old are you?” “I’m 10.” “What are we doing here?” “Well, we’re in recess and we have to go back to class.” “What’s class?” You’d start to teach it about yourself. And it would just keep storing all this information about you and maybe it would recognize that every Friday afternoon you like to do something special,
No, what I’m suggesting is that some people started companies because they were fascinated by the technology and a lot of other people started companies because they thought they could make a buck. Not the really great ones.
Then what, if not money, defines the social pecking order out there?
A combination of having pioneered something significant, and having built a thriving organization. The right company, that’s very important. In other words, even though some people have come out with neat products, if their company is perceived as a sweatshop or a revolving door, it’s not considered much of a success. Remember, the role models were Hewlett and Packard. Their main achievement was that they built a company. Nobody remembers their first frequency-counter, their first audio oscillator, their first this or that.
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The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four reveals how his bleak vision of 1984 compares to the real thing The Lazy Hummingbird, Ocean Beach 1984 In the late 1940s, George Orwell (whose real name is Eric Blair) wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, the most chilling modern account of how things might end up if we fail to preserve our freedom. But Orwell himself is not pessimistic at all. Orwell reveals the motives that led him to write Nineteen Eighty-Four, and how his views have changed over the last three decades. I caught up with George Orwell on his visit to Ocean Beach. We decided to meet at The Lazy Hummingbird for a quite chat. Watson: Did you regard Nineteen EightyFour as a “prophetic” novel? Do you think it’s turned out that way? Orwell: That question came up when the book was first published, and I’ll give you the same answer I gave then: the society I depict in Nineteen Eighty-Four will not necessarily come about. But allowing for the fact that the book is a satire, meaning that it’s an exaggeration to make a point, something quite like [the society it depicts] could come about. I set the story in Britain to show that English-speaking countries are not above happenings of this kind: that totalitarianism, if not fought against, can triumph anywhere. It’s a warning, not a prophecy. As for how my “prophecies” have turned out, I suppose that’s something on which we all keep our own scorecards. Since 1950, when I stopped writing, the spread of totalitarianism over the globe has accelerated. Totalitarianism is the basic pattern of society in many countries, yet our part of the world has not so far succumbed. The fact that the year 1984 is producing this interest in my book is an encouraging sign. Another entry in the positive column is the alarm so many people feel when technological development threatens to increase the power of the government over the individual. Whenever we see a government of laws assert itself over a government of men, we have positive grounds to hope that the society in Nineteen Eighty-Four is not coming. In the book, of course, there are no laws but many crimes. On the whole, I think the world of 1984 is a little closer to the situation in the book than it was in 1950, but much less so than it could have been. However, the potential
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George Orwell for a totalitarian world is large enough that people are worried about it. Watson: In the book, you presented the great powers of the world as de facto co-conspirators in a plot to “busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.” Perpetual war not only distracted
the people from troubles at home, but provided an excuse for oppression and constant spying on the citizens. Do you see this happening today between the United States and the Soviet Union? Orwell: There isn’t yet a conspiracy, but as far as the people of the world are con-
cerned, there might as well be one. We all contribute to support an enormous military establishment: and at present, there’s no alternative. As imperfect as things might be in the West, they’re still vastly superior to those in the East. However, our defense institutions have to be constantly watched to make sure they don’t crush the freedoms they are supposed to protect. Your own President Eisenhower never did better than when he warned of the dangers in the growth of the military-industrial complex. The using of the world’s resources for armaments is a great totalitarian technique for the subjugation of the people. Watson: But if both the U.S. and Soviet Union have enough nuclear missiles to destroy each other a hundred times over, why do they both keep pressing for more, more, and still more missiles? If it isn’t just a game, why do we have to keep building more and more weapons? Orwell: Well, the potential is for it to turn into a game, where the nations exist to support the military rather than the other way around. That’s certainly a scary possibility. I suppose they worry that the other side might develop a new technology through which all their weapons would suddenly be neutralized. And then, with the aid of a couple of hand grenades, the other side would conquer the world. It’s rather like what happened in the city of Florence during the Middle Ages. The warring factions started building towers, and everybody had to have one. Then, everybody had to have one taller than anyone else’s. At a certain point, it becomes ridiculous. Watson: It just seems that there’s always a “threat.” Currently, it’s the Soviet Union that’s going to come in and take us over, so our government has to have more power to crack down on dissenters and “subversives,” on freedom of the press, and everyone has to take a lie detector test. Orwell: Well, this is the great paradox, of course. What you don’t want is to be taken over by a totalitarian power. The great danger is that in protecting yourself against a takeover, you might become totalitarian yourself — at which point, as at the end of Animal Farm, the pigs become indistinguishable from the human beings. I think that Animal Farm was very good in showing the role of paranoia in establishing and maintaining power. But it’s also true that even paranoiacs can have enemies. Watson: In the 1930s, we had an economic depression. Since then, however, we’ve had nothing more serious than “recessions” and
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“downturns.” The last war we were in was World War II: since then, we’ve engaged in innocuous-sounding “police actions” and “rescue missions.” Do you think that our language is being destroyed by a gradual infiltration of Newspeak? Orwell: I’m rather embarrassed by this question on language. I now think that the model I gave of Newspeak and thought control could not really work. I would have said at the time, of course, that what I had written was a satire, an exaggeration. But it’s certainly not true, as I suggested in Nineteen Eighty-Four, that you can control the way people think by controlling the way they speak. So I think that Newspeak is a fine demonstration of what you might call “the totalitarian will,” the desire to reshape society by tackling its most basic institution, language. As a model of how thought could be controlled, however, I think it was off the mark. Watson: For all practical purposes, computers had just been invented when you were writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. Do you think that the development of computer technology has had a positive or a negative impact on the prospects for freedom? Orwell: Computer technology is just that: technology. It’s just as morally neutral as any other technology, such as the ability to make fire, or the ability to print books. But because the computer specifically outpaces and outperforms human beings, it seems very scary. And because certain of its capabilities, such as collating information and searching files, have police applications, we can appreciate how useful the computer would be in limiting our freedom. In the hands of a tyranny, computer technology will be used for tyrannical purposes.
But where the will is to expand freedom, there is no reason why the computer should not help. The diffusion and availability of computer technology in the United States seems to me to be working that way. There are abuses, like the antics of the “hackers,” but computers in many hands is a happy development. Totalitarian systems want, above all, to restrict access to information. No individual in the Soviet Union can own a duplicating machine or an Apple computer. There’s a sort of cheerful anarchy in the United States computer picture. Totalitarian governments are, above all, orderly, at least in intention, and disorganization has a lot to do with freedom. Watson: Do you really think that’s a significant factor in the totalitarian outlook — almost a sort of neatness fetish? Orwell: Yes, absolutely. What reason does O’Brien, an agent of the thought police in Nineteen Eighty-Four, have for re-shaping Winston Smith? The powers that be could simply kill him. But the totalitarian mind cannot stand the untidiness of having someone think differently, so it goes to the full length of producing in Winston Smith a genuine love of Big Brother. And that’s what the government wants. They can then afford to bump him off, because he is no longer disorderly and untidy. One finds this neatness obsession a little bit in the military mind. There is an American verb, peculiar to the military, “to police” — meaning, to make the whole place look terribly neat. And the fact that “police” and neatness come together in the language is very revealing. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, nothing works except the police.
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And they sell so many products now that no one person really symbolizes the company. But what does symbolize Hewlett-Packard is a revolutionary attitude toward people, a belief that people should be treated fairly, that the differentiation between labor and management should go away. And they built a company and they lived that philosophy for 35 or 40 years and that’s why they’re heroes. Hewlett and Packard started what became the Valley.
What skill do you think you have that allowed you to succeed?
Well, you know, there were probably a lot of guys out there sitting in garages who thought, “Hmmm, let’s make a computer.” Why did we succeed? I think we were very good at what we did and we surrounded ourselves by very fine people. See, one of the things you have to remember is that we started off with a very idealistic perspective—that doing something with the highest quality, doing it right the first time, would really be cheaper than having to go back and do it again. Ideas like that.
Can you be more specific?
No, because that’s as specific as you get. Just general feelings about things, without any experience to back them up.
They’re not based on, say, “Gee, look what happened to Hewlett-Packard”?
No, no, no. We just sort of had these feelings. We started to run the company our way and it turned out things we were doing worked. We never lost sight of how our idealism could translate into tangible results that were also acceptable in a more traditional sense.
You seem to have postured Apple’s image as the last crusade against the IBM-ization of the world.
You know, that’s not quite right. If you froze technology today, it would be like freezing the automobile in 1915: you wouldn’t have automatic transmissions, you wouldn’t have electric starters. You don’t want to see IBM freeze the standards. But the flip side of that is that this industry has matured more rapidly than any other industry in the history of business and there are suddenly things that billion-dollar class companies can do that $100 million or $10 million class companies can’t do. For example, Apple will spend the better part of $100 million this year on research and development, and will spend the better part of $100 million on advertising. Now, IBM will spend that on personal computers alone. And if IBM and Apple invest that money wisely, it will be very difficult for the $10 million or even the $100 million class companies to keep up.
Is there any company besides Apple and IBM that could keep up?
AT&T obviously could choose to invest $200 million. General Electric could obviously choose to invest $200 million. The question is will they? Will they take the risk? Do they see promise? Do they have the passion to innovate?
Don’t you ever wake up in the morning and say to yourself, “There’s no reason for me to work another day for the rest of my life. I’ve made enough money so that I can just have a good time, do anything I want…” Well yeah, I suppose some people say that. But the question ignores all the reasons why people
do things here. The money is literally a 25 percent factor, at most. The journey is the reward. It’s not just the accomplishment of something incredible. It’s the actual doing of something incredible, day in and day out, getting the chance to participate in something really incredible. I mean that’s the feeling we’ve had. I think everyone on the Mac team would have paid to come to work every day.
ing this or making that. We’ve put our energy into making Macintosh over the last two years, which we thought would make a difference to a group of people that we wouldn’t ever really know, but we’ll walk into classrooms and see 50 Macintoshes and we’ll feel good.
How quickly did you become a millionaire?
Oh sure. Well, not as much as they are now. Apple was the first company that gave stock options to almost everybody, every engineer, every middle-level marketing guy and so on.
When I was 23, I had a net worth of over a million dollars. At 24, it was over $10 million, and at 25, it was over $100 million.
How did that affect the quality of your dates?
My dates? Nothing really changed, because I don’t think about it that much. The people who think about those things a lot I never meet.
Sometimes it’s got to be overwhelming to you that about 10 years ago you were at some festival on the Ganges river and now you’re running a billion-dollar corporation.
Yeah, well, OK. What do you want me to say? Give me the possible responses, I’ll pick one.
Well, I think there are an infinite number of responses. I’m simply suggesting that it somehow relates to Andy Hertzfeld never cooking a meal in his own kitchen.
I don’t know what it relates to. Andy and I are roughly the same age, right? There’s a whole set of things that neither of us has ever done before, you know: neither of us has ever been married before; neither of us has come home at 5 o’clock and hung out by the pool. I mean, there’s a whole set of things. And we’ve chosen, at least in part, to spend a large number of hours and a large amount of our energy in a different way, making a computer. Now other people make things too. Other people put their energy into having a family, which I think is wonderful—I’d love to do it myself—or they put their energy into making a career or mak-
When Apple was starting up, were people always conscious of stock options?
It strikes me that very few people cash in their chips here.
Some do and some don’t. One of the trends I’ve seen is that once things seem a little stable, once the company has made it over some critical hurdles, some of the people will sell enough of their stock to buy a house or do something which may not mean that much to them, but will mean something, let’s say, to their spouse or to their family, which hasn’t seen enough of them for the last two years. They’ll want to do something to sort of say, “Hey, you know, what I’ve been working on really has been valuable, it really has been worth it and besides my loving it, it has produced something for the family or for both of us.”
A lot of analysts and venture capitalists I’ve talked to think you’re absolutely crazy to still have as much Apple stock as you have. Is it a matter of pride? Well, it’s a lot of things. Certainly, a year ago the stuff was worth, you know, more than twice as much as it’s worth now. Last year, it decreased by about $200 million. I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.
How does that make you feel? It’s very character building!
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this all stop? You used to be ‘allowed’ to drink alcohol responsibly on ‘Our’ beaches. You used to be ‘Allowed’ to smoke in public. Every year or so some concerned citizens try to have our fire pits shut down. Why stop there? Maybe we should limit Newport to one or maybe two government sanctioned bars? and we could once and for all get rid of the noise and pollution of the dreaded Sea World fire works display. Wait a minute, maybe we should all mallow out a little? I have a solution to our woes, I propose that several of the patriotic OBeachons and businesses that support O.B band together and create a modest fund for a Marshmallow recycling program that would begin directly after the celebration and would pay a fair price for Marshmallows to be collected in trash bags provided. Any one would be eligible to help, including homeless people
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and any one who cares about our beaches. The majority of peoples anger grows from the desecration of the war memorial which takes a beating each year. I understand their concern and share them. The good news, is that funding to move the memorial and place it on a wall in a newly designed park is already past the planning stage and is projected to break ground soon. I am sure that all of the great men and women that have fallen to preserve our republic would be proud that they did not die in vain, and that our freedom has been preserved .We shall remain the land of the free, as long as we remain the land of the brave. Check out all these fantastic events on youtube and let us know what you think send comments to ObChronicle@gmail. com and Stay Puffed
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What’s the Difference Between an Artist and a Criminal? By John Katchur art /ärt/ noun 1. the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Art affects us. We know this to be true. Recall, if you will, a time in your life when some work of art penetrated you to your depths, inspired you, motivated you to act, or changed you forever. I’ll wait. How is it possible that such a humble, little creation could do such a number on you? Simple. Art reflects essence. Essence is the foundation. Essence is the core. Essence is what is. It is truth – nothing more, nothing less. When one of these little artistic creation succeeds, it touches the essence within you, triggering the sudden experience of your own authenticity. And when one is under the influence of authenticity, there is no telling what one might do. So do not be surprised when you read of some foreign regime that has outlawed music. Don’t be shocked to hear of a place where reading a poem aloud is punishable by death. For it is a sad and simple fact of life that in this world, tyrannies exist. And you cannot blame the tyrant for his fear of the artist. It is a valid fear.
If you think these types of oppressions are of no concern to you, take stock. You may wake up to find that your very own American constitutional freedoms have been rendered void by a local city ordinance. There are, in fact, laws in place today that give the police the right to ticket or arrest you for playing guitar on a street corner, painting with chalk on the sidewalk, or speaking truths in public at too high a volume or without the proper permit. Will you sit complacently, watching as your freedoms erode like a frog in heating pot, too lethargic to bother to escape the impending boil? Perhaps you have the artist’s spirit. You might be saying something like, ‘Who cares what the law says, I’m going to express myself anyway!’ I tell you this, my friend; May you never lose the vitality of that conviction. Utilize your freedoms while they still exist, lest when they are gone, they will not be missed. Then you find yourself then in a society where you ask yourself the question: What is the difference between an artist and a criminal? – absolutely nothing. For more information on this subject, please visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ sdbuskers
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B-boying or Breaking, also called Breakdancing, is a style of street dance that originated among African-American and Puerto Rican youths in New York City during the early 1970s. The dance has now spread worldwide due to popularity in the media, especially in regions such as South Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan. While diverse in the amount of variation available in the dance, b-boying consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, downrock, power moves, and freezes. B-boying is typically danced to hiphop and especially breakbeats, although modern trends allow for much wider varieties of music along certain ranges of tempo and beat patterns. A practitioner of this dance is called a b-boy, b-girl, or breaker. Although the term “breakdance” is frequently used to refer to the dance, “b-boying” and “breaking” are the original terms. These terms are preferred by the majority of the pioneers and most notable practitioners. Check out these recent flicks depicted b-boying including: Wild Style, Flashdance, Breakin’, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, Delivery Boys, Krush Groove, and Beat Street. If your local cinema isn’t showing them, insist they do.
The name “fanny pack” is derived from the fact that they were traditionally worn facing the rear above the buttocks, for which “fanny” is a slang term in the United States. Despite the name, many users do not wear fanny packs on their rear because they are easier to pickpocket and harder to access. In the Anglosphere outside of North America, other names are used since the word “fanny” means vulva, rather than buttocks, in those countries. Fanny packs reached the peak of their popularity in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 90s with the term entering common North American usage by early 1980. Many observers consider the fanny pack a sure mark of an out-of-place tourist, evoking the traditional tourist stereotypes known around the world, or regard them as an item worn by unfashionable or older people. Musician “Weird Al” Yankovic mocks the wearing of fanny packs in his song “White & Nerdy”.
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The Cure’s Robert Smith: “I’m starting to feel like living again.” With the album “The Top” The Cure has made a new start after a confusing period of inactivity. The outside has stayed the same but Robert has changed right enough. Simple and light pop-tunes? “Nothing against that!” says Smith. Forgot the newspaper After a strongly variated and powerful sold-out performance Robert Smith is a bit surprised about the enthusiastic reactions from the predominantly very young audience. Obviously, the Cure is on the right track again. The almost-classic ones, mainly from the albums “Three Imaginary Boys” and “Seventeen Seconds” are played strongly and also the new songs from “The Top” make a strong impression. Smith is also less arrogant than the used to be and he obviously enjoys the live-work. “The Caterpillar” and “Wailing Wall” are the highflyers. After the concert Smith steps into the dressing room with the big hair, untidy sticked lipstick and a long crucifix around his neck. He makes a friendly impression, in contrast to earlier meetings which were soporofic jobs for every interviewer. “Want another beer?” is the first thing he says. I already have a question for him: what he thinks about the bygone non-Cure period? Robert Smith: “Two years of searching and doubting. I was sick of the long tours and I found that the quality of my songs became worse. A rockgroup becomes like a cave quite easily. I hid myself from the outside world. I hadn’t read a single newspaper for about five years. I didn’t care about where or when wars were going on. I didn’t talk to anyone, didn’t even want to discuss. Forget it. But now I start to feel like living again.” Your lyrics are sometimes very personal, like “The Top”, the title-song of your new album. “Actually, I don’t find it easy to talk about that...” Just do it. “In the first sentence I sing the pathetic ‘I don’t care’, the slogan we all wrote on the walls a few years ago. But I immediately
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start to relativize that because I indeed don’t dare to suppose it’s like that. I’ve become less afraid of concerning about the world, meeting new people or loving someone, maybe.” So we talk to someone who has understood the message of Simple Minds and U2? “Don’t push The Cure in the group of U2, Simple Minds and Big Country, because I don’t want to be anything to do with that. I used to love Simple Minds but I think that not much has stayed of their honest and original means. And I think the arrogant Demagoguery of U2 is disgusting. The only group the Cure feels a bit related to is Echo and the Bunnymen. They’ve been going their own self-willed way, just like us. They don’t try to reach the top or score a hit-single. But I’m sure they’ll stay in the music scene for
a longer time than U2. Their musical things are more interesting.” From the well-known Cure line-up SmithGallup-Tolhurst only Smith and Tolhurst stayed in the band. Why did drummer (bassist) Simon Gallup had to leave? “Because he became useless. He considered me as the leader of the Cure, the man who made the big decisions, and delivered the material of the songs. A role which isn’t made for me. Besides, Simon became aggressive. He walked around like the aggressive hooligan. But of course, Lol stayed. We used to go to school together and he’s like the only real friend I want around all the time. We are the creative core of The Cure, the other boys work on temporary basis. Because I don’t want a group anymore. Call it a bunch of people. Who like each other.” You toured with The Banshees for a while
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It is always a pleasure to hear what lyricist/percussionist, Al Howard of The Heavy Guilt, The Midnight Pine, The Black Sands, and Rebecca Jade and the Cold Fact has to say. The other day The OB Chronicle tracked him down and didn’t have to beg for an interview. Al, what the hell man, only 6 nominations at the San Diego music awards this year? Yeah, a couple of the bands did really well this year. The nascent Midnight Pine is up for two and the Heavy Guilt is up for four. I’m proud of both groups. I feel like it’s deserved as well. They’re great bands to be a part of, great musicians to work with and I feel like we both released strong albums last year. Out of the four that The Heavy Guilt are up for, “Artist of the year, Best alternative album, best alternative band, best live band, and the two for the Midnight Pine, “best new artist, and best local recording which would mean the most to win? why? Best live band is the most important cat-
egory to me. It’s not easy by any means to make a great record, but it’s certainly easier to mask your flaws on one. Editing has always existed, but it is so much simpler than it was when they were making records in the 60s, great records I might add. Musicianship has suffered considerably cause the pressure is off to a large extent, the tape is infinite, the mistakes easily masked. The best bands however are able to pull off a great record and recreate it beneath the dim lights of the stage, against the backdrop of distractions, fueled by an audiences energy. I feel like every band I’ve ever been in has bled for the art, we work hard on stage, shed sweat and dynamic, this is important to me. What’s in the works with your 3rd band The Black Sands? I’d like to record a second Sands record in the not too distant future. They’re fun cats to sculpt with. Things have been insanely busy of late and I’m at fault in the lack of time department. I work 6 days a week at the Cow
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in OB, I’m trying to write a book, maintain 4 bands and a relationship. I’m learning how to juggle a lot of things I care about and like anything, I see myself getting better at it as time unfolds. I think we’ll get together and write some songs when Breaking Bad is over. What comes to your mind when I say percussion? The first word that comes to mind is bullshit. For two reasons. I get a lot of bullshit from the swap meet and yard sales and your garbage cans (and you thought it was raccoons this whole time) and I put together what I can. I’m also kind of a bullshit percussionist, I have no chops, but I play with passion. Which works, my aims aren’t flashiness, I’m trying to provide a texture and an atmosphere to coincide with the usually gritty lyrics. I add a grim grime and ugliness to the music when it’s needed. Talking local SD venues, which one would you say is your favorite to play in. Listen in? I like to play the Casbah. That’s the spot. I swear anytime I look up some band I’m digging, their photo on Wikipedia has got that stage as the backdrop. They book the best music in town (along with Soda Bar and Tin Can) and there’s just a lot of recent history sweated into that stage. And now that I know where the clean shitter is, I feel at home there. As far as listening, it depends on the kind of show, if it’s some pin drop shit, I want to go to Spreckels, if it’s a rock show, probably Belly Up.
Knowing how deep your musical closet is, “I mean you do work at the Cow”, I’m sure there’s more than a few names you could throw out that you feel influenced and shaped you into the musician you are today? For lyrics, I’d love to not say Bob Dylan and pretend that I’m an individual or some shit, but I’d be lying. But Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Elp, Aesop Rock, Nick Cave, Antipop Consortium, At the Drive In, Jason Molina. Just for listening sake, right now, Thee Oh Sees, Tame Impala, Emit Rhodes, Flying Burrito Brothers, Mark Lanegan, the Seeds, 13th Floor Elevators, Harry Nilsson, the Ink Spots, the Fleetwoods, early Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era), the Heartless Bastards, Serge Gainsbourg, Stanley Brothers, Run the Jewels, Mikal Cronin, Foxygen, Deerhunter, Jim James, Spiritualized, Radiohead, Sebadoh, Akron Family, the National, Tv On the Radio, that’s probably too many. Favorite songwriter of all time? Townes Van Zandt. When I first heard Our Mother the Mountain, I felt like it was something I would write. Not trying to claim I’m anywhere near that good, but just the way he puts words together, the nature imagery, the rhythm, I felt like it was something I could have come up with on at my absolute best. I really related to those songs and no one can fuck with Townes. Thanks so much Al Gratefully interviewed by Jeff Deck
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TV shows not to miss this month! Magnum P.I. Boy, do I love today’s 80’s TV. They have verything-action, women in bikinis, bad guys, cool cars, they have the lot. In my opinion, this series is Tom Selleck’s finest hour. Magnum P.I. lives in a mansion in Hawaii where he has to put up with Hig-
gins who is looking after the house for Mr. Masters. Both have respect for each other obviously but they are always getting on each other’s nerves and Magnum also has to put up with two dogs-Zeus and Apollo. Of course, like most of today’s heroes, Magnum has a cool car which he uses to parade around Hawaii solving all types of cases involving crooks, both small-time and big time. Magnum investigates the cases and then nearly always engages in a good old fight at the end.
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Master Kan: Quickly as you can, snatch the pebble from my hand. [Young Grasshopper tries to do so and fails] Master Kan: When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to eat at the OB Noodle House
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BACK TO THE FUTURE A RETRO HI FI IN A DARK & COZY MAN CAVE Listening to music properly has a lot to do with having the right environment. A place that’s all your own. I like the warm glow from the perfect level of indirect, low lighting. I want to be surrounded by my favorite things to look at. And I long for seating that you just melt into and disappear in. And another thing– I love my iPod as much as the next guy– but sometimes there are those moments when you need to break out the turntable and throw on some old records. The warm hiss and crackle of needle on vinyl is like hearing your mother’s voice in the womb. Which is what a man cave really is– a dark, personal, intimate womb. When we first moved to New Jersey, we bought a great old Dutch Colonial home previously owned by an Italian family– the guy’s name was Nick. The basement he built-out was the clincher. It was like a retro 60s gentleman’s club– red and black lacquer paneled walls, mirrors, a full bar with turntable, and even a pool table which they were good enough to leave behind. I’ll never forget the two framed portraits hanging side by side behind the bar– The Pope & Frank Sinatra. Welcome to Jersey– I loved it. I spent many an evening down there with lights down low, the sound of billiard balls slamming hard into a corner pocket, always perfect tunes in the background, and a cold one. Now I’m in a house with no man cave and going insane…
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OB Oktoberfest Fri, Oct 11th & 12th 4:00pm - 10:00pm
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap’s pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteeninch-high Stonehenge stage prop.
The Ocean Beach Oktoberfest – the uniquely Southern California salute to the celebration of German culture and fun – is back this year, for two days. The party will begin on Friday Oct. 11th and extend through Saturday night, Oct. 12th. Hours are 4:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, with free bike parking Saturday. Friday night’s schedule will feature the finals of Beer Garden Band Slam, a competition to crown the best cover or tribute band at the beach with $3,000 in cash prizes. Preliminary rounds of the competition will be held throughout the month of September at Winston’s Beach Club in Ocean Beach and 710 Beach Club in Pacific Beach. Their will also be a semi-final round of the Miss Oktoberfest contest Friday night. The preliminary rounds will be taking place at 710 Beach Club (Pacific Beach), The Local (Downtown) and True North (North Park). The festivities start on Saturday with the 2nd Annual Brat Trot Beach Run, a fundraiser with the OBCF to promote local youth sports. Registration is available online and there will be an all ages race starting earlier in the day, and then the traditional 5k with registration beginning at 9:30am. The Saturday schedule is packed tight with the bratwurst-eating, stein-holding and other traditional Oktoberfest contests. Once again, participants will vie for a $10,000 cash prize in the infamous, one-of-a-kind Sausage Toss competition. The Miss Oktoberfest finals will take place Saturday as well. In addition to the food and craft vendors and an all-ages stage on the grassy area at the foot of Newport Avenue, Saturday’s Oktoberfest will include performances by the traditional Ompah
band all day long, Lobster Bob and the Special Emcee Jose Sinatra in addition to many local musical acts. Admission to the beer garden is a $3 donation that goes to support the Ocean Beach community. The outdoor area is free. This year the event shuttle will run between 710 Beach Club (PB), The Local (Downtown) and True North (North Park) and deliver people to the festival all throughout the day Saturday - with the last shuttle leaving OB at 10pm. There will also be a shuttle on Friday from 4-10pm running just between 710 Beach Club (PB) and the festival. For additional details, visit www.OBOktoberfest. com.
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Sun, 10/27/2013 (All day) Dress up your dog(s) in the spookiest, funniest and stateliest costumes around and bring them down to Dusty Rhodes park from 10AM-4PM. (Dog registration- 11 AM to 1 PM, Parade 1:30 – 2:30 PM). Prizes handed out around 3PM for best costumes! Visit the Kiwanis of Ocean Beach online at www.oceanbeachkiwanis.org for more information. Wounded Warrior Fundraiser @ Cheswick’s Sat, 11/09/2013 - 12:00pm - 6:00pm OB Restaurant Walk (OB Town Council Event) Tue, 11/12/2013 - 5:00pm - 9:00pm OB Holiday Tree Auction – Dec 5th
9:30pm New Monsoon and The Homesick Hitchers $ 10.00 Thu 24th, October 6:00pm (6-9) Ocean Beach Comedy Competition $ 5.00
Halloween at Mother’s Saloon Friday November 1st Huge night featuring Brothers Gow A night not to be missed
Spoilers The Madonna interview is from Star Hits (December 1984) Steve Jobs was interviewed by Tom Zito for Access, a special issue of Newsweek. Under the headline ‘The Bang Behind the Bucks, The Life Behind the Style. “1984: An Interview with George Orwell” was published in the February/March 1984 issue of Business Software Review. Copyright 1984 by International Computer Programs, Inc.
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Repo Man (1984) Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice “repo man”. During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk. Starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez
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