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Three pairs of gubernatorial contestants in the Paradise Island of Bali will compete in the direct gubernatorial election on Wednesday (July 9, 2008) for the period of 2008-2013.
Indonesia which in January addressed an invitation to people around the world by proclaiming 2008 as "Visit-Indonesia Year" still has to work hard to achieve its target of attracting seven million foreign tourists this year.
Looking a bit nervous and very tired, Muryana, a 45-year-old woman wearing an inexpensive dull dress, was moving back and forth in front of the administrative office of the Vincentius Putera Orphanage. Her 10-year-old son, Puja, was sitting on a bench nearby.
The Indonesian government has embarked into a better coordinated patrols of its territorial waters for foreign poachers by intensifying patrol operations, but in reality illegal fishing in this world largest archipelagic country is still rampant.
I’m not scared – I’ll come right out and say it.
Rick Springfield is one of power pop’s unsung heroes and should be held up right next to your Eric Carmens, Matthew Sweets and Alex Chiltons.
While he’s primarily known for his impressive string of hits in the ‘80s, Springfield actually got started in the early ‘70s, scoring his first Top 40 hit, “Speak to the Sky”, in 1972. Some lean years and a gig as an animated Saturday morning cartoon character on “Mission Magic” followed, until Rick scored a gig on ABC’s “General Hospital” as Dr. Noah Drake. This just happened to coincide with the release of his “Working Class Dog” album, a record that front to back is packed with power pop classics, like “Jesse’s Girl”, “I’ve Done Everything For You” (written by Sammy Hagar), and my favorite, “Love Is Alright Tonight”.
“Love Is Alright Tonight” has some seriously evil lyrics, especially coming from a heavily promoted "teen idol":
Don’t worry daddy, I’ll have her home at a respectable hour
Go to sleep daddy, you won’t think about tonight
With the night comes a feeling of incredible power
Gonna love her daddy, she’ll be feeling it tonight...
Oh, Rick. You scamp.
There’s no “guilty” modifier to be added to the pleasure in these songs – they’re three to three and a half minutes of well-composed, tightly played power pop. Springfield’s fluffy teen idol image overshadowed the work at the time, but listen to these songs now and they hold up. Timeless. You can put on “Love Is Alright Tonight” and crank it, whether it’s 1981 or 2005. In fact, I often do.
Now, if Rick made any mistakes in his career, it was jumping on the movie gravy train and getting a bit overexposed via his starring vehicle, “Hard to Hold.” And musically, he started to veer away from the four-piece guitar-based ensemble and experiment with synths. A LOT of synths. Songs like “Human Touch”, “Celebrate Youth” and “Rock of Life” are oozing with dated swooshes, bleeps and bloops. But even in this keyboard-heavy later period, Rick could pull out a stunning, deceptively simple song like “State of the Heart”.
Rick is still recording today, and even had a sizeable Adult Contemporary hit last year called “Beautiful You”. But track for track, you won’t find anything as powerful as the one-two punch of the “Working Class Dog” and “Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet” albums. These two need some serious remastering and reissuing.
And power pop history needs to recognize Rick.
Buy Rick Springfield CDs here.
”Love Is Alright Tonight” peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1982.
“State of the Heart” peaked at #22 on the Hot 100 chart in 1985.
Rick Springfield is one of power pop’s unsung heroes and should be held up right next to your Eric Carmens, Matthew Sweets and Alex Chiltons.
While he’s primarily known for his impressive string of hits in the ‘80s, Springfield actually got started in the early ‘70s, scoring his first Top 40 hit, “Speak to the Sky”, in 1972. Some lean years and a gig as an animated Saturday morning cartoon character on “Mission Magic” followed, until Rick scored a gig on ABC’s “General Hospital” as Dr. Noah Drake. This just happened to coincide with the release of his “Working Class Dog” album, a record that front to back is packed with power pop classics, like “Jesse’s Girl”, “I’ve Done Everything For You” (written by Sammy Hagar), and my favorite, “Love Is Alright Tonight”.
“Love Is Alright Tonight” has some seriously evil lyrics, especially coming from a heavily promoted "teen idol":
Don’t worry daddy, I’ll have her home at a respectable hour
Go to sleep daddy, you won’t think about tonight
With the night comes a feeling of incredible power
Gonna love her daddy, she’ll be feeling it tonight...
Oh, Rick. You scamp.
There’s no “guilty” modifier to be added to the pleasure in these songs – they’re three to three and a half minutes of well-composed, tightly played power pop. Springfield’s fluffy teen idol image overshadowed the work at the time, but listen to these songs now and they hold up. Timeless. You can put on “Love Is Alright Tonight” and crank it, whether it’s 1981 or 2005. In fact, I often do.
Now, if Rick made any mistakes in his career, it was jumping on the movie gravy train and getting a bit overexposed via his starring vehicle, “Hard to Hold.” And musically, he started to veer away from the four-piece guitar-based ensemble and experiment with synths. A LOT of synths. Songs like “Human Touch”, “Celebrate Youth” and “Rock of Life” are oozing with dated swooshes, bleeps and bloops. But even in this keyboard-heavy later period, Rick could pull out a stunning, deceptively simple song like “State of the Heart”.
Rick is still recording today, and even had a sizeable Adult Contemporary hit last year called “Beautiful You”. But track for track, you won’t find anything as powerful as the one-two punch of the “Working Class Dog” and “Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yet” albums. These two need some serious remastering and reissuing.
And power pop history needs to recognize Rick.
Buy Rick Springfield CDs here.
”Love Is Alright Tonight” peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1982.
“State of the Heart” peaked at #22 on the Hot 100 chart in 1985.
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At a plenary meeting on June 24, 2008 the House of Representatives (DPR) officially approved the creation of Southwes Maluku (MBD) district through a split from Southwest Maluku (MTB) district.
Bank Indonesia (the central bank/BI) decided last Thursday to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 8.75 percent in a widely-expected move to curb the accelerating inflation in Southeast Asia`s biggest economy.
Without an announcement on increase of the price of gas in 12 kg cylinders on the markets, many housewives in many regions of Indonesia became worried whether they could continue using gas for their daily activity and to run their home industry in the future.
After taking two Nigerians to a firing squad for drug offenses last week, the Indonesian prosecutors are now planning to execute five more death row convicts this month.
@wtongen Because "Z" is lots more common than "Y" in German. They're reversed on German keyboards.
Pub Quiz at Brit's.
Pooh-poohing Viewzi: http://www.viewzi.com/ All flash, no substance. Party like it's 1999, dudes.
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I’m not going to ramble on and on about the genius that is DEVO. Let’s assume my readers are hip and musically sophisticated enough to know all the background – bred in Akron, Ohio, conceptualized the concept of de-evolution (“we must repeat”), groundbreaking videos and albums, blah, blah. Let’s concentrate on Devo’s downward slope period.
After releasing what I feel is their second best LP, “Oh No, It’s Devo”, to a largely indifferent reception, Devo had reached the end of their initial contract with Warner Brothers Records. Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh were uncertain about Devo’s future, so there was a lull period between 1982 and 1985 that saw only one new Devo release.
The theme for the horrific Dan Aykroyd vehicle “Dr. Detroit”.
Let’s not dwell on the bad things – the “Theme From Dr. Detroit” was a great little middle-period Devo single, with a characteristic motivational lyric and hyper beat. It was also Devo’s first chart hit in some time, bringing the band enough exposure to get them another one-album deal with Warner Brothers – unfortunately, that resulted in 1985’s “Shout”…but hey, we’re staying positive here!
Let’s give some half-hearted praise to the WB for leasing out all the Devo albums to Collector’s Choice, who has reissued them all this year. I say “half-hearted” cuz they’re pretty skimpy on bonuses, unlike the vastly superior Infinite Zero reissues from the early ‘90s. Would it have killed them to simply pick those up and put ‘em back out? Feh.
Major praise goes to Target Video, who just released “Devo Live 1980”, a full-length Devo live show from, um, 1980, complete with all the filmed segments the band would show between costume changes.
Help support this site by purchasing The Devo Catalog via this link. Thanks!
One thing you won’t find on any of those CDs is the original single version of the “Theme From Dr. Detroit”. Rhino did put an extended version on the “Pioneers Who Got Scalped” anthology, but six minutes of this tune is about three far too many. So here, direct from my little Backstreet Records 45, is the single mix. Enjoy.
”Theme From Dr. Detroit” peaked at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Oh yeah, “Dr. Detroit” the movie makes is now on DVD as well, but I ain’t linking to it!
After releasing what I feel is their second best LP, “Oh No, It’s Devo”, to a largely indifferent reception, Devo had reached the end of their initial contract with Warner Brothers Records. Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh were uncertain about Devo’s future, so there was a lull period between 1982 and 1985 that saw only one new Devo release.
The theme for the horrific Dan Aykroyd vehicle “Dr. Detroit”.
Let’s not dwell on the bad things – the “Theme From Dr. Detroit” was a great little middle-period Devo single, with a characteristic motivational lyric and hyper beat. It was also Devo’s first chart hit in some time, bringing the band enough exposure to get them another one-album deal with Warner Brothers – unfortunately, that resulted in 1985’s “Shout”…but hey, we’re staying positive here!
Let’s give some half-hearted praise to the WB for leasing out all the Devo albums to Collector’s Choice, who has reissued them all this year. I say “half-hearted” cuz they’re pretty skimpy on bonuses, unlike the vastly superior Infinite Zero reissues from the early ‘90s. Would it have killed them to simply pick those up and put ‘em back out? Feh.
Major praise goes to Target Video, who just released “Devo Live 1980”, a full-length Devo live show from, um, 1980, complete with all the filmed segments the band would show between costume changes.
Help support this site by purchasing The Devo Catalog
via this link. Thanks!One thing you won’t find on any of those CDs is the original single version of the “Theme From Dr. Detroit”. Rhino did put an extended version on the “Pioneers Who Got Scalped” anthology, but six minutes of this tune is about three far too many. So here, direct from my little Backstreet Records 45, is the single mix. Enjoy.
”Theme From Dr. Detroit” peaked at #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Oh yeah, “Dr. Detroit” the movie makes is now on DVD as well, but I ain’t linking to it!
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Tomorrow will be a historic day for Indonesia and Japan as the two countries sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) which will go into effect on July 1, 2008.
Amidst strong calls from the House of Representatives for an early decision on the fate of the US Naval Medical Research Unit 2 (Namru-2), a minister preferred the termination of the Namru-2 contract with Indonesia.
Spending an evening at Nama Beach on the outlying island of Kisar in Southwest Maluku is an unforgettable experience for new visitors.
Loose dogs in the neighborhood. Appear to be happy, well-fed, but won't come to tag-reading distance. Hope they get home okay.
A div in a div in a div in a div in a div in a div in a div in a div in a div in a div. Gee, at least it's not a table-based layout.
After the chaos gripping Indonesia in the last few weeks in which moslems were rejecting misleading teachings as propagated by Mirza Gulam Ahmad with his Ahmadiyah sects as well as another sect with Musadek claiming himself as prophet, another self-proclaimed prophet also emerged in Bandar Lampung, capital of Lampung province.
ASP.NET gridviews--forget 'em. So much easier to roll your own than deal with the constraints of prefabbed automation.
Indonesia is still optimistic that its export performance will remain encouraging in 2008 although the on-going economic crisis is slowing down global economic growth.
The government of Indonesia has been urged to immediately issue a decision on the status of the US Naval Medical Research Unit 2 (Namru-2) in this world`s largest archipelagic country.
Indonesia is one of the countries where the number of HIV cases is growing fast while the figure for Asia is actually declining.
Like many a budding homo, I was quite the little fashion plate in high school. Yes, that's me with the grey pleather pants, white nylon vest, white leather skinny tie and man perm.
I won the Senior Class Superlative for "Biggest Individualist", which we all know was code for "Biggest Punk Faggot Who Hates Dressing Like Everyone Else". I also won "Biggest Gossip", but that's not germane to this discussion. I held the record for most different hairstyles in our senior yearbook - 11. Yes, 11. Short, long, dyed black, permed, dyed blonde, long in back, long in front, short in back while long in front, etc. Gee, and I'm bald now. Who knew. DAMN YOU, LADY CLAIROL MIDNIGHT BLACK!
My musical tastes followed fashionable trends - I've talked about my love of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and their t-shirts before, but I also was quite fond of the opening act at the second Frankie concert I attended - Belouis Some.
Born Neville Keighley, Belouis (pronounced "Blew-wee" - really) first appeared on MTV and your more cutting edge radio stations with the best Ric Ocasek/Iggy Pop club rip in years called "Imagination." "Imagination" was funky, dark and had one of the best opening lines in pop history: "She lit a cigarette, both hands behind her back". You could only go down from there. "Imagination" played peek-a-boo with the lower rungs of the Hot 100, then sank.
CAREFUL - this is the NSFW version!
Then someone in marketing hit upon a grand idea - marry Belouis with Swatch Watches, the trendy, cheap ass plastic watches which were all the rage in 1985 (YES, I HAD 20. Whatever!). Suddenly, commercials featuring Belouis Some and moronic dancers modeling Swatches were all over MTV, bopping along to the follow-up single, "Some People". The commercials mimicked the video for the single, and vice versa, creating MTV/marking synergy. "Some People" rose a little higher than its predecessor, but still not high enough.
Belouis put on a great live show, though. I still remember it being quite good, almost eclipsing Frankie.
Another album followed in 1987, with "Let It Be With You" garnering some club play, but not much else. No Belouis activity followed until 1991, when the final Some CD was released, a techno-y mess. Find it now, I dare you.
And while you're at it, find all my old Swatches. I wanna put 'em on eBay.
"Imagination" peaked at #88 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985.
"Some People" peaked at #67 the same year.
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Xubuntu distro for old PC: boots from CD just fine, now Xubuntu says it won't recognize the CD drive. You're freaking kidding me.
The high inflation rate which this year is estimated to range between 11.5 percent and 12.5 percent may slow down bank credit provision and affect national economic activities, particularly in the real sector.
After two suspects are put behind bars for the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, the Indonesian National Police Headquarters is now detaining former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Maj Gen (ret) Muchdi Purwopranjono for alleged involvement in the murder case.
The controversial presence of the US Naval Medical Research Unit 2?s (Namru2) in Indonesia which is now under negotiations between Indonesia and the United States is awaiting a recommendation of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR).
The Indonesian Attorney General`s Office (AGO) is questioning several of its top officers for alleged links with a bribery case after a record of bugged conversations was released in last week`s corruption criminal court session.
Skipping MIMA tonight. Tons of chores, plus, it's on the other side of the broken bridge.