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- [ Middle Cuts ] [ By The Chief ]
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- AT THE MOVIES
- Sometimes...
- we just know what is going to happen, when watching a movie, you know?
- But what is really happening with movies these days? Especially american
- movies? I mean, take "Seven" for instance. The end was pretty damn
- obvious ten minutes into the movie. And what about "The Usual Suspects"?
- Come on! On the other hand, one would think that a James Bond movie would
- be similar to the other James Bond movies. That's really something everyone
- expects, so howcome they figured "We have to get those Van Damme scenes
- in there guys!"? Right. Give me a "Short Cuts", "Smoke", "Mighty Aphrodite",
- or "Pulp Fiction". Or a complete movie based on the intro-scenes from
- "Seven", thank you.
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- ON THE ROAD
- When you're in a hurry...
- everything just goes to hell. Am I right or am I right? Like when I was
- going home for the christmas holidays last year. The day before I would
- take my car and drive down to the boat that would take me to the island
- my parents live at, the skies were clear, the sun shined and the birds
- made my ears scream in pain. You know what I mean. By the time I woke
- up the morning after, a blizzard had changed all that. The blizzard, still
- in progress at the time, really made it pretty hard for me to get to the
- boat in time for its departure, but I dug out the car from the massive
- amount of snow, and drove off. Now, the roads were slippery, full of
- walls of snow here and there, and the traffic was moving way way way
- slow, which ment that I had to pass several cars, trucks and tractors
- in order to make it to the boat. When there's a meter of snow on the road,
- this is not an easy task. And when grandparents, people with regular tires
- (at this time of year) and Mrs. Jones are on the road, it's even worse.
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- Anyway, staying on the road, managing to pass most of the cars on the way,
- I was about 2 miles from the harbour with ten minutes left. I really thought
- I would make it! Then I got stuch in a traffic jam. Of course. Everything
- moved in slowmotion. Compared to the speed the traffic on the way had,
- _this_ was really a nightmare. And when I was five minutes late, I saw
- that the first car really had a clear road, but was driving in 5 mph,
- probably because they were not used to this kind of road condition. WHY
- THEY LEFT THEIR COMFORTABLE HOME, I do not know.
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- Luckily enough, the boat was still in the harbour when I got there, so I
- went into the ticket office building to get my ticket. Yeah, you know what's
- coming don't you? The guy in front of me in the line was an "original" from
- the island. Drunk too. Or at least on something. He didn't have his ID with
- him (he probably did, but in that condition, one is not able to find
- _anything_), so the girl behind the screen couldn't really validate his
- already bought ticket. He could have stolen it. Who knows? The guy was
- going on the _next_ boat that would leave in twelve hours, and I was going
- (I hoped I was at least) on _this_ boat, that should have left fifteen
- minutes ago. They argued and argued and argued. And then they argued some
- more. By the time the girl gave up and handed him his ticket, I was thinking
- about how fun it would be to spend christmas on a wooden bench in a cold
- ticket office in the harbour.
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- The girl just smiled when I asked for a ticket to the next boat because
- I figured that I had missed _my_ boat, thirty minutes late as it were.
- "No, your boat has been delayed two hours due to the blizzard, so there's
- no problem at all", she said. COULD SOMEONE HAVE TOLD ME THIS A BIT
- EARLIER PERHAPS? MAYBE A SIGN SOMEWHERE? I guess not.
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- IN YOUR DAMN LIFE
- When you're in a hurry...
- and you've got ten mailing lists to handle, WWW pages that needs to be
- updated every day, a part-time job, you've got to study for your exams,
- and you have a girlfriend and friends, time is not something you value
- less than gold. Especially when there's about eighty e-mails in the mailbox
- every day, of which half needs a reply pretty fast. Especially when it's
- also time to edit/fix/correct/compile the latest uXu release and send it
- out on various mailing lists / FTP sites and bulletin board systems.
- Especially when it's also the very same day you're going on a small
- "vacation" from Sweden to the US.
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- I hear someone saying "Plan your life bud!". Yeah, I know. But it's pretty
- hard to do that, when everything is always half-ready. And everything is
- always only "probable". I guess that's why I take care of my e-mail and
- the WWW updates regularly, which are the only things that isn't just
- "probable".
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- That's why I have friends who are willing to help me out. At least with
- the uXu release. Thanks guys!
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- You know, I just have to tell you this. I'm driving down to Gothenburg
- in a couple of minutes to catch a plane to the US. An hour ago, the
- weather was excellent. Perfect for a 300 kilometer drive. No problem
- getting there in time. You know what? It's snowing outside now. Thank
- you lord of the weathers. Thank you for NOTHING.
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- ON THE INTERNET
- When you get those letters...
- from people with WWW pages, who wants you to give them money, and they
- will include a link from their pages to your pages, it just makes me sick.
- Why would I pay someone for adding a link to my pages on their pages? Why
- would I pay someone, in order to make him able to give away "free" CDs,
- because "I believe everyone should have the opportunity to have music that
- they like."?
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- It makes me so sick, that I have a standard reply that I send to these
- "people". Here's an edited version of it, that I sent to the guy with
- the "free" music, with his "independent" WWW pages:
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- I'm sorry but I hope that your message is meant as a joke. If not,
- I must tell you that we are very much opposed to the idea of
- commercializing the Internet, and "give away music for free" doesn't
- sound right when you're looking for sponsors to give you money to
- give away this "free" music.
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- We run our pages completely without sponsors, and we still give away
- free CDs, t-shirts and whatnot, and every penny comes from our own
- pockets. That's one of the meanings behind the word "independent" by
- the way.
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- It's pretty sickening to see people trying to make money out of the
- Internet.
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- Thank you,
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- I think everyone should have something like this ready for them, if
- we want the Internet to be free for everyone.
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- AT THE END
- When it comes to...
- end this file somehow, I just want to say HURRAY HURRAY HURRAY.
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- uXu #313 Underground eXperts United 1996 uXu #313
- Call UNDERWORLD_1994.COM -> +1-514-683-1894
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