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Wow I'm an infidel? Kewl.

No wonder bindra's throwin all these parties...he's gonna need the loot to pay his legal bills for the rest of his life.

There r pix of me? Wow I know katie had 1 taken of me, her, royce, but beyond that.... Uh oh. LOL I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Is that Icey as in DJ ICEY?

Benson & Moonlighting. Aww ya!

I shouldn'tve opened this whole can of worms in the 1st place back when the poll came out. Anyway, Cara I'm sorry if this touched a nerve, it wasn't intended to.

Lemme say this one last time. "The sexiest" whatever title is for publicity purposes only. I don't wanna brag, but I'm probably the biggest feminist in the scene here in NY, anyone who knows my views on gender knows that. I say that very seriously b/c I think just about everyone misunderstood that on said thread a couple months ago. I look at the title as a tool to promote a musical talent, that's all. Kelly, 10Sui and others have obviously used it (consciously or not) to promote themselves as musicians, not sex symbols, and I in no way have ever attempted to make that an issue of sexuality. If u wanna say a guy or girl is hot, I don't personally care, and if you'll notice from my reviews of DJs (male and female) I NEVER EVER talk about anything but the person's deck skills live or in a recorded work for the very reason that I think any comment on the person's physicality in any way can be not just sexist but a continuation of all that is, has been, and continues to be wrong with patriarchal institutions in all facets of society for centuries. That's why I'm a feminist and why I don't even use words like "bitch" or "slut" ever. This post probably sounds extremely defensive, maybe it is. But the point is the title is just something a guy or woman can use if s/he chooses to do so to forward his or her career. It's a label, for me devoid of anything more than hype. My use of it never has been and never will be intended to be taken literally in any way. Thanks for reading and understanding.

Come on Dan, don't knock her. I can respect u not goin 2 c her, but a headliner's a headliner and the title's just for publicity purposes anyway. That's the only reason I started a thread that turned into a war on the subject on kelly's behalf on nubreax back when the poll came out anyway. Granted tcr 50 was dull, but it was just a sampler. 10Sui's spun with the best breaks DJs in the world on a regular basis and I wouldn't knock her DJ skills @ all. As for the sexiness factor, I'm sure she holds her own along with Kelly and Reid just fine.

Journalism...that is a good angle. And don't worry people, I won't pull a lee coombs on this one, I really am a bona fide martin fan. Btw, he'll also be @ the gorgeous lounge & sushi bar, Bar Below, in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn. 209 Smith st take F or G to Bergen on friday for a *2hr set with Residents: Sneak-E Pete, Scottie B, Tommy Moye For more info check BluntedCircutz.com & @ Orchard Bar SUN 4/14 Krafty Kuts w/ Sneak-E-Pete, Orion, Henry J, Miss Bliss & Phil Aupperle $3, 21+ O ya and on a separate note, the Sexiest person in breakbeat, the tcr/botchit giant 10Sui'll be @ Static @ openair along with Sara Walker and the rest of the mighty static residents next wed 4/17. This is also 21+ and free.

Wow thanx 4 the review. Well doen Joey. I think the job of reviewer is in good hands between u and jay p when I can't make it out.

I never said arafat was blameless or that he's mr democracy. But u all wouldn't have a nuanced enuff perpsective to get that I guess. But u can't compare a war criminal to a head of government who lacks so many of the levers of power and who has been called a war criminal by his own government. U really can't and have it hold any grain of truth. As to the whole spin bs malone is accusing me of, dude every word out of your mouth is spin. The fact that I view alot of what u say as either distortionist or wrong doesn't make my views spin, and the fact that I see Sharon for what he is isn't spin either. Justify to me the massacre of 20,000 civilians and I will accept that he shouldn't be in jail for the rest of his life.

Freq Nasty/Craze warmup. Tryin 2 get laker tix b4hand but I'll b there after the game.

The only one acting like hitler right now is sitting in the israeli pm's office right now. Beating and arresting the head of the palestinian red crescent is acceptable practice? His organization is calling this the worst conditions they're seen in 30 years. Israel is acting barbarically. This isn't the action of a democracy...it's the action of an apartheidistic ethnic state. Not only do they not give a damn for international law, they don't understand the concept of human decency. Obviously the UN needs to send in a peacemaking force, peacekeeping won't get the job done!

Any comments Chris? Btw, the only people I hate on r tribal, malone, and dusted. And that's within a very specific contest. Haha.

The part of this on brooklyn, probably represents alot of what's goin on my neighborhood, that's 4 sure. Though I dunno if it'd be balanced if I went 15 blox from here to borough park. www.nytimes.com March 31, 2002 THE REACTION In New York, Arabs and Jews Share Many Concerns By SUSAN SAULNY For as long as he can remember, Cole Hays, a 22-year-old television producer who attends services at Temple Emanu-El on New York's Upper East Side, has kept abreast of news from the Middle East with much attention and concern. But now, he says, he has decided to tune out the daily developments because he is sickened and fatigued by the constant replay of suicide bombings and machine-gun fire, peace plans born and broken. "I've gotten to be numb to it because it never ends," he said. But if Mr. Hays's feelings have been deadened, the violence, failing truce hopes and the storming of Yasir Arafat's compound on Friday has left many others interviewed around New York — Arabs and Jews alike — incensed. Some expressed helplessness or a lack of hope. Some were angry with the United States government, while others said they perceived the country more than ever as a worthy exemplar of religious and ethnic tolerance. But almost all agreed that the prospects for peace were grim, even as almost all said they desperately wanted it. "Sometimes I wish everybody could be neutral, you see, the way everybody gets along here in the city," said Amy Botello, 24, as she was leaving evening services Friday at Temple Emanu-El. "It hurts so much to read about what's going on in the Middle East, it's frustrating. People are blowing things up, and they have got to stop doing that." As the conflict intensified, it cast a pall on Passover and made prayers for peace seem all the more urgent. In Brooklyn, where Arabs and Jews live side by side, residents expressed a common frustration about American foreign policy. Arabs and Jews said the United States was not doing enough to stop the violence. "In the aftermath of the attack on the towers, the United States acted decisively to stop aggression abroad," said Juha Salman, a Palestinian vendor whose family fled Ramallah, in the West Bank, when he was an infant 30 years ago. "Why in this case don't they act? Why don't they come in, slap them in the face, and make them sit down?" Mr. Salman also said he thought Congress was beholden to the "powerful Israeli lobby," a complaint that was voiced again and again by Arab-Americans, and that the United States government was content to maintain the status quo. "There's only one power in the world that can create peace," Mr. Salman said. "It's America. If they wanted to stop the violence, they could stop it tomorrow." Some Jews expressed similar views about American determination to end the violence. They said the United States was hypocritical in moving to wipe out terrorism when it hit home but calling for restraint when it happened in Israel. "Can you imagine what would happen if a bomber walked into a school in New York and blew himself up, killing the teacher and kids?" asked Farhad Yeroshalmi, 28, an Iranian Jew who lives in Crown Heights. "It would be condemned and military action would be taken immediately." Henoch Junik, a 16-year-old member of the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights, said: "Bush needs to look at his own words. He's asking Israel to sit down for peace. And at the same time, he's asking everyone to join the fight against terrorism." When asked what he thought about the Arab states' recent peace proposal, Mr. Yeroshalmi responded with a story. When he was a child during Iran's war with Iraq, he said, he had a neighbor who was ostracized by the community because her son returned from the battlefront three times. "The mother told her son: `You are embarrassing us. You are bringing us shame because you are not dead. I want you to be a martyr.' These are the kind of people we are dealing with," he said. "I don't think peace is possible." Abdul Bargouth, a 43-year-old Palestinian, said he came to the United States from his home just outside Ramallah in the West Bank in 1991 to seek better opportunities for his family. He said he was sick of the death of children, both Israeli and Palestinian. Mr. Bargouth, like Mr. Salman, is a member of The Dialogue Project, a group of Jews and Arabs who meet in Bayridge and Park Slope, Brooklyn, to discuss political and religious differences. Both men said they were frustrated that the headway the two groups achieved in their neighborhoods here seemed out of reach back home. Some of the Palestinians interviewed in Brooklyn on Friday and Saturday blamed poverty for the violence in the Middle East. Mohmed Shareef, 40, an immigrant from Yemen, said, "When you're poor, you don't care about tomorrow." Mr. Bargouth said that what was happening in his homeland might now as well be old news repeated every day. "Tomorrow will be the same thing," he said. "Tomorrow will always be worse than today."

Well buffy left and angel stinx this year, so ya it does.

I was gonna...I think I partied too hard this week. Haha.

from thursday's financial times. This is what many call state terrorism.: Curbs leave Palestinian economy 'near collapse' By Alan Beattie in Washington Published: March 27 2002 18:59 | Last Updated: March 27 2002 23:16 Restrictions on the movement of goods and people in Israel and the occupied territories in response to the 18-month old intifada have brought the Palestinian economy close to collapse, according to a new report by the World Bank. The report, produced for donors who are keeping the West Bank and Gaza economies afloat with nearly a billion dollars a year, said that the continued closure of border points would cause irreparable damage. "If closures persist or intensify, the economy will eventually unravel," said Nigel Roberts, World Bank director for the West Bank and Gaza. "Public services will break down, helplessness, deprivation and hatred will increase, and this unique chance for reconciliation will pass." The study detailed how internal closures and checkpoints within the West Bank and Gaza, and border restrictions on entering Israel, Egypt and Jordan had led to a tripling of journey times and a reduction of up to four-fifths in the number of Palestinian workers able to cross into Israel. "Even on days of partial closure, these checkpoints have created a life of roundabout routes, interminable delays and frequent harassment," it said. Research conducted by the World Bank suggested that the average journey time and cost of travel to access public services for West Bank residents had doubled as a result of the closures, with many well-publicised cases of sick and elderly Palestinians dying because of delays in reaching hospital. "Any significant recovery of the Palestinian economy requires that the system of internal checkpoints be dismantled and border restrictions eased," the report said. The economic damage from these closures far outweighed the direct effect of armed confrontation, it said. The bank said unemployment had tripled to nearly 30 per cent of the Palestine labour force, with almost half of the population living below the $2-a-day poverty line. Despite relatively good financial management by the Palestinian Authority, the report said it was "effectively bankrupt", with tax revenues one-fifth of previous levels, partly because of Israel's suspension of the revenue previously collected on the authority's behalf. Donor funding rose sharply last year, to more than $900m, compared with $482m before the intifada broke out, particularly from the Arab League and the European Union. The report said households had now largely exhausted their savings, while the Palestinian Authority had built up $430m in budget arrears, and estimated that gross domestic product in the West Bank and Gaza fell by 12 per cent last year.

It gets personal for u. Haha and it doesn't for people on the other side? Maybe that wasn't yer implication, but nonetheless those of us disagreeing with u take it plenty personally. What's my point? Sharon's the problem. That's my point. Arafat's not the terrorist...sharon is. I'm sorry yer family may be suffering tribal, but it's more due to sharon's occupation (that of yer family's country) than it is to the palestinians. Sorry but that's how I and most of the world sees it. If americans don't, I never really cared anyway since most of our foreign policy has been so screwed up in the region 4 so long. And frankly, living in the city that got attacked, I do take this personally as well b/c I'm tired of freaks like bin laden having sharon as an excuse to attack our cities...till this issue is solved equitably (a word not in likud's foreign policy vocabulary), bin laden and those like him, still have that excuse. Whether u like to admit or not, the 2 r intrinsically linked. No palestinian state in the territories, no end to global terrorism. I wish things were different, but they're not. That's why sharon has to go. And fortunately his days are numbered till his government collapses. It's only a matter of time.

Man I knew this'd wank that I had 2 miss it. Cara or whoever, if yer out there and have officical word (or something close to it) on their next gig, let us know. And joey (both of u) and whoever else, please write as many reviews (with trainspots please ) as possible. Hyper was tight, although not as good as when he spun fluid back in Jan. He told me himself 1 of the decks fecked up his mix, something he said happens alot. Que sera. The set started excellently, sort've lagged a tad in the middle 1/3 or so, and then ended on a really blinding note the final half dozen traxx or so. I'll post a real review either later today (time permitting) or sunday. O ya 1 other note, Sara really stole the show. Just an incredible mix... she only spun 4 45 mins and she left everyone itching 4 @ least 45 more. Mike, Jrock, and the lil I heard of Royce were phat as as always as well. But come on deb, jayp, et al ...bring on the warriors reviews. It already sounds like it was blinding. Peace.

Yep. U gonna b there Chris? It should b good. And as to the thread, I can't help it Sharon is Bin Laden's excuse and look what he's doing? It's just infuriating to me. This issue more than any other is the motivation that freaks who attack our cities use as the justification for their actions. And until there's an equitable political settlement, that will continue to be the case. And btw, Arafat's not a terrorist. He may be a quasi autocrat but alot of people doing making these attax aren't under his control. That's the problem. The thing Sharon doesn't get is destroying the palestinian gov't won't change that. But sharon is too thickheaded to understand that.

I'm ruthless I know. But I'll promote as much 4 the pseudo thing tonite as I can.

Joey, read this and it'll explain: http://www.naughtybooth.com/board/showthread.php?postid=153412#post153412 Or better yet, go to www.nubreaks.com and read the stantons vs hyper thread on their party board. That'll explain. Have fun tonite. I guess I'll c em whenever their next in town, hopefully July or August.

O ya about what I posted yesterday about the residency. Oops... got some new info. This was posted this morning on naughtybooth by pennstar: They do not have a residency. I dunno what to say, but if that's true, given the whole thing with their record deal. I guess it may be the answer we were lookin for.