Paris Hilton's debut pop effort has been sabotaged in the UK by a guerrilla graffiti artist.
Banksy, who has become notorious for his painted pranks, smuggled 500 doctored copies of the hotel heiress' first album into music stores around Britain.
The CDs see Hilton's sugary pop overwritten by Banksy's own beats, while the album artwork has been altered so that Hilton's face is replaced by her dog and the track listing reads as a series of inane questions, including, "Why am I famous?"
On the album cover Banksy's digital wizardry has repositioned Hilton's dress to expose her breasts.
The street artist's musical composition features Hilton's catch phrase "That's hot!" dubbed over 40 minutes of a basic rhythm track.
Credits on the CD point the finger at Banksy and a collaborator called Mr. DM -- thought to be Danger Mouse, one half of Gnarls Barkley.
The credit reads, "I want to thank Dr. Dre for introducing me to the amazing talented couple Banksy and Mister DM, had so much fun working and writing with you both."
The CDs, meanwhile, are attracting big bids on eBay.
. . expect your every need to be met. expect the answer to every problem. expect abundance on every level. expect to grow spiritually. these are the everyday miracles that belong to you.... remember you are a child of the universe. perfectly formed and connected to the Divine. . .
by Jelaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks in his book *Essential Rumi* http://tinyurl.com/nl8g9
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
it's day's like this, that i'm annoyed as hell that i have to watch the news for 8 hours at work. as much as i enjoy the fact that Cheney went postal on someone, i'm tied of hearing about it. CNN Int'l, i luv ya, but good god, stop talking about it.
as much as i'm in love with the sun, and feeling elated that it's been 70 degrees these past days, it's a little eerie, considering it's th middle of February.
so my day starts at bout 6:15ish this morning...to a woman screaming bloody murder right in front of the house, obviously running away, because her screams trailed off into the distance pretty quickly. (way to start the day).
then about an hour later i'm making a quick breakfast in our kitchen (there are huge windows on one side that look over our backyard and garden. all the sudden i hear someone on the patio, right behind the backdoor. my cat freaks out. i turn around and see the guy on the patio in the window reflection. at this point i'm freaked. i looked out the windows and i didn't see anyone. and i wasn't about to walk outside and look. he must have saw me and ran.
later as i'm walking down the hall, out the front door....is see the door that connects to the garage is wide open. luckily, we have a bunch of stuff in front of the door that blocks it. i called my landlord upstairs and someone had broken in and tried to get into our apartment. not only that, he heard the screams too, and checked outside. there was a purse next door on the front steps.
fucking freaky. i love my apartment, but this neighborhood blows sometimes.
I've already writen my senators and I'm calling them today, what will you be doing? If you care, if having the right to choose what you do with your body, DO SOMETHING!!!
Sonar references deleted from whale report Investigator was studying stranding on North Carolina coast
By Marc Kaufman
Updated: 12:55 a.m. ET Jan. 20, 2006
Documents released under a court order show that a government investigator studying the stranding of 37 whales on the North Carolina coast last year changed her draft report to eliminate all references to the possibility that naval sonar may have played a role in driving the whales ashore.
The issue of sonar's effects on whales is a sensitive topic for the U.S. Navy. It has clashed with environmentalists in several court suits seeking to limit use of the technology because of its possible effects on marine mammals and other sea creatures.
The January 2005 stranding occurred shortly after naval maneuvers in the area -- which is off North Carolina and in the region where the Pentagon wants to build a controversial underwater sonar training range.
In her initial April 2005 preliminary report on the deaths, Teri Rowles, coordinator of the National Marine Fisheries Service's stranding response program, described injuries to seven of the whales that "may be indicative" of damage related to the loud blasts of sound from active sonar.
She also noted that one of the injuries -- air bubbles in the liver of a pilot whale -- had been reported in mass strandings in the Bahamas and Canary Islands associated with sonar activity.
That report was made public this week after a federal judge in New York ordered its release to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental group, which had sued the agency over its refusal to release information on the whales' stranding on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
But before it was released by NRDC, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an updated report -- by Rowles and others -- that did not mention sonar. In a cover letter to that report, NOAA officials said the initial draft that mentioned sonar "contains early information that was later found to be inaccurate." ( read the rest here… )
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