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"It was a blast to work with them. They were very professional to me throughout the shoot. It was hard work, we showed up on time, had to shoot for a couple of days, have everything choreographed so that it would look good for the video."

Currently the band is in the process of devastating the European continent with a slew of festival appearances and sold-out solo dates. Meanwhile, back in America, the new single "Unbroken (Hotel Baby)" continues to receive massive support at active rock, mainstream rock and college stations.

Meanwhile Corina Taylor is in the process of negotiating through agents wanting to represent her in the adult industry and even in music industry. The young Arkansas native is planning to go back to the Howard Stern show later in August and then a one hour special on Body Shots and Money Shots (CyberStationUSA.com)

"I am going to get my name out to the rest of the world and I got a big surprise planned for the fans on the Howard Stern show. You better catch it."

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The movie will be shot in New Zealand with Jackson's team re-creating parts of 1930s New York. Black will be joined in the movie by Naomi Watts ("The Ring") and Andy Serkis, who will provide motion-capture work for the computer-generated Kong, a role similar to what he did for Jackson when he played Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings." Serkis will also play a smaller part in the movie, sans effects

The move accompanied the performance of a song that concludes with the lyrics: "I gotta have you naked by the end of this song."

Flooded with complaints, the Federal Communications Commission staff have proposed commissioners fine Viacom Inc.'s 20 CBS television stations $27,500 each for a total of $550,000, said a source familiar with the case.

The staff did not recommend fining the scores of other CBS affiliate stations that aired the show but are not owned by Viacom, the sources said. Spokesmen for CBS and the FCC declined to comment.

The recommendation is circulating among the five FCC commissioners, who could take weeks to reach a decision.

The Super Bowl garnered almost 90 million viewers, the most since 1998, and Viacom raked in an average of $2.3 million per 30-second commercial. The media conglomerate posted a $711 million profit in the first quarter.

The halftime show was produced by another arm of Viacom, its MTV music television network. Network and NFL officials were hauled before Congress to answer for the flash, which lasted about half a second.

Viacom apologized but said it did not know about the skit. It pledged to use a mechanism that causes a brief delay in the broadcast of live events.

Federal rules bar radio and television broadcasters from airing obscene material. They are also limited to broadcasting indecent content to late night hours when children are less likely to be listening.

The FCC has been cracking down on indecent acts, proposing maximum fines in many cases, and Congress is poised to raise fines to as much as $500,000 per violation.

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The device has already been on trial for a month in three of the region’s pubs and has proved so popular that the porn film company behind the venture is considering supplying the vending machines nationally.

Cheltenham’s Midland Hotel is one of the pubs involved in the trial - and it has proved so popular with regulars that manager Russell Coglan has decided to keep it.

The 25 year-old from Gloucester said: “People are often embarrassed about buying porn in shops. This machine sells soft porn from the comfort of a pub toilet so our customers feel less inhibited.

“There is nothing wrong with it because we are not a family pub - we only allow over-18s in. I think it is a good idea which will catch on.”

The two other pubs involved in the trial are in Gloucester.

The move to sell blue movies from pub toilets has sparked the wrath of morality campaigners who say the machine allows children to access porn more easily.

Miranda Suit, from watchdog Mediamarch, said: “This is extremely worrying. There is no way with the best will in the world that pubs will be able to stop under-18s from buying the DVDs.

“The fact that such films are getting to be in easy circulation is a problem.”

But Jasper Duncombe, managing director of Tongue in Cheek - the firm behind the vending machine, said: “There are many venues who want to try and see whether the machine is successful. They should have the freedom to do that.

Cheney Losing It?

Tells Senator To Go Fuck Himself
--The Washington Post

Washington D.C.- A brief argument between Vice President Cheney and a senior Democratic senator led Cheney to utter a big-time obscenity on the Senate floor this week.
On Tuesday, Cheney, serving in his role as president of the Senate, appeared in the chamber for a photo session. A chance meeting with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, became an argument about Cheney's ties to Halliburton Co., an international energy services corporation, and President Bush's judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice.

"Fuck yourself," said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.

Leahy's spokesman, David Carle, yesterday confirmed the brief but fierce exchange. "The vice president seemed to be taking personally the criticism that Senator Leahy and others have leveled against Halliburton's sole-source contracts in Iraq," Carle said.

As it happens, the exchange occurred on the same day the Senate passed legislation described as the "Defense of Decency Act" by 99 to 1.

Cheney's office did not deny that the phrase was uttered. His spokesman, Kevin S. Kellems, would say only that this language is not typical of the vice presidential vocabulary. "Reserving the right to revise and extend my remarks, that doesn't sound like language the vice president would use," Kellems said, "but there was a frank exchange of views."

Gleeful Democrats pointed out that the White House has not always been so forgiving of obscenity. In December, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry was quoted using the same word in describing Bush's Iraq policy as botched. The president's chief of staff reacted with indignation.

"That's beneath John Kerry," Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said. "I'm very disappointed that he would use that kind of language. I'm hoping that he's apologizing at least to himself, because that's not the John Kerry that I know."

This was not the first foray into French by Cheney and his boss. During the 2000 campaign, Bush pointed out a New York Times reporter to Cheney and said, without knowing the microphone was picking it up, "major-league [expletive]." Cheney's response -- "Big Time" -- has become his official presidential nickname.

Then there was that famous Talk magazine interview of Bush by Tucker Carlson in 1999, in which the future president repeatedly used the F-word.

Tuesday's exchange began when Leahy crossed the aisle at the photo session and joked to Cheney about being on the Republican side, according to Carle. Then Cheney, according to Carle, "lashed into" Leahy for remarks he made Monday criticizing Iraq contracts won without competitive bidding by Halliburton, Cheney's former employer.

Leahy, Carle said, retorted that Democrats "have not appreciated White House collusion in smears" that Democrats were anti-Catholic for blocking judicial nominees such as William H. Pryor Jr. Democrats demanded that Bush disavow the allegations by conservative groups, but the White House did not.

The Democratic National Committee has declared this to be "Halliburton Week" to portray administration ties to the controversial company. "Sounds like it's making somebody a little testy," Kerry spokesman Chad Clanton said.

Republicans did their best to defend the vice president. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), while pointing out that he was unaware of the incident, described Cheney as "very honest" and said: "I don't blame anyone for standing up for his integrity."

from adultfyi.com by William Saletan

Six years ago, Republicans demanded that Bill Clinton be investigated and impeached for having sex with an intern and covering it up. Now their nominee for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, Jack Ryan, is brushing off his then-wife's allegations that he repeatedly pressured her, despite her protestations, to have sex with him in front of other people. Instead of denouncing Ryan, many Republicans are defending him.
Here's what Ryan's ex-wife, Jeri, claimed in a divorce filing four years ago:

On three trips, one to New Orleans, one to New York, and one to Paris, Respondent [Jack Ryan] insisted that I go to sex clubs with him. They were long weekends, supposed "romantic" getaways. ... The clubs in New York and Paris were explicit sex clubs. Respondent had done research. Respondent took me to two clubs in New York during the day. One club I refused to go in. It had mattresses in cubicles. The other club he insisted I go to. ... It was a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling. Respondent wanted me to have sex with him there, with another couple watching. I refused.

Respondent asked me to perform a sexual activity upon him, and he specifically asked other people to watch. I was very upset. We left the club, and Respondent apologized, said that I was right and that he would never insist I go to a club again. He promised it was out of his system. Then during a trip to Paris, he took me to a sex club in Paris, without telling me where we were going. I told him I thought it was out of his system. I told him he had promised me we would never go. People were having sex everywhere. I cried, I was physically ill. Respondent became very upset with me, and said it was not a "turn on" for me to cry.

How did Jack Ryan respond to this testimony? Here's what he said in his own filing:

I should not have to respond to the ridiculous allegations Jeri Lynn makes in these two paragraphs. I was faithful and loyal to my wife throughout our marriage. I did arrange romantic getaways for us, but that did not include the type of activities she describes. We did go to one avant garde nightclub in Paris which was more than either one of us felt comfortable with. We left and vowed never to return. I feel very badly for Alex [Ryan's son] that his mother would mischaracterize our activities and try to libel me and our relationship in this manner. Jeri Lynn knows I have political aspirations, because I had them throughout our marriage. She attended many political functions with me and testified about them at her deposition. In addition, Jeri Lynn is a celebrity and it is extremely likely that the press will go to our public divorce file. Apparently, Jeri Lynn did not consider how Alex will feel about his parents or himself when he learns of this type of smut.

When a judge unsealed the testimony this week, Jack Ryan reached for every spin in the Clinton playbook—and then some.

1. I kept it secret to protect my family. At a press conference Monday, Jack Ryan said he had fought to keep the divorce records sealed in order to "keep information about [my] child … private." He ducked most questions, claiming, "It's not helpful to our son." According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Ryan mentioned that his son had "special needs." Ryan didn't mention the "political aspirations" he had raised in his 2000 filing when he complained about Jeri Ryan making their marital troubles public. And according to the Chicago Tribune, "in September 2000, Anne Kiley, an attorney for Jeri Ryan, said in a court filing that one of Jack Ryan's attorneys had told her a few months earlier that Jack Ryan wanted parts of the file blacked out, removed, or sealed because he was 'concerned [it] would negatively impact his political aspirations.' "

2. It wasn't illegal. In a radio interview, Ryan said, "I think my character has been proven by this. There's no breaking of any laws. There's no breaking of any marriage laws. There's no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere." CNN showed Ryan saying, "No one has ever said that I haven't abided by every single law or abided by my marriage vows."

3. It's irrelevant to public office. Refusing to discuss the truth or falsehood of Jeri Ryan's account, Jack Ryan told reporters Monday, "There's nothing there that impacts my ability to be a U.S. senator." CNN showed him saying, "We're in a campaign that talks about the issue that should address our country: the defense of our country or our workers or the pro-family issues or the issues in parts of the state, in the suburbs. And so, think of just—what just happened. We had someone spending a lot of money to break into a file that a mom and dad wanted to have sealed to protect their son, and now we're asking what happened between a husband and a wife in the most intimate part of their relationship."

4. It's a left-wing conspiracy. According to the Tribune, Ryan's talking points "railed against a 'despicable' decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert A. Schnider to unseal portions of the divorce file" and falsely alleged, "This judge was appointed by Jerry Brown, the most liberal governor of California in history."

5. The woman's discomfort is no big deal. "She says three times over eight years [of marriage], we went to places that she felt uncomfortable," Jack Ryan said Tuesday. "That's the worst of it. I think almost any spouse would take that as, 'Gosh, if that's the worst someone can say about me after seeing me live my life for eight years ... ' then people say, 'Gosh, the guy's lived a pretty clean life.' " In another interview, Ryan said, "What's in those documents at its worst is that I propositioned my wife in an inappropriate place."

What are Republicans saying about Ryan's spin? They're parroting it and hoping the revelations will blow over. Sen. George Allen, R-Va., chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told reporters: "We fully support Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan has the ability to forcefully articulate issues and ideas that matter, such as national security and better job opportunities for people as well as education for our children. His ex-wife Jeri has said he's a good man and a loving father."

Phyllis Schlafly, one of the chief agitators for Clinton's impeachment, told the Sun-Times she still supports Ryan because the charges are unproven and were made during a custody fight. "Sure they're disturbing. They're unpleasant," said Schlafly. "But considering where they're coming from, I would wait for the proof before judging him."

Robert Novak, the conservative commentator, said on Crossfire, "The judge allowed joint custody of their now nine-year-old son to the two parents. Number two, it was Mrs. Ryan, not Jack Ryan, who was guilty of adultery. … Jack Ryan, unlike Bill Clinton, did not commit adultery and did not lie."

House Speaker Dennis Hastert "still has a Thursday fund-raising event for Ryan on his calendar," according to Wednesday's Sun-Times. Hastert's spokesman told reporters Hastert had no comment.

Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Ill., who voted to find Clinton guilty on both articles of impeachment five years ago, said, "Divorce cases and child custody cases are by nature acrimonious, and allegations on all sides are often unreliable or sensationalized. The Jack Ryan that I know very well is a good and decent man. … I support him and continue to support him with enthusiasm and confidence."

Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News host, fretted about the politics of personal destruction. After O'Reilly's legal analyst pointed out that Ryan hadn't denied the story and "in a Clintonesque way, splits hairs" about it, O'Reilly complained, "Just think about it, any politician or somebody thinking about running for office, if they have an ex-wife who is mad at them or an ex-girlfriend, they are dead, they are toast, because you can make any accusation in the world. … It discourages everybody from getting into the arena."

"On the set obviously they have to have a PCR-DNA test because they have paperwork. "We don't want to replace that; we're trying to assist that," Robinson said. "The best thing to us is the frequency and how often you do it. Obviously the sooner you can catch someone who's positive, the better off you are. Fewer people are going to get infected. The economical value of this, the PCR-DNA test runs $100 to $110?. They do it every 30 days. In that time, obviously, you can come up with HIV positive prior to taking it the next time."

"When you go out and meet someone and you decide that you want to be together, you can grab a kit- it fits right in your shirt pocket and you go take the test with her and three minutes later you got your results," Warner said. The comment however seemed at odds with a statement Robinson made just before that claiming that the test detects within three to four weeks.

Wankus said he's definitely concerned about HIV but is concerned as well about the "little diseases." Wankus asked is there a reason why the test doesn't pick up the STDs. Robinson said it wasn't designed for those. "The thing is you can get rid of those. Those are curable. This isn't." Robinson, also making the bar analogy, said the test was so convenient that you could take the test then and there. "But we're not saying don't use a condom, either."

Again, Robinson said the results were three minutes. Wankus said he'd take the test on the spot but joked that he wasn't going to take anything in his ass. Robinson claims that the test is 99.8% accurate on specificity and 100% accurate on sensitivity. "What that means," said Robinson, "is the specificity refers to being positive; the sensitivity is being negative. If you come up with a negative result, that's 100% accurate. They ran this test against Western Blot, ELISA and some other tests. They ran some 6,000 tests and came up with three false positives."

According to Robinson, included in the kit is a cassette, an alcohol swab to clean the spot which you'll use for a lancet. "The lancet is automatic; you depress it. It's used one time. The needle retracts. It can't be used again so there's no chance of infecting anything else," Robinson explained, noting that the cassette gives you the results. "The little sample well's where you put a drop of blood [via a finger prick] and three drops of a solution that's included." Wankus obliged with self- demonstration. Wankus' immediate results were that he was negative but Warner joked about him being pregnant. As if it needed to be stressed, Warner said they'd like people to take the test before they have sex, not afterwards.

Wankus said it would also be nice if they could come up with some testing device for all the other STDs. According to Robinson, Annie Body, for instance, said she wouldn't use the test because of a puncture to the skin. Wankus said he didn't get the reasoning because needles are used in the process. Warner noted you could do it virtually on any part of your body where you can draw blood. "It doesn't have to be part that you use during sex."

With possible reference to Tony Sexton, Wankus joked about some "asshole" male talent could sample from their bloody noses.

Warner said the test sells for $19.95 on the Internet. It's good for one time. Robinson pointed out that there has been one HIV test kit so far that's been FDA-approved for home use. "What's crazy to me, is, you take a sample of the blood put it in the mail and mail it to them and you get your results back in the mail; or you can call them. Three days is the fastest they can get your results. But they're going to charge you $50 to $60. To me how they figure that's safe with any number of people coming in contact with that. We've checked with labs and the HIV virus in best conditions can possible stay active for about a week. The way we lokk at this, even if you threw the thing away in the trash, you would have to pick the thing up, stick it in your mouth, chew on it and have a bleeding gum or something in order for you to get the remotest possibility of getting a virus."

Warner said he'd like to see their test used in conjunction with current HIV testing in the industry. "You can't replace the piece of paper results from the PCR-DNA test," Robinson conceded. "We don't want to do that." But Warner also pointed out that blood sent to a lab runs the possibility of risks. "You have a lab tech sitting with 40, 50, 100 blood samples he's running tests on. Who's to say he doesn't screw up and put the wrong results."

Wankus noted that he heard "there's between 5 to 15 fuck ups a month like that in the adult industry." Robinson knew of an instance where a woman, 70, went to have a blood test done and came back positive. "She flipped out; she hadn't had sex in over 20 years."

Warner, citing statistics, said that about 50% of people who get tested at hospitals and clinics do not go back for their results. "The reason being they're nervous or scared to find out."

Warner said, what a lot of people don't know, is, that when you go to a lab or doctor and test positive, you're put on a national registry. "A data base that anyone can access. You're screwed for insurance."

On Thursday June 8th the band ZO2 who are opening for KISS on the ROCK THE NATION tour will be at Chicago's LIARS CLUB 1665 W Fullerton (773-665-1110) for a party celebrating their new album the eve of the show.

Other prizes include T-shirts and a pair of tickets to the KISS / POISON / ZO2 show at The Tweeter Center.

Doors open at 8PM the club is open till 2 AM NO COVER

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It has been said that good chemistry is the key to success in any working relationship. One has to wonder what would happen if you combined the talents of two brothers with a third, like-minded soul whose family bond has been forged by a shared vision. The answer is simple. A new formula is created. A formula for rock + roll...ZO2!

After many changes, brothers Paulie Z and David Z finally found the correct blend of sound and talent. These two brothers from Brooklyn connected with Joey Cassata to form the hard hitting, forceful, vigorous and ever so tasty sound of ZO2. Though a young band, they aren't new comers to the concert and recording scene having worked with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Blue Man Group as well as members from Megadeth and Testament.

Keep a look out for the new CD in stores this fall, and in the meantime check out the Subsonic site at www.celticfrost.com/subsonic

Anand Bhatt President of Sonic Wave International says, "I'm really excited to release the new Subsonic project! Celtic Frost and Ron Marks fans will be VERY pleased. We have always been a strong
independent force in heavy music, and its an honor that Ron chose us to put out the new release."

Ron is a resident of Hermitage PA and has performed in several music related projects as well as recording as Subsonic for the last 5 years. In his youth he and friend Dan Laudo (drummer for Prong) played in a band with none other than Trent Reznor. He has been called "an unusual and almost heavier version of Frank Zappa."

You can read more about Ron in the Celtic Frost biography "Are You Morbid?" by Tom Gabriel Fischer on Sanctuary Books.

The group Citizens United contended that commercials for "Fahrenheit 9/11" fall under federal campaign finance law. Regulations prohibit the use of corporate money to air ads identifying a presidential candidate in the 30 days before his party's nominating convention and the 60 days before the Nov. 2 election.

Bush will be nominated by the GOP during its New York convention Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Citizens United argued that "Fahrenheit 9/11" ads that identify Bush and are paid for with corporate money should be banned after July 31.

Moore called the complaint "a blatant attempt on the part of a right-wing, Republican-sponsored group to stop people from seeing my movie." He said he would fight the complaint, and members of the Congressional Black Caucus appearing with him at a news conference near the Capitol promised to help.

"It's a violation of my First Amendment rights that I cannot advertise my movie. It's a movie," Moore said. "I have not publicly endorsed John Kerry. I am an independent, I am not a member of the Democratic Party."

An exemption to the law frees a wide array of media organizations from the ban on the use of corporate money for ads identifying federal candidates close to elections. Moore, an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, and the film might be covered by the media exemption.

Citizens United contends that "Fahrenheit 9/11" is propaganda and doesn't qualify for the media exemption. It is among conservative groups that have tried to mobilize the public against the film, arguing that Moore's portrayal of the Bush administration is inaccurate.

The group's complaint names Moore; companies involved in the film's marketing and distribution, including Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Cablevision Systems Corp., Viacom International; and brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, executives at the film company Miramax who formed a separate company to find a way to distribute Moore's film.

The complaint also contends that because Lions Gate is foreign-owned, the ads are subject to a ban on the use of foreign money for ads identifying presidential candidates close to elections.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" won the top honor at last month's Cannes Film Festival. Moore and his distributors lost their appeal Tuesday to lower its rating from R to PG-13.

The FEC issued a decision Thursday on ads involving another film, but commissioners said it doesn't address Moore or ads promoting "Fahrenheit 9/11." In that ruling, the FEC told an Arizona man he couldn't use corporate money to run ads promoting his documentary film and identifying Bush and congressional candidates close to the election.

David Hardy, president of the Bill of Rights Educational Foundation in Tucson, Ariz., had asked the commission for its advice on whether he could use foundation money for the ads. Hardy didn't ask the commission whether his ads would qualify for the media exemption.

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"It is an honor to have the opportunity to work with one of my all-time favorite bands " says Gunter Ford, president of SPV's American division.

"We at SPV America are looking forward to a prosperous relationship, filled with a lot of great music."

Kevin Smith's entrance to the independent film community began with his 1994 release of Clerks. Financed by the sale of his personal comic book collection and loans from friends and family, Clerks was met with critical acclaim and awarded the Filmmaker's Trophy at Sundance, the Prix de la Jeunesse and the International Critic's Week Award at Cannes. The ten-year anniversary version of the film, Clerks X, will be an exclusive Miramax Collectors Series 3-disc DVD set that will include the original theatrical version, an extended Sundance cut, and a new documentary. Clerks X will be released in stores on September 7, 2004.

Smith's second film, Mallrats, was panned by critics and did not fare well in theaters but went on to be extremely successful on home video. Critics and audiences warmly received his third project, Chasing Amy. Dogma, a faith-based comedy, generated a great deal of controversy due to its pragmatic approach to religion, but thrived despite pressure from religious groups. With the aptly titled Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, Smith wrapped up his five-film "Jersey Trilogy" and headed for more grown-up territory with the March 2004 release of Jersey Girl. The Miramax film stars longtime Smith collaborators Ben Affleck and George Carlin, as well as Jennifer Lopez and Liv Tyler. Jersey Girl will be available on home video September 14, 2004.

Smith has even made a name for himself in cyberspace, establishing two widely popular websites, www.viewaskew.com and www.moviepoopshoot.com. Both are common bookmarks among film lovers. Although Smith relinquished his prized comic book collection to get his start in filmmaking, Smith's successes have allowed him to open his own comic book store, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, in downtown Red Bank, New Jersey. Graphic novels are not only sources of inspiration but also viable projects as he has written for the seminal superheroes Spider-Man, Green Arrow, and Black Cat. Smith is currently working on the big screen adaptation of the comic book and television superhero The Green Hornet.

For more information on the Home Entertainment Event, visit www.homeentertainmentevents.com . To register, you can go online or call 888-778-8892. All Access badges are $345 for VSDA members and $395 for non-members prior to June 30 cut-off date. Exhibits and Conference badges are $95 for VSDA members and $145 for non-members prior to June 30. After June 30, All Access badges are $425 for VSDA members and $475 for non-members and Exhibits and Conferences badges are $125 for VSDA members and $175 for non-members. All Access badges provide entry to sponsored events, the opening ceremony, seminars, exhibit suites, and exhibit floor. Exhibits and Conferences badges provide entry to the seminars, exhibit suites, and the exhibit floor only.

Companies interested in exhibiting may contact Home Entertainment Events' Kimbirly Orr at kkorr@HEEteam.com (mainstream companies) or Janet Gibson at jgibson@HEEteam.com (adult companies).

VSDA's Home Entertainment 2004, the Home Entertainment Retail Expo, and the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo are organized through Home Entertainment Events, in which the Video Software Dealers Association is a partner. For more information about Home Entertainment Events and its shows, please send an e-mail to info@heeteam.com

In an exclusive chat, Vrenna told Virginmega.com just before leaving on tour, "We're totally psyched to go with Skinny Puppy for our first Tweaker tour. We've experimented with lots of different ways to bring the albums to life on the road and we decided to present it just as a band. Clint (Walsh, Tweaker guitarist) and I were lucky enough to get one of the new album's guest vocalists, Nick Young from A.I. (who's on the song ‘Sleepwalking Away') to do the whole tour with us and sing every song.” Rounding out the band is William Faith on bass from the band Faith and the Muse.

If you're lucky enough to live in the middle of the country and the West Coast, you might still be able to catch this killer double bill. See the below dates. As fate would have it, the first NIN tour was opening for Skinny Puppy on their Vivisect Six tour. Adds Vrenna, “Seeing that this will be Tweaker's first tour as well, it's a huge honor that Skinny Puppy has asked us to be its opener. And since many fans will be wondering, there's no tape or sequencers with this show!"

Remaining dates are as follows:

GOP Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas said the issue had been debated enough. Lawmakers have continually criticized broadcasters for airing what they say is increasingly coarse programming that can be seen or heard by children.

"People are tired of this indecent material on over-the-air public broadcast, particularly during prime time when people's families are watching," said Brownback, the bill's sponsor. "We're going to have to take action because the broadcasters won't police themselves."

Under the measure, the maximum fine for both broadcasters and entertainers would increase to up to $275,000 per indecent incident, up from $27,500 for license holders and $11,000 for personalities. The fines would keep increasing for each incident until a maximum fine of $3 million a day is reached.

The House passed a similar bill that would set fines at $500,000. Differences between the two bills must be worked out.

The Senate moved the measure without debate as part of the massive defense bill expected to be approved later this week. The only senator to vote against the measure was Sen. John Breaux, D-La.

Breaux said he opposed the bill partly because "it deals with communications and media issues and should not have been attached to a national security and defense bill."

Federal law and FCC rules prohibit over-the-air radio and television stations from airing offensive material that refers to sexual and excretory functions between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., hours when children are more likely to be tuned in. No such restrictions exist for cable and satellite TV or satellite radio.

The FCC currently has no power to regulate those channels, which are available through subscription to the 85 percent of the 108.4 million U.S. households with televisions.

Introduced in January, after FCC Chairman Michael Powell demanded higher fines, the bill wound up on a fast track to passage after the Feb. 1 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Timberlake partially exposing Jackson's breast for an instant to 90 million viewers.

The incident generated more than 500,000 complaints to the FCC.

If the legislation isn't approved as part of the bill to authorize spending for the Defense Department, Brownback said he would try to find another way to get it through the Senate. "This is something the public wants," he said.

The Senate also approved a provision that would delay for one year the FCC's media ownership rules that allow, among other things, companies to own both newspapers and broadcasting stations in the same market.

Breaux said that measure also made him oppose the bill. "It repeals the FCC's media ownership rules using what I have argued is a flawed and inaccurate measurement of network television viewers," he said.

But a consumer group cheered the move to delay the rules.

"Once again the Senate has demonstrated its objection to weakening rules that keep massive media conglomerates from swallowing up local media outlets and ignoring community values," said Gene Kimmelman, senior public policy director of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports.

While officially the show is about James and Kid Rock heading across America on their motorcycles, James relationship with Janine takes center stage.

The special opens with James and Janine in a pick-up truck in New England. James professes his undying love Janine, and that she is the woman that he intends to spend the rest of his life with. Then James says in a voice over, “It didn’t work out that way.”

The courtship, the wedding including celebrity guests Kid Rock and Tera Patrick, and Janine’s arrest for spousal abuse for throwing a vase are all captured, including their eventual breakup, or as James says, when he gives her a “pink slip.”

The show ends with James having a tattoo of Janine’s name removed from his hand.

After the breakup, Janine returned to Vivid and agreed to perform in her first ever boy/girl scenes. No doubt her scenes will offer insight to her side of the story.

By the past, Zombie means icons from classic horror films, such as P.J. Soles ("Halloween," "Carrie"), Ken Foree ("Dawn of the Dead), Steve Railsback ("Helter Skelter") and Mary Woronov ("Death Race 2000").

The cast should be seen as a sign of where Zombie is heading with the sequel. "Everything from the script to the way it's cast, it's very different than the first film," Zombie said. "It's much more real, much more gritty. The first film was very ... I mean it's bloody and it's nasty, but there's sort of a surreal element to the first one. I hate the word 'campy,' because that's not what is, but there's almost like a bloody 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' [quality] to the first one, and this one is a very bleak, stark, very real film.

"The thing I hate about sequels is they just sort of do the same thing again and that's always a drag," he continued. "So this one is very different. It's the same characters continuing on in the story, but with a very different feel."

"The Devil's Rejects," a title taken from the media's nickname for the Firefly family that dwells in the "House of 1000 Corpses," picks up seven months later with the focus on Sheriff John Wydell (Forsythe), whose brother, Lieutenant George Wydell, was killed by the Fireflys.

"He's avenging his death, so it's sort of like the tables are turned in this one," Zombie explained. "All the bad people are more on the defensive. That was always the trick in this one because all my leads are evil so somehow now you have to feel sympathy for all the horrible, disgusting characters.

"There won't be a dry eye in the house, trust me," he joked.

That's not to say Mother, Baby and the others have been toned down. In fact, quite the opposite is true.

"If you look at any series of horror-movie sequels, say 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' Freddy Krueger is this terrifying character in the first, but as time goes on he becomes this fun-loving character that little kids want to dress up as for Halloween," Zombie said. "Same with Michael Myers [from 'Halloween']. And I didn't want that to happen, so I took the humor away so the characters kind of go in the exact opposite direction. They become meaner and more horrible, rather than familiar and fun-loving."

Zombie, who has scratched recording plans to focus on "The Devil's Rejects," said the tone of his first movie got away from him, but in the process he learned how to keep it darker for the second.

However, while the sequel has been another learning experience, the director's third project will not be another "Corpses" movie.

"When I wrote the first movie I had the second one in mind because I thought, 'OK, if it's successful, they'll want a sequel,' so at least I would like to see that through," Zombie said. "But no, two is enough. Two seems to work, three never works."

Zombie's not sure where his film career will take him next, but the avid comic collector has no interest in adapting a comic for the big screen.

"I'm already sick of comic-book movies, truthfully," he said. "They've remade everything."

The coolest news of the day - a trailer description: "We see a man slip on a strange looking gas mask. Very German/Nazi WW2 looking for the design of the mask. Probably the Scarecrow. A black screen, Batman standing on top of a building then jumping falling down towards the screen. Flashes of a fast moving train, What looks like a huge black tank and a helicopter and police cars. A few more flashes of some fast paced car action...Bale's eyes appear over the skyline, Which fades into Bale's face in the Batman mask" .

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"I think it's a travesty," said Flynt. "It just boggles my mind. Powell's kid can set up the FCC and call all the shots in terms of how much to fine people. This is the biggest attack on Free Speech that we've had in our century.

"The First Amendment is intended to protect offensive speech," Flynt continued. "It's intended to protect the thought you hate the most and not the thought you love the most." Asked if Stern will come out of this or whether the government will succeed in getting him off the air, Flynt said he's hoping Stern will come out of it.

"If there's a new administration in, I think there will be a new attitude about censorship," Flynt said. "Bush and his cronies play hardball."

Stern agreed about the hardball part and said Bush has four more fines coming out against him. "I'm telling you I love it," Stern said. "I like the fact that they have targeted me. I don't mind if this company takes me off the air. I'm ready to go. And I'm ready to become the sacrificial lamb to prove that Bush is out of control. This is unfriggin' believable- what's going on with the war in Iraq; what's coming out in all these books; the interviews on 60 Minutes and this is what they're worried about."