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Paris St Germain have terminated Mohamed Sissoko's contract by mutual consent.
The 28-year-old former Valencia, Liverpool and Juventus midfielder has dropped down Laurent Blanc's pecking order at the Parc des Princes and was loaned out to Serie A side Fiorentina last season.
Sissoko made 28 appearances for PSG since his 7million euros move from Juventus in July 2011 and had been reportedly linked with Sky Bet Championship side Reading before he was out of contract.
PSG confirmed on their official website http://www.psg.fr: "Paris Saint-Germain and Mohamed Sissoko have agreed to terminate the player's contract with the capital club.
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ATH 357 - Modern Art
This course is a survey of significant activity and ideas in the visual arts from ca. 1880-1945. Focus is on the art of Western Europe with attention to changing critical perspectives. In addition, a number of themes such as gender, visuality, technology and mass media will be considered within the chronological framework.
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I'm looking a treating myself to a digital sub and was wondering how it works? Sounds daft I know but... Does the mag get downloaded and then saved onto my PC or am I reading it off a server somewhere? I'm currently somewhere hot and sandy and access to a fast internet connection with unlimited data allowance is impossible. If I can save a downloaded issue to my laptop I can download it overnight and read it whenever. If it's streamed to my laptop when I want to read it I'll be waiting ages for each page to load up. I hope this mikes sense, I know I'm being a biff!
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I download mine as a pdf. They can then be read offline. Storing them on a memory stick is useful, also, because then you can take them with you and read them on whatever is available.
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You have a choice of low or high quality pdf to download (15mb and 38mb this month) you can also use the flash based flip page reader. If you need a really small file size then the epub or kindle versions have the wordier articles in.
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From virtual teams to virtuality in teams
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In this article we propose to go beyond the dichotomy of virtual vs collocated teams to look instead at virtuality in teams. In so doing, we argue that technology-mediated interactions do not substitute but rather complement face-to-face interactions. We adopt a definition of virtuality in teams based on discontinuities and pursue an understanding of their dynamics in an in-depth case study of an inter-organizational virtual centre of excellence. The findings present evidence suggesting the formation of 'virtual continuities' that mitigate the effects that create discontinuities. This, we argue, enriches our understanding of the complex dynamics of virtuality. The theoretical implications are discussed.
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Description: George Hyde Pownall Br. 1876-1932 Fleet Street Signed and titled "Fleet Street, Geo. Hyde P." verso Oil on board 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. 21.0 x 14.0 cm
Condition Report: Good condition, good appearance, no apparent restoration when examined with a black light
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Artist or Maker: George Hyde Pownall
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Special canoing skills are not required. The tour starts in Whitehorse on the Yukon River with the compass needle set north, and we pass many relict of the historic gold rush of 1898. The expedition travels over 320 km on this mighty river, exploring several abandoned settlements such as Hootalinqua and Big Salmon Village. Camps are set up on the gravel & sand banks of the mighty river where one can enjoy a refreshing bath in the Yukon. Black bears are quite common in the Yukon valley and are often seen by our guests. Watch the ridges of the cliffs along the river to spot the busy mammal. Moose are numerous in the forested foothills, and bald eagles nest along the river banks. Beavers are busy getting their winter supplies in, and several times we have seen grizzly bears strolling along the shoreline. Around the camp fire we will hear some interesting stories about the first river travelers. At the Yukon River bridge in Carmacks we will part from our canoes and travel with our van via the Klondike Highway back towards Whitehorse.
Tour Itinerary: Day 1: Arrival Whitehorse. Arrival in Whitehorse, meeting of group members. Overnight in Hotel. Days 2 - 8: Whitehorse - Yukon River. Start of this exciting canoe tour in Whitehorse down the Yukon River. We are spending 7 days on this mighty river, traveling over 320 kilometer and exploring the vast hinterlands of the Yukon. Day 8: Carmacks - Whitehorse. Via Klondike Highway the van takes us back to Whitehorse. Transfer to the airport for your home departure. Price Includes: - Airport Shuttle in Whitehorse - 1 night hotel accommodation in Whitehorse - Expert guidance on the entire trip - Canoe rental and transportation - 2 person tents and camping equipment (6 nights) - All meals on canoe trip - Overland transportation. Price Excludes: - Meals in hotels - Fishing license - Personal extras. Notes: Double Room/Tent: CAD 1,495.00
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Yes. Yes he did.
The original story for Ratatouille was written by Jan Pinkava. When Lasseter saw the story headed downhill, he brought on Brad Bird, who just hit a home run with Incredibles...
Jan had the original story, created the set, and the key characters. Brad wrote the final story, all the details, and basically what made the movie "alive" and "emotional." He also directed all the animation. It is accurate that Jan was the co-director and the writer of the original story. That's all.
It's true that Lasseter pulled Jan off the project (at least he was taken off as the head director). To say that it was done to put a name as the director (since Brad Bird had a stronger name at the time) is completely untrue. Pixar doesn't care about names, and it always takes chances on promising directors. Bird wasn't a name when he did Incredibles (all Bird did was the flop, Iron Giant). Jan was more of a name than Bird was, because Jan got an Academy Award for Geri's Game.
None of that matters to Lasseter and Steve Jobs. The story's king, and Jan wasn't tugging the heart strings with his story. So they pulled him. If Lasseter ever pulls you off of something, you should humble yourself, say, "okay," and then see how you can help. Jan couldn't do that. He left the project, tried helping with other projects at Pixar, and then he had to leave; he couldn't stand see someone else take over his story (can you blame him?).
Lasseter does this a lot. He recently went to the Lilo & Stitch director (Chris Sanders) who was doing Bolt. He laid down a lot of changes (I believe about 80% of the story had to be cut), and the director bolted... to DreamWorks.
UPDATE: Chris' next project was far better than Lilo & Stitch or Bolt... How to Train a Dragon (my favorite DreamWorks film since Shrek 1 and Shrek 2). It certainly seems that Chris learned a ton when starting over at DreamWorks. We'll see how that translates to his next film, The Croods (about cavemen).
Story is king in Pixar's world (and now in Disney's world since Iger, Lasseter, and Jobs took over). If directors can't see that, then they will be replaced with directors who can get with the story (as evidence). That said, Chris turned out to be an amazing director (with Dragons), so you never know what each director is capable of.
Brad Bird's fourth movie is going to be called "1906." UPDATE: 1906 languished, so Brad directed and released MI4 first.
Monday, May 05, 2008
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If you worked at McDonalds, and you're told how to cook burgers, and you decide to undercook them because you like them better that way, would you expect to be fired? Is it in the customer's best interest that you do not cook their food? Doesn't the management of McDonalds know what kind of food their customers need to maximize satisfaction? Should McDonalds be compared with Stalin? Or is this actually the opposite (free enterprise providing quality products)?
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Any artist worth their salt would throw up at being compared to McDonalds.
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Back home against the Diamondbacks. I'm a bit disappointed in that neither Randy Johnson or Mike Morgan will pitch (at least Morgan not as a starter). I was going to go to the Sat evening game should Morgan have started, but they said he wasn't. Oh well. We got behind early, and while we had a good rally in the bottom of the 9th against Arizona closer Matt Mantei, it wasn't enough – we lost 5-4, even with two home runs (one by Raffy & one by Royce).
However, that wasn't the story of this game. The story here was that we lost Ruben Mateo for the season. I watched it happen in the bottom of the seventh – the replay was quite bizarre (the TV guys said it wasn't for the squeamish – more on the TV guys in a minute). It was a pretty ugly thing – he tripped over the base and went down in a heap face down. From the looks of it at the time, it looked exactly the same as the injury that knocked out Pittsburgh's Jason Kendall last year for the season. He came back strong this year, but Ruben has a history of being hurt – I wonder how much that will impact this injury.
Also, TV guy Tom Grieve is out for a few games, apparently he had some sort of outpatient surgery to "remove a growth from his ear" – I can't find any more info other than that. His replacement is the radio post game call-in guy Steve Busby (who used to do TV coverage from 1982-1994). I immediately thought Steve Busby was way more chatty than Tom Grieve was. Nothing against Tom, but Steve seemed to talk more than Tom normally does. Also, with Craig Miller not being there for the pre-game show, Ranger games have an odd feeling to 'em. I also want to bring back John Rhadigan for the "man in the ballpark" things – he was really funny.


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Johnstone Ole TuranaKenya's shilling sank to the lowest level in a year as companies resumed purchases of dollars on concern of increased political risk before elections in March.
The currency of East Africa's biggest economy fell as much as 0.4 percent to 87.73 a dollar and traded at 87.50 a dollar as of 3:35 p.m., the lowest on a closing basis since Jan. 4. It gained less than 0.1 percent yesterday, the first advance since Jan. 15, as the central bank sold dollars. The shilling has dropped 1.6 percent this year, compared with a 6.3 percent fall in South Africa's rand, the continent's worst performer.
The vote will be the first since a disputed 2007 poll sparked two months of violence in which more than 1,100 people died. The Central Bank of Kenya sold an unspecified amount of dollars today after taking the same measures yesterday, Duncan Kinuthia, the head of trading at Commercial Bank of Africa Ltd., said by phone from Nairobi. An official in the institution's foreign-exchange department, who declined to be identified in line with policy, confirmed the dollar sales when contacted by phone today.
"There has been demand particularly from the manufacturing sector, forcing importers to buy them at lower levels and piling further pressure on the shilling," Nairobi-based NIC Bank Ltd., said in a note today. "The local unit has not recovered despite central bank's attempt to lift it up by pumping dollars over four previous sessions."
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Monster World IV, A Japan-Only Genesis Game, Is Coming To The West… In English!
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Shane: Bloody Balls
We're pulling into the final stretch bitches! Looking back over what we have so far, I'm worried. I'm really freaking worried. For the most part, this is a vanilla cast with lackluster first impressions. Can Shane be the answer to our prayers? Let's see.
Shane Meaney (that last name is SO promising) is a 26 year old House Flipper from Bennington, Vermont. He has ridiculous hair, but I'm so desperate for someone juicy that I'll overlook it. Shane describes himself as passionate and funny. He enjoys hitting golf balls off of his deck and of course I have to ask: Golf balls filled with blood? Little Satanic orbs of evil hurling into his neighbors windows? Right? RIGHT?!
It says here that Shane wants to make friends and have fun. Make devil friends and have ritual sacrifice fun? Neighborhood ruffian friends and have flasher in the park trenchcoat fun? Gang criminal friends and have drive by fun? What the hell kind of friends and fun is he talking about here because he's really bursting my bubble right about now.
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Did any of you see Magic Mike - (GO SEE IT)? Shane reminds me of Mike with all of his weirdo entrepreneur schemes. Listen up people, just because you have like 50 different jobs it doesn't make you an entrepreneur. It makes you someone who can't work for the Man so you invent a bunch of different titles to make yourself sound cooler than "self employed". Nothing wrong with that. I'm not hating. For example, Mike was incredibly charming - especially when he was humping the floor and smooshing his junk in girls' faces, but I digress.
I'm having a hard time taking Mr. Vermont seriously with his arm slung across the couch like that. He's a little too nonchalant for my taste. A little scattered. Eyes flitting around the room and whatnot. I hope he packed his Adderall.
BZZZZ! Gank! Scrod! Did he just say "I want the girls of America to want to be with me and the guys to want to be me"? Oh hell no. *stamps DOUCHE on Shane's stupid hair* Sorry Shane. You would have been so much cooler if you were a Satanic gang member who played golf with bloody balls. You're such a disappointment!
What do you guys think of Shane? Wouldn't he have been so much more appealing if cooking meth was at least one of his many jobs?
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Oh HELL NO! The second he said "Cosmopolitan" and "Mr. Vermont" I turned it off. He's cheesy with his arm draped across the couch. I'll bet he shoots air pistols at you while winking! This guy is sooooooo "I'm the guy" with his douche hair-do and his douche "Great question, man" to the interviewer. Poor Ian will take one look at this joker and follow him anywhere.
Jen Shouldn't this guy be on The Bachelor instead? What a tool.
That being said, younger people tend to stick together and he could align with a couple other guys or the dumb chicks. His type of personality seems to be a natural leader (even if its bullshit) and people may follow him.
So basically Jessie without the muscles.Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. It's not just a game, Shane Meaney, it's my summer vacation. You shut up.
For me, it's not his ridiculous hair, his mentions of Cosmo, or golf, or the cliches he spews. It's his "pooka shell" necklace that sends me over the edge. Ma-halo, bra. I don't know if I have the vocabulary to describe the extremity of douche-ness that is Shane Meaney, self-described "Nice Guy." Who is he trying to convince? ("Good question, man!")
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Well, to me the most important aspects of a game - especially an adventure game - are the storyline, plot, fun factor, etc; graphics and sound are not as vital. However, when a game has it ALL, like Day of the Tentacle, it's definitely an added bonus.The game is chaotic and hilarious, but also logical (if a little abstract). I often tire easily when in an adventure game I play for hours without making progress - this was never the case in Day of the Tentacle. The difficulty was just right - not too challenging, not too easy. I only needed to consult the walkthough once, less than in most other games :)
The plot is sheer genius too. If you do something in the past, the future might be affected accordingly. Also, the graphics are beautiful even now (8 years later) and the characters are all loveable.
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WASHINGTON The Bush administration signaled Sunday that it is willing to compromise with Republican lawmakers to save a CIA interrogation program President Bush says is vital to defeating terrorists.
National security adviser Stephen Hadley, making the rounds of Sunday talk shows, said the administration believes it can clarify interrogation rules without amending the Geneva Conventions. The comments appeared aimed at closing a rift between Bush and Republicans in the Senate that Bush said threatened to halt CIA interrogation of terrorism suspects. THE DETAINEE DEBATE: Questions and answers Key Republican lawmakers, including Sen. John Warner of Virginia and Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a former prisoner of war, argue that changing the conventions would invite other countries to do the same and expose future American POWs to mistreatment. Asked on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos whether he thought a deal could be worked out, Hadley replied, "I do." Hadley said legislation should enable the CIA to resume interrogations that use unspecified techniques but under clear rules that comply with the conventions. Lawmakers and the White House could craft a compromise that "achieves Sen. McCain's requirement that we don't amend or change Common Article 3," the provision of the conventions that the Supreme Court ruled in June applies to terrorism detainees, he said. Specifically, Hadley said, interrogators need clarification about the provision in Common Article 3 that bans "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment." Appearing on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Hadley said: "Nobody knows what humiliating treatment is. What does it mean?" McCain, who spent 5½ years in North Vietnamese prison camps, said tough CIA interrogations can continue within the bounds of the conventions. The ultimate issue is the United States' position as a moral leader, he said. "We're the nation that people look up to. We can't lower our standards because others do," McCain said on This Week. On Labor Day, the CIA transferred 14 high-level detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to U.S. military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, effectively halting the CIA interrogation program. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said on Fox News Sunday that CIA interrogations could resume if another high-level terror suspect was captured, but under more restrictive rules. "That person may be questioned, but using the kinds of aggressive techniques, the tough techniques, that the president was referring to the other day may be problematic," he said. Hadley wouldn't discuss the specifics of the CIA's interrogations. To do so, he said on ABC, would give terrorists the ability to train against the techniques "and neutralize their effect." He repeatedly denied that the techniques constitute torture. Other Republicans expressed optimism that a deal could be reached with the White House. "I'm willing to compromise," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has opposed Bush's plan for interrogating and prosecuting terrorism suspects.


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The name of the band came from Salmon's childhood interest in science, specifically nuclear physics. To judge from some of his later lyrics, he was also a big science fiction fan ("It Came Out of the Sky," etc.). The first single was "Frantic Romantic" (backed with "Shake (Together Tonight)"), proto-punk garage pop in the vein of Australia's Easybeats or Northern Ireland's Undertones (with Salmon sounding a lot like the Kinks' Ray Davies), and wasn't necessarily representative of the bigger, darker noise to come. As a preteen, Salmon liked to listen to British pop/rock like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. As a teen, he moved on to heavy metal like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin. He would discover American underground rock later and it would have a more indelible influence on the Scientists' sound.
This version of the group toured Eastern Australia and followed up with a self-titled EP in 1980 (with Ian Sharples on bass and Ben Juniper on guitar). The Sweet Corn Sessions, released in 1988, would combine this EP (recorded in Perth's Sweet Corn Studios) with "Frantic Romantic." In 1990, the material would again be reissued as Pissed on Another Planet, with different artwork. The group finally released a self-titled LP in 1981 as a three-piece (with Salmon, Baker, and Sharples). Shortly afterwards, however, they broke up. Fortunately, it was only for a short time. (In 1995, this lineup of the band would reunite with Juniper for a one-off gig in Perth.) By this time, Radalj and Baker had left for Sydney, where they hooked up with Dave Faulkner, another Perth refugee and ex-Victim, in a precursor to the Hoodoo Gurus -- Le Hoodoo Gurus (which began life as the Gurus before Radalj and then Baker had joined).
Around this time, Salmon formed a band called Louie Louie with Kim Williams, who had produced the first Scientists album and co-wrote "Swampland," but the project only lasted a few months. Salmon and Sujdovic then re-formed the band as Scientists, and Salmon became the primary songwriter. In 1981, they also migrated to Sydney. Salmon's musical interests had since segued to American proto-punk like the Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, and Television. As with other seminal Australian punk rockers like Radio Birdman and the Birthday Party, the Stooges would prove to be particularly influential. The ultimate goal was minimalism, to pare things down to their primal essence and to avoid pretense at all costs -- to the extent of writing purposefully "dumb" lyrics, as Salmon has described them. The result was primitive, psychotic, feedback-drenched swamp blues with a hint of twang (Hank Williams' legacy had also worked its way into the equation). The new lineup (Salmon, Tony Thewlis, Brett Rixon (from Louie Louie), and Sujdovic) would release the EP Blood Red River in 1983 on Au-go-go, one of Australia's premiere punk labels. By this time, Salmon had also fallen under the sway of Suicide, and it showed as the band was growing heavier in the bass department, more rhythmically repetitive and hypnotic, more dissonant and distorted guitar-wise (à la Link Wray), and increasingly manic and malevolent vocally (somewhat akin to the Cramps -- but with an unmistakable Aussie accent). The title Blood Red River would also be used for the 15-track compilation released by Sympathy for the Record Industry in 2001. Scientists soon developed a following in Sydney that surpassed their fan base in Perth. They continued to tour and made a video in support of Blood Red River. Their next release was the EP This Heart Doesn't Run on Blood, This Heart Doesn't Run on Love, followed by another tour.
Just as the Birthday Party and the Go-Betweens had found success in London, Scientists would make the same move in 1984. They would next release the LP Weird Love -- one of their best -- and EPs Demolition Derby (a Belgian import) and Atom Bomb Baby (recorded live in London) and, as a single, "You Only Live Twice" (virtually unrecognizable from the James Bond original). But their timing, unfortunately, was off. With a few exceptions, the British press -- most notably the NME -- did not welcome them as warmly as Salmon had hoped. By following in the wake of the Birthday Party, they were perceived by some critics as copyists, even if they had been working on their sound for just as long -- and from a different lyrical and geographical perspective (the Birthday Party had formed in Melbourne).
The next few releases consisted primarily of archival material. You Get What You Deserve (1985) combines Atom Bomb Baby, Demolition Derby, and the B-side from "You Only Live Twice" ("If It's the Last Thing I Do"), and Heading for a Trauma combines four new songs with Demolition Derby, a few older singles, and a radio session. Drummer Rixon and Sujdovic (whose visa had expired) had since left the band (Rixon would die in 1993 of drug-related causes). Rubber Never Sleeps, a tape-only release consisting of live material (from 1978-1983), came next. Then Weird Love (1986) was re-recorded as a three-piece (with Leanne Chock replacing Rixon) along with "Nitro" from the This Heart EP and the original version of "You Only Live Twice." It was the first Scientists recording to be released in the United States and Big Time did the honors. (The label would also release recordings by the Hoodoo Gurus and the Lime Spiders in the U.S.)
Scientists spent much of this time touring Europe with Alex Chilton, the Gun Club, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Alan Vega (from Suicide), and others. Their next full-length, The Human Jukebox (1987), consisted of new material, but only Salmon and Tony Thewlis now remained from the lineup that had come from Sydney (they were joined by Nick Combe). It was the beginning of the end. Scientists broke up that year, and Salmon moved back to Perth. Gone, but not forgotten, Scientists' excellent cover of Captain Beefheart's "Clear Spot" would be included on the 1988 tribute release, Fast 'n' Bulbous.
Although Scientists had called it quits, the irrepressible Kim Salmon most certainly had not. He would go on to form a new, somewhat similar group that year, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, which would incorporate soul and funk into the mix. Throughout his career with the Scientists and the bands to come, Salmon had also been involved with the Beasts of Bourbon -- basically Tex Perkins' brainchild -- (as guitarist and lyricist) from 1983 until the end of 1993 (ex-Scientist Sujdovic was a member as well). Salmon's other projects have included Salamander Jim (again with Perkins), Kim Salmon's Human Jukebox, Kim Salmon's STM, Kim Salmon and the Business (an extension of the Surrealists; similar approach, different lineup), and Antenna (a techno-pop project with old Perth-mate Dave Faulkner). He has even worked as a solo artist on occasion (as with the single, "Lightning Scary"), but appears to prefer a group dynamic.
No matter what he may do next, Kim Salmon will always be -- or certainly always should be -- remembered for the musical ground he broke with the Scientists. At their best they were so far ahead of their time, they transcended the very notion. The proto-grunge they were cooking up in the late '70s/early '80s prefigured the music Sonic Youth, the Spacemen 3, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion would be cranking out a decade later. In 1993, they received their own tribute compilation in the form of Set It on Fire!, which featured covers by Mudhoney and the Laughing Hyenas. Mudhoney would even perform a live version of "We Had Love" with Salmon in Australia. Henry Rollins, whose group the Rollins Band has toured with him, has gone so far as to declare the man a "national treasure." It only seemed right and natural when Sub Pop released the Scientists compilation, Absolute, with material hand-picked by the band, in 1991. A debt had been paid, and America had another chance to discover what Australia had known for a long time (Sub Pop's release of the compilation, The Essential Radio Birdman: 1974-1978, in 2001 would help to right a similar wrong). ~ Kathleen C. Fennessy, Rovi
Selected Discography
Track List: A Place Called Bad
Track List: The Scientists E.P.
Track List: Frantic Romantic
Track List: Blood Red River
Track List: The Scientists
Track List: Stopped The World At War
Track List: Pissed On Another Planet
Track List: The Human Jukebox
Track List: Weird Love
Track List: You Get What You Deserve
Track List: Rubber Never Sleeps (Live)
Track List: This Heart Doesn't Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn't Run On Love
Track List: Blood Red River 1982-1984
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