Wednesday, October 31st, 2001. IP Nº7



Harvesting the simplicity
Interview with Pulp's Jarvis Cocker
"I needed to go back to the most basic things to preserve myself"
Go Jarvis Cocker's Interview

Here you can find extra information about curious new habits.
Such as the newly raised Christian
enthusiasm...
And Here, a short article that shows books' best selling places.



When panic attacks

Pushing Pills to the Anxious
It seems that the USA is under another kind of malevolent force presently: hysteria…
According to statistics, depression and insomnia are starting to level off, people are praying more, and they are also selfprescribing drugs.
Isn't a bit crazy how people get dawn into this insane-junky state?

Can this pulsation of dependence be read as another quitting attitude towards life?
Link: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,47633,00.html
Reports put nation in 'state of high anxiety'
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/21/rec.attacks.high.anxiety.ap/index.html
Disposable garbage

Art Imitates Life, Perhaps Too Closely
This article made me think that perhaps forms such as art somehow lack creativity and imitate themselves more and more everyday.
Besides, Art's mission of "imitating life" has in this piece of info an example of how poor the inspiration coming from these masterpieces appears to be.

How do they expect to surprise and motivate people like that?
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=1008
The business of fear

Study: Newscasts create 'climate of fear' for children
And speaking about overreaction and bad predisposition… take a peek at this brief study about how media, especially newscasts, are creating a negative environment.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/23/tvnews.children.ap/index.html
Plus two articles about deceitful reports and public retractions concerning the attack to the Twin Towers.
Anthrax confusion
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=4523
Thousands of Orphans? An Urban Myth
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/nyregion/26KIDS.html?todaysheadlines
Then join "Mr. Anthrax" and me in an educative film for kids.
Anthrax Film to Calm Kids' Fears
Link: http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/ip/ventana.php?id_articulo=3948
All looking just alike

Suppression Stifles Some Sites
In the light of the lack of individuality manifested these past weeks, I'm having the sensation that we live in an increasingly homogeneous world.
I don't know about you but to me it's all starting to look too much like a huge boring lump, where difference of opinion isn't encouraged…
Link: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47835,00.html
And then new facts about the strict control exercised by the government.
USA Act Stampedes Through
Link: http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47858,00.html















* New York Times




* The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder, appeared in The Washington Post.