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    • Walk Away

      by Crom

      ..So many people speak of a job that’s more then a job. Something they can care about. And, any job is pointless if you care nothing for it. Unless you’re whole motivation is to receive that glorious pay cheque every 2 weeks.

    • Special Feature: Music / Video Promos

      by Ninja Tune

      Courtesy of Ninja Tune, we have an absolute belter of an audio / video extravaganza to offer www.r4nt.com readers: DSP, Mr.Scruff, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Herbaliser, Amon Tobin, Pest, Chocolate Industries, Super Numeri, Dj Vadim & Funki Procini.

    • Apple iMac

      by Quasor

      Think Different.
      I’m a Windows/PC user. I write web applications for a living and the closest I’ve come to a Mac in the last 2 years is dropkicking a Tangerine iMac test machine. I’ve pretty much always dismissed Apple software as being a toy; their Operating System has sucked for the past 20 years. However recently, …

    • Movie: xXx

      by Crom

      The highly anticipated sequel to Fast and the Furious…. No wait. Like a few people I was eagerly anticipating the release of Triple X. Being an avid follower of bad movies I was expecting a bad plot, bad acting, huge stunts and tons of references to “Extreme” sport culture. And boy was I given all …

    • Nightmares on Wax – Mind Elevation

      by a parallel mechanic

      So I’m reading the review of ‘Mind Elevation’ in MIXER magazine and they write: “If you liked [N.O.W.’s 1995 release] ‘Carboot Soul’ then you probably won’t like the new album.” Then again, MIXER had P. Diddy on its cover claiming that he “invented the remix” (take that, Al Gore!), so what the hell does MIXER …

    • Oasis – Heathen Chemistry

      by Terence Leung

      Ok folks, I don’t know how else to say this, so I’m just going to say it: This “album” is pure shit.
      Pure, obsolete, runny and unholy shit.
      Is it all you need to hear then? Sweet merciful crap, review over.
      Wet, lather, rinse and repeat review. As a matter of fact, you can do the same to …

    • Bird Watching

      by David Gluzman

      ..the fact is men MUST checkout any hot chicks within their viewable area..

    • Insider Trader Living

      by Crom

      ..The judicial system of North America is a deflated tire, on a broken down buick. Rusty doors and broken off side mirrors, complimented by a fat, lazy, stupid, on the take, son of a bitch driving it..

    • Interview: Public Enemy’s Chuck D

      by Terence Leung

      ..In an online interview arranged by their new label Koch International two weeks ago along with a panel of journalists, we chatted with Chuck D about Public Enemy’s new album Revolverlution, hip-hop’s future, record labels and Michael Jackson.

    • Scissorkicks – Live Mix at the grill (blizzarts), Montreal

      by David Gluzman

      The last time I went to get groceries I casually poped in this album, then found myself getting to safeway in record time. This album is full of phat breaking beats, and just makes you want to drive like a maniac. Possibly a good thing, but I’m sure your parents would disagree. Loud music combined …

    • Beth Orton – Daybreaker

      by Terence Leung

      Goosebumps. That is what the album opens with: big, gigantic, and spiky Goosebumps. Headlines should read: Huzzah! Melody not yet dead! Long Live The Orton of Beth! And they will, well… at least here they will.
      The 51-minute Daybreaker launches with the haunting Paris Train, which fits the smoldering backdrop with a rickety train percussion track …

    • Powerpuff Girls – The Movie

      by Wartank

      Here is a story of how great things come in small packages – I’m speaking both of the teensy size of the movie’s namesake ass-kickers as well as the densely packed cinematic artifice. The Powerpuff girls are pint sized but immensely powerful, and the movie is barely 70 minutes long but is effectively a challenge …

    • Soda Pop will destroy the universe

      by Crom

      ..They’ll battle it out over the precious remaining ingredients in the world, and kill each other for last drops of caramel colour..

    • The 6 ½ reasons I woke up drunk in Perkins

      by Crom

      ..what chain of events were so skewed as to leave me stranded at a all night diner, a long way from home, extremely inebriated and with little to no recollection of the past 24 hours..

    • The Future of gaming

      by David Gluzman

      ..Killing 50 or so people in a random arena, or clicking to death an opponent in a RPG is just pathetic. *Yawn* I don’t have the time or energy to devote building up skills (character stats) in different games.

    • R4ndom R4nts

      by The Wandering Wasabe Wayfarer

      ..At some age, likely shortly after puberty, all rational thought and brotherly love flees the body, giving way to selfish concern and mob mentality. The older one gets, the more prominent the effect..

    • The Collapse of Capitalism?

      by MaxPower

      ..People who have lost their savings in the Enron collapse had put all of their cash into Enron and never invested in any other companies. Its called diversifying baby, spread the risk out, putting all you financial eggs in one basket is akin to committing economic suicide.

    • Star Wars – Attack of the Clones

      by Wartank

      One thing I can say is that I was certainly quite surprised coming out of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
      I was surprised that the title, shunned for years by nerds worldwide, was actually quite fitting in describing this confused, high-tech A/V hack job, frankensteined from 10 vastly superior films, and carrying no …

    • Rogers/Shaw Hi-Speed Internet

      by Crom & D4V

      D4V: Claim: Unlimited High Speed Internet Fact: Unlimited hassles guarantee
      Crom: You know, I remember when I got my iStar account; I thought I was in paradise. When I got my High Speed cable, I thought I’d walked into the greatest show room on earth. Instead, I’d walked into a shit sandwich, and we all had …

    • NEC FE950+ (19″ CRT)

      by David Gluzman

      Quick Specification breakdown:

      18-inch viewable screen size
      0.25- to 0.27-millimeter dot pitch
      1,792 x 1,344 maximum resolution at 68 Hz refresh rate
      OptiClear viewing; antistatic, antiglare screen treatment
      Compatible with PCs and Macintoshes

      I remember when I bought my first NEC monitor in 1995; $1200 and I was sitting in front of a brand new 17″ Multisync M700. The M700 …

    • Insomnia (Movie)

      by 4CS

      The film was slow… with little drama.
      What’s worse, you have seen all the clichés in this film many times over. Let’s review: our hero, played by Al Pacino, is a decorated cop whose rep is on the line. Swank plays the rookie who has “followed EVERY case…” of our hero. The cop who accidentally (?) …

    • Dj Shadow – Private Press

      by a parallel mechanic

      Survey says…good album! Shadow manages to maintain his style from his 1996 “Entroducing….” release without sounding dated. Shadow fans will not be disappointed.
      Here’s a track-by-track size-up:
      1. Letter from Home – This is kind of random. Apparently, this was the way to communicate with a loved one over long distance back in the day. Just another …

    • Mike Who?

      by Kobayashi

      The separate weigh-ins and the line of security officers separating the two men in the ring only served to heighten my disappointment as there were no riots or body parts removed during the fight..

    • I’d try to win the Canadian Rocks House party contest..

      by Crom

      ..the phenomenon of Molson Canadian, is more a mental state, then an actual refreshing beverage..

    • G-8 Rioting 101: Only the uneducated need apply

      by Kobayashi

      ..let the radicals claw their way through K-Country. Our bears are getting rather hungry..

    • Cancer and You

      by MaxPower

      You think we have starvation problems now, wait till the food gestapo starts kicking over bowls of rice in developing countries. Hey China and India – all 2.2 billion of you, stop eating rice it’ll give you cancer. Hey Italy don’t you know noodles will kill you?

    • Ugliness Rears its Ugly Head on Talent

      by Terence Leung

      ..There is a girl somewhere in the world running around strumming her half-broken guitar and humming to herself, with the potential to re-arrange the entire face of music in one fell swoop… instead, we can substitute talent in for breasts..

    • Fubar (The Movie)

      by David Gluzman

      Just Give’r.
      Sweet, a movie about head-bangers that shotgun cans of Pilsner. What else would you want to see in a low budget movie depicting some white trash in Calgary.
      Having seen Terry (Dave Lawrence) act out several times at the Loose Moose theater, I was greatly anticipating the release of this movie. I first heard about …

    • J-Live – All of the Above

      by a parallel mechanic

      When the “The Low End Theory” album dropped in 1991, A Tribe Called Quest showed the hip hop world that you could have street cred, intellectual stimuli, and dance floor bangers and still come correct. People who thought rap was only about Kid’n Play’s high top fades or Rob Base’s redundant anthems began to see …

    • Black Label Society – 1919 Eternal

      by Obsidian

      A lot of fans and critics alike lauded Ozzy’s latest album “Down to Earth” as his heaviest record ever. I would have to say that this has little to do with the bat-biting madman, and everything to do with Zakk Wylde’s input in the songwriting. “1919 Eternal” is the third album from Black Label Society …

    • Stupid Callers

      by The Lotus Queen

      ..Unlike the mainstream radio stations, it is really easy for anyone to call in. And I mean anyone!

    • Mt.Bike try-hards are lame

      by David Gluzman

      ..What isn’t cool is seeing un-core people buy super crazy downhill bikes and then just ride it throughout town without a helmet or anything..

    • FIFA – Why the Hell Should I Care?

      by Obsidian

      ..Even the CBC is running games, which is something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime from the Toronto-is-the-centre-of-the-Universe network..

    • Remy Zero – The Golden Hum

      by Terence Leung

      Maybe it will take ‘The Golden Hum’ to shake off Remy Zero’s unofficial title of “Hey! It’s that band whose lead singer was married to Alyssa Milano!” but unfortunately it probably won’t. But hey, Ozzy Osborne is still known as “That british guy who bites the heads of bats on stage” so as far as …

    • Dungeon Siege (PC)

      by Crom & D4V

      Crom: Unless you’ve lived in a dark hole, then you’ve heard of Microsofts latest RPG “Dungeon Siege”. Following in the unsure footsteps of such gaming extravaganzas as Diablow and Diablow II , Dungeon Siege is a Single/Multiplayer world of battle. The 3d graphics were a much needed improvement to this style of game, and the …

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