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The group plays a mix of electronic and pro gressive rock unhindered by many of the messy trappings of those genres, such as "original thought" and "techni cal ability." The music plods away with mindless "spacey" arrangements recorded with much better production values than they deserve. Long, boring and without a single idea not bor rowed, "Now Here is Nowhere" abyss. First up in REVIEW our aural pain parade is "Now Here is Nowhere," successfully makes the rise of modem progressive rock seem foreboding rather than hopeful. Don't be mistaken, there are groups out there making dynamic, interest ing music that actually pushes some boundaries. This is evidenced by the latest from Xui Xui, "Fabulous Mus cles," a bizarre mix of dark melodies and avant-noise, perfectly capturing the sound of a man's encroaching emotional death. Lead singer Jamie Stewart sounds like he's on the edge of tears throughout the album's dura tion; his voice holds everything to gether. The music is composed of odd rhythms and seemingly random elec tronic noises. The lyrics consist of near-suicidal laments about child mo lestation, suicide and relationships falling apart. Spooky stuff. But who needs abrasive, original work when we can have what is safe, complacent and maudlin? Why not listen to the debut album from Grif fin House, "Lost & Found," instead? House comes from the long tradition of singer/songwriters who believe that their relationship difficulties are im portant enough to holler about in every coffee shop from Greenwich to Frisco. Singing about anonymous women and the happiness and/or pain they have caused him, House is as functional a narcissist as anybody (eight of the 11 songs on the album have a personal pronoun within the first line), yet he fails to make his nar cissism interesting. The music itself is the same bland Americana used by Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and countless others when ever they want to seem "down home." This album would be just another inof fensive coffeeshop rock release if it weren't for House's self-important atti tude. In "The Way I Was Made," for ex ample, House goes over the history of his family leading up to his birth. De scribing his parents: "They met in school with broken hearts/Healed each other from the start/Man and woman play your part, now we're closer to the way I was made." It's good to know that years working and toiling and sweating by coundess generations made it possi ble for Griffin House to sing us this song. Now, I don't usually support eu genics, but it times of great trial, excep tions must be made. ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com COPA continued from page 9 this was the least restrictive mechanism Congress could use to address this problem. Congress and the courts agreed that access to adult material by children is not a good thing. The ques tion is on which method to use. What Congress had proposed is essentially proposed is a prior restraint law. COPA requires Webmasters to limit their ma terial before people can even see it. When you have a prior restraint law, the Supreme Court takes a very close look, and what they concluded here was that the government did not show that the age verification systems worked better that filters. This gives the government the opportunity to show that filter programs are inadequate and that a universal approach is required. Emerald: The Supreme Court deci sion was split five to four. What was the dissenting opinion? FL: They argued that the material that would be blocked did not deserve the protection the majority position was giving it. Emerald: What do you think the chances of COPA passing on the low er court level are at this point? FL: I think it's pretty low. The majori ty of the Supreme Court already made it clear that the government would not be able to show that the universal ap proach is better than filters. The reason for this is that any law passed by Con gress can't regulate what takes place outside of the United States, Emerald: So if all the servers for pornographic Web sites moved out of the country, the law would have no ef fect on them? FL: Right. But even though COPA can't deal with material which comes from outside of the country, filters can. Even if filter technology isn't very good, which it's not, a filter installed on an in dividual computer will block more material than COPA would just by the very nature of the technology. I think what will end up happening is that the plaintiffs in this lawsuit will go into the district court and prove just that. Emerald: How is the COPA decision similar to the Communica tion Decency Act decision? FL: The CDA was the government's first attempt to regulate the Internet in terms of speech. That law stated that any body distributing material over the Inter net which was indecent would be sub ject to a felony. The Supreme Court found it unconstitutional because it would make it a felony to provide mate rial to adult which they had a constitu tional right to read. COPA was a narrow ing down of this. Congress attempted to emulate a number of states which have lowered the obscenity standard by ap plying it to what kids can get, because children are not entitled to the same ma terial as adults. The problem that you run into is that there is no way to distin guish adults from the children. So unless people want to go through a credit card check, they are limited to an Internet re duced only what is acceptable to an 8 or 10-year-old. 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