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Before long he found that his pathological interests precluded his being hired by any hospital. His ostracism, however, did leave him more time to rummage around flea markets, looking for old toys with small gears that he could use to build his inventions. His first "Mercitron," a precursor to the carbon-monoxide delivery contraption he provided to two more suicidal women last week, now sits in his lawyer's office. "He's very skilled in mechanical engineering," says Geoffrey Fieger. "He's very talented, in everything he builds...
...recent interview with Rolling Stone, Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea had some rather unflattering things to say about Ugly Kid Joe. How did you feel about that...
...Knock Me Down" and "Taste the Pain," two more songs from Mother's Milk, and the best two songs of Hits, really show the incredible talent of this L.A.-based band. "Pain" highlights band member Flea--one of modern rock's greatest bassists and one of the few who can play the bass as a lead instrument. The tenth and eleventh songs are "Under the Bridge" and "Show Me Your Soul," a cut from the "Pretty Woman" soundtrack, which in addition to funky guitar and an incredible bass line has some of the Chili's wittiest lyrics: "I want...
...able to confirm the heretical speculations of Copernicus, Kepler and Tycho Brahe that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our universe. The specific origins of the microscope are equally obscure. In the 17th century, Robert Hooke used it to describe accurately the anatomy of a flea and the design of a feather; Antonie de Leeuwenhoek discovered a world of wriggling organisms in a drop of water. The invention of logarithms and calculus led to more accurate clocks and optical instruments...
...Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' outrageous and outspoken bassist, would absolutely cringe if he heard the cliched funky bass line on the eighth track "Same Side." Not that he would ever pick up a copy of UKJ's latest, of course, considering his well-publicized opinion of these MTV darlings who have been for some reason so often compared to the Chili Peppers. In an interview appearing in Rolling Stone this summer, Flea dismissed UKJ as merely "copying us, copying Faith No More, copying pop-rock band...