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...instituted out of fear. Concerns for our children's safety are well founded. In being driven by fears while forgetting to safeguard civil liberties, however, we may reach a time when the term "the land of the free and the home of the brave" no longer applies. TONY KALENAK Odessa, Texas...
When students went back to school last week at Permian High in Odessa, Texas, they wondered what had happened to the place over the summer. Gone was their old wide-open campus, now surrounded by a security fence with controlled entry points and clusters of surveillance cameras. Inside the school, they had to wear bar-coded photo-ID badges, and in many classrooms, "black boxes" with mirrored eyes stared implacably down from the walls, above signs that read, IT SHOULD BE ASSUMED THERE IS A CAMERA INSIDE THIS ENCLOSURE RECORDING VIDEO AND AUDIO...
...Stone Coyotes themselves do actually seem to care about fame and fortune; though these aren't the smoothest lines around, the Stone Coyotes are pinning their hopes on this song to help them find their 15 minutes in the sun. Their newest CD, "Church of the Falling Rain," featuring "Odessa," is being released at the same time as Be Cool, and the band admits that they dream of an eventual soundtrack spot. After all, as Leonard himself assured, "This is shamelessly aimed at the movies. I want to see a good movie made. With or without Travolta, though...
...Cool, however, the middle-aged family band takes on a slightly more glamorous tint. The character based on Keith, Linda Moon, is young, single and employed by an escort service. In fact, only the Stone Coyotes' lyrics make it to print unaltered, including "Odessa," a brand new title Keith wrote expressly for Be Cool. Some choice lines: "I don't care about fame and fortune / Camera in your eye and a dollar in the bank / I want to go runnin' through the fields / Drinkin' hot water from a railway tank...
...Stone Coyotes themselves do actually seem to care about fame and fortune; though these aren't the smoothest lines around, the Stone Coyotes are pinning their hopes on this song to help them find their 15 minutes in the sun. Their newest CD, "Church of the Falling Rain," featuring "Odessa," is being released at the same time as Be Cool, and the band admits that they dream of an eventual soundtrack spot. After all, as Leonard himself assured, "This is shamelessly aimed at the movies. I want to see a good movie made. With or without Travolta, though...