This week’s updates are a bit different, because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, all pork and no wlay..see? Hope you will enjoy them, as there are many hidden gems inside, as well as things you might have forgotten about.

1. A collection of a professional’s live photos from 2006
2. One set of live photos
3. Five sets of magazine scans
4. Many album booklets’ scans have been added and the ads and other stuff sections have been slightly reorganised
5. Four new magazine articles
6. Two more excellent jams

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The cause is now on Myspace as well, so if you do not have a Facebook account or you, for any reason, don’t want to sign the petition on the domain, you can join the cause here. It is important to complete all the steps, so click the link and do what the system tells you to do.

Add the campaign as a friend and then click here to join the cause.

The story started on 17th March, when Richee, an avid I-M.net reader since the very beginning has posted his question to Joe Lally. Surprisingly (or not), it encouraged other people to ask the same and, after the interview with Joe has been completed, the teams behind Invisible Movement, JKDN and Stonecoldbush.com came up with this original idea, and the ladies of JKDN, being the people known for reacting very fast, acquired a domain name and started gathering signatures.

So, seriously, what is this about? It’s about you and how much you would like to see Ataxia reunited and live, as 02nd February 2009 will mark the fifth anniversary of the first of their mini-shows. They have recorded only ten songs. It’s known how wide the imagination and the creative centre of the brains of John, Joe and Josh are, so why not nudge them to record some more music and play a show or a couple for us, preferably somewhere in Europe, as Europe never got any of Ataxia.

Yes, you heard me well. Click the banner below to go and sign the petition if you’d like to hear more from John, Joe and Josh and experience them live.

In addition to this, there’s a cause on Facebook as well; click here to join it and click here to join the group as well.

We can do it!

This is for all of you who desperately search for photos, once again. Here’s a nice photo of John with friends at the premiere of Daniel Lenois’ movie, Here Is What Is. Daniel Lanois performed in conjunction with two screenings of his movie on Thursday, March 27, at the Vista Theatre in Silver Lake.

The image has been slightly resized to fit the column, so please click on it to see it in its full size.

For more information about Mr. Lenois’ movie, click here.

Another set of updates was delayed even though I thought it wouldn’t be. Working on a complicated database of employees of a very large company does its thing, I’m afraid; so do three other projects. I’m also sorry about the current lack of a new playlist, but once all of this is done, there will be a completely new look for the site as well, so there will be more time for developing playlists. Also, I apologise for temporary outages of both polls and the playlist, I was upgrading those components and they were not behaving well at some points. Bad components.

Either way, here’s this week’s list of updates. Last week’s, too. Let’s hope they’re not for next week as well. To view details on each list item, open the whole page.

1. Volunteer-file has been updated
2. One more language in the GLOBAL action, Mandarin
3. One 1997 audio show in mp3 and flac
4. The famous 40-minutes jam from 2003 is back online!
5. Eight more sets of live photos, from 2002, 2006 and 2007
6. Two more sets of press photos from 2007 and an update to one of the existing ones
7. One new set of magazine scans + another one was updated
8. Two new magazine article & five have been typed out/translated
9. Six more album reviews
10. One song review (!)
11. One new wallpaper
12. One more traditional art piece, by William Paul Lewis
13. Two more visitor-submitted wallpapers, by Uli

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Last week, I asked the visitors of Invisible Movement to submit a question to Joe Lally, the Fugazi and Ataxia bassist and a solo artist. Kez of JoshKlinghoffer.net had a lengthy conversation with Joe (”lengthy” as in “almost fifty minutes”) and it’s online now.

So, if you are interested in hearing how and when Joe, John and Josh met, who’s the original friend of Joe’s in RHCP, how the Ataxia’s songs were created, what Montreal is actually about, what the life after Fugazi, living in Italy and being a father are like… and much much more, have a listen or download the audio.

Also, one of Joe’s new songs, from his latest album, Nothing is Underrated, is a part of the interview. If you miss Fugazi and Ataxia, that will make your day.

Download the file here. It was already downloaded 423 times, it’s 44 Mbytes big and the format is mp3.

From what I could make out after the first listen, the people who were lucky to have their questions answered were Richee, Marcelo, Jay, Chris and Calyxto.

A huge thanks goes out to Kez, who is a real fighter and braver than 95% of world population, for having done this wonderful interview; and to Kat who has given a chance to Invisible Movement readers to participate in this. Please, do visit and support JKDN. Just like Invisible Movement, it’s a serious project and it’s no-nonsense, the only difference is that they’re not straight-edge and that they worship Apple (and should I mention that they do have sense of humour, unlike me?). Also, they will be doing podcasts once a week and you can subscribe to them via RSS.

Enjoy!

Various celebrities will be featured on a MTV documentary series titled 4 Real which captures the stars embarking to different countries to connect with leaders inspiring change in their nations.

The eight part series, which will launch on April 14, will be separate 30-minute episodes.

Stars who will be feature don the show include rapper K’naan, M.I.A, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joaquin Phoenix, Cameron Diaz, Eva Mendes and Casey Affleck. The RHCP episode will be aired on 28th April.