Tragedy. A few weeks ago my beloved A500 went kaput. It actually fried itself. Perhaps it was suicide. Many computers are not famous until they are dead. So I decided to use it as stage prop for our next concert. Amiga, after all, means female friend. So it would be like sexy female dancers, only better. I didn't initially think to smash it. There are many things I initially don't think about. But I spend way too much time on the hypertubes. My head is probably brainwashed and hypnotized with subliminal messages from all those smash-my-whatever dot coms. So it was a split second sudden impulse. I did it before realizing what I was doing. The exceptionally bad camera angles, as witnessed in the clip, is clear evidence. If I knew I was gonna smash it, I would have placed them elsewhere. The cameras are just our usual self-ref cams, luckily they captured some of it. I think it smiles to me now. Not all computers get such a glorious ending. Or their own dot com obituary. This one will never play Doom, but it's OK. GURU MEDITATION ADVICE We do not sacrifice functional Amigas. Only those passed into the eternal bit-fields are worthy. Trashing functional technology is sacrilege. Photos by Kenneth Rivenes. Make benefit the official band site. Or hypertext navigate my blog. Website made with Deluxe Paint IV.