John Anthony Frusciante i/fruːˈʃɑːnteɪ/; born March 5, 1970) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums. Frusciante has an active solo career, having released ten albums under his own name, as well as two with Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally as Ataxia. His solo recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to New Wave and electronica. Influenced by guitarists of various genres, Frusciante emphasizes melody and emotion in his guitar playing, and favors vintage guitars and analog recording techniques.
Frusciante joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers at eighteen years old, first appearing on the band's 1989 album, Mother's Milk. The group's follow-up album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991), was a breakthrough success. However, he was overwhelmed by the band's new popularity and quit in 1992. He became a recluse and entered a long period of drug addiction, during which he released his first solo recordings: Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) and then Smile from the Streets You Hold (1997). In 1998, he successfully completed drug rehabilitation and rejoined the Red Hot Chili Peppers with the album Californication (1999). His album To Record Only Water for Ten Days was made in 2001. On a creative spree, Frusciante released six solo albums in 2004; each album explored different recording techniques and genres. In 2009, Frusciante released The Empyrean and again parted ways with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. As of 2011, Frusciante is currently working on his eleventh solo album. Frusciante has produced and/or recorded with the Wu-Tang Clan, The Mars Volta, George Clinton and others. His most recent solo releases will be a 5 song EP entitled Letur-Lefr, due out in July 2012, and a full length album entitled PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, due out in late 2012.
Warfare is coming
Plot
In a dystopic future, where urban areas have grown into megacities that cover entire coastal regions, the justice system has evolved to a single person invested with the power of police, judge, jury, and executioner: the Judge. Among the Judges of Mega-City One, Judge Dredd is one of the best, and a particular favorite of the Head of the Council, Judge Fargo. But there are evil forces at work in the Justice Dept: block riots and the escape of Rico, a homicidal maniac, are only steps in a plan that ultimately lead to the sentencing of Dredd for a murder he didn't commit. And Dredd must discover the secrets of his own past and survive to stop the evildoers.
Keywords: 2000-a.d.-comics, 22nd-century, academy, action-hero, airplane-crash, ambush, anti-hero, apocalypse, arm-ripped-off, assassination
One man is Judge, Jury, AND Executioner.
In the future, one man is the law.
Rico: [after killing the entire council] Now who says politics is boring...
Judge Dredd: There's a maniac loose in the city!::Herman Ferguson: What a coincidence - there's one out here too!
Herman Ferguson: I'm free, you're toast!::Judge Dredd: Actually, you're toast. I forgot to mention it: your new friends, they're cannibals.
Judge Dredd: The legendary Angel family. Cursed Earth pirates, murderers, scavengers, and of course scumbags!
Judge Dredd: [to Mean Machine, mentioning his artificial right forearm with included blade] Does that come with a fork, handsome?
Judge Hershey: [as her dead partner is being taken away] Dammit! I was supposed to be watching out for him.::Judge Dredd: Don't blame yourself, Hershey, he made the mistake, not you.::Judge Hershey: [exasperated] Wouldn't it feel good to have an emotion once in a while, huh?::Judge Dredd: Emotions... there ought to be a law against them.
Judge Dredd: I am the law!
[on the flight to Aspen]::Fergee: What are you doing here?::Judge Dredd: I was convicted of a crime. Wrongly convicted.::Fergee: [laughs] Really? That's kinda weird! What are the odds? Two wrongly convicted guys sitting right next to each other?::Judge Dredd: You received the sentence the law required.::Fergee: Five years, just for saving my own ass? That was a mistake!::Judge Dredd: The law doesn't... make mistakes.::Fergee: Really? Then how do you explain what happened to you? You can't, can you? Great. Mr. "I am the law" can't. So maybe this is some kind of typo. Maybe it's a glitch. Or maybe it's poetic justice.
Rico: You want fear? I'm the fear. You want chaos? I'm the chaos. You want a new beginning?::[knocks a bust statue off it's plinth]::Rico: I am the new beginning!
Warden Miller: [after giving Rico a package, which has is Badge and a picture of Hammond in it] So tell me, Rico, what is the meaning of life?::Rico: [the package converts into a gun and Rico points it at the Warden's throat] It ends.::[he shoots the Warden in the throat]
Im central to nowhere
Thinking of sweeping it clean
When we choose to go were losing more than just our surroundings
Ive gone around the sides of this universe as it stands
Outside the limits of all existence
Where light never ends
We should be grateful to the gods
Whoever theyre real to they are
I value my placement as in Hell
Remember that moment that I fell
Anything that could one day be is as real as what Im saying
If something is nothing it must not be something in any possible way
Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet
Switch below with above all the way up into infinity
We should be thankful who we are
Whether we know ourselves or not
Walking alongside myself
Neither of us listens very well
Im dreading a time that is not near
As a man on cross I have no fear
I cant believe these words Im saying
You gotta feel your lines