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Live Foo Fighters
Watch the Foo Fighters play the entire new album live. I like watching them play more than I like listening. Tight.
18th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Trailer Park: Lethal Weapon
This one's an oldie ....where I come from. As it's allegedly about to remade, let's enjoy the original Lethal Weapon trailer.
I remember being on holiday in France and seeing posters for this (L'arme Fatale) and that Sidney Poitier movie where they're chasing The Kurgen through the mountains. Looks like only one of them bagged a spot in my memory.
15th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Tree Of Life Arrives ...Soon
Terrence Mallick's new movie The Tree of Life is having it's Cannes Festival world premiere screening on May 16th - though it may allegedly or not be arriving in UK cinemas on May 4th. Cannot wait either way. I might even go to the cinema to see it.
Visit www.twowaysthroughlife.com for some more vague info.
15th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Trailer up for the Planet of the Apes prequel. Meh.
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14th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
There's An App For That: Yurekuru
BC and I are in the field over in Tokyo this week ....and have been rocked by the frequent aftershocks from last months big quake (a magnitude 7.1 and a 7.4 being the biggest). A frequent sound prior to the tremor is the ding ding of the Yurekuru App, which gives locals a quick heads-up. You can even set a minimum intensity over which you want warning, as most people here don't get out of bed for less than a 7.
Japan doesn't use the same magnitude system as the West, preferring the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale which records quakes in actual relative intensity - rating the quake bigger the closer you are to the epicentre. The ratings are also accompanied by a written description, ranging from "Hanging objects such as lamps swing slightly" through "Hanging objects swing violently. Most unstable ornaments fall. Occasionally, dishes in a cupboard and books on a bookshelf fall and furniture moves" to "Most furniture moves to a large extent and some jumps up".
Update: The USGS has data streams accessible by the "Quakes" app - in English.
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12th Apr 2011 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Hesher Again
Here's another trailer for Hesher - with added Metal.
11th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Beastie Boys
Trailer up for the Beastie Boys' 30 minute cameo-stuffed video epic that premiered at this year's Sundance festival. Could be fun.
8th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hot Sauce Drop
New Beasties track Make Some Noise mp3 streaming on the BB-blog
6th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Super
Now this is what I expected Kick-Ass to be like.
5th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Hangover Part II
Trailer for the Hangover Part II. Booking a long-haul flight now so I can watch the movie.
1st Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
iPod At 10
2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the iPod and amid the possibility that the original style is on the way out in favour of the touch models, Mac Rumors has a pretty amusing link to their forum - dating back to the day of the original announcement. It's an iLol.
1st Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
looks like they are using some kind of Hipstamatic video app here
31st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Boo, Hiss
A deadly Egyptian cobra has escaped from the Bronx Zoo (via BBC). Luckily, he seems to be updating his status on Twitter.
31st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
PJ20
More Pearl Jam 20th Anniversary reissues out yesterday. Possibly their two finest albums, VS and Vitalogy are remastered with bonus tracks and come boxed with an era-concert. It's not to late to repent and jump on board.
30th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Netflix Vs HBO
Netflix seems to be fancying itself as the next HBO, commisioning a remake of 1990 British TV show House of Cards under the guiding hand of David Fincher - and starring Kevin Spacey. The show will initially run exclusively via Netflix's own streaming services late next year. In a show of confidence, they have commisioned two full series up front - 26 episodes. Quite a stretch, considering the original was only four parts.
Netflix already has 20m subscribers, compared to HBO's 28m. If only Love Film was as ambitious.
Via WSJ
29th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: J Mascis - Not enough
Freaky animated video up for J Mascis' new track Not Enough. Directed by Sub Pop alumni Chad VanGaalen
28th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
GBV Digital
Just stumbled across GBV Digital - Guided By Voices' own digital download store. Looks like the perfect place to pick up any of those 130-odd GBV-and-related albums that you may be missing. For completists only. Think I actually have a good chunk of them already...
Dig out a couple of the dozen plus we have reviewed on Chimpomatic here.
25th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: TV On The Radio - Will Do
now that's a pair of 3D glasses
23rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
True Grit: Jeff Bridges Style
New instalment of on-set photos up at jeffbridges.com - from True Grit and taken by the man himself. Looks like a fun shoot.
That's Matt Damon's tragoedia/comedia above.
22nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Radiation Dose Chart
interesting comparison of various different levels of radiation at xkcd.com
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22nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Best Use Of Facebook So Far
Photoshopping your Facebook friends' faces - it's a meme waiting to happen
21st Mar 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
New Eddie Vedder: Ukulele Songs
Eddie Vedder is back with a new solo album on May 31st, his first since the recent-Pearl-Jam trumping Into The Wild soundtrack. Ukulele Songs is made up of new songs and covers, unsurprisingly played on a ukulele. Don't worry if that's a deal-breaker for you however as he also has a tour film - Water On The Road - coming out on the same date and directed by Fugazi's Brendan Canty. That film is culled from 2008's solo tour and features solo cuts mixed in with Pearl Jam classics.
First single Longing To Belong is out today.
Via Pearl Jam
UPDATE: Cat Power guests. Uh oh.
19th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Cat's Eyes I Knew It Was Over (Performed Live at the Vatican)
not a bad place for a first gig. new side project from Faris Horrors
17th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Justice Adidas Civilisation
Lionel Messi, Katy Perry and some skate kids feature in this Romain Gavras ad featuring a new Justice track
16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tron 1.5
I haven't seen Tron 2 - but if reports are to be believed it's as lacking as the original. On that note, here's a short film that features on the blu-Ray disc and Bridges (get it?) the gap between the two films, as well as unfortunately signalling that more may be coming.
16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: David Lynch Directs Duran Duran
weird. this is like the time Andy Warhol directed a video for Curiosity Killed The Cat
16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Big Screen TV
I'm struggling to send video from iPad to Apple TV, but this guy has his own solution. iPhone > Times Square. Wireless.
15th Mar 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Super 8
Full trailer up for Super 8, from JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg. Looks to combine the best of both.
14th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Professor Dude
I think the original slacker dude needs a status update. Say hello to Professor Dude.
Several Shades of Why arrives Monday.
12th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The National - Conversation 16
The National, John "Roger Sterling" Slattery and Kristen "Conchords" Schaal all together in a Secret Service/ President of the US video? if we were on Facebook this would probably qualify as LIKE
10th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Day V Lately
Anyone who remembers J.R. Hartley from 1983 will get the joke with Yell's mildly nauseating updated commercial, but the campaign goes beyond the TV ad. Check out Day V Lately's website, in all in 1996-era glory. Best viewed in Internet Explorer.
Strange to only aim an ad at the over 28's, but at least Yellow Pages seem to be becoming aware of who might actually use them these days. We have Ask Jeeves now after all.
9th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
MPFree: Solo Fox Tracks
Robin Pecknold has dropped three acoustic tracks via @fleetfoxes :
"One is a duet with my friend Ed Droste from the amazing band Grizzly Bear, one is just a new solo jam, and one is a cover."
9th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Controlled Explosions
With new album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care released on April 18th on Bella Union, Chimpomatic favourites Explosions in the Sky have released their first preview of the album. The track Trembling Hands is more direct than much of the band's previous work ...and provides a taster of what to expect next month. I for one, cannot wait.
8th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Nazi 3D Films Discovered
I thought this was an Onion spoof when I first saw it, but apparently the Nazis were shooting in 3D as far back as 1936 - 16 years before Hollywood first started its tedious flirtation with the gimmick.
They probably invented it so they could shoot Iron Sky in the format.
8th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: The Get By - Skating NYC
In support of last year's New York-set dramedy How To Make It In America, HBO made this nice little film The Get By - documenting the New York skate scene.
The show also features references to a supposed New York skate 'legend' - Wilfredo Gomez ... a film about whom you can see above.
7th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
New J Mascis: Is It Done
ever since I spent three days thinking I'd finally blown my hearing after standing a bit too near the speakers at a Dinosaur Jr gig, I've kind of preferred it when J Mascis keeps things quiet... so I'm looking forward to this acoustic-ish album he's got coming out, with loads of guests (Kurt Vile, A Silver Mount Zion’s Sophie Trudeau, Kevin Drew, Ben Bridwell, Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins, Matt Valentine etc). great primer track over at PFork and if you hand over your email Sub Pop will give you another
5th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
New My Morning Jacket: Circuital
"I want it to sound like we're Cuban or Cambodian kids, and we're wearing berets and we're walking through an alley and we stumble upon this band, and it explodes into this crazy sing-along."
My Morning Jacket have a new album - Circuital - out this spring. Make of that what you will. The good news:
"We want people to have almost the exact opposite experience they had last time. I definitely had some goals of wanting to make this one warmer and somehow more contained and more concise of a statement."
Via Rolling Stone
4th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Death Set - Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap
a song about secret handshakes. stick around for the burning chimp at the end
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3rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Simulated Return From Mars
We reported on the simulated mission to Mars in April 2009 - and now after a two week simulated holiday on the red planet, our trusty simulated astronauts are heading back, for a simulated landing in November 2011.
Via Engadget (including simulation joke)
P.S. Don't miss their write up on the 100 Year Starship initiative to send ageing astronauts on a one-way mission to Mars by 2030.
3rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness
first vid from the Strokes. like how the bass player still looks like he's a fan playing along in his bedroom ...
2nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Anime X Men
Warren Ellis is supervising a new strand of anime X-Men stories. Can't be worse than X-Men 3. Ain't It Cool has more details
2nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Easy Rider - The Ride Back
No, it's not a porno remake - it's an actual sequel/prequel to 60's classic Easy Rider. Not sure how connected the production actually is with the original. According to the blurb:
"The long awaited prequel/sequel to one of the highest grossing independent films of all time, "Easy Rider" defined the thoughts and values of a generation. EASY RIDER: THE RIDE BACK shows through flashbacks how these much loved characters became the classic icons of a generation."
Looks like a total turd to me.
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Monkeys
New, chimp-friendly short up from bluetongue films - the collective behind Animal Kingdom and Hesher, as well as numerous outstanding short films.
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Bass Notes: The film posters of Saul Bass
The Kemistry gallery on Charlotte Road in Shoreditch are running an exhibition of some of Saul Bass' poster until March 17th.
Mon-Fr: 10-6pm
Sat 11-4pm
Entrance is free
1st Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet