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Trailer Park: The Wolfman
not really surprising that there would be a werewolf movie following all the vampire action recently - here's one with Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily Blunt. No prizes for guessing who's the hairy monster here
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Trailer Park: Avatar
Trailer up for James Cameron's long-awaited movie Avatar. Looks alright, but I'm not holding my breath. 3D motion capture, blah blah blah. Looks a bit like one of those cheapo saturday morning Channel 5 animations to me.
Am I the only one who doesn't worship at the altar of Cameron?
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Beak> Geoff Portishead Gets Round To New Album
Geoff "slowcoach" Barrow has put together a new band - Beak> - and has lined up a whole new album already. At this rate he'll double the Portishead CV by Christmas. steady on Geoff. sounds good - bit like his production work on The Horrors
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What's In The Bag, Man?
No Age do a slot on the Amoeba record store's What's In My Bag.
We only have one of those records at Chimp HQ. Will spin it this afternoon if you want to check our Last FM page and guess what it is.
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Ads With Video
yes, we've had ads with video for quite a while now - but not in magazines... perkily-named US company Americhip has been working on Video-In-Print tech, with a tiny screen that you can imbed straight into a mag, and even recharge it via USB if you want to watch their ads again...
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Van Morrison: To Be Born Again
he may have questionable taste in leather jackets, but there's no doubting Van Morrison's recent musical judgement. following the Astral Weeks revival (and the sublime versions of Fair Play and Linden Arden that Dr Chimp and I were blown away by in Cardiff earlier this summer) he's released details of a film documenting the recording, rehearsals and tour of it all on To Be Born Again. too late to stop now, indeed…
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Free Mixtapes galore:
Those generous cats at Strange Famous Records have two awesome mixtapes available absolutely free. Sick Of Wasting is by the man himself Sage Francis and is the fifth in this series which collects songs written between 1996 - 2009 and B. Dolan's House Of Bees Vol. 1 is well worth it. Choice cuts include Be A Star on Sick Of Wasting which uses a neat little Joy Division sample and B. Dolan's ode to Vin Diesel, which is quite touching.
While we're on the subject of free mixtapes if you haven't checked out Buck 65's Dirtbike series you haven't lived. 3 One hour tracks featuring everyone you can think of and all for zero dólares.
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CMX v Project Cocktail
report on the new CMX download format that's supposed to be coming packed w lyrics, artwork, mobile and video bits blah blah - will Apple's Project Cocktail beat it? Who comes up with these names?
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Top Tarantino
I haven't seen Inglorious Basterds yet, so Tarantino is still in my bad books - but that didn't stop me catching some of his themed screenings on Sky Movies last weekend. It was basically him giving intros to some of the movies Sky had rights to show his all time favourite movies.
Here's a nugget of, perhaps surprising, info though: Tarantino's favourite movies that have been made since he began directing. In alphabetical order, with the exception of Battle Royale, which claims the number one spot. If that's not a surprise, then the fact that Matrix was a long-standing number one might be. It was only toppled by the watering down of the franchise by numbers 2 & 3.
Battle Royale
Anything Else
Audition
The Blade
Boogie Nights
Dazed and Confused
Dogville
Fight Club
Friday
The Host
The Insider
Joint Security Area
Lost In Translation
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Police Story 3 aka Supercop
Shaun of the Dead
Speed
Team America
Unbreakable
19th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Phoenix v John Hughes
nice Brat Pack mashup w Phoenix's Lisztomania, tipped by Alan McGee
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Promo Promo: Pink Mountaintops
Nice promo up for the Pink Mountaintops track Execution, form the recent album Outside Love.
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QR Code
Here's an update on that QR Code snippet we ran yesterday .....chimpomatic.com encoded.
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More MOD UFO Files
more UFO files have been released detailing incidents from UK skies between 1981 and 1996. 1996 had one of the highest rates of sightings for years. In other news, the X Files was popular on UK TV in 1996.
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Back To The Office
Gervais and Merchant on the Office repeats 30 Aug BBC2
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XX Marks The Spot
iTunes free single of the week in the UK is Crystalised from The XX - as reviewed here last week with 4 big Bear Chimp stars...
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GPush
The GPush application finally went on sale today, bringing Gmail instant-notification push email belatedly to the iPhone. £0.59 well spent in the App Store - get it here.
Of course, this makes it very likely that Google will flick the switch to enable it by default, as they have with the Android handsets and the Palm Pre...
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Big Pink
Currently getting very highly tipped, check out the promo for The Big Pink's single Dominos.
Another nice old-school promo from Timothy Saccenti, who did that Chairlift one.
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Untwisted Words
That new Radiohead single we blabbed about last week is official - and it's available for free right now, at both their webstore and Mininova, just in case even getting it off the man for free is too much to bear.
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Invaders!
Creative Review has a piece up abut the Invader show that's on at the Lazarides Gallery at the moment.
As well as the usual mosaic space invaders, the show includes Rubik's Cube versions of classic album covers and QR barcodes that you can scan with your phone. I had been meaning to write up something about that tech, but ...didn't. Data here.
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Gentlemen Broncos
didn't really like Napoleon Dynamite, but the new comedy from writer/director Jared Hess Gentlemen Broncos looks a lot more promising - especially with a post-Conchords Jemaine Clements in it as fantasy author Dr Ronald Chevalier
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Pynchon Playlist
Not content with breaking cover to do the voiceover honours on the trailer for his new book Inherent Vice, reclusive author Thomas Pynchon has also released a playlist to go along with the book on Amazon -
"Bamboo" by Johnny and the Hurricanes
"Bang Bang" by The Bonzo Dog Band
Bootleg Tape by Elephant's Memory
"Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles
"Desafinado" by Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto, with Charlie Byrd
Elusive Butterfly by Bob Lind
"Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra
"Full Moon in Pisces" performed by Lark
"God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys
The Greatest Hits of Tommy James and The Shondells
"Happy Trails to You" by Roy Rogers
"Help Me, Rhonda" by The Beach Boys
"Here Come the Hodads" by The Marketts
"The Ice Caps" by Tiny Tim
"Interstellar Overdrive" by Pink Floyd
"It Never Entered My Mind" by Andrea Marcovicci
"Just the Lasagna (Semi-Bossa Nova)" by Carmine & the Cal-Zones
"Long Trip Out" by Spotted Dick
"Motion by the Ocean" by The Boards
"People Are Strange (When You're a Stranger)" by The Doors
"Pipeline" by The Chantays
"Quentin's Theme" (Theme Song from "Dark Shadows") performed by Charles Randolph Grean Sounde
Rembetissa by Roza Eskenazi
"Repossess Man" by Droolin' Floyd Womack
"Skyful of Hearts" performed by Larry "Doc" Sportello
"Something Happened to Me Yesterday" by The Rolling Stones
"Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman
"Soul Gidget" by Meatball Flag
"Stranger in Love" performed by The Spaniels
"Sugar Sugar" by The Archies
"Super Market" by Fapardokly
"Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen
"Telstar" by The Tornados
"Tequila" by The Champs
Theme Song from "The Big Valley" performed by Beer
"There's No Business Like Show Business" by Ethel Merman
Vincebus Eruptum by Blue Cheer
"Volare" by Domenico Modugno
"Wabash Cannonball" by Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans
"Wipeout" by The Surfaris
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" by The Beach Boys
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" performed by Ohio Express
17th Aug 2009 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Rolling Stones: Season 1
Looks like HBO might be turning their hand at making a sitcom about the Rolling Stones. They have optioned manager Andrew Loog Oldham's autobiographies about his time with the band.
Hope they find room for this amusing incident with Bob Dylan getting picked up by the cops in Jersey - reportedly looking for The Boss's old house on Thunder Road or something...
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Magic Monkeys
The Arctic Monkeys/Oxfam tie-up we reported on last week just gets better and better. 40 of the 7" singles have been signed by the band, and two include a 'golden ticket' to see the band at the Reading/Leeds festival. I've never seen so much incentive to donate.
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Flaming Tix
nice solution to the madness of extortionate gig ticket prices from Flaming Lips - for their current US tour they're giving away download codes for six tracks - three new, three b-sides (they still have b-sides?!) - before the gig, and then you get a code to download a recording of the concert you've been to after the gig. they've also got a new album Embryonic on the way (Oct 13) - check out a track over at Pitchfork or click here to check out 3 new tracks on the US iTunes. busy boys, maybe they've been egged into action after their Stardeath proteges have put out such a great debut
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Sky Arts Buys In Treatment
v pleased to see that Sky Arts 1 are going to be showing In Treatment in October - it's a great, smart soap - Gabriel Byrne is on excellent form as the therapist who's lost patience with his patients...
17th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Squirrel Snaps
got to love a squirrel who isn't camera shy...
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#Photography
15th Aug 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Snow Leopard Purrs Into Town
the latest in the never-ending big cat Mac OS updates is on the way - Snow Leopard should be out some time in September. doesn't sound like there's anything too wow about it, but some Quicktime updates might make it worth the $$$
15th Aug 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Architect's Journal: Top Ten Star Wars Architecture Moments
nice list of Star Wars architecture like the eco-friendly Ewok town (knew they were good for something), with links to some buildings in a galaxy much, much nearer - check the Sandcrawler influence on Rem Koolhaas, or the plans for the Full Moon Hotel in Azerbaijan
14th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Larry David v Jon Stewart
A masterclass in the art of talking about nothing
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Promo Promo: Stardeath and White Dwarfs with the Flaming Lips
Drop some acid and check out this trippy new video from Stardeath And White Dwarfs. The psychedelic clip is directed by the Flamig Lips' own Wayne Coyne - easy to arrange if he's your uncle.
The band (Stardeath, not The Flaming Lips) will be headlining a show on the 14th of September at the Islington Academy. Tickets here.
Their album is garnering high praise from Team Chimpomatic here.
13th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Beautiful Losers
Aaron Rose's Beautiful Losers movie is finally coming to the UK, with screenings at the ICA followed by a DVD release through Revolver on August 24th. Buy your copy here.
The Guardian has a piece on the film and the scene it documents, focusing on Barry McGee's tragically deceased wife - the artist Margaret Kigallen.
An exhibition inspired by and featuring some of the artists starts on August 17th at Watch This Space, Unit 11, The Market, London WC2.
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Radiohead: Are These My Twisted Words?
This 'leaked' on Radiohead's forum. Sounds pretty genuine to me - and fits in with Thom Yorke's 'no albums for a while, but some bit's and bobs' type comments in his interview with The Believer.
13th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Usual Cylons
Not sure we need another re-boot (if this is a re-boot), but it seems that Bryan Singer is in talks to direct a big-screen version of 80's / 00's classic Battlestar Galactica. No word on Dirk Benedict's availability as yet.
13th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Contortionist Bike
nice design, hope it goes into production. never really liked the look of trad fold-up bikes
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The Verve Split Agaizzzzzzzzzz
today in who-can-keep-up news, The Verve have split again. is that some kind of record?
13th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Them Crooked Vultures
Yup, it's a heavy riff... Micro chunk of a track from Them Crooked Vultures - Nobody Loves Us And Neither Do I - (so there), the new supergroup w Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones
13th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mad Men's John Hamm AV Interview
AV Club have been speaking to Don Draper aka John Hamm - Mad Men 3.0 starts soon in the US
11th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
UFO Spot on BBC North
UFO spotting made easy - just watch the news!
11th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Architect's Journal Pick Their Top Ten Comic Book Cities
nice selection of comic book architecture
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Sesame Street Mad Men
What if Sterling Cooper walked down Sesame Street?
10th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Chuck In 3D
quite like Chuck - there's a 3D episode coming 25 Aug, 9pm, Virgin 1 - with Lost/Hobbit Dominic Monaghan guesting as a rock star (again?!) get your glasses here
10th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Top References
References don't come better than that. Literally watching Midnight Run as we speak.
- "I think I'll have the steak - what about you?"
- "I'm not hungry"
- "Well, why don't you get the lobster, then I can get a little surf-and-turf going"
10th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Inherent Vice
something of a rarity - a trailer for a book is odd enough, a trailer for a Thomas Pynchon novel is pretty unheard of. is it really him?!
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8th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
10 Tips From Shane Black
Just stumbled across this entertaining how-to guide for action movies, from Hollywood screenwriting legend Shane Black.
In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang I had a character playing Russian roulette. He put a single bullet in a gun and spun the chamber. The tension built - and then he blew his own brains out.
7th Aug 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: An Unlikely Weapon
doc looking at the career of photographer Eddie Adams
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New Improved, LIVE
Bay area blog The Bay Bridged has Yoni Wolf of Why? doing a few tracks for their monthly "New Improved, LIVE" session. Yoni and his piano are in by themselves for for this rare session which features two songs form the forthcoming Eskimo Snow, one from Alopecia and a cover of Pavement's "Shoot The Singer".
7th Aug 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP John Hughes
RIP John Hughes, director of 80s classics like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink
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Dave
Turns out Dave isn't just the son of Mr Mohumbai, but a stand-up comedian in his own right.
Check out Arj Barker's website and Twitter page.
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