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In yet another supergroup collaboration, Mike Patton seems to be teaming up with TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, and Subtle's Doseone - for an as-yet-untitled project. The Onion's AV Club (don't worry it's a serious article) have the details.
8th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Sarah Silverman and The Great Schlep
Vote Obama, visit your Grandmama
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JCVD
I'm not quite sure what to make of this post-modern craziness, as Jean-Claude Van Damme seemingly re-invents himself as a European art-house actor in JCVD....
8th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Too Drunk To Email?
Google's come up with a way to solve that late-night email rant... Now, what about a drnk n txt solution? (or even a drunk dialling bail-out?). Mosie over to Wired for some more details.
8th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
More Maverick Action From Tina Fey
well, at least we'll get 4 years of great Tina Fey material if the Republicans get in again... now when's 30 Rock series two coming to Five?
7th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Retro Space Travel
They may be reviving the Cold War, but Russia's Space Program has never really gone into decline. They've always been busy and haven't got caught up in the health and safety issues that have plagued the NASA program. Russia's fleet is built to last.
Great pictures from Big Picture.
7th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Felon
It doesn't seem to have had a UK release (no doubt due to Steven Dorff's involvement), but Val Kilmer prison-fest Felon seems to have had a few good write-ups and looks pretty tough. Its critical failure seems to have left Kilmer in movie-jail however, as he's now voicing K.I.T.T. in the new Knightrider resuscitation. All though I'm sure the Ice Man's luck will change when Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is released...
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Google Streetview
Just when the Google Maps / Earth combo couldn't really get any better, they go and introduce Streetview. While the previous mapping technology pulled in a lot of existing data and re-formatted it for Joe-public, streetview involves Google driving cars with 360 degree cameras on the roof down every street in a city. The images are mapped onto the correct co-ordinates, giving a keyhole view into the actual street.
While some of the US cities have been available on the system for a while, things are really starting to take off as it becomes a more widespread technology. Despite some sensitivity backlash, Japan is now online, as well as France and Australia - and after jumping over some privacy hurdles, London is coming online soon.
Here's Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the Hollywood sign, George McFly's house (actually in Pasadena), Shibuya crossing in Tokyo and my old flat in Melbourne. There's already dozens of strange sightings, as well as lists of best-ofs...
God know how Russia will embrace it.
6th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
High School Record
Totally missed this at the time, but check out the trailer for High School Record from 2005 - and now out on DVD. They don't make scene movies like they used to, and this one is pretty loaded: No Age's Dean Spunt plays one of the leads, while Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark and even bass king Mike Watt make an appearance, extending his acting career beyond Raymond Pettibon's movies of the 80's.
Pretty In Pink meets Spinal Tap.
Check out www.stopfollowingme.com for more stuff from director Ben Wolfinsohn, including some cooking lessons from Watt and No Age.
6th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hack Like The Wind
Interesting article at PlanetX64 about installing Apple's operating system on the tiny MSI Wind Laptop, for mega-portability surfing.
6th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
PremieREwind
HD Sky's area-man-vision HD offering continues to improve. As well as the 7 new movie channels they're launching this month, a classic film makes its HD premiere each week. Back To The Future, Unforgiven, Taxi Driver and Die Hard are among the movies in the dugout this month.
5th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: Danny Way
While clean-cut superstar Tony Hawk was perfecting the all-American style that would land him big contracts with the likes of Gillette, no-one noticed young tyke Danny Way sneak in the back door. As a young 14 year-old he popped up briefly in Powell's Public Domain video, before he moved over to the more punk H-Street label and quickly excelled on both street and vert. By 1989 he was nipping at Tony's heels - and the H-Street video Risk It ended with a tantalizingly cut-short clip of a 15-year-old Danny apparently landing a 900, the holy grail of vert skating.
Danny Way started Plan B skates in 1991, and invested in DC Shoes in 1993, with fellow bad boy Colin McKay. With DC hitting the big time, funds were available for bigger and crazier stunts - including the aptly titled 'megaramp' (above, from the DC Video), the helicopter Bomb Drop (can't find a clip of that, but it's a drop out of a chopper onto a half pipe?!), and a bizarre jump over the Great Wall of China (below).
Bonus Fact: Danny Way broke his neck surfing in 1994.
Musical Legacy: Meh.
3rd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
News Flash: Steve Jobs Doesn't Have Heart Attack
Not sure what Paxman would have to say about this iReport.
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Trailer Park: Changeling
Clint Eastwood has a new movie in the can - a period kidnap drama called Changeling, with Angelina Jolie and Malkovich. Watch it here.
3rd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Da Font
For my reference as much as yours .....check out Da Font for a vast array of great free fonts to re-design your tired, aging website with.
3rd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
D.U.D. (Dumb Up Dudes!): White House 2008 in 3 Minutes
Barack, Palin, McCain, drill now!
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Tech Watch
more little boxes for you to think about: Nokia's 5800 is their first touchscreen w "unlimited" music access, and the new DSi console from Nintendo comes w music/camera abilities
3rd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Newcastle 1 Press 0
Newcastle stand-in manager Joe Kinnear unleashed
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Song Of The Day: Volume V
I had been trying trying to keep the current Song of the Day playlist from getting too Canadian-heavy, but after this weeks live Dudes/Ladyhawk double bill that just wouldn't be representative. Both have been on constant rotation since the show, so I'm going to make this a special Song(s) of the Day double bill.
First up, The Dudes' track Do The Right Thing, from Brain, Heart Guitar. A straight-up broken-hearted love song. Listen to the track, and the whole album at Last FM - although watch the fact that they have the album listed under the wrong dudes.
Secondly, I've been waiting to squeeze Ladyhawk in since the album arrived in February, and Fear is one of the best (of many) tracks on the record. Perfect for a drunken rock-a-long. It's an awesome album, pick it up here.
P.S. It's not too late for some Dudes action - they're playing at the Windmill in Brixton tonight.
3rd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ari Gold vs The Dude
Great homage to the Jeff Bridges classic Against All Odds in last week's Entourage, as Ari Gold's new Ferrari and his ego took a battering during a race through LA's Hancock Park - against the even more obnoxious Adam Davies.
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Re-Mobilized
Looks like Scorcese and De Niro might be back in the ring to make another mob movie - "I Heard You Paint Houses" about a gangster who claims he murdered chief Teamster Jimmy Hoffa. God knows De Niro needs a decent film to focus on.
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TV In The Cargo
Due to a last minute permit cancellation, TV On The Radio's gig as part of the Concrete & Glass festival in Shoreditch has been moved to Cargo .....good luck getting tickets.
2nd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Pulling Pulled
the wisdom of BBC3's yoof managers continues, pulling the generally excellent Pulling before it gets a third series. this comes after not commissioning Adam Buxton's MeeBox and launching crapola like Coming Of Age, one of the worst things I've sat through in ages... there will be an hour-long special to round off Pulling at least
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2nd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: W
More extensive trailer up for Oliver Stone's W biopic over at Myspace's Trailer Park. Wait, that's our franchise.
Looks like a fairly hilarious comedy.
2nd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Get Stone
Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard has some new material out over at the PJ website and you can stream it / but it / watch videos etc. It's not his first side-project of course, he had a solo album Bayleaf in 2001 and was a major part of Brad with Shawn Smith, who have had three albums of varying success.
2nd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Death of Sister Ray
Some interesting points-of-view surfacing about the death of Sister Ray (1,2) as well as this BBC piece from last year about the demise of Berwick St in general. I confess to ending my weekly spending spree about a year ago. I just don't want a cupboard full of CDs anymore.
1st Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Canadian Borderline
The Dudes AND War(terboys) On Drugs AND Ladyhawk are all playing at the Borderline tonight.
10pm Ladyhawk
9pm The Dudes
8pm The War On Drugs
7pm doors
See you down the front. Or maybe at the back by the bar.
1st Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Breaking Bad free download
Ep 1 of highly recommended new drama Breaking Bad up on iTunes uk
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Devendra Goes Megapuss
Devendra Banhart's got a new side project,Megapuss
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Trailer Park
more upcoming screen stuff: Charlie Kaufman's big theatre drama with Philip Seymour Hoffman Synecdoche, New York, Kristin Scott Thomas in French drama I’ve Loved You For So Long, Madonna's directorial debut (?!) Filth And Wisdom and David Fincher's life-lived-backwards curiosity with Brad Pitt, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
30th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Beware The Cloud?
interesting warning on cloud computing from GNU man Richard Stallman
30th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Soup Of The Day
Domino's Max Tundra is adding some value to his latest soup recipe (Kosher Chicken), by giving away two free albums with it. One is his new studio album Parallax Error Beheads You and the second is a bonus disc of covers called Best Friends (a "reinterpretation" of Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be by some of Max Tundra's friends).
Buy the soup and you get download codes for the music from Domino's download store.
29th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
By The Hammer Of Branagh!
Kenneth Branagh's lining up to direct Thor for Marvel
29th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Robert Plant NOT Up For Led Zep
boooo....
ROBERT PLANT STATEMENT
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are currently touring the USA on the last leg of their 'Raising Sand' tour. They played a benefit concert in Oklahoma City for victims of Hurricane Ike last Friday; Austin, Texas last Saturday and tomorrow they play Portland, Oregon before finishing the tour in Saratoga, California on October 5th.
After those dates, Robert has no intention whatsoever of touring with anyone for at least the next two years. Contrary to a spate of recent reports, Robert Plant will not be touring or recording with Led Zeppelin. Anyone buying tickets online to any such event will be buying bogus tickets.
"It's both frustrating and ridiculous for this story to continue to rear its head when all the musicians that surround the story are keen to get on with their individual projects and move forward," Robert Plant said.
"I wish Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham nothing but success with any future projects," he added.
29th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
R.I.P. Paul Newman pt2
They don't make the posters like they used to either: check these for some of our all-time Newman chimp favourites Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler, The Sting and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
27th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
R.I.P. Paul Newman
Butch couldn't dodge that final bullet and has died, aged 83.
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Plant's on for the Led Zep tour
should be on for next summer apparently
26th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk may be the undisputed king of vert now, but at the time he was a bit of a dweeb - having evolved through the pastel drenched skate style of the early 80's before street skating kicked in. He was always too gangly for that stuff and seemed uncomfortable anywhere other than 20 feet up in the air ....despite what his Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game might suggest. Have a look at his cameos in Police Academy IV and Gleaming The Cube and you'll see what I mean.
Either way, technically he was a genius and 1987's Powell Peralta video The Search For Animal Chin put him on the map - skating on the monster ramp they built for the video out in the desert (see above).
Desptite putting his retirement on ice since the 90's, he's continued to skate and set some major benchmakers over the year's - beefing McGill's McTwist into first a 720 spin, then even a 900 in 1999 (see below).
Bonus Fact: Hawk's 16 year old son Riley Hawk has been on pro on Tony's own Birdhouse label for several years.
Musical Legacy: None.
26th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
D.U.D. (Dumb up Dudes) - it's Obama v McCain
90 minute showdown for the White House tonight. More4 are showing it in full in the UK tomorrow at 11pm, with their Presidential week kicking off with John Adams at 5.30pm - bit early for an Emmy-winner, but there you go. They've also got Recount on later in the week, a great new HBO film about the 2000 election and the hanging chad debacle
26th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Screening Room
With more and more films embracing digital distribution - and the average cinema experience getting less capable of surpassing the chimp screening room experience - it's not surprising that YouTube is starting to seem like a good way to promote films.
With Wayne Wang releasing two films this year, one of which - The Princess Of Nebraska - is premiering at You Tube's Screening Room, a site which is already hosting a range of longer-format films. The plan is that the exposure from that will drive punters to the cinema to see Wang's other film, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
The Princess of Nebraska premieres on You Tube on October 17th. More details at Variety.
25th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Vote Wilco
You might not be a US citizen, but you can still plan to vote in the upcoming election .....and score yourself a cover of the BAND by WILCO and FLEET FOXES. Boom. Boom. Boom!
24th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Bob Log III
I'm all about Bog Log III at the moment after a sighting in Berlin. "Has supported Ween" might not be a very helpful description, but check out some video for a taste of the madness.
24th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
BBC Downloads
It looks like the BBC might be continuing is tech-savvie growth and launching a music download store, making its vast collection of radio sessions and live performances available online. They already release quite a few things on CD, such as Led Zeppelin sessions, Beatles sessions and even less commercial stuff like The Wedding Present and The Cocteau Twins - often from Peel sessions.
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