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Entertainment Weekly: Top 100 TV Shows
While films are often a lot more cut and dried, favourite TV shows provide plenty of room for debate. Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 TV Shows of the last 25 years puts in a fairly predictable top 10 - with The Wire just pipped at 11 - but there's plenty of room for debate beyond that though with the likes of Baywatch at number 50. How can 1.1 billion viewers be wrong?
23rd Jun 2008 - 4 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Entertainment Weekly: Top 100 Films
It's hard to argue with the likes of Goodfellas and L.A. Confidential, but there's plenty to dislike in Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Films of the last 25 years list. For a start, no Lebowski.
There's a more detailed break down here.
23rd Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mara Carlyle live at the BFI
independent fave Mara Carlyle's playing the BFI, appropriately on 4 July as part of their new Roots and Shoots strand
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CEEFAX
I was shocked to hear David Dimbleby promote Ceefax at the end of this week's Question Time, as I had assumed the BBC's 1972 technology was long defunkt. Turns out it has been repromoted by the BBC since 2006, and can even be viewed online.....
The Distant Future, The Year 2000.
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Grace Jones Live Royal Festival Hall
thanks to Jet Chimp for these pics from Grace Jones' amazing appearance at this year's Meltdown
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Ice On Mars?
Dice-size crumbs of bright material have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it.
Check out The Big Picture for some stunning photos.
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Burn After Reading
The high-quality iTunes version seems to have disappeared, but you can still catch the trailer for new Coen brothers comedy Burn After Reading over at YouTube. Looks like they might be following up neo-Fargo offering No Country For Old Men with a neo-Lebowski....
UPDATE: MSN have the trailer here (Windows only).
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Playing the building
David Byrne takes things one step further again
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Men! Axes! Trees!
coming soon to the History Channel: AX MEN!!! extreme power tool action from the makers of Ice Road Truckers
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Firefox 3.0
Firefox 3.0 is up and running for those of you that way inclined... oops it's nearly broken the internet again
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Mande Barung - Indian Yeti
"absence of evidence is not evidence of absence..." ah wise words indeed from Indian Yeti hunter Dipu Marak on the search for the Mande Barung in Meghalaya
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Pearl Jam vs Kanye West
I know how I'd be voting for in this Herculean show-down, but it seems Kanye West and some of his fans were not amused by Pearl Jam sticking around for an extra hour during their Bonnaroo festival performance, meaning Kanye West took the stage at a much delayed 4.25am.
Most of the fans seem to be unamused with the recent graduate himself though, booing and 'throwing glow-sticks' at the stage, whatever that means.
17th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Big Picture
The Big Picture feature on Boston.com has been grabbing my attention for quite a while now. Every day they feature a collection of news images on a (usually topical) topic. Today's set feature the recent storm devastation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Check out their website, or subscribe directly to their RSS feed.
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iTunes Festival London 2.0
iTunes has lined up 31 nights at Koko for their second festival this July with Paul Weller, Glasvegas, The Pretenders, Elliot Minor, Kids In Glass Houses, Sam Sparro, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Annie, Suzanne Vega, The Feeling, Hadouken!, James Blunt, McFly, N.E.R.D., The Zutons, Chaka Khan, Death Cab For Cutie, The Ting Tings, Feeder, CSS, Jamie Lidell, Pendulum, Gabriella Cilmi,The Script, Guillemots and Lightspeed Champion all playing
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Wedding Present Tour
The Wedding Present have added a list of new UK dates to their El Rey tour. They'll be over in December, with a London date at the Forum on Dec 18th.
December
2 : Colchester, UK - Arts Centre
3 : Portsmouth, UK - Wedgewood Rooms
4 : Oxford, UK - Academy
5 : Leicester, UK - Princess Charlotte
6 : Manchester, UK - Academy
8 : Cork, IRL - Pavillion
9 : Dublin, IRL - Andrews Lane Theatre
10 : Belfast, UK - Limelight
12 : Edinburgh, UK - Liquid Rooms
13 : Aberdeen, UK - Moshulu
14 : Glasgow, UK – QMU
15 : Newcastle, UK - Academy
16 : Leeds, UK - University
17 : Bristol, UK - Academy
18 : London, UK - The Forum
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Publish Yourself
There's nothing like self-publishing to give your ego a boost, but you still need to come up with the content - which might not be a problem in the case of the potential Chimpomatic Yearbook. Check out Blurb, where you can make it all happen from $24.95.
16th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
If you can see this....
I spotted this way down in my junkmail box today...
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
Google doesn't always bring up the right results. Searching for a "Sub Pop" specific query brought up this (technically correct) answer...
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still confused about how Obama got in?
handy guide to the US primaries
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The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time?
Does this BBC list of "The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time" make you want to jack yr booty?
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MMJ MSG
My Morning Jacket are playing a headline show at Madison Square Garden this New Year's Eve, which seems like a pretty epic achievement. After the aborted attempt to see them supporting the Black Crowes there on New Year's Eve 2005 (read marmot's review here) I think I'll be giving this one a miss, but if you're in town already....
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The Swiss Army's Birthday
The veritable Swiss Army Knife is 111 today and although trying to take one on a flight these days might lead to a spell at Guantanamo, many people still carry them - including the Swiss Army. You might notice on Wikipedia however, that the military original did not include a cork screw. Must have been Champagne drinkers.
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Monkey: Journey To The West End
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's Monkey: Journey to the West is coming to London's Royal Opera House for 7 shows - booking's open today at 2pm - Wednesday 23 July 8.00pm; Thursday 24 July 2.30pm and 7.30pm; Friday 25 July 4pm and 8.30pm; Saturday 26 July 2.30pm and 7.30pm (read Cnrth's review of the original Manchester performance here).
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Joanna Newsom Somerset House
BC's favourite harp-player Joanna Newsom is playing Somerset House July 20 - tickets online now. It's her only UK date this summer, so chop-chop kids...
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Radiohead Rip Through Portishead
like how Radiohead are getting on board the whole throwing-stuff-up train: here they are w an acoustic version of The Rip
11th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
GEE-PEE-ESS
With GPS becoming more and more ubiqtuous on mobile phones and cameras, we'll soon be in a situation where it becomes totally unnecessary to carry around a brick-sized personal satellite tracking unit - in order to work out where you are, so you can write that on the back of the prints you get back from Snappy Snaps.
It's never been a very user friendly process, and shouldn't really be a process at all - in an ideal world it should just have been recorded when you need it, in the same way date and time started being recorded with every picture.
The world of all photos being tagged with the exact location they were taken is upon us, and chimpomatic is ready. Nearly.
11th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Matthew Herbert Big Band Big Back
The Matthew Herbert Big Band are back - Camden Roundhouse 28th Aug what we've heard of the new stuff is pretty great...
10th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Foo Zeppelin
some pretty unlistenable Youtube footage up for what looks like a fun moment from Saturday's Foo Fighters gig at Wembley - John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page jumping up for versions of Rock and Roll and Ramble On. Can't imagine Robert Plant ever wearing long shorts on stage
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Song Of The Day: Volume V
While the album as a whole might be underwhelming, Evil Urges contains a couple of gems - of which Smokin' From Shootin' is the best, finding My Morning Jacket doing what they do best - playing cowboys.
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Return Of The 90 Minute Movie
Since the demise of Concorde, a few companies have been quietly working away on private jets capable of supersonic speeds, made possible by dampening the sound of the super-sonic boom that causes so much uproar in populated areas. While the price tag of $80 million will be hard to justify without cashing in some airmiles, it might be suitable for the Entourage set out there - and would save the embaressment of having to hitch a lift with Kanye West.
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Beck Chemtrails
quite liking this trippy new Dangermouse-produced Beck track Chemtrails
9th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
iPhone$
With Apple's big WWDC Expo kicking off at 6pm tonight (10AM PST) in San Francisco, the rumour mill is in overdrive, with at least one new iPhone all but certain.
The main improvement will be 3G, which Apple skipped with version 1, naively aiming only at the archaic US cell phone networks. With 3G essential in many countries (Japan, Korea) plus the advantages of selling music over the air, faster internet browsing and more, the new version is expected to see a more global roll-out.
The other over-looked protocol was that in many countries - the UK in particular - people just don't pay for phones, and we certainly don't pay £269. As if by magic, we get top-notch phones for free with every new contract - made possible largely by subsidies paid by the manufacturer. It seems that Apple may be willing to adopt that model, which would bring enhance the likelihood of getting one of these bad boys no end.
Throw in a GPS receiver and the plethora of 3rd Party Apps that will also be launched and mobile Nirvana creeps ever closer. Looks like only Google's Android can put up any sort of competition now, as clearly the likes of Samsung and LG can make the phones look nice, but their software stinks.
Trusty Mac Rumours will be reporting live.
9th Jun 2008 - 6 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Day After Yesterday
From LarsVonTrio: Following endless days of heavy rain, the black storm warning was raised by the Observatory at 6.40am and this was the result a few hours later at around 9am. I filmed this shocking footage from my front doorstep in Sheung Wan. "We were wrong. I was wrong."
7th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mugison's back in July
heads up: Baba Yaga's Hut Presents Mugison Wednesday July 9th 7.30 - 12, Corisca Studios - map here
6th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Black & White Mountain
Black Mountain are on the tube ....or at least on Pitchfork.tv, where they have video of a show from Glasslands in Brooklyn.
5th Jun 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Paul Weller O2 Indigo 4 June 2008
the modfather on storming form live at the O2 Indigo, for a new show on ITV2, starting 14 June. crazy hair, but he's still got it
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Objects As Magazines
Nice article over at Creative Review about the format of the magazine and its place in the context of art.
Objects As Magazines / Magazines As Objects is the title of an exhibition currently running in Art Book in Milan that looks at a wide range of publications that explore publishing territory beyond the usual flat, bound magazine format.
Some such magazines (Visionaire, McSweeney’s, Gas, Grand Royal, Interview) may or may not have had a profound impact on the birth of Chimpomatic, back at the turn of the century when the magazine format seemed clearly to be on its last legs.
4th Jun 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Black Cab Sessions
My Morning Jacket's Black Cab Session is now online. Touch Me, I'm Going To Scream: Part 2
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Roots Manuva Video
Roots Manuva has a new video for his single Buff Nuff which is more than worth 5 minutes of your time....
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Asthmatic Kitty at The Foundry
Sufjan Steven's record label Asthmatic Kitty have an interesting free event coming up at Chimpomatic local The Foundry.
Half-handed Cloud and the Henningham Family Press are proud to present a collaborative music and silkscreen printing project. This project will culminate in a live printing and sing-along event at the Foundry. Half-handed Cloud and the Henningham Family Press will transform the venue’s basement into a 12-foot wide vinyl record player, and use it to perform some new material - never before seen or heard. This event brings together the pressing of a print and the pressing of a vinyl record.
Date: Thursday, June 26th 2008
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL
Entry: FREE
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