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Still Gunnin' For That #1 Spot
With the movie 'droppin' on June 27th, there's finally a trailer up for MCA/Horatio Hornblower's movie Gunnin' For That #1 Spot.
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Uncut: Long Time Gone
chimp-friendly compilation free w this month's Uncut - Fleet Foxes (great track that's not on the album), Bon Iver, The Felice Brothers, AMC, Howlin Rain, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, and yes, Silver Jews.
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stuff to look forward to
few promising trailers up: Burn After Reading - goofball spy comedy from the Coen Bros; Gonzo a doc on the life and high times of Hunter S Thomson; burnout drummer Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the US Office) has another go in The Rocker; and a double dose of John C Reilly in Step Brothers and The Promotion
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The Luke Arm
Following the success of the Segway (although the many restrictions have led to limited use) inventor Dean Kamen has been putting his efforts into the Luke Arm, honorably named after Luke Skywalker himself.
Watch the whole video to get a low-down on what the arm can do as it's pretty impressive. A definite step towards the world of Robocop...
2nd Jun 2008 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A double-bill of Harris Pilton favourites have been lined up to curate the Dec 2008 edition of All Tomorrow's Parties, with both The Melvins and Mike Patton taking control. Melvins, Big Business and Patton's own Fantomas are among the currently unsurprising first acts to be announced, but more will be coming shortly.
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Zack and Miri
Funny man Seth Rogan is watering down his stock value by appearing in the next Kevin Smith film. Let's hope it's better than Clerks. Or Clerks 2. Or Jay and SIlent Bob Strike Back. Or Jersey Girl. Or Dogma.
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Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all
Or, a one hundered dollar bill actually. Check out the Ten thousand cents website, where ten thousand people were paid 1c each to draw a section.
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Go Tribal
One of the last remote tribes of Brazil have been spotted, who have lived so far lived in complete isolation from the 'civilised' world.
They weren't happy about it and shot arrows at the planes flying overhead.
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30th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
N*E*R*D v I*K*E*A
Pharell's rocking the furniture world w this new chair. It represents the love between a woman and man.
“I had often wondered what it’s like to truly be in love, not lust for once... So I decided not to ask what it was like in someone else’s shoes or what it was like to sit in their seat... I decided to sketch out my own experiment; the perspective chair.”
he's only selling four of each colour though.
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Pork and Beans
It seems like Weezer have got their finger on the pulse of the internet. New album "6" out June 16th.
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Beverly Hills Cop 4
Yes, after the, ahem, success of Indy IV, Eddy Murphy's signed up w Brett "I broke the X-Men" Ratner for Beverly Hills Cop 4
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Telectroscope
"Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York
and vice versa."
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29th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
we wanted to be the electric something or other...
thanks to J Lawless for this clip of The Electric Prunes - if only presenters these days would join in with their guests
28th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Town Of Mirrors
Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard has been typically busy, with new album Robert Pollard Is Off To Business due on June 16th. Beyond the music however, Fantagraphics are publishing a book of his collages - many of which have formed the artwork for GBV records and associated releases.
Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard is published on July 28th, and you can buy it here.
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Recount
great cast in Recount a new HBO movie looking at the Florida chad madness during the 2000 US election: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, and Tom Wilkinson
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DJ Fleet Fox
Everyone's new favourite band Fleet Foxes are doing a DJ set at Rough Trade tonight in Brick Lane, followed by a low-key gig at the Hoxton Bar And Grill tomorrow.
Rough Trade East are pleased announce another exclusive DJ set, this time from Seattle 5 piece Fleet Foxes. If you haven't heard of the Fleet Foxes yet its only a matter of time until you do, they've been turning heads in the industry for a while now. Their debut self titled album on Bella Union is released 9th May, they have a baroque harmonic pop folk sound that takes you back to the heady days of Crosby, Stills & Nash. It a great chance to meet the band whilst listening to them DJ some of their favourite tracks & influences, as if thats not enough you'll even have a chance to listen to their new album that comes complete with a Rough Trade exclusive bonus disc with unreleased tracks.
28th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Minutemen 1940
still pretty excited by the attention to detail in the upcoming Watchmen film - check this pic of their 1940 incarnation, the Minutemen
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Touchdown!
The Phoenix Mars Lander is safely down on the Martian surface, after a 10 month/400 million mile journey. It's beaming back pictures live, which you can check out on the University of Arizona's website ....just in case you want to see the little green men, before The Man hides the truth.
27th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Bobby and Al Show
De Niro and Pacino are teaming up for Righteous Kill - a thriller about a cop serial killer
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Flying Fish!
For a long time I thought I'd imagine the fish that used to terrify me at the beach when I was a kid, but video recent video evidence seems to prove that they do fly ......for up to 45 seconds. Invasion coming soon.
26th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
An Open Letter To Metallica
Dave Grohl's written open letter to Metallica, via the pages of Metal Hammer:
Dear METALLICA,
Hey, it's Dave! Remember me? Yeah, I'm the guy that's been listening to your band faithfully since 1983. I bought your first album 'Kill 'Em All' from a mailorder catalogue called Under The Rainbow, I think. Actually I can't remember. It was 1983 for Christsakes! But that album changed my life and I've been listening to your albums ever since (even 'St Anger'!).
I can't wait to hear the new shit, and no matter what you guys do I'll always be first one at the shop waiting to hear it. I'm sure you'll come out and blow everybody's fuckin' minds, because you're fuckin' METALLICA!
Good luck. And don't release it until it's kick-ass.
Yours, Dave Grohl.
P.S. Are you finished recording the drums yet?
Nice sentiment. I wouldn't mind if Dave waited until the record was kick-ass before he releases his next one...
23rd May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Photos Of TV
as Dr Chimp will remember, I can totally relate to this collection of photos of TV
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Lindsay Lohan's 22nd Birthday
she's taking bids for sponsors RIGHT NOW - don't worry, there's going to be some sweet Chimpomatic T-shirts in those goodie bags...
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Last Chance Dustin
Dustin Hoffman in London shooting Last Chance Harvey, a romcom with Emma Thompson. Love how you can tell it's him even in silhouette...
21st May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
NPR
America's National Public Radio has a whole host of podcasts available and I've been busy checking out gigs from their All Songs Considered show. High quality lives shows from the likes of Black Mountain, Stephen Malkmus, My Morning Jacket, Bon Iver, Vampire Weekend, Yo La Tengo .....you get the picture.
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21st May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
There Can Be Only Two! Or More.
Highlander looks set to get the remake treatment - hopefully re-booting the series so far back that we can forget about the myriad of mis-steps the franchise took. But not so far back we end up on planet Zeist.
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Song Of The Day: Volume V
You can see the Later version below, now Bon Iver's Skinny Love is free on iTunes this week; that's enough to bump it up onto our ongoing Song Of The Day Volume V
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Tarsem's Fall
sure this is going to be the same combo of visually arresting nonsense that made The Cell such a weird experience, but Tarsem's interview about his new film The Fall over at the AV Club is an interesting read
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You Wanna Live in The Zip? You Gotta Live By The Code
how did the Wire's Michael get to Beverly Hills?
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My Morning Mania
It's not quite Beatle-mania, but My Morning Jacket are all over the capital this week. Singer Jim James and guitarist Carl Broemel are playing a two-man show at St. James Church in Picadilly on Thursday night - which if the last London acoustic show is anything to go by will be thoroughly unforgettable.
They also recorded a Black Cab Session last night, which should be coming online sometime soon.
If that's not enough for you, ATO Records are re-releasing the last few records (It Still Moves, Acoustic Citsuoca, Z, Okonokos) to coincide with the forthcoming release of Evil Urges.
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Come Dine With Bon Iver
Bon Iver seems to be boiling up a nice head of press on the back of his excellent album For Emma, Ever Ago. A big hit on Later ....and TV spots during Come Dine With Me. He's made it.
20th May 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Knowle West Boy
first Portishead, then Martina Topley Bird and Massive Attack's Meltdown — now the other main dude from the 90s "don't call it trip hop" scene is back: Tricky's site for Knowle West Boy (his new one on Domino) is up, with a video, a track and the option to download some parts to remix.
19th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Cultcha innit
The Culture Show's coming back soon in the new Later w Jools slot on BBC2; a short ep on Tuesdays and the longer remix on Fridays. BBC1's Imagine is back on next week w features on Doris Lessing, Wernor Herzog and the mighty Haruki Murakami
19th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fringe
new JJ Abrams spooky stuff show, with Daniels from The Wire and Pacey from Dawson's Creek
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Robots
Nice piece on vintage Japanese robots over at Wired. Don't think we need to worry about an imminent mutiny from these guys though.
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The Final Circle Line Party
welcome in Boris's booze tube ban with the Final Circle Line Party: "On June the 1st 2008 - drinking on London public transport will be made illegal. We will be raising a glass to the end of this British tradition with a good old knees up. Horah."
hmm, they can't spell "hoorah" - can they organise a piss-up on a tube?
Saturday May 31st 9pm, Liverpool Street Station
Circle Line Clockwise Platform
Rear of the train
19th May 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
More BSG?
am currently piling my way through the Battlestar Galactica boxset to try and catch up before S4 finishes and I accidentally stumble across some Cylon spoilers, so it's good to hear that they're thinking of making up to 3 more TV movies - if you haven't got on board, it really is one of the best shows of the last 10 years
17th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Micachu Pod
you have to skip through the Zutons to get to it, but the lovely and excellent MIcachu's on the Guardian's podcast this week. starts about 24 mins in
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MMJ Recap
A quick reminder why My Morning Jacket rock.
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Song Of The Day: Volume V
Fleet Foxes have snuck in the back door and on to the Song Of The Day playlist with their track Your Protector, which channels My Morning Jacket and CSN in equal measures. Their Sun Giant EP provides a taste of what's coming from their excellent debut - which is out in a couple of weeks on Sub Pop in the US and Bella Union in the UK. What a CV.
Check Sub Pop, Myspace and Last FM for more sounds/downloads.
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Dollhouse
"this is cutting edge science in a house full of hot chicks!" ahh, joss whedon's back...
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P.O.V.
You probably can't get more uncool than posting a link to a Nike ad ....unless it's a Nike ad with Guy Ritchie behind the camera that is. His usual all star cast / lack of script combo isn't a problem for once - as the ad cleverly follows the point of view of a young footballer working his way through his career. Agency 72 and Sunny are behind it.
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