Call them old fashioned, but the founding members of The Who don’t think the Internet is the future of rock, are unhappy about radio’s narrow musical focus, and convinced live music is what it is all about.
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My favorite chef/writer Anthony Bourdain tells why the food network is not a place where ‘real cooks’ are shown…..”I find myself riveted by its awfulness, like watching a multi-car accident in slow motion. Mesmerized at the ascent of the Ready-Made bobblehead personalities, and the not-so-subtle shunting aside of the Old School chefs…”
Disney has announced that Pixar will release Toy Story 3 in 2009. And the Oscar nominated screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine is hard at work on the story. The Bad News: Toy Story and Pixar mastermind and all-around animation god John Lasseter won’t be directing.
Sony is dodging opening-day print reviews for “Ghost Rider,” which opens a week from Friday. Critics are being invited to a “courtesy” screening on Friday, which means reviews will be buried in the Saturday papers. The latest Marvel blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage, may well be the most expensive event movie movie to receive this treatment.
New spoilers and other behind the scenes info from this Monday’s Heroes discussion panel. Exec. producers Tim Kring and Jeph Loeb, along with writers, directors, and stars discuss the Heroes writing process, future plans for the show, how they pitched the show to NBC, and their beefs with LOST, how Season 1 will end and more…
What the hell is he doing in that?! No doubt you’ve asked yourself this question before. Maybe you were sitting in a movie theater watching the trailers when all of a sudden an actor whose talent you’d admired or whose integrity had seemed so ironclad pops up in a crappy movie. A movie so god-awful, in fact, that it not only tarnishes them but…
Quick! Which former Bush administration official was caught shoplifting? Which one was convicted for lying about his relationship to Jack Abramoff? Which one is heading to prison for soliciting sex from an underage girl?
Listen to a Movie literally lets you listen to the the entire soundtrack to a movie, played through any web browser. They have tons of films and TV shows uploaded that you can listen to and even director’s commentary tracks. They even have a cool “stealth” mode that turns the audio player window into a fake spreadsheet, to fool your boss.
The Super Mario Brothers theme song is famous world-over and has been played on thousands of different instruments. Here are videos of fifteen different instruments including the “Beat Box Flute” (amazing!), the “Er Hu” (huh?), the “Balalaika” (huh?), the “Hand Fart” (gross), the “Accordion” (Ok, I’ve heard of that one) and a bunch more.
The MPAA is on a new publicity campaign to make Canadian laws stricter when it comes to people caught videotaping movies in the theater with camcorders. Michael Geist has now done a fantastic job destroying each and every bogus claim from the MPAA about the situation in Canada and what needs to be done about it.
