Archive for the 'News' Category

They Fibbed!

July 24th, 2008

Mr. Benepe said that was not true, and that the precise counts show that the old numbers simply were in the realm of fantasy. “The truth is that those historical crowds, you couldn’t accommodate that many people if you crammed them into every open space in Central Park — Great Lawn, North Meadow, Sheep Meadow,” [...]

A Highjacking

May 20th, 2008

I was going to write a post about how in the olden days you had to buy advertising space to peddle your new record.
Instead, I decide to admire the synergy.
Death Cab For Cutie Take Over Stereogum

Weekend Videos

May 17th, 2008

As a 33-year-old with a good-for-nothing minor in political science I should probably scuff at politics at the music video level. Having said that, I like this new alternate Coldplay video for Violet Hill. Talk about undermining political image building. The highpoint… well, I can’t pick.

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And if you want to talk about the issues [...]

Anywhere I Lay My Head Vs. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

May 13th, 2008

Two things.
One, Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming Anywhere I Lay My Head album is available for streaming on Imeem (though, apparently, you have to be a member and live in the US). Two, the trailer for Woody Allen’s new movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona with Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson has been posted on the Internet.
So, [...]

The Crash’s Pony Ride

May 12th, 2008

Official site: www.thecrash.com
Attention USA, UK, Canada and Ireland. The Crash are releasing their album Pony Ride on May 20th through Rykodisc. Here’s the title track from the album and if you don’t like it you must also hate puppies and sunshine.

And how could you not like a band that makes videos such as these two [...]

I Want To Believe The X-Files Sequel Is Going To Be Good

April 18th, 2008

Update: MTV Movies Blog has this quote from Chris Carter:
“It’s really Mulder’s faith in the paranormal that is the faith that he’s wrestling with,” the co-writer/director said. “So while you can see a church in a photograph, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about religion.”
So, the movie is more about Mulder’s faith than Scully’s. That’s good [...]

Crocodile Movies Are Our Weakness: Rogue

April 17th, 2008

What do Lake Placid, Black Water, Steve Irwing’s The Crocodile Hunter, Crocodile Dundee, The X Files episode Quagmire have in common? That’s right: crocodiles.

ShockTillYouDrop.com has an exclusive trailer for the movie Rogue, a story about “a killer crocodile in the Australian Outback.” It seems to have all the elements of a great crocodile movie; including [...]