Thursday, December 3, 2009

THE GREAT HEATH LEDGER. MUCH RESPECT TOWARDS HIM & ISAAC BROCK!















THIS PORTRAIT IS COURTESY OF THE SUN “THE BEST IN THE U.K FOR NEWS, SPORTS, CELEBRITIES & TV” <—- I WOULD ADD MUSIC AND GOSSIP IN THERE, BUT I AM UNFORTUNATELY NOT EMPLOYED BY THE SUN (YET);) THIS STARTED OFF AS A SHORT BLOG ABOUT LEO’S LATEST GIRLFRIEND AND HOW HOT SHE WAS AND I IMMEDIATELY WENT OFF ON A RANT ABOUT HEATH LEDGER BEING THE BEST ACTOR OF MY GENERATION.. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT IF YOUR FELLING CHEEKY~

DAMN, I WISH I WAS BRITISH = I GUARANTEE THAT I WOULD BE A SUCCESSFUL MUSICIAN OVER THERE BECAUSE THEY APPRECIATE ART AND MUSIC THAT TAKES RISKS AND BREAKS MOLDS AND DOESN’T FOLLOW ANY TYPE OF FORMULA AND I BELIEVE I DO THAT BETTER THAN ANY AMERICAN ARTIST/MUSICIAN THAT ISN’T SIGNED.. IN MY NEXT POST, I WILL DELVE FURTHER INTO WHAT I MEAN.. CHEERS~ LIKE ELLIOTT SMITH WOULD SAY: xo

I HAVE HAD THE AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO MEET & EVEN KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ISAAC BROCK FROM MODEST MOUSE & UGLY CASANOVA AND EVEN THOUGH HE HAS PLATINUM SELLING RECORDS HAS HIT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS WITH “WE WERE DEAD BEFORE THE SHIP EVEN SANK,” HE IS MORE HUMBLE AND DOWN TO EARTH THAN ALOT OF MUSICIANS I MET THAT WERE LITERALLY 3RD & 4TH GUITARISTS ON AN ARTISTS SIDE PROJECT.. ANYWAYS, ANY FRIEND OF HEATH LEDGER'S (ISAAC BROCK BEING ONE OF THEM) MUST HAVE BEEN A SUPREMELY COOL MOTHERF#CKER~


LEO IS ONE OF THE BEST ACTORS OF THIS GENERATION, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE UNFORTUNATE PASSING OF HEATH LEDGER WHO I BELIEVE WAS ON HIS WAY TO BEING THE GREATEST OF MY GEN~ MAN, IT STILL FN PISSES ME OFF THAT HE DIED BEING STUPID, I MEAN A LOT OF US HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH SHIT AND EVEN TAKEN IT TOO FAR FROM TIME TO TIME, BUT FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND OF HIS PILL INTAKE, IT WAS UNREAL & HIS DOCTOR’S SHOULD BE PUT IN JAIL.. WELL, I GUESS WHEN YOUR AS RICH & POWERFUL AS PEOPLE LIKE HIM, YOU CAN & WILL GET WHATEVER YOU WANT. IT JUST SUCKS, SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR.. A BABY GIRL.. THE BIGGEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME THAT HE NEVER EVEN GOT TO SEE.. AN OSCAR FOR HIS AMAZING PERFORMANCE IN A “SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER” THAT NEVER GET NOMINATED FOR OSCARS, LET ALONE WIN THEM. IT JUST PISSES ME OFF.. HE HAD JUST FINISHED A VIDEO FOR “KING RAT” BY MODEST MOUSE & NOT ONLY IS IT AMAZING, BUT IT STANDS FOR SOMETHING AND JUST LIKE THE GREAT ISAAC BROCK WOULD DO, HE GAVE ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE VIDEO TO A CHARITY PROTECTING WHALES FROM THE SCUMBAGS THAT HUNT THEM~




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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

EMINEM IS APPARENTLY GOING TO RE-UP AND OFFICIALLY REFiLL FANS ON DECEMBER 22ND WITH A RE-RELEASE OF RELAPSE WHICH INCLUDES 7 NEW SONGS~


IT DEFINITELY SUCKS THAT ONLY 7 SONGS WILL BE RELEASED BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR WHEN EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT RELAPSE 2 WAS COMING, BUT IF YOU SAW HIM PERFORM AT THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS TONIGHT, YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN HIM PERFORM ONE OF THOSE SONGS ONCE 50 CENT WALKED OFFSTAGE. IT WAS EXTREMELY DOPE AND HE WAS SPITTING FURIOUSLY AT A SPEED I HAVEN’T HEARD SINCE THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP~ I WOULD RATHER HAVE 7 SONGS IN A MONTH AND THEN RELAPSE 2 NEXT YEAR AND ALL OF IT BE DOPE RATHER THAN HIM RUSHING IT AND PUTTING PURE $HIT OUT JUST CAUSE EVERYONE WANTS 40 SONGS RELEASED IN AN 8 MONTH TIME PERIOD. I’M GONNA GIVE YOU GUYS A LINK TO A STRAIGHT UP iLL COLLABO BETWEEN MOS DEF, BLACK THOUGHT & EMINEM WHO STRAIGHT UP MURDERS IT~ ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO SAYS HE IS DONE, YOU CAN SHOW THEM THIS LITTLE CLIP WHERE THE WHOLE CROWD GOES CRAZY AT THE END OF MARSHALL FIRING AND THAT IS SAYING ALOT CONSIDERING MOS DEF & BLACK THOUGHT ARE SO DANGEROUS IN THEIR OWN RIGHTS~

THE SONG THAT THIS MADMAN PERFORMED AT THE AMA’S TONIGHT WAS “FOREVER” & IT IS INCLUDED ON RELAPSE:REFILL~ TRUST ME, IT IS UP THERE WITH SOME OF MY FAVORITE SONGS BY HIM~





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BEST YOUNG BANDS IN MUSIC~ 4 BANDS BUZZING LIKE A FRIDGE



Manchester Orchestra, The Strongest & Most Emotional Band Out Of These 4 BANDS & THAT IS SAYING A LOT!!!! Not to mention Andy Hull is also part of the sickest side project since Team Sleep & not only is it painfully emotional, intense & beautiful – But, it & he has it planned out so well. They have 2 Albums out right now & their 3rd Album will be the end to a trilogy amongst a concept regarding a Captain of an old fishing Boat who sets sail and finds the thing that he misses, loves, hates & believes in.. Along with insane Sea Creatures that I won’t even ruin for than fan that will look into this. I have so much respect for Mr. Andy Hull & I am going to try and get Andy to give me my first interview ever for my little Blog which will become an actual website once all of my money isn’t going towards helping others. I figure the Karma Police will eventually come & bail me out of these shackles..




















Mimicking Birds – Nate Lacy Was Already My Favorite Songwriter In The Indie Game & Then My Favorite Musician From My Favorite Band (American Band & Almost Global) To Sign Them To Glacial Pace. If You Don’t Know Who I Am Talking About, Then You Apparently Need To Do Some Research, I Promise You That Songs Such As "The Loop" & "Cabin Fever" Speak For Themselves & Those Are All Mr. Nate Lacy~!!



Phoenix (One of my Top Albums Of The Year! By Far The Best Musicians Of All The New Bands. Their Sass Factor Reaches That Of HOT FUZZ By The Killers & That Is BEcause Of ALL 4 MEMBERS INVOLVED!! Greatest Band From France, Not The Best Singer.. They Would Be Lucky To Crack Top 10, But I Think Their Upside Is A STRONG A+ ~







He Dreams Awake Is The Weird One Of The Bunch.. I Heard Of Him Through A Mutual Friend & I Was Blown Away With The 40+ Tracks I Got My Hands On & That Is When I FOund Out That He Doesn’t Do Many Interviews, There Aren’t Any Pictures I Can Find Of Him & He Hasn’t Even Released His Debut Album Yet~ His Music Is Very Intriguing & The Theories + Structure That He Uses Or Refuses To Use, Makes It That Much More Mysterious To Me. There Is Something About This Solo Artist Who Obviously Treats Music As An Art & His Title Of Musician More Like A Status Of An Artist. This Doesn’t Sound Right, But I Don’t Know What Makes Sense With This Individual & I Would Put A Lot Of Money On The Fact That Is Exactly How He Is Playing His Cards.. Very Close To The Chest~

So. There Are My Four Best Rising Bands in the Industry~

I Hope You Check Them Out & Give Me Some Feedback On These Four Bands & Better Yet, Who You Think The Best Young Bands Are & It Would Be Cool To Hear Of A Few More Like HDAwake, Artists That Are Still UNDER THE RADAR







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Saturday, September 5, 2009

BOSS MAGAZINE & THE TAMPA SPORTS SHOW MEETS THE MAN SHOW

A NEW SPORTS SHOW IS IN THE WORKS IN THE TAMPA AREA PRODUCED BY BOSS MAGAZINE. IT IS GOING TO BE SO iLL & ASIDE FROM BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND FUNNY, CLEVER & CHARASMATIC HOSTS, IT WILL ALSO BE LOOSELY MODELED AROUND THE MAN SHOW WHICH HAD JIMMY KIMMELL AND ADAM CORROLLA AS THE HOSTS.
TAMPA BAY NEEDS A VOICE FOR THE FANS & I KNOW THAT THIS IS THE PERFECT FORMULA!

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

I Promised Artwork For INGLORIOUS BASTERDS And As A True Artist, I Am Keeping My Word.. BIG TIME


AS A TRUE WRITER IN MY OWN MIND, I READ THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE FILM BEFORE I WENT TO SEE THE MOVIE SO THAT I COULD MAKE A TRULY FAIR ASSESSMENT OF QUENTIN TARANTINO'S VISION AND METAPHORICAL PULLING OF LE' TRIGGER.

CHRISTOPH WALTZ WAS ABSOLUTELY WORTH EVERY PENNY FOR ADMISSION AND EVEN THOUGH I WAS EXPECTING A STUNNING PERFORMANCE, HE DEFINITELY DID NOT DISAPPOINT~

















































































































































































































































































































































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ON A LIGHTER NOTE, I SAW INGLORIOUS BASTERDS LAST NIGHT




It seems as if I don't waste the time to see movies in the theater anymore unless it is almost guaranteed that I will love it or if it is created by Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. The latter was the case for my night out last night and even though I was expecting the world ever since I read a raving review for the film when it was screened at Cannes, I still found INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, the new film by Tarantino which apparently skipped on the spell check option, to be pretty damn awesome. I will keep this short and not go into ruining the plot like most of the other reviews that I read, but aside from the middle being a little too long, I found the movie to be well written and superbly acted. There is something about Quentin Tarantino that I find fascinating and it might be because he is a true artist out of left field, like myself or it might be how excited he is about the process even after all these years, but I find that even the poster art for his films seems to get me excited. For that exact reason, I am going to post all of the different posters for the movie I can find, because I feel that art and the sense of sight can prove as much as any and all words I could sit here
and type. There are about 4 Billion opinions in the world that people could find the time to care about, but not as many are formed with a heavy dose of artistic savvy plus the time included for a pretty cool presentation. I consider my blog to do just that ;)










































































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DJ AM HAS LEFT THE EARTH ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER GREAT PEOPLE GONE LONG BEFORE THEIR TIME







































He survived a horrific plane crash not even a full year ago but still apparently didn't realize how precious life really is. That mighty come off a little harsh, but I am so sick of the talented youth of our country slowly killing themselves. My friend from around the corner hung himself at the community pool just a week ago and I am still upset about Heath Ledger for some reason, probably because he was so damn talented, but these days it seems as if the more talented you are, the higher chance there is of a dark side to your life which usually ends in a bad way.
(case in point being the King of Pop)

It seems like only a couple of months ago, I read an article pointed out to me in a thick magazine along the lines of Vogue (because I am known to read whatever can inform me of things I find interesting which is basically anything with print) which was shocking to me because of the graphic detail surrounding Adam Goldstein's battle with drug addiction including crack rock and the intense situation involving a gun being placed to his own skull which would have ended his life if the gun wouldn't have jammed. It seems as if the battle with crack rock was still a full swing dance that had never ended and one would speculate that the plane crash, which took 4 other peoples lives and spared Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, actually led to Adam taking the prescription pills found lying next to his body.


Authorities will need to conduct toxicology tests, expected to take weeks, to determine what killed celebrity disc jockey DJ AM, a medical examiner's office spokeswoman said Saturday.

An autopsy Saturday of the 36-year-old was inconclusive, said the spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove.

A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that police found a crack pipe and prescription pills in the apartment where they discovered DJ AM's body Friday evening. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

DJ AM, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, had openly discussed past addictions to crack cocaine, Ecstasy and other drugs. In October, MTV was to debut his reality show, "Gone Too Far," in which he and concerned families staged interventions for drug abusers. MTV hasn't said whether Goldstein's show will air.

In an interview with the AP last month, he said the show provided a "terrifying" reminder of his own addiction.

"I have to constantly remind myself why I'm here and remember what it was like," he said.

Goldstein rose to fame several years ago as a deejay known for his mashups — blends of at least two songs. He performed in clubs, on concert stages and at exclusive Hollywood parties. His personal life also garnered attention, as he dated actress-singer Mandy Moore and reality TV star Nicole Richie, the daughter of singer Lionel Richie.

Goldstein was critically hurt in a plane crash last September in Columbia, S.C., that killed four people. He was flying in a Learjet after a performance with Travis Barker, a drummer for the pop-punk band Blink-182 and Goldstein's partner in the duo TRVSDJ-AM.

Barker and Goldstein were burned. Goldstein had to get skin graft surgery but resumed performing about a month later.

He told the AP he felt blessed to have survived but was still shaken by the crash.

"I guess I get why they call it 'post-trauma,' because it was very tough. I have really bad days, and I have really OK days," he said.

His body was found after a friend called police to say he was unable to get into the home in New York City's trendy SoHo neighborhood. Paramedics had to break down the door before they found him, shirtless and wearing sweatpants, in his bed around 5:20 p.m. on Friday, the law enforcement official said.

There was no evidence of foul play.




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Thursday, August 13, 2009

MiNDBLOWiNG = Pasco County Is Evolving With Video Companies & Record Labels~


I remember moving here close to 20 years ago, I had just started going to School and the road my house was on, Decubellis was all dirt. Fast forward 2 decades and my how time has flown by, Decubellis is now a massive road that goes all the way from one side of the city to the other. I never imagined that this city would have anything to offer, but I was checking out Craigslist today and I realized that there are two Newborn Independent Record Labels in the area; one focused on Hip Hop & the other on Indie Rock. If that isn't cool enough, there is also a Video Company called Kelby Media Group that is an industry leader in digital imaging education and publishing. The Rock Label is called 24 Hour Service Station and it is home to Artists that create music very similar to the noise that I like to call Art~ The Hip Hop Label is just getting off the ground and they are looking for producers that make really hot beats for the Rappers on their Label and it just so happens that I am that kind of Producer. And finally, Kelby Media Group is looking for an Intern for their Video Company to help with all the different tasks needed to keep a very successful Digital Imaging Outfit on top of the competition. So, whereas I have always created music, written songs and worked on all different types of Video & Film Projects with the big picture always pointing towards the big cities where most of my collaborators live, this is a new day in Pasco County because there are actually solid foundations being built in the Film & Music Industrys right here in the same area where the little dirt road used to be.


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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

CHRIS BROWN IS THE SCUM OF THE EARTH & INSTEAD OF BEING THE MJ OF OUR GENERATION, HE IS THE IKE TURNER


I COULD NEVER STAND CHRIS BROWN, BUT HIS LATEST BULL$HIT WHERE HE "APOLOGIZED" 6 MONTHS TOO LATE REALLY MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP~
THE APOLOGY WAS THE MOST INSINCERE GESTURE I HAVE EVER SEEN, HE WAS DRESSED LIKE A COMPLETE TOOL, BUT HE READ EVERY WORD HE SPOKE WHILE HE CLOSED HIS EYES EVERY FEW SENTENCES TO TRY AND TAKE AWAY FROM HIS EYES DARTING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT OFF OF HIS CUE CARDS. I CAN'T STAND CHRIS BROWN AND I HOPE HE NEVER RECOVERS FROM THIS.


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Sunday, July 19, 2009

I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THIS LAST YEAR, BUT PAULA ABDUL IS NO LONGER ON AMERICAN IDOL~


Thanks to Gawker for hooking it up, like they always do~

American Idol charming kook Paula Abdul has not, we repeat, NOT received a contract for next season, which starts shooting in, um, three weeks. Is it the end of television? Will FOX fold? It's Armageddon!

"It does not appear that she's going to be back on 'Idol,'" says Paula's manager David Sonenberg. He's tried and tried to get some sort of deal from producers Fremantle Media and 19 Entertainment, but well... we all know what it means when Hollywood doesn't return calls. Blame new judge Kara DioGuardi. Paula's status as Queen of AI felt rocky as soon as there was a new girl in town. We smell a catfight!

Ryan Gay/Straight/Gay Seacrest, meanwhile, sits pretty and overly tanned with his three-year, $45 million deal. Oh, Paula, we love you, because you're cra-ay-ay-azy!


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NOT LIKE I PAY ATTENTION, BUT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO HAVE JON & KATE + 8 FORCED DOWN YOUR THROAT!


















It's another sign of the Apocalypse being right around the corner, hence the long title of my Blog; It blows my mind that Jon and Kate are considered celebrities and are covered more by the media than our President. Their poor 8 kids are already scheduling their therapy sessions! To think of all the money that those two scumbags make by completely ruining their kids lives while pimping them out like Terrence Howard in Hustle N' Flow. Not only do they have millions of people tuning into their pathetic show and just as many people buying the numerous magazines that they (dis)grace the cover(s) of, but they aren't even married anymore and Jon is already engaged to another chick who is young enough to be one of his eventual 20 daughters. I have seen 2 minutes of their stupid show besides the clips that Joel McHale has blasted on The Soup and I will never understand what kind of people help contribute to their enormous paychecks by caring about their boring lives. I don't know why I just went on this rant, I Guess It Is....









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SAID THE GRAMOPHONE IS QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST UNIQUE MUSIC BLOG ON THE NET~ CHECK IT OUT














TIME Online has done a piece on the 25 Best Blogs in 2009 and there are quite a few interesting Sites included on their list. Among them is a Music Blog that covers artists that no one has ever heard of and not only are they pushing the envelope in that regard, but they are also breaking these artist's out and they are really amazing bands. Every aspect of the MP3 Blog is unique & clever including the name: Said the Gramophone. As the Beasties would say, Ch-Ch-Ch-Check it out!

A daily sampler of "really good songs" as judged by the three Canadian music fans who compile the site. Launched in March 2003, Said the Gramophone was one of the first mp3 blogs that actually let you download and listen to the music being described. And when it comes to music, hearing is believing. How many times have you bought a CD on the recommendation of a magazine or newspaper review only to find the music sounded nothing like the description? Said the Gramophone solves that problem, although you have to act fast on listening to the music — all songs are removed from the blog within a week or two of posting. The capsule reviews are reliably thoughtful with occasional forays into the surreal, and most songs are accompanied by a link in case you want to buy them immediately. It's a great, low-risk way to get turned on to new music.



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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Quite Possibly The Best Filmmaker Of Our Generation, Wes Anderson Is Creating His Most Ambitious Film To Date Titled: Fantastic Mr. Fox


















In my opinion, Wes Anderson is the most creative & original Director since Scorsese and the only Writer/Director to come between them in the timeline is the obvious choice: Q AKA Quentin Tarantino. Q.T has Inglorious Bastards coming out in August and I can't remember looking forward to a movie more since The Departed and when I read the reviews from The Cannes Film Festival, it made me look forward to it even more. From what I could tell, his new movie got the same response as a little movie known by Pulp Fiction, ever heard of it??! Filmsactu.com has two photos from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring the voice talents of George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray. One is essentially the same as the image we saw last week, but it is much larger and shows a couple more characters. The other shows only Mr. Fox (Clooney), standing in a library or study in front of a painting of a bunch of badgers — does that mean he’s in the home of Mr. Badger, voiced by Bill Murray? See the images in full after the break.

It’s interesting that these show up now, because a couple of sites that republished the image that JoBlo had last week were hit with cease and desist orders from Fox. That didn’t make sense, since the image seemed to have been officially released, but this is the Fox publicity department, so who knows?

I like seeing these images in better resolution than the original picture. They make the film look a lot less animatronic and creepy; the second solo image of Fox is much more like what I expected to see in the first place. There’s still a great handmade quality, and the models definitely don’t look like what we’ve come to associate with original director Henry Selick. Too bad about the glazed look on Fox’s face in the group shot, but the rest of the characters look better than I’d originally given them credit for.

The story follows Mr. Fox and his conflict with three mean, greedy farmers from whom he’s been stealing food. Wes Anderson teamed up with animator Mark Gustafson to direct the picture. Fantastic Mr. Fox is set for release on November 13, but we still figure it will premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which begins on September 2, and perhaps show up at the Toronto Film Fest a week later.



















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HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE HAS SHATTERED ALL 48 HOUR RECORDS! SLASHFILMS REVIEW





















This article contains SPOILERS for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but NOT for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]

SLASHFILM HAS A 4 PART SERIES DEDICATED TO THE NEW HARRY POTTER FILM AND ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THE FIGUREHEAD RUNNING /FILM IS: WOW! HE IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I AM AN IMMEDIATE FAN~ YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE LINK TO READ THE OTHER 3 PARTS OF HIS SERIES..

Over the past seven days, I have plowed through 15 hours of Harry Potter movies in an attempt at exploring the cultural phenomenon of this series. Crucial to this adventure has been my complete unfamiliarity with the Harry Potter books. Unencumbered by the expectations and anticipations that accompany Potter-fandom, I tried to evaluate how well these films work as films in their own right.

The process of adapting thousands of pages of novels into a series of movies is undoubtedly daunting. The closest analogue in recent memory is The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Taken as films alone, that series had flaws that are occasionally inherent to the adaptation process, especially for books set in a fantasy universe (as opposed to, say, a procedural crime drama by Grisham). For example, characters, whose rich back stories fill the books, were sometimes introduced with very little context, and story elements were occasionally confusing, since they could not be explained at length.

The Rings trilogy, however, had a lot of other things going for them to distract from their flaws as films: Stunning direction and a unifying vision by director Peter Jackson to guide every movie; epic and crowd-pleasing battle scenes that used state-of-the-art (at the time) special effects technology; the simple, underlying story of the bonds of friendship between Frodo and Sam; and the back-to-back-to-back event-style theatrical releases that took place during the holidays three years in a row. The Potter series has to deal with different challenges and after watching all six films in one week, culminating with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I am unfortunately more aware of its flaws than ever.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

The latest film in the series sees Hogwarts amping up their security, as Voldemort’s Death Eaters increase the frequency of their attacks. A shield of some sort (never explained in the movie) is established around the school to protect the students and staff from the Death Eaters, but the devious Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) may have devised a workaround. Moreover, a series of assassination attempts on Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) bring urgency to his attempt to destroy Voldemort once and for all. In doing so, he enlists the help of Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) to cozy up to one of Voldemort’s old instructors, Professor Slughorn (Jim Broadbent). Meanwhile, Hermione (Emma Watson) is directly confronted with her feelings for Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint).

After hearing the buzz and knowing about the more mature nature of this book, I had high hopes going in. Director David Yates not only had the ability to see where his predecessors had failed and succeeded as directors, but he himself had turned in an entry to the series already (Order of the Phoenix). The big question on my mind was: With the benefit of hindsight and with his considerable talents behind him, could Yates create a film that worked not only as a Harry Potter movie, but as an adventure movie on its own?

My answer: Not really.

There is a lot to like about Half-Blood Prince if you’ve seen the previous films. As the latest entry in a series of very similar films, it completely works. It is, perhaps, one of the most beautiful movies of the year, with excellent cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel (The IMAX trailer for this film, which is embedded above, is my favorite trailer of 2009 thus far). There is a lot of humor in the interactions between the students, and when Ron implicitly rejects Hermione, you feel just as angry and frustrated as she must. Our reaction to these scenes is only possible after having spent time with these characters for nearly a decade.


There are also plenty of moments of pure cinema in this movie, scenes that made my geek heart swell with pride. I am absolutely in love with the liquid motif that Yates employs for the flashback memory sequences, which feel simple, yet breathtaking. The scene when Harry and Dumbledore travel into a cave to retrieve a Horcrux contains one of the best jump scares I’ve seen in my life, but also features a spectacular fire sequence that’s a wonder to behold.

But even as I was enjoying these elements, the films problems kept lingering in the back of my mind. It should be noted that the movie doesn’t really stand up on its own as well as the other films, since it ends with a very clear cliffhanger. I’m not going to dock points for that, since it’s inherent to the storyline, but what I’m justifiably unhappy about is that the fim squanders some of the little dramatic potential it has. As with some of the less enjoyable Potter films, Half-Blood Prince takes an excessive amount of time in setting up the main conflict of the story. By the time you understand what all the pieces of the puzzle are, the film is almost over.

Arguably one of the most significant twists of the series is the fact that Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) has been working for the dark lord this entire time. In this film, he is introduced, matter-of-factly, as being on Voldemort’s side right from his very first scene. You could argue that his allegiances are actually ambiguous throughout the film, but I would argue that every single scene Snape is in during this film cements his status as a bad guy (not to mention the fact that halfway through the film, we learn about the true nature of the Unbreakable Vow). Also, the final reveal that Snape is indeed the Half-Blood Prince carries no weight with it; what feels like it was supposed to be one of the film’s big moments falls completely flat.

There’s also the matter of Draco Malfoy, who I think is completely wasted in this movie. The idea that Malfoy is chosen to assassinate Dumbledore is incredibly interesting, but he is given almost nothing to do in this film other than stalk around the school’s hallways a lot, get hurt by Potter in the bathroom, then scream a lot towards the end of the film. Why was Malfoy chosen for this task? Why does Malfoy feel this is a task he has to complete? What is the nature of Malfoy’s internal conflict? None of these questions are answered in a satisfying way. I am not exaggerating when I say I literally learned more about Malfoy’s motivations in the first few films, when Malfoy is still a kid and opining about how dirty mudbloods are.

If there’s one thing in the movie that really worked for me, it was Dumbledore and his relationship with Harry. We learn some of Dumbledore’s history with Voldemort, and Harry’s loyalty to Dumbledore is tested throughout the movie (The famous line, “Once again, Harry, I must ask too much of you,” is great not only for Gambon’s delivery but for the pathos it carries). When Dumbledore’s assassination finally comes at the end, it is a death exactly as tragic as it should be, a momentary triumph of evil over good and a signifier that from this point on, Potter and his friends are on their own.

I wanted and expected Half-Blood Prince to transcend the constraints of its pedigree, but I found that overall, Half-Blood Prince exemplifies everything that is right and wrong, cinematically, with the Harry Potter series. It suffers from languid and uneven pacing and manages to contain too much exposition and not enough exposition, all at once. It successfully creates its own universe and lets us inhabit it for a short period of time, yet often struggles with how to make that universe’s events suspenseful or purposeful. The greatest joy in this film, as with the entire series, is getting to spend more time with the characters we know and love. But if I had to guess (since I haven’t read the books), I would say that like the rest of the series, this movie relies way too much on one’s knowledge of the book’s characters to make it thoroughly enjoyable on its own.

/Film Rating: 7 out of 10








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Beautiful Fine Art Print Of The Three Stooges By Drew Friedman































Here's a stunning Drew Friedman fine art print of The Three Stooges (with Shemp) and recurring nemesis Vernon Dent. Limited edition of 35 numbered prints signed by the artist.
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Walter Cronkite, "Most Trusted Man In America" & My Favorite Voice Of TV News, Dies At 92 Years Old


Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his home in New York. He was 92.

Walter Cronkite on the air in the early 1960s. For decades on CBS, he signed off with his signature “And that’s the way it is.”

The cause was complications of dementia, said Chip Cronkite, his son.

From 1962 to 1981, Mr. Cronkite was a nightly presence in American homes and always a reassuring one, guiding viewers through national triumphs and tragedies alike, from moonwalks to war, in an era when network news was central to many people’s lives.

He became something of a national institution, with an unflappable delivery, a distinctively avuncular voice and a daily benediction: “And that’s the way it is.” He was Uncle Walter to many: respected, liked and listened to. With his trimmed mustache and calm manner, he even bore a resemblance to another trusted American fixture, another Walter — Walt Disney.

Along with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC, Mr. Cronkite was among the first celebrity anchormen. In 1995, 14 years after he retired from the “CBS Evening News,” a TV Guide poll ranked him No. 1 in seven of eight categories for measuring television journalists. (He professed incomprehension that Maria Shriver beat him out in the eighth category, attractiveness.) He was so widely known that in Sweden anchormen were once called Cronkiters.

Yet he was a reluctant star. He was genuinely perplexed when people rushed to see him rather than the politicians he was covering, and even more astonished by the repeated suggestions that he run for office himself. He saw himself as an old-fashioned newsman — his title was managing editor of the “CBS Evening News” — and so did his audience.

“The viewers could more readily picture Walter Cronkite jumping into a car to cover a 10-alarm fire than they could visualize him doing cerebral commentary on a great summit meeting in Geneva,” David Halberstam wrote in “The Powers That Be,” his 1979 book about the news media.

As anchorman and reporter, Mr. Cronkite described wars, natural disasters, nuclear explosions, social upheavals and space flights, from Alan Shepard’s 15-minute ride to lunar landings. On July 20, 1969, when the Eagle touched down on the moon, Mr. Cronkite exclaimed, “Oh, boy!”

On the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Mr. Cronkite briefly lost his composure in announcing that the president had been pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Taking off his black-framed glasses and blinking back tears, he registered the emotions of millions.

It was an uncharacteristically personal note from a newsman who was uncomfortable expressing opinion.

“I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor — not a commentator or analyst,” he said in an interview with The Christian Science Moniter in 1973. “I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.”

But when he did pronounce judgment, the impact was large.

In 1968, he visited Vietnam and returned to do a rare special program on the war. He called the conflict a stalemate and advocated a negotiated peace. President Lyndon B. Johnson watched the broadcast, Mr. Cronkite wrote in his 1996 memoir, “A Reporter’s Life,” quoting a description of the scene by Bill Moyers, then a Johnson aide.

“The president flipped off the set,” Mr. Moyers recalled, “and said, ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.’ ”

Mr. Cronkite sometimes pushed beyond the usual two-minute limit to news items. On Oct. 27, 1972, his 14-minute report on Watergate, followed by an eight-minute segment four days later, “put the Watergate story clearly and substantially before millions of Americans” for the first time, the broadcast historian Marvin Barrett wrote in “Moments of Truth?” (1975).

In 1977, his separate interviews with President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel were instrumental in Sadat’s visiting Jerusalem. The countries later signed a peace treaty.

“From his earliest days,” Mr. Halberstam wrote, “he was one of the hungriest reporters around, wildly competitive, no one was going to beat Walter Cronkite on a story, and as he grew older and more successful, the marvel of it was that he never changed, the wild fires still burned.”

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was born on Nov. 4, 1916, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of Walter Leland Cronkite Sr., a dentist, and the former Helen Lena Fritsche. His ancestors had settled in New Amsterdam, the Dutch colony that became New York. As a boy, Walter peddled magazines door to door and hawked newspapers. As a teenager, after the family had moved to Houston, he got a job with The Houston Post as a copy boy and cub reporter. At the same time, he had a paper route delivering The Post to his neighbors.

“As far as I know, there were no other journalists delivering the morning paper with their own compositions inside,” he wrote in his autobiography.

When he was 16, Mr. Cronkite went with friends to Chicago for the 1933 World’s Fair. He volunteered to help demonstrate an experimental version of television.

“I could honestly say to all of my colleagues, ‘I was in television long before you were,’ ” he said in an interview with CBS News in 1996.

Mr. Cronkite attended the University of Texas for two years, studying political science, economics and journalism, working on the school newspaper and picking up journalism jobs with The Houston Press and other newspapers. He also auditioned to be an announcer at an Austin radio station but was turned down. He left college in 1935 without graduating to take a job as a reporter with The Press.

While visiting Kansas City, Mo., he was hired by the radio station KCMO to read news and broadcast football games under the name Walter Wilcox. (Radio stations at the time wanted to “own” announcers’ names so that popular ones could not be taken elsewhere.)

He was not at the games but received cryptic summaries of each play by telegraph. These provided fodder for vivid descriptions of the action. He added details of what local men in the stands were wearing, which he learned by calling their wives. He found out in advance what music the band would be playing so he could describe halftime festivities.

At KCMO, Mr. Cronkite met an advertising writer named Mary Elizabeth Maxwell. The two read a commercial together. One of Mr. Cronkite’s lines was, “You look like an angel.” They were married for 64 years until her death in 2005.

In addition to his son, Walter Leland III, known as Chip, Mr. Cronkite is survived by his daughters, Nancy Elizabeth and Mary Kathleen; and four grandsons.

In his last years, Joanna Simon, a former opera singer and sister of Carly Simon, was his frequent companion.

The family said it was planning a private service at St. Bartholemew’s Church in New York.

After being fired from KCMO in a dispute over journalism practices he considered shabby, Mr. Cronkite in 1939 landed a job at the United Press news agency, now United Press International. He reported from Houston, Dallas, El Paso and Kansas City.

The stint ended when he returned to radio and then took a job with Braniff International Airways in Kansas City, selling tickets and doing public relations.

Returning to United Press after a few months, he became one of the first reporters accredited to American forces with the outbreak of World War II. He gained fame as a war correspondent, crash-landing a glider in Belgium, accompanying the first Allied troops into North Africa, reporting on the Normandy invasion and covering major battles, including the Battle of the Bulge, in 1944.

In 1943, Edward R. Murrow asked Mr. Cronkite to join his wartime broadcast team in CBS’s Moscow bureau. In “The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism” (1996), Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson wrote that Murrow was astounded when Mr. Cronkite rejected his $125-a-week job offer and decided to stay with United Press for $92 a week.

That year Mr. Cronkite was one of eight journalists selected for an Army Air Forces program that took them on a bombing mission to Germany aboard B-17 Flying Fortresses. Mr. Cronkite manned a machine gun until he was “up to my hips in spent .50-caliber shells,” he wrote in his memoir.

After covering the Nuremberg war-crimes trials and then reporting from Moscow from 1946 to 1948, he again left print journalism to become the Washington correspondent for a dozen Midwestern radio stations. In 1950, Murrow successfully recruited him for CBS.

Mr. Cronkite was assigned to develop the news department of a new CBS station in Washington. Within a year he was appearing on nationally broadcast public affairs programs like “Man of the Week,” “It’s News to Me” and “Pick the Winner.”

In February 1953 he narrated the first installment of his long-running series “You Are There,” which recreated historic events like the Battle of the Alamo or the Hindenburg disaster and reported them as if they were breaking news. Sidney Lumet, soon to become a well-known filmmaker, directed the series.

“What sort of day was it?” Mr. Cronkite said at the end of each episode. “A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times. And you were there.”

In 1954, when CBS challenged NBC’s popular morning program “Today” with the short-lived “Morning Show,” it tapped Mr. Cronkite to be the host. Early on he riled the sponsor, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, by grammatically correcting its well-known advertising slogan, declaring, “Winston tastes good as a cigarette should.”

When not interviewing guests, he mulled over the news with a witty and erudite puppet lion, Charlemagne. Occasionally he ventured outside the studio — using a tugboat, for example, to meet luxury liners so he could interview celebrities before they landed.

In 1952, the first presidential year in which television outshined radio, Mr. Cronkite was chosen to lead the coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. By Mr. Cronkite’s account, it was then that the term “anchor” was first used — by Sig Mickelson, the first director of television news for CBS, who had likened the chief announcer’s job to an anchor that holds a boat in place. Paul Levitan, another CBS executive, and Don Hewitt, then a young producer, have also been credited with the phrase.

The 1952 conventions made Mr. Cronkite a star. Mr. Mickelson, he recalled, told him: “You’re famous now. And you’re going to want a lot more money. You’d better get an agent.”

Mr. Cronkite went on to anchor every national political convention and election night until 1980, with the exception of 1964. That year he was replaced at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City by Roger Mudd and Robert Trout in an effort to challenge NBC’s Huntley and Brinkley team, which had won the ratings battle at the Republican convention in San Francisco that summer.

In 1961, Mr. Cronkite replaced Murrow as CBS’s senior correspondent, and on April 16, 1962, he began anchoring the evening news, succeeding Douglas Edwards, whose ratings had been low. As managing editor, Mr. Cronkite also helped shape the nightly report.

The evening broadcast had been a 15-minute program, but on Sept. 2, 1963, CBS doubled the length to a half-hour, over the objections of its affiliates. Mr. Cronkite interviewed President Kennedy on the first longer broadcast, renamed the “CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite.” He also broadcast from a real newsroom and not, as Edwards had done, from a studio set.

At the time the broadcast was lengthened, Mr. Cronkite inaugurated his famous sign-off, “And that’s the way it is.” The original idea, he later wrote, had been to end each broadcast with a quirky news item, after which he would recite the line with humor, sadness or irony.

Richard S. Salant, the president of CBS News, hated the line from the beginning — it ate up a precious four seconds a night — and the offbeat items were never done.

“I began to think Dick was right, but I was too stubborn to drop it,” Mr. Cronkite wrote.

Starting with Herbert Hoover, Mr. Cronkite knew every president, not always pleasantly. A top aide to President Richard M. Nixon, Charles Colson, harangued the network’s chairman, William S. Paley, after Mr. Cronkite’s 14-minute Watergate broadcast. The next segment was shortened.

In 1960, during the Wisconsin primary, Mr. Cronkite asked Kennedy, then a senator, about his Roman Catholic religion. As Mr. Cronkite recalled in his memoir, Kennedy called Frank Stanton, CBS’s president, to complain that questions about the subject had earlier been ruled out of bounds. He then reminded Mr. Stanton that if he were elected he would be appointing members of theFederal Communications Commission. Mr. Stanton “courageously stood up to the threat,” Mr. Cronkite wrote.

By contrast, Mr. Cronkite’s relations with President Dwight D. Eisenhower so cordial that President Kennedy incorrectly assumed Mr. Cronkite, a political independent, was a Republican.

Mr. Cronkite also enjoyed the company of President Ronald Reagan, with whom he exchanged often off-color jokes. And he whimsically competed with his friend Johnny Carson to see who could take the most vacation time without getting fired.

Mr. Cronkite raced sports cars but switched to sailing so he could spend more time with his family. He liked old-time pubs and friendly restaurants; there was even one in Midtown Manhattan where his regular chair was marked with his initials.

In an interview with The New York Times in 2002, Mr. Cronkite scrunched his eyes and lowered his voice into a theatrical sob when asked if he regretted missing out on the huge salaries subsequent anchors had received.

“Yes,” he said, adding, “I frequently call myself the Micky Mantle of network news.”

Mr. Cronkite retired in 1981 at 64. He had repeatedly promised to do so, but few had either believed him or chosen to hear. CBS was eager to replace him with Dan Rather, who was flirting with ABC, but both Mr. Cronkite and the network said he had not been pushed.

After his retirement he continued to be seen on CBS as the host of “Walter Cronkite’s Universe,” a science series that began in 1980 and ran until 1982. The network also named him a special correspondent; the position turned out to be largely honorary, though news reports said it paid $1 million a year. But after he spent 10 years on the board of CBS, where he chafed at the cuts that the network’s chairman, Laurence A. Tisch, had made in a once-generous news budget, more and more of his broadcast work appeared on CNN, National Public Radio and elsewhere, not CBS.

By the time Mr. Rather was leaving the “CBS Evening News” in 2005, Mr. Cronkite had abandoned mincing words. He criticized his successor as “playing the role of newsman” rather than being one. Mr. Rather should have been replaced years earlier, he said.

When Katie Couric took over the job in September 2006, Mr. Cronkite introduced her on the air and praised her in interviews.

His long “retirement” was not leisurely. When Senator John Glenn went back into space on the shuttle Discovery in 1998, 36 years after his astronaut days, Mr. Cronkite did an encore in covering the event for CNN. He made some 60 documentaries. And among many other things, he was the voice of Benjamin Franklin on the PBS cartoon series “Liberty’s Kids,” covered a British general election for a British network and for many years served as host of the annual Kennedy Center Honors.

He had already won Emmy Awards, a Peabody and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (in 1981), and he continued to pile up accolades. Arizona State University named its journalism school after him.

In July 2006, PBS broadcast a 90-minute “American Masters” special on Mr. Cronkite’s career. Mr. Lumet, the filmmaker, appeared and said, “He seemed to me incorruptible in a profession that was easily corrupted.”

On his 90th birthday, Mr. Cronkite told The Daily News, “I would like to think I’m still quite capable of covering a story.”

But he knew he had to stop sometime, he allowed in his autobiography. He promised at the time to continue to follow news developments “from a perch yet to be determined.”

“I just hope that wherever that is, folks will still stop me, as they do today, and ask, ‘Didn’t you used to be Walter Cronkite?’ ”





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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Manchester Orchestra are the Greatest Band in the World As I Write This~!!!!



Andy Hull & Co. = Manchester Orchestra Are The Best Band I Have Heard In The Last 5 Years At Least.. They Have Many Elements To Their Music & The Band Behind Him Is Ridiculous~
At times, I hear some Radiohead influence, I hear guitar work/bends that remind me of Rhinoceros, Mayonnaise or other early Smashing Pumpkins Masterpieces~ There are a few chords that bring Muse to mind, But the most startling fact is that Andy Hull sounds like Kurt Cobain's illegitimate son (If he had one, maybe he did;) mixed with early & balls out Conor Oberst~ I remember reading a review where they said that Conor was like "A Starving Robert Smith" & I checked into Bright Eyes right after that & he didn't dissappoint.. Unfortunately, Conor has turned into 50 Cent of late & actually sings about being a millionaire in his lyrics.. I also got to chill with them last time they were in town & even though Conor was so fucking down to earth & shockingly humble, his new band: The Mystic Valley Band are comprised of a bunch of assholes who think they are too cool for school even though my sorry ass who hasn;t even put out an album yet has close to 200,000 more plays on my site than any of them.. I hate to even type this because I'm not like that, but if Isaac Brock & Modest Mouse, Serj Tankien & System Of A Down, Chino Moreno & The Deftones & the very unique Sigur Ros (to name a few of the Musicians I have spent time with) are all cool enough to spend hours with me in A New Orleans Bar, Backstage in Atlanta or recently with Isaac Brock in Orlando & treat me like another artist & human being, I just understand how a bunch of kids who are just backing up an amazing Songwriter can be such fucking pricks.. He even gave them 2 tracks a piece on his latest album & Air Mattress is so fucking pathetic that I will never understand what Conor was thinking, but to the same extent, it shows what a great person he is..

The point of this rant is that: Andy Hull & Manchester Orchestra are by far the greatest band in America right now; right next to Modest Mouse of course~ Andy is an extremely wonderful songwriter and I know that he will be writing honest & astonishing music for years to come..
As I write the songs for my Debut Album, I am so grateful to Manchester Orchestra for giving me the inspiration to put even more into my songs & the whole concept behind them.

One day I will shake his hand & thank him, right before I go onstage to open a show for them & at that point, my life will be that much closer to being complete.

GO & SUPPORT THIS BAND & BUY BOTH OF THEIR ALBUMS~ THEY DESERVE IT~

Funny enough, my favorite Comedian I have found since David Cross about a Decade ago is the hilarious Zach Galifianakis & they are similar in their groundbreaking brilliance & they look similar as well with their long red beards.. My Irish roots make my beard grow a dark red as well; maybe I should grow it out & then I can be totally unoriginal (BEING UNORIGINAL IS SOMETHING THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN WITH MY MUSIC, WRITING & OTHER FORMS OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION)

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

THE MOST UNDERRATED BAND OF ALL TIME = REMY ZERO



















ASIDE FROM CREATING THE ALBUM THAT ENDED UP MAKING A LITTLE BAND KNOWN AS COLDPLAY (AMONGST SO MANY OTHERS) WRITE SONGS THAT ENDED UP ON THEIR FIRST ALBUM (PARACHUTES) = REMY ZERO ARE COMPRISED OF THE NICEST GUYS I HAVE EVER MET. I WILL NEVER GET OVER HOW BANDS THAT RIPPED THEM OFF ENDED UP SELLING MORE RECORDS IN ONE WEEK THAN THE GREATEST BAND SINCE THE BEATLES DID IN A DECADE LONG CAREER. BITTER?! CAN I SAY : F#CK YES!!!!?!

IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT VILLA ELAINE IS, PLEASE DO YOURSELF A HUGE FAVOR & FIND OUT.. THAT ALBUM, ALONG WITH THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT INSPIRED ME TO BECOME A MUSICIAN, A TRUE ARTIST AND A MUCH BETTER PERSON AS I TURNED FROM A CRAZY TEENAGER INTO A MAN WITH A SPECIAL WARMTH IN MY HEART..

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS~ AVANT-GARDE EXTRAORDINAIRE = CHANDEL

























































































I LOVE ANY FORM OF ART THAT IS EXPRESSED WITH NO RULES IN MIND..






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Friday, April 24, 2009

HOPESiCK RECORDS & HE DREAMS AWAKE = NETWORKING ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER -

PREPARING FOR THE RELEASE OF AN ALBUM & DISTRIBUTION OF 2 EUROPEAN BANDS TAKES PLENTY OF DAMN TIME. I'M EXHAUSTED~ TIME FOR 4 HOURS OF SLEEP & THEN IT IS BACK TO STUDYING AND ALL OF THE OTHER NEVER ENDING INDEPENDENT EQUATIONS.

HEY DETECTIVE, THAT CHECK FOR $4,000 WILL DO JUST FINE~


LIKE SIMPLE JACK: YOU MA-MA-MA MAKE ME HAPPY~

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

JOAQUIN PHOENIX - THE FULL INTERVIEW - IS THIS A PRANK OR IS HE IN BAD SHAPE??! BOTH??!

THIS IS ONE THE BEST ACTORS ALIVE AND HE IS GIVING IT ALL UP!!!!!!!!!?????????

FOR A RAP CAREER??!!!

HE COULD DO IT.. BUT, HE IS SMARTER THAN THAT & HE HAS CASEY AFFLECK TAPING A DOCUMENTARY ON HIS RAP CAREER.. I THINK THIS WILL TURN OUT BEING A JOHNNY CASH
(VERY GOOD ACTING) MEETS A SASCHA BARON COHEN AKA BORAT-ESQUE DOCUMENTARY & HOPEFULLY A FILM.

FOR HIS RAP ALBUM, HE IS MEETING UP WITH DJ GOBAMA & IT SHOULD GET ABSOLUTELY INSANE
IF THIS COMES TOGETHER..



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CAN THEY BE STOPPED & WILL KNiFA BE OPENING FOR THEM IN FLORIDA IF THEY EVER TRAVEL DOWN THERE??!

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ARE FINALLY GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE. ON THEIR 9TH ALBUM, THEY HAVE STARTED TO GET THE RECOGNITION THAT THEY ARE SO WORTHY OF. I AM A HUGE FAN OF RADIOHEAD AND I WOULD SAY THAT THIS IS AS CLOSE TO A "KID A" ALBUM THAT ONE COULD PROGRAM THEIR BRAINS TO BLEND WITH ARTISTIC EXPRESSION.




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THE NEW ELLIOTT SMITH?! TO WISH IMPOSSIBLE THINGS..

FUCK~!! WILL I EVER UNDERSTAND?? WHETHER IT IS THE GREATEST ARTISTS EVER BORN OR MY FAM OR A COUPLE OF MY BEST FRIENDS - I DON'T THINK IT WILL EVER FULLY SINK IN. I HAVE BEEN THERE AND THANKS TO A COUPLE OF GREAT MUSICIANS FROM THE SICKEST GROUP UNDER THE RADAR RIGHT NOW AKA RIG 1 & JIMMY UTAH = I AM STILL HERE.. LONG STORY.



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It's Been Awhile.. So Much To Touch Upon & It Happens To Be 4:20

It's late. But after this recent break, the first since my attempt at a Blog, I have so much to touch upon and even better is the insane amount of work I have put into my Music, Screenplay & the inevitable trip I have coming up in the Spring to NYC for the 1st Time with the 2 most beautiful women alive = www.myspace.com/hedreamsawake <---- Chandel & Sasha AKA Lua On My Top Friends.. Be Prepared To See Very Amazing Young Women & Drop Them A Line Telling Them How Great They Seem ;)

So..

Joaquin Phoenix On Letterman .. Borat Meets Johnny Cash??!

AROiD - This Will Be Touched Upon & He Is Only 42 Minutes Away From Me & The Art Institute & I Will Be Going To Attempt My First Real "Journalistic Journey."

Grammy's - Thom Yorke & Radiohead With The USC Marching Band Was The iLLEST & Stevie Wonder With The JONA BROTHERS JUST MADE ME ILL~!!!!!!!!!

Asher Roth - Cool Kid. He's Got Skills. I'd Like To See Him & RIG 1 Battle Or Join Forces On A Track <----- I Might Be Working On Something..

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH TO SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HAVE MISSED YOU (I'm Talking To The Mirror, If Anyone Acrually Reads This, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT!!)

All Love.

KiD~A.D


ELLiOTT SMiTH = THE GREATEST SONGWRITER IN MY EYES COVERED BY THE BEAUTIFUL EMiLY HAiNES FROM METRIC.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

NIKKI SIXX + ELLIOTT SMITH + THE BATTLE OF BEST LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW - A DEFINITE BLOG TO MAKE.

NIKKI SIXX IS THE FN MAN. I JUST REALIZED HE IS WITH KAT VON DEE..
I READ HIS BOOK IN 2 DAYS WHICH WAS TITLED: THE HEROIN DIARIES
I READ ELLIOTT SMITH'S BIO AFTER THAT & IT BROKE MY HEART..

I saw Kat Von Dee on Carson Along with LMFAO. CARSON'S SHOW HAS BADASS MUSIC & CRAIG FERGUSON IS BRILLIANT..

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OBAMA WAS ON JIMMY KIMMEL TONIGHT.. I SAW THE ORIGINAL AIRING.. BARACK OBAMA IS FN BRILLIANT~


BARACK IS OFFICIALLY THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THIS MIGHT END UP BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON EVER BORN~ THE WORLD WILL EITHER GET A LOT BETTER OR IT WILL FALL APART & THE OZONE OR BOMBS WILL KILL US~

THIS IS FROM A CHINA NEWSPAPER. MY BLOG COULD FOCUS ON WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES THINK OF US.. HMMM..


WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Hope is one thing, the reality is another. On Tuesday, about 2 million people gathered in Washington D.C. to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as new U.S, president, hoping he will save the economy, but the Wall Street plunged more than 4 percent in New York.

In his address just after taking the swearing-in oath, Obama admitted that the U.S. was "in the midst of crisis is now well understood," listing war, economy, healthcare, home foreclosures, jobs, energy and other challenges.

"Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age," said the new president.

But Obama assured Americans that although "the challenges we face are real, serious many," and "will not be met easily or in a short span of time," America's goals "will be met."

The new president's words were echoed by Dean Glenn, an entrepreneur from Virginia, who told Xinhua that he is optimistic and believes Obama will save the economy and be great leader.

He said: "The economic crisis is a tough problem, it require some smart person to figure it out, I think he is surrounded himself with some very smart persons."

Glenn, who had never been to inauguration before, said: "Today is a day we look forward to for long time," adding that he believes Obama will bring changes to the U.S.. "We will have a new spirit of cooperation, hopefully a respect of the world."

Witnessing Obama was sworn in as the 44th U.S. president, the first black president in America's history, hundreds of thousands of people, like Glenn, erupted in roars of approval, and cheered in the same tone: "Obama, Obama!"

A recent national poll also showed that Obama's approval rating had risen to nearly 80 percent, revealing people's satisfaction with his work in the transition of power, establishment of his cabinet, as well as high expectations of his administration after Jan. 20.

"I think he (Obama) is going to do a magnificent job, he has several teams that would change the nation," said David S. TorainII, head of Mathematics department of Hampton University, who joined the jubilation near the Washington Monument, which stands at the central of the National Mall.

As for the economy, however, he seemed to be not so optimistic. Inheriting a series of economic problems on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, Obama will have a hard time reviving the nation's sagging economy, he noted.

"It might took long time to get out of the meltdown. I don't think anybody can turn around in next 6 months," he told Xinhua.

But he believed that Obama would help improve the situation. "I think he will be the greatest president since John F. Kennedy, he has great ideas, let's wait and see what happens," he said.

But the Wall Street cannot wait. The U.S. stock market plunged more than 4 percent on Inauguration Day Tuesday as bank woes spread while investors failed to find confidence from President Barack Obama's inauguration speech.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 330 points, or 4 percent, falling below 8,000 for the first time in 2009, while the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq indexes dropped more than 5 percent.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Inheriting a series of economic problems on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, new U.S. President Barack Obama will have a hard time reviving the nation's sagging economy.

In his speech after being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, Obama acknowledged the daunting challenges facing the nation, saying "we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood." Full story

News Analysis: Obama's presidency to start amid expectations, hopes, challenges

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's historic journey to the White House reaches its successful end on Tuesday when he takes oath of office as the new president, but he will face a rougher road filled with expectations, hopes and challenges.

Even before his presidency begins, Obama has been written into history for his unique power in the presidential campaign to inspire and energize millions of Americans to congregate under his banner of "changes we believe." Full story

Feature: Well-wishers at Philadelphia station hope Obama to help realize dreams

30TH STREET STATION, Philadelphia, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- While U.S. President-elect Barack Obama was delivering a speech in a tightly-guarded conference room inside the spacious main hall of the 30th Street Station of Philadelphia, many well-wishers barred from entry were expressing their hopes and aspirations in the chilly weather outside.

"My biggest wish for Obama is that he could keep his promise to give us single-payer health care," said retired nurse Diane Mohney, who was distributing flyers which read "Let's End Our National Healthcare Nightmare." Full story



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Tuesday, January 20, 2009