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Thom Yorke is one cool fucker

Feb 19 2011 Published by under Celebrities

Radiohead have just released their latest album, The King of Limbs, and with it comes the first music video for the song Lotus Flower.

I’ve always been divided on Radiohead because they try for something new with every album I find their stuff to be kind of hit or miss.  All of it is has a certain degree of artistic merit, but music is such a subjective thing that I find myself unable to enjoy all of Radiohead’s music.

I haven’t heard anything from The King of Limbs except Lotus Flower, but I can say that I like this song more than anything that was on In Rainbows.  Check out the video below to see Thom Yorke dancing like a legend.

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I’m with Coco. If you’re not I hate you

Jan 15 2010 Published by under Celebrities, TV

The title says it all.  If you’re not in support of Conan O’Brien then I hate you.  It’s as simple as that.

By the way, Jimmy Kimmel fucking annihilated Leno as a guest on Leno’s shitty 10@10 segment.

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Conan should bolt NBC

Jan 12 2010 Published by under Celebrities, TV

What a lovely dramatic weekend NBC had with the whole Leno vs. Conan bullshit.  Time for me to vent.

NBC promised The Tonight Show to Conan back in 2004 because they were afraid to lose him to Fox.  The problem was that Leno wasn’t ready to step down from The Tonight Show then, or in the middle of 2009, and this caused a similar problem for NBC in not wanting Leno to go to another network and kill them in the ratings.  Their screwed up solution was to give Conan The Tonight Show but to create The Jay Leno Show and put it on at 10pm.  Effectively undermining the position of The Tonight Show as the preeminent late night talk show and screwing over Conan.  This led to a whole bunch of complaining by NBC’s affiliates because Leno’s ratings suck and that’s having a torpedo effect on their own news shows.  All this led to the reshuffle that was announced on Sunday with the plan being to put Leno on at 11:30pm for a half hour, Conan at 12:05am and Fallon at 1:05am.

Congratulations Jay, you’ve got what you wanted since 2004, to keep The Tonight Show.  That’s what this basically amounts to.  The actual name of the product doesn’t matter.  It’s the timeslot and the host, and Leno at 11:30pm doing the same old tired and boring comedy is The Tonight Show.  Creating a show for Leno and putting him on ahead of Conan was a slap in the face, but bumping Conan to accommodate Leno is even worse.  If Conan can get out of his contract and head over to Fox he should do it in a heartbeat.  Not only would they throw money at him to entice him to leave NBC but he’d probably be able to shift back to the zanier presentation he had on Late Night.  Everyone is well aware that he’s toned down his personality to fit with the 11:30pm timeslot and the supposed hallowed history of The Tonight Show (which is a bullshit approach to take in 2009), but a move over to Fox would allow Conan to go back to his real self.

All this conjecture is pointless though because it seems pretty obvious that Conan isn’t gonna leave NBC.  He seems like too loyal a guy to bail on the network which gave him his start in late night.  So he’ll probably sit there whilst NBC reshuffles again, and accommodates Leno again, and doubts him again, all because he’s a good guy and because he reveres The Tonight Show so much.

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Brittany Murphy dead at 32

Dec 21 2009 Published by under Celebrities

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Wow.  This was a real surprise.  No-one expects a 32 year old to die of a heart attack.  Although she hasn’t been in anything noteworthy for a while now, she’ll be one of my favourite actresses because of her roles in Clueless and Sin City.

I have a sneaking suspicion that drugs will be the cause of her death as there have been rumours for a few years now about her alleged addiction to heroin.  And of course, the tabloids will be able to print anything they like about her now that she’s dead as defamation laws don’t apply to the deceased.

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Don’t tar Kristen Stewart with the Twilight brush

Nov 30 2009 Published by under Celebrities, Film

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With the release of New Moon two weeks ago I’ve been hearing and reading a bunch of reviews about how terrible it is and I have no doubt they’re all true.  My problem lies with the fact that Kristen Stewart seems to be getting a fair share of criticism, with the main complaint being that she’s a bad actress.  To me that’s not right.

I saw Twilight and was truly shocked by how bad it was in every respect and it’s for this reason alone that I won’t be watching New Moon.  I also accept that Stewart was pretty damn ordinary in Twilight, but I don’t believe for one second that she’s a bad actress.  She was captivating in Into the Wild, one of my absolute favourite movies of all time and she was equally good in Adventureland (my #1 movie so far this year).  I really think that her performance in the Twilight movies is a combination of bad direction, a terrible supporting cast, an inane story, and Bella being such a whining needy spoiled emo bitch.

In addition, don’t let all the media coverage of her fool you, she isn’t Lindsay Lohan.  She does have talent.  Plus she seems to be genuinely painfully shy when giving interviews or appearing on talk shows.  That to me indicates that she’s not an attention whore like Lohan.  I hate to come across all Chris Crocker, but it just seems unfair to heap the bulk of the complaints about how terrible the Twilight films are at her feet when she’s done some great work.

Just remember that she does other movies and not just shitty tween angst “vampire” flicks.  Check out her IMDB.

Below is a video showing her singing in Into the Wild.  I actually think the non-singing stuff she does in the film is better but I couldn’t find any footage.

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THEM CROOKED VULTURES are damn fantastic

Nov 11 2009 Published by under Celebrities

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A friend was kind enough to send me the new album from Them Crooked Vultures.  I only heard of the band a month or two ago but when I learned that it was Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones I knew I’d love their material.  I absolutely do.

The whole album is available to be listened to on the official website so by now I’d say anyone interested in them has heard all the songs.  Still, I wanted to put it up on here just in case someone is reading this and is unaware of the band.

Below is the fourth track on the album.

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If you like what you hear go and buy the album, because despite the members of the band not liking the term “supergroup”, Them Crooked Vultures are probably the best example of a supergroup seen so far.

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Marilyn Manson RUNNING TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD music video

Nov 10 2009 Published by under Celebrities

I’m an unapologetic fan of Marilyn Manson.  I think he’s a very intelligent guy who makes some great music.

Here’s the new video for his song Running to the Edge of the World.  In it he beats a girl who supposedly looks like his ex (Evan Rachel Wood) although I don’t see the resemblance, but what do I know.  And to those of you who are shocked or disgusted by the video, what did you expect?  He’s a shock rocker, at least when it comes to his videos (his actual lyrics are quite poetic at times), it’s no surprise that he’s trying to push people’s buttons.

For the record I like the song and the video.

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Bloopers for HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

Sep 30 2009 Published by under Celebrities, TV

Whilst I absolutely love How I Met Your Mother I haven’t plunked down the cash for the show on DVD yet.  Therefore I hadn’t seen the bloopers from the first four seasons until I stumbled upon them on Youtube.

To say they’re awesome is an understatement.  These guys and gals goof around not only like they’re best pals but like they could be my own best friends too.  It’s this kind of chemistry on set which translates to chemistry on screen.

Below are the four blooper reels.

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Defending Megan Fox

Sep 30 2009 Published by under Celebrities, Film

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I was at a BBQ on the weekend and we somehow managed to get onto the topic of Megan Fox and it was surprising how quickly the conversation turned nasty.  A couple of the people involved in the discussion are good friends of mine and I felt for sure they would like and defend Fox, but to my surprise they were equally against her.

Some of the comments were that she’s a bitch, an obvious reference to her comments about Michael Bay.  Never mind that she’s just saying what everyone else already says or thinks, namely that Bay is a hack that fills his movies with explosions and other mindless shit.  Her comments are no less valid just because he cast her.  If anything I admire her more for speaking her mind.  Since when did that become a bad thing?

Another comment against her was that she’s “covered in tattoos and she’s disgusting.”  From last count I could see two tattoos on her typically visible skin, the most prominent of which is the Marilyn Monroe portrait on her forearm.  No mention was made of Angelina Jolie’s numerous tattoos being “disgusting.”  In fact, another point was made that she’s trying to be another Angelina Jolie.  I guess there’s only allowed to be one hot brunette actress with tattoos.  Just more flawed logic and mean spirited comments.

The final remark was that she can’t act.  Roger Ebert said of her role in Jennifer’s Body that “Fox did her career a lot of good with the two “Transformer” movies, but this is her first chance to really perform, and you know what? She comes through.”  Aside from her two prominent roles in Transformers 1+2 and some other limited work, her resume is pretty bare.  And really, how much acting do you expect from these roles?  They’re not Schindler’s List.

I really don’t understand why there’s so much venom directed towards Fox.  What’s she done to deserve it?  Star in billion dollar grossing blockbusters, speak her mind, and have tattoos.  Is that reallt enough to justify hating her?  I like her, I like the movies she’s appeared in, and I’ll continue to watch her films for the forseeable future.  Next on the list, Jonah Hex.

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New posters for THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON

Sep 30 2009 Published by under Celebrities, Film

Three new posters for The Twilight Saga: New Moon came out today but because I fucking hate Twilight but like Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning I’m only posting the two that feature them.

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(source = IMP Awards)

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