Entries from May 2006 ↓
May 31st, 2006 — Blues, We're All Okay!
From Pitchfork: Black Keys Talk Signing to Nonesuch, New LP
“When we initially signed to Fat Possum, they were affiliated with Epitaph. Since then it’s just completely changed. We wanted… a label that had better distribution but wouldn’t fuck us up. Nonesuch… I’d say other than Fat Possum, they’re like the most incredible label. They’re a little bit bigger, but they’re the same type of thing—they’ll just put out music that they like… We were getting dicked around talking to labels. I feel bad because in the past couple of years, so many bands have signed to true major labels. Even Sub Pop—they’re looking to sell records. Most indies now are trying to be majors.”
Their new album Magic Potion will be released September 12.
Here’s the tracklist:
01 Just Got to Be
02 Your Touch
03 You’re the One
04 Just a Little Heat
05 Give Your Heart Away
06 Strange Desire
07 Modern Times
08 The Flame
09 Goodbye Babylon
10 Black Door
11 Elevator
May 31st, 2006 — Shoot the Messenger
From From the Onion’s AV Club “Not since Gigli has the real-life chemistry between two stars ignited the screen (and burned it to cinders) like this Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy.”
Hot Botton’s Dave Polland says, “The ability to combine sadness and light is rare. But the ability to go from broad comedy to heavy, mean, real anger and hurt—while keeping the audience engaged—is near impossible. And it proves to be the death of this well-intended movie.”
“While adults of all ages have endured the economic and social changes brought by post-industrialization, today’s young adults are the first to experience its full weight as they try to start their adult lives. But the challenges facing young adults also reflect the failure of public policy to address the changing realities of building a life in the 21st century. Government no longer has our back. As young adults today are working to get into the middle class, they’re being hit by a one-two punch: The economy no longer generates widespread opportunity, and our public policies haven’t picked up any of the slack.”
May 30th, 2006 — Shoot the Messenger
In the new issue of FHM magazine, Ice Cube bitches that Oprah hasn’t invited him on her show.
“I’ve been involved in three projects pitched to her, but I’ve never been asked to participate. For Barbershop, she had Cedric the Entertainer and Eve on, but I wasn’t invited. Maybe she’s got a problem with hip-hop. ... She’s had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors on her show. And if I’m not a rags-to-riches story for her, who is?”
Who’d have thought back in the NWA days that Ice Cube would end up moaning to some glossy magazine about not getting invited on Oprah.
May 29th, 2006 — We're All Okay!
If you haven’t started watching Rescue Me, which starts it’s third season May 30, here’s a funny as hell short that’ll motivate you to tune in.
May 26th, 2006 — Embedded In America
White Castle has “angered the undead” with its new garlic cheese sandwich.
First it was theme park rides and now it’s prison. What are short people to do? I guess sexually assualt children because they’ll only get probation (if they live in Lincoln, Nebraska).
From CNN.com:
“I’m assuming a short inmate would have a much more difficult time than a large inmate,” said Mangano, who is 5 feet 4 inches tall. “It’s good to see somebody looking out for someone who is a short person.”
Thompson, 50, had sexual contact over a couple of months last year with a 12-year-old girl, said Sidney Police Chief Larry Cox. He was sentenced on two felony sexual assault charges.
May 23rd, 2006 — Shoot the Messenger
Police raid science fiction sex cult
Durham Police are investigating a sex slavery sect operating in a north-eastern suburban town, whose members model their sado-masochistic relationships on a series of 1960s science fiction novels.
May 22nd, 2006 — Shoot the Messenger
Friend of the site, Craig Davidson (author of Rust and Bone) has a been popping up around the net chatting about Rust and Bone, the horror genre, writing, fighting Dr. Phil, and a whole lot more.
from identity theory.com
You’re pretty much universally compared to Chuck Palahniuk (a comparison I agree with) and you’ve stated that you’re a big fan of his. As such, I’m going to start us off with a question from Fight Club: If you could fight any celebrity, who would it be?
I think I’d take a crack at Dr. Phil, if I ever got the chance. I don’t
really see that guy helping anyone; he’s a human placebo. So, if I could run the gambit of security at the studio where he tapes, I’d love to get on stage and bust him one in the chops (I guess I’d have to give him a chance to defend himself; sucker punches just aren’t honorable), and then I’d stare out at the stunned studio audience and cry, “What say you of your Messiah NOW?” I don’t even know what effect a punch would have; Dr. Phil seems so insubstantial I picture him deflating like a parade float until nothing was left but this wrinkled old balloon skin in a suit and tie. But who knows—-maybe Dr. Phil’s got skills. Maybe he’s studied Jeet kun Do and when we get down to it he kicks me though an Oriental paper screen or something. It’s a chance I’d be willing to take.
from Pop Matters.com
“Frankly, once you finish writing a four-page dog fight scene, or a scene where a guy gets his leg chomped off by an incensed killer whale, or one where an old porn star’s penis pump explodes … well, you sort of say to yourself, “I’ve effectively eliminated myself from the mainstream.”
And if you missed the interview he did with this site, check it out here.
May 21st, 2006 — Shoot the Messenger
Enjoy it before NBC yanks it. Free PR for one of their new shows scares the bajeezes out of them.
The show looks great. Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford are funny as hell and look like they’ll have good chemistry together.
I can’t wait to see more and there certainly isn’t enough T.V. I can say that about.
Aaron Sorkin, Studio 60 on Sunset Strip, Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford
May 21st, 2006 — We're All Okay!
May 20th, 2006 — Shoot the Messenger
ABC to Become J.J. Abrams Land
Even before Abrams’ film directorial debut, “Mission: Impossible 3,” opened in theaters May 5, his agent and lawyers had been offering studios the chance to bankroll a new “creative collective” — a major stand-alone label that would employ many co-creators, story editors, staff writers and producers with whom Abrams has worked for many years.
This might be great as long as Abrams does more than lend his name and direct/write the odd episode here and there.
And for the kind of money Abrams wants, I want some quailty fucking involvment from him.
For directing feature films, sources say, Abrams is seeking $10 million against 10% of first dollar gross; writing fees of $3 million at the minimum and up to $5 million if he receives sole credit; producing fees of $2.5 million against 5% of first dollar gross, escalating up to 12.5%; and 35% of home video revenue.
Overall, the proposed deal would cost a studio about $100 million over five years — a sum that made all potential bidders balk.
