The AUGUST'09 Soundtrack! The Bug-celona Version!

Προχτές έγινε κάτι πρωτοφανές για μένα! Καθόμουνα με τα φιλαράκια μου στην ταράτσα του σπιτιού μου, πολύ όμορφη βραδιά, κι από εκεί που δεν έχω δει ποτέ μου αστέρι να πέφτει, είδα και μάλιστα δύο φορές! Αν πραγματοποιηθούν οι ευχές που έκανα, σας κερνάω όλους μπύρες:-) Κι όχι δεν έκανα ευχή να έρθει η Celine Dion στην Ελλάδα, γιατί τότε θα με κερνούσατε εσείς μούντζες:-) Εξάλλου την ευχή αυτή την φυλάω για όταν εμφανιστεί το τζίνι:-p

Πρίν από αρκετές μέρες γύρισα από την Barcelona. Απίστευτη πόλη, arty, pop, open-minded, θα μπορούσα να ζήσω για πάντα, και δεν υπερβάλλω καθόλου! Είναι φοβερό πράγμα να πηγαίνεις σε μια ξένη πόλη και να λαμβάνεις από παντού κύματα θετικής ενέργειας και διάθεσης. Νόμιζα ότι ήμουν σε κάποιον αστικό παράδεισο! Όσοι την έχουν επισκεφτεί καταλαβαίνουν απόλυτα τι εννοώ! Πιο κάτω θα δείτε μερικές photos που τράβηξα, από τις συνολικά 300 που έβγαλα:-)

Καλό μήνα! Καλές διακοπές σε όσους φεύγουν! Καλή επάνοδο σε όσους γυρνάνε! Καλή συνέχεια σε ό,τι καινούριο έχει ξεκινήσει στη ζωή μας/σας.

SONGS

# ALEX GAUDINO and STEVE EDWARDS Take me down (to the water) (Nicola Fasano Southbeach radio mix)

# ALEX SAYZ Shame on me (original extended mix)

# AMEERAH The sound of missing you (Dave Ramone club mix)

# ANANE Let's get high (Life Love Music) (Yves Larock extended)

# ARMIN VAN BUUREN feat. JACQUELINE GOVAERT Never say never

# BEBE Me fui

# BELLATRAX Can't hold back (original extended mix)

# BRYN CHRISTOPHER GoneGoneGone

# CASCADA Evacuate the dancefloor

# DANIEL MERRIWEATHER Change

# DAVID DEEJAY feat. DONY So bizarre

# DIMENSION-X Abisso

# EDWARD MAYA feat. ALICIA Stereo love

# FEDDE LE GRAND feat. MITCH CROWN Scared of me

# FEDERICO AUBELE Siempre Nuevo

# FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE Cosmic love

# GOSSIP 8^th wonder

# JAY SEAN feat. LIL’ WAYNE Down

# JESSIE JAMES Wanted (Jason Nevins remix)

# LISETTE MELENDEZ Stay (Rod Carrillo club mix)

# LITTLE BOOTS Stuck on repeat

# LOVESHY The boy is mine (Albert Castillo club remix)

# MADONNA Celebration (thanx Δημήτρη που μου το έστειλες;-))

# MALENA ERNMAN Sempre libera

# MARIAH CAREY Obsessed

# MELANIE FIONA Monday morning

# MIKA We are golden

# MILOW You don’t know

# NOVASPACE Dancing into danger (Groove Police club mix)

# OFFER NISSIM feat. MAYA All I wanted

# OI VA VOI Every time

# PAUL VAN DYK feat. JOHNNY MCDAID Home (Kaskade extended mix)

# PITBULL Hotel room service

# PLACEBO Breathe underwater

# SARAH BLASKO All I want

# SHAKIRA She wolf

# TANTO PROJECT Dancing in the dark

# VIBELICIOUS Shattered dreams (original 12" mix)

# WALE feat. LADY GAGA Chillin’

# ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ ΓΑΛΑΝΗ Δεν είμαι από δω

# ΘΕΟΔΟΣΙΑ ΤΣΑΤΣΟΥ Babalou

# ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΦΟΡΟΥ Έτσι είναι οι αγάπες

# ΛΟΥΚΑΣ Μαζί

# ΝΑΤΑΣΑ ΘΕΟΔΩΡΙΔΟΥ Μια κόκκινη γραμμή

# ΡΑΛΛΙΑ ΧΡΗΣΤΙΔΟΥ Μη μου ζητάς συγνώμη

ALBUMS

# Oi Va Voi TRAVELLING THE FACE OF THE GLOBE (worldbeat/electronic) (8)

# Melanie Fiona THE BRIDGE (pop/r’n’b) (8)

# Θεοδοσία Τσάτσου BABALOU (alternative) (7.5)

# Sarah Blasko AS DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT (acoustic/alternative pop) (7)

# Malena Ernmann LA VOIX DU NORD (pop/classical) (6.5)

# Ραλλία Χρηστίδου ΕΤΟΙΜΗ (pop) (6)

# Bebe Y. (pop/latin) (6)

# Κωνσταντίνος Χριστοφόρου ΑΛΛΙΩΣ (pop) (4)

ΓΟΥΣΤΑΡΩ ΠΟΥ...

# από τα μέσα Αυγούστου και μέχρι τέλη Σεπτεμβρίου θα έχουμε πολλές σημαντικές νέες κυκλοφορίες: Dolores O’Riordan, Muse, Nelly Furtado, Whitney Houston, Mika, Mariah Carey, Imogen Heap, Arctic Monkeys, Pearl Jam, Christina Aguilera.

# το αντίστοιχο “Σ’αγαπώ γιατί είσαι ωραία” των πλανόδιων μουσικών μας στην Barcelona είναι το αγαπημένο μου “Historia de un amor”.

# οι ΜΠΛΕ ετοιμάζουν ολοκαίνουριο αλμπουμ μετά την best of συλλογή που είχαν κυκλοφορήσει πριν αρκετούς μήνες.

# η ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ ΓΑΛΑΝΗ κάνει συνεχώς νέα πράγματα, ψάχνεται, ανακαλύπτει νέους δημιουργούς και μας παρουσιάζει πάντοτε ενδιαφέροντα αλμπουμ όπως το «Πίξελ».

# μετά την Barcelona, άρχισα να ξανακούω φανατικά μεγάλες κυρίες της ισπανόφωνης μουσικής σκηνής όπως η Luz Casal, Mercedes Sosa, Chavela Vargas, Ana Gabriel, Buika, Lola Beltran, Lila Downs (apos επιτέλους τα άκουσα τα albums της και είναι εξαιρετική!).

ΧΟΝΤΡΟ!

# Τι εκμετάλλευση είναι αυτή στο όνομα του MICHAEL JACKSON, έχουν ξεφύγει εντελώς, και που’σαι ακόμα! Δε μένει παρά να βγάλει και η Latoya Jackson ένα τραγουδάκι αφιερωμένο στη μνήμη του Michael, μπας και θυμηθεί κανείς ότι είναι τραγουδίστρια και βγάλει και κάνα φράγκο.

# Η ΔΕΣΠΟΙΝΑ ΒΑΝΔΗ γιατί τραγουδάει λες και ποζάρει? Θα αποκτήσει ποτέ δική της προσωπικότητα? Θα μοιάσει ποτέ στον Michael Jackson μετά τις πλαστικές? Απλά ρητορικά ερωτήματα που δεν χρειάζονται απάντηση.

# Γιατί οι έλληνες ράπερ θέλουν μέσα από τους στίχους και το ραπάρισμά τους να περνάνε την εικόνα του «είμαι ο γαμάω»? Τελικά μόνο ο Stereo Mike αξίζει!

# Το νέο σχήμα του χειμώνα ανακοινώθηκε: Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος & Πέγκυ Ζήνα! Δε μένει παρά να δούμε την Χαρούλα Αλεξίου να τραγουδάει το χειμώνα με τον Θάνο Πετρέλη.

# ΠΕΓΚΥ ΖΗΝΑ καρφώσου στην αξίνα! (καινούριο, για να μην ξεχνιόμαστε):-p

Την καλύτερη photo σας την άφησα για το τέλος!!! Προσέξτε το όνομα του restaurant! Και φυσικά μη περιμένετε να σας φέρουν μαχαιροπήρουνα:-)

Rih-Rih + Katy = One Kickass Party

Pic explains itself. My two favorite ladies.

GAHGEOUS!

KISS Fans Who Hate KISS

There are three kinds of people in this world:

1) KISS fans
2) People who aren't KISS fans
3) KISS fans who hate KISS

The latter group of people are easily the worst of all.

See, if you think KISS songs are the musical equivalent to buffalo farts -- that's perfectly fine. However, if you are going to be some whiny KISS fan who pitches continuous online fits over which 50-year old KISS member wears which clown makeup, you need to get a life or find a new hobby.

KISS has been through countless lineup changes over the years and the latest incarnation of the band is just one more in a long list. The current KISS lineup, while totally awesome, is really no different than any other lineup. It's still just KISS.

KISS' current drummer, Eric Singer, and lead guitarist, Tommy Thayer, now wear the Catman and Spaceman makeup because Peter Criss and Ace Frehley are no longer in the band. The decision concerning the makeup came as a result of Peter and Ace's discontentment with being in KISS.

In 2000, Peter Criss refused to honor his existing contract at the end of the Farewell Tour and demanded more money. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley did not take kindly to these demands and brought back Eric Singer (the drummer who Criss replaced when KISS reunited) who finished the tour wearing the Catman persona.


In 2002, Ace Frehley refused to sign a new contract after Paul and Gene decided that KISS should continue. With Ace's decision being final, they replaced him with long-time KISS associate, Tommy Thayer.

So why can KISS still use the Catman and Spaceman makeup without Ace and Peter being in the band? Because Ace and Peter pawned off their rights to the designs for cold hard cash years ago. If those guys didn't see their own makeup designs as sacred, why should fans see it any differently?

Ever since 2001, KISS has had at least one non-original member sporting a makeup design that an original member once wore. Even though it's been 8-years, there are still people bellyaching over it like it happened yesterday.

The most amusing example of this childish behavior is this particular retard who wholely embodies the ridiculousness of it all...

I remember when I was a little kid and believed that Paul, Gene, Ace and Peter were really their characters. Because of that, the makeup mattered to little kids like me. In 1983, KISS took off the makeup and revealed themselves to really be four regular and somewhat ugly guys.


But today, it's not little kids who are crying about the makeup, but grown adults acting like little kids over this situation. They pick internet fights, post endless criticisms and even start little hate forums in protest. Let's just get one thing straight: A KISS fan who hates KISS isn't a KISS fan at all.

Anyhow, until puberty hits these 30 and 40-year olds, Eric Singer has an undergarment recommendation for all the cry-babies out there...

Reasons why i love Youtube part 3

'Cause you can get Pilates instruction videos for free, whereas 6 or so years ago in those pre-Youtube days when we lived on bread, water and fading memories, you'd have had to shell out about £13 for a dvd narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow or suffer the embarrassment of joining a Pilates class.



Apparently Steven Seagal does Pilates and believes it to be the best method to beat stubborn belly fat and tone them abs up. Swear down he did as i read it in one of the men's health mags from Holland & Barrett. Good enough for Nico, good enough for you and me.

Really doe, this was intended to be a post on how Youtube is worthy of me constructing a bustling metropolis on its clit due to any old tv show you may happen to reminisce on during lunchtime drinks being on there in full grainy old VHS tape glory, with tonight's example being the episode of Ric Flair's old WCW spin-off chatfest Flair For The Gold where Ric and his faux-French maid Fifi had Vader and Harley Race on, but Youtube can get the bozack this evening as the clip has suspiciously vanished from its archive so a link had to be hastily gaffled from DailyMotion instead :

A Flair for the Gold Debut-WCW Champ Vader & Harley Race
by TSteck160

The one area where sites like Youtube and DailyMotion occasionally fail is when the old clips aren't quite as you remembered them. In this episode, for instance, i'd gotten it into my head that after Fifi had confirmed Ric as The Man to the inquiring Big Van Vader, that Vader went apeshit, smashed up the coffee table and stood there taunting Flair before the silver mulleted gawd cooly pwned Vader by smugly informing him that his Italian suit was bought for a price which exceeded what Vader paid for his home. Unfortunately, as the clip shows, thangs didn't quite happen that way.

Bonus Nature Boy permeated beats :

Here's T.I & UGK's Front Back Which contains the scenes where T.I does the Nature Boy walk which led to Flair suing T.I. Not only was this the best single from King (What You Know was more overrated than John Terry or Dunks or The Shawshank Redemption or Sushi or Bob Dylan) but it was also better than the UGK original :

T.I & UGK - Front Back

officially the cutest thing I've ever seen

this adorable 5 yr old boy sings johnny cash's "folsom prison blues"

I kinda want to take him home with me and make him play this every morning to wake me up

officially the cutest thing I've ever seen

this adorable 5 yr old boy sings johnny cash's "folsom prison blues"

I kinda want to take him home with me and make him play this every morning to wake me up

Newsflash: Glenn Beck Is Insane

Every once and a while, a right-wing lunatic gives us a gift-wrapped present with a bow. Today's offering comes via Glenn Beck of Fox News.


Beck claims that the current President of the United States is a 'racist'. Yes, a racist. Our half-white President hates white people. Leave it to true racists to forget that little fact.

Republicans also believe this is chocolate ice cream...


Beck claims that President Obama has, "...a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." He then went on to contradict himself -- and then contradict the contradiction -- by saying, "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."

So let's sum up:

1) Obama has a deep-seated hatred for white people.
2) Obama may not hate white people.
3) Obama is, in fact, a racist.


Part of me wishes nothing but ill-will upon Beck, but in a lot of ways, this kinda of stuff only helps keep the GOP out of touch and out of power -- and that's a good thing.

There's no doubt that there's a small portion of this country who agree with Beck. These people also believe that President Obama an illegal alien and a Muslim to boot. But for this mainstream personality to go and spout such craziness, it just shows that the GOP is still just a party of white guys who consistantly oppose minorities in our country.

It has been projected that by 2050, minorities in America will become the majority. All I know is if this kind of nonsense on the Right continues to occur, the GOP will be a dead party by then -- and, IMO, that really can't come soon enough.

C'mon Glenn Beck. It's time to enter the 21st century. Even some of your biggest supporters have caught up with the times...

Whats so Great about Jay and Bee?!

Everyone is drooling for this picture and I am just looking at it. I'm trying so hard to find out what metaphor or interesting capability it has to my noggin . . . but I fall short. Yeah, Jay's walking out of a hot ass car. Um, yes? So? Sure, Bee has nice heels on! I would slide the card for a pair. But . . . why is that astounding? I mean . . . I am seriously trying to figure this out like a mathematical equation, and I failed math in school. So can someone tutor me in this?! Por favor!

WHY IS THIS PICTURE SO COLOSSAL!?!

I hate smart chicks but i love brains # 4

Move over Gail Trimble 'cause we got a a new head sexpot brainbox in charge on University Challenge.



Just caught the latest episode and amidst the awkward goobers and generic indie kidz who make up yer garden variety University Challenge teams in 2009 we have the lascivious square peg in a round hole that is Chantal Hadley (gotta love a bit of brainy posh totty with a common-as-muck name like Chantal) of Jesus College, Oxford.



Myra Hindley in Hoxton? A young Cathy Moriarty (who deez nutz were introduced to when she played Carrigen Crittenden in Casper) playing one of the femme Morrissey doppelgangers in that Smiths video where various Moz-A-likes of both genders ride around Salford? A secretary-by-day/dominatrix-by-night in an old German RTL porn movie on Sky at midnight? Jordan AKA Pamela Rooke if she was an artsy librarian and not an O.G punk who worked at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's SEX boutique? All of the above? I 'unno but she'd definately get the hot beef jolly hockey stick.

You'd expect a trusty Google for University Challenge contestants to bring up the standard pix with Paxman but my search has bore far juicier fruit. Apparently she's known to do a bit of modelling at Oxford, and not just any ol' two-bit modelling but saucy underwear modelling. Juicy fruit, alas, i can no longer bring to you due to threat of legal action in the comment section (Chantal vanity-googling herself already? Hey, here's an idea : don't let your mate post pictures of you gallivanting around in your knickers on a public Flickr account which comes up as the fourth picture in a Google image search for your name in the first place if Copyright infringement is such an issue) but which i feel is my duty to link to since this post is already coming up as the third and fourth results for "Chantal Hadley + University Challenge" on Google.

Cot-damn.

debwa <3s taylor swift? y/n?

I just spent 45 minutes of my life watching taylor swift videos. I am not kidding.


videos like this:
I guess we're all one phone call from our knees.



and this:





I love her little mole face (ps did you know that naked mole rats are immune to pain? true story)




I'm also watching 10 things I hate about you on tv. I am officially a 16 yr old girl.

debwa <3s taylor swift? y/n?

I just spent 45 minutes of my life watching taylor swift videos. I am not kidding.


videos like this:
I guess we're all one phone call from our knees.



and this:





I love her little mole face (ps did you know that naked mole rats are immune to pain? true story)




I'm also watching 10 things I hate about you on tv. I am officially a 16 yr old girl.

public enemies sucked.

and this is why:

• it is REALLY cheesy writing. like, makes-you-wince-cheesy. "he said bye bye blackbird"??? shut the fuck up.
  
• the music blows. 10 minutes into the film they play some epic shit and it was way before you care about any of the characters or storyline, so it feels forced.
• speaking of feeling forced, they practically shove the attributes of the characters down your throat. wasn't this supposed to be an oscar contender? I'm pretty sure I can come to my own conclusions about the characters rather than the director telling me how to feel (side note: that is a total pet peeve when movies do that. a good movie should guide me to feel a certain way about a character, not put it on a platter and then make me eat it).

here are the good parts:

• johnny depp is always a good actor
• christian bale is okay, too, although they could've explained a lot lot more about his character and his history
• the two old texas lawmen that come up to hunt dillinger are fuckin awesome cuz they're all quiet and old school and use their brains not force to figure out dillinger's next move
  

public enemies sucked.

and this is why:

• it is REALLY cheesy writing. like, makes-you-wince-cheesy. "he said bye bye blackbird"??? shut the fuck up.
  
• the music blows. 10 minutes into the film they play some epic shit and it was way before you care about any of the characters or storyline, so it feels forced.
• speaking of feeling forced, they practically shove the attributes of the characters down your throat. wasn't this supposed to be an oscar contender? I'm pretty sure I can come to my own conclusions about the characters rather than the director telling me how to feel (side note: that is a total pet peeve when movies do that. a good movie should guide me to feel a certain way about a character, not put it on a platter and then make me eat it).

here are the good parts:

• johnny depp is always a good actor
• christian bale is okay, too, although they could've explained a lot lot more about his character and his history
• the two old texas lawmen that come up to hunt dillinger are fuckin awesome cuz they're all quiet and old school and use their brains not force to figure out dillinger's next move
  

yes please

I am way into this clutch. I am not tough enough to really carry brass knuckles, so this would fufill my yearning to be a badass and it's functional, too!


Alexander McQueen Knuckle Duster Patent Leather Clutch


and what a steal at $1595. definitely feasible at my $12/hr salary.

yes please

I am way into this clutch. I am not tough enough to really carry brass knuckles, so this would fufill my yearning to be a badass and it's functional, too!


Alexander McQueen Knuckle Duster Patent Leather Clutch


and what a steal at $1595. definitely feasible at my $12/hr salary.

Martorial elegance # 26

As Barratt says when he mailed me this picture, it's a prerequisite for crap housewarming parties that some fuckwit produces acoustic guitar at some point.



For proof that great minds think alike, I refer you to this pearl of wisdom from a Fabolous freestyle :



You wanna sing like a parrot do?/
then dem boyz gonna do ya head like Jeff Jarrett do

the best thing I've ever read

it's bolded. this sentence took me completely by surprised and I busted out laughing. I also want this poster to write a novel based on the bolded (part of a) sentence.

(from "sorry mom, I bang the worst dudes")

I hooked up with this guy for a few months despite the fact that he dealt drugs from his dorm room, bragged about how many antidepressants he was on, and smoked weed almost as much as he farted. When I asked about his cocaine habit he snapped at me and insisted I never bring it up because it might come back to haunt him in the future, as he was planning on someday becoming a high profile politician. Really? Because that’s not what your 2 point something GPA told me. The cherry on top: this Pillsbury doughboy body double would pound on my door at 4:30 in the morning in the middle of the week, coked up out of his mind, begging for a blowjob. I’ll pass, Mr. President.

the best thing I've ever read

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Solange fooled us for a nanosecond . . .

Oh, poo.

Turns out Solange is not letting the public watch as her hair grows out natural, as much as I had hoped. She was seen rocking this wig at this party for Dita Von Teese.

Tay (Blog: Something Different), you were right.

Inhale . . . LARGE SIGH / LETDOWN.

Solange's BIG CHOP!

Your thoughts?

Picture courtesy The Fashion Bomb Blog

Great songs from forgotten rap albums part 9

Philly's Most Wanted - Suckas



With a debut almost entirely produced by The Neptunes, Philly's Most Wanted coulda been contenders or, at least, the cheese steak city's answer to The Clipse. Too bad then that their album was less Lord Willin' and more "What the fucking lord were they thinking having every song featuring cringeworthy falsetto hooks and unsuitable beats which Usher probably rejected when searching Neptunes r&b production tapes for the U Don't Have To Call beat?" Suckas is the abandoned diamond amongst the faeces and BANGS with Mr Man and Boo-Bonic (hardly suprising the album flopped when the two rappers were so terribly named) recounting various examples of what a sucka is over a naggingly infectious standard pre-Grindin' Neptunes track, meaning it's a slight variation on the Superthug beat. Suckas Part 2, which some halfwits actually prefered to the original, had a song-stealing Beanie verse but suffered ruiniation at the hands of the various beat-switches and the hook, which is about as close to audio HIV as is scientifically possible.



Kurtis Blow - Do The Do



The highlight of Blow's sophomore platter Deuce and his 2nd best song after Hard Times. Not quite as good as the similarly monikered Doing The Do by Jeckyll & Hyde but still one of the finer slices of pre-Planet Rock and The Message disco-band rap with an absolute killer dum-dum-dum-dum-de-dum-duh-dum bassline. Both the Deuce LP and the 12" of Do The Do itself used to go for mere pocket lint until it was revealed some tampon commercial sounding LTJ Bukem tune sampled the drum break and 'intelligent drum & bass' loving ponces pushed the prices of both up to, on occasion, the £50 mark. More importantly than all that, though, is the trivia that this was the first ever rap song to mention Your Momma.



Husalah - Live Life Illegal



The Jacka - Murder Somebody



Jacka & Husalah's Shower Posse album was intended to be a conceptual collaboration based on the Jamaican coalition of gangs of the same name with the two Mob Figaz heavyweights rhyming over reggae tinged beats but laziness, label issues and incarcerations meant the album was never fully realised and ended up being just another hastily pasted together Mob Figaz album with a handful of stunning highlights, which is good enough for me. Hus's Live Life Illegal bears a clear Thizz Nation influence with its jocose rhythms sounding distinctly like something off one of the last Mac Dre albums and rumours that Hus' was actually imprisioned on flashing charges due to his claim in this that he spends his time "hanging out in the parking lot/pulling out my cock a lot" are still unconfirmed. Meanwhile Jacka's Murder Somebody is an O-T-T stream of nihilism which would make Prodigy or Beanie proud over hypnotic guitar and a squelchy fart bassline, which successfully manages to capture the whole Mob Figaz oeuvre of Bay Area gang$ta-rap mixed with a considerable east coast thug-rap influence in just under 3 minutes and a half minutes.



Real Live - Get Down For Mine



De La Soul - I Can't Call It



The High School High soundtrack hasn't quite been afforded the same status as other 90s movie soundtracks full of exclusive tracks which never appeared elsewhere like Menace II Society or even Above The Rim but, quality wise, it's up there with either of 'em. Wu-Wear by RZA, Method Man & Cappadonna and Pete Rock & Large Professor's The Rap World are the two cuts which made the most noise at the time but both pale in comparison to the inclusions by Real Live and De La. Get Down For Mine is as good as any of the highlights on Real Live's underrated album, with Larry O. being one of the better exponents of We-just-saw-Goodfellas-and-Casino mafioso rap and K. Def looping up Love Unlimited Orchestra's Strange Games And Funky Things to better effect than anyone has used it before or since (sorry EPMD). I Can't Call It, on the other hand, is some downbeat, wordplay laden, Stakes Is High era De La grumpiness with subtle flourishes of the Money (Dollar Bill Y'All) boopity-bips and Maseo cuttin' up dialogue from Last Night Changed It All. Pity the D'Angelo and Jodeci cuts on the soundtrack were shit, though, eh?

Greatest movie scenes ever part 11

This is Maurice. Maurice is a friend of Sha Deezy's dad Metin and is someone who Sha Deezy and I have shared the company of when sinking a few drinks on numerous occasions.

Maurice had a behemoth heartattack a couple of weeks ago and got his Nikki Sixx on when he died for a few minutes before coming back to life. During those crucial couple of minutes when he flatlined he saw stuff. Stuff that, now he's on the mend, he's managed to sketch down. Post-death dream full of cliched iconography caused by lax of oxygen to the brain or genuine glimpse into the afterlife? You decide :



Although Maurice may have first hand experience of death and the possibility of what, if anything, comes after the human heart goes bump for the last time, here at The Martorialist we prefer to pour over this scene from Abel Ferrara's '96 mob chef-d'oeuvre (and dry-run for many a Sopranos actor) The Funeral for all our thoughts on theology and hold it to task for inspiring our own inability to take responsibility or blame for even the most mundane of errors.

Witness Jean Tempio (Annabella Sciorra, looking not quite as hot as she did as Gloria in The Sopranos) tell Ray Tempio (Christopher Walken) he'll more than likely burn in hell for avenging his brother Johnny's (Vince Gallo) death and Ray replying that he eschews all accountability for his actions as he blames them on god since nothing, according to "them Catholic scholars", happens without the god's permission :

I'm ashamed of nothin', I didn't make the world!

Amy & Duffy: Η αντεπίθεση των αρσενικών κλώνων!

Και το όνομα αυτών Bryn Christopher και Daniel Merriweather!

BRYN CHRISTOPHER

* Είναι μόλις 24 χρονών, απο το Birmingham της Αγγλίας.

* Οι επιρροές του είναι από την Nina Simone (κλασικά!), Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys.

* Πέρασε σε μια από τις κορυφαίες θεατρικές σχολές στο Λονδίνο, αλλά η μεγάλη του αγάπη ήταν μόνο η μουσική. Μέχρι που τον άκουσε ηγετικό στέλεχος της Polydor, ο οποίος μαγεύτηκε με την ομολογουμένως απίστευτη φωνή του, κι έτσι άρχισαν όλα!

* Τον επέλεξε η Amy Winehouse για support στην περιοδεία που έκανε το 2007, αλλά δεν την συνάντησε ποτέ!

* Το debut single ήρθε τον Ιούνιο του 2008, το εκπληκτικό "The quest", το οποίο ακούστηκε και στο τέλος του τέταρτου κύκλου της σειράς "Grey's Anatomy"

* Το πρώτο του album "My world" κυκλοφόρησε το Σεπτέμβριο του 2008, κι ανέβηκε μέχρι το #18 του UK album chart. Το album όπως και τα singles δεν πήγαν καλά εμπορικά, με αποτέλεσμα να φύγει από την Polydor και να τον αναλάβει η Geffen Records.

* Μουσικά τον γνώρισα με το "The quest" το οποίο είναι ένα από τα καλύτερα κομμάτια που άκουσα τελευταία, και μέσα στο πνεύμα του retro στυλ που επανέφεραν στη μόδα η Amy και η Duffy.

* To album του το βρήκα εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρον και κρίμα που δεν πήγε τόσο καλά. Ξεχώρισα τα "GoneGoneGone", "Found a new love", "Stay with me" και την πολύ καλή διασκευή στο classic των Portishead "Sour times".

BRYN CHRISTOPHER "My world" (7/10)

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER

* Γεννήθηκε πριν από 27 χρόνια στην Αυστραλία.

* Παίζει βιολί από 4 χρονών.

* Έγινε ευρύτερα γνωστός το 2007 όταν συμμετείχε στο album του Mark Ronson "Version", με το κομμάτι "Stop me", το οποίο είναι διασκευή του γνωστού κομματιού των Smiths "Stop me if you think you've heard this one before", ανέβηκε μέχρι το #2 του UK singles chart και στο #80 των 100 καλύτερων κομματιών του 2007 για το περιοδικό Rolling Stone.

* Έχει κάνει support στον Kanye West και τον Justin Timberlake.

* To debut album του "The Fifth Season" το 2006, παραμένει ακυκλοφόρητο, ενώ τον Ιούνιο του 2009 κυκλοφόρησε το δεύτερο ολοκληρωμένο του album με τίτλο "Love & War".

* Το "Love & War" έχει ήδη βγάλει δυο πολύ πετυχημένα singles, το καταπληκτικό Amy-like "Change" (UK #8), καθώς και την υπέροχη μπαλάντα "Red" (UK #5), ενώ τον Αύγουστο θα κυκλοφορήσει το τρίτο single "Impossible".

* To album το οποίο ανέβηκε μέχρι το #2 των UK album charts, περιέχει και το εξαιρετικό duet με την Adele στο "Water and a flame", καθώς και το "Could you" το οποίο χρησιμοποιεί πανέξυπνα το "California dreamin'" των Mamas and the Papas.

DANIEL MERRIWEATHER "Love & War" (8.5/10)

Bryn Christopher THE QUEST

Daniel Merriweather CHANGE

Martorial elegance # 25

Back in this post we discussed the unquenchable thirst metallers have for REPPING!!! no matter what the elements, where we focussed on the '93-til-infinity strand of metallers who hold Sepultura-era Max Cavalera as their main style icon and who laugh in the smugly punchable Ricky Ponting-like faces of rain, wind and arctic tempretures when sporting their 3/4 length camo' cut offs all day, e'ry day throughout the seemingly endless harsh British winter.

This time, though, we're gonna discuss their flipsise and turn our attentions to the vagaries of post-goth metallers for whom mere obstacles like glaring sun and sweltering turning-your-crotch-into-a-petri-dish humidity don't even come into consideration when sliding into their pvc kecks, pulling on their leather trench-coats, and climbing into their clod-hopping platform boots every summer morning.



Real metallerz don't die. They might reach middle age and then look even more ridiculous, but they don't die.



You have to hand it to metallers and their effortless ability to accessorize. The Django look is the new black, darling. His diminutive coffin rucksack probably contains little more than some tuna & sweetcorn butties, but here at The Martorialist we like to imagine he has a dead foetus in there, thus making the point that, unlike those goddamned Juggalo pussies who bow to the constraints imposed on us by regular society, real motherfuckin' metallers carry their decaying dead babies around with 'em on their backs :



Mr coffin backback goff' (thanks to B for the pic, btw) is also particularly noteworthy as, from the back at least, he could be the gormless goth whose bone-idle fiancée had him dragging her around on a leash as she indulged in a bizarre human-pet fantasy in a desperate bid to avoid having to do any housework :



But nothing had prepared her for the reaction of the bus driver who allegedly told the self-styled Goth and her boyfriend: "We don't let freaks and dogs like you on."

On a metal-related footnote :

Saw De La, with a little help from Prince Paul and a 10 piece band, do 3 Feet High And Rising in full the other night. Buhloone Mind State is their actual magnum opus but 3 Feet.. is probably the more interesting album to bring to life, innit? Think about it : would you rather see 'em play Transmitting Live From Mars and Take It Off OR Dave Has A Problem..Seriously and Long Island Wildin'? Yeah, exactly.

A fine evening and De La's band tackled the uneviable task of recreating old Cymande, Funkadelic, Sly Stone, Steely Dan, The Turtles et al samples more expertly than Public Enemy's slighly Level 42-ish session band belted out the James Brown/The JB's, Isaac Hayes etc samples during the It Takes A.. show in '08, but after seeing 3 of my favourite rap albums performed from front-to-back in the past 12 months the years are really starting to unfurl between that golden period back in '05/'06 when i saw The Stooges, Girls Against Boys, Dinosaur Jr and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion all soar through their respective rawk classics. It's been too long and right about i wouldn't say no to a Monster Magnet show with them giving their Spine Of God LP the full treatment.

Monster Magnet - Snake Dance



Monster Magnet - Spine Of God



They may have had a name like a Timmy Mallett catchphrase or a Partridge gameshow proposal but, damn, them Jersey boys were wild on their first couple of releases before their original guitarist departed.

"Bruno" is the "Unbreakable" of 2009

Since the release of "Bruno", I've had seen a host of negative reviews for the film that really had me wondering how Sacha Baron Cohen could have gotten this film so wrong. After seeing the film, I believe I understand why some people feel as they do.

It seems that many of these reviewers who see "Bruno" in a negative light do so because the film did not live up to the greatness of "Borat". However, this is not a flaw with the film; it is a flaw with the viewer.

"Borat" was a masterpiece. The specialness of "Borat" was like lightning in a bottle that could never be duplicated and it's partially why Cohen retired the character. "Bruno" is obviously cut from the same cloth as "Borat", but fails to amaze us in the same way because this kind of film is no longer original to us. We've now been there and done that.

"Bruno" is a very funny movie, but it's unfortunate that it cannot escape the large shadow that "Borat" has cast. It reminds me very much in how M. Night Shyamalan's "Unbreakable" could not live up to his legendary, "Sixth Sense".

Even though we knew we were getting an entirely different movie with M. Night's sophmore effort, many people were still expecting, "The Sixth Sense II". When they didn't get that or an ending that impacted them as much, they saw it as a disappointment. The truth is that "Unbreakable" did not fail us; people's expectations failed them.


"Unbreakable" is a very good stand-alone film and also has a pretty darn good ending -- it's just that the ending isn't in the same league as "The Sixth Sense" (although very few movie endings are). It's a shame that some people have let this affect their appreciation for this film.

Admittedly, "Bruno" was not as great as "Borat", but that doesn't mean it wasn't good. Personally, I laughed more than not during those 90-minutes. If you compare "Bruno" to every other comedy released over the last 5-years, IMO, it would only be bested by no more than a handful of them.


I am absolutely convinced that if there were never a "Borat", more people would love with this film. Even part of me is guilty of comparing the two, but I never let it get in the way of my enjoyment of this film. Unfortunately, others are unable to leave "Borat" out of the equation when watching this movie. It's really their loss because "Bruno" is a pretty darn good flick.