Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 30th, 2009
As we’ve seen previously, NYC filmmaker Ray Concepcioñ‘s into creating leisurely, continuous establishing shots before he takes you into any given venue. You saw the street and the feet that walk it before watching Surfer Blood, for instance, and the Guggenheim, both indoors and out, provided the backdrop for the Walkmen‘s set amid the spiral. This clip, captured 10/21 at Pianos, gives you a taste of the Lower East Side and then introduces us to “Basement,” a new track by laidback multi-tasking Jersey born BTW Real Estate.
Continue reading New Real Estate – “Basement” (Live @ CMJ)…
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
They’re just doing the L.A. show (the rest of the dates feature the more D-list bands and actors involved), but still: Death Cab’s brand expansion knows no bounds. Check the itinerary.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Jambands.com alerted us to Perpetual Groove’s plans for their Halloween concert at the National in Richmond, VA: a John Hughes Variety Show. From the P-Groove website:
Once again carrying the torch for their favorite movies, Perpetual Groove will present their tribute to movie director John Hughes for Halloween 2009. We highly suggest you attend dressed as your favorite character from any of John Hughes’ movies. Except maybe Curly Sue.
That just has awesome written all over it. Of course, maybe I just have a thing for the John Hughes classics having grown up in the 80s in the near-north suburbs of Chicago (Evanston). By the way, if you’re looking for great Halloween show to attend, check out our Halloween Round-up…it’s massive.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. Following is a list of a few movies that you can get using a movie download site.
There’s Something About Mary: Ted has had a crush on Mary since high school. A good friend convinces Ted to search Mary down. So Ted hires a private detective to locate Mary. This sets the stage for a fun comedy romance.
Chisum: This film, based on actual events, is about the attempts of good ranchers like Wayne and Knowles to stop the takeover of Lincoln County, New Mexico, by the corrupt Tucker. One of few Wayne Westerns based on historical occurrences. Cast includes John Wayne, Geoffrey Deuel, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Patric Knowles, Lynda Night, and Richard Jaeckel. (111 minutes, 1970)
Seizure: Rock’s directorial debut is trendy although incoherent shocker in which novelist Frid, his family and buddies are made to play games of death by a trio of wicked weirdos who may or may not be his bad dreams coming to life. Cast includes Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Christina Pickles, Joe Sirola, Herve Villechaize, Mary Woronov, and Troy Donahue. (93 minutes, 1974)
The Saint: Master thief Simon Templar is close to retirement. He decides to take one last job, to properly fill his bank account. A Russian billionaire hires him to steal a formula for cold fusion from scientist Emma Russell. Two things change his plans. He falls in love with the beautiful scientist, and learns the potential disaster if this formula was in the wrong hands.
Only the Strong: An Ex-Green Beret, his old Miami high school friend now bullied by a drug lord, turns twelve of the joint’s worst criminals into crime-busters by teaching them a hypnotic, Brazilian form of martial arts. They will now settle the score. Dopey however inoffensive; at its best in potently choreographed fight scenes. Cast includes Mark Dacascos, Stacey Travis, Geoffrey Lewis, Paco Christian Prieto, Todd Susman, Jeffrey and Anderson Gunter. (96 minutes, 1993)
Chicken Every Sunday: Carefree turn-of the century Americana in reference to get-rich-quick hopeful Dailey and his clingy spouse. Cast includes George Seaton, Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Alan Youthful, and Natalie Wood. (91 minutes, 1948)
Dream Warriors: When agitated kids in a psychiatric clinic find they are being visited in their dreams by the giggling, murderous figure of Freddy Krueger, Nancy Langenkamp, the survivor of the first film and now a psychiatrist, helps another physician and the terrified adolescents battle Freddy. Well written and imaginatively prompted, this is the best of the Elm Road films. Cast includes Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Larry Fishburne, Priscilla Arrow, Brooke Bundy, Dick Cavett, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. (78 minutes, 1987)
Bad Santa: Willie Stokes has an interesting gig. Every year he works as Santa Clause on Christmas Eve. When the shops close, Willie and his partner make a big score by breaking into the safe.
The House on Skull Mountain: Family members anticipating the viewing of a seance meet bizarre ends in a witch craft infested Southern mansion. Black terror entry with a white idol is not particularly bloody, however additionally not specifically excellent. Cast includes Champ French, Janee Michelle, Jean Durand, Mike Evans, and Xernona Clayton. (89 minutes, 1974)
For file downloads use a phrase like “Downloading Movies Online”. When one search fails to succeed just change things and try again. Make another attempt with “Downloading Movies”.
Once you’ve decided on a service, you can quickly and easily sign up and begin downloading movies. The Hephalump Movie One of the things that are nice about the access that they are provided online, is the time and money they can save. With downloading movies, they’re usually right, and so they won’t stop no matter how much it could hurt others.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. Now, with internet usage exploding, movie downloads are becoming very popular. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites.
Sugar Town : Entertaining mosaic of LA life characterizing a handful of characters whose lives dovetail: a musician wannabe who’ll do anything to get ahead, an uptight lone lady who allures the incorrect men like a magnet, and a band made up of cleaned-up ’80s stone megastars, to name a few. Tiny, made on a shoestring, although acute and well recognized; excellent cast contains a number of genuine-life musicians. Cast includes Supporter Sheedy, Rosanna Arquette, John Taylor, Jade Gordon, Michael Des Barres, Lucinda Jenney, and Martin Kemp. (92 minutes, 1999)
Do The Right Thing: This is a Spike Lee Directed film. On a hot summer day in a Brooklyn neighborhood, things are heating up. With various people from different races and cultures, all struggling with their own, or each other’s problems, things have reached a boiling point. The crescendo of which is a racially motivated outbreak of violence.
Shining Through: Shining Through is movie is set in WWII. Linda Voss is a legal secretary with a Jewish relative in Germany. She figures out her boss is working for the government on covert operations. She wants to help, and she speaks German. She eventually gets an assignment to go undercover in Germany. What will her fate be?
Sleepy Hollow: It is the year 1779, and a young policeman from New York has been sent off to the small town of Sleep Hollow to investigate the disturbing deaths of three men, who were found with their heads chopped off, and the heads all missing. There is a legend of an axe carrying, headless horseman that roams the woods of Sleepy Hollow. Does he really exist?
Commando: Here’s an extremely loud comic magazine flick in reference to a retired special ops man (Schwarzenegger), who’s made to go back in time when vengeful goons abduct his child. Cast includes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Daybreak Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, David Patrick Kelly, and Alyssa Milano. (88 minutes, 1985)
The Indian in the Cupboard: A boy (Scardino) acquires an old chest as a birthday present, and finds that while he sets a toy Indian inside and turns the key, the Indian comes to life. Then he sees that the Indian is not a toy, however a genuine individual. Problems follow, particularly while his best buddy summons to life a toy cowboy. Cast includes Hal Scardino, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Jenkins, Rishi Bhat, and Nestor Serrano. (96 minutes, 1995)
Bulletproof: Covert cop Wayans teams up with Sandler. The crook he’s trying to bust is a drug kingpin who is proving to be very difficult to bring down. Cast includes Adam Sandler, Damon Wayans, James Caan, Kristen Wilson, James Farentino, Bill Nunn, and Jeep Swenson. (85 minutes, 1996)
Raising-Cain: Lithgow is the entire show here. He literally has more roles than you can imagine in this over-the-top thriller in reference to a set of double brothers who’ll halt at nothing to acquire kids for their dad’s disturbing experiments. This tongue-in-cheek De Palma work that gives nods to Hitchcock, Welles, and Michael PowelI is laced with satire. Cast includes John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen, and Gregg Henry. RT. (95 minutes, 1992)
The Horse Whisperer: After her daughter is seriously injured in a horse riding accident, her wealthy mother takes the horse to a legendary horse whisperer in Montana. A romance between the two follows.
If you’re looking for downloads, type in “Purchase Movie” to a search engine, see if you find something good. If a search does not yield a good result, try different searches. To get new search results type in “Rent DVDs Online”.
This is a better option if you are pressed for time and are not going to watch too many movies all the time. Watch Movie Online You can find virtually every title that you can think of, available for online downloads. Some of these movie download services even allow you the ability to rent or buy online movies.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
With such a big range of karaoke DVDs and CD discs accessible to buy it can be quite tantalizing to start out your individualised library to try and perfect your sound. But the question persists is can producing your own library of karaoke CDs and DVDs better your singing? Does making such a purchase increase your chances of singing perfection on stage?
There is no question that purchasing karaoke CDs and DVDs is the best way to improve your singing. It presents you ample opportunity to rehearse your favorite songs, the experience on practising in the comfort of your own house, and the confidence to establish and expand your time on stage. By purchasing karaoke CDs and DVDs there is unquestionably no excuse not to practise and groom your own vocal range. The coolest thing is that due to the great range of karaoke CDs and DVDs obtainable, you will surely discover one that will fit your musical style.
As popular saying goes, practise makes perfect, and the same can definitely be said in improving your singing. By taking in any chance to rehearse at home with your karaoke library it yields you the prospect to memorize your song to be able to sing them with self-assurance when you do venture on stage.
Utilising karaoke discs is also one path to expand your musical knowledge and discover new music. Of course everyone has a small extend of tracks that they enjoy performing, but a lot of semi-professionals also try deeper and better affairs to see how extended their singing talent can go. Karaoke discs are a good idea to extend your song choice because the options obtainable out there are absolutely endless. From classic rock, to modern pop, there is no question that you can hear the tracks you want with relative ease.
The best part about building your library of karaoke CDs and karaoke DVDs is the amount of confidence you have inside yourself next time you get up on stage. By hearing and practising the songs that you desire to impress with everytime you have a free minute at home, the next time you step up onto the stage you be sure-footed about singing, establishing your next public singing performance dead impressive.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
I have a Mac laptop which of course comes with Garage Band, and because I write music this comes in handy. However I am starting to write music with more of a rap/hip hop sound and I am looking for a version of Garage Band (maybe an attachment?) or some similar program that is geared towards that sound, like when it comes to the loops and stuff that they offer, since the version I have is more rock/blues oriented.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Ahhh, the Internets. It all happens so quickly now.
We’ve already got an update and setlist from Hidden Track on Phish’s Thursday evening soundcheck. The setlist is as follows: Jam, Undermind > Devil With a Blue Dress Jam, Starship Trooper Jam, Gone, Liquid Time
Not only that, but someone over at PT nabbed an audio rip of the soundcheck which you can download here. Off we go!
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
We’ve got some initial images streaming in from Festival 8, so we thought we’d post a few for a quick glimpse into the scene over in Indio.
Looks quite delectable…
Aerial Photo of the Festival 8 grounds from PhishTwit
Bunny Radio is on the scene
On the lot in Indio by Kt913
8 ball saying “hi” – by chinakatsunflwr
8 donuts by phishnet
FOAM by PhishTwit
Festival 8 Map by deadhead513
sun and palms by doobwah
8 Bitchez by kfoxaz
Festival 8 stub by mdubno
Okay, now I am officially jealous!
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