Michael Greeson of The Diffusion Group writes “The 'Digital Home' is 10 Years Away” Who Knows, But Isn't This Comment Refreshing?” He pokes fun at the optimistic projections of many in the industry. In a sense the digital home…
Metallica finally has made its songs available on iTunes, the dominant online music store. The group has been notorious for its relationship with online world. It was a prime critic of the original Napster. A few highlights from Metallica's past…
Wouldn’t you like Lindsay better if she just admitted to the coke and the anorexia? Wouldn’t you like Colin Farrell better if he just admitted he bangs anyone that so much as blinks at him (male or female)? Wouldn’t you like George Lucas better if he apologized for Jar Jar and the prequels? I know I would.
“Am I a nice person? God, no! I suck.”
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“This is what happens after you make a movie with Sarah Jessica Parker.”
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“Wanna see my impression of Paris when she’s bored on the set of The Simple Life?”
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“Say Last Call sucks again. SAY LAST CALL SUCKS AGAIN! I dare you, I […]
The Blue Butterfly (2004)
Rated PG
97 minutes
William Hurt — Alan Osborne
Pascale Bussières — Teresa Carlton
Marc Donato — Pete Carlton
The Blue Butterfly is based on a true story about a 10 year old boy who is terminally ill with a brain tumor. With only months to live, he and his mother convince a renowned entomologist to take […]
A ZDNet commentary called “The Internet is not the music industry’s plaything” starts with the following:
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? no it’s…the British Phonographic Institute. And it doesn’t fly. Unlike the real Superman, the music industry body has not been endowed with god-like powers to change the very fabric of time, space and established law - just a vociferous PR department.
The latest example of the group attempting to make time stand still occurred this week when the BPI announced that, not content with taking legal action against file-sharers itself, it thinks that ISPs should do its questionable work for it.
BPI, the English equivalent of RIAA, requested that Tiscali, a European ISP, terminate the accounts of 59 alleged file sharers, with virtually no evidence. Brazen, perhaps. Surprising, I think not, at least in the U.S. Here RIAA has shown little shame in enlisting others to conduct and pay for their civil investigations, in particular the U.S. government and the Department of Justice.
BPI recently forced Tiscali to kill its Juke Box legal P2P streaming music service. So it didn’t expect Tiscali to comply. The objective instead was PR that incriminated ISPs as complicit with P2P users in copyright infringement.
ZDNet remarked on the absurdity of the claim:
“We look forward to the BPI calling on British Airways to stop holidaymakers flying back from Thailand because they might be carrying cheap CDs”
Via www.p2p-weblog.com
So just how bland is Orlando Bloom, really? Blander than brown rice? Blander than Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House? Blander than the color beige? In need of a way to properly chart Orlando’s total bland-osity, I created the first ever Pop Culture Scale of Bland.
It got me thinking about how hard it must be for superheroes and comic book characters to have real relationships. They have to keep up the secret identity, there’s always a risk their arch-nemesis will go on a killing spree, and on and on. Meeting people in bars is out of the question, as spandex isn’t usually on the dress code. So where do they go to meet other singles? They probably have to go online. And if they did, I wonder what they’re profiles would look like.
The legendary 40,000 Atari cartridges of the E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial videogame (He’d go ahead and play the game, but alas, Owen does not own a Nintendo. His Mom got him a Sega Genesis for Christmas by mistake, and Owen subsequently became obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog and shunned all things Atari.).
Failure To Launch (2006)
Rated PG-13
96 minutes
Matthew McConaughey — Tripp
Sarah Jessica Parker — Paula
Zooey Deschanel — Kit
Kathy Bates — Sue
Failure To Launch is a fun movie that held my interest but as you watch there’s a definite deja vu feeling during several scenes. It feels like pieces and plots of several movies from the past couple […]
Europa Europa (1989)
Rated R
113 minutes
A true story about a Jewish boy (Solomon Perel) in Nazi Germany who goes as far as joining the Hitler Youth to conceal his identity. Solomon becomes Josef Peters (Jupp) and endures test after test of his courage and determination to survive.
Jupp manages to become the pet of a German unit […]
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