Damon Albarn has joined the ranks of musicians lining up to criticise Glee.
The Gorillaz and Blur frontman claimed the US TV series would be "forgotten in a few years" and that he would not allow his music to be used on the show.
"We wouldn't let that happen," said Albarn. "And not that they haven't asked us because they haven't, and now they definitely won't."
Now, I'm only peripherally aware of the doings and transpirings in Britpop, but I think it's great that Albarn is so concerned about the legacy of his music. Not many musicians have the artistic vision -- much less the marketing acumen -- to ensure their songs are only used in movies and TV shows that will endure through the generations.
Let's take a look at some of those that have passed Albarn's rigorous litmus test.
The Love Guru -- "Song 2"
Dead Man On Campus -- "Cowboy Song"
Dude, Where's My Car? -- "It Could Be You"
The Eight (TV) -- "Song 2"
Nancy Drew -- "Dare"
The Karate Kid -- "Dirty Harry"
Charlie's Angels -- "Song 2"Talk about your classics. Hell, you could program a medium-sized film festival with the movies and TV shows that use "Song 2" alone. Why, it was even used in that crappy Super Bowl episode of The Simpsons (ob APCB self reference).
In the interest of embarrassing full disclosure, I write a weekly Glee recap over on the Houston Press' Art Attack blog. I do this for two reasons: they asked, and it pays. I won't be defending a show that often sends me into uncontrollable muscle spasms of rage, but I find it interesting that Albarn appears to have no problem letting his music get play on some of the most horrendous crap released in the last 15 years.
And the best part is, they haven't even asked him yet. Apparently this is some kind of pre-emptive strike against Ryan Murphy, who will undoubtedly run out of Streisand and show tunes some time around 2025. And not to make any predictions about the future of Gorillaz or any of Albarn's side projects, but he might just want to consider it at that point.
I just wish I could find the actual TV spot for Starship Troopers that used "Song 2"...
Thursday, 4 November 2010
"There is no <strike>joy</strike> <em>Glee</em> in <strike>Mud-</strike>Blur-Ville..."
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
the power of makeup.
This is AMAZING. I wonder if this girl goes out just to see what happens. I am FLOORED at how much she looks like him after all the makeup. WOW. Guess we know who she is being this Halloween. XD
When I upload I always upload from sendspace just it bums me out how it's only up for 7 days if NO ONE downloads it, so far all my stuff is always being downloaded so it's ok, but I know a few months from now it'd stuff unless I pimp the links and I hate rehashing stuff, so for now I am going to use mediafire just to see how it goes. I like how I can upload more than 5 items at a time, so I can let it run and come back in 30 mins. I'll edit this post with the uploads when it's done.
Woke up early to back up stuff, I had over 80gbs of kpop that was unorganized and so I organized it all, burned it, labeled it and booked it. I really need a freakin' passport/memory books, the whole dvd-r thing is getting old and takes up SO MUCH SPACE. I figure i'll buy one or two on black Friday. They are getting cheaper as time goes by, but space wise, why do the 500MB exist? Is 500MB enough for people? I can fill that up in 2-3 days, especially with everything being ripped at 320kb and mv/pv's the norm is easily 180-250 EACH. Maybe I need to be more selective and not dload everything. Any good forums for kpop that I should know of? Clearly the SuJu fandom isn't massive on livejournal, been on sj-world and it's alright and there is the http://www.super-legacy.com/forums/ but the layout/rules/style is KILLING ME. There is a points system? Wat? WHAT? I can't handle that. Plus at sj-world my paragraph about Heechul was considered spam but people's 3 lines of (actual copy and paste from the form ->) "yeah! blonde doesn't suit him at all.. i love the red color!! so cool..hahaha!" But that isn't spam? Hmm..
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TBL NEWS ROUND UP: BAND OF JOY COMMENCE EUROPEAN TOUR, JASON BONHAM INTERVIEW, SOLOMON BURKE TRIBUTE AND SANTANA & CORNELL COVER LED ZEPPELIN
Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy European Tour kicks off tonight in Stockholm. The tour continues across Europe and the UK in the coming weeks and if you are attending any of the shows we welcome your reviews and photos for use on the TBL site -send to garyfoy@live.co.uk
The tour dates are as follows
14th October, Annext, Stockholm, Sweden
16th October, Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
18th October, Edinburgh, Usher Hall
20th October, Gateshead: The Sage
21st October, Liverpool, The Olympia
23rd October, AVO SESSION Basel, Festsaal, Basel, Switzerland
24th October, France/Paris– Palais De Sports
26th October, St David’s Hall, Cardiff
27th October, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
29th October, The Roundhouse, London-Electric Proms with The London Oriana Choir
31st October 2010, Palace Theatre, Manchester
1st November, Olympia, Dublin, Ireland
2nd November, Waterfront Hall, Belfast
Robert gave a perceptive interview on Radio Studio Q last week, one of the most open and enjoyable interviews we have seen in the round of recent media appearances – check out the whole interview here;
Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience continues across America this month so far a small sprinkling of You Tube clips have surfaced. If you are attending the show we would welcome a full review. Here’s an excellent interview with Jason prior to the first show which also features veteran writer and Zep biographer Ritchie Yorke.
TBL was sad to hear that Soul, gospel and rock singer Solomon Burke had died on October 10 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. He was 70.
Burke, who was a Grammy winner and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had been due to perform together with the Dutch band The Dijk at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.
Solomon Burke wrote the song Everybody Needs Somebody To Love in 1964 and it was later covered by a variety of artists including The Rolling Stones and Wilson Pickett -and perhaps most famously by the Blues Brothers. Led Zeppelin often incorporated the song within the live Whole Lotta Love medley circa 72/73 and The Firm also covered it live.
He also recorded the hit song Cry to Me for the movie Dirty Dancing and the emotive None Of Us Are Free. The late Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler once described Soloman as ”The best soul singer of all time”.
Here’s a great clip of Shake Rattle And Roll from Jools Holland’s Hogmanay in 2003 featuring Solomon Burke, Tom Jones, Jeff Beck and Robert Plant:
And finely, here is a clip of the Carlos Santana and Chris Cornell version of Whole Lotta Love, taken from Santana’s new album Guitar Heaven, an album of cover versions of some of the greatest guitar anthems of all time. Go to www.santana.com for more samples including the excellent I Ain’t Superstitious featuring Jonny Lang
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John Travolta -- Humanitarian
Another Hair Balls cross-post...
The tragedy of the earthquake in Haiti has, as expected, brought out both the best and worst of humanity. As an example of the former, we've seen the nations of the world send supplies and relief workers to help the stricken Caribbean nation. As for the latter, well, the comments of colossal dickbags such as Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh pretty much speak for themselves.
But then, it's hard to blame Robertson. This is a guy whose capacity for honest empathy was completely wiped out by decades of belief in a merciless supreme being. He's so close to shuffling off his own moral coil it's rendered him incapable of seeing anything but the avenging Angel of Death in every natural disaster, economic downturn, or hangnail. Rush, of course, occupies that truly rarefied stratum of delusional hypocrisy reserved for those who not only lie about their own illegal/immoral activities, but who can still keep a straight face when calling for the punishment of others who behave identically.
And then there's John Travolta. As you may or may not have heard, the once and future Tony Manero flew his Boeing 707 into Port-au-Prince last Monday to deliver sox tons of MREs, doctors, and -- oh yeah -- several Scientology "volunteer ministers" to offer aid to the stricken.
This gesture of absolute selflessness by the Wild Hogs actor and Operating Thetan 5, amazingly, elicited some negative reactions:
There is a backlog of at least 800 aircraft awaiting permission to land at the overloaded airport, which can handle just 130 flights daily, prompting recriminations from some aid agencies
Some loser aid agencies, you mean. It's not the fault of the Church of Scientology's that it just happens to attract the best and brightest of America's celebrity population. Hey, Doctors Without Borders; sorry if you can't compete with the incandescent star power of Danny Masterson and Catherine Bell. Maybe you should set up some outreach centers in West Hollywood instead of spending all your money providing care to people who don't even own TVs.
One US doctor, who declined to be named, said it was more a credibility thing. "I didn't know touching could heal gangrene."
Obviously somebody hasn't been keeping up with the latest [CoS approved] medical literature. One look at this picture ought to set him straight:
The fact that the minister is wearing rubber gloves during the "assist" is not, as some cynics have said, to avoid touching the unwashed brown people. No, it's actually because the healing power of the Scientologist's touch is so potent that -- without a tactile barrier of some kind -- the recipient would be so thoroughly healed they'd become nigh-invincible superbeings. And I think we all remember what happened the last time we created a bunch of those...
I know we in the world of celebrity "journalism" are quick to view any apparently philanthropic act by a public figure with a healthy amount of suspicion. It's our way of living with ourselves after willingly regurgitating everything we're told by publicists and movie studios. But in Travolta's case, let us for once recognize his action for what it is: a charitable gesture from a man who sincerely wants to offer assistance to a beleaguered country, and not a desperate publicity ploy by an actor in an upcoming movie who hasn't had a legitimate hit since 1997.
From Paris with Love opens February 5.
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Our baby book -- which was consulted a half dozen times a day when She Who Shall Not Be Named was an infant and has been cracked exactly twice since the twins were born -- has some glaring deficiencies. For while there is a sub-chapter on nosebleeds, causes listed do not include Getting Head-Butted By Your Twin Sister. This barbarism is what passes for child care in America?
Murray is now officially more obnoxious than Elmo.
Our house now looks like something that should be featured on Hoarders, only instead of piles of old receipts and handbags, our goat paths wind through heaps of stuffed animals and Little Scholastic books.
It's been a year since my last movie review, and I don't really miss it. It hasn't hurt that very little has come out in the last 12 months that I've had any desire to see.
I'm going to punch the next person who Tweets/posts a Facebook update about the alleged death of Ronnie James Dio without citing a source more reputable than some Romanian metal blog. In the genitals.
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Some government leaders give villagers relief bags; Thaksin Shinawatra gave them cash. Other leaders tell them to be satisfied with what they have; Thaksin encouraged them to climb the social ladder. The former telecom tycoon once said being indebted was okay,chloe, if the money was used to make a better life for themselves. He took his own case as an example. He quit his police career, started his business life with borrowed money and went on to fill his personal coffers to over-flowing.
Other leaders visit their villages to listen to the locals' plight and then go home; Thaksin went a step further by staying overnight with them in their villages.
Other leaders come up with policies which show no benefits to them; Thaksin launched ones like the universal healthcare and One Tambon One Product projects which directly benefited them.
What Thaksin did was something his predecessors had never done before. His political strategy was to project himself as a prime minister who wanted to really help the poor and, more importantly, was part of them. And it paid off when voters gave the then Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party an overwhelming mandate to run the country in the Feb 6, 2005 election, when TRT won the poll for the second time with a landslide victory. The Thaksin-formed party comfortably commanded 377 seats in the parliament.
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Then, swarms of demonstrators travelling by pickup, buses and boats converged on the capital in April and May for the rally by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) to oust the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva because they want Thaksin back.
Thaksin arguably has been the most popular prime minister in Thai politics ever, although he was in power for almost six years. His popularity is still deep-rooted today.
That is why it will be an uphill task for anyone else to lure the rural poor away from their loyalty to Thaksin after the rally.
What Thaksin did when he run the country was more than policies and tactics to please people living in the villages. His government used an excise tax on telecom services to protect his then telecom business. The Export-Import Bank loan to Burma to finance the use of satellite services from Thaicom also benefited his business empire. His overnight stays in the villages,christian louboutin evening, including in Roi Et province, were simply designed for public consumption to boost his image more than anything else.
These are among examples of the other side of Thaksin which led to growing opposition to him, which culminated in the coup. But those issues seem to be beyond the interest of people living in the villages when they compare them with things closer to their hearts like the village fund, cheap visits to hospital and the like.
The names of the people who took part in the two-month rally are in the hands of the authorities. The list is divided into three groups: hardcore red shirt members, UDD members (especially those who went through the UDD school of politics) and those joining the rally without no agenda at all,vibram five fingers kso, including those who did so for purely financial reasons.
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The question is a simple one, but the answer is not,manolo blahnik boots, even though four years have passed since the coup.
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