David Bowie is streaming the reissued version of his seminal 1972 album ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ online in full; he is re-releasing the album to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Click here to listen to it now.
(Source: neonkontra)
Maurice Sendak wanted Spike Jonze to direct the adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. He got what he wanted.
In Where The Wild Things Are a little boy with daddy issues escapes to a made up world filled with Radiohead monsteresque fans to find a daddy figure, resolve issues with his own relationships. Returns home happily and understanding. He’ll probably be diagnosed with Aspergers in the sequel.
Let’s do some booty shaking with this booty shaking time song by Donora “An Then The Girls”.
David Byrne sings the Talking Heads’ 1988 hit, “(Nothing But) Flowers.” He’s accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.
Best Coast’s singer Bethany Cosentino clothing line for Urban Outfitters is out today and you can totally purchase those babies for less than $100, which is not exactly a hipster price, but it’s good enough. In the video below she talks about it.
Click here if you wanna check some pictures of her creations.
The Hunger Games (first book in a best selling YA trilogy) is set in a dystopian future in which the country is divided into 12 prison like districts. Every year, to remind people of how powerful they are, the government holds a lottery to select two kids (or tributes) per district to participate in a gladiatorfest that not only is televised, but looks pretty much like any other reality TV competition show out there. At times, I thought Ru Paul’s Drag Race. Anyways, out of 24 children, only one will be deemed the victor.
People keep trying to explain the vast success of the books saying it’s an parable to high school and that kids connect because they feel victimized and victorious, like Suzanne Collins has a magical teen wand or something. That didn’t sound right. I didn’t read the books, but I like the commentary on how obsessed society is with looks and celebrities and neglects other major issues we have to solve, rather than waste our lives watching TV. That been said, I’m not a fan and the movie didn’t help.
The Hunger Games, the movie, which is breaking all kinds of box office records and should catapult the careers of Jennifer Lawrence and the director Gary Ross, is not really satisfactory. Like I said, I didn’t read the book, so my first impression is that everything is a little too campy. I know the books are more gory and horror like, but in the movie you barely see any blood, let alone anyone dying. Which is understandable from a commercial point: Gary Ross had the task of transforming the gory source material into something suitable for the young demographic of the books, thus, no blood, and lots of gimmicks.
That’s the main problem of the movie, it’s too gimmicky. There’s just so many shots with a handheld camera and blurry close ups that you can hardly tell what the hell is going on, but you are sure to get a lot of motion sickness, which, if you are into it, it just adds up to its awesome factor.
Kudos to Jennifer Lawrence who owns Katniss Everdeen and gives her that blue stillness in her eyes, that at the same time shows her grief and her hardcoreness. She’s by far, the best part of the movie, since everything else seems to be compacted and watered down, at least she was given enough room to shine.
Gary Ross makes a lot of effort into transforming whatever the Hunger Games are into the Not So Hungry Games, but, as I said, he made enough cuts to make sure all the family can root for the killing of 20 or so kids and you leave the theater feeling like everything is going to be OK. Which, from what I hear, is not the same feeling you are left when you close the book cover. Go figure.
Excerpt from the website:
In the car, he tells us that he doesn’t know if the songs he are going to play are going to sound good, cause he hadn’t sang at all yet that morning, and he had never played them solo … then he blew us away with three chords and his subtle and broken voice. Did his uncertainty come off as bothersome ? Nope. Just disarmingly sincere.
We didn’t cause trouble, we didn’t bother nobody. We weren’t there to act like punks. More to tell stories, remain on the edge of soul, of shifty rhythms, caressing voices, and gentle melancholy. At the Olive Café, it was happy hour at the bar. Thirsty mouths abounded, including exhausted workers and the early morning drunkards. Micheal Kiwanuka asked for a tea, but the boldest thing he did was forget about the people around him. Sometimes, he sang too loudly. Then, he drank his tea.
I don’t know about you, but I’m biting my nails, having knots in my stomach, dying in anticipation for the release date of this movie(?). According to the credits the movie, which is in pre-production and should come out in early 2013, hopefully at Sundance (fingers crossed!), was directed by Adam Blair.
Now, I don’t know Adam Blair, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that Adam Blair, Hipster! The Musical’s director, is Adam “Young Filmmaker Witnessed Tragedy While in NYC” Blair. But, you be the judge.
Will the real Adam Blair, please stand up? We wanna talk to you.
Because sometimes the only thing you need is some acid rock.