Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Nanny Got Brad and Angie's Goat
We have really good spies in this department and here's what we know. As it was put to us, "Brad and Angelina don't give a f**k what the world thinks of how they're raising their kids." We're told their entire life revolves around the kids, and the houses they stay in are "dirty from the kids" -- with toys everywhere, food on the floor and fingerprints on the walls.
We're told during weekends, there is a "minimal staff" at home -- a cook and security, and that's it. The homes they stay at are often in the hills or at the beach, and security's top job is making sure the kids don't hurt themselves.
The Hollywood Hills home Brad has owned for years will soon become home base. We're told the main advantage is it's completely enclosed and the kids can roam on the property.
The best line -- "They live like people in Simi Valley, only with more zeros on the price of the home."
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Download Edan
Artist: Edan: mp3 download Genre(s): Rap: Hip-Hop Rap Hip-Hop Discography: Beauty and The Beat Year: 2005 Tracks: 13 Sprain your Year: 2000 Tracks: 6 Sing It Shitface (BHR 1002) Vinyl Year: 1999 Tracks: 6 Primitive Plus Year: Tracks: 18 There was a small only critical hip-hop book of Genesis in Boston at the fag end of the 1990s light-emitting diode by a motley mathematical group of artists (Porn Theatre Ushers, Skitzofreniks, 7L & Esoteric, Mr. Lif, Insight) wHO divided up a issue of musical attributes -- a lovemaking of block-rockin' retro-beats and cultism for the hip-hop "new school" of the late '80s and other '90s, and a propensity for irreverent, jestingly lyrical styles, to diagnose the to the highest degree pregnant. Bedroom geek Edan (aka the Humble Magnificent) was the to the highest degree block-rockin' and godless of all Boston's subway scientists. A triplet threat on the mike, as a producer, and in arrears the wheels of blade, his music -- a willfully oddball and flake blending of rap's past strain and future -- caught on first base among the meliorist cognoscenti of London, merely had such ebullience and appeal that it was only a subject of time in advance it staked out territory on its home greensward as well.Edan Portnoy grew up a musically inclined lone hand in the suburbs of Baltimore, MD. Inspired from an former eld by the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and psychedelic rock medicine, he picked up the guitar and bass during his adolescent years, merely when N.W.A. dropped True Outta Compton in 1988, it instantaneously captured the ten-year-old's mental imagery and altered his musical grade. By the time he was a teen, Edan had begun to compass up and pull together rarified LPs and try his deal at making elementary beatniks inspired by the likes of Main Source, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, and the Native Tongues family, as well as old school heroes both notable (Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MC's) and dour (DJ Cash Money, Percee P). After gradation from senior high school, he touched to Boston to study guitar at the Berklee College of Music, at long last dropping kO'd before taking a degree simply not beforehand delving into yield and engine way. His newfound technological facility helped as he began creating his possess tracks and, due to desire of an MC, rhyming on them as good. It resulted in a series of CDRs (including an unofficial debut album called Architecture and an early EP variation of Primitive Plus), sold more often than not at live gigs roughly Boston, and now-classic 12" singles, culminating with the much-sought-after "Sing It, Shitface," released by Boston indie Biscuithead Records in 1999.Selfsame very much an acquired perceptiveness, Edan's popularity began to spread slowly end-to-end England. Due to its integral fan base of vintage rap music, the rapper was given a beat of regard in England that was unmanageable to come by in his rap-saturated piazza country, and British promoters took the opportunity to fly him over for well-received live shows. In early 2002 the originative person prepared a proper uncut variant of Primitive Plus (adding six-spot new songs to the original EP) for release on British label Lewis Recordings. The album received rhapsodic reviews both in America and oversea. He followed it several months by and by with an EP, Sprain Your Tape Deck, as well on Lewis, as well as remote production for and collaborations with Count Bass D ("How We Met") and Mr. Lif ("Live From the Plantation"), among others. |
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
N.Y. Research Team Discovers How Antidepressants And Cocaine Interact With Brain Cell Targets
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Friday, 27 June 2008
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Stars: Ben Stein
Director: Nathan Frankowski
*** 1/2 (out of five)
Like the subject it explores, Expelled is either going to comfort or infuriate most of the people who see it. That�s a shame, since the middle ground � curiosity mixed with healthy skepticism � is probably the wisest reaction to this film featuring writer and TV personality Ben Stein as narrator and host.
The film follows Stein on a journey, as he explores a controversy that�s been simmering for years in the U.S. about Intelligent Design, a school of thought that suggests that some evidence of innate logic or plan might explain the gaps in evolutionary theory. It�s been called a Trojan horse for Creationism, with some good cause, but its defenders charge that anyone who dares speak its name in the hallowed halls of academia are subject to loss of tenure, jobs and reputation.
Needless to say, there are proponents on both sides of the issue willing to argue adamantly for their case � you need only visit the film�s web site, or expelledexposed.com to explore their arguments. If you�re already convinced of either viewpoint, then actually seeing the film is almost beside the point; it�s those in the middle who might actually benefit from a viewing.
The ID side of the debate is hammered home with occasionally overexplicit visual counterpoints, and there have been charged of deceitful practice in obtaining interviews, but Stein and the film make a few queries worth asking, such as why Darwin�s more vociferous defenders often sound so high-handed, even emotional, about a theory they claim is proved with rational evidence, and how Darwin�s theory was so easily transformed into a justification for one of the most barbaric social programs of the last century � eugenics, which was ultimately enacted on a lethal and monstrous scale by Nazi Germany.
Darwin�s defenders might want to ask why a science they claim is self-evident provides such unsatisfying proof for so many people, while ID�s proponents should ask themselves if they�re being entirely honest when they claim that there is no religious agenda behind their program. Answers are unlikely to be forthcoming from either camp, but that doesn�t mean that these questions � and so many others raised by Stein in the film � shouldn�t be asked, and openly.
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Friday, 13 June 2008
The Stills Oceans Will Rise Album Details Surface
The Stills have announced their return via Myspace, naming their next album and giving fans a set release date, while a tracklisting is also floating around online - see below.
"Our new album is called Oceans Will Rise, and it will be released on August 19th on Arts&Crafts," say the Montreal band.
"It is about the world we have seen and been through in the past several years, and all the beautiful, painful, wasted, joyful, smeared-sky, sick blissful wandering it has led us on, on the trail of some prey, on the brink of something huge, tiny and helpless, all you can feel is the whole universe shaking to its limit just that tiny bit more every split-split trillisecond, you can almost hear it happening in tiny detail if you hold your breath in long enough, little cracks and ancient-glacier-ice-whining."
Three tracks from 'Oceans Will Rise' have also appeared on Myspace for streaming, one of which is a single: "Being Here will be the first single from the album, with an accompanying video, to be fully released later in June. We hope you enjoy these."
The tracklisting for the record is as follows:
Don't Talk Down
Snow in California
Snakecharming The Masses
Being Here
Everything I Build
Panic
Eastern Europe
Hands On Fire
Dinosaurs
I'm With You
Rooibos/Palm Wine Drinkard
Statue of Sirens
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