In 1984 James Cameron wowed the world with the cutting edge technology and iconic imagery in The Terminator. Twenty-five years later and he’s done it again with Avatar, a visually stunning movie that pushes state of the art technology to the very limits.
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So you all raged against the machine and screwed the X-Factor out of the number one spot this year. Well done.
I’m pleased, although it did feed thousands of pounds into Sony still. Don’t give me that Shelter crap. Yes Rage might be donating the money THEY made but when iTunes only gives the artist 15% of the money it makes on the track purchased (the rest going to various corporations) the money that goes to charity is nothing in comparison to whatever is going to the record labels.
The dramatic irony of this whole situation is that you did what they told you. Even though the whole mantra was “f**k you I’m not gonna do what you tell me”. So the only way you really could have screwed over the entire music industry would have been by supporting independent bands like Wheatus, Amberlove, Army of Freshmen, Bowling For Soup, The Ventura Project, MC Lars, K.Flay etc, etc. Maybe next year huh?
I was looking over some old posts today and stumbled upon this:
Hallelujah Thrice In Top 40
Last year the same thing was attempted, and failed. But then what sort of kid wants to download a song with no swearing in?
This also bodes the question as to what’s going to happen next year? Will Simon Cowell continue to release the X-Factor single for Christmas number one knowing that another campaign like this might jump up or does he create a new special day all for himself? Regardless of this whole shambles Joe McEllery will still get to number one, probably next week now no bugger is going to buy RATM to keep it in the charts…I wonder how far it’ll fall?
What makes me sick about this whole situation is that Cheryl Cole still has two songs in the top twenty. What’s up with that? The only thing this whole campaign proved was you can buy your way to the top. The charts are still full of drivel, music today is terrible, people need to stop listening to the radio and “doing what they’re told” by DJs who are controlled by the industry. Explore real music, see bands live, support the support acts, the local bands who do things for the love of the music and not for how much money they can make doing it.
Bloody hell! I knew this was going to be a good film but this trailer makes it look fucking fantastic!! Bring on KICK-ASS!!
ABC has released this new promo for the sixth and final season of “Lost,” premiering on Tuesday, February 2nd. The network has not shown any new footage from the season in the promos at the request of the executive producers, and this one is no different, but it sure is effective.
Today I learned that Cheryl Cole thinks that the RATM campaign is “mean” to X-Factor winner Joe McElderry.
Cole, who worked with McElderry on the talent show, said she would be upset if the 18-year-old missed out on the crown.
”I would be devastated to see Joe lose possibly the best thing that could happen to him in his life,” she told The Sun.
“Every aspiring pop star dreams of a number one record.”
“He put his heart and soul into every single week of The X Factor and I cannot bear to see him lose out to a mean campaign that has nothing to do with his efforts,” she said.
”If that song, or should I say campaign, by an American group is our Christmas number one I’ll be gutted for him and our charts.”
Read the article here.
What give Cheryl Cole the right to say that it’s mean? At what point did it become obligatory for The X Factor finalist to become number one at Christmas? Lets examine a few things shall we, and I’ll try to go slowly for the Geordie bint.
Firstly “mean campaign”, this is not a mean campaign, this is a wake up call to the music industry who think they can do what they like and command what they like. I’ll let MC Lars take over…
Secondly, what the FUCK is wrong with an American band being number one? How many ENGLISH artists are there in the charts these days anyway? I suppose Cole was devastated when Michael Jackson’s Earth song was #1 in ’95 or when Mad World was topping in ’03, Whitney Houston in ’92, and what about the first Christmas number one recorded in 1952 by Italian American Al Martino? No…because back then music was good! (Further claims that Cole is indeed a racist and her marriage to Ashley is all a cover up.)
She is suggesting that freedom of expression and freedom of choice should be abolished to allow a TV “talent” show to try and bring in some more money. I’ve no doubt that Mrs. Cole gets a cut of the single sales made hence her desperation to get her show to the number one spot. I also don’t doubt that she knows her latest single is a load of cobblers and will never have the opportunity to make number one hence her having to live her dream through a proxy.
Still, talentless losers have to stick together right? Next there’ll be a duet coming out, Rage Against The General Public by Joe and Cheryl. There will be no fightback against this. When is number one important other than at Christmas? Since when did the music charts offer anything other than mindless b0llocks? Why is the number one at Christmas spot sacred? No one remembers it. No one looks back on their life and thinks “ah, that Christmas was the best because Shakin’ Stevens was on the wireless”.
Would anyone miss Mrs. Cole if both her and her husband were killed in a car accident after both doing lines of coke and sleeping with a homeless who they later stuffed in the boot of their car only for him to fashion a device out of the used needles and rope to cut his way into the brake lines so as Ashley drives at ten thousand miles an hour in an attempt to make up for his lack of masculinity in the icy conditions crashes head first into a church that sends his car erupting into flames, burning the flesh off their skin as they are looked down upon by the church as they melt into eternal damnation where, God knows, they’ll probably get off on the sick depravity they are going to be subjected to by Satan himself. I wouldn’t.
Why do people care about this? Why is there not this much backlash against the ridiculously high petrol prices or the war in the Middle East? Why is there no campaign to find Bin Laden? Yet nine million people will join the facebook group to install a “dislike” button. We are a fickle nation. We ignore the important things, we let other people worry about that but then lambast them when they try something that not everyone agrees with.
So go out and buy Rage Against the Machine, make it number one this Christmas and then think to yourself, I was part of that. I screwed the system man. Then turn your attention to the bigger problems in the world, get your dislike button installed and get your house turned into a giant pirate ship. Only then stop and say, I want to help the world.
Take this one with a big grain of salt for right now. (Really, just lean towards disbelief.) There’s a report, based on anonymous sources, that Spider-Man 4 — or Spider-M4n, as the studio is reportedly referring to the sequel — is in trouble. Villain indecision is supposedly leading to an unfinished script and an unhappy Sam Raimi. There’s precedent enough to lend vague creedence to this, but it could also be just another part of the development process, or total bullshit. Read on…
IESB and MovieMoron (not the most trust-inspiring name there, guys) are both reporting that, in addition to the working title being the execrable Spider-M4n, there’s tension in the Spidey 4 camp and that development is currently stalled. The root seems to be disagreement over the villain; Raimi is said to favor the Vulture, while Sony is said to favor anyone else. No surprise there, as the Vulture, even if played by John Malkovich as rumored, has never been the most dynamic guy in the hero’s rogues gallery.
So while that argument goes on, the script stalls. Which is the more difficult part of the rumor to believe, as Sony has had one high-profile writer after another on this thing for the past year. What did all those hirings yield? Nothing more than a pile of notes?
Still, this isn’t the most difficult rumor to swallow, if only because there was well-documented villain squabbling behind the scenes of Spider-Man 3 as well. But development on what will be Sony’s biggest movie of 2011 is bound to be fraught with argument and difficulty, and this could just be an overblown report of what amounts to a routine part of the process.
Sony, for its part, is denying any trouble, through sources quoted on MTV and SuperHero Hype. That report says the production has just broken for the holidays and will resume in the new year.
Source: /flim
This is for you Mike.
FUCK Simon Cowell, FUCK the X-Factor, FUCK the music industry. BUY Rage Against the Machine to make it Xmas #1!
Whilst I do stand behind the sentiment to fuck this Simon Cowell bullshit that goes on, the music industry as a whole is screwed up and just making RATM Xmas number one isn’t going to stop this bollocks from continuing.
The only way is to turn off your TVs Saturday night, go and support a local or independent band who have a REAL love and passion for the industry, who make music for the sake of doing something they love and enjoy and not to see how much money they can make.
Wheatus said it before me. If bands like Girls Aloud and Coldplay were only given a salary of $40,000 a year (£33,000) would they contiune to make music? The answer is no.
So buy Rage Against the Machine and then RAGE AGAINST THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
Fuck Simon Cowell, Fuck Cheryl Cole, Fuck corporate bigwigs, Fuck the system.
This is only the start. By the end of this week (hopefully), I will have something that will shake the very foundations of the entire music industry to it’s knees!
Watch this space.
Amazing Grace cover by Willie Nelson.
News on the Alan Partridge Movie. I don’t know how I feel about it. At the end of the day it’s suited to thirty minute episodes or stage productions. When dragging things out, like the Futurama movies, like those Saturday Night Live sketches (with the exception of Waynes World), they just don’t work out.
Partridge is one of my all time favourites, I don’t want to see him make a mess in Hollywood. Undoubtedly, Partridge will have to die and that’s never fun.
<blockquote>A-HAAAAAAAA! It’s a good few years since we’ve seen Steve Coogan’s pringle-sweatered, Toblerone-addicted cringetastic horror Alan Partridge on any kind of screen, but that could be about to change. For Coogan has exclusively revealed to us that the long-mooted Alan Partridge: The Movie (title TBC)
So there are some new Lost promo pics circulating.
Looking at them it shows a number of characters that we thought were dead…does this mean they are coming back for some role in season 6 or are we just getting our hopes up?
Dead (or missing) characters you can see include Mr. Eko, Libby, Michael, Charlotte, Ana Lucia, Boone, Shannon, Juliet, Claire and (please God let him be returning) Charlie!
What are your thoughts? Why is Locke facing the other way?
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