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The Beastles
remix of Beastie Boys and Beatles, 9 free MP3s.

Lindsey Lohan pulls an Ashley Simpson

THE ARCADE FIRE
Saw the show at Commodore Ballroom last night.



The Arcade Fire are from Montreal. The lead singer wasn't ashamed at all to admit that last night's show was the most people they've ever played for. It was one of the most high energy shows I've seen. All 7 band members (Win Butler, Regine Chassagne, Richard Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Garaand, Sarah Neufeld, and Will Butler.) switched instruments innumerable times throughout the entire set. Often mid-song.

The range of talent is unbelievable, everyone sang so hard you could see the veins popping out of their sweat-soaked faces, playing every instrument imaginable. Xylophone, guitar, stand-up bass, accordian, harmonica, violin, tamborines, drums, flutes, keyboards, cymbols, bass, and even watches and each other. Using their drum sticks in one number, two of the band members beat the rhythm out of every single object in the stage vicinity while wearing helmets, capping it off with lifting each other up and falling on the stage, tearing their suits.

Its rare that you see an audience in Vancouver do more than sway a little at a concert, but everyone was bouncing off the walls. Even the mellow songs from the band's album were so raw and energetic live that you couldn't help but jump, tap your feet and clap your hands till your palms bled.

Golden Globe Nominations

The Golden Globes have a tradition of not really being all that great, but conversly have a great reputation for nominating people who really fucking deserve it as opposed to the elitist Academy. There are some really good nominations this year. I think they robbed Napoleon Dynamite. The lead actor should have been nominated for best actor musical/comedy. I'm not saying that its Oscar-worthy, but when you seperate those categories, there's a place that's meant for him. Full noms linked at the top. High-lights below:

Comedy Series
"Arrested Development," FOX
Drama Series
"24," FOX
"Lost," ABC (Paul Dini writes for this show!)
Lead Actor -- Comedy Series
Jason Bateman, "Arrested Development," FOX
Zach Braff, "Scrubs," NBC
Larry David, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," HBO
Supporting Actor -- Series, Miniseries or Movie
William Shatner, "Boston Legal," ABC
Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama
Uma Thurman, "Kill Bill, Volume 2"
Best Actor in a Motion Picture -- Drama
Johnny Depp, "Finding Neverland" (just glad he's being nominated.)
Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
"The Incredibles"
Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
Kate Winslet, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Best Actor in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
Jim Carrey, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Best Foreign Language Film
"House of Flying Daggers," China (I want to see this!)
"A Very Long Engagement," France (I want to see this even more!)
Best Supporing Actor
David Carradine, "Kill Bill, Vol. 2"
Best Screenplay
Charlie Kaufman, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

Grant Morrison was Wrong!
The Wachowski's Stole the Matrix from Someone Else!

Monday, October 4th 2004 ended a six-year dispute involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow residing.
Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.
Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, "The Third Eye," copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.
According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that "credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers." These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been "often used during preparation of the motion pictures."
The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success.

This is scary.
Information from the American Civil Liberties Union about the Matrix. (Not the fictional one.)

and check out their lil movie on it.

Left to right: Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore.

NEWSWEEK POLLS SHOW REDNECK-CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY FOR WHAT IT IS...
A REDNECK-CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY.

43% of Americans favor teaching creation 'science' instead of evolution in public schools; Only 40% oppose the idea!
55% of those polled, believe that every word of the Bible is literally accurate. Even after hundreds of translations over thousands of years, they believe not one single thing could be, say... hyperbole, or metaphor. Nope. Every word is true. Even though every human being alive makes mistakes, apparently ALL the people who've dealt with passing on the stories of the Bible since they first happened, never made one single solitary mistake in retelling or translating the thing. I thought only 51% of Americans were dumb as shit, but apparently, its 55%.

More widespread lunacy here.

The 365 Days Project

An on-line archive of free weird, rare, hilariously bad MP3's made from old lost records, garage sale oddities, and the like. 365 of them. They're unbelievable.

To fans of Li'l Markie's "Diary of an Unborn Child" there's a new song (2 actually on the same MP3) by Li'l Markie, as well as the fondly remembered I'm A Mormon by Janeen Brady. Plus+ more great oddities such as Phil Phillips' The Evil Dope, Picking up Girls in the Ladie's Dept., Dean Milan's Do It Like A Dog, and the awesome Religion for Retarded lessons 13 & 14. Say it with me, "Our table food is not Jesus."

The Strange and Forgotten 'LOCKED IN A FRIDGE' Epidemic of the 80s

Today, for some reason, I was reminded of the 'Very Special Episode' of Punky Brewster where the kid gets locked in an old refrigerator. This seemed to be a huge problem in the 80s. I remember my parents telling me not to play in fridges, discarded or otherwise. I remember hearing it on the news, and it got a special ep of Punky Brewster devoted to the prevention of it. The notion had honestly never struck me before they said anything, and really, how many fridges were lying around in the 80s? Was there some kind of refridgerator epidemic?! Were fridges ACTUALLY running when people prank called to ask if they were? And if it was such a popular topic of child safety back then, why do I never hear parents warning the children of today to steer clear of playing in fridges? Is it safe to play in them now? I'll have to stuff the neighbour kid in mine to find out for sure. I'll update you with that progress.