The former “A Tribe Called Quest” MC/front man pays homage to MJ in the music video “Move” off his upcoming album “The Renaissance” – Released November 4 (The Day of Change)
Move
Getting Up
Above & Beyond
•November 2, 2008 • 1 CommentMetal Angels and Morphing Ghosts
The wind is strong and the sound is louder than most
I have only ever been on a plane once
Since childhood I have wished to fly away
I can see faces in the clouds above
I know I’m going to join them one day
~ Fionnlagh
Life Choices
•November 2, 2008 • Leave a CommentI haven’t had a job in a long, long while and just today I have been… ‘Recommended’ to consider joining one of the civil services.
Either, I lack compassion about my [unknown] future; perfectly happy drifting and doing whatever comes my way [believing/imagining that things will work out]; or I can’t think of any good reason not to consider signing my life away for a time being.
Good money. Hard work. World travel. My grandfather who passed away before I was born was in the force. I’d learn more about myself and have something more interesting to base this Blog on…
I need a sign, several, or the ability to look into the future -whichever.
…I don’t know…
Can I keep my Afro?
Maybe I should talk to this guy: Sean Aiken
FORBIDDEN PLANET
•November 1, 2008 • Leave a CommentNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I can forgive “The day the earth stood still” remake and Keanu Reeves but mostly because he is starring alongside Jennifer Connelly. I can forgive a “Robocop” remake because anything involving cybernetic organisms is likely to be cool, and I can also even forgive all the bastards that rumoured a “BladeRunner2.”
But this… This is FORBIDDEN!!!
Forbidden Planet (1956 SF Classic), the sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is getting the Hollywood makeover treatment, courtesy of Babylon 5’s J. Michael Straczynski and producer Joel Silver.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Straczynski – currently hot again in Hollywood thanks to his script for Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, after semi-retreating into comic book work like Amazing Spider-Man and Thor -is scripting the project for Joel Silver’s Silver Pictures. This isn’t the first attempt to remake the 1956 classic, however; Forbidden Planet has been passed around from studio to studio and director to director for years, having been a potential project for The Chronicles of Riddick’s director David Twohy and James Cameron, amongst others.
No word, yet, on who would direct this version.
Forbidden Planet also features an eerie “score” that is the first film to use electronic sounds instead of a musical score. It is an excellent movie and certainly a classic of its time.
Read Article: Hollywood Reporter
Manukau Film Festival [F]
•October 31, 2008 • 1 Comment
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So, Findlay Donnandidn’t make the BIG Shorts Shortlist, but he did make something else — do you see it?
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I Am Well Happy!!!
Music Videos
•October 31, 2008 • 1 CommentNothing Like Late Night Television To Lullaby Me To Sleep –
Checkout These Sweet Sweet Music Videos:
Chad VanGaalen – Molten Light
Pivot – In The Blood
The Faint – “The Geeks Were Right”
Gutter Twins – Idle Hands
Monkey – Monkey Bee
Janelle Monae – “Many Moons”
Grace Jones – Corporate Cannibal
Björk – Dull Flame Of Desire
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Alternative Video)
Milkshake – Holy Fuck
Antiform ft Tiki Taane – Got to be you
Sweet Sweet Huh
BIG Shorts
•October 30, 2008 • 1 Comment
Big Shorts is here to help three New Zealand filmmakers make high quality 35mm short films that will showcase their talents to the world. It is our job to seek out and select three films of a maximum of 15 minutes duration to receive New Zealand Film Commission short film funding of up to $100,000 per film.Here is the 2008 shortlist:
Amadi
W: Zia Mandviwalla D: Zia Mandviwalla P: Owen Hughes
Hitched
W: Branwen Millar D: TBC P: TBC
Jump
W: Meihana & Pere Durie D: Meihana & Pere Durie P: TBC
Line Across the Day
W: Gregory King D: Gaysorn Thavat P: Nikki Walker
M for Murder
W: Miles Murphy D: Miles Murphy P: Laina Cheung/Dion Hartley
Manurewa
W: Sam Peacock D: Sam Peacock P: Helen Naulls
Meathead
W: Sam Holst D: Sam Holst P: TBC
Pool
W: S Ballantyne/C Brereton D: Stephen Ballantyne P: Carla Brereton
Whakatiki
W: Bernadette Murphy D: Louise Leitch P: Sue Ruffell
Wise Man
W: Sara Wiseman D: TBC P: TBC
Well Done!
Purple Tomatoes
•October 29, 2008 • Leave a Comment
A European group of researchers have successfully expressed genes from the Snapdragon flower in tomatoes, resulting to deep-purple colored tomatoes with unprecedentedly high anthocyanin content at concentrations comparable to the anthocyanin levels found in blackberries and blueberries.
The expression of the two transgenes increased the hydrophilic antioxidant capacity of tomato fruit threefold and a pilot animal study demonstrated that cancer-susceptible Trp53-/- mice fed a diet supplemented with the high-anthocyanin tomatoes showed a significant extension of life span.
news release: John Innes Center
Cadbury Adverts
•October 28, 2008 • Leave a CommentLet me get this straight: Europe gets a sexy-lady in purple lingerie fishnet stockings vinyl corset and stilettos, and us kiwis get a Gorilla (the antonym to a sexy-lady in lingerie) playing drums to Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight!!!
This might be a contributing factor to why I choose to consume Whitakers Chocolate.
Virtual Murder
•October 27, 2008 • Leave a CommentMapleStory is said to be the world’s first side-scrolling online multiplayer role-playing game and Mapleglobal is built for players mainly outside of Europe, Southeast Asia and East Asia. [Over 50 million… yikes]
Hmm, I don’t think the punishment fits the crime: come’on Japan, and all over such a teabag-ass game as well. Ever heard of FarCry?
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