Thursday, August 21, 2008

MTV VMA's: The Nominees



VIDEO                   VIDEO                  VIDEO
MUSIC                   MUSIC                 MUSIC
AWARDS              AWARDS           AWARDS
HOLLYWOOD 2008          


        


Best Rock Video
* Fall Out Boy - "Beat It"
* Foo Fighters - "The Pretender"
* Linkin Park - "Shadow of the Day"
* Paramore - "crushcrushcrush"
* Slipknot - "Psychosocial"


Foo Fighters - The Pretender


Best Female Video
* Mariah Carey - "Touch My Body"
* Katy Perry - "I Kissed A Girl"
* Rihanna - "Take A Bow"
* Jordin Sparks - "No Air"
* Britney Spears - "Piece of Me"


Rihanna - "Take A Bow"

Best Male Video
* Chris Brown - "With You"
* Flo Rida - "Low"
* Lil Wayne - "Lollipop"
* T.I. - "No Matter What"
* Usher - "Love In This Club"


Flo Rida - "Low"

Best Pop Video
* Danity Kane - "Damaged"
* Jonas Brothers - "Burnin Up"
* Panic At The Disco - "Nine In The Afternoon"
* Britney Spears - "Piece of Me"
* Tokio Hotel - "Ready, Set, Go!"
Panic At The Disco - "Nine In The Afternoon"
Best Hip Hop Video
* Mary J. Blige - "Just Fine"
* Lupe Fiasco - "Superstar"
* Flo Rida - "Low"
* Lil Wayne - "Lollipop"
* Kanye West - "Homecoming" 
Kanye West - "Homecoming" 

Best Group Video
* Jonas Brothers — "Burnin' Up"
* Panic at the Disco — "Nine in the Afternoon"
* Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"
* The Ting Tings — "Shut Up and Let Me Go"
* Tokio Hotel — "Ready, Set, Go

Jonas Brothers — "Burnin' Up"



Best Direction in a Video
* Mariah Carey — "Touch My Body"
* Leona Lewis — "Bleeding Love"
* Coldplay — "Violet Hill"
* Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"
* Britney Spears — "Piece of Me"

Coldplay — "Violet Hill"


Best Choreography in a Video
* Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"
* Chris Brown — "Forever"
* Madonna (featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland) — "4 Minutes"
* Ne-Yo — "Closer"
* Britney Spears — "Gimme More"

Ne-Yo — "Closer"




Best Art Direction in a Video
* Britney Spears — "Piece of Me"
* Paramore — "Crushcrushcrush"
* Mariah Carey — "Touch My Body"
* Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"
* The Ting Tings — "Shut Up and Let Me Go

Mariah Carey — "Touch My Body"

Best Overall Performance in a Video
* Mariah Carey — "Touch My Body"
* Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"
* Katy Perry — "I Kissed a Girl"
* Fergie — "Clumsy"
* Chris Brown — "Forever"

Fergie — "Clumsy"
Best Editing in a Video
* Pussycat Dolls — "When I Grow Up"
* Alicia Keys — "No One"
* Mariah Carey — "Touch My Body"
* The Ting Tings — "Shut Up and Let Me Go"
* Linkin Park — "Shadow of the Day"
Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day






Best Dancing in a Video
*Danity Kane  - Damaged
*Chris Brown  - Forever
*Madonna Feat. JT - 4 Minutes
*Pussycat Dolls - When i grow up
*Ne-Yo - Closer
Pussycat Dolls - When i grow up






Video Of the Year
*Chris Brown - Forever
*Jonas Brothers - Burnin' Up
*Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up
*Britney Spears - Piece of Me
*Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go

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TO MTV: Enough with the Fictional Character Rivalry!


Team Bella or Team Hermione? Whose Side Are You On?
Bella is magnetic. Hermione is awkward. But fans of both the Twilight and Harry Potter series pick Hermione over Bella any day. Why?
“Some girls want to see themselves as Bella,” said Megan Schuyler, who’s been capturing the wizard rock scene in her documentary film “The Wizard Rockumentary.” “If you’re feeling clumsy and different, it’s fun to imagine that some dreamy perfect guy would be obsessed with you.” - MTV Movies Blog

Along with the controversial reviews on the last book of the Twilight saga, this article was another topic for argument between the fans of both Harry Potter and Twilight... (Continue reading)


Yesterday, Jennifer Vineyard of MTV Movie Blog published the article
revealing a few insights of the Harry Potter fans about Twilight's female lead character, Bella, played by Kristen Stewart.

“She’s wimpy!” Megan Schuyler said, who’s been capturing the wizard rock scene in her documentary film “The Wizard Rockumentary". “When I went to the book release party, I wore a shirt that says, ‘Bella Sucks.’”

“I think Bella is a bit underdeveloped as a character,” said Amy Snow, of the wizard rock band Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons. “Hermione was first and foremost a person, and she’s realistic. It’s a pity Bella doesn’t have a secret inner strength. She’s more of just a pure maiden.”



The reason writer's create fictional worlds is not to create role models, not to appease every besotted teen, but simply because they enjoy the craft of writing. It's a novel, not a guide to the world. That being said, applying a character from an entirely different novel series, a character I might add that has the ability to utilize magic and a wand to achieve greatness, in comparison to a truly vivid/realistic human without powers is a tad unfair, don't you think?

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

LISTEN & DOWNLOAD: New MGMT remixes



MGMT / The Management is on tour now. Here are the tour dates and where they will be. Watch out! They might be in your town!
Today, August 21, they are in the Carling Academy, Oxford, UK.
Parking for this venue is amazing! You park at like a tesco express across the road, costs like 60p and it’s like a 10 second walk right to the venue it’s some of the most convenient parking I’ve seen at an academy!


Tomorrow, August 22, 2008 Friday, they will be at the Reading Festival at Little John's Farm

Other Artists/Groups: The Killers, Metallica, Bloc Party, Rage Against the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, Tenacious D, Taking Back Sunday, Editors

Little John's Farm 
Reading, United Kingdom 
          and  also they will be at the Leeds Festival 2008 at Bramham Park
Other Artists/Groups: The Killers, Metallica, Bloc Party, Rage Against the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, Tenacious D, Taking Back Sunday, Editors

Bramham Park
Leeds, United Kingdom

 Click HERE for more of the group's events.


Play:


MGMT - Electric Feel (Aeroplane Remix)

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LISTEN & DOWNLOAD: Peter Bjorn and John - Inland Empire



Peter Bjorn and John of "Young Folks" fame are not earnest indie rockers, but a dark instrumental combo of Stockholm Sweden (thank you lastfm). Today, I woke up into that alternate reality, and I don't know about you, but I'm peeking around the corner to make sure my neighbor's cat hasn't turned into a fire-breathing duck or something.

Below is the Swedish group's new song, Inland Empire. I added Kanye West's version of Young Folks, to make your day.


[from Can't Tell Me Nothing mixtape]

Comments and thanks are appreciated. :]

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

TV: Vote for your Best WTF Moment!

Make your opinions known! Vote!



TV's Best WTF! Moment!




1. Battlestar Galactica
The Fleet arrives on Earth only to find it destroyed.


2. House
House realizes the dying woman on the bus was Amber.


3. Lost
The Island disappears.


4. Supernatural
Dean actually dies and goes to Hell



5. The Office
Phyllis walks in on Dwight and Angela having sex.
This video was hard to find! Seriously.
Just look over youtube or daily motion if you haven't seen the episode. It's on Season 4, The episode name is Money.


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NEWS: 'Harry Potter' says 'There Will Be Half-Blood"

On set of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince





NEWS FLASH: On August 14, the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was moved to summer 2009. But here's the early word. For more on the postponement, see this.




The tears have dried. The goose bumps have faded. The books, a complete set now, are lined on the shelf, gathering dust. In our imagination, Harry Potter lives happily ever after, his work as a global pop icon and publishing profit center now finished.


Almost.
At Leavesden Film Studios outside London, under a leaky roof dripping rain from an April downpour, Daniel Radcliffe stands on a crumbling stairwell that descends into a derelict corner of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, thumbing out a text message on his cell phone. At the call to ''Action!'' the young star slips the phone into his trousers and spirals down the stairs to find costar Emma Watson sitting on a step, stifling tears. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, adapted from J.K. Rowling's penultimate Potter novel, Harry's pal Hermione Granger (Watson) is realizing that her heart belongs to Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint). The problem: Ron has just hooked up with Lavender Brown (newcomer Jessie Cave). In this scene, Harry tries to console his friend, but the job becomes infinitely harder when Ron and Lavender come bumbling into this dark corner of Hogwarts looking for a place to snog. Hermione shoos them away with a magical gust of wind, then weeps harder. Even after ''Cut!'' Watson continues to tear up, and Radcliffe offers comfort with a lingering side hug and whispered praise. ''Bloody f---ing brilliant, Emma. Just top-notch.''- interview by EW


The future weighs on all of them, none more so than Radcliffe. Committed to making acting his profession, he's taken a spate of work recently that's decidedly outside the Potter universe — most notably his emotionally and physically naked West End theater debut in Equus, which earned him admiring reviews during its blockbuster London run last year. (He'll be reprising the role in New York on Broadway beginning Sept. 5.) ''If I had just done these films without doing anything else, I would have become very frustrated, and would have started worrying more about the pressure of life after Potter,'' Radcliffe says. He hopes that his extracurricular acting will ''ease the public into the idea that I am going to be doing other things.'' Hmmm---yeah, like the all the ball action in your plays.





Still, it will be a while before Radcliffe knows whether his exit strategy has succeeded. At the very least, he can say that his stage work has prepared him for Hallows, which begins shooting next spring. The young actor says he's most looking forward to the haunting, emotional sequence in which Harry walks through a forest toward his final confrontation with Voldemort, accompanied by the ghosts of Sirius Black, his parents, and others. He's also excited to shoot Harry's last, dreamy encounter with Dumbledore, although he recently reread the sequence in the book and made the surprising discovery that Harry is naked during the scene. ''At first, I thought I had pants on,'' Radcliffe says. ''Apparently not.'' Is he nervous? ''Bah, I've sort of done that,'' he says, with mock bravado. ''It's all old hat now, really.''



Really, Mr. Potter? Some people find that extremely difficult to put in the past.

Like this photo for example.



The superimposed image of the horse on
his abdomen scares the hell outta me.




More Pictures. Click to Enlarge:




Your thoughts?

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Monday, August 18, 2008

LISTEN & DOWNLOAD: Marit Larsen - If a Song Could Get Me To You



Thank God she canned the bubblegum lolita style of her defunct duo M2M. Now she makes a statement with the campy indie vibes and moody hooks.

I wasn't sure at first that I liked this new song by Marit Larsen as much as Don't Save Me or Only A Fool, but by the end of my second listen I had changed my mind. It's a great comeback single, and like her previous work, it takes a few listens for the hooks to weave their way into your brain, but once they do they're there to stay.

The Norwegians must be bursting with pride right now.



Comments and thanks are appreciated!

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