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Statler & Waldorf Debate the Debate

girl afraid — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:50:28 -0000

Off of their balcony seats and into a NY Times Op-Ed spread, it's Statler and Waldorf! Together again, still grumpy and disagreeable, and speaking out on tonight's big debate. This isn't the first time the duo has been dragged into politics, they're often used in Jon Stewart's commentary (as recently as this year's DNC, in fact). But the question remains: who will be their Fozzie Bear of tonight's action?

pwn3d!!!

girl afraid — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:09:39 -0000

It’s not funny enough that someone out there actually liked Disaster Movie, e-mailed Roger Ebert in almost unreadable internet shorthand, but Roger actually took the time out to respond using the reader’s native language.

Question: Yo dude, u missed out on “Disaster Movie,” a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat?

Ebert’s Response: Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in the IMDb and saw it zoomed to #1 as the low$ie$t flic of all time, wit @ lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat?

You can read Ebert’s Movie Answer Man column on RogerEbert.com.

LOL! Now you know what I deal with every day, Roger. Every day.

Waaa

girl afraid — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:56:01 -0000

Move Over Chocolate Rain, Now There's Kleiner Hai!!!!!!!!

girl afraid — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:51:15 -0000

Germany's answer to Chocolate Rain - Kleiner Hai.

Kleiner Hai - Alemuel

http://www.kleiner-hai.com/

And see an a capella version on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olhczmTbB4I

And, for one more WTF moment, click here.

Murder of Lillies

girl afraid — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:39:49 -0000

Welcome Murder of Lillies to imeem and check out their show:

Next Show: 7/16/2008
Venue: Great American Music Hall
Address: 859 O'Farrell Street / San Francisco, CA 94109
Description: w/Scissors For Lefty & Elephone

Murder of Lillies

Curt Smith on imeem

girl afraid — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:38:23 -0000

I would like everyone to welcome Curt Smith to imeem!

http://www.imeem.com/curtsmith

For those of you who don't know, Curt Smith is the co-founder of one of my all-time favorite bands Tears for Fears (my CT friends can remember me spinning the hell out of my copy of The Hurting on vinyl for The Art of Parties in New Haven).

In addition to TFF, Curt also created Mayfield, has 2 solo albums out AND writes music for TV, film and theater. You can check out his full bio here on his official website.

Please drop in and say hello to Curt, and make sure to check out his new album halfway, pleased.

OMG

girl afraid — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:07:01 -0000

I am so angry I didn't hear about this earlier;

ATP New York 2008
Fri 19 Sep – Sun 21 Sep

All Tomorrow’s Parties Launches ‘ATP New York’
September 19-21
My Bloody Valentine Set To Play First US Show in 16 Years
Three-Day Festival Announces First 15 Acts

UK-based All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) is pleased to announce ATP New York, its first east coast festival set for September 19th to 21st at Kutshers Country Club in Monticello, NY. (http://www.kutshers.com)

The Three Day Festival curated by both My Bloody Valentine and ATP, will be headlined by My Bloody Valentine in their first US appearance in 16-years and include performances by:

My Bloody Valentine - 1st show in 16 years in US
Built to Spill performing Perfect From Now On
Meat Puppets performing Meat Puppets II
Thurston Moore performing Psychic Hearts
Tortoise performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Shellac
Mogwai
Polvo
Fuck Buttons
Autolux
The Drones
Low
Wooden Shjips
Edan with guest Dagha
Dinosaur Jr.
A Silver Mt. Zion
Yo La Tengo
Mercury Rev
Harmonia
The Drones
Growing
Wooden Shjips
Lilys
OM
Le Volume Courbe
Apse

The three-day boutique festival will have less than 3000 people attending. Performances start in the mid-afternoon, with around 30 acts set to play live across the weekend along with DJ sets until late night. There is dining, bars and other onsite amenities, such as, an indoor swimming pool, tennis, and golf.

The first batch of three day festival passes are on sale Friday April 25th @ 10AM EST at http://www.atpfestival.com with and without accommodation. More tickets will be on-sale shortly after with accommodations in a nearby hotel. Shuttle buses will run between the second hotel and Kutshers.

Limited accommodations are available on-site in motel-like rooms that sleep 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 people. Accommodations are sold by the room in 3 day blocks only (Friday, Saturday, Sunday.) You are permitted to have any number up to the maximum occupancy in the room. For example, if you wish to purchase a 4 person occupancy room, you are permitted to have 1 – 4 people sharing the room during the event, and the price is the same for the room, regardless of how many people stay. Each person will still need a festival pass.

Accommodation only comes as a three-day package, you cannot buy just a single night. Check-in is from 11am on Friday September 19th and check out is 10am sharp on Monday September 22nd.

Room configuration with price information is available at our website - www.atpfestival.com. Please note that these are all extremely limited.

All rates subject to state and local tax. Rate for less than maximum occupancy is same.

You should work out ahead of time how many people you wish to buy tickets for and share accommodations with, then decide who is going to be the ticket buyer. You will be asked first how many festival passes you wish to buy. These cost $225 each and will gain you entrance into the three day festival including all performances, plus applicable booking fee.

You will then be asked whether you wish to purchase accommodations. If you choose yes, you will be asked which room you wish to purchase and how many people you intend on having sleep in it.

Please note that the person whose credit card is used to purchase the tickets will be required to be present at the site to collect the tickets in an effort to prevent scalping. If the person whose credit card is used cannot be present, a photocopy of the front and back of their card along with the email confirmation letter they received when purchasing the tickets will be required.

More acts and information will be announced shortly.

http://www.atpfestival.com/

Josh Homme's Outburst

girl afraid — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:09:27 -0000

Josh Homme (Queens of the Stoneage) throws a fit at a member of the crowd who throws something at his ginger head;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZm32tpWY8

It sure did piss Perez Hilton off ...

imeem in Time Magazine

girl afraid — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:09:07 -0000

imeem was named one of the 50 Best Websites of 2008 by Time magazine!!!

But what really sets it apart from other online music sellers, like Pandora, Last FM and Slacker, is that Imeem is the first streaming-music site to secure song rights from all four major music labels (which are rumored to have a stake in Imeem).

Requesting a particular song on Pandora, say, is always a crapshoot, but on Imeem you can immediately start listening to most any title you type in. That kind of instant gratification is what the Web is all about — and what has long been missing from other free sites.
—Anita Hamilton

Elbow Weekend

girl afraid — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:39:24 -0000

Elbow played a free show last Friday at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square:

Check out my head blocking the shot - lol.

And Saturday at Webster Hall;

More live shots to come!

STOP Uwe Boll!

girl afraid — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:03:52 -0000

This weekend, slashfilm.com posted a story on how Uwe Boll, the “filmmaker” responsible for some of the worst video game movies in recent history, promised to stop making films if one million people signed a petition against him. At the time we posted the story, the petition only had 16,000 signatures. I’m happy to report that our posting was picked up by websites across the interwebs, and the petition now has over 127,000 signatures! So we’re one eighth of the way there.

Uwe Boll is starting to feel the pressure and has released a video statement demanding that his fans start a pro-Boll petition, which he expects a million signatures to counter the Stop Uwe Boll petition.

“Look, I’m not a F**king retard like Michael Bay or other people running around in the business… or Eli Roth making the same shitty movies over and over again. If you really look in my movies you will see my real genius,” Boll said in a video statement. “You have to really wake up and see me what I am, the only genius in the whole f**king business.”

I kid you not, he actually said that. You can watch for yourself in the video below. Sometimes I wonder if Boll is actually this ignorant, or if he’s doing an act for his critics.

Also worth noting, Eli Roth responded to Boll’s negative comment against him, calling it the “greatest compliment ever.”

If you haven’t already, sign the petition to Stop Uwe Boll at this link. Watch the video here;