*Current obsession that resurfaces every few months: Starcraft
*Lately, lots of comedians, entertainers, musical performances, and other events have been booked at Purdue, and I haven't been able to go to them for various reasons...exams, labs, or massive homeworks. However, there is a guest lecture coming up soon (a NASA engineer who worked on the HELIOS solarcraft) that I'm going to try to go to, pleading with my evil TAs and my distant professor to let me switch labs or something like that. The deal might very well end up costing me my soul, if that tells you anything about my priorities.
*Queen's Freddie Mercury recently made headlines in a BBC story, having finally made it into the top 15 list of highest-earning dead celebrities. Mercury's reported annual income is $5 million per year, tied with Frank Sinatra, while Elvis Prestley still holds a commanding lead at $40 million per year.
*Ashelee Simpson- validating all that is wrong with popular music
October 24, 2004
Teen songbird Ashlee Simpson had a microphone malfunction on "Saturday Night Live" last night, scurrying off stage when a production glitch caught her lip-synching the wrong tune.
The pop star, younger sister of singer and TV star Jessica Simpson, sounded great belting out "Pieces of Me" in her first segment on the show. It was the same song that she butchered at August's MTV Music Video Awards, drawing withering reviews for a flat, out of key performance.
But the triumphant moment turned into a debacle when she came out to debut the song "Autobiography" for a second set. Whoever was responsible for piping in a studio-engineered rendition for Simpson to mouth screwed up, playing "Pieces" once again.
The raven-haired beauty hopped around briefly, then slinked off the stage as her hapless band half-heartedly faked away. A humiliated Simpson later apologized to her fans - and blamed her band for playing the wrong song.
The blunder has been all the more embarrassing for Simpson, because she recently expressed her disapproval of lip-syncing in an interview with Lucky magazine, explaining, "I'm totally against it and offended by it. I'm going to let my real talent show, not just stand there and dance around. Personally, I'd never lip- sync. It's just not me."
From IMDB and New York Daily News
Give me a fucking break. You got busted after lying about lip-synching, end of story. That's because you and the rest of your "pop music" no talent hacks are a bunch of cookie-cutter artists with no creativity or passion for music (that includes you, Eminem). Do you think Van Halen ever used audio tracks? Led Zeppelin or AC/DC? Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison? No, that's because those artists actually cared about making good music and stickin' it to the man, classic-rock style.
*Coming soon to a theatre near you
To see:
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Napoleon Dynamite
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Friday Night Lights (on Catherine's recommendation)
Saw
Meet the Fockers
Alexander
The Incredibles
Ocean's Twelve
The Aviator
Flight of the Phoenix (note to self: watch original)
The Polar Express
Wait for video:
Shark Tale
Ladder 49
Team America: World Police
Ray
The Grudge
National Treasure
Surviving Christmas
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Ditto completely on the whole Simpson crapola. I'm sick and tired of hearing these popstar clones sporting the new 'attitude' for the year. The mainstream music industry is really going down the crapper. We must support the smaller and left of center acts - there is real music there.
ReplyDeleteSee Saw...lol
ReplyDeleteLooks sick and twisted...my kind of movie.
Ashlee Simpson can choke and die.
My whole point was that I don't care for more music because I only like older bands that I think have real talent.
ReplyDeleteNot so much "smaller and left of center", Allister, more "back in time a few decades", but I hear ya. By the way Andy- "popular music really isn't for you". When did we say I liked popular music?
Keep on rockin!