Oscar fashion 2011 red carpet in REVIEW (open post)

Reviewing the red carpert OSCAR 2011

For when you want to make sucky drawings you can’t print or save.”

“HARDCORE PAWN” is a new show on TruTv about a pawnshop in Detroit that seems to be the size of a football field. It is run by a guy named Les Gold, his son Seth and a few other family members. There are lots of employees scattered about that appear to be missing a chromosone or two and a troop of burly black security guards whose job it is to throw out any customer that gets out of hand – which appears to be every other patron

My comfort zone is actually quite small. In reality, I hate most music. I appreciate almost all music, for all its merits and all that, but the music I actually willingly listen to in my free time is safe. It’s music with guitars, almost exclusively of an indie rock/alternative rock variety. It’s what I enjoy, so I don’t deny that despite the guilt I feel for never listening to hip hop or dance music or electronica. There’s music critic world and there’s the world I live in, which is soundtracked by distortion and sweet guitar riffs and fuzzy vocals. And that’s why I love Yuck’s eponymous debut.

Well I guess we all know who the winner of the “Who’s gonna fill the hole Amy Winehouse left?” sweepstakes is.

As much as I’m loathe to admit it, the greatest musical artist working today is Kanye West…the operative word being ‘WORKING’. In between bouts of exasperating pretentiousness, this man never fails in his attempt to bring something compelling and fresh to the table. This is a guy who is actively TRYING and for that he gets my undying respect.

“Firewall,” the opener to Bright Eyes’ latest album The People’s Key, begins with a spoken introduction that had me pretty instantly hooked the first time I heard it. I’ve always been a sucker for all texts mystical – the Gnostic Gospels, Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, Stephen King’s Dark Tower series – so hearing an apparent crackpot named Denny Brewer riffing on theories about malicious, reptilian, interdimensional beings who’ve been around since the Garden of Eden (“Space is expanding. There are spirits coming from the center, right? The universe is moving counter-clockwise…”) was, admittedly, thrilling. I began imagining an album full of stark, chilling meditations on the darkness that permeates the fabric of the universe – something I could really sink my teeth into.

True Grit, the remake of the 1969 original starring the legendary John Wayne in his only Oscar-winning performance and a retelling of the 1968 Charles Portis novel, is an actively solid effort by Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men). In the best possible way, the Coens have crafted a bare bones western tale of vengeance, retribution, and redemption with a top notch cast from top to bottom.

You’d think that nearly half a decade would provide sufficient enough time to come up with something that could satiate the public’s rabid desire for a new direction from their favourite group… it didn’t have to be the next OK Computer (it would’ve been nice, but it didn’t have to be), but just not more of the same nebulous noodling of the last decade.

Some strange people have created an old-school video game based on Fitzgerald’s “Jazz Age” classic in high school. But that’s not the end of the story, ‘cause the game itself is a bit of mystery. The creators of Great Gatsby Game website state that it’s actually an unlicensed copy of a little known NES game they found [...]
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