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Rumor has it that this show will feature a couple new songs that we’ve never played out before as well as the “FULL-ON” Ocular Noise Machine experience!! Your eyes and ears won’t know whether to stop, drop or roll. (Probably all three!)
Like the old saying goes, “I am a Sinch fan and I will come to this show or be cast into the eternal depths of Everywhere Else That’s Not Muggs.”
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished someone would call you so you could pretend that something important came up and you had to leave? Well, now you can do exactly that with the Popularity Dialer.
Just give it a phone number, date and time and the type of call you want, and you’re all set. The options range from the basic “popularity call” to “cousin in need” to the newly added “band practice” call, which is especially good for all you lazy musicians out there just looking for an excuse to get out of something.
Jack Black is kind of hit or miss with me. Sometimes I think he’s really good (School of Rock) and other times he can be kind of annoying (mostly everything else). But his new movie (or at least this new movie that he’s in), Be Kind, Rewind, looks really good. It’s directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), which probably has a lot to do with it, but I think Jack Black as actually a really good fit for this part. I probably would have seen this movie based on the concept alone, without even seeing the trailer:
A man becomes accidentally magnetized and erases all the tapes in the video store where his best friend works. To save the store, the duo re-enact and re-film every movie that its single loyal customer, an elderly woman, rents.
In case that isn’t enough for you, here’s the trailer:
This is almost certainly fake and probably part of some viral marketing campaign for Halo 3 or some other big budget project… but it’s totally the kind of UFO video I’ve been wanting to see my whole life. If this was real it would be the coolest thing ever filmed.
“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” one of the most well known books on the 60s drug culture, is finally being made into a movie. The book follows author Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters on a cross-country bus trip and documents the early “acid tests” which were basically Greatful Dead shows where the drinks were all spiked with LSD.
Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Last Days) is now attached to the project as the director, however, no one has been cast in the roles of the Merry Pranksters, which included beat generation icon, Neal Cassady and LSD chemist/Greatful Dead soundman, Owsley Stanley, among others.
I’m not exactly sure how this works, but it’s awesome. I want my own private Chuck E Cheese robot band (or whatever this place is… Showboz Pizza or something).
Behind the scenes video of the new Sprint TV spot, “Dreams”
You know, the one with all the people drawing stuff in the air with different colored lights? Every time I see it I can’t imagine how it all came together. This video shows some of what they did to make it work:
This is another one of those things that’s either genius or just completely lame and self-indulgent. But I guess if you can pull it off and still get that kind of reaction… why not?
KORG is releasing the DS-10, a synthesizer for the Nintendo DS, on Sept. 30. If you have a DS and even a passing interest in music creation, you should check this out.
Added to Ma.gnolia: 11:50 am, Thursday, August 21st
We're members of ASCAP. They pay us royalties for radio, TV and film performances of our music. What they're doing to local music venues makes no sense at all.
This volume contains the names of over fifty thousand metal bands. If one presumes that each of these bands had an average of four members, and multiplies that by the bands, one might figure that at least a quarter of a million humans have pledged allegiance to one of these groups of wandering beasts.
