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February 3, 2012
MADONNA’S SUPER COMEBACK BOWL
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MADONNA'S SUPER COMEBACK BOWL
Listen to story, from today's HERE AND NOW, WBUR-FM Boston. mp3 download #
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Madonna's Pre-Super Bowl Style (stylelist.com)
Madonna will welcome LMFAO to Super Bowl halftime stage (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Madonna! Madonna! Madonna! Madonna!!!! (perezhilton.com)
Madonna Drops Cheesy Gift on Super Bowl Staff — You Wanna Pizza Me?!?! (tmz.com)
Madonna – 'Give Me All Your Luvin' teaser (longnightsshortdays.com) #
February 2, 2012
TOP CENSORED STORY OF 2011
First heard about this on Media Matters podcast, which featured Project Censored last week: #
…But look at it we must, for in its own way it illustrates the problem faced by our returning war veterans writ large—a point emphasized by the fact that the hand itself is disembodied; it could belong to Ostrom (as it does) but it could belong to any of the thousands of returning veterans (or for that matter to those who might be inducted to fight in #
future wars): Bred to kill and marked by death, our warriors are assimilated into a topsy-turvy world in which survival is a sign of failure, and doing one's job well results in dishonor. And there does not seem to be any way out except for one. Perhaps the only wonder is that the suicide rate amongst our veterans is as low as it is. (from No Caption Needed) #
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Veteran reflects during Iraq War veterans homecoming parade in St. Louis (digitaljournalism2600.com)
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February 1, 2012
January 12, 2012
CEE LO, IMAGINE, AND POP DNA
OR: LEGLESS STORY INHALES THE COSMOS
For Cee Lo, this ranks right up there with Gloria Estafan's bus crash as a career move. No more lines at rehab. #
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January 9, 2012
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Great article, very thought provoking and well worth the reblog. (englishwarrior.wordpress.com)
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January 2, 2012
December 31, 2011
BEST OF 2011 LIST
pj harvey: Let England Shake (Vagrant)
St. Vincent: Strange Mercy (4AD)
Eleventh Dream Day: Riot Now (Thrill Jockey)
Nick Lowe: The Old Magic (Yep Roc)
Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What (Hear)
Black Keys: El Camino (Nonesuch)
Chris Thile and Michael Daves: Sleep With One Eye Open (Nonesuch)
Ma, Duncan, Meyer, Thile: Goat Rodeo (Sony)
Rob Wassermann, Various: Note of Hope, A Celebration of Woody Guthrie (429)
Steve Cropper, Various: Dedicated, a Tribute to the Five Royales (429)
also:
Roots with John Legend [2010]: (Columbia)
Roots: Undun (Def Jam)
Various: Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams (Columbia)
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December 26, 2011
MORE SNAKE-THE-GRASS ACTING TURNS
Ever since Viola Davis stole Doubt from Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, there have been several looming instances where character actors ingest whole scripts. When moments like this hit, when it's hard to distinguish acting from writing, the effects can dazzle (even if Clive James dismisses). #
has had one of those British careers lost on most Americans, who know him best from The Jewel in The Crown, the lauded Masterpiece Theatre serial from 1984. (Smith also wrote an obscure yet memorable book, Out of Inda, about that project's shoot.) And he gets perhaps half a dozen scenes as Lord Elms in just three episodes of The Hour, BBC America's six-hour Suez Canal journalism exposé. But in his final scene with young thunderbolt Ben Winshaw, his grief turns from plot device to emotional groundswell, upstaging all the silly trysting and petty politics and the attendant period detail lavished on this prestige project. And far from seeming heavy-handed, he made it feel oracular, as though his character could have saved everybody a lot of ramshackle shagging if his character had been given the chance. #
See also: Kathy Bates in Titanic and Primary Colors; Chris Cooper in The Town. #
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December 23, 2011
BAT CHAIN PULLER: BEEFHEART RISING
Obscurantists, shrug with elation: Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)'s lost moosterpiece, Bat Chain Puller, will finally come out in early 2012 according to the Wire. #
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