Artist: Moribund Oblivion
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Khanjar
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
Friday 27 June 2008
George Carlin dies at 71
Comedian had history of heart problems
Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PT after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham said.
Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television."
A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica Foundation, the top U.S. court ruled that the words cited in Carlin's routine were indecent, and that the government's broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening.
Carlin's comedic sensibility often came back to a central theme: humanity is doomed. "I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas," he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.
Carlin, who wrote several books and performed in many television comedy specials, is survived by his wife Sally Wade, and daughter Kelly Carlin McCall.
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The Last Mistress - 6/26/2008
After years of lascivious experiments and audience-bludgeoning anti-romances, French provocateur Catherine Breillat pulls an unexpectedly engrossing and lurid film out of Jules-Am�d�e Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th-century novel Un Vieille Maitresse, the tale of a French dandy and the 36-year-old "Old Mistress" whom he attempts to do away with before he marries the daughter of famed nobility. Breillat's latest presents not only one of the great performances of this year and the director's most accessible work to date, but also introduces a character of true lustful ferocity unlike few before: a venomous madame who makes Anne Boleyn look like Anne of Green Gables.
Her name is Vellini (Asia Argento). It's rumored she's the flamboyant progeny of an Italian priestess and a Spanish matador. She licks fresh blood off of gaping wounds. The ringlets of her hair resemble a heart turned on its head. It's said she can outstare the sun and the second you get your first glimpse at Argento laying on her canap� you believe it sans aucun doute. Though he first casts her off as an "ugly mutt," the young playboy Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad A�t Aattou) takes it as his task to possess this creature despite her blatant loathing of him. Eventually they exile themselves to Argentina and bear a daughter, only to see her die from the sting of a scorpion. Unchained and thrown into an abyss of grief, Argento's bellowing growl of despair could shred the very screen.
Breillat burrows deep into a would-be costume drama to find an erotic depth-charge and a twisted, hostile power play in the name not of romance but of pure desire. Following their Argentine days, the couple cops to a mutual lack of love, only to continue on as man and mistress. The film is partially framed by Ryno's confession of the long affair to La Marquise de Flers (Claude Serraute). It's no coincidence that La Marquise happens to be the grandmother of Hermangarde (Breillat staple Roxane Mesquida), Ryno's betrothed. Two gadflies (the superb Michael Lonsdale and Yolande Moreau) buzz around, witnessing the passive cruelty of a relationship left passionless.
But even as a young altar boy talks of woman made in the image of man, Ryno and Vellini continue to joust each other, their affray apparently unquenchable. Breillat's charge is not in some dark love but in an addiction to insatiable wanting. A plea of adoration is a complete turn-off; an engagement to another acts as Spanish Fly. As Hermangarde and Ryno leave Paris for the seaside, Vellini follows them but only to know that given her permission, her will, that Ryno would still want her instead. In the end, he co-opts her as his therapist; it borders on pathetic.
It would be redundant to talk of Argento's bestial eyes, her unencumbered sexuality and that voice that would send most men back to their mothers like a hermit crab retreating to its shell. Though her gaze is essential to it, the performance truly awakens in her whispered taunts and in her fearless movement. The quick, near-graceful extension of her arm when she grabs a glass from Ryno and it shatters in her hand, her gentle probing of Ryno about his lovers while they are still engaged in a tryst of their own: Argento doesn't perform these acts so much as she culls them from a natural experience, something laid dormant in her memory until that very moment. Every move is authentic and Argento executes it like she's been through all of this in some other life (or perhaps even this one).
Breillat has often indulged in mussing sexual identities; In Mistress, she blurs the lines further. As Vellini takes long drags off her cigar, Ryno stares off in starstruck lovedream. As Vellini's elderly husband insists on decorum at a duel, the mistress wants only blood and vindication. Before Ryno and the grandmother begin their discussion, Breillat cuts to a high-angle of Hermangarde looking at Ryno. The joke is that he might as well be looking at a mirror.
Aka Une vieille ma�tresse.
That's tiger love.
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Cohen flick coming next May
One of the most anticipated comedies on Hollywood�s upcoming slate now has a release date. Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen�s followup to the 2006 hit Borat, is set to debut on May 15, 2009, ew.com reports.
Although details have been kept secret, the new film is expected to be similar to Borat: It�s based on a character that the comedian introduced to American audiences with his acclaimed HBO comedy series Da Ali G Show, and it is likely to feature Baron Cohen conducting interviews with people who are supposedly unaware that he�s an actor in disguise � this time as a flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter.
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Thursday 26 June 2008
Samba Star Jamelao Dies
Brazilian samba star JAMELAO has died. He was 95.
The singer, born Jose Bispo Clementino Dos Santos, passed away at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday (14Jun08), just three days after he was admitted.
The cause of death has yet to be confirmed, although internet reports suggest he died of multiple organ failure.
Jamelao began his singing career in the late 1940s, influenced by fellow Brazilian artist Cyro Monteiro. He quickly established himself on the Brazilian carnival circuit.
He became the official singer at renowned samba school Mangeuira's carnival parades in the 1950s and went on to travel Europe as a solo star.
Jamelao enjoyed a career spanning more than five decades and is best known for hits such as Leviana, Fechei a Porta and Folha Morta.
His funeral was set to take place on Sunday (15Jun08).
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Dave Mason
Artist: Dave Mason
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Discography:
Mariposa de Oro
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
It's Like You Never Left
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Certified Live
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
Alone Together
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
Let It Flow
Year: 1977
Tracks: 10
Headkeeper
Year: 1972
Tracks: 10
40000 Headmen Tour
Year:
Tracks: 12
After serving as route director for the Spencer Davis Group and meeting Steve Winwood, singer/guitarist Dave Mason found celebrity as one of the introduction members of the jazz/rock/pop fusion chemical group Traffic. However, conflicts between Winwood and Mason over the group's instruction light-emitting diode to the latter's release in 1969 subsequently triad albums. Mason affected to Los Angeles and united Delaney & Bonnie before source his solo career. His 1970 solo debut, Unequaled Together, went gold and is, arguably, his best album. Mason succeeding collaborated with Mama Cass Elliot for Dave Mason & Cass Elliot, merely its reception was tepid at best. Mason settled permanently in America in 1973 and signed a semipermanent sign on with CBS, recording a series of moderately successful, much inconsistent pop/rock albums featuring originals and a sparge of covers. Mason scored his biggest solo bump off in 1977 with "We Just Disagree," which reached number 12. New Mason material was scarce in the eighties, exclude for a beer commercial. Mason continued to tour, though, and coupled Fleetwood Mac in 1994; 1999 sawing machine the acquittance of Lively: 40,000 Headmen Tour, which besides featured Jim Capaldi. The re-release ofIt's Like You Never Left followed a year afterwards.
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Rachael Sage
Artist: Rachael Sage
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Blistering Sun
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Rachael Sage is a gifted piano player, singer, and songster. Her music has been tagged many shipway, from rock and roll to drink down to folk. Her way called ethnically tinged, lush, emotionally insightful, and even far-out. However the critics name it, they usually bestow positivistic comments.
Salvia was born in Port Chester, NY. She is a self-taught piano player and composer. She began playing the pianissimo when she was only some tetrad eld old. Around that same time, she as well discovered the pleasance of creating her possess tunes, all from listening to songs she liked on the radio. By the clip she was five, she was putt She got her first tastes of performing earlier real audiences by appearance in talent contests and at school assemblies.
An expressive creative person in any form, Sage enjoyed eld of ballet grooming at the School of American Ballet. She likewise took drama classes and, later, voice lessons. By the clip she was in college, she was playacting in clubs and coffeehouses. Each point found her truehearted fan base increasing a small more. An opening spot on a term of enlistment with Ani DiFranco gave Sage the chance to see Europe.
In 1996, Sage released her debut album, Pathologic Romantic. It was followed 2 years later by an impressive soph offer, Smashing the Serene. In 2001 she finished a third album, Picture of a Painting. Some of the tracks from these recordings ar "Pictures They Took," "Ode to a Sailor," "Linguistic communication of Flowers," "Air We Share," "Guardians," and "Cyanide and Cinnamon."
Sage tours often, and has won many awards and contests, like the ASCAP Pop Song Writing Contest. In betwixt performing and recording, she has held legion day jobs to help pay the bills, including working as an extra in movies, as a jangle author, and a graphical intriguer. When on stage, she usually has a supportive acoustic batting order with her, including percussionists Rob Curto and Steve Jagoda.
Smoke in the Airplane Boys Room?
Talk about a motley on-board crue -- a TMZ spy tells us that they just spotted badboy Tommy Lee and litigatrix Gloria Allred sitting one row apart on an American Airlines flight from New York to LAX.That would be weird enough, but get this -- remember that Allred sued the skin-tight pants off Tommy back in 1996 when he smacked up a photog, and got a settlement out of it for the alleged victim. Bottom line -- not bosom buddies, these two.
We're told that they definitely saw each other ... but no one went Naomi on anyone else.
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Amy Winehouse's Father Clarifies Diagnosis, Sort Of: 'She Has A Small Amount Of Emphysema'
After dropping the bombshell news over the weekend that his daughter, Amy Winehouse, is suffering from the incurable pulmonary ailment emphysema, Mitch Winehouse modified his statement on Monday (June 23) to say that the 24-year-old "Rehab" singer is suffering from an early stage of the disease and is responding well to treatment.
In an interview with BBC 1 Radio, he again confirmed that his daughter will perform at the Glastonbury Festival in England on Saturday and that medical tests conducted since she fainted at her home on June 16 have shown that she has a "small amount of emphysema."
Emphysema is an incurable disease that reduces the ability of the sufferer's lungs to expel air due to damage to tiny airways called bronchioles. People with emphysema may feel short of breath while exerting themselves and, as the disease progresses, even while at rest.
The singer's U.S. publicist, Tracey Miller, said on Monday that her client is "showing early signs of what could lead to emphysema but is reacting well to treatment."
According to Dr. Norman H. Edelman, Chief Medical Officer for the American Lung Association, emphysema is a disease that does not ever go away, but its progression can be stopped if the sufferer ceases smoking. "If she stopped those things, her decline in lung function would be at the rate of normal people," said Edelman, who has not treated Winehouse but was familiar with her story from media reports. "If she keeps on smoking, the fact that she has early emphysema means she will have a more rapid decline in lung function as well."
Edelman said that with current tests it is possible to pick up signs of emphysema before any symptoms are present, and he said he suspects that the fact that Winehouse is still able to perform is an indication that her breathing capacity is still reasonably strong. "But it's a warning to her," he added. "If you want to keep working, you'd better stop inhaling bad stuff into your lungs."
Mitch Winehouse also refuted other claims concerning his daughter's health, telling the BBC, "There's been some confusing messages coming out. There's been stuff about TB, stuff about HIV, but she hasn't got any of that. She has a small amount of emphysema. Obviously there's a hangover from the drugs situation," he said. "But with no more inhalation from smoke of any kind, she'll be absolutely fine. That's the extent of her medical problems."
Saying that the medical situation — which includes a small amount of scarring on the singer's lungs — is "scary," he added that the disease has not progressed "too far. It's not irreparable. Really she can't even smoke anymore, let alone the other thing. With patience, her lungs will recover completely. She's responding really well to treatment, she's flourishing."
One of the main motivations that Winehouse said is keeping his daughter's spirits up is the thought of being able to take the stage and perform again. "That's what she lives for, and she really wants to do the gigs at the weekend. And with the doctors' permission — and they have given her permission — she will perform," he told the BBC. "She will be well enough to be at Glastonbury, not could be. She's well enough to be at Glastonbury now."
Saying the singer was "smothered" in nicotine patches to help her get over cigarette cravings, Winehouse added that his daughter understands that she must stop smoking and that "the only thing that can go in her lungs right now is fresh air. She doesn't have emphysema, she has traces of it. Obviously if she doesn't quit smoking, it's going to get worse."
Winehouse said he's much less worried about Amy's health than he was last week and that her future is "a lot brighter than it was," adding, "Things have really turned a corner. ... She's very intelligent and she knows what she needs to do and she's getting on with it."
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