Saturday, February 13, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Facebook blamed for wild teenage party
Facebook seems to get the blame for almost anything these days, and the case of 16 year old Aneesh Shukla who used the social not-working site to invite all his friends over for a wild party while his parents were away is no exception.
“£1m ($1.5 million) home trashed by gatecrashers after boy advertises party on Facebook,” screeches the Daily Mail headline, which goes on to provide no further details about the apparently open invitation or how the social network could be deemed responsible for something teenagers have been doing for years.
Apparently, the Shukla oldies were naïve enough to believe their son just wanted “a quiet evening with friends,” after he hit them up for “£20 ($35) to buy fish and chips” before they left him alone for the weekend in their million and a half dollar mansion.
Cue the onslaught of “more than 100 party-goers” at the “gated property in Kingston-upon-Thames, South-West London” some hours later. Because Facebook can apparently unlock gates now too.
Unfortunately, it seems little Aneesh’s buddies weren’t particularly well behaved house guests, “throwing objects from windows, smashing chandeliers, defacing cars and urinating out of windows.” Because that’s what happens to kids when they’ve been cooped up for too long at home playing Farmville.
The Shukla’s neighbours, who we assume are also rather rich but don’t seem able to buy ear plugs or double glazed windows, called the police. Twice. But apparently the thought of coming to wrap a 16 year old rich kid from a £21,000-a-year Westminster School on the knuckles didn’t tempt the poor overworked bobbies on a Saturday night.
So instead, the distressed neighbours were left traumatized by sights of broken glass strewn across the lawn, “teenagers shouting and screaming,” (many of whom we’re told were “wearing hoodies”) and bottles and cans.
Not to worry though, when mommy and daddy Shukla returned on Sunday afternoon, the pair simply called in the “contract gardeners and cleaners” to clear up the mess and told the press she wouldn’t comment as it was “absolutely a private matter.”
Until the photos are made public on Facebook, that is.
via tgdaily.com
HAHAHA!
Monday, February 08, 2010
I think Google made the best AD for the Super Bowl
via youtube.com
It drew you in. And it was with words. Classy and it got the point across.
Free Music Monday: 10 Free Downloads for Your Collection
In this week’s Free Music Monday we offer you 10 free downloadable MP3s (or the occasional full album) for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven’t checked out Free Music Monday before, we’re giving away free and legal tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.
We also gladly accept your submissions for Free Music Monday — please find information about how to submit your tracks or music from artists you represent at the end of this post. Now without further ado, let’s roll some tracks!
1. [DOWNTEMPO] Cosmo D’s Sauce: “Metroid (Brynstar)” — Jazzy horns and downtempo beats from one of several acts from the Brooklyn-based Smoothe Moose label and artist collective. Right-click to download this track, and grab lots more from Smoothe Moose’s mixtapes at Soundcloud. The We Love Video Game Music sampler featuring this track is also embedded below for streaming and download.
Smoothe Moose Mixtape #3 – We Love Video Game Music by smoothemoose
2. [OPERA] The Knife: “Colouring of Pigeons” — It’s The Knife like they’ve been heard before. Right-click to snag a track from the electro-opera the brother and sister duo were commissioned to compose, Tomorrow, In a Year, based on the infamous Charles Darwin text The Origin of Species. The digital release on the 92-minute opera is out now, with the two-CD physical album to arrive March 1.
3. [STONER ROCK] Ancestors: “The Ambrose Law” — If you like Sabbath-influenced progressive rock, right-click to check out this track from L.A.’s Ancestors. [via Stoner Rock]
4. [ELECTRONICA] Four Tet: “Essential Mix” — Almost two hours’ worth of mixes and remixes are included in this set from UK’s Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet. Download the entire set from Soundcloud or from the streaming player below.
Essential mix (January 2010) by Four Tet5. [ROCK] Martha and the Muffins: “Don’t Say Anything” — To get your free download from the recently released new album Delicate (their first studio release in 18 years), head on over to MatM’s site to sign up for the mailing list and get a copy of “Don’t Say Anything” from these Toronto-based rockers.
6. [INDIE] Thunderhawk: “King Basement” — Get your right-click on to snag a track from the forthcoming VI release from Indianapolis’ Thunderhawk, slated to drop in March. Check out more about the band on their MySpace page and at Standard Recording.
7. [EXPERIMENTAL] Primary Colors of Sound: “bAg” — Chill, downtempo beats characterize this experimental electronic outfit, who offer a free download of the track “bAg” along with several others on their iLike artist page.
8. [GUITAR ROCK] Gary Reynolds and the Brides of Obscurity: “Three Angels” — Songwriter, guitarist and Electrokitty Studios owner Gary Reynolds has embarked on an ambitious plan to release a new track per week and a full-length album every month in 2010. New tracks go up every Monday, and you can always download the latest on Gary and the band’s website. This week’s track is “Three Angels,” described as “religion and spacemen done to a Zeppelin style groove and a nice backwards guitar solo.”
9. [DUBSTEP] Derivate: “L2 (Beto Narme’s Dense Subspace Remix)” — Netlabel Sublime Porte from Istanbul offers this remix (right-click to download) of Derivate’s recent EP, Lagrange Points I. You can also download the release in its entirety at Sublime Porte, plus follow the label for future releases on Twitter.
10. [SINGER/SONGWRITER] GarageSpin: “Spinning Daydream” — This track about “embracing all experiences in life, good and bad” from singer/songwriter and music blogger Mike B, recording and blogging as GarageSpin, is available for the low cost of your right-click. Snag another free track and free stream from the GarageSpin Music page.
As always, thank you for tuning in to Free Music Monday! If you like this feature, please help us out by sharing it with your music-loving friends. You can always find the latest edition of this feature by hitting up the Free Music Monday tag page, so please check back. We’ve appended the list of past Free Music Mondays at the end of this post in case you missed any of the back catalog.
Big thanks to everyone for the great submissions we’re getting. If you sent us tracks and we haven’t featured them yet, stay tuned for a future Free Music Monday. If you’d like to submit tracks for yourself or an artist you represent, give us a shout at barb AT mashable DOT com. Be sure to send us an MP3 or two we can use (no more than 25MB file size total please) or send us a link to listen to tracks you’re willing to provide as a free download. Thanks everyone!
P.S. Bonus tip: They’re not “free” but they are low cost — be sure to check out Amazon’s 100 albums for $5 through February.
Free Music Monday Back Catalog
- Alternative Rock Edition
- Covers, Remixes, and Mashups Edition
- Electronica Edition
- Free Downloads for Your Ears (Feb. 1, 2010)
- Fresh and Free Downloads (Jan. 25, 2010)
- Hip-hop Edition
- Labor Day Edition
- Live Edition
- Rock and Pop Edition
- Singer-Songwriter Edition
- Video Edition
- Your Submissions Edition
- Your Submissions, All Downloads Edition
via mashable.com
Why Redbox New Release DVDs May Vanish from Kiosks
via mashable.com
I think this is also how Sony will try to save the inevitably doomed Blu-Ray format. Streaming will be where its at soon enough.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Spoon performs Me and The Bean live at Waterloo Records in Austin, TX
via youtube.com
They rock as always.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
That's a Mini 5 in Michael Dell's pocket! I think I want one!
via geek.com
This may be the first Dell product I may be interested in!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Really Part II: Disney Closes Miramax
Disney Closes Miramax
Posted on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
It is sadly ironic that, just as this year’s Sundance Film Festival comes to a close, Disney plans to close the doors on former Sundance mainstay Miramax for good. New York and LA offices will close today. Eighty staff members will lose their jobs, and the last six Miramax films could well go into some sort of limbo. After thirty-one years, during much of which the label started by Bob and Harvey Weinstein dominated the American indie scene, Miramax is no more.
The Wrap charts the downfall of the distributor, from the purchase by Disney, the departure of Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the takeover by Daniel Battsek. Disney continually marginalized the label, but Dick Cook said it would always continue. When Cook was ousted and Battsek shortly after, it was evident that the days of Miramax were numbered.
Harvey Weinstein said of his former company,
I’m feeling very nostalgic right now. I know the movies made on my and my brother Bob’s watch will live on as well as the fantastic films made under the direction of Daniel Battsek. Miramax has some brilliant people working within the organization and I know they will go on to do great things in the industry.
Kevin Smith was asked to write about the end of the label for The Wrap. He concludes with,
I’m crushed to see it pass into history, because I owe everything I have to Miramax. Without them, I’d still be a New Jersey convenience store register jockey. In practice, not just in my head.
Over the years, Miramax built the careers of Smith and Quentin Tarantino, brought Steven Soderbergh to prominence after buying Sex, Lies and Videotape and furthered the careers of filmmakers including Jane Campion, Errol Morris, Gus Van Sant and Peter Jackson. The studio did many things that were infuriating, notably when dealing with Asian films that were heavily recut or simply shelved, but there’s no question that the last thirty years of cinema would be very different without Miramax.
Six films are now left on the shelf, among which include two starring Sam Worthington (The Debt and Last Night, the latter of which had a release date set in March), Julie Taymor’s filmed version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Troy Nixey and Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the TV horror classic Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. Hopefully Disney will release or sell these movies; we’ll find out more as we can.
This may end up being a short-lived death, at least in name. Just yesterday evening there was word from Deadline Hollywood that the Weinsteins still want to reclaim the Miramax name. It was, after all, based on the names of their parents, Max and Miriam. Bob Iger previously offered to sell Miramax in toto, but for a wildly overvalued $1.5 billion. Will Disney now let the Weinsteins take back the name for a much smaller fee?
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Blake Goble 2 hours ago
1 person liked this. Are Focus and Sony Picture Classics the only big indie divisions left for bigger studios?Like Reply Reply
p86 1 person liked this. Fox Searchlight is still there tooLike Reply Reply
tony5787
AngryBroomstick 4 people liked this. This blows so bad, dude.I'm gonna get mocked for this but I've ALWAYS loved Miramax's opening credit sequence. The beautiful NYC skyline and the sparkling reflection over the water. Sigh.
That is my favourite, along with Dreamworks' opening credit sequence (of the little boy sitting on the crescent moon, fishing)
Like Reply ReplyIt's a sad day. Imagine what the cinema industry would look like today if Miramax hadn't been around? Would we ever have seen Silent Bob?
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AngryBroomstick 2 people liked this. or Kill Bill 1 & 2 and Pulp Fiction!Like Reply Reply
Captain_Howdy 1 person liked this. There was something about seeing the MIRAMAX logo at the start of a film that assured me what I was about to see came from something wholesome. Such a shame to see it go.Like Reply Reply
oh the humanity 1 person liked this. There was something about seeing the Miramax logo at the start of a film that assured me it had been cut to fucking ribbons. The only thing sad about this is that it didn't happen in 1998 or so.Like Reply Reply
surgemonkay
Blake
dagreenman18 1 person liked this. Wow, that sucks balls. Hate to see Indie Film Distributors go down cause it means less good small films and more... well the Tooth Fairy.Like Reply Reply
freemachine I hope the next headline we read (inspired by Monty Python) will state: "Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
Like Reply ReplyI'd really like to laugh at this point, but I can't.
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moviefan
HHHH
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I used to be if it was Miramax I would go see it.
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