'Addiction's way more interesting' & other: 2008

Wednesday 10 September 2008

LiveDaily Song of the Day: The Little Ones - "Morning Tide"

Today's Song of the Day is by The Little Ones [ ]. The featured cut is "Morning Tide," which appears on their self-titled debut, due in stores October 7.

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Sunday 31 August 2008

Circuit City Live Presents Acclaimed Recording Artist Rihanna for Live Web Forum August 20, 2008

RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International
multi-platinum MTV Video Music Awards, Grammy and American Music Award
winning Def Jam Records artist Rihanna testament participate in an exclusive
LIVE Circuit City online meeting place with fans on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 from
7:30-8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

The live event can be accessed at http://www.circuitcity.com/rihanna,
where fans already can shop for Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded hit
CD and the Circuit City Exclusive Good Girl Gone Bad DVD. Also available at
the internet site: a gizmo to share Rihanna videos via Facebook/MySpace, free
Rihanna wallpaper for wandering phones and a disengage downloadable Rihanna
voicetone. Users too will be given the opportunity to opt in to Circuit
City's "Stay Connected with Rihanna" program which will send out weekly
updates, news, offers and links to dislodge digital mental object to their mobile
device.

Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded just spawned its third #1 hit
with the smash single, "Disturbia," which follows smash singles, "Umbrella"
and "Take a Bow,"

"We're thrilled to be working with Rihanna and Island Def Jam Records
for this unique alive event," said Brian S. Bradley, Circuit City's senior
vice president - multi-channel. "We know Rihanna's fans will skip over at the
opportunity to communicate with her and we're beguiled to be able to offer
this experience for our customers."

Event Details:
What: Rihanna LIVE online forum hosted by Circuit City
When: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 from 7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET
Where: Forum can be accessed at http://www.circuitcity.com/rihanna

Good Girl Gone Bad (released June 5, 2007) was the third album release
in less than two age by multi-platinum MTV VMA, Grammy, and American
Music Award winning creative person -- and CoverGirl interpreter -- Rihanna. It
followed-up 2006's RIAA atomic number 78 "A Girl Like Me," containing the
back-to-back hits, "S.O.S." and "Unfaithful"; and her RIAA gold debut from
2005, Music Of the Sun, featuring the worldwide smash, "Pon De Replay." For
more information on Rihanna, go to hypertext transfer protocol://www.rihannanow.com.

A Tradition of Empowering Customers:

Since its launch in July 1999, http://www.circuitcity.com has been
committed to engaging customers and construction community. The Rihanna outcome
is simply the in style in a series of live on-line forums hosted by Circuit City
to provide consumers with first-hand admission to experts and celebrities.
Recent Circuit City forums suffer featured preeminent figures from the worlds of
sports, video play, computing and photography. Circuitcity.com also
provides industry-leading product information by posting indifferent and
unedited reports from leading consumer publications, and through more than than
one hundred thirty,000 customer ratings and reviews.

About Circuit City Stores, Inc.

Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) is a leading specialty retailer of
consumer electronics and related services. The domestic segment operates
through 701 Superstores and 9 other locations in 158 U.S. markets. The
international segment operates through approximately 800 retail stores and
dealer outlets in Canada. Circuit City likewise operates Web sites at
http://www.circuitcity.com, http://www.thesource.ca and
hTTP://www.dog.com.

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Thursday 21 August 2008

Mp3 music: Mint Condition

Artist: Mint Condition: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

R&B: Soul

Mint Condition's discography:

Live from the 9:30 Club

Year: 2006

Tracks: 15

Life's Aquarium

Year: 1999

Tracks: 12

The Collection: 1991-1998

Year: 1998

Tracks: 15

Definition of a Band

Year: 1996

Tracks: 18

Formed in the early '80s in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Mint Condition began as lead vocalizer Stokley Williams, guitar histrion Homer O'Dell, keyboardist Larry Waddell, keyboardist/saxophonist Jeff Allen, keyboardist/guitarist Keri Lewis, and guitarist/bassist Rick Kinchen.

The six talented musicians aggregate a potpourri of influences and experiences to shape their have sound. Williams began performing classic West African instruments at the age of four-spot, spell O'Dell grew up hearing to his don play blues bass and singing with him in a household mathematical group. Waddell played in a recording liberal arts band at schoolhouse and down pat keyboards by listening to jazz greats Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock. Exposed to his father's extensive jazz collection, Allen played keyboards and sax in local bands throughout his high school days, as Lewis was mastering keyboards, percussion, and guitar spell attending school. Kinchen's low and strongest influence was his mob, all of whom played instruments and bucked up his interest in medicine. He developed his skills as a bass player by listening to records by Stanley Clarke and Louis Johnson of the Brothers Johnson. Kinchen played in versatile bands in his native Chicago and performed at several productions at Kennedy-King College in front moving to the Twin Cities.

The banding was featured at the 1986 Minnesota Black Musician Awards program and built a strong core next for themselves in a five-state area (North Star State, Wisconsin, Iowa, Dakota, and Nebraska) as a result of their glaring, highly energetic resilient shows. Mint Condition came to the attention of Minneapolis soul producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis as a result of a showcase performance in 1989. The banding had unshakable success showtime with the hits "(Breakage My Heart) Pretty Brown Eyes" and "Perpetually in Your Eyes" from their debut Meant to Be Mint, and with "Nonentity Does It Betta" and "(U Send Me) Swinging" from their instant album From the Mint Factory; they continued with the pt success of the single "What Kind of Man Would I Be" from their gold album Definition of a Band. Going into the 21st century, Mint Condition was the only high visibility R&B/pop banding with a major-label recording delineate by their fantabulous Life's Aquarium, issued in November 1999.

Monday 11 August 2008

Chloe Goodchild

Artist: Chloe Goodchild

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Sura

Year: 1998
Tracks: 10

Devi

Year: 1996
Tracks: 6

Wednesday 6 August 2008

Costner Swings With 'Vote' and Hard Work

Kevin Costner has been around the cinematic block. He has starred in a spate of blockbuster hits. In the late eighties and other '90s it seemed he was all over: "No Way Out" and "The Untouchables," both in 1987; "Field of Dreams" in 1989; "JFK" in 1991; "Tin Cup" in 1996.
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His acclaimed "Dances With Wolves", which he directed, produced and starred in, won heptad Academy Awards in 1991, including deuce statues for Costner for best managing director and charles Herbert Best picture.

The actor recently took time to chat with Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers about his new election comedy "Swing Vote," which opens nationwide on Aug. 1, and his experiences from more than 2 decades on the silver screen on "Popcorn With Peter Travers" on ABC News Now.

"Swing Vote" tells the narration of Bud Johnson, a slacker world Health Organization is unknowingly thrust into the national spotlight when it turns out that his balloting -- chuck by his 12-year-old daughter -- will determine the outcome of an close at hand presidential election.

"The good thing about Bud is that he's non living in the past, he's living in the future," Costner said. "But he'd rather that future be on the bank of a river sportfishing. He doesn't have all the ambitiousness in the world. He's not what I would call a PTA dad."

The fact that the photographic film will be released exactly months before the 2008 presidential raceway is a mere co-occurrence, Costner aforesaid. "I wasn't trying to anticipate an election year, I but simply saw it as a film that makes that travel and does that special thing that I think movies hind end do in one case in for a while: You begin to feel something that you didn't think was possible when you went in."

But Costner certainly isn't unaware of the opportuneness of the movie.

"You cogitate at a certain point that 'my single vote doesn't matter,'" he said. "But I think that's when people ar thinking egotistically. When you think in terms of that you're a fabric of a whole, when our whole democracy depends on this one case, voting. To exercise this one privilege that was clearly fought for, designed for, and one of the outstanding things America stands for that your voice can count."

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Wednesday 18 June 2008

Pharrell Williams: 'I Made Madonna Cry Like A Baby'

US producer Pharrell Williams claims to have made Madonna cry like a baby when the pair were recording her new album 'Hard Candy'.

Williams says that he was quite nasty to the singer in the recording studio, which caused her to cry so badly he “had to get her a towel.”

"We were alone recording the album and she kept talking a lot of rubbish, so I shouted a lot of rubbish and she started crying her eyes out," he told Shortlist.

Williams said he had decided to speak about the incident after Madonna mentioned it in a recent interview.

"I just said some really nasty stuff, I guess. And yeah, she cried for a really long time actually," he said. "To be honest I can't believe she told someone about it.

“The whole situation was quite intense. It's totally weird to make Madonna sob, but even stranger when she tells everyone, 'Pharrell made me cry'.”

You can see Gigwise's pictures of Madonna performing songs from her new album 'Hard Candy' below...

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Monday 9 June 2008

Grace for Peter Jackson's chapel

Film director Peter Jackson has two years to start strengthening the lovely bones of a historic Wellington chapel that he saved from property developers.

Our Lady of the Star of the Sea chapel, valued at $10 million, had been listed as earthquake-prone by Wellington City Council when Jackson and his partner, Fran Walsh, bought it last year.

The couple, along with other Seatoun residents, had been upset by moves by the Sisters of Mercy to have the 84-year old chapel removed from the council's list of heritage buildings and the 1.35-hectare site put up for sale.

A consent to strengthen the brick chapel had already been approved when Jackson took ownership but work had to start by June 30. Jackson commissioned structural engineers Clendon Burns & Park, which applied for a six-month extension.

The council's regulatory processes committee decided to allow two years for work to start, a decision that councillor Stephanie Cook said was fair.

"I think it is laudable that they are convinced they can do it in six months. But we don't want to put them in a position where that expectation couldn't be met and they had to come back to us, or be penalised in any way."

Councillor Rob Goulden denied any suggestion that the council was showing favouritism to the Oscar-winning director.

"I don't think the public would be too concerned if we granted this extension because the proposed development that was going to take place there - up to 50 townhouses - was repugnant to the locals."

Committee chairwoman Leonie Gill said the chapel was unoccupied and sat in isolation.

"So there is very little danger to the public of this building falling on top of them [in an earthquake] anyway," she said.

The cost to strengthen the building had not been revealed but is estimated at $900,000.

Jackson said last year that the chapel would be used by his visual effects company, Weta Workshop.

"It will be something with computers.

"The way Weta runs is they often have isolated [independently working] groups. Our goal is to strengthen the chapel and use the surrounding buildings for low-key work and film editing."

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Tuesday 3 June 2008

BB housemates predict evictions

The 'Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack' housemates have been speaking about the upcoming evictions and trying to predict who will be leaving the house next.
According to the show's official website, Amy and Nathan have been speculating about who is safe and who might be forced to leave.
Speaking about the evictions, Amy said: "I'd rather it be Monday. I can't wait four days."
Nathan replied: "I feel the same way as you but I'm not going to be disappointed."
Amy then said that she "had fears about leaving on the first day" and presumed that she would "probably leave in the middle".
Nathan then suggested that Anthony, John, Amy, Jay and Jeremy would make the final of the show on Monday.
Amy predicted the Calista and Emilia would be evicted tonight.
All of the housemates, except for John and Anthony, are currently facing the public vote ahead of tonight's eviction.
John won immunity from eviction in an earlier task, while Anthony only received one nomination.
For more on Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack read our blog here.