Stupid is fun alright, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Karen O cover of Roger Alan Wade’s “If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough” for the Jackass 3D soundtrack kinda nails the spirit. Sung with a country twang and southern accent, Karen’s version provides a nice first listen of the Jackass 3D soundtrack out digitally [...]
What better artists to soundtrack the follow-up to Tron, one of cinema’s most daring futuristic movies, than the robot affectionate duo Daft Punk? The influential house group was commandeered to deliver both the score and soundtrack for Tron: Legacy‘s very colorful and SciFi environment. A challenging task, indeed, but from the looks of it, the [...]
Everybody has a facebook profile, some actually spend 12+ hours on it every day (we all know at least someone in this situation), heck a few people have even become billionaires thanks to this … social phenomenon. Guess I shouldn’t be so shocked then that someone thought about making a movie about facebook, about the [...]
ODDSAC, a visual album by Animal Collective and director Danny Perez, is slated to premier tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, but while critics will have the chance to experience the full length of the acid trip, the rest of us will have to settle for the recently released 30 seconds trailer. As expected, it’s [...]
They say “familiarity breeds contempt”, but the more I hear that phrase, the more I dislike it. And not just because I’m a pathetic, desperate contrarian idiot – the phrase is wrong. Wrong. Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt. It breeds comfort, warmth, and eventually nostalgia. New things are awful, and potentially dangerous, and sometimes have questionable [...]
Thursday, October 7, 2010
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