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Bono Uses The Glitz And Glamor Of The Toronto Film Festival To Promote Humanitarianism
The Toronto International Film Festival was saturated with all the glitz and glamor we’ve come to expect from A-list events: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie swooped in to promote Brad’s new flick Moneyball and George Clooney stepped out with his new girlfriend, former wrestler Stacy Kiebler. But away from the red carpet, U2 frontman Bono was using the festival’s publicity machine to raise awareness for the humanitarian crisis currently affecting Somalia. More »
Meme Alert: ‘Harry Potter’ Characters On Classic Album Covers
Harry Potter withdrawal, so any meme as awesome as this Potter-characters-photoshopped-onto-classic-album-covers one is like Butterbeer for the soul. More »
Breaking News: ‘Spider-Man’ Is Looking Less And Less Likely To Turn Off The Dark
Aha! I knew it! I KNEW IT! Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is doomed! DOOMED, I say!
Okay, “doomed” may be a little excessive. But the weirder the whole thing gets, the more it seems like the show– and possibly the people involved in it– will never recover from this debacle of epic, epic proportions. More »
Crushable Books: Taboo’s ‘Fallin’ Up: Keep It On the Positive’
Taboo (real name: Jaime Gomez) is best known as “the guy in the Black Eyed Peas who isn’t Will.I.Am and kind of dresses like Neo from The Matrix.” So when a copy of his memoir, Fallin’ Up, landed on my desk, my immediate reaction was “Why?” But reading the book has given me some insight into who Taboo is and actually made me respect him. While his own story is interesting – he grew up Latino in East L.A., had a kid young, and met his future BEP bandmates when they were doing rap and B-boy battles – it’s, sadly, the parts of his book about other celebrities that are the most interesting. More »
Reeve Carney, Broadway’s Spider-Man…Revealed!
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is the most expensive play in Broadway history. People are saying that U2 and Julie Taymor‘s musical must begin to sell out immediately in order to survive. That’s a pretty tall order, but I have reasons to believe it will rise above every last expectation. Why? Because I have a longstanding crush on its star, Reeve Carney.
Seven years ago I was in Los Angeles starting my freshman year of college. It was my second day on campus and I was walking to the bookstore to track down a used copy of Anna Karenina that didn’t smell like stale weed and Cheetos when I spotted the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my entire life. It was a boy, of course, a fair-skinned slight boy in checkered pants and a tweed jacket. I was smitten. More »
Crushable Confessional: 8 Terrible Songs That Sum Up My Music Taste
I think we’ve covered already how terrible my CD collection was in my formative years. Besides mostly consisting of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Les Mis (with the occasional Ace of Bass thrown in there for good measure), it’s not like after I buried my love of musicals deep, deep into the recesses of my soul that my taste in music somehow improved. If anything it got worse without me even realizing it. Because if there is one thing that bridges… More »
Rock And Roll Heaven: The Pope’s Playlist
What do the Holy Father and Philippine prisoners have in common? A mutual love of “Thriller”! The Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has released Pope Benedict XVI’s list of top songs he’d like to have with him on the desert island. And it doesn’t contain songs you’d necessarily expect. The list includes:
The Beatles’ “Revolver”
Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of The Moon” (which, fun fact, is still considered “Satan’s music” on an amazing variety of Web sites)
Oasis’s… More »
Stars Performed for President & Mrs. Obama
This week has been a whirlwind of news from Washington DC surrounding the historical inauguration of President Barack Obama. And one of the first great programs for the event was the HBO special, We Are One. Among the many performers who took part in the event to honor the new president and vice president and their families were Jack Black, Usher, Will.I.Am, Sheryl Crow, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Forrest Whittaker, Mary J Blige, U2, Jamie Foxx, Beyonce, Shakira, James Taylor,… More »