so i've been pretty busy, yet not really busy at all. just writing, working on this mixtape. constantly doubting myself. and whether or not i'm capable of doing this. same story blah fucking blah.
anyway, i met a new guy. he's pretty adorable. he's pretty fixed on himself. a musician. and i know he's putting up this front to make himself seem more "HIP." or down with the brizown as a boy i once knew said. i hate that. are people still uncomfortable being themselves, when amongst people of another race. is it really that serious? those are my only complaints. it's a pretty big turnoff. yet his face, and those tattoos, and that guitar. are a really big turn on.
hahaha. i just don't know what to do with myself. i might post up some lyrics later. usually when i post them on hear i edit them a little bit.
my life needs editing. wish i could copy and paste things in. lol. i'm a mess.
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p.s. new infatuation: hitherebrithere.tumblr.com
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B [dot] Jay is a rapper/producer, currently living in VA Beach. He started rapping at the age of 8. He was known for his ability to make comical punchlines off the top of his head. When he moved to Memphis, Tenneessee he started making beats, but soon stopped because he sucked. When he moved back to VA he decided that he wanted to make an album, so he started talking to producers, but never bought beats because he didn't have any money. So he started making beats again and progressed into a well-known producer in VA Beach. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fast-Fowarding to present day: B [dot] Jay is a senior in HighSchool & he is known for both rapping & producing. He describes his style as a"Remedy for the Dope Kids" While most "Rappers" are rhyming about drugs, guns, and degrading women. He focuses on having fun & making his audience laugh. He is now working on his new mixtape "Diamonds, Dunks, & BackPacks" which is coming soon!!! Contact/Booking: bdotjay@gmail.com
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why he's great:
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have decided to live apart following the birth of their twins, according to reports.The acting duo, who have been married for 12 years, have apparently decided that Broderick will remain in their New York apartment, while the Sex And The City actress will move to a multi-million dollar Brooklyn home with daughters Tabitha and Marion and 6-year-old son James.A source told Look magazine: "Sarah clearly loves Manhattan but she has three children now. It might be better for them to grow up somewhere calmer. But Matthew loves their townhouse in Manhattan because it's close to his work on Broadway."The friend continued: "It would be a surprising decision to make so soon after the arrival of their twins. Having the babies born healthy and happy was a dream come true, so it’s strange that they might have to spend some time apart at this stage."
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If you ask me, I should be the one she “Knocks Down”…..Before I indulge leap head first into this “interesting” topic, do know that this is NOT meant to be taken serious- more in stride. Keri is NOT knocking down neither Kanye nor Ne-Yo, so I would appreciate it if you GOSSIP mongrels ease up on the “Keri is smashing Kanye & Ne-Yo talk”. Ok, now that we cleared that up, let’s get down to business. Sumit, one of my blogging buddies over at The Hip Hop Chronicle UK, recently sat down with Keri and asked a nice lil nosy question, among others, a bunch of us have been pondering since seeing Keri’s “Knock You Down” visual featuring Kanye and Ne-Yo- Who would she “KNOCK DOWN?” Surprisingly, Keri not only laughed about the inquiry, but she actually gave an in-depth response. Here’s what she had to say….. Keri Hilson on “Knocking Down” Kanye or Ne-Yo… “That’s hard because there are things I like about both. Ne-Yo is a gentlemen. For real- in real life. He’s sensitive and sweet and probably cuddly. He’s the guy you would pillow talk with. Kanye on the other hand, he would probably talk about himself a lot but he’s incredible swag. He’s very confident, has a great sense of style and makes incredible music- well both of them do. I don’t know. I probably would like a guy with a little bit more edge than Ne-Yo, so it might be leaning closer to Kanye, but I can take a lot more edge than Kanye.” Well there you have it, Keri likes herself a cuddly gentlemen but a thug that will shake the ish outta her from time to time. Translation: Neither Kanye or Ne-Yo have a chance with Miss Keri. Make sure you check out the rest of Sumit’s interview with Keri as she snipes the lesbian rumors, her take on R&B and what she REALLY thinks of Drake. I’m tellin you right now Keri, us NJ Boyz have a certain “aura” that’s undeniable- I strongly suggest you investigate, lol. ______________________
Ne-Yo explains why he broke down in tears during a recent concert: Basically, I have an issue with not knowing when to say enough is enough, so last night in Manchester, my body said it for me. I got on stage energized and ready to go, even tho for the last 5 days I’ve been dealing with a sinus infection. I paid it no real mind, and kept on going, like I always do. My voice couldn’t take it. From the first song I knew something was wrong. I shoulda stopped there, but I come from a school where no matter what, the show must go on. It wasn’t until about 4 songs in that I came to the painful realization that my voice was done, literally nothing left, and that I would have to stop the show. Now let me explain something to you:When I say this music, that stage, my fans, THIS is my life, I’m not saying it cause it sounds good in a sound bite. THIS IS MY LIFE!! Not much else matters to me, honestly. My music, my family and the people that appreciate my music…..the fans. THAT’S ABOUT IT!! I’ve never had to stop a show, never dreamed I’d ever have to. So when I had to walk out on that stage and tell 12,000 of the people responsible for making me who I am that I could not perform for them, it literally broke my heart. I cried harder than I have in a very long time with no shame whatsoever. To anyone out there that would like to question my manhood because of this I’ll say this to you:If the one thing you cared about more than anything else in the world was threatened or even taken from you, if you knew that the people you cared for the most you had to disappoint and it was your fault… and this didn’t spark some kind of emotional outbreak within you…then with no shame I’ll say you are truly a stronger man than I. To the people of Manchester, know that I love you and I thank you for being so understanding and supportive. And I promise you that you will receive the show deserved.Thanks to the fans for the love and concern. And to the bloggers….go to hell. _______________________ wow really. this sounds like super bullshit. In what is perhaps one of the summer’s most eagerly anticipated events, Twilight dream couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will finally be reunited at Comic-Con International in San Diego, which starts July 23. And fans of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling vampire book series aren’t the only ones anxious about the pairing: For weeks, Kristen has sat back while Rob continues to get cozy with his Remember Me co-star Emilie de Ravin. But now Kristen is determined to win back her leading man.“Kristen’s got too much going for her to come in second,” a source close to the 19-year-old actress tells OK!. “She really cares for Rob, and if he still feels the same, she wants their relationship to progress. The Comic-Con reunion will be a real test.” However, R-Pattz’s chemistry with Emilie hasn’t escaped Kristen, either. “She’s seen photos of them sitting with Emilie’s hands resting tenderly on Rob’s arm, and she sees the way Emilie looks at Rob,” says the source. Although Kristen was initially going to avoid Comic-Con, her pals, including Runaways and New Moon co-star Dakota Fanning, have convinced her to not only show up, but to fight for him with everything she has. “Her friends are insisting she look as hot as she can when she and Rob see each other so he will fall head over heels with her all over again,” says the pal. “And Kristen is taking their advice to heart. She asked her Runaways stylist to find her a sexy sundress and a couple of great outfits to wear at the convention. She wants to look so amazing that Rob won’t be able to take his eyes off her.
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Katherine Heigl dishes about 'Cruel' 'Grey's' work scheduleKatherine Heigl appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Monday night, where the actress described her first day back on the "Grey's Anatomy" set as "cruel and mean.""Our first day back was Wednesday, and it was -- I'm going to keep saying this because I hope it embarrasses them -- a 17-hour day, which I think is cruel and mean,' Katherine told Dave.The talk-show funnyman jokingly asked Katherine if she was given a lunch break during her 17-hour day, to which she joked back, saying:"Yes, we do get an hour lunch. That was nice. Thank God for that hour of lunch."Katherine did not reveal the fate of her "Grey's" character Izzie on the medical drama's upcoming season, but she did discuss what it was like returning to the set without her friend and former co-star T.R. Knight:"It was actually kind of really great to be back. All my friends are there and at this point, they're sort of like family, but it was a little weird because [T.R.]'s not there anymore."As for what happens to Izzie, Katherine said: "So, I won't give it away but, you know, I'm there so I'm either there as a ghost, on the other side or I survived a disease no one survives.""Grey's Anatomy"'s new season will premiere Sept. 24 on ABC.First three minutes is the maximum amount of whining I could handle and that's where she ~*speaks her mind*~
The latest creation in the Ass-Covering Studio Excuses R&D Dept. is the "Twitter Effect." Movies aren't making money, you see, because too many people are learning, 140 characters at a time, how bad they are.Every new messaging has brought studio complaints about how they're being killed with "word of mouth." Before Twitter, it was text messaging, Facebook, MySpace, "the web," email and, for all we know, AOL, television, FM radio, the telegraph and the passenger pigeon, which prevented hucksters from getting people to hand over money for what they think will be a good show, but really isn't.So, here's the latest incarnation: Did you tweet about your disappointment in a movie, like Bruno? Did all your friends tweet back in agreement?According to social media specialists, Universal is mad at you for driving away 73% percent of Bruno's ticket sales! When movie-goers take to their micro-blogging sites and hurl instant critiques at helpless studios, all their marketing machinery is rendered impotent. Some of this summer's alleged victims have included Bruno, Land of the Lost, and Year One.After mega advertising campaigns, months of free publicity from hungry media outlets (and web sites looking for cheap content!), specialists hired to create Facebook fan pages and Twitter feeds, people insist on slagging summer movies on Twitter. Like, all Sascha and Universal wanted to do was expose the ugliness that lives in your heart through various stunts involving dildos and terrorists. Then you had to go off and mean about it. What's a matter with you?!So how have the studios tried to harness the awe-striking a wrathful power of Twitter? Here's an example:With Year One, Sony at first tried to get in on the action and created a promotional Year One twitter account that would cull all the posts tagged with "#yearone. Sad for Sony, though, most of those tags were attached to disparaging statements. So they tried to pivot and create their own Year One twitter meme!
But no amount of tweet co-opting could save the floundering flick (full disclosure, I have a soft spot for Biblical comedies that have fantastic Oliver Platt cameos, so I dug it — you're welcome, Sony!) But let's be honest here, Studios. Just between you and me, nobody else is listening right now: you really didn't expect that many people to go continue to see a shitty movie after it opened, right? You must have known that eventually people would talk. They'd tell other people how little they liked Will Ferrell screaming at the sky. Again. And though the time between seeing said shitty movie and then telling your buddies about how shitty the movie maybe has shortened thanks to twitter, you must have known from the beginning that you were pushing a shitty product.So really there's only one way to combat the Twitter effect: Stop making shitty movies.P.S. I really laughed during Land of the Lost! Sorry no one else did, Universal!
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IM TRYING TO BE REAL - and just SAY THE TRUTH HERE Current mood: blessedCategory: Goals, Plans, Hopes www.katvond.netIf there was ever a time I wanted for you to read something I wrote, THIS time would be the most important to me....This is a message to all my friends and fans who have been there for me since day one, and for those who may have just recently started watching LA Ink. I hope I'm not coming off to negative here, but i have to get a few things off my chest ...Although I may seem to not be as present as I used to be, I want you to know that I am still paying attention to the comments, emails, and feedback you guys send my way - and thats why I have always been so damn grateful for things like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, my website's forum, and the fanclubs, because those have always served as good tools for me to directly communicate with you guys.One thing I have always prided myself in, is my sincerity in being as honest and open with everyone. As hard as some things are to explain, I always try my best - always writing my own blogs, and being as REAL as I can possaibly be.. and I STILL believe that this is one of the reasons people may like me... When I first started getting involved with this whole "TV" thing - I had a very specific goal in mind> and this may sound super cheesy or cliche, but I mean this from the bottom of my heart... Doing a TV show about my tattoo shop felt like a good opportunity to present Tattooing in a positive light. Then I relaized there was so much more that comes along with being on TV.to some girls, I became some sort of role model, whether I liked it or not. And I did like it because it was such a wonderful feeling when young girls, soccer moms, rocker chicks, and everything in between would come up to me, or write me a letter, telling me about how watching the show inspired them to start their own business, and to be independent and self created, to be passionate about whatever it was they wanted to be - some girls would tell me that they were thankful to have someone in the spotlight that was "different", because it made them realize there was nothing wrong with thinking outside the box....and i know better than anyone, what its like to feel out of place...Sometimes, I still feel like that even today.But to hear these things, made me so proud to be a part of my team. I had Hannah and Kim, Corey Miller (and the rest of my crew) who tattooed next to me everyday at the shop - who I looked up to, before ever even meeting them - and then all of the sudden I'm tattooing side by side with them, and we're doing something positive - I had a team that included women I admired and could relate to, who were better than me at a lot of things, and who I could learn from...And as life may have it, for whatever reasons that were so out of my control, Hannah and Kim had to leave...I was pretty sad about it - hell, I still miss working with them - but things like this happen all of the time, and you gotta roll with the punches.And the truth of the matter is, I do have a lot of weaknesses, and a lot of downfalls. but I dont have a problem admitting it. Everyday I am trying my best to grow and learn... to better myself. Some days I fail, and a lot of days are ground breaking for me... but regardless, its never easy...The point Im trying to make here, is that there are a million things I cannot control. I cant control someone else's vision for the show and the direction they choose to follow. I cant control how all women act around me. I cant control a production company, or how people choose to edit things...what i CAN control is how much of myself I put into each and every single tattoo I do. What I CAN control is how I treat my family, my friends. I CAN control the choice to not drink or do drugs. I can do my very best.With that being said, I am sincerely sorry - from the bottom of my heart - if I come off like an asshole, or incompetant - I assure you, I have never in my life felt so clear-headed, humbled, focused, loved, aware, willing, and grateful.Being forced to deal with unwanted adversity and drama, has pushed me to become a better tattooer, sister, friend, companion, and business woman, and I so TRULY hope that you guys see passed all the rest of the bullshit that comes with having to catch things on film....I really do love you all...Kat Von Dwww.katvond.netwww.highvoltagetattoo.com
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Best known as Seth Cohen on television's The O.C., Adam Brody has been pretty much laying low since the show went off the air in 2007 -- until now. The actor, currently shooting A Couple of Dicks in New York City, stars in the indie feature Death in Love, in theaters now. Up next is the fall release of the horror feature Jennifer's Body opposite Megan Fox.Brody talked to Huffington Post reporter Zorianna Kit about life post- O.C. and working with some of the sexiest stars in Hollywood, including Fox and Angelina Jolie.Zorianna Kit: Death in Love is about a dysfunctional family stemming from the mother being a Holocaust survivor. There are a lot of extreme sexual acts being depicted on screen. What made you want to be part of director Boaz Yakin's project?Adam Brody: When I read the script, it opened on the Holocaust where Jacqueline Bisset's character was walking down a hallway of the experimental patient ward. I was sold on that.Zorianna: But your part -- a guy who works at a scam modeling agency -- takes place in present time.Adam: I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste. There are a lot of interesting ideas in there -- symbolically and metaphorically. Some of it works, some of it is pretty pretentious, but what it isn't is boring. Zorianna: This is the first project you did after The O.C. Was this a strategic movie on your part to take on an indie? You must have had plenty of scripts to choose from.Adam: (laughs) If only I had that many offers to sift through and really meticulously plot my course! No, I don't have the luxury of that. The truth of the matter is, I want to be part of anything that's intelligent or that I would want to see in theaters. And I'd definitely go see this.Zorianna: Speaking of intelligent, your next film, Jennifer's Body, was written by Diablo Cody, who was nominated for an Oscar for Juno. Something tells me this can't just be your straight up horror film if she's behind it.Adam: I love this movie. I can't speak highly enough about it. It's Diablo so there's humor and the whole thing is couched in metaphor, which is always great because somehow zombie movies have gotten away from that. I can't wait for people to see it. I don't have the biggest part in it, but in terms of the movie as a whole, every performance is uniformly good. Zorianna: Megan Fox plays a possessed cheerleader who kills her classmates. Are you playing a high school student again?Adam: No, thank God! I'm a singer in a traveling band. We come to town looking to sacrifice a virgin to the devil so we can get famous. We sacrifice Megan, only she's not a virgin, we just thought she was. So she comes back to life.Zorianna: Ahem! Why would anyone mistake Megan Fox for a virgin?Adam: Uh...I don't want to linger on that too much but I completely agree with you. That is a plot hole, I'm not gonna lie. She says she's a virgin, but clearly she's not.Zorianna: Having only seen in her in the Transformers movies, I'm curious to see how she is in Jennifer's Body.Adam: She looks great in this movie. She's not all Michael Bay'd out. She's really pretty, with less make up and smaller hair. She's really good-looking in this film and it's the most vulnerable you've seen her so far.Zorianna: She's seems to be everywhere these days and people either love her or hate her. What's the deal on Megan?Adam: Well for one, she's everywhere right now because of Transformers. So she's on the cover of everything and in your face. And secondly, she's got an in-your-face personality. She's very much a take it or leave it girl. She comes full of attitude but I'll take a personality like that over something safe and vanilla.Zorianna: This role of yours, it must be quite a departure for you.Adam: Yes. I'm pure evil through and through.Zorianna: You've never played evil before have you?Adam: Well, there was a Smallville episode where I played a bad guy.... But on the big screen, this will be the first.Zorianna: Do you sing in this movie?Adam: No, it was done by a professional singer. I would have liked to had I had the chops or the pipes. I have no range. In the right key, I could probably sing okay.Zorianna: So let's get this straight: Jennifer's Body was written by Diablo Cody, who wrote Juno, which was directed by Jason Reitman, who also directed Thank-You For Smoking, which you were in. Was Jason Reitman your connection to getting to be a part in Jennifer's Body?Adam: Yup. I owe Jason two of the best parts I've had so far. I really can't thank him enough.Zorianna: You were lucky to work on a bunch of movies while simultaneously shooting The O.C. including Smoking and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Was it tough convincing filmmakers to hire you because you were so familiar to audiences as Seth?Adam: I was very fortunate. Jason offered me Thank You For Smoking. I'll always be happy with that movie. That's the one my dad likes the most. He always says, 'Can't you do something like that again?'Zorianna: Like what?Adam: A movie about government and politics.Zorianna: And Smith?Adam: That was directed by Doug Liman, who directed our (O.C.) pilot and produced our show. So I was fortunate there too. I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but Smoking and Smith were phone calls. That's the dream.Zorianna: I suppose Doug could have picked any male from your TV show to play The Tank -- a man both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are separately assigned to kill, but then kidnap, only to find out he was bait by their employers. Do you have a special connection with Doug?Adam: I think we do have a special connection. I think we're a nice match and I hope we get to work together again. Doug is such a bright guy but he needs collaborators. He's not a dictator. He's not one of those tyrant directors. It's more chaotic. There's actually a version of that movie where I'm narrating the story to (actress) Estella Warren in a bar. But that's how Doug works. He shoots a lot of different things. Zorianna: Were you around on set during that time to see the formation of Brangelina?Adam: I was, actually. Before all that stuff came out about them, I was like,"Are they method actors, or are they in love?" Well we all know what happened!Zorianna: Do you get critical of your work on screen?Adam: I love Mr. & Mrs. Smith but I cringe at myself in it. I just don't like what I'm doing in it. I'm doing C Grade Vince Vaughn stuff and he's in the movie doing his own stuff much better. Today, the 30-year-old me would have written myself some better stuff than the 23 year old did at the time.Zorianna: What a minute. You wrote your own lines?Adam: It was basically there but all of Doug's stuff is pretty loose and we figured it out on the fly. But even though I'm not happy with myself in the film, I love that movie and I'm happy to be a part of it.Zorianna: What about The O.C. -- how did you feel playing a high school student for four years while being in your twenties? That's a decent chunk of time.Adam: I'm perfectly happy with the time that it was on. Four years is great. I wouldn't have wanted it a minute longer. It was certainly a big deal in my life and was an overwhelmingly positive experience.Zorianna: In what way?Adam: It's probably the only thing I've ever done that people really responded to. That's the project that has become a part of people's lives, like the way Beverly Hills, 90210 was a part of my life growing up. I will never scoff at that.Zorianna: I'm sure Seth Cohen was significant to a lot of young teenagers.Adam: I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.Zorianna: So you'll be okay if 20 years from now someone will elbow their friend and say, hey, isn't that Seth Cohen in line at the ATM machine?Adam: Sure because I don't feel trapped by it. I don't feel like it's the last thing I'll ever do so that makes it easier to appreciate.Zorianna: What do you miss most about the show?Adam: That was more money than I've ever known in my life. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that.Zorianna: Did you go through any withdrawal when the show ended it's run?Adam: No withdrawal. After the show ended I sort of lived it up for a bout six months to a year. Just partying, being out and about. The last couple of years I've kind of settled in to more of a rhythm. I shot Jennifer's Body a year ago up in Vancouver and now I'd like to kick it up a notch.Zorianna: Anything you really want to do?Adam: If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally. How could you not want to do that if you've been in the industry this long?Zorianna: On the acting front, are there any actors whose career you'd like to emulate?Adam: I'll take Robert Downey Jr. minus the drug sabbatical. I'll take Dustin Hoffman. No disrespect to Will Smith, but Brad Pitt just makes cooler movies. Half of them fail because of it, but he works with the best directors.Zorianna: How do you think people perceive you?Adam: I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.Zorianna: Is there an ideal gig for you?Adam: I feel like my part is still forming. There's no role that I feel had my name all over it and passed me by. But anytime those Apatow guys wanna hang out with me...
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Vanessa Hudgens ‘Bans Zac Efron From Seeing Megan Fox’Vanessa Hudgens is laying down the law! The actress is furious that her boyfriend, Zac Efron, had a dinner date with sexy actress Megan Fox — and has reportedly banned him from seeing the Transformers star again!“Vanessa feels humiliated by what she perceives to be Zac cheating on her,” a source told the National Enquirer. “It stings so much more because Megan is one of the hottest women on the planet.“Vanessa demanded Zac cut all ties with Megan and swore if he didn’t, they were finished.”“Zac’s going along with Vanessa’s demands for now,” the source adds. “He swears he only went to meet with Megan to discuss the possibility of working together in the future.“But Vanessa’s not stupid — she knows Megan was making a play for Zac.”But the source adds, “Zac doesn’t want to cut Megan off entirely because he thinks a work collaboration could be box-office gold. On the other hand, Zac loves Vanessa and doesn’t want to lose her.” meanwhile...Vanessa Hudgens claims she's been double crossed -- and now she's suing her former manager for allegedly breaking the terms of a very secret and very expensive settlement deal.The High School Musical star just filed a lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court accusing Johnny Vieira of violating a court-approved settlement. Vanessa says Johnny broke his promise by making it look like he still represented her on his MySpace page.Vanessa forked over money to settle Johnny's beef with her back in April -- he had sued her for allegedly stiffing him on commissions.Vanessa now claims since Vieira broke their secret settlement -- she should get her money back. We'll see if the judge agrees."Dear Diary, today Zac showed me that a ball-gag is not a joke about his testicles."
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new panic. wow flashback to pop punk scenester days.
i still love em though. no one does music like they do.
Conor Oberst hasn't retired the Bright Eyes name. Yet. He will make one more album under that name with Omaha's Saddle Creek Records. Release is planned for fall 2010. “He's going to record stuff over the winter and in the spring,” said Robb Nansel, Saddle Creek president. The 29-year-old Oberst told Rolling Stone recently that he would come back with another Bright Eyes record, the same thing Saddle Creek executives told The World-Herald in 2008. But with so many other projects taking up his time, no one had known when that might happen.And since he has released his last two efforts under his own name through Merge Records out of North Carolina, industry observers and music fans wondered if he had severed his ties with Saddle Creek. Now Omaha's indie rock golden boy, Oberst started his career as Bright Eyes with Saddle Creek as a student at Creighton Prep. In September, he will join indie rocker M. Ward, Bright Eyes band member Mike Mogis and Jim James of My Morning Jacket to release an album as Monsters of Folk, this time with Shangri-La Music out of California. The next Saddle Creek album will be the last hurrah for Bright Eyes. In Rolling Stone, Oberst said he'd be retiring the name, and that's also what he has told Nansel. “My guess, based on what he's expressed to me, is that there will be one more Bright Eyes record and that will probably be it,” Nansel said. “I think that's his line of thinking at this point — closing the chapter on that moniker. I think he feels like Bright Eyes has a certain association, for better or worse. I think he's trying to distance himself a little bit from what that means to people.” Nansel said he couldn't comment on whether Oberst would record again with Saddle Creek. Attempts to reach Oberst through his publicist were not successful. ____________________________
Twilight star Robert Pattinson might not have a girlfriend at the moment, but that doesn't mean the 23 year old actor hasn't had his share of crushes.Not surprisingly, the object of his crushes have been past and present co-stars, including Kristen Stewart, his on-screen love interest in the Twilight saga.RPattz told Bop magazine, "I definitely had a thing with Kristen." He continued, "Your first impulse is to ask her for her phone number."Unfortunately for Robert, Kristen is dating Michael Angarano and hasn't made a move to end her relationship with him to hook up with Robert.Kristen Stewart isn't the only young woman that Rob was interested in after working with her. Pattinson also admitted to crushing on his Harry Potter co-star, Emma Watson. "She is really, really cool. She seems so much older than she really is. I find her quite intimidating."Despite his feelings of intimidation, he confessed "I always find myself trying to impress her. She's very, very clever." No matter what, Robert still believes in love. He said, "I think we all have the right to fall in love several times. I think you can love ten peopleat the same time."
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1. Who will Lindsay Lohan not soon be confused for? Harry Potter. The Lohan-led Labor Pains premiered before 2.1 million viewers, per the latest Nielsen rankings, about half of what ABC Family Channel scored the previous Sunday for an offering of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 2. Who else will Lohan not soon be confused for? Lindsay Lohan. The previous week's Disney Channel airing of 1998's The Parent Trap, featuring original-recipe Lohan, also scored twice as many viewers as Labor Pains. 3. So, did the movie bomb? No, not really. While it was by no means one of the hotter all-new cable offerings (it ranked in the 300s), Labor Pains did score a better-than-average prime-time audience for ABC Family. And if the chick-flick comedy had been a theatrical release, and every TV viewer had bought a multiplex ticket at the nationwide going average of $7.18, the movie would have grossed $15.1 million, which is more than any Lohan film has opened to since forever (read: post-Mean Girls). source. And to think all you said it would bomb. I can't wait for her to start filming "The Other Side" and "Machete"COMEBACK 2010 IS IN FULL EFFECT.
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Taylor Lautner: Sick of Being BuffHe put on 30 pounds of muscle to ensure that he’d keep the role of Jacob Black in the “Twilight” films, but Taylor Lautner insists he’s sick of feeling like a musclehead.The 17-year-old heartthrob revealed that he can’t wait for the vampire film franchise to be over so that he can go back to being a bit smaller and quit the daily intense workouts.An insider told press, “Normally Taylor is much thinner. It’s a struggle to keep the weight on because he likes to run. He’s into martial arts and has a pretty quick metabolism.”“He says he doesn’t feel like himself. He intends to stay fit, but he says he will take off at least 20 pounds once filming wraps on the final installment of Twilight.”
In one of its typically late-to-the-game, random cultural broadsides, the writers of Entourage went after Seth Rogen in last night’s episode, calling his “ugliness…oddly fascinating” in a debate over whether the actor could land a Katherine Heigl-type in real life. One might assume that the affable Rogen would shrug off the insult with a friendly, Fozzie-ish chuckle, but they don’t call where Rogen’s at a “fighting weight” for nothing! Behold, his amazing response when asked about the incident for E!’s Daily 10: “Yeah, those guys are assholes. I actually ran into Matt…Kevin Dillon in a Starbucks. And he’s like ‘you know, I’ve got to kind of apologize because apparently the guy who created our show doesn’t like you so much.’ And I said ‘well I have reason to believe because I think [showrunner] Doug Ellin is a moron from all I can understand so it makes sense he doesn’t like me.’ And I’ve kind of said some disparaging things about the show. Although in our defense, [producer] Mark Wahlberg called us misogynistic in an interview, so I think they kind of started that…It’s on. Luckily I never have and never plan on watching Entourage.”We would eagerly anticipate a rebuttal from Ellin, but we know how foreign the idea of creating conflict is to the writers of Entourage.
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Keira Knightley was left red-faced after the director of her new movie described her boobs as “little poached eggs”.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actress shed her clothes for John Maybury’s The Edge Of Love.
The 51-year-old filmmaker gave the nickname to Keira’s breasts during the film’s DVD commentary. “I’m sure Keira will be far from happy,” the Daily Star quoted an insider as saying.
The film stars Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys from a script by Sharman Macdonald, Knightley's mother. Originally titled The Best Time of Our Lives, the story concerns the famous Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (played by Rhys), his wife Caitlin MacNamara (played by Miller) and their married friends, the Killicks (played by Knightley and Murphy). _______________________________
The boy wizard's almost a man now—but he's no vampire slayer. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will shape actor Daniel Radcliffe into a romantic lead. Even as love comes to Harry in the form of his best pal's little sis, Ginny Weasley, is it too late for fickle fans pining for a toothier antihero?
Ever since "Twilight" slipped into the winter void that Potter left behind (when Warner Brothers opted for a summer release date), brooding vampires in body glitter have made wizards playing with wands and brooms look so, well, childish. Plenty of Potterheads have been going through hormonal changes since the first J.K. Rowling book debuted in 1997, and the movie in 2001. They may—as The Wall Street Journal puts it—"prefer the angsty teen romances and cooler, edgier characters."
Teen vampire angst scored a third-place in advance ticket sales and went on to earn $382 million globally. Not that Harry will go begging at his premiere: A Fandango press release reports that Potter No. 6 should pass the "Twilight" record, and Time magazine is calling this latest entry as "darker, richer and all grown up."
But the constant comparisons to the teen vampire series mean that people are seeing "Twilight" as the alpha franchise. Even Twilighters of the studio executive variety feel the need for professional courtesy: They're politely lying low while Harry's around since the "fans cross over so much" (Fandango's survey points to a 45% crossover).
The Potter-mania stirring up searches on Yahoo! shows much of the interest coming from kids under 18. Still, there's a lot of activity, as fans have been refreshing their Potter memories with searches like "list of harry potter books," "harry potter cast,""harry potter characters," "harry potter quiz," "harry potter wands," "harry potter lexicon," and the big question: "how many more potter films." Yet recent online searches for "New Moon"—which won't be released for another four months—almost rivals that of Wednesday's premiere.
Some more Search factoids:
"Twilighters" tend to be female (85%), with a much bigger age range compared to Potter's youthful appeal. Robert Pattinson, a Potter alum who plays the dangerous Edward Cullen, scores nearly triple Radcliffe's online buzz. You can't blame the 18-month cinematic absence: Add up Search buzz from the past 3 years, and Pattinson's still more popular. (Then again, even Radcliffe says Pattinson's the genuine sex symbol.) The only person Pattinson has to look out for: Emma Watson, who reaps in more attention than both actors combined. Bonnie Wright, the actress who plays Potter's love interest, hasn't had a chance to make an impression. Her searches are up more than 800%, but don't compare to Kristen Stewart. Online queries for the "Twilight" cast (thanks to Taylor Lautner) would've beat out the entire Potter cast except for Watson. With the next "Twilight" movie not due until November 20, moviegoers don't have to choose one over the other. Potter just better be sure to steer clear of Edward Cullen for No. 7.
______________________________ Emma Watson is all too happy to sign a few autographs as she makes her way out of Golder’s Hill Park in North London on Saturday afternoon (July 18). The 19-year-old actress, who recently premiered Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince earlier this month, recently confirmed to Paste magazine that she will be attending Ivy League Brown University in the fall. Emma and costars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are currently filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I.
With her latest film already breaking box office records, Emma Watson got straight back to work on the new “Harry Potter” film in London on Saturday (July 18). Signing autographs for a crowd of fans upon arrival, the Hermione Granger actress changed outfits before filming a scene in Golder’s Green.
Talking with press about getting near the end of her “Harry Potter” run, Miss Watson said, “There’s a sense of accomplishment, of uncertainty, a bittersweet feeling—it’s a bit of everything, really.” Explaining how her Hermione character provided for a wonderful escape from real life, Emma revealed, “I had a sort of complicated childhood. My parents divorced when I was younger. I’d been brought up in France, then moved to England, and I was adjusting a lot. And I think that any kind of acting is escapism. When you’re performing, the whole of your body is consumed—you’re so totally in the moment, you can’t think of anything else.”
Once finished up with the last two installments of the hit franchise series, Watson will be heading off to start college in the States at Brown University.
____________________ Anna Friel says the most attractive thing about her are her shapely legs.
Anna Friel thinks her legs are sexy.
The 'Land of the Lost' actress struggled to decide what her best physical assets were while preparing for her role as an attractive research assistant alongside funnyman Will Ferrell in the new movie, but eventually settled on her pins.
She said: "I personally think my legs are better than my boobs. I was a little worried at first, but in the end, the general consensus was to go with the legs. I was relieved because all the original sketches showed my character with a little shirt tied barely an inch above my midriff. All in all, I'd rather show my legs than my tummy. I find that sexier, and fortunately the director agreed."
However, the 33-year-old actress hasn't always considered herself attractive and admits she constantly feels under pressure to fit in with Hollywood's idea of beauty.
She said: "You do have to stay slim, and you can't make excuses. Looking good is a serious business and you have to make a decision to go along with it or else you're just not going to get the work. In the beginning, I had such an awful time that I just wanted to run back home. But, looking back today, I'm glad I stuck it out. I never aspired to be the pretty girl because, if that's all you're known for, then you're going to have a pretty short career."
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______________________________ Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale continued filming The Fighter in Massachusetts. Wahlberg is playing Micky Ward, the brother of Dickey Eklund who is played by Christian Bale.
In the true life story, Micky Ward, who was a boxer before falling into the dangerous world of crack cocaine abuse, which explains Christian Bale's gaunt appearance. Both brothers joined the actors on the set yesterday.
I can only imagine that testosterone level is on the set if off the charts.
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A psychiatric expert said California authorities were fearful actress Mischa Barton might have ended up dead within 24 hours when they decided to hospitalize her under the state’s involuntary psychiatric-hold law Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s a 24-hour standard for these statutes,” said Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and FOX News contributor. “You have to ask yourself, ‘Would this person die in the next 24 hours?’ They have to be at the brink of complete disaster.”
Barton, 23, was brought to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where she was hospitalized under the state’s section 5150 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code, the New York Post reported.
The statute allows the state to hold people in the hospital for up to 72 hours if they are a danger to themselves or others. After 72 hours, a judge would have to be brought in if the person does not agree to voluntarily check herself in.
It is the same statute that allowed the state to put Britney Spears in the psychiatric unit at Cedars-Sinai in early 2008.
Barton was taken to the hospital after police were called to her Los Angeles home Wednesday afternoon in order to “assist her with a medical issue,” according to the Post.
“Every state has an involuntary statute and it is designed for people to be hospitalized who don’t wish to be and need to be,” Ablow said. “It is not because she is famous, and it is not about keeping her safe from the paparazzi. These laws are about conveying someone to a psychiatric facility who can’t get there herself or who is unwilling to go.”
Ablow, who has not treated Barton, said in order for the state to step in and essentially assign itself the guardian of an individual — as California did with Barton — the statute says there must be a mental disorder present; and the person either can’t care for him or herself, might kill herself, or has threatened to harm someone else.
Barton, who played the rich girl-next-door Marissa Cooper on FOX’s “The O.C.,” was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, possession of marijuana, and driving without a valid license in December 2007. She was later charged with a DUI and driving without a valid license.
Tabloid rumors have circulated for years about Barton’s skeletal frame and weight loss, but she looked bloated on the red carpet last week.
“If she is involved in drugs or alcohol, that could be the primary problem,” Ablow said. “She could’ve been bloated because she is using substances, or because she is taking meds for a mental disorder, and that is a side effect. We really don’t know, of course.”
What Ablow does know is that involuntary hospitalizations do not just happen to young starlets like Barton and Spears — in fact, they happen to people of all walks of life. We only hear about them more often because they are famous and reported.
However, he said, Hollywood entertainers may be more vulnerable to depression.
“Probably if you are an entertainer, you are someone who relies on a lot of outside stimulation and a lot of positive feedback to reassure yourself that you are a good and decent person,” Ablow said. “Maybe you don’t have a firm and anchored core sense of self. This is not true of every actor, but Hollywood does seem to draw people who are looking for a sense of self-worth.”
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Mischa Barton Had Issues With Drugs and Alcohol
So what's really going on with Mischa Barton?
The actress was taken to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon for unknown medical reasons and placed into involuntary psychiatric hold by LAPD officers.
Friends are dishing to People that the actress has been spiraling out of control for the past couple years. "She has been on a destructive path for a while now. Her drug and alcohol [use] has gotten to a point where it drove people away," the friend revealed.
The 23-year-old has been "dealing with a lot of personal issues," and recent pictures of the star don't paint the prettiest picture.
Her friend emphasized, "I don't think she knows her limits."
Mischa could be discharged by Saturday afternoon, but if her mental state doesn't improve, doctors can request an additional 14-day hold.
______________________________________ ALICE IN WONDERLAND STARRING Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska DIRECTED BY Tim Burton RELEASE DATE March 5, 2010 Burton's Alice explores the angst beneath the surface of the classic about a girl (Wasikowska) seriously interrupted. ''It's about somebody who has a rich fantasy life, who feels alone in a strange world,'' he says. ''Pretty much my life.'' _______________________________________
Glamour originally described a magical-occult spell cast on somebody to make them believe that something or somebody was attractive. In the late 19th century terminology a non magical item used to help create a glamorous appearance was 'a glamour'. Today, glamour usually denotes the impression of attraction or fascination that a particularly luxurious or elegant appearance creates, an impression which is better than the reality. A person, event, location, technology, or product such as a piece of clothing can be glamorous.
Virginia Postrel says that for glamour to be successful nearly always requires sprezzatura- an appearance of effortlessness, and to appear distant-transcending the everyday, slightly mysterious and somewhat idealised, but not to the extent it is no longer possible to identify with the person.[1] Glamorous things are neither opaque, hiding all, nor transparent showing everything, but translucent, favourably showing things.[
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Marty Jezer, in his book, The Dark Ages: Life In The U.S. 1945–1960 defines the 1940s hipster:
The hipster world that Kerouac and Ginsberg drifted in and out of from the mid-forties to the early-fifties was an amorphous movement without ideology, more a pose than an attitude; a way of "being" without attempting to explain why. Hipsters themselves were not about to supply explanations. Their language, limited as it was, was sufficiently obscure to defy translation into everyday speech. Their rejection of the commonplace was so complete that they could barely acknowledge reality. The measure of their withdrawal was their distrust of language. A word like cool could mean any of a number of contradictory things--its definition came not from the meaning of the word but from the emotion behind it and the accompanying non-verbal facial or body expressions. When hipsters did put together a coherent sentence, it was always prefaced with the word like as if to state at the onset that what would follow was probably an illusion. There was neither a future nor a past, only a present that existed on the existential wings of sound. A Charlie Parker bebop solo--that was the truth. The hipster's world view was not divided between "free world" and "Communist bloc", and this too set it apart from the then-current orthodoxy. Hipster dualism, instead, transcended geopolitical lines in favor of levels of consciousness. The division was hip and square. Squares sought security and conned themselves into political acquiescence. Hipsters, hip to the bomb, sought the meaning of life and, expecting death, demanded it now. In the wigged-out, flipped-out, zonked-out hipster world, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Truman, McCarthy and Eisenhower shared one thing in common: they were squares. ...the hipster signified the coming together of the bohemian, the juvenile delinquent, and the negro.
Frank Tirro in his book Jazz defines the 1940s hipster:
To the hipster, Bird was a living justification of their philosophy. The hipster is an underground man. He is to the Second World War what the dadaist was to the first. He is amoral, anarchistic, gentle, and overcivilized to the point of decadence. He is always ten steps ahead of the game because of his awareness, an example of which might be meeting a girl and rejecting her, because he knows they will date, hold hands, kiss, neck, pet, fornicate, perhaps marry, divorce-so why start the whole thing? He knows the hypocrisy of bureaucracy, the hatred implicit in religions-so what values are left for him?-except to go through life avoiding pain, keep his emotions in check, and after that, "be cool," and look for kicks. He is looking for something that transcends all this bullshit and finds it in jazz.
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Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
We've reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. (Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79.)
Douglas Haddow
29 Jul 2008
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I'm sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city's heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk types, who crowd around each other and collectively scoff at the smoking laws by sneaking puffs of "fuck-you," reveling in their perceived rebellion as the haggard, staggering staff look on without the slightest concern.
The "DJ" is keystroking a selection of MP3s off his MacBook, making a mix that sounds like he took a hatchet to a collection of yesteryear billboard hits, from DMX to Dolly Parton, but mashed up with a jittery techno backbeat.
"So... this is a hipster party?" I ask the girl sitting next to me. She's wearing big dangling earrings, an American Apparel V-neck tee, non-prescription eyeglasses and an inappropriately warm wool coat.
"Yeah, just look around you, 99 percent of the people here are total hipsters!"
"Are you a hipster?"
"Fuck no," she says, laughing back the last of her glass before she hops off to the dance floor.
Ever since the Allies bombed the Axis into submission, Western civilization has had a succession of counter-culture movements that have energetically challenged the status quo. Each successive decade of the post-war era has seen it smash social standards, riot and fight to revolutionize every aspect of music, art, government and civil society.
But after punk was plasticized and hip hop lost its impetus for social change, all of the formerly dominant streams of "counter-culture" have merged together. Now, one mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior has come to define the generally indefinable idea of the "Hipster."
An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the "hipster" – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.
This obsession with "street-cred" reaches its apex of absurdity as hipsters have recently and wholeheartedly adopted the fixed-gear bike as the only acceptable form of transportation – only to have brakes installed on a piece of machinery that is defined by its lack thereof.
Lovers of apathy and irony, hipsters are connected through a global network of blogs and shops that push forth a global vision of fashion-informed aesthetics. Loosely associated with some form of creative output, they attend art parties, take lo-fi pictures with analog cameras, ride their bikes to night clubs and sweat it up at nouveau disco-coke parties. The hipster tends to religiously blog about their daily exploits, usually while leafing through generation-defining magazines like Vice, Another Magazine and Wallpaper. This cursory and stylized lifestyle has made the hipster almost universally loathed.
"These hipster zombies… are the idols of the style pages, the darlings of viral marketers and the marks of predatory real-estate agents," wrote Christian Lorentzen in a Time Out New York article entitled ‘Why the Hipster Must Die.' "And they must be buried for cool to be reborn."
With nothing to defend, uphold or even embrace, the idea of "hipsterdom" is left wide open for attack. And yet, it is this ironic lack of authenticity that has allowed hipsterdom to grow into a global phenomenon that is set to consume the very core of Western counterculture. Most critics make a point of attacking the hipster's lack of individuality, but it is this stubborn obfuscation that distinguishes them from their predecessors, while allowing hipsterdom to easily blend in and mutate other social movements, sub-cultures and lifestyles.
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Standing outside an art-party next to a neat row of locked-up fixed-gear bikes, I come across a couple girls who exemplify hipster homogeneity. I ask one of the girls if her being at an art party and wearing fake eyeglasses, leggings and a flannel shirt makes her a hipster.
"I'm not comfortable with that term," she replies.
Her friend adds, with just a flicker of menace in her eyes, "Yeah, I don't know, you shouldn't use that word, it's just…"
"Offensive?"
"No… it's just, well… if you don't know why then you just shouldn't even use it."
"Ok, so what are you girls doing tonight after this party?"
"Ummm… We're going to the after-party."
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Gavin McInnes, one of the founders of Vice, who recently left the magazine, is considered to be one of hipsterdom's primary architects. But, in contrast to the majority of concerned media-types, McInnes, whose "Dos and Don'ts" commentary defined the rules of hipster fashion for over a decade, is more critical of those doing the criticizing.
"I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable," he says. "I'm dubious of these hypotheses because they always smell of an agenda."
Punks wear their tattered threads and studded leather jackets with honor, priding themselves on their innovative and cheap methods of self-expression and rebellion. B-boys and b-girls announce themselves to anyone within earshot with baggy gear and boomboxes. But it is rare, if not impossible, to find an individual who will proclaim themself a proud hipster. It's an odd dance of self-identity – adamantly denying your existence while wearing clearly defined symbols that proclaims it.
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"He's 17 and he lives for the scene!" a girl whispers in my ear as I sneak a photo of a young kid dancing up against a wall in a dimly lit corner of the after-party. He's got a flipped-out, do-it-yourself haircut, skin-tight jeans, leather jacket, a vintage punk tee and some popping high tops.
"Shoot me," he demands, walking up, cigarette in mouth, striking a pose and exhaling. He hits a few different angles with a firmly unimpressed expression and then gets a bit giddy when I show him the results.
"Rad, thanks," he says, re-focusing on the music and submerging himself back into the sweaty funk of the crowd where he resumes a jittery head bobble with a little bit of a twitch.
The dance floor at a hipster party looks like it should be surrounded by quotation marks. While punk, disco and hip hop all had immersive, intimate and energetic dance styles that liberated the dancer from his/her mental states – be it the head-spinning b-boy or violent thrashings of a live punk show – the hipster has more of a joke dance. A faux shrug shuffle that mocks the very idea of dancing or, at its best, illustrates a non-committal fear of expression typified in a weird twitch/ironic twist. The dancers are too self-aware to let themselves feel any form of liberation; they shuffle along, shrugging themselves into oblivion.
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Perhaps the true motivation behind this deliberate nonchalance is an attempt to attract the attention of the ever-present party photographers, who swim through the crowd like neon sharks, flashing little blasts of phosphorescent ecstasy whenever they spot someone worth momentarily immortalizing.
Noticing a few flickers of light splash out from the club bathroom, I peep in only to find one such photographer taking part in an impromptu soft-core porno shoot. Two girls and a guy are taking off their clothes and striking poses for a set of grimy glamour shots. It's all grins and smirks until another girl pokes her head inside and screeches, "You're not some club kid in New York in the nineties. This shit is so hipster!" – which sparks a bit of a catfight, causing me to beat a hasty retreat.
In many ways, the lifestyle promoted by hipsterdom is highly ritualized. Many of the party-goers who are subject to the photoblogger's snapshots no doubt crawl out of bed the next afternoon and immediately re-experience the previous night's debauchery. Red-eyed and bleary, they sit hunched over their laptops, wading through a sea of similarity to find their own (momentarily) thrilling instant of perfected hipster-ness.
What they may or may not know is that "cool-hunters" will also be skulking the same sites, taking note of how they dress and what they consume. These marketers and party-promoters get paid to co-opt youth culture and then re-sell it back at a profit. In the end, hipsters are sold what they think they invent and are spoon-fed their pre-packaged cultural livelihood.
Hipsterdom is the first "counterculture" to be born under the advertising industry's microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion. But the moment a trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.
An amalgamation of its own history, the youth of the West are left with consuming cool rather that creating it. The cultural zeitgeists of the past have always been sparked by furious indignation and are reactionary movements. But the hipster's self-involved and isolated maintenance does nothing to feed cultural evolution. Western civilization's well has run dry. The only way to avoid hitting the colossus of societal failure that looms over the horizon is for the kids to abandon this vain existence and start over.
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"If you don't give a damn, we don't give a fuck!" chants an emcee before his incitements are abruptly cut short when the power plug is pulled and the lights snapped on.
Dawn breaks and the last of the after-after-parties begin to spill into the streets. The hipsters are falling out, rubbing their eyes and scanning the surrounding landscape for the way back from which they came. Some hop on their fixed-gear bikes, some call for cabs, while a few of us hop a fence and cut through the industrial wasteland of a nearby condo development.
The half-built condos tower above us like foreboding monoliths of our yuppie futures. I take a look at one of the girls wearing a bright pink keffiyah and carrying a Polaroid camera and think, "If only we carried rocks instead of cameras, we'd look like revolutionaries." But instead we ignore the weapons that lie at our feet – oblivious to our own impending demise.
We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but too afraid to become it ourselves. We are a defeated generation, resigned to the hypocrisy of those before us, who once sang songs of rebellion and now sell them back to us. We are the last generation, a culmination of all previous things, destroyed by the vapidity that surrounds us. The hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new. __________________________
Hipsters. They’re everywhere. You’ve seen them on skateboards, in the mall and at the club. You’ve seen them shrugging dismissively in Oakland, Calif., Willamsburg, Brooklyn and Austin, Tx. And, suddenly, in Barack Obama’s Washington, too. Recently, I encountered Hector, a teenager skateboarding with friends outside a McDonald’s in downtown D.C. He’s wearing a neon T-shirt, impossibly skinny jeans, and a bored expression. So, are you a hipster or what? “Man, no,” he says. He does not care much for labels. Can he have a cigarette?
Hector is black. And these days, if you spend enough time in Union Square in New York City, Gallery Place in Washington or even Brick Lane in London, you know that there are thousands more kids just like him—black, white and brown. What gives?
By now, the traits of hipsterism are easily recognizable to culture vultures: Hipsters are white, urban, occasionally privileged, attitudinally earnest and functionally alternative. They live life at the intersection of Pabst Blue Ribbon and day-glo leggings—worn with irony, or maybe not. They listen to indie darlings like Pavement, or anthem rockers like Arcade Fire. Maybe even a little Wu-Tang. Everything obscure is good; a headband on some longhair of a man; a waifish girl sporting several thick gold chains.
The hipster—torn between ironic, “who cares if I’m wearing a tracksuit” detachment and the exhibitionism required to perform the trend—is complicating traditional ideas of identity and sexuality. And this lifestyle is all the more striking when the kids mixing white-boy silhouettes and post-punk swagger are already culturally conspicuous—when they are black.
So just what is a black hipster—a “blipster” or “alt-black”? Like many recent cultural trends, this one straddles race, politics, fashion and art. For the purposes of discussion, we’ll stick with men (though I have seen some Flock of Seagulls-looking black females out and about of late). As Lauren Cooper, a Howard University graduate who admits to an indie lifestyle, puts it, “It’s probably easier to pick out a black male ‘blipster’ than a female.”
Simply put: The racial archetypes that had defined the last 15 years of masculine street style have given way to a radically new aesthetic. Gone are the extra-long T-shirts, saggy jeans and Timbs long favored by young black men. They haven’t swapped them for the mopey, emo tees once favored by young whites. Rather, urban youth of all colors now rock snug pants, bright, oversized graphic tees, spotless vanity sneakers and hats with brims flatter than Kansas.
And a skateboard, too, if you can hack it. More than anything, these black hipsters are the “Kick, Push” generation. Just as “swagga” has gone mainstream, the racially ambiguous fashion statements of Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell Williams of N.E.R.D. or black skateboarder Steve Williams have become a prominent urban aesthetic, from mallrats in San Diego to grown men in Chicago.
Part of the blipster look is born of utility. “You can’t really wear sagging jeans without being embarrassed on your skateboard,” says Himanshu Kumar of the band Das Racist. So pin-thin pants have joined the “Spitfire shirts and SB Dunks” named by Fiasco in his now-classic skateboarding rap as markers of the new style.
And then there are the hybrid social and cultural cues American teenagers pick up every day that translate into hipster fashion and art.
Take the 19-year-old blipster I met recently on the D.C. metro rail. He wore acid-washed skinny jeans, a Boston Red Sox cap that looked like he’d ironed it and a Middle Eastern kaffiyeh around his neck. He and a friend hung off the pole inside the subway car like bananas on a hook.
Where did you get that scarf? I inquire.
“H&M,” he says.
Remembering the kaffiyeh’s significance as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, I ask: Do you know what that means?
“Yeah, it's Muslim,” he replies, with scorn. “I wouldn't wear it if I didn't know what it meant.”
Hmm. If he seems confused, he’s not alone. New York magazine has been trying desperately to separate the genuine trappings of hipsterism—Pabst Blue Ribbon, cowboy boots on men—from the insanities that populate sites like lookatthisfuckinghipster.com.
It's a hard line to negotiate—especially when it comes to black men. Take some recent controversy regarding entertainer Kanye West, who often pushes the envelope on both sound and fashion, sporting bright green trousers and nerd goggles or pairing with Louis Vuitton to design a white sneaker which one writer panned as “a deck shoe combined with an Air Force One.” Does Kanye West Dress Too Gay? ran a breathless headline on the Daily Beast. Marcyliena Morgan, a professor who manages the Harvard Hip-Hop Archive, concluded that West is a pioneer: “While people may not adopt these looks fully, they will inevitably serve to soften the boundaries around black-male fashion.”
And, of course, there are those who hate the “blipster” label—even if they are supposedly in on the joke. “The first time I had ever heard the term used, I got pretty pissed off about it,” says Cooper. “It’s ‘Oh, you skateboard? Oh, you listen to indie music? You're such a blipster.’ Yeah, I listen to Cut Copy and Lykke Li, but I don't think those things negate blackness or require a classification."
But, as with any budding social scene, it can be hard to tell who’s in and who’s out.
Asher Roth, a white rapper who favors a preppy look, became a YouTube sensation with his hit “I Love College.” Does he count? While he’s spat rhymes for Jay-Z and inked a deal with Def Jam Records, he’s also gotten into trouble for talking about “nappy headed hoes” in reference to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, and proclaiming that “the world’s gone mad / when blacks wear plaid.” But, to look at the shoes, jackets and fitted flannels you can find in the closets of many young, black people today, perhaps it has.
Das Racist, a hipsterish band comprised of Queens-born Kumar and San Francisco-born Victor Vazquez, matches hyphy dance beats with lyrics about “the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” that could speak for the ‘hood or the nearest gated community. And why choose? “A lot of this all [comes] from a resurgence of ‘80s culture into the boring modern day; across races—tight jeans and bright clothing aren't distinctly un-hip-hop, so to speak,” Kumar says.
Still other blipster musical acts embrace the hip and downplay the black. One such artist is ninjasonik, a persona who insists that he’s “a band, not a rapper.” Fair enough—the hook from one of his indie hits is “I’m a tight pants wearing ass n****.” One Williamsburg-dwelling friend describes the live ninjasonik experience: “At least 100 people on stage, half of them nerdy white hipsters, half of them ‘hood hipsters, all totally getting along—it was so surreal,” he says. “Post-racial, post-sexist; it was mad crazy.”
The hipster tendency to turn social difference into spectacle seems odd for blacks who are already, by virtue of their minority status, very visible. But this speaks to another, broader trend—which is that this culture is about total liberation. Allin Bond, the black president of Happy Hour Clothing, which sells bright graphic T-shirts and other blipster-friendly attire, notes that “we are in kind of a mash-up culture. Rap is cool; smart rap is real cool; the ‘80s came back hard,” he says. “And part of being a hipster is not having any rules.”
So kids punch out the lenses of 3-D movie goggles to use them as nerd frames reminiscent of Elvis Costello; and Steve Williams, whose line of skatewear is sponsored by the mega-corporate Reebok, lists his favorite movies as both Wall Street—the '80s flick featuring Michael Douglas chanting “greed is good”—and Belly, the ‘hood drama starring troubled rapper DMX.
Say what you will about the blipsters and their crazy tastes—but we should have seen it coming. Black folks have had plenty of role models when it comes to edgy style. Dwayne Wayne, a character on A Different World and one of the earliest templates for today’s blipsters, wore flip-up sunglasses without irony. Black rockers like Prince laid the track for musicians such as Brooklyn-based TV on the Radio, singer Kelis, who famously “screamed on a track” or even hip-hopper Jim Jones, who’s partnered with fairy-funk act MGMT and once declared himself “too fat to fit into those skinny pants.” And don’t forget the sheets, diapers and hot pants worn by Parliament Funkadelic and Earth, Wind and Fire.
In short, blipsters are proof that everything old is new again. ________________________________ We can't believe she made it back in one piece!
A teary-eyed Amy Winehouse arrived at London's Gatwick airport Monday morning after the hard-pAArtying singer's extended 8-month stay in St Lucia!
She's so happy to be home, she cried!!!!
Wino, sans beehive (thank God!), was looking a million times better than she has in previous months.
According to her spokesperson, Wino's "really happy" to be back in the UK and "can't wait to catch up with family and friends."
That's not what we've heard!
Apparently Amy outstayed her welcome on the island!
The locals were reportedly fed up with Wino's drunken antics and has been banned from hotels, bars, the whole nine. So Ames thought it'd be a good idea to pack up and move out before she was officially banned from visiting her island paradise ever again.
Washington, July 13 (ANI): Tobey Maguire is going to replace James McAvoy in the forthcoming romantic comedy ‘The Details’, as the latter has left the project.
According to sources, the ‘Spider-Man’ star will be sharing the frame with Elizabeth Banks and ‘Pushing Up Daisies’ star Anna Friel.
“Maguire’s a global name and it will have helped them secure the finance they couldn’t get with MCAvoy,” Contactmusic quoted a source as having told Scottish tabloid the Sunday Mail.
The movie tells the story of a struggling married couple, who are further plagued with problems, thanks to ravenous raccoons burrowing under the sod in their back yard. (ANI)
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Emma talks to Oprah.com
Q&A with Emma Watson
For more than half her life, actress Emma Watson has bewitched audiences as Hermione Granger, a pivotal character in the Harry Potter film franchise, based on author J.K. Rowling's beloved series.
Now, this English beauty is all grown up and revealing what sets the sixth film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, apart from the rest. Plus, Emma dishes about college, dorm life and her on-screen kiss with co-star Rupert Grint.
Kari Forsee: First of all, congrats on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the series. Since you've seen it and the rest of us haven't, can you tell us what makes this one stand out from the rest?
Emma Watson: I think this one is the most funny. It has much more to do with the relationships between the students, and there's two quite big love triangles going on in the middle. It just has more romantic interest, which I think is great, and I think the fans will really respond to that, because sometimes the films can be quite dark and quite heavy. I think it's nice to have that kind of lightness to it, as well. So yeah, I'm really happy with it.
KF: Especially leading up to the seventh film, which deals with pretty dark subjects.
EW: Really dark. No, exactly. I think it was really important that we got a little bit of comedy in there. Definitely.
KF: Well, speaking of the love triangle, I was wondering, if you were in Hermione's shoes and you had a crush on Ron, would you have dealt with his relationship with another girl differently or similarly? What would Emma do?
EW: Oh, god. That's a good question! I don't know. I've got no idea. I think I probably would have acted pretty similarly, actually, I'm not going to lie. I think she's in a tricky situation because she hasn't really even realized herself that she really likes him. Like, she's still working it all out. It's still kind of confusing for her. So yeah, I think I would have acted the same. She tries all the old tricks. She tries to make him jealous. She tries to handle it with this really horrible guy who likes her. His name's Cormac, and he's horrible. It's very sweet how she tries to handle it.
KF: How are you and Hermione similar? Or do you find yourself pretty different?
EW: I think there are differences and similarities. I think I'm probably a bit more fun-loving than she is. She's a bit more serious than I am. I think I'm a bit more rounded than she is. She's very, like, focused on her academics, and she doesn't really do anything else. But then, we have similarities, as well. I'm very loyal like she is, and I'm very hardworking like she is.
KF: So the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was this week. How did the audience and fans respond to the film?
EW: We had the most amazing amount of rain. Unbelievable. And there were like hundreds of people out there, and they just stayed. They were drenched, drenched all the way through. And everyone stayed. In fact, it's probably one of the biggest crowds we've ever had. So, for them to have stayed, considering how awful it was, was just incredible. I think we have the most dedicated fans of any. It's amazing.
KF: Do you find that the fans in America are just as dedicated, or are the British fans more dedicated?
EW: Oh, gosh. That's a really hard question. Gosh, I'll have to wait until tonight [at the New York City premiere] and see. Interesting question.
KF: So I know you all have already started filming the final installments of the Harry Potter series. How does it feel to be close to the end and wrapping it all up?
EW: It feels really strange. It feels really strange. I mean, I still have a lot of work left to do, so I'm being asked all the time, "How do you feel about it coming to an end?" And I'm kind of not quite there yet. I have a lot left to do, and I'm kind of in denial as well. I don't think I'm really going to realize it's over until it's really over, if that makes sense.
KF: And I heard you and Rupert Grint, the actor who plays Ron Weasley, filmed your first kiss recently.
EW: We did.
KF: What was that like?
EW: It was, it was…ugh, it was hard. It was really hard. We were both in the same boat, though. We both were really struggling with the idea of having to kiss each other, because our relationship is so platonic. He's like my brother, but we did it and we were happy.
KF: Did you have a little pep talk beforehand?
EW: Yeah, we talked about it before. It was nice that we were in the same boat, as I said before. We both were just like, "Oh god, this is horrible."
KF: Did you all have mints or gum on hand?
EW: We both agreed that we would clean our teeth, but that was it.
KF: Did you and the other actors know what J.K. Rowling had planned for the seventh book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Or were you just as curious as the rest of us?
EW: Well, I was just as curious as everyone else. The only thing J.K. Rowling told me, she told me I would end up having to kiss both Dan [Radcliffe] and Rupert, and I was like, "No way!" This is before I read the last one, so I was like, "Oh, god." Because in the last one, Ron has a vision when he sees Harry and Hermione kissing in his vision, so I'm going to have to do that for the vision. Even though it doesn't actually happen, I still have to do it. I'm going to end up kissing both of them in the last film. Ugh, it's horrible.
KF: Did you get your copy of the seventh book and pour through it like the rest of us, or did you take it slow?
EW: I'm such a big Harry Potter fan, but I just wanted to read it for my own pleasure and enjoyment, not thinking, "Oh, I have to do this in the film," or whatever. I was really excited.
KF: At the end of the seventh book, J.K. reveals what's in store for the series' main characters. What did you think of Hermione's future…her marriage and her house elf activism? Is that what you imagined for her?
EW: Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted to happen. Down to the fact that I love J.K. Rowling's names that she chose for their kids: Rose and Hugo. I think they're perfect, so I was super happy.
KF: Many fans consider Hermione a modern, movie heroine. Are there other movie heroines you admire?
EW: Oh, gosh. I love Cate Blanchett as an actress. I think she's had the most amazing career. She does loads of different stuff, and she plays so many different roles. Anything that she does just says quality. She's just brilliant. I think the way Natalie Portman has handled her career, you know, I think she's amazing. I just think she's incredible. I think Jennifer Connelly is beautiful and great.
KF: Speaking of Natalie Portman, I hear you're going off to college in the fall in the United States. Congratulations! We're so happy to have you. Natalie did something very similar during her career. I know everyone's asking, but can you tell us where you're going to be studying? Can you give us a clue?
EW: Oh, gosh. I'm definitely coming to the States, but I can't talk about where I'm going. I'm trying so hard to keep it private.
KF: Are you going to be announcing it on your website?
EW: Yeah, I said that because…you know, the press claims every single time that they know where I'm going, and it's definitely where I'm going. And they have it wrong. They never check their facts, and I'm not telling them. So I'm just like, "Guys, just don't believe everything you read, and I'll tell you where I'm going."
KF: I can't tell you how many different colleges I've heard you're attending.
EW: Oh my god, four or five? Something ridiculous. They're all like so certain, "She's definitely going here." It's crazy how much interest there is.
KF: What are you looking forward to as a freshman in college? What are you most excited about?
EW: I don't know, just everything. You know, a new experience. I'm looking forward to studying again, and riding around campus on my bicycle, and having a roommate…and just everything. The whole experience.
KF: So you're going to live in the dorms and have a roommate?
EW: Yes. I can't wait.
KF: So this is going to be your first time living in the States, right?
EW: Yes.
KF: What are you going to miss most about England?
EW: Ugh, I going to miss baked beans and tea and marmite, and gosh, lots of things.
KF: What are starting to like about America from your past trips? Do you have any favorite foods or restaurants?
EW: Pancakes with maple syrup and bacon and amazing bagels. So good. Cheesecake is awesome. Yeah, so there are plenty of things I like here.
KF: Have a chosen a major? Do you know what you want to study?
EW: I'm not sure, which is one of the reasons why I'm coming to the States—so I'm given time to decide my major. But it will probably be something to do with the humanities. It'll probably be like English or art or something.
KF: What do you see yourself doing in the future? I read you may not want to continue acting.
EW: No, I think I'll keep acting, but I just need to take a bit of a break. I've been acting solidly since I was 9 years old. I just need a couple of years to just be normal for a bit.
KF: I just saw your Teen Vogue cover and photo spread—incredible. Who are some of your favorite designers?
EW: Oh, gosh. I love Christopher Kane. I love Phillip Lim. I love Proenza. I love Chanel, Balenciaga…everyone really. I just have fun with it and enjoy it.
KF: Will you be wearing Chanel at college?
EW: No! No, when I'm promoting a movie, this is the stuff I wear. When I'm at college, I'm going to be in sweats and Topshop.
i'm brittany.
in person i am everything and more.
-drakedrizzyrogers.
i lived in honduras for 141 days.
i go to umass boston.2338679.
i ran away from home once for two months.
i'm a vegetarian.
i don't want to live in the united states.
i believe in a lot of stuff.
most people love me.
i love pbr.
i love post rock, math rock, indie, shoegaze.
modest mouse inspires my life.
music does that, but modest mouse especially.
i love basement shows.
i get jealous easy.
i'm extremely critical
i'm pretty loud.
i hate when people litter.
i love to touch people.
i'm hispanic.
i've gotten my heart broken. alot.
i love boys.
i love life.
and laughing.
i'm own people in facebook scrabble.
i say "wallin" alot.
geraldo rivera's mustache bothers me.
mustaches kinda bother me.
i'm gonna be famous.
cause i got that swagboy
the swag you never had boy. -wayne.
i'm moving to NY in 7-9 months.
the grass will be greener on the other side.
