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GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA WEBLOG
FRESH TAKES
ON MOVIES, MUSIC,
PEOPLE & MORE
ON OUR STEREO
The Top Ten discs that get us through the night...
1. Beastie Boys - "To the 5 Boroughs" (Capitol)
2. TV on the Radio - "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" (Touch and Go)
3. OOIOO - "Kila Kila
Kila" (Bathing Ape / Thrill Jockey)
4. Kenny Dope - "Break Beats" (Dope)
5. Zero7 - "When It
Falls" (Elektra)
6. Squarepusher - "Ultravisitor" (Warp Records)
7. Metal Urbain - "Anarchy in
Paris" (Acute Records)
8. Air - "Talkie Walkie" (Astralwerks / Source / Virgin)
9. DJ Olive -
"Bodega" (The Agriculture)
10. Various Artists - "Definitive Jux Presents III" (Warner Bros.)
Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...
1. Run DMC - "King of Rock" (Def Jam)
Top 6 Favorite Late Night Movie Reruns on IFC...
1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels - Bloody hell! The British underworld doesn't mess around when it comes to illegal poker
games and a half-million pounds worth of illicit herb. Did we mention the copious gunplay? Well, this flick's got that, too. It's bloody, violent
AND funny, like Pulp Fiction, but with bad teeth, cockney rhyming slang and a cameo by Sting.
2. The Limey - So, your a
50-something British ex-con just released from prison and you're angry as hell. What are ya' gonna do? You're getting on a plane to L.A. where
you will unleash a shitstorm of violence and psychological terror on the dude that double-crossed you years ago.
3. The
Anniversary Party - A suprisingly accurate portrayal of Los Angeles' flaky thirty-something entertainment- media- arts-cognoscenti
types as they wrestle with dropping ecstasy, barking dogs and hillside home ownership.
4. La Femme Nikita - A sexy,
slightly unstable woman works as an assasin for the French government. Sweet!
5. Barton Fink - Dude, this is what
happens to New York writers in L.A. when they don't get enough sex.
6. Hedwig and the Angry Inch - This movie
ROCKS! Hell hath no fury like a partially trans-gendered woman scorned.
Top 3 Hip Hop Artist Names...
1. Common - Being extraordinary is so
overrated.
2. Ghostface Killah - Ghost face, poker face--it's all the same when you're a "killah."
3.
Chingy - Cuz it's right thurrr!
Overheard...
Girl walking up 1st Ave in the East Village, speaking to her friend:
"So I said to her,
'That's somethin' you just don't do. That's just somethin' you don't fuck with!'"
Top 3 Cheesiest Porn Star Names...
1. Simone de la Getto
2. Jewel De'Nyle
3. Chester
Drawers
(Ed. note: We're not making this stuff up.)
Top 4 Video Games for ADD Moments in the Studio...
1. The Getaway (Sony
Computer Entertainment)
2. Grand Theft Auto III: Vice City (Rockstar Games)
3. FIFA Soccer
2004 (EA Sports)
4. Sim City 4 (Maxis)
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MASSIVE Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Micropundit:
Ivan Corsa
Café Americano:
Reiko Oishi
Instamatic:
Typhoon
Sources Direct:
Jayson Han
The Kid From Kyoto
Rob Samra
Shibuya Kid
Damon Smith
Adrian
Tharani
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu
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July 2, 2004 | NYC | + HOME
PEEPS ON FILM
Marlon Brando, R.I.P.: Great American Actor and All-Round Celeb Superfreak Kicks the Bucket
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How does one go from being the hottest actor in the world to
being the closest thing humanity has to a real-life Jabba the Hut? Well, it
may help to be a little crazy, live on a remote South Pacific island and
possess a propensity to carb load at a phenomenal rate. Oh yeah, and if your name is Marlon, well, that may be helpful, too.
(Snark! Snark!)
OK, OK, for real now: How does one continue to be revered as
THE greatest living Hollywood film actor in
spite of being a maddening recluse with a severe weight problem, serious mental health issues and a string of foregettable movies.
Simple. Brando was a brilliant film actor.
As his personal life and
waist size became the stuff of late-night TV jokes and tabloid fodder, he always managed to put in strong film performances, even in movies
that were little more than celluloid train wrecks.
"On the Waterfront," "Streetcar Named Desire"--these are the film masterpieces that
made Brando a star and demonstrated to the world his force as
a cinematic thespian. "The Godfather" (see picture above) and,
to a lesser extent, "Apocalypse Now" were the movies that reminded everyone of his genius and why he was a star in the first place.
Though he always kept a wary distance from Tinseltown, he was never a mere contender there.
--J.
RELATED LINKS
+ The Time 100: Marlon Brando [Time]
+ The Facts: Marlon Brando [E! Web Site]
+ Marlon Brando Filmography [IMdB]
+ Marlon Brando, Oscar-Winning Actor, Is Dead at 80 [NY Times]
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June 30, 2004 | NYC | + HOME
PEEPS, STYLE & MEDIA
Taking the Baby Phat Out of Hip-Hop Mogulette Kimora Lee Simmons and Those
Magazine Ads
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Why is it nobody seems willing to say what they've been secretly thinking for years now: Kimora Lee
Simmons is a freak. Perhaps it's the modelling
pedigree and the years spent wearing Karl Lagerfeld's legendary
couture. That and the jolting image of her mind-bogglingly slim figure, which, if you've only seen recent tabloid
photos of her from the neck up, comes as a surprise because her puffed out face and big hair suggest a body of, let's say, wider girth.
Her pro-basketall-player height (6'4") further suggests that Kimora is a classic "Amazon women" all the way.
(Ed. note: We think Amazons are super-cool.) But then there are those exceptionally
slender legs and that lithe figure, stunningly displayed in a new series of ads for her fashion brand, Baby Phat.
One look at the ads and you'll see what ... [MORE]
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