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GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA STYLE WEBLOG
FRESH TAKES
ON MOVIES, MUSIC,
PEOPLE & MORE
CONSUMING CULTURE, SPITTIN' HYPE
ON OUR STEREO
The Top 10 discs that get us through the night...
1. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
2. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (EMI)
3. Lily Allen - "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone)
4. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)
5. Kanye West - "Late Registration" (Roc-A-Fella)
6. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" (Virgin)
7. M.I.A. - "Arular" (XL)
8. Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment" (B-Unique)
9. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" (Saddle Creek)
10. Mos Def - "The New Danger" (Geffen)
Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus"
(Island)
Favorite Kicks ...
Adidas "Adi Color Winner"
-- Fresh high-top sneaker design from the German tennis shoe maker.
Favorite Video Game on Our PlayStation...
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
(Rockstar Games) -- The greatest GTA eva'! It's been out for over two years and we're still freakin' playing it!
Overheard...
Guy talking into cellphone on West Broadway in Soho, NYC:
"Hey man, can you hear me? Got a new cell phone -- it's a Treo, man! That's right, a Treo. Yeah, the Palm Treo 650 and it's aaaawesome ... uh ... hello, can you hear me? Hello? Hello ... Shit!"
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Supercore:
Ivan Corsa
Princess Lower
East Side:
Reiko Oishi
OK Computer:
Typhoon
Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Sources Direct:
Rob Samra
D. Carter Witt
Damon Smith
Adrian
Tharani
Jess Eddy
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu
Hardware:
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 + G3 Computers w/ OS X
Toshiba Satellite Laptop w/ Windows XP
Krups Il Caffe Duomo Espresso Machine
Resources Directory [Beta]:
TECH GEAR
Mobile Devices We Like:
T-Mobile Sidekick and Sidekick II
Easy to use, unbusinesslike and not too techy-looking, we like the Sidekick 'cause it's easy on the thumbs for typing and is probably the most comfortable cell phone and text-messaging device in terms of keyboard size and design.
Palm Treo 650
The treo 650 is to the Sidekick what Prada dress shoes are to Adidas sneakers. Despite that analogy, the Treo will not win points for style compared to many cell phones, though the Treo is well-designed and nice on the eyes. The Treo is a so-called Smartphone and runs an OS for its Palm PDA functionality. Part phone, part PDA and part e-mail and Internet-enabled handheld computer, the 650 comes in slightly different versions for Cingular, Verizon, and Sprint. The best part of the 650 is its keyboard and high-resolution color screen.
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July 02, 2004
Marlon Brando, R.I.P.: Great American Actor and All-Round Celeb Superfreak Kicks the Bucket
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]
Posted by typhoon at July 2, 2004 08:01 PM
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