Amy Winehouse is the star of controversial new internet game Escape From Rehab.
In the game, which is beingness used to promote unexampled spoof photographic film 'Disaster Movie' a sketch version of the singer beats up the likes of The Hulk and Batman with a crack pipe and complains "I haven't had a turd for deuce weeks."
Later in the game, Winehouse has to try out and break husband Blake Fielder-Civil out of prison.
You can act the game escapefromrehabgame.com.
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Monday 11 August 2008
Wednesday 6 August 2008
BUDDY GUY
�Skin Deep� (Silvertone): B+
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With B.B. King on the scene, you can�t call Guy the world�s greatest living vapours guitar role player. But the most exciting? For certain. And the soon-to-be-72-year-old is out to prove it every time he picks up his axe, whether in the recent Rolling Stones concert movie, �Shine a Light,� or on this CD. Savvy production by ex-Boston rock ex-serviceman Tom Hambridge (who also plays drums and co-wrote most of the songs) highlights Guy�s formidable fret work and voice - so much so that guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Robert Randolph, Derek Trucks and Boston-bred belter Susan Tedeschi never unhinge, but only enhance. Download: �Too Many Tears.�
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Thursday 19 June 2008
'Say You're One of Them' takes readers deep into seldom-glimpsed lives
Uwen Akpan's first book bears out the promise implicit in his first short story, "An Ex-mas Feast," published in The New Yorker's Debut Fiction 2005 issue and reprinted here.
"Say You're One of Them" is a tour de force that takes readers into the lives glimpsed in passing on the evening news: the routine of a child prostitute in the slums of Nigeria, an unspeakable decision facing a family in Rwanda, a brother and sister's slow realization that their uncle has sold them into slavery and is fattening them for the trip.
Akpan, a Nigerian-born Jesuit priest, opens a window to this world and asks the reader to sit a while with his characters and to resist the urge to look away. It helps that his narrators are children, whose understanding of the events at the core of the stories can be hazy, cut short by the limited scope of their lives.
The story that lends the book its title is an example. The narrator, a nine-year-old, knows only she's been told to stay indoors. She's restless. Her Tutsi mother's warning before she goes into hiding makes little sense to her:
"When they ask you," she says sternly, without looking at me, "say you're one of them, OK?"
"Who?"
"Anybody."
When the knock on the door comes, it's the child's uncle, her Hutu father's brother. And when she lets him in, he's with a crowd brandishing ID cards and machetes.
"An Ex-mas Feast," a story centred on a 12-year-old prostitute, starts off easy. The narrator, a younger brother, tells of the awkward transition into adolescence that's gripped his sister Maisha.
"None of us knew how to relate to her anymore. ... She had been behaving like a cat going feral: she came home less and less frequently, staying only to change her clothes and give me some money to pass on to our parents."
What develops in this story, as in others, is difficult.
Details anchor the narrative: the advice Maisha passes on to her 10-year-sister - never go with man without a condom, even if you're starving; the image of Maisha on Christmas morning when she returns home bruised, bone-tired, her face seared by bleaching creams beneath the makeup; the giddiness of children finally tearing into the food she brought.
There are light moments as well. In "Luxurious Hearses," a Muslim boy trying to hide in a mob of Christians fleeing conflict in Nigeria is at first overwhelmed by the sight of so many women. They're all around, pressing in, their heads, arms, legs uncovered.
To calm himself, he starts counting them. Dozens of women. Then he starts laughing - the hairdos, the beaded cornrows, the crimson painted nails and lips and the tight colourful clothing, it's all so new, but it's not threatening. And it's funny, even amid the squalor. One fear, defeated, many others to go.
These are stories that could have been mired in sentimentality. But the spare, straightforward language - there are few overtly expressed emotions, few adjectives - keeps the narratives moving, unencumbered and the pages turning to the end.
"Say You're One of Them"
By Uwem Akpan (Little, Brown and Company)
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Saturday 14 June 2008
Sarah Harding records nu-rave track
Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding has recorded a track with nu-rave group Filthy Dukes.
The popstar's first solo release will appear on the soundtrack to the movie Wild Child.
Other acts on the album include Rihanna, Robbie Williams and Nelly Furtado.
A source told The Mirror: "It is a really exciting project for Sarah to be involved with. She was chuffed to be approached and recognised as a singer in her own right.
"It's a pretty cool album with some big names...it promises to be a springboard for other things."
Girls Aloud confirmed during their recent UK tour that they would be recording a follow-up to 2007's Tangled Up album and insisted they weren't splitting up.
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The popstar's first solo release will appear on the soundtrack to the movie Wild Child.
Other acts on the album include Rihanna, Robbie Williams and Nelly Furtado.
A source told The Mirror: "It is a really exciting project for Sarah to be involved with. She was chuffed to be approached and recognised as a singer in her own right.
"It's a pretty cool album with some big names...it promises to be a springboard for other things."
Girls Aloud confirmed during their recent UK tour that they would be recording a follow-up to 2007's Tangled Up album and insisted they weren't splitting up.
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Sunday 8 June 2008
On Thorns I Lay
Artist: On Thorns I Lay
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Metal: Gothic
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Egocentric
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Angeldust
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Future Narcotic
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Crystal Tears
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Orama
Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Sounds Of Beautiful Experience
Year: 1995
Tracks: 9
Originally named Phlebotomy, Greece's On Thorns I Lay started out in 1992, recording a demonstration and a 7" EP under that identify ahead devising the name-switch in time for their 1995 debut album, Sound of Beautiful Experience. Heavily influenced by death/doom metal acts like Paradise Lost and Anathema in their babyhood, On Thorns I Lay would evolve on a exchangeable path as these bands over the course of subsequent albums Orama (1997), Crystal Tears (1999), and Future Narcotic (2000), eventually arriving at a far less extreme firebrand of surd rock, infused with melancholy and atmospherical Gothic nuances. During this time, institution members Chris Dragmestianos (guitar) and Stefanos Kintzoglou (bass part), collaborated with legion henchmen, actually relocating to Romania in 1995 for their graduate studies, and on the job with Elena Doroftei (vocals/viola), Ioanna Doroftei (piano/keyboards), and Andrew Olaru (drums), before reversive dwelling to Athens in the year 2000. After welcoming fresh members Minas G. (guitars/vocals), and Fotis (drums), and hooking up with Black Lotus Records, On Thorns I Lay's side by side releases, 2001's Angeldust and 2003's Egoist, carried on exploring their self-labeled "Pure Depressive Metal."
Friday 6 June 2008
Green Day - Green Day Side Project Announce Flash Tour
GREEN DAY's spin-off band the FOXBORO HOT TUBS are to hit eight venues on a whistle-stop U.S. tour beginning next week (19May08).
Tickets for the shows, which begin at Juanita's Cantina in Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday and wrap in Long Beach, California on 28 May (08), will only be available on the day of the show from the box offices of the venues.
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Victoria Beckham - Beckham David Is More Attractive Than Clooney
Former SPICE GIRL VICTORIA BECKHAM has lavished praise on her new pal GEORGE CLOONEY - but insists he's not as good-looking as her husband DAVID.
The star spent time with the Hollywood hunk during a flight on Giorgio Armani's private jet earlier this month (May08), and attended his star-studded 47th birthday bash in New York last month (Apr08) with her England soccer star beau.
Beckham admits she's very fond of the Ocean's Thirteen actor, but doesn't think his looks compare to the L.A. Galaxy star.
She says, "I have only just got to know George. He was so nice, a real gentleman and absolutely hilarious. He has a great sense of humour.
"But I think David is better looking than him. Definitely."
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