The A.V. Club interviews Woody Allen.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune profiles author Bill Loehfelm, who won the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
Prefix calls Vampire Weekend "the most punk band of 2008."
The Waterloo Record experiences a trip to the "Seinfeld bus."
How did it come to this? How did the most successful sitcom of the past two decades -- a show so groundbreaking it changed the face of TV sitcoms -- fall so far off the cultural radar in the decade since its demise its financial backers have to lure young people on to a bus with Snickers bars and Snapple?
Comic of the day: "The Music Nerd’s Burden"
The San Francisco Bay Guardian has local musicians list their favorite singer-songwriters.
43 Folders lists what makes a good blog.
Lou Barlow of Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr. puts his iPod on shuffle for the A.V. Club .
The Village Voice profiles the former members of Rainer Maria...
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Katy Perry performs in Australia, and she looks like some combination of the following:
A mannequin from "The After Hours" episode of The Twilight Zone when a lady discovers she’s a mannequin in a department store.
A femme-bot from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Satan
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Room rates will start at around Dh1,600 per night and guests will find around 3,500 staff on han... more
Meet and greet the A.R.C. in Modena this upcoming weekend:
Tom Wallisch, Pako Benguerell, Luka Melloni and many more will show their skills in the “FREESTYLE MEETING” ski contest. While Stefan Falkeis and Benny Deeg will join the TTR 3 Star contest.
The setup for the big air will be a huge corner jump. The rail day will provide a kinkrail, a table and a curved box.
More info on the exact event schedule here… ... more
Sharp New Pantone 830SH
Sharp has announced its new HSDPA 3G mobile phone , named ‘ New Pantone 830SH ’. The phone will be release in Japan market via Softbank on the 4th October, 2008. It has 15 different colors for you to choose from ~ available in mint blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, red, vivid pink, purple, lilac, navy, white, black, silver, gold and pink gold.
The New Pantone 830SH comes with a .4-inch display with 240 x 320 resolution, 2.0-megapixel camera with auto foc... more
The New Media Event is a new event, being organised for the first time in the Middle East, that is dedicated to the growing power of new media and will identify the most important new media tools used by major corporations and organisations around the globe.
The event will be taking place from 14 – 18 December [...]... more
So Jermaine Dupri thinks he’s 21 again. He threw up all over his girlfriend Janet Jackson at his birthday party a few nights ago. And we hear she was NOT pleased:
The other night, Dupri and his squeeze, Janet Jackson, went to Tenjune, where, spies say, they shared bottles of Jay-Z’s Ace of Spades Champagne and Patrón tequila with Ne-Yo, Busta Rhymes and Ice-T - until Dupri “vomited in Janet’s lap. Ms. Jackson bolted out of the scene and sped off in her chauf... more
The San Francisco-based science fiction publishing house Tachyon Publications sponsors monthly readings by SF authors , and last week’s event focused on steampunk, the hot "new" subgenre , with appearances by Joe Lansdale and Rudy Rucker , the latter of whom helped create the field eighteen years ago with the novel The Hollow Earth . (Lansdale read from his 2006 novel, Flaming London , in which Mark Twain and Jules Verne team up with a genetically enhanced seal f... more
Here’s the latest action:
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft create a human rights code of conduct — The three giants have been under pressure from several groups for their dealings in China among other places. Now they will adopt a formal code of conduct. Time will tell if that actually means anything or not. The San Francisco Chronicle got a copy of the document .
What’s in the early Windows 7 build? — Microsoft will show it off on Tuesday at its PDC show in Los A... more
One mixed martial arts promotion called it quits last week while another is enjoying record ratings on network television.
And it isn’t the UFC.
The San Jose-based mixed martial arts promotion Strikeforce posted its highest ratings ever last Saturday night when 1.1 Million viewers tuned in to watch “Strikeforce on NBC.”
The October 18 episode featured the light heavyweight rematch between Trevor Prangley and Anthony “A-Train” Ruiz from last month’s ... more
As downloads from the 2008 Lollapalooza music festival become available, I will be posting them on this page.
Bookmark this page and check back often, and if you see a show online that is not listed, please e-mail me the link or leave a comment.
Bloc Party : 2008-08-01, Lollapalooza [mp3]
Explosions in the Sky : 2008-08-02, Lollapalooza [mp3]
Raconteurs : 2008-08-01, Lollapalooza [mp3]
Radiohead : 2008-08-01, Lollapalooza [flac]*^
Radiohead : 2008-08-01, Lol... more
Shorties From: largeheartedboy.com Post Date: 2008-08-03 06:36:42
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram profiles the Hold Steady .
What grabs listeners is Finn’s ability to compose trenchant lyrics worthy of short stories or character-driven films, in essence applying an engaging, tightly focused literary sensibility to the blue-collar, beer-numbed aesthetic of rock ’n’ roll.
The Guardian shares new short fiction by Alice Sebold, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, and Tessa Hadley, and a new comic by Chris Ware.
The Telegraph profiles Joseph ... more
Today’s free and legal mp3 downloads:
Cracker : 2008-07-25, Superior [mp3,ogg,flac]
"100 Flower Power Girl" [mp3]
other Cracker posts at Largehearted Boy
fIREHOSE : 1987-11-08, Cambridge [mp3,ogg,flac]
"For the Lead Singer of REM" [mp3]
other fIREHOSE posts at Largehearted Boy
Gomez : 2008-07-05, Rothbury [mp3,ogg,flac]
"How We Operate" [mp3]
other Gomez posts at Largehearted Boy
Grace Potter : 2008-07-25, St. Louis [mp3,ogg,flac]
"Pain ... more
As I stated in Gabe Soria’s Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay for Life Sucks , I found this graphic novel refreshingly different. From the new vampires working minimum wage jobs to the older vampires’ greed, this seemingly simple love story’s attention to detail brings the storyline to life (not surprising since the story was co-written by one of my favorite cartoonists, Jessica Abel).
For one month, enter the coupon code "LHB001" at Atomic Books and rec... more
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