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Comment on Artists Will Lose, Again! by derrick gibson

derrick gibson — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:13:15 +0000

thats why you should manage my entertainment company lol we got a hit record i need to get to you asap 1000 proof ent. vodka

Comment on A Few Words on CMJ by Henry

Henry — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:11:10 +0000

You have to force Henry to take piano lessons when he’s old enough to sit on the piano bench. You can’t leave his musical future up to chance, you have to instill it in him at a young age…

Comment on A Perversion of Morrissey by Alicia

Alicia — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:11:14 +0000

That definitely isn’t Colin Meloy. I can go ahead and verify that for you right now.

Comment on No Country for HBO, Wal-Mart and ATMs by fourstringheroes

fourstringheroes — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:12:49 +0000

Shannon, thanks for reading. Actually, I’m older than you. But as I grew up in Canada, I missed out entirely on HBO and Wal-Mart, hence coming across as a young’un. I suppose I should take that as some sort of compliment.

PS – Did you check out the bolt stunner Web site? Just curious what you thought of that.

Comment on No Country for HBO, Wal-Mart and ATMs by Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:25:09 +0000

I happened to stumble across this post, and I think it clarifies your age more than anything. There are those of us (largely in our 30s, who entered our teen years in the 80s) who probably wouldn’t wonder if HBO had “been around that long” without a tremendous amount of irony added to the question. I remember very clearly watching Smokey and the Bandit (1977) on HBO in my grandmother’s basement.

Clearly, I’m also not that surprised that you found the ATMs and Wal-Mart stores to be period correct.

In commenting, I don’t mean to condescend to you as “one of those young’uns”. I just find it interesting that I can place your age – which I will guess is between 18 and 25 – based on this blog post.

Comment on Muxtape: Yeah, I’m late comin’ to this one by tgpo

tgpo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:59:16 +0000

I was a fan of the service. I found many great bands using it. Hopefully the stuff with the RIAA will be worked out soon and we can all go back to mixing.

Comment on Milkshakes by Henry

Henry — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:09:36 +0000

Blood’ fans drink up milkshake catchphrase
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES — If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, then you have Hollywood ’s hottest catchphrase.
Every year, we seem to get at least one. “I see dead people.” “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Anything from Napoleon Dynamite.

This year’s latest cinematic must-say comes from There Will Be Blood, the oil drama in which Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a crushing insult to a nemesis with the punch line “I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!”

Relatively few people have seen the movie — this past weekend, it expanded to about 1,500 theaters and its gross so far is $21.1 million — but the dialogue has taken off nonetheless.

A “There Will Be Milkshakes” video, with scenes from the film playing to Kelis’ song Milkshake, has more than 60,000 views on YouTube. IDrinkYourMilkshake.com has become a popular forum to discuss the films of There Will Be Blood director P.T. Anderson.

New York magazine even offers a user’s guide to the phrase. It suggests using it as sports metaphor (“The Celtics drank the Knicks’ milkshake last night”), a sexual double entendre or a taunt, as in “You’d best back down before I drink your milkshake.”

Anderson concedes that he’s puzzled by the phenomenon — particularly because the lines came straight from a transcript he found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Sen. Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil-drilling rights to public lands in Wyoming and California.

In explaining oil drainage, Fall’s “way of describing it was to say ‘Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I’ll end up drinking your milkshake,’ ” Anderson says. “I just took this insane concept and used it.”

So have the movie’s fans.

Kevin Kunze, 18, a student at the University of San Francisco , says he created the YouTube video “just to get people to see the movie. I loved it. I had no idea it would take off like this.”

Nor did Jurgen Fauth, the website creator.

He says he wanted simply to have an audio clip of the line, delivered in Day-Lewis’ booming baritone.

“But ( Anderson ’s) fans started using it to talk about his movies, so I made it a forum,” he says. “Although I think some people turn up the volume and hit refresh to drive their co-workers crazy.”

Not that Anderson minds — or worries that it will undermine the gravitas of the movie, which is up for eight Oscars, including best picture, director and actor.

“I love the YouTube video,” he says. “It’s completely insane and hilarious. It’s crazy what people latch on to.”

Comment on Lost in Translation: The Idiot’s Guide to the Final Scene by vid22dotcom

vid22dotcom — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:42:39 +0000

That’s rather harsh, don’t you think?

I’m an idiot?
I’m a jackass?
I’m a killjoy?

Name calling.

How very classy.

Try some decaf.

Geez.

vid22dotcom

Comment on Soul Queen Sharon Jones says: “They Jumped on Us” by bjpaddock

bjpaddock — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:13:09 +0000

I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings in concert a couple times, and I love them too. MTV.com has a tour of the Dap-Kings studio in Bushwick: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1567452&vid=169799