The Writers Strike according to a Hollywood executive. As written by striking Colbert Report writers.
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Ze Frank on the writers strike – I know this is old… for some reason I’m just thinking to post it now.
Saw Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band play tonight at ScotiaBank Place in Ottawa – definitely one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. Here’s the setlist – check out who joined them during the encore:
Radio Nowhere
The Ties That Bind
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
Magic
Reason To Believe
Adam Raised A Cain
She’s The One
Livin’ In The Future
The Promised Land
Tougher Than The Rest
Backstreets
Darlington County
Devil’s Arcade
The Rising
Last To Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
Girls In Their Summer Clothes
State Trooper (with Arcade Fire)
Keep The Car Running (with Arcade Fire)
Born To Run (with Arcade Fire)
Dancing In The Dark
American Land
Arcade Fire Rocks With Springsteen In Ottawa
UPDATE: Now with video!
Caution: extreme awesomeness.
“A good television show makes you forget about your world.
A great television show creates a new world for you to inhabit each week.”
A great review of Weeds which returns to the Canadian airwaves this week. This show is by far one of the best shows on television. If you’ve not been watching, get out and rent the first season DVD’s – you’ll be hooked, I swear.
Great news from Trent Reznor: “Hello everyone. I’ve waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label.”
Very interesting times ahead to be sure.
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks – we put up Michel Tremblay’s Forever Yours Marie-Lou this past weekend. Production week was hectic. The whole process has been very fun and really a great re-introduction to theatre for me. The other principals in the company have embraced me with open arms and I expect we’ll be doing many more works together. I’ll try to write more about the experience later. Right now, I’m in recovery mode.
The folks behind torrent site The Pirate Bay have launched a new site, OscarTorrents for all your Oscar Film needs.
To those worried about downloading in case they get sued: by our calculations, your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lottery. Don’t think twice about it.
To all intellectual property landlords: we are aware that OscarTorrents might annoy you — but contain your righteous indignation for a while, and think: we’re only linking to torrents that already exist. Face it: your membrane has burst, and it wasn’t us who burst it. Your precious bodily fluids are escaping.
You haven’t beaten us, so why not join us? Think of a new business model that doesn’t involve overpriced pieces of plastic and skanky cinemas hawking cheap carbohydrates while relying on $6/hr projectionists who can’t keep a film in focus — not to mention insulting your audiences by (to pick a few examples) surveilling us with nightvision glasses, searching bags, 30 minutes of commercials and bombarding us with ridiculous anti-piracy propaganda. Take a look at yourselves. Is it really any wonder we’re winning?
Zing!
Now Wal-Mart’s partying like it’s 1997 with this lovely “Unsupported Browser” message. This is so embarrassing for them… couldn’t afford a good web development company? Come on…
Update: they’re even using a spacer.gif to display the error message – talk about living in the past…