Artist: Kailash Kher
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
Kailasa
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Kohinoor Langa Group
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Kailash Kher
Artist: Kailash Kher
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
Kailasa
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Kohinoor Langa Group
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Abdul readying her comeback record
'American Idol' judge Paula Abdul has announced that she is planning to release her first album in 13 years.
Billboard reports that the as-yet-untitled album will feature remixes of the singer's hits and new songs.
Abdul recently appeared on fellow 'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson's new album on the track 'Dance Like There's No Tomorrow'.
Commenting on her new album, which she hopes to release before Christmas, Abdul said: "I will always be grateful for Randy getting me back into even the idea of helping me do this. I didn't realise how much I missed it."
Billboard reports that the as-yet-untitled album will feature remixes of the singer's hits and new songs.
Abdul recently appeared on fellow 'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson's new album on the track 'Dance Like There's No Tomorrow'.
Commenting on her new album, which she hopes to release before Christmas, Abdul said: "I will always be grateful for Randy getting me back into even the idea of helping me do this. I didn't realise how much I missed it."
In "When You Are Engulfed in Flames," some stories burn brighter than others
"When You Are Engulfed
in Flames"
by David Sedaris
Little, Brown, 336 pp., $25.99
"When New York banned smoking in restaurants, I stopped eating out. When they banned it in the workplace I quit working, and when they raised the price of cigarettes to seven dollars a pack, I gathered all my stuff together and went to France."
David Sedaris is nothing if not dramatic, and I love him for it. We have a fabulous relationship that goes back over many years. I don't need to disclose this, because Sedaris has no idea who I am. I do feel I know him, though, like so many of his other readers, imagining him as a gossipy best friend who spins out stories in a droll, you-can't-fool-me-sister tone of voice that sounds even better in person than it does on the page (his public readings are SRO). This is the rare writer who makes you feel more charming and witty after every encounter.
After years as a failed painter and dedicated drug user, Sedaris became a breakthrough talent based on a single NPR segment called "SantaLand Diaries." It turned out he had an extraordinary gift for telling the smallest tales. He's a master of modern minutiae, forever getting himself stuck in some oddball situation and having to lie, cheat or chat his way out of it. This can lead to him wondering what to do on an airplane after he's hacked a lozenge onto the chest of a sleeping woman who's just been yelling at him. Or to his using old album covers to defeat a bird attack on his country home in France ... which makes him think about 9/11. When you're in David's world, that's just the way it is.
"When You Are Engulfed in Flames" is the sixth collection of Sedaris essays and easily his darkest (literally: the shadowy sepia cover has a skeleton smoking a cigarette). The title comes from a tourist advice card he discovers in Hiroshima, Japan, where he's gone, by some David-ish logic, to quit smoking. The trip costs $23,000, but it works.
Not so all the stories. "Flames" reads like a hit-and-miss set; some selections simply run out of ideas before they're over.
The best pieces, as ever, are the most closely observed, including those about his boyfriend, Hugh, that resolve into bittersweet comments about their mutual love and dependency. Artist Hugh, along with being an apparently tremendous companion, is also great material. When it's his birthday, he wants the perfect skeleton for use as a drawing model and that warrants a hunt through all of Paris (no, they didn't get the baby skeleton).
Maybe Sedaris is making some of this stuff up, but who cares?
Also appearing are members of Sedaris' family: his parents, who start collecting art to prove they know more about it than he does, and his sister Amy, the actress, who tries to amp up his wardrobe with the constant advice: "Buy it." (This applies to anything "from a taxidermied horse head to a camouflage thong.")
The ultimate Sedaris character this time is his old neighbor Helen, who drives the entire neighborhood crazy but cannot be ignored as she's dying: "I am not a terribly physical person," Sedaris writes. "Helen wasn't either ... so it was odd to find myself rubbing her bare shoulders and then her back. It was, I thought, like stroking some sort of sea creature. ... The windows were steamed, Tony Bennett was on the radio, and saying, 'Please,' her voice catching on the newness of the word, Helen asked me to turn it up."
"When You Are Engulfed in Flames" isn't the best way to introduce a new reader to Sedaris. But for fans, it's good just to be back at the table, hearing that unforgettable voice chatting away. Kind of like catching up with one of your best friends. It's not always what they have to say, but the endearingly entertaining way they say it.
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Friday, 20 June 2008
Art Of Infinity
Artist: Art Of Infinity
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Dimension Universe
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
James Horner
The Walkmen To Release You And Me Later This Year
The Walkmen have spent the last two year period writing and recording their fourth album 'You and Me', now finally the band plan to release it later this Fall / Autumn.
The record has fourteen songs altogether and apparently recording took part in two separate locations - the first being Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Mississippi and the rest in Gigantic Studios in New York.
The track listing for 'You and Me' is:
D�nde est� la Playa
Flamingos (for Colbert)
On the Water
In the New Year
Seven Years of Holidays (for Stretch)
Postcards from Tiny Islands
Red Moon
Canadian Girl
Four Provinces
Long Time Ahead of Us
The Blue Route
New Country
I Lost You
If Only It Were True
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Latifah: They Took a Holiday from Paying Me!
Queen Latifah wants her clams! The singer/rapper/actress has filed suit against a small production company, claiming they haven't paid her for her cameo in the flick "The Perfect Holiday"
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, says Perfect Christmas Productions owes Mama $275,000. Latifah, whose real name is Dana Owens, also produced the film.
The film, not to be confused with the critically acclaimed "Last Holiday," was originally called "Perfect Christmas."
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The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, says Perfect Christmas Productions owes Mama $275,000. Latifah, whose real name is Dana Owens, also produced the film.
The film, not to be confused with the critically acclaimed "Last Holiday," was originally called "Perfect Christmas."
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Forefather
Artist: Forefather
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Rock
Discography:
Ours Is The Kingdom
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
The Fighting Man
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Legends Untold
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Deep Into Time
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Paul Mccartney - Paul Mccartney Set To Perform At Anfield
Shrek 2 - Live-actionanimation Smurf Movie In The Works
A hybrid movie based on The Smurfs is in development, reports claim.
Sony Pictures Animation has snapped up the rights for the blue characters from their Belgian owners and plans to produce a live-action/animated movie in a similar vein to 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Jordan Kerner will produce while David Stem and David Weiss, the men behind the screenplays for Shrek 2 and 3, are in talks to write the Smurf screenplay, according to Variety.
Created in 1958 by Belgian cartoonist Pierre Culliford, or Peyo, the beloved characters were first designed as minor characters for a series of comic books only to spawn a successful line of merchandise and novelty albums and a hit animated series.
Kerner told the magazine the plans were sparked by a holiday conversation with Michael Lynton, chairman-chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
"He relished them as I do and suggested that it should be a live-action/CG film," he said. "[Studio boss] Amy [Pascal] felt equally that there was potentially a series of films in the making."
Columbia Pictures co-president Doug Belgrad added: "The Smurfs are one of the best-known franchises, and among the most beloved collection of characters in the world.
"We're very excited to introduce a new generation to Papa Smurf, Smurfette and the other smurftastic Smurfs in all of their 'three-apple-tall' glory."
10/06/2008 09:08:02
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Keira Knightley - Knightley Rebels Against Mothers Advice Over Film Role
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY clashed with her screenwriter mother SHARMAN MACDONALD over their forthcoming movie THE EDGE OF LOVE - because the actress refused to play the part her mum had specifically written for her.
MACdonald told her daughter she had penned the role of Caitlin Thomas just for her in the upcoming film about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas - but the 23-year-old had other ideas.
MACdonald recalls, "I said, 'You're playing Caitlin,' and she said, 'No, I like Vera.'"
As a result, the part of Vera Phillips, one of the Welsh poet's love interests, was transformed - to Knightley's liking.
MACdonald adds: "She wasn't even a singer until Keira decided to play her."
The movie is set for its world premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland on 18 June (08).
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
Marly
Artist: Marly
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
You Never Know
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
SAG chief risks striking sour note
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