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The Hurt Locker

AiR — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:41:52 +0000

Overrated film, i didn’t like Jeremy Renner’s character, “SFC William James”. Maybe because he was so different? So dedicated in his suicide work, that he believes will save lives. Playing fps games like Call Of Duty using the Berret you don’t appreciate it’s aim and extensive recoil. 21st century warfare especially in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan is much more different than WWI & WWII. The guerrilla and mystic enemy is radicalized into inhumane monsters, who’s ends have little just.

This film clearly shows Americans ‘helping’ the people of Iraq, protecting them. Why? What’s the point? People from around the world hate the war, and want Americans out! The war for oil? I think we’ve gotten beyond that. The American occupation in Iraq is unnecessary, there not even a threat compared to Afghanistan. War in Iraq does produce jobs, and is apparently keeping the markets stable?

The cinematography was great, the acting was by the book. But i’m not sure if i like the screenplay.

Music For Relief

AiR — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:27:40 +0000

http://www.musicforrelief.org/ A pretty awesome way to download to donate for haiti. Artists including: Linkin Park, Lupe Fiasco, Slash, Enrique Iglesias, Slash, Hoobastank and much more have contributed unreleased tracks for you to download. Basically submit your e-mail, and MusicForRelief will send you a download link to 320kbps CBR mp3 files. Don’t forget to donate! Over the past 24 hours, the ten songs have changed, i’m going to try to include all the tracks once the event is over and update this post.

the next American Idol?

AiR — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:07:11 +0000

The first time i heard him during Idol’s summer promos i was spell bound. I was like who is this guy? MJ’s Big Blog and VFTW quickly point out that Justin Williams did indeed get into Season 8’s Hollywood round. He was infamous in the group: “White Chocolate” which also featured Matt Giraud & Kris Allen. For me their performance was “the” best and should have advanced everyone. For me this whole Michael Bublé song wasn’t popular until other artist started covering it. For me Adam Lambert first shed light on it, and then we hear Danyl Johnson and now Justin Williams.

The two hour season premiere’s highlight was the amount of makeup Simon had on versus Victoria Beckham. She rocked this lingerie underwear thing on her head for the first day, which was weird. Kara has filled in Paula’s spot in terms of being dramatic. Simon was really laid back; in Atlanta he even took a “migraine” break? Come on? For someone who makes a living out of listening to auditions, he takes a migraine break after a decade of doing this?

Justin William’s American Idol Season 9 TV Spot:
*talk about being pimped out by the producers

Click here to view the embedded video.

2010 Golden Globe Picks!

AiR — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:05:35 +0000

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Up In The Air

Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical

(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical

Matt Damon – The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis – Nine
Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days Of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Animated Feature Film

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess And The Frog
Up

Best Director – Motion Picture

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Jason Reitman – Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – District 9
Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Nancy Meyers – It’s Complicated
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – Up In The Air

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

Michael Giacchino – Up
Marvin Hamlisch – The Informant!
James Horner – Avatar
Abel Korzeniowski – A Single Man
Karen O and Carter Burwell – Where The Wild Things Are

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

“Cinema Italiano” – Nine
Music & Lyrics By: Maury Yeston

“I See You” – Avatar
Music By: James Horner and Simon Franglen
Lyrics By: James Horner, Simon Franglen and Kuk Harrell

“I Want To Come Home” – Everybody’s Fine
Music & Lyrics By: Paul McCartney

“The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” – Crazy Heart
Music & Lyrics By: Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

“Winter” – Brothers
Music By: U2
Lyrics By: Bono

Best Television Series – Drama

Big Love (HBO)
Dexter (SHOWTIME)
House (FOX)
Mad Men (AMC)
True Blood (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama

Glenn Close – Damages (FX NETWORK)
January Jones – Mad Men (AMC)
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife (CBS)
Anna Paquin – True Blood (HBO)
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama

Simon Baker – The Mentalist (CBS)
Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)
Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)
Bill Paxton – Big Love (HBO)

Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

30 Rock (NBC)
Entourage (HBO)
Glee (FOX)
Modern Family (ABC)
The Office (NBC)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

Toni Collette – United States Of Tara (SHOWTIME)
Courteney Cox – Cougar Town (ABC)
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie (SHOWTIME)
Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)
Lea Michele – Glee (FOX)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical

Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)
Steve Carell – The Office (NBC)
David Duchovny – Californication (SHOWTIME)
Thomas Jane – Hung (HBO)
Matthew Morrison – Glee (FOX)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Jane Adams – Hung (HBO)
Rose Byrne – Damages (FX NETWORK)
Jane Lynch – Glee (FOX)
Janet McTeer – Into The Storm (HBO)
Chloë Sevigny – Big Love (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Michael Emerson – Lost (ABC)
Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
William Hurt – Damages (FX NETWORK)
John Lithgow – Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO)

Mad Men

AiR — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:28:52 +0000

It’s been a very slow paced first two seasons; my first draw to Mad Men was Draper’s witty and creative aptitude. But the show got more complex and diversified to different characters and how their lives change. I must admit that Season 3 of Mad Men was 10 folds better than the previous seasons. They ripped apart the foundations of Sterling Cooper to the point they were purchased 2 times over. The new company has many names attached: Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (SCDP), personally i think Pryce might get dropped. Interestingly Campbell wasn’t able to get all his accounts to get his name on the door. Working out of a hotel?

This reminds me of ‘Michael Scott’s Paper Company’ from NBC’s “The Office”. Allot of events occurred during Season 3: Mercury Space Program (Astronauts), Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK Assassination … all-in-all the Cold War played a major role in Mad Men Season 3. The Draper later is stripped apart, but Betty? Why? Who will Draper be with? the teacher? Will Betty go back to Don?

It’s rare for me ball my eyes out at TV; although there were a few episodes in Dexter which i caught myself off guard. Episode 11, Don tears up at his half-brother’s suicide infront of Betty; it was too much for me to bear. Having said this, i’m sure there were many other themes that grown men and women could easily connect to.

Breaking Bad

AiR — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:06:00 +0000

An underrated show to say the least, but award winning? Yes. In the small town of Albuquerque, New Mexico the White family go through a terrible ordeal of terminal stage 3 of cancer. Walter White the bread winner of the family is counting his days and without universal healthcare forced to pay for his own treatment which totals an excess of $200k. How does he do this? He cooks methane fedamines with an old high school drop out. The show has allot of scientific theory which is simple to understand, and yet practical.

The intro to every episode foreshadows what’s going to happen, but there was this constant black & white intro that was irrelevant. They slowly showed us Walter’s house, his car, and then finally 2 dead bodies in his drive way. As a viewer we are completely puzzled and as Season 2 drew to a close we still had no idea what this was.

Jesse’s landlord also works for Air Traffic Control, and because of his daughter’s death he was impaired while giving instructions to IFR (instrument flight rules) traffic. Then again, the clouds were pretty clear, so anyways planes crashed in the air. And they appear to be airliners, which my opinion would have seen each other on radar or even if one radar failed, the other would have seen it. I mean what is the probability that two radars on board two different airliners died at the same time?

iPhone error (9) solution?

AiR — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:58:10 +0000

Solution?

Misleading? Yes. There is no solution to Apple iPhone’s error (9); you must replace your iPhone at the Apple Store.

Symptoms?

Your iPhone cyclically reboots itself by blanking to a white screen and then to the Apple Logo. When you try to restore the iPhone through iTunes it returns an error (9).

My Story?

I first purchased my iPhone 3G in AUG 2008 (with a 1 year warranty), and had error (9) in OCT 2009 and received a new iPhone with a 90 day warranty. The Apple Genius representative was sympathetic and gave me a new iPhone 2 months out of my warranty. 80 days later i get the same error (9) and received another iPhone.

Causes?

Having had 2 iPhones with this error, i can postulate the causes.

Car Audio systems have iPod input jacks, and when iPhones are connected you receive a disclaimer “iPod Accessories” and not compatible. But you can still listen to your playlist & charge the phone while ignoring the disclaimer; you will however notice latency issues while trying to multi-task when connected.

At times when i receive phone calls and i unplug the USB connection the music still plays in the background of the conversation through the ear piece.

The first time the iPhone cyclically rebooted itself was while charging the phone through a wall jack. I first thought there may have been a power surge making the iPhone act abnormally. And went to the Apple Store to have it replaced.

I’ve had the iPhone auto-restart to the Apple Logo while connected to my Car’s iPod USB port. It miraculously comes back to life when i leave it alone. During one of these episodes the iPhone took a self screenshot of the screen by itself and stored it in Photos.

The latest episode was while music was playing and i wanted to use the MapQuest app, and when i hit “find my current location” it cyclically rebooted itself forcing me to use a payphone and miss an important appointment.

Purchasing an iPhone 3GS will not solve your problem, because the latest generation iPhone also suffer from the same issues.

Bottom Line: You need to replace your iPhone! I’ve already browsed through hundreds of online forums and it seems everyone says the same thing: Hold ‘Home & Power’ get it to DFU Mode and restore it. But it doesn’t work for us …

The Prisoner

AiR — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:21:22 +0000

It was intellectually stimulating? I think not. The entire village was inside 2’s wife’s head. And 6 recruited everyone into the village, and at the end the mini-series 6 realizes that Village actually helps people. That the village exists in their sub-conscious, but we don’t know it living consciously. But reproducing in this village? Dreamers keeping the village stable from weather anomalies. Mind over matter?

Hot Fuzz

AiR — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:54:45 +0000

I was hesitant to watch the film because of the mindlessness of Shaun of the Dead; but the creators have put some sense into this film. The film does have the X Factor, in the sense that it’s plot twists and musical scores are abrupt and surprising. It’s full of action, and tons of watch! There are however very little “laughs”, it draws on much more serious tone. ~~If you’ve got 120 minutes to burn, burning it with Hot Fuzz might cool you down.~~

Avatar

AiR — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:36:56 +0000

3D Experience was breathtaking to say the least, James Cameron has set new benchmarks in movie-making. I understand why people aren’t happy with the story because it mirrors ‘Pocahontas’. PhillyD said it related to Tom Cruise’s, ‘Last Samurai’ which yes … you could say it does. Yes, it was predictable but Cameron wasn’t going for a twisted story plot, moreover he was going archetypal to solidify Avatar as a classic.

For 3 hours your just immersed into this new and exciting world of Pandora. Middle Earth doesn’t come close to the wonders Pandora has to hold. Not a single frame of the film looks like it’s ‘blue-screened’. Allot of the scenes where people are falling in films look fake, but it looks surreal in Avatar. I spent $20 watching it in IMAX 3D, but allot of reviews have hailed the Regular 3D experience was better because it had no ghosting at wider viewing angles.

I’m looking forward to revisiting Avatar when it comes out in Blu-Ray in a few months time. Michelle Rodriguez was herself as always. She’s like Will Smith, they make the films adapt to themselves. But Rodriguez may not have died, we know that her chopper went down, but she “could” still be alive.

The film ends with Jake Sully lives his life in his Avatar body rather than his crippled state.