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Odd Future Previews Their New ‘Loiter Squad’ TV Show [Video]

zilvinas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:21:52 +0000

» by The Kid Skoob February 22, 2012, 18:33pm

It looks like the visual for “Rella” was just a preview of what’s to come from Odd Future. The Cali rappers will be taking their act to the small screen for Loiter Squad, which will premiere on the Adult Swim channel on March 25th.

The launch of their sketch comedy show will surely provide a lot of random, and very off the wall moments. Be on the look out for their upcoming project The OF Tape Vol. 2 dropping March 20th.

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Sheek Louch & Ghostface Killah – “Hands Up” [Listen/Download]

zilvinas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:46:26 +0000

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» by The Kid Skoob February 22, 2012, 18:08pm

Sheek Louch and Ghostface team up for a new release with “Hands Up.” The Wu-Block album has been in the works for quite some time now, so hopefully this is one of many new releases to come.

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Sheek Louch & Ghostface Killah – “Hands Up” [Listen/Download]

zilvinas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:01:23 +0000

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» by The Kid Skoob February 22, 2012, 18:08pm

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?Remodeled?s? Paul Fisher: I Want to Create Role Models, Not Just Models

zilvinas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:14:31 +0000

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Modeling agent Paul Fisher has a reputation as a bit of a hothead, often screaming at small-town agency staffers and up-and-coming stars on his CW show, Remodeled. But the businessman insists his actions are all born out of love.

?We?re creating role models, not just models,? he tells PEOPLE. ?I think that it?s one of the hardest businesses in the world for young kids to be involved in.? And though his show, which he calls a ?docu-series,? is all about finding the next hot catwalker, Fisher says he often tries to discourage young kids from getting into the industry in the first place. ?I don?t think any kid should model, with one exception: if the kid can kill it,? he explains.

On Remodeled, Fisher ? formerly an agent to Naomi Campbell and Stephanie Seymour ? visits agencies in towns across the country and whips them into shape, then helps them take a local kid and turn him or her into a pro ? all in a matter of weeks. ?I try to make an agency in a small town like Rapid City look and feel like a New York City agency,? he explains.

But he?s careful in his approach; Fisher himself keeps drug counselors, healthcare providers, body image experts and parenting experts on his payroll, and sets serious standards for the young adults he represents. ?I think that our industry is putting out the most disgusting images into the world, and kids are looking at these images, thinking they themselves are not pretty,? he says. ?Our industry has to take responsibility for the images we?re putting out there.?

To that end, he credits designers like Diane von Furstenberg and Donna Karan with encouraging models to stay healthy (and in some cases, not walk the runways until they hit 16). ?They care about the kids, the kinds of images that their campaigns are putting out there,? he says.

And he hopes that some of the fashion industry?s up-and-comers ? young beauties like Arizona Muse, Karlie Kloss and Lara Stone ? take their jobs as role models to heart. ?Some of these ladies are giving back in a strong way,? he shares. ?But I have nieces who look up to some of these models. I want them to have a healthy perception of what beautiful means.? Catch the season finale of Remodeled tonight, Wednesday Feb. 21, at 9 p.m. ET.

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Charlie Sheen apologizes to Ashton Kutcher — in character [Poll]

zilvinas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:16:23 +0000

Charlie Sheen, who last week slammed Ashton Kutcher and “Two and a Half Men” as ‘completely adrift,” has issued an apology to his replacement on the hit sitcom. Oddly, however, he signed it with the name of his killed-off “Two and a Half Men” character, Charlie Harper.

The apology, delivered via Twitter in the 7 a.m. hour Tuesday, reads as follows:

Dear Ashton-
My bad.
I was disrespectful to a man doing his best.
I got excited and threw you into a crossfire.
The rest of my statement I stand behind.
You, however, deserve better.
Safety in your travels good sir.
- The “late” Charlie Harper

It’s all a bit more tempered than the opinion he delivered calling in to “TMZ Live” Thursday:

“I’m tired of lying,” Sheen said on the webisode. “I’m tired of pretending the show doesn’t suck. I’m tired of pretending Ashton doesn’t suck. I’m tired of pretending that they’re not completely adrift. Because when you take away the anchor of your show, which they stupidly did, you go adrift. And these guys are approaching salvage vessel.”

As Show Tracker pointed out last week, that “salvage vessel” is doing better in the ratings this season than it did the last few years with Sheen.

Sheen — who’ll be seen next in the sitcom “Anger Management” on FX — blamed the writers, saying of Kutcher, “I feel bad for him. He’s saddled with such bad writing. … There’s just nothing about it that’s fresh or interesting. I forget that it’s on the air.”

What say you — should this apology be accepted? Or should Kutcher wait to see if he can offer constructive criticism on “Anger Management” instead?

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Photo: Charlie Sheen arrives at Fox’s All-Star Party at Castle Green in Pasadena on Jan. 8. Credit: Kevin Winter / Getty Images

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2012/02/charlie-sheen-ashton-kutcher-apology-two-and-a-half-men.html

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Michael Phelps Will ?Never? Shave His Head

zilvinas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:45:27 +0000

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Daily chlorine exposure wreaks havoc on star swimmer Michael Phelps?s hair. ?It feels dead at times,? he admits to PEOPLE. But dealing with dry scalp issues isn?t enough to make the Olympian go to extremes.

?I would never shave my hair, zero shot,? he says. ?If it falls out then it falls out. But I could never actually take a razor to my head and BIC it. I just couldn?t imagine it. I couldn?t see myself without hair.?

Luckily he won?t need to resort to shaving anytime soon: Phelps is the face (and, um, scalp) of the Head & Shoulders ?Wash in Confidence? campaign, designed to boost self-esteem through healthy hair. ?Head & Shoulders really helps re-moisturize my head, my hair and my scalp,? the athlete says. ?It feels good, it feels clean.?

Phelps?s face is on select bottles of Head & Shoulders now, a part of the campaign he calls ?kind of weird, strange and cool. I never imagined I?d be on the front of a shampoo bottle.? But he?s happy to be a spokesman for the brand, especially going into the 2012 London summer Olympics.

?Over the last eight months to a year, this is probably the happiest I?ve been since Beijing,? he admits. ?I feel confident, I?m excited, I?m training, and I feel like I?m heading in the right direction to be able to accomplish my goals.?

Though the swimmer confirms that these will be his final Olympic games ? ?I always told myself I would never swim past the age of 30,? the 26-year-old explains ? he?s looking forward to accomplishing a lot out of the pool through his Michael Phelps Foundation.

?I?m helping kids live healthy and active lifestyles, and learning how to swim is something I think all kids need,? he says. ?It?s fun for me to always be around kids, have them smiling and enjoying themselves, and teaching them that they can do anything they set their minds to.?

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Charlie Sheen apologizes to Ashton Kutcher — in character [Poll]

zilvinas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:06:16 +0000

The apology, delivered via Twitter in the 7 a.m. hour Tuesday, reads as follows:

Dear Ashton-
My bad.
I was disrespectful to a man doing his best.
I got excited and threw you into a crossfire.
The rest of my statement I stand behind.
You, however, deserve better.
Safety in your travels good sir.
- The “late” Charlie Harper

It’s all a bit more tempered than the opinion he delivered calling in to “TMZ Live” Thursday:

As Show Tracker pointed out last week, that “salvage vessel” is doing better in the ratings this season than it did the last few years with Sheen.

What say you — should this apology be accepted? Or should Kutcher wait to see if he can offer constructive criticism on “Anger Management” instead?

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Photo: Charlie Sheen arrives at Fox’s All-Star Party at Castle Green in Pasadena on Jan. 8. Credit: Kevin Winter / Getty Images

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2012/02/charlie-sheen-ashton-kutcher-apology-two-and-a-half-men.html

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Tim Kasher of Cursive explains the concept behind ‘I Am Gemini’

zilvinas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:38:30 +0000

Cursive fans are used to hearing frontman Tim Kasher scream tales of torture and crushing self-doubt, all while attempting to offer sobering life lessons. But when his band decided to go the concept album route for its latest release, the destructive love affairs and carnival metaphors of earlier albums such as “Domestica” and “The Ugly Organ” were replaced with a look at the darker side of a sibling rivalry.

The core of new album “I Am Gemini,” released today via Saddle Creek, tells a surreal and psychoanalytic tale of twin brothers separated at birth, Cassius and Pollock. One is good and the other is evil, and their unexpected reunion in a creepy house ignites nothing short of a struggle for the soul, played out with a cast of supporting characters that includes a chorus of angels and devils, as well as twin sisters conjoined at the head.

Even for a band that has reveled in a mix of post-punk rage and esoteric prose, “I Am Gemini” elevated the group’s songwriting to dramatic extremes, Kasher joked in a recent phone coversation.

“We?ve always recognized ourselves as a very pretentious band, as far as our presentation, and this is probably the most excessive it?s gotten,” Kasher said. “So I was approaching it much more as a musical than a rock opera.”

Those who missed out on tickets to the band’s sold-out Troubadour show Friday can catch Cursive at an Amoeba in-store Thursday at 7 p.m. Below, Kasher discusses the album’s concept and how he embraced his inner playwright.

Despite having released several thematic records, did the idea of Cursive tackling a concept album seem daunting at first?

“It happens where early in the songwriting process I get really ambitious and I want to be able to tell the stories on a more complete level. But in the past, it was something I was never really able to see through and it just never really came together.

“We?ve had a tendency to fight against this kind of conceptualization as a band in the past, but I just always gravitate towards it. For all these albums, I?ve kind of hit a point where I just lost the urge to follow through with these kinds of ideas. But this time, it worked out.”

Were the characters Cassius and Pollock something you developed from real life, Greek mythology or your own fiction?

“At its root, it?s an idea I?ve had for years about wanting to write from a journal of frustration that I have where I tend to write about whether or not I?m getting along with myself. It?s an argument that I think most of us tend to have. So I?m using those conflicting voices in my head and from there it set in motion this fictionalized story.”

Since you wrote the music for the album first, did the sequence of the songs start our with a clear thematic direction?

“We worked on all the music first, which is what we normally do. I?ll write melodies, but I don?t write lyrics first. The difference this time around is that I developed this complete story and sequenced songs for the album before I started writing the lyrics. I asked them if they?d be all right with me taking a stab at trying to write this story linearly from Track 1 to the end of the album. We did write the songs out of order, initially. But before starting the lyrics, I put the songs in order for the album, so each song represented a specific occurrence within the story.”

Was there a feeling of trying to capture some sounds from previous albums to craft this one?

“For this album, what we did was return to a more meticulous idea of creating songs. It?s sort of the most comfortable approach that we?ve done as Cursive is to really examine the verse and bridge and really chopping them up and putting lots of ‘tricks’ in all the songs, which is just our way of saying making the songs more intricate. But the last couple albums, we had gotten tired of always taking the same approach so we started to streamline the songs a little bit more and let them flow on their own, more like a jam band.”

Any plans on performing this concept album live from beginning to end?

“We?ve been talking about that and there?s been a lot of interest, and it?s something that we?d consider doing down the road. Hopefully, people who respond to the album would get a kick out of that. But for now, I think we?ll do what any proper rock and roll band would do on tour.”

Is there a part of the album?s story that was the most intense for you to write?

“I might suggest the song ‘Cat and Mouse’ for a couple reasons. For one, those words took the longest to write because it?s a literally aggressive song about Cassius wanting to kill his brother. That?s when things kind of got so grand and so epic, because I don?t write about murder, because I?m totally unfamiliar with the topic, so it took a long time to write because it always seemed so cheesy to me. So to my ears anyway, it seemed like I finally sorted it out. That?s been a better one for me, I?d say.”

Is there a different sense of accomplishment with “I Am Gemini”? Would you want to do a project like this again? Do you think you’ve broken any boundaries as a songwriter?

“Yeah, for myself, it?s something that I?ve always wanted to do. In the back of my mind, I?ve always wanted to take that thematic element in our albums a little further. So it was a good sense of completion. I would definitely like to do more stuff like this. I just think it doesn?t usually come together. This one just kind of miraculously made its way to completion and now we get to live with that.”

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– Nate Jackson

Photo: Cursive is, from left, Ted Stevens, Cully Symington, Tim Kasher, Patrick Newbery, Matt Maginn. Credit: Daniel Muller

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/02/tim-kasher-cursive-new-concept-album-i-am-gemini.html

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Michael Phelps Will ?Never? Shave His Head

zilvinas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:39:22 +0000

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Rapper Fabolous Drops $45,000 on 120 BOTTLES Inside Atlanta Nightclub

zilvinas — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:54:21 +0000

Rapper Fabolous got a record number of people wasted last weekend in Atlanta — dropping $45,000 on 120 BOTTLES of champagne at a nightclub … and it was all a favor for his good friend.

Sources tell TMZ, Fab bought the bottles of Rosé Moët as a present for his buddy — who was celebrating his birthday at Club Compound in Atlanta last Saturday.

The bottles were delivered in a golden bath-shaped litter by club personnel — you know, that wheelless carriage thing royalty travels in … usually carried on the shoulders of their half-naked royal subjects.

According to sources, Fab was hosting the event — and decided to show everyone in the club a good time by comping the endless flow of booze.

He be killin’ em.

Source: http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/22/fabolous-120-bottles/

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