There’s a horny boy crisis in this country, and Granny G from America’s Got Talent is the only octogenarian sassy and talent enough to address it! Too long have our horny boys wandered the wilderness alone without guidance, devoid of rapping voices who will reach out to them, commanding them to keep it in their pants. Alerting them to the fact that babies eat money like Yogi Bear eats honey. Sadly,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : VH1’s Today In Music Discovery Date : 16/05/2012 05:23 Number of articles : 2
You already know you’re in for a twee-fest packed with richly colorful characters and a healthy dose of quirky charm in Wes Anderson ‘s period kid romance Moonrise Kingdom , so watching these six newly unveiled clips from the film probably won’t spoil all that much. Instead, they give us more of what we’re already expecting: Game turns by Anderson regulars like Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman as well as Bruce Willis , Frances McDormand , and Ed Norton , the hazy muted palette of the isolated New England countryside as if filtered through Instagram, and our two preternatural adolescent heroes, plotting their summer camp flight through the wilderness in the name of love. Obviously, avoid the below clips if you’d like to go in completely spoiler-free. While I’m guessing the scenes in question occur in the below order in the film, who knows? The charm of Moonrise Kingdom promises to be in the performances (get a fun glimpse of Tilda Swinton ‘s ball-busting turn as Social Services, for instance), though I will add this spoiler: Moonrise Kingdom ‘s dolly shot budget appears to have been quite high. “New Penzance” “The Most Important Decision in Your Lives” “Were You Followed?” “Loaded Question” “I’m Deputizing the Little Guy” “Juvenile Refugee” Official synopsis: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl. Moonrise Kingdom debuts at Cannes and opens in limited release May 25.
After years in the wilderness, Drake finally makes a video for the ages. By James Montgomery Drake and Rihanna in “Take Care” video Photo: Universal Over the past three years, Drake has risen from mixtape maestro to genuine superstar; the kind of enigmatic talent who can proudly embrace his “emotional” side one minute, then release the “Practice” video the next. And in doing so, he has carved out a rather unique niche in the world of hip-hop and R&B — and we’re not just talking about his sweaters. Often duplicated, but never replicated, there truly is no one making music quite like him. And yet, despite all that (and no offense to the wobbly, wonderful “Practice” clip), Drake has never made a truly great music video, or at least one that fits neatly into his maudlin, monochromatic world. Until now, that is. On Friday (April 6), Drake finally premiered his long-in-the-works “Take Care” clip. And yes, it was worth the wait. Full of massively icy landscapes, achingly tense slow-motion footage, artfully framed animals and, uh, Rihanna, it is basically Drake personified. Morose and masterful, slow-burning and incredibly sexual (even when it’s not supposed to be), it exudes both an incredible level of restraint and an over-the-top amount of pomp. It is very serious, very cold, very pained. Nothing much really happens, but at its conclusion, you feel like you’ve been through an awful lot (maybe a journey through the mind of Damien Hirst?). None of his contemporaries — not even the ever-obtuse Kanye — make videos like this, mostly because no one else can get away with it. Directed by Yoann Lemoine — who described the video to MTV News back in February as “very minimal” (he wasn’t kidding) — “Take Care” smolders with an underlying tension. You feel it in the sinewy slo-mo shots of bulls charging and birds taking flight, the gradual crumbling of icons, the shower of arrows and even the tender, charged embrace Drake and Rihanna share. And in that regard, the clip is also a perfect accompaniment to the track’s main bit of source material: Jamie XX’s lovely, languorous remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s cover of “I’ll Take Care of You,” which practically burns with want. And when the drums finally do break through, and Heron’s voice is echoing around the room, there is, mercifully, a release — one Lemoine shows with footage of burning trees and smoking earth. All the iciness melts away, and we’re left with something even more, something elemental. And you sort of feel like you need a cold shower. And because of all that, “Take Care” stands head and shoulders above most other videos, regardless of genre. Full of bold imagery and a tugging sense of regret and doubt, it isn’t merely art for art’s sake (though it’s easy to see Drake’s detractors dismissing it as such); it’s actual art. Welcome to the club, Drizzy; you’ve finally made one for the ages. Who cares if it’s been six months since Take Care was released? In the words of another misunderstood genius — the immortal Jack Horner — ” This is the film I want them to remember me by.” What did you think of Drake’s “Take Care” video? Share your reviews in the comments!
Check out the hot new cover of Entertainment Weekly , featuring various disembodied portions of Avengers stars Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johannson, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Chris Hemsworth slapped into an illustration that makes the Argentinian Jack and Jill poster look like a Norman Rockwell painting. Listen, EW : My floating-head Photoshop services are available for cheap any time you need them; inquire (and get the rest of today’s Buzz Break) within.
While it’s not quite enough to fuel a whole feature, the premise of Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a slice of meta-genre brilliance: What if the creepy, forbidding locals who always glare so unwelcomingly at slasher movie protagonists on their way to their haunted mansions and creepy cabins in the woods were actually just misunderstood? What if they were only trying to make conversation, and it’s the college students/horny teenagers/yuppie vacationers who rush to judge and act hostile and end up dying in the wilderness? In a particularly nice touch, the hillbilly heroes of this horror-comedy (which leans far heavier toward the latter half of that equation) are actually headed to a weekend getaway themselves. Tucker (Alan Tudyk) has saved up enough to buy a “fixer-upper,” a dilapidated cabin that evidence indicates might have once belonged to a psycho killer — but hey, it’s on a lake.
Filed under: Tiger Woods , Rachel Uchitel Rachel Uchitel is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Tiger Woods car crash by getting lost in the bushes … (that’s what she said). Rachel is going on a 70-mile hike in the wilderness Santa Monica mountains.
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SPOT emergency personal communicator device, with “SOS” button. Image credit: Amazon ad . Many younger Americans, devoid of such early life experiences as one would get from Boy Scouting or hunting, emboldened by a proliferation of cheap GPS devices, and perhaps encouraged by the recent outpouring of ‘survival shows’ are doing the dumb dance into the wild. The results can be at both public and personal expense.
Street artist Philip Lumbang’s “New Life” on found charred metal. Photos: R.Cruger With the latest fires raging in Arizona and Brazil , I’m reminded of last year’s notorious Station Fire, the largest to ever hit Los Angeles County, destroying more than 250-acres of Angeles National Forest in August 2009, confounding firefighters with the ferocity of its reach. Ash covered my yard, particulates filled the air and a reddish haze hovered. Massive flames in the hillside were viewable within walking distance. While I holed up with t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Nicolas Roeg’s famous 1971 career-establisher Walkabout seems in synopsis to be subtext-laden adventure saga: a young British boy and his teenage sister are lost in the Outback, and survive only thanks to the friendship of a teen Aboriginal boy hunting in the desert. But it’s really about sex. Sex, sex, sex, from virtually the first anxious scenes back in Adelaide, where the siblings’ father watches his nubile daughter frolic in the pool, and later when they’re in the wilderness for a picnic, when every glimpse of her legs and peachy skin makes the man glower. Soon enough, he’s got the gun and gasoline out, ready for a full-on murder-suicide, and the kids escape with only a little lemonade and the boy’s toys.
