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Coldplay lead Grammy nominations

BRITISH talent has dominated the nominations for record of the year at the US Grammy Awards. Coldplay, who earned a total of seven nominations, will compete with fellow Britons Adele, Leona Lewis, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and MIA for the major honour at the awards show next year. The British rock band, Radiohead, and Plant will also face each other in the album of the year category while Welsh singer Duffy, who shot to number one with her catchy single, Mercy, and fellow British sou

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EQ Interview With Frankmusik

  Frankmusik (aka Vince Frank) is making quite the splash and I'm totally in love with his new single "3 Little Words" which is out now.  He's the next big name in electronic pop and his debut album is one of the most anticpatied albums of 2009.  I'm actually just as excited about it as Imogen's Heap's new album, which says a lot.  Make sure you visit Frankmusik's MySpace to sample some of the hot tunes that has the pop blogs a buzzing... Hello Vince - How are you today and where are you ans

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'Pushing Daisies' vs. the Muffin Buffalo

This week's Pushing Daisies had it all -- a deep-fried murder case, a couple of good guest turns, a Debbie Gibson song and a big, fat call-back to another Bryan Fuller show, Wonderfalls. It's almost enough to make me forget that we'll probably only get to see a few more episodes. Sigh. These spoilers only contain a handful of herbs and spices, not 500. Wednesday's action was split between Ned and Olive's battle at the Comfort Food Cookoff and Chuck and Emerson's efforts to deal with the un-de

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It's too late to apologise

I am a blogging fiend, I give the impression of constancy . But look! How long has it been since the formal and still where is that entry? Nowhere to be seen, well suffer no longer my blog-thirsty friends, your magniloquent fairy is back from what may be an expired period of indolence! I started the formal entry rest-assured, I just couldn't commit to finish it haha. Well here goes my precious darlings! ---------------------------- What a day, I must say. Let us pray we will never forget the me

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Matt Wells: Glass Tiger

So right off the bat, I was a little bummed that I wouldn't be jumping on a plane to some random location like Missoula Montana (Huey Lewis) or Cabo (stay tuned over the holidays for THAT episode) for a Where You At, Baby?! The idea of checking out random neighborhoods in Toronto wasn't very exciting. But that all changed really quickly. The challenge that we faced for the first time on any of our shoots with Glass Tiger was the fact that we were profiling a full band as opposed to just one

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Some Pre-Grammy Grammy Predictions

The Grammys are on tonight (Dec.3) — oh, wait. Scratch that. The Grammy nominations are on tonight. You have to wait until February to see who wins, but tonight you can find out who’s in the running (and watch Taylor Swift co-host and perform). The Recording Academy says that by announcing nominations at night, they can really bring the ultimate amount of attention to the beginning of Grammy season. Or, they can just drag it out to try to pull in more prime-time advertising revenue. Either way,

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is your betty ready?

This morning, while I was waiting for my coffee to brew, I checked my email and noticed something from Caryn. Caryn sends me links and news stories to keep me informed about all sorts of things, and thanks to her, I know so much stuff I wouldn’t have a clue about otherwise. Caryn is the greatest. Seriously. Anyway, this morning, before I’d even had any coffee, mind you, I clicked on the link she sent me and wound up at bettybeauty.com, reading a poem about holiday pube dye. If you’ve been ar

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winter melon

Hello people! How are you all doing? Still complaining about not having a job? DON'T! College will be starting in less than a month.Help International College of Technology (HICT Klang) Open Day 200813 and 14 December 2008 (Saturday and Sunday)10am to 6pmLevel 5, Klang Parade (I just realised that level 5 in Heroes is where all the superpower humans are kept xD)Among the programmes available here are:American Degree Programme (Southern New Hampshire University),University of London programme,Edi

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ACTING CLASS, Part 8 by Gregg Gethard

Things just seem to happen to Gregg Gethard. After telling a few stories at comedy shows in New York City, he created his own monthly show in Philly, BEDTIME STORIES, to tell a few more. Over the past two years the show has grown in audience and features some of the best comics in the city. Here, Gregg ends his eight-part series on an acting class he took in Montclair, New Jersey. [Read Part I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII] The final Bedtime Stories at the Shubin Theatre (407 Bainbridge St.) is

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That’s Ms Scrooge to you!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6 responses Yesterday was my first day back in the office since before Thanksgiving. And was I in for a surprise. Our office has started playing Christmas music. All day, every day. Through the entire month of December. Shoot me now. Our floor of the building has two offices on it. (Think Dunder Mifflin and Vance Refrigeration.*) However, in our case, we all work for the same company. We are just different business units a

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That’s Ms Scrooge to you!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7 responses Yesterday was my first day back in the office since before Thanksgiving. And was I in for a surprise. Our office has started playing Christmas music. All day, every day. Through the entire month of December. Shoot me now. Our floor of the building has two offices on it. (Think Dunder Mifflin and Vance Refrigeration.*) However, in our case, we all work for the same company. We are just different business units a

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US civil rights singer Odetta dies

This is a music video of Odetta, singing Water Boy. From the International Herald Tribune: Odetta, voice of American civil rights movement, dies at 77 By Tim Weiner Published: December 3, 2008 Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died Tuesday. She was 77. The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. He added that she had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Odetta — s

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Michael Franks World Tour 2008 : Official Press Release

STOP PRESS - PRESS RELEASE Michael Franks World Tour 2008 Live Concert in The Ritz Carlton – Pacific Place, Jakarta and Shangri-la Hotel - Surabaya ORIGINAL PRODUCTION proudly presents a world music concert from a famous legendary jazz singer, MICHAEL FRANKS. He will come and perform in indonesia due to his World Tour 2008.  This is the first time for ORIGINAL PRODUCTION to present MICHAEL FRANKS in Indonesia. This event will be held in Jakarta and Surabaya. It will be on Wednesday,

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Alabama - 41 Number One Hits For The Record (1998)

Track List: CD1 01. Five O’Clock 500 02. Keepin’ Up 03. How Do You Fall In Love 04. Tennessee River 05. Why Lady Why 06. Old Flame 07. Feels So Right 08. Love In The First Degree 09. Mountain Music 10. Take Me Down 11. Close Enough To Perfect 12. Dixieland Delight (Single Edit) 13. The Closer You Get 14. Lady Down On Love 15. Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler) (Short Version) 16. When We Make Love 17. If You’re Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band) 18. (There’

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It’s Hunky Hump Day! Woot! Woot!

Nom, nom, nom. Today’s Hunky Hump Day stud, Simon Baker, was brought to you by none other than our own tattoedintellectual. He’s on the TV show “The Mentalist” and has been in some movies or something totally uninteresting like that. Isn’t he just dreamy? Look how cute he is in this period costume. I’ll bet his head itches. Here’s a totally ghey video of him dancing like wiserbud. Action starts at 2:20 video courtesy of MoZ Critical Update (To reduce the ghey): Courtesy of wiserbud.  You’re we

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Martinis with Michelle–A Times (UK) Writer Jumps the Shark as Palin Helps Block a Senate Super-Majority

~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL A couple of days ago I happened to spot the post over at PUMA P.A.C. entitled “Worth Repeating” which offers an encore presentation of an odious ode to Hillary “Nutcracker” Clinton.  Fast forward to mid-November and CNN’s obsession with the fashion f*ckups of First ladies  and how Michelle Obama is supposed to be our hope for a First Lady who really knows how to do it RIGHT. Little did I know that there was something lurking in the archives of The Times (UK) that I had

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Blazing Cannons

Leonard Cohen in 2008Leonard Cohen - Glasgow 2008Leonard Cohen - London 2008 (11-14)Bob Dylan in 2008Bob Dylan - New York City 2008 (Source 1)Bob Dylan - New York City 2008 (Source 2)Bob Dylan - Montreal 2008Bob DylanTamworth, AustraliaTamworth Regional Entertainment Centre3/23/01Disc 11. Roving Gambler 2. Song To Woody 3. Desolation Row 4. Country Pie5. Lay, Lady, Lay6. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight7. Mama, You Been On My Mind 8. Girl Of The North Country9. Tangled Up In Blue 10. Standing In The Do

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The Gift of Imagination

Imagination is one of the most precious and powerful gifts we have received from our Creator. It is, tragically, also one of the most neglected. We have an abundance of it in childhood- I have played for hours as a Sarge to my plastic platoon of G.I. Joe Soldiers. Little girls invite all sorts of imaginary guests to their tea parties. Many of us guys have thrown the winning touchdown pass in a stadium filled with thousands of admirers, when in reality we were all by ourselves throwing a rolle

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Chick Magnet

It’s assumed by the female species that most djs do nothing but search for music and take girls home from the club. While there are those among our ranks that deserve this distinction, the fact of the matter is actually hooking up with girls while you are djing is not as easy as some might think. So, for those of you that are new to the game, here are 4 rules for getting the girl at the gig: * we do have female readers so I hope they will see this post as funny, and not offensive :) Rul

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madeleine peyroux writes all her own songs

New self-penned album out in March Madeleine Peyroux’s last album, Half The Perfect World, was all about fractions: one-third of the songs were co-written by the singer, who, at times almost grievously restrained, only seemed to tell two-thirds of the story. Two and a half years later comes her newest collection, Bare Bones, for which Madeleine has been involved in the songwriting process for all 11 songs, including ‘I Must Be Saved’, the first song since her 1996 debut to give her sole writin

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