WSJ.com – No Day at the Beach
A banner stripped across the top of the Daily Dish declares that the popular Web log’s host, Andrew Sullivan, has “gone fishing.” Mr. Sullivan declared a two-week vacation and opted to leave his political blog behind. Several thousand of his readers have
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Check out Bob Dylan‘s new video “When The Deal Goes Down”. The video is directed by Academy Award nominee (Capote) Bennett Miler and features the hardest working ingenue in Hollywood, Scarlett Johansson.
WATCH: “When the Deal Goes Down” by Bob Dylan
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As much as I love to support Broadway theater, and as much as I love the fact that Will Chase is a former cast member of RENT, I found his interview with New York magazine to be…well…upsetting. Will is going to be the lead role in the musical theater adaptation of Nick Hornby‘s uber-music geek book, High Fidelity.
Check out this embarrassing exchange between Will and writer Jada Yuan:
NY Mag: Have you studied the clerks at Other Music?
Chase: You mean, what other music do I like?
No, I meant Other Music, the store.
Oh, other music stores?
Never mind.
Will Chase is obviously not a method actor.
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The witch’s rosette is on my bed!
Can someone PLEASE add Angela‘s picture to the wiki entry on “rosette”?
Poor Kayne breakin’ my heart with his inadvertent Elvis homage.
Michael is SO FLY.
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iMedia Connection: 5 Brands Make Their Mark on MySpace
Learn how these brands are winning the social network popularity contest.
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Ok right now I’m totally beat after spending about 4 1/2 hours at the VMA Kick Off Concert at Battery Park, but I just wanted to mention that this week is already nuts. I kinda can’t wait until it’s over so I can sleep or something.
This morning I got a phone call from my friend G. at 10am–and since I forgot to turn my ringer off my phone, my entire office was treated to “Sugar We’re Going Down” in ringtone form. Why the urgent message? G. walked past Jack White on the street–and since I’ve trained all my friends very well, she immediately called me. Here’s her more detailed description she sent me in an email later on in the day:
I was running late for work this morning, but it was toootally worth it because I ran into Jack White as I was walking out of my apartment. He was crossing Avenue A on 5th Street with Karen and a friend in tow (no baby White). Jack was wearing a red button-down shirt with a black bowler-ish cap. Karen looked very striking and thin. It was like seeing two very stylish ghosts.
Sadly no sign of baby Scarlet…she’s probably off somewhere playing with TomKat’s mystery baby Suri…
As for the VMA Kick Off Concert, for now you can read more about Cartel and the All-American Rejects over at SoMoreScene.com, but hopefully I’ll get some rest and be able to tell you more about it later on this week.
I do have one story that I just have to dish right now. So in-between acts, the DJ was playing songs, and the emcee was holding out the microphone into the crowd so that kids could sing-a-long to the songs. The Killers, Fatman Scoops, Black Eyed Peas, etc.
Everything was going fine until the DJ segued from Kelly Clarkson‘s “Since U Been Gone” to Bloc Party‘s “Banquet”. Disaster struck. Instead of singing the words to “Banquet”, the kids just kept singing “Since U Been Gone” over the beat. The emcee tried moving on to different people in the crowd, but every person he put the mic in front of just started mumbling…NO ONE KNEW “Banquet” by Bloc Party!!!! Oh my, how true it is that youth is wasted on the young…
Anyway, here’s a picture of Rihanna to tide you over until I get to write more. She’s SO FREAKING GORGEOUS in person!
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iMedia Connection: Creative Showcase: Patron Tequila
Join the debate — boxers or briefs? Caddyshack or Animal House? — at Click Here’s Patron Tequila website, which ties into magazine and TV spots.
Forever Young
No longer the upstart challenger to the big media status quo, it is itself a media giant targeted by newer challengers in the digital age. Internet destinations like MySpace, YouTube and even Yahoo are vying for a piece of MTV’s once-defining content — m
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eBay: Unofficial Snakes on a Fisher-Price Plane Action Set (item 220018500422 end time Aug-27-06 18:24:52 PDT)
I’m tired of these motherf-ing plastic snakes on this motherf-ing plastic plane!
Video Dog – Salon.com
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart presenting on the Emmys
At Forbes.com, Lots of Glitter but Maybe Not So Many Visitors – New York Times
But a closer look at the numbers raises questions about Forbes.com’s industry-leading success. For its claim of a worldwide audience of nearly 15.3 million, it has been citing February data from comScore Media Metrix, one of the two leading providers of
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Inspired by yesterday’s absolutely awful weather, I went to go see that new movie Half Nelson playing at the Angelika. It’s kinda a depressing film, but Ryan Gosling is really fantastic in it. At first it was hard to believe he was supposed to be a teacher, since he looks so young (he’s only 25) and he looks like a freaking rock star, but as the movie progressed I totally believed him as the character and went along with suspending my disbelief. He’s totally this generation’s Sean Penn or Robert Downey Jr.–hopefully without the behavioral problems.
So immediately after watching Half Nelson I demanded to see The Notebook–a movie I have heard a lot about, but never actually seen despite the fact that I adore Rachel McAdams. Since I had just witnessed the full awesomeness of Gosling (sorry, but I really can’t remember his performance in Murder by Numbers), I had to see how doubly awesome Gosling + McAdams would be.
I curled up in bed and CRIED MY EYES OUT. I think I sobbed for the entire last 15 minutes of the movie, whimpering something like, “I CAN’T TAKE THE SWEETNESS!” It was such a tearjerker.
Oh and I <3 that Gosling and McAdams met on the set of The Notebook and then subsequentally fell in LOVEZ. <3 <3 <3. The two of them together are just a synergy of amazing talent. So much talent it blows my mind. And I don’t even care that they are Canadian!
Then when I got to work this morning I found a package on my desk with this sticker on the outside:
I just about started crying then and there. It was a package from V2 Records promoting one of their bands called, what else?, GOSLING. How often is it that you go through a Ryan Gosling marathon and then see a sticker with his last name on it the morning after? It was like a sign from God, although I’m not sure what the sign is supposed to mean…
Well now’s a good time to have you guys listen to one of my favorite clips from the Chris Evans show on Radio 2. On it, you can hear Tom from McFly talking about the time he caught Danny and Dougie McFly up watching The Notebook. It’s pretty hilarious. I love Tom’s impression of Danny’s Mancunian accent.
DOWNLOAD: Tom from McFly on the Chris Evans Show on BBC’s Radio 2
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tangentialism: Chinatown Ice Cream Dragon: There Can Be Only One
Chowhounder “Andrew” digs deeper and discovers that the Nolita shop is supposedly run by one of the five Chinese brothers that owned OCICF
Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last – New York Times
Alfonso Candra claimed to be the mysterious funtwo, but Jeong-Hyun Lim, right, is the real virtuoso.
The Devil Knows Nada – New York Times
The bald truth is that for 20 years, the direction of fashion has been inverted: it now stomps its way up from the street; from athletes and celebrities to designers.
Culture Club – New York Times
Area was a nightclub that was like art.
Buzz Kill – New York Times
The style industry loves a rebel, and short hair’s rogue history is part of the look’s appeal. It’s long been indicative of a liberated woman: in the 1920’s, American flappers — those most fashionable of young feminists — mainstreamed the bob,
The New York Times > Magazine > Slide Show > Slide Show: Brush With Greatness
The makeup artist Linda Cantello, who splits her time between New York and Paris, created some of the most iconic visages of the last two decades (think Gucci’s smoky eye and pale lip in the mid-1990’s).
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