At last, some of the most angst-saturated lyrics of the 90s are being transformed into a comic-book! Hurray! If our enthusiasm sounds too-jubilant-to-be-true, well, you've got it. We're not sure how to react to the news that the songs of Tori Amos, - the 90s' foremost shrill-and-stricken singer-songwriter, - are to be released as a 480-page comic anthology. We're intimidated, to be honest. And a little afraid. But at least we'll have something to hurl across the room the next time our partner makes us cry.
Comic Book Tattoo will be published by Image Comics this summer. It includes more than 50 "sequential art" stories that take their inspiration from Tori Amos's oeuvre. The contributors include comic-book stars like Pia Guerra (Y: The Last Man), Dame Darcy (Meatcake), David Mack (Kabuki), Mike Dringenberg (Sandman), Ted McKeever, Hope Larson and Alan Moore's daughter Leah. Sandman creator (and mega Tori Amos fan) Neil Gaiman wrote the introduction. If you're wondering whether the book will be suffused with Amos's characteristic, er, charms, well then rest assured. "This isn't just a bunch of comic creators making a book and then slapping Tori's name on it," editor Rantz Hoseley insists. "It was very important to her that she see how the different creators were treating 'her girls' (the songs), but at the same time, not tying the creator's hands or make them feel restricted in any way and making sure that they felt the freedom to tell the kind of story that they felt strongly about."Hoseley dismisses literal illustrations of song-lyrics, "comic book versions of music videos," as he calls them. Instead the stories are inspired by and find their aesthetic in the songs. "Basically asking the creators 'As an artist, what kind of story does this song make you think about?'" There's something for everyone, even for girls who are half-bird. For the song Here In My Head, Hoseley explains, Elizabeth Genco and Carla Speed McNeil created "this haunting, sexy, and incredibly touching tale of a girl on the verge of womanhood, who's pinned under the weight of the upcoming choice she has to make on whether she is going to spend the rest of her life as a human, or as a bird." Ooh, tough one.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Saturday, 24 May 2008
Eminem - Agutter Loves Eminem
Rap star EMINEM has won over an unlikely fan - 55-year-old British actress JENNY AGUTTER.
The Railway Children star is a big admirer of the Without Me rapper, likening him to the iconic 16th century English playwright William Shakespeare.
She says, "I do have a soft spot for Eminem and I really like good rap. I started to get interested in it when I went to live in Los Angeles. Good rap is fantastic, like the iambic pentameters that Shakepeare wrote in.
"And Eminem's lyrics are particularly clever. Of course, rap does reveal a world which is quite vicious and nasty, nothing like mine, but it can be funny too."
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Sunday, 18 May 2008
Cascada
Artist: Cascada
Genre(s):
Dance
Electronic
Trance
Dance: Pop
Pop
Discography:
Truly Madly Deeply__Incl Tune Up! Remix Vinyl
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Truly Madly Deeply (CDM)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 6
Perfect Day
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Miracle
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
A Never Ending Dream
Year: 2007
Tracks: 7
Truly Madly Deeply
Year: 2006
Tracks: 7
The Remix Album
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Ready for Love EP
Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
Ready for Love
Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
Megamix Bootleg
Year: 2006
Tracks: 1
Everytime We Touch
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
A Neverending Dream (Vinyl)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
How Do You Do CDM
Year: 2005
Tracks: 9
Miracle (CDS)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Bad Boy CDM
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
To begin with called Cascade until legal conflicts forced them to change their comprise, Cascada is the slick, uplifting Euro-dance triple featuring producers DJ Manian and Yanou along with singer Natalie Horler, although Horler is sometimes presented as Cascada herself. Horler was born in Bonn, Germany, to English parents and grew up loving totally sorts of music. At age 18 she was doing studio work for various producers when she met DJ Manian and Yanou, the latter of whom had worked with DJ Sammy on the cosmopolite dance shoot "Heaven." The trio recorded the single "Miracle" in 2004 under the see Cascade, which was presently changed to Cascada -- Spanish for "Waterfall" -- for the instant press. The bingle took off in German clubs and finally caught the ear of the U.S.-based Robbins Amusement tag, which had antecedently turned Euro-dance acts of the Apostles DJ Sammy and D.H.T. into American chart-toppers. Jerome Robbins re-released "Miracle" along with follow-up singles "Indispose Boy," "Everytime We Touch on," and "How Do You Do!," which was a hatch version of a Roxette song from 1992. The big strike came at the end of 2005, when DJ Sammy and Yanou encountered the strain "Everytime We Touch" by Scottish singer Maggie Reilly. The trey re-recorded the tune and by mid-2006 their version was a world-wide smash, including America, where it topped the dance charts and made it into the Top 10 of the pop charts. The album Everytime We Touch as well arrived that year, and featured completely the old singles along with covers of Savage Garden's "Sincerely Frantically Deeply" and Kim Wilde's "Kids in America."
Anuna
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Drew Barrymore tells Oprah about new romance
Drew Barrymore tells Oprah about new romance
Actors Drew Barrymore and Justin Long joined Oprah Winfrey yesterday to talk about their new romance.
'Die Intemperately 4' headliner Long sat in the audience as Barrymore was interviewed by Winfrey.
When asked some her relationship with Long, John Barrymore said: "It's the best. This relationship is great; it's healthy and it's productive and it's supportive and it's full of humour."
Barrymore's production company, Blossom Films, is producing Long's newly film, 'He's Simply Not That Into You', which too stars Jennifer Connelly and Scarlett Johansson.
When asked what he loved around the actress, Long said: "She smells great... (and) she's the most pity person I've of all time met."
Twice-divorced Barrymore then added: "Whole our friends get along great, which is awesome because we locomote together in packs. We're having an excellent time."
Thirty-three-year-old Lionel Barrymore was antecedently married to Jeremy Seth Thomas, whom she divorced in 1995, and later married comedian Uncle Tom Leafy vegetable ahead the twosome divorced in 2002.
Yagya
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