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First and foremost, Bridges promised that some headway had been made on the Firefly
title, and regretted putting it on the backburner to focus on their recently acquired vamp-slaying
IP -- though he's anxious to resume work on it "as soon as possible." He then goes on to
explain one of the
more confusing elements of the online Buffy game -- apparently, the title's 2D
rendition will launch first, giving players a chance to dip their toes in the waters of the
Hellmouth before
the more complex 3D version launches. He also hopes to have a public beta for the title into our
hands "by the end of the year."
First and foremost, Bridges promised that some headway had been made on the
Firefly title, and regretted putting it on the backburner to focus on their recently
acquired vamp-slaying IP -- though he's anxious to resume work on it "as soon as possible." He
then goes on to explain one of the more confusing elements of the online Buffy game -- apparently, the
title's 2D rendition will launch first, giving players a chance to dip their toes in the waters of
the Hellmouth before the more complex 3D version launches. He also hopes to have a public
beta for the title into our hands "by the end of the year."
Paris 36 tries to do a dozen different things, and does none of them well. But even
that description may not be harsh enough, because it makes the film sound ambitious. It's not.
Director Christophe Barratier, whose The
Chorus was a quality rendition of an age-old formula, doesn't even pretend to give much
thought to any of the disparate elements he assembles here. This is one of those middlebrow
period-piece comedies that mistakes frenzy for energy and spotless soundstage gloss for visual
style. It may play well with certain audiences for whom "arthouse" is synonymous with "no
explosions," but there's really nothing to see here.
Well, in theory there's a lot to see, including but not limited to the following: a would-be
portrait of the French Popular Front in the 1930's; the story of a bunch of unemployed workers
banding together to put on a show and save a historic theater; the tragedy of an old workhorse
(Gérard Jugnot) who loses custody of his
accordion prodigy son to his cheating wife when the theater first closes down; a romance between a
communist rabblerouser (and stagehand, and actor!) and a singing ingénue (Nora Arnezeder) taken under the wing of a fascist loan
shark (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu); the spiritual
rebirth of an old orchestra conductor who has spent the last 20 years alone with his radio; a
no-talent comic (Kad Merad) who sinks to
performing for the Nazis after being booed off stage by everyone else, though he is of course much
too lovable to actually be an anti-Semite.
Metallica, whose leaked album Death
Magnetic is slated for a September 12 release, launched a promotion on YouTube today
featuring the band's favorite Metallica on the site. Drummer Lars Ulrich introduces their
selections in the video to the right.
"It makes us feels alive and special that you guys can be out there doing that cool stuff that
you guys do... we're mighty proud of what you do out there." says Ulrich. Later, he explains one
reason the band is doing this. "You've all seen enough versions of us playing Enter
Sandman and Master of Puppets on German MTV for the last ten years. Who needs that,
right? Let's check out some really cool interpretations of all the Metallica songs that you guys
out there are so cool to put up on the net and share with everybody in the world."
But the other reasons for Metallica's YouTube promotion are a bit more complicated. Eight years
or so have passed since Lars
Ulrich took that fateful elevator ride up to Napster headquarters with a list of over 300,000
names of Napster users who had been sharing Metallica songs, and the band is still trying to salvage
its reputation by embracing, at long last, the realities of online music.
They've taken a beating from
some fans, but Lars
Ulrich's recent admission that he was unconcerned about the leakage of their upcoming album
and this embrace of YouTube show they really are taking steps in the right direction -- even if
the band stands to make royalty money for its compositions being played as part of the promotion.
Below are the ten Metallica cover songs that Lars and other members of the band chose to be
selected on the front of YouTube.
Eight-year-old Robin busts out a respectable rendition of the solo from Metallica's "One":
Scbene, t0ko and titovincenzo tackle "I Disappear" in four-way splits-screen:
Sembaijo and friends rock ""Master of Puppets" in the top floor of what looks like some sort of
teenage rock academy (note the guitar cases lined up along the back wall):
Francisco Meza plays both parts of "My Apocalypse" in believable style:
Azuritereaction plays the drum part from "Enter Sandman" on Rock Band on expert mode,
with an interesting hack: socks rubber banded on to the game's drum heads "for increased
sensitivity and lowered double-hits":
Scott D. Davis makes "Nothing Else Matters" sound sort of like Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata in this solo piano interpretation:
Stop animation brings Lego characters to life for an air-guitar version of "Whiplash":
Roozbeh067 and his Persian "tar"-playing friend play a precise, lilting version of "Nothing Else
Matters":
Qlsuc1 solos along with various Metallica songs (what, was Guitar Center closed?):
Here's an update on the strange story of the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that
crashed in the Yucatan last year. The Mexico City newspaper El Universal reports that European
Parliament was investigating the circumstances surrounding the plane, which had previously been
used by the CIA for "extraordinary rendition" flights. The daily said it had obtained documents
from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that that plane flew several times
to Guantanamo, Cuba, presumably to transfer terrorism suspects." It said the European Parliament
was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for
the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are
covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers. Last October, the Austin
American Statesman reported the plane had previously flown to Guantanamo Bay. Here's a Chicago
Public Radio story from October 31, 2008 about the crashed CIA drug plane. The crashed drug plane
also has been linked to a Bush fundraiser. Mad Cow Morning news has been covering stories about the
CIA and drug smuggling. Drug plane used for US rendition flights...
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