Being pro-choice doesn't mean you lose the right to choose once the baby's out of the womb. Dr. Charles Nash, PhD, who is not really a physician, will help you get rid of unwanted children—no matter how late! Is this something that should be condoned? Actually, it's just a funny sketch from the guys at TotallySketch.com. Best part is at the end.
Hey, all you Harry Potter fans! To be frank, the summer blockbusters of 2009 have all been somewhat miserable (even if they are making serious bank). The last reprieve of the summer is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, directed by David Yates, hitting theaters on July 15! Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint return as the wizards-in-training as they gear up for one of the most harrowing chapters in the series. To celebrate its release, JustPressPlay is giving one lucky winner all seven books in an awesome collectible case and to five runners-up a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (finally released on paperback July 7th). That's right, because we value literacy.
All you have to is zap your e-mail into the box below, hit submit and you'll be entered to win! Like magic...or technology - which are interchangeable if you're older than 75.
There's only two weeks left and so we here at JustPressPlay are giving you a chance to snatch up a must-have collector's item. The Harry Potter boxed set includes the seven phenomenal Harry Potter hardcover books by best selling author J. K. Rowling. These books are housed in a collectible trunk-like box with sturdy handles and privacy lock. Bonus decorative stickers are included in each boxed set. You may have read each one 5 times through by now, but even when they were brand new sans folded pages and scuff marks they never looked as good as this.
Notice: Many will enter, few will win. Limit one (1) entry per person, excess of one entry results in disqualification and ineligiblity to win. E-mail information received will NOT be kept a week past contest end date, all information will be held private and never used for soliciation. You don't like spam, we don't like spam. For more information on the Harry Potter books visit Scholastic's Website. Contest ends July 22, 2009.
If this is the sound of a band floundering without inspiration, I’ll take it, and so should you. Whenever a band rises to a once restricted plateau, suddenly there’s no excuse to wander down the path sloping into the valley. For Wilco, as they ascended past Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (pick your own favorite), they were expected to keep going. And A Ghost Is Born was nearly of the same height, yet suddenly the consensus said, “too far.” Then when they “played it safe” with a mostly ordinary batch of summery pop and country rock tunes on 2007’s Sky Blue Sky, the fanbase was split, and fears of settling began to ripple. Now we have the amusingly titled Wilco (The Album), which could be called a retread (no matter the implications of insult or applause you consider with such a remark). So it’s the sort of stuff they do, and more of it. Stale? Not quite, but isn’t more of the same still better than a bad turn?
So what was it about Heath Ledger's Joker that made it so memorable, so feverishly engrossing in its complete abandon? Was it his deep understanding of the character? His anarchic approach? Could it be that it was because he was secretly hoping to get fired from the movie, so he let it all hang out and it ended up working flawlessly for the psychotic supervillain?
According to a new article on the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Ledger didn't really want to be in a big blockbuster movie like The Dark Knight and only took the job to get away from other big offers.
Be warned that the piece is quite gossipy and focuses on Ledger's personal demons and his failed relationship, which is rather off-putting for me, personally. It takes snipes at Michelle Williams, and I'm disappointed to see Terry Gilliam contributing to this speculative "what made Ledger snap" stuff. A part of it, though, is fascinating in what it reveals about Ledger's decision to go from an Academy Award-heavy film and small art projects to being a Batman villain.
The vinyl record resurgence is in full swing and going hand-in-hand with this phenomenon is a renewed interest inpicture discs.Not only are they graced with fantastic artwork or a photo of the artist or band, these marvels of vinyl are usually made in limited quantities making them highly sought after and collectible.
Picture discs are manufactured to be a collectible and not meant to play as well as a conventional vinyl record; although some actually sound great. This is due to the manufacturing process as each side is coated with layers of PVC (poly vinyl chloride); sometimes up to five layers.As this process is being done, a continuous groove of music or even a band interview is pressed onto the playing surface.
I used to love Ultraman. I don't know why. There's something awesome about the idea of a guy holding up a magical pen and suddenly turning into a giant dude in leotards fighting an equally giant monster—but only for three minutes! Because then his chest starts blinking and he loses his powers. That was always a ridiculously neat catch. The point is, Ultraman was cool.
Hence why I'm looking forward to this movie, which sounds like the greatest Ultraman movie ever made. It's called Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legends - The Movie. They're going to have to shorten that up for the US release. I'm not up to date with my Ultraman knowledge, but as far as I can tell, it's a movie based on a TV series based on a video game. Hence the "The Movie" suffix, I guess.
I may not like Zack Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen, but I do admit that he put a lot of effort into the details, which is why the movie is just perfect for the following Blu-ray feature. The WatchmenDirector's Cut Blu-ray presents something called the Maximum Movie Mode. It's basically a visual commentary on steroids, featuring the director himself. As you can see from the video below, Snyder plays host to the film, bringing up behind-the-scene footage, comic comparisons, trivia, storyboards, and even pauses and rewinds the movie to point out certain things.
I once read an interesting quote by LA Times music writer August Brown. He wondered if “the music you fall for between 18 and 22 is hard-wired to be the only music you really love in that insane, possessive, identity-crafting way for the rest of your life.” I pondered on this thought for some time, for it’s very true that the music I loved in that hectic four year period of my life is music that is no doubt very near and dear to me. That time period has actually only passed rather recently for me though, and I wonder if the music of that bittersweet era will continue to grow and become even more treasured to me in the years ahead. I think it’s likely, but at the moment the music that I hold in the highest realms of nostalgic mystique is the music that I grew up with, and since I grew up in the ‘90s a lot of that music was the radio friendly pop-rock music of our last decade. Bands like the Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Fastball and especially the often maligned Matchbox 20 would find their albums in near constant rotation in my CD player for extended periods of time. Matchbox 20 held an even bigger place in my heart than just about any other band of that era. Their debut album was the first CD I ever purchased, basically putting an end to my sad little cassette collection, and was played to the point of overkill. I look back at Matchbox 20 (now going by Matchbox Twenty) and I see how their debut album was really just a couple good singles and some filler. But one thing still shows itself after all these years, lead singer Rob Thomas has one hell of a captivating voice.
Hey, all you Harry Potter fans! To be frank, the summer blockbusters of 2009 have all been somewhat miserable (even if they are making serious bank). The last reprieve of the summer is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, directed by David Yates, hitting theaters on July 15! Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint return as the wizards-in-training as they gear up for one of the most harrowing chapters in the series. To celebrate its release, Just
There's only two weeks left and so we here at Just
So what was it about Heath Ledger's Joker that made it so memorable, so feverishly engrossing in its complete abandon? Was it his deep understanding of the character? His anarchic approach? Could it be that it was because he was secretly hoping to get fired from the movie, so he let it all hang out and it ended up working flawlessly for the psychotic supervillain?
The vinyl record resurgence is in full swing and going hand-in-hand with this phenomenon is a renewed interest in picture discs.
