A slide from a new series over at abandonedtheaters.com. (via Dark Passage Travelogue: Stages of Decay)
Looks just like the Harvey @ BAM.
It remains a fathomless crime that Coldplay is huge in America while Robbie Williams is a mere curiosity.
As a Celtics fan, it’s downright chilling to watch footage of Kobe studying low-post moves with Hakeem Olajuwon, mastering the Dream Shake with the same robotic consistency that he used to emulate the moves of Jordan. Yet it also bespeaks his respect for the game, his love of its history. Which other modern-day basketball star has such reverence for the game’s unstoppable weapons that he goes straight to the source to learn from an elder sage, on his own free time? None.
The anti-Yankees, both in terms of follicular adventurousness and in winning World Series.
I’m partial to the Pedro Feliz.
Really hoping this is good. Haven’t heard the whole thing yet. Good to see the Strokes-era iconography making a comeback, in all its inscrutability. Looks like … T Rex/Bowie-style glam mixed with Tron?
He headed down the tunnel, avoided a few picture takers, autograph hounds, his own subs wanting to talk tactics. He signaled to them but avoided conversation, winding his way to an executive office and finding a private bathroom.
He looked in the mirror. “The fat Spanish waiter.” His palms were still sweaty, so he washed them and then washed his face. He thought of Bill Shankly for some reason. Then Arrigo Sacchi. Then Bob Paisely, riding the bus through Liverpool after Rome. What he’d give to play Moechengladbach instead of this Lyon side.
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This guy elevates football fan-fiction to a rarified art form. In America we infrequently endow our sports heroes with Hemingwayesque interiority. |
A lot of questions my character brings up are some of the questions I had,” Gosselaar says. “‘What’s a half-hour call? What’s the process of an understudy? So, the understudy is really never gonna go on (stage)?’ I had the same questions that Jake has in the play. I had to ask what the fourth wall was (where a character speaks directly to the audience). The script says: Justin (Kirk) breaks the fourth wall. I said, ‘Fourth wall? Where?’
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar onstage in ‘Understudy’ @DrewLichtenberg looks like he needs your help. (via sarah-anne) M P-G should consult his agent before doing interviews like this. Doesn’t come off looking very bright, sorry to say. Half-hour call is not like rocket science theater code or anything, dude. |
Listen to “Europe Endless”, the first track on Trans-Europe Express. It sounds pristine, beautiful, Utopian, even before the soft-spoken voice comes in. There’s nothing ‘rock’ about that voice, but there’s nothing cold or mechanical either. What I hear is history, sadness and hope: the great, scarred old continent looking into a future which might at last be peaceful. Far from the blank-eyed conceptualists their legacy casts them as, Kraftwerk at their peak made intensely reflective, poignant music. Their embrace of the synthesiser’s beauty and stability can be taken as a stern or canny comment on mechanisation – but it can also be heard as music made in a time and place which needed stability, which was weary or suspicious of rock’s wanton drama and rage to expend itself.
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Enjoying the rock-crit decade countdown on rockcritics.com. |
Is it true? Sasha Vujacic would neither confirm nor deny reports that he is dating tennis superstar Maria Sharapova. He said he liked tennis, then he directed a handful of reporters to “Go ask Lamar about his personal life. I’m sure he wants to talk about it.” Lamar Odom married reality television star Khloe Kardashian a few days before training camp opened in late September. Odom has revealed little about their wedding. So, is the Machine dating Maria? The Machine wouldn’t say for sure. When told Sharapova “is very nice,” Vujacic said, “I know.” When told Sharapova “is very smart,” he responded, “I know.” Moments earlier, Lakers public relations czar John Black busted Vujacic’s chops for keeping his relationship a secret from him. “I thought you were my guy,” Black said, laughing as Vujacic smiled and turned a darker shade of crimson.
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Sasha dating Sharapova? - Inside the Lakers Ok, this makes me want to kill myself. Ugh. |
Brett likes to throw a jab at you. And it doesn’t matter who’s around.
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| — | Charlie Manuel on the recent locker room war of words/dustup between Brett Myers and Cole Hamels. Maybe a poor choice of words given that Myers was arrested for BEATING HIS WIFE IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON. |
