Modern Talking pictures with tag: entertainment

LISTEN UP: Are There Any Humans Left On Earth Who Kanye Hasn’t Collaborated With?

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Kanye's great and all, but I wish he could be paired up with someone whose lyrics sound like a high school freshman is singing them off the cuff?" Well congratulations -- the Kanye West / Chris Martin collaboration has arrived. (Hypem.com) R.I.P. Hilly Kristal, founded of C.B.G.B. Brooklyn Vegan has a phenomenal assortment of mp3s from The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and the lot to honor the individual who was not, in fact, one of Billy Crystal's Catskills pseudonyms. Is there anything more indie than a new Band of Horses track called "Is There A Ghost?" Maybe if it was called "Is there a Ghost of a Wolf?" (The Modern Music) Eardrums brings us three tracks from Swedish electro-poppers If There Is Something. Electro-poppers is a word, right? Not just something served at Music Applebee's? For some reason, in the back of my mind, I keep thinking Oasis died in a plane crash eight years ago and I'm surprised whenever I see material of theirs dated after 2000. (Ain't Superstitious But...)

Published: 2007-08-29 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

BWE Panelists Cheat At Mini Golf…For Children

This weekend, Best Week Ever panelists Michael Colton and John Aboud will be employing their sneakiest, most unsportsmanlike putt-putt tactics to win a charity Mini Golf tournament hosted by 826LA, an organization founded by author Dave Eggers to teach underprivileged children how to read and write. The best part about this competition (other than benefiting charity, of course) is that cheating and trash-talking are actually encouraged, which, based on our own experience with these unsavory Modern Humorist characters, means the guys stand a better than average chance of taking the whole thing home and helping out a couple of kids who can't read good in the process. So if you can find it in your hearts to cough up a couple of bucks to sponsor our panelist pals, think of all the future clever self-reflexive memoirs of the world you might also be sponsoring.

Published: 2007-08-15 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

Joe Francis Is Kind Of Like a Modern-Day Scrooge, But With Douchiness Instead Of Money

[In this scene, we join Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis and the ghost of "Christmas Carol" harbinger Jacob Marley several days after Francis was released from prison] JACOB MARLEY: So you see, Joe Francis -- this isn't a case of free speech or capitalism or lewdness. People just don't like you because you make a very concentrated effort to come off as a douche at all times, and likely are. Hopefully you will apply this lesson in your future endeavors, beginning with your attempt to acquire the nude footage of Ashley Dupre, Eliot Spitzer's callgirl. JOE FRANCIS: We can't get a DVD together fast enough. Her candle is going to burn out pretty quickly, especially after we release our footage. JACOB MARLEY: Ok, ok... I don't think you're getting it. Let's go over this again. You absolutely have the right to produce and sell these videos, but you don't have to constantly throw d*ckish quotes to the media to promote them with your douchiness. JOE FRANCIS: Our footage is from when she was 18-years-old, and it doesn't get much better than that. Eliot Spitzer has put some miles on that girl! JACOB MARLEY: You're not really this big of a sleaze, right? You're constructing a character and embracing the controversy, like a sort of latter-day Diceman with a video camera. Right? JOE FRANCIS: It doesn't matter. There's no sexual contact, so even if she was 17 or 16 for that matter, federal and state law permits posing nude. We're just talking about nudity, not pornography. JACOB MARLEY: There may be no specific law against selling footage of a sixteen-year-old flashing her boobs as long as it isn't pornographic, I've never really studied the technicalities, but guess what? It does specifically mean that you are a douche. You are a douche, Joe Francis. JOE FRANCIS: She's doing Girls Gone Wild-typical [stuff]: dancing around naked and flashing her breasts. JACOB MARLEY: Remind me again why you exist.

Published: 2008-03-20 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment