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My computer’s not connected to the internet.
The CD drive just kicked the bucket on my roommate’s computer.
I no longer have a work computer.
While technically I guess I do have the time to upload songs to my computer, transfer them to my roommate’s computer, and then make the mix that way, it seems like a big pain. Especially since my computer also doesn’t have sound.
So, no mixtapes until I figure that out…
In brighter news, I just got this Myspace bulletin from Paris Hilton:
| From: |  Paris Hilton |
|---|---|
| Date: | Sep 30, 2008 3:20 PM |
| Subject: | My new song, BFF Premiere, and REPO Soundtrack!! |
| Body: | Hi guys, I wanted to share the exciting news that the day is finally here:
My new song, “My BFF,” premiered on Ryan Seacrest this morning: My new show, “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF,” premieres TONIGHT on MTV at 10pm…I will be watching it live from a special premiere party in Hollywood, and I will be live online talking to fans and sharing video. during the premiere. I am so proud of the show, the cast, and everyone involved with it–it’s hilarious and I can’t wait to hear what you all think. Today is also very special because the soundtrack for my upcoming film, “REPO! The Genetic Opera” is released. The cast and producers threw a party last week and we got amazing feedback from the press who attended. I sing on five tracks on the CD and I know that so many of you have been following its progress…don’t miss it! Check out www. repo-opera. com for details. I hope that you all will be able to tune in or listen up to what I’ve been working on lately…I love you all and as always appreciate you and your messages. It’s been a crazy year but I’m not slowing down! I’ll be writing to you soon from London, where I will be living during October while I film the UK version of my show. Love you all, Xoxo Paris |
The video for the nightmarish Another Way To Die collaboration between Alicia Keys and Jack White is now out, and holy shit, Broccoli family, how did you allow this to happen?
James Bond movies are about style and wit and elegance; their theme songs have always often been the sorts of things that stylish, witty, elegant men would listen to in their stylish, witty, elegant bachelor pads after a long day of work. “Let me put on this stylish, witty, elegant red robe,” such a man might say, “and lounge around listening to Shirley Bassey or Duran Duran or Nancy Sinatra or Tina Turner while I smoke something elegant and drink something strong and manly.”
Alicia Keys and Jack White, you are no Shirley Bassey or Duran Duran or Nancy Sinatra or Tina Turner. You’re maybe not even an a-ha.
Sadly, the seemingly endless theme from Quantum of Solace features both artists’ worst habits: the needlessly melodramatic guitars that made the White Stripes’ Icky Thump so painful to listen to, and Keys’ one-handed piano playing. The whole thing sounds like it was made for lame people to do at karaoke, with Keys mainly yelling in a way that suggests the song was probably written for Pink instead. Not that R&B singers can’t be around guitars (although I can’t think of any examples I really like more recent than Black Cat), but this just sucks.
The video’s even worse. Watch Keys and tell me the director wasn’t instructing her to act like a sorority girl at a Coyote Ugly party. Especially after the 2:45 mark or so. And the CGI is mind-blowingly bad. Sets, people. Sets. Locations. Every video doesn’t need pointless wavy lines to signify the future and/or outer space, and no video needs to look like a shampoo commercial, and definitely no video ever needs both of those things to happen at once. God. Remember 1995, when everybody thought this was the most overdone video ever made? Oh, how simple things were back then!
