Sean Combs - Combs Calls Out Mccain For Choice Of Running Mate

Rapper SEAN COMBS has launched a scathing attack on U.S. presidential campaigner JOHN MCCAIN, calling his decision to appoint SARAH PALIN as his running mate "irresponsible".

The hip-hop mogul has been urging youths to economic consumption their vote in the upcoming elections to help shape their future - and he's not impressed with Republican MCCain's "crazy" choice of a running mate.

In a new video posted on-line, Combs questions whether Palin, the Governor of Alaska, has whatever knowledge of the poorness problems facing the U.S., and whether there are even any black people living in her state.

He says, "Attention John MCCain, my name is Diddy. You may know me by my government refer Sean Combs...

"I had to check in with you to tell you that you are bugging the f**k out. I don't fifty-fifty understand what planet you're on now. This is your job to be the leader of the free world. No discourtesy... but things happen. Like... you got a running mate, I mean, Alaska? Alaska?... I don't know if there's any black people in Alaska... Sarah Palin? You really think that we're gonna let you in the White House with all these crazy decisions that you're making? You're bugging.

"I'm calling all youth, all colors, all youth voters. November 4th, we have to take our future. The lady (Palin)'s nice, she's cool, just she's a heartbeat away from the president... just what in the blaze? This i right here is non respectful to our lives... Sarah Palin, that is completely irresponsible. I want you to be down with the whole cabinet, but you ain't ready to be no vice president!"

Palin was unveiled as MCCain's running mate last week (ends29Aug08), but the appointment has been met with criticism from some people, world Health Organization claim she has slight experience working in a main government office.

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Scarlett Johansson - Johanssons Pearl Hits The Stage

SCARLETT JOHANSSON's hit period movie GIRL WITH A PEAR EARRING has been adapted for London's West End stage.

Playwright David Joss Buckley has turned writer Tracy Chevalier's novel into a new theatrical regale, starring Adrian Dunbar as Dutch

Designer RNA Fights High Cholesterol, Researchers Find

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Small, specially designed bits of ribonucleic acid (RNA) can interfere with cholesterin metabolism, reducing harmful cholesterol by two-thirds in preclinical tests, according to a new survey by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in collaboration with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.



In a study that appears online today and in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that a single

Mad Detective - movie review

Mad Detective? You got it. Officer Bun (Ching Wan Lau) has a reputation, not unlike director
Johnny To, for beguiling acts of self-torture to prove that he means business. When
Ho (Andy On), his new partner, first meets him, the detective is busy stabbing the
hanging corpse of a large pig. A moment later, Ho is asked to zip Bun inside a piece
of luggage and toss him down several flights of stairs. By the time Bun goes Picasso
on his ear to honor the retiring Chief of Police, you're not surprised by much of
anything he does.



18 months later, Ho tracks down the now-retired Bun to serve him see a missing policeman
that many think was shooting by an Indian during a routine stakeout. The missing man,
Wong, was last seen with his partner Chi Wai (an intense Lam Ka Tung), a crooked
cop with a feral streak. Ho wants to ascertain Bun's most supernatural ability: The
detective can see people's inner personalities, what they actually are under their
well-worn esthetics. It doesn't take much for Bun to surmise Chi Wai when he notices
the police military officer has seven-spot personas, including a fat lard with a penchant for shark's
fin soup and an ice-cold businesswoman.



Last year, To let it all hang up out in his spaghetti western manna from heaven Exiled after playing
it straight with the powerhouse Triad Election. Visually glorious, Exiled was bone-bare
as a story and goose egg in complexness, but its atmosphere was dusky and strangely playful.
Action films frame their chaos, drift, and explosions in tidy packages; To romanticized
the gangland theatrics by giving them space and elegance, turning set-pieces into whirling
storm clouds of zipping bullets, trenchcoats caught in perpetual updraft, and bodies
floating in a writhed ether.



Sadly, Mad Detective doesn't have moments that graze either Exiled's absurd beauty or Tri
ad Election's business-end brutality. What it does attain is its have ragged visual complexity:
The way To and co-director Wai Ka Fai stuff the screen with every passing glint
of psychosis is startlingly engaging. The actors ar competent merely Wan Lau feels
wish Detective House M.D., with less satire and more schizo. He has the answer for
everything and he's invariably sure of it, piece the audience is still grappling at what
to make of To's optical landscape. With everything out in the sunlight, it's hard
to negotiate what's important to the boilers suit arc. Mad Detective is an intriguing exercise
in genre through imagery, just it's also cluttered to be gripping or even entertaining.
The things To wants to contemplate just don't look as good in the light of day.



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Dom F.Scab

   
Artist: Dom F.Scab

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   Electronic: Progressive
   

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 Crosswords

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 Twelve Stories

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 About A Tree

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


   
 Facta

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 9


   
 Analogical Confessions

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 8


   
 Path Finder

   Year: 2001   
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 Binary Secrets

   Year: 2001   
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 Ancient Tracks

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Angelina Jolie - Jolie Records Psa For World Refugee Day

Hollywood superstar ANGELINA JOLIE has recorded a public service announcement to help raise awareness about World Refugee Day.

In the new TV ad, the pregnant star - a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency - describes the hardship millions of refugees face when their country is at war.

As video footage of their plight is played, Jolie says, "They have survived the war, they have survived displacement, they have survived rape, they have survived hunger and disease. For those who have survived and for those who did not, we are thinking of you on this day."

The clip began airing online on Wednesday morning (18Jun08) in preparation of World Refugee Day on 20 June (08).

But Jolie's humanitarian efforts do not end there - she is also set to write an article for a leading U.S. newspaper to coincide with World Refugee Day.

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‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera Not Necessarily the Campiest Thing Ever

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The news from the opera world seems at first glance custom-made for parody: New York City Opera has ordered up an opera based on Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain? (What’s next, an opera based on An Inconvenient Truth? Oh, right.) You might think that monosyllabic Wyoming ranch hands would be poor candidates for operatic characters —a shrug and a grimace can be eloquent on the page or the screen, but they kind of fizzle in a medium where the audience is expecting hours of actual singing. You might likewise believe that the composer Charles Wuorinen’s dissonance-heavy, tender-as-granite modernism to be an odd fit with a tale of fishing-trip love. Finally, you might be of the opinion that the only thing campier than a pair of singing cowboys is a couple of gay opera-singing cowboys.



But consider the precedents that tradition has to offer: a long roster of characters with complicated sexual-identity issues (Mozart’s Cherubino from Le Nozze di Figaro, Strauss’s Octavian from Rosenkavalier, and Gluck’s Orestes and Pylades from Iphigénie en Tauride, to name a few); inarticulate protagonists (Britten’s Peter Grimes and Billy Budd, Jake Heggie’s Joseph in Dead Man Walking); and even a cowboy opera (Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West). It’s even possible that Wuorinen’s tormented style of lyricism will be the perfect counterpart to the story’s tangle of repression, desire, confusion, anger, and shame. At least it’s safe to assume he won’t hang Act One on a sentimental love duet. Check back in with New York City Opera in 2013 to find out. —Justin Davidson

'Brokeback,' the Opera [NYT]

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