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share: digg facebook twitter Sabra Booth uses a mix of drawing, grease painting on glass, collage and photographs in "Slick" (above), an animated short that takes a cue from Japan's Godzilla movies in satirizing the effects of the BP oil spill on the Gulf Coast. The film screens 6-9 p.m. at Cactus Bra Space, 106 C Blue Star, during First Friday, and by appointment after. The sand dune lizard is a small reptile that has become the scourge of the Texas Oil industry, not because it is dangerous but because the threatened species put land ripe for oil exploration off limits. UBS (UBS), the giant Swiss bank that took $59 billion in bailout funds three years ago in addition to billions of dollars in conveniently cheap Fed loans, is chafing at the restrictions that terrified regulators there are imposing.The government wants to avoid having its Godzilla-scale financial firms -- led by UBS and Credit Suisse (CS) -- from blowing up the economy in the next downturn the way the reckless Irish banks did. That's bad for re- election prospects and much else. Yes, the fallout from the last American Godzilla film is long gone. read more Eclectic Method - The Apocamix from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. New York Magazine: > The mash-up geniuses over at Eclectic Method made a rapture remix, just in time for May 21! "God is not playing games." Neither is this song. The Apocamix by EclecticMethod Eclectic Method: > Don't get caught out by the Rapture…. it's the Apocamix. > > Realizing end times were approaching fast we decided to create the Apocamix all the best disaster end times scenes remixed. Ever noticed how many times New York gets F'd in the A on the movie screen? Or how much zombies, monsters and Godzilla love Grand Central? we have Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com. It's hard to think of Godzilla being someone to turn to when things go bad, but after the devastation in Japan this past March, there were several articles written about how the monster may help people cope with fear. read more The history of the big monster. This list as well as thousands of other top ten lists like the greatest songs of all time, top credit repair companies, best tax software companies, and top ten best Playstation 3 games. Insightful literary extravagance and melodrama at a time when taking pride in ignorance and indifference seems to be the cultural norm. share: digg facebook twitter Whether with the rockabilly sound of the Stray Cats, the jazzy jump boogie of his big band, or the varied explorations of his solo releases, he has produced creative and excellent music for over 30 years. Setzer covers two classic bluegrass songs so well and creatively, I would like to see him release a whole album of this type of music. "Go-Go Godzilla," which appears in the film Soul Surfer, is another throwback to the 1960's surf scene. [...] this album is a guitar masterpiece.View the original article on blogcritics.org Ian Sansom on a tenacious family of dictators Pity the poor dictators: even they find it difficult to hand on wealth and power from generation to generation. The Somozas managed three presidents over 40 years in Nicaragua – Anastasio Somoza García; Luis Somoza Debayle; Anastasio Somoza Debayle – before the Sandinistas kicked them out in 1979. The Duvaliers, "Papa" and "Baby", tyrannised Haiti for almost 30 years. In Syria, Bashar al-Assad is currently hanging on to power, bequeathed to him by his father. The Mubarak dynasty has come to a shuddering halt in Egypt. And things aren't looking good for a smooth succession for Saif Gaddafi in Libya. This makes the world's longest-reigning dictator family, by a long shot, the Kims of North Korea. In the western media, the ruling Kim, Kim Jong-il, is often depicted as a figure of fun: a bequiffed, cognac-swilling, platform shoe- and shades-wearing buffoon who loves Hollywood movies and once kidnapped a film director to make a communist Godzilla. Bradley K Martin, in his book Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader (2004), comes closer to the truth when he compares Kim and his family to the troglodyte Morlocks in ... Toho, the company that holds the rights to "Godzilla" is somewhat notorious for enforcing its rights on others for daring to use the suffix "zilla." It's now targeting a two man mobile app development firm for its Fingerzilla game, with particular concerns about the imagery used to promote the game: Because, apparently, Toho can't tell a finger from its own monster. The company behind Fingerzilla, Inert Soap, notes that this is just a silly parody of Godzilla. Of course, fighting Godzilla (well, somewhat literally) probably isn't much fun for a small company, even if it wants to give Toho the finger... Permalink | Comments | Email This Story Dave Grohl was left feeling deflated after allowing his favourite Foo Fighters song to be used in 1998 blockbuster Godzilla - because it turned out to be the "worst movie" he had "ever seen". The rockers handed over a track called A320 for movie bosses... Almost one month after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated the northeastern coast of Japan, another quake, accompanied by… Da' Hitman presents "The Faction"; including music from Mihkil, Stal aka Stallion, Chi City, Philos, Gengis Khan, B… Godzilla is not the only pop culture mammoth to hail from Japan. So do classic video game characters such as Pac-Man, Mario and Sonic. So when ... Within the first few days of the threefold tragedy in Japan, Wikipedia trend- spotters noticed a startling spike in searches ... for "Godzilla." The radioactive monster is just one on-screen incarnation of human anxiety in a nuclear age. When Japanese sports hero Hideki Matsui joined the Yankees in 2003, the team's stadium facilities couldn't accommodate the onslaught of media interest. Instead, the slugger was introduced in a huge hotel ballroom in... Find out what the mystery creature of J.J. Abrams' upcoming thriller likes to eat with this short tease from the movie's viral site. [...] Movies, comics, and videogames have obsessively imagined Japan's destruction, mirroring the country's real-world vulnerability. The Earthquake Thunder Fish, Yosuke Ueno Since its "opening" in 1854 by U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry, Japan often has been defined in the West by a single, simple image. Sometimes that image has been one of exotic, romantic tradition (a samurai or a geisha); sometimes it has been the image of technophilic hypermodernity (a [...]
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