Take a walk on the wild side!
Did Led Zeppelin steal the majority of their songs from other sources?
Over the years Led Zeppelin has been accused of borrowing music and lyrics from other artists, especially some of the greatest blues legends of all time.
Led Zeppelin has been taken to court over the matter on numerous occasions. Several of the cases are yet to be resolved.
Steve Jobs in a Box. It’s a stunning box, a wizard object with a passel of amazing features (It’s a phone! An iPod! A Web browser!). But for all its marvels, the iPhone inaugurates a dangerous new era for Jobs. Has he peaked?
Spencer Elden (born on July 9, 1991) is the model who appeared on the cover of Nirvana’s album Nevermind. Nirvana considered using a stock photograph of a swimming baby, but when that proved too expensive, they hired photographer Kirk Weddle. Weddle’s friends, Renata and Rick Elden, allowed their son Spencer to be photographed for about $200. The hook, line, and dollar were superimposed later. After seeing the photo, Kurt Cobain (Nirvana’s lead singer) and his wife Courtney Love agreed that they would take Spencer out to dinner when he got older.
Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is my favorite book of all time. So much so, my next tattoo will be one based on the book… I just haven’t decided the what and where for right now. But I digress. As has been reported in this blog before, there is a movie in the works - and the image above, is the first that has made its way onto the internet! Although the photo doesn’t reveal too much - the character of Max looks friggn amazing!
via Wikipedia
Where the Wild Things Are is a film adaptation of a Maurice Sendak picture book of the same name. The film will be directed by Spike Jonze and written by Dave Eggers. It was originally set for release from Universal, and a teaser of the film was attached to How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a vehicle from the same studio. However, disagreements with Jonze led him to take the film to Warner Bros. The movie is expected to combine live action and CGI.
The film’s target release date is October 3, 2008. Filming began in April of 2006 at Central City Studios in Melbourne, Australia. Some location filming happened in the Queensland rain forest early in 2007.
(Central City Studios which is owned by my employers! Holy fuck I gotta get a tour of the place!)
My colleagues at work have resorted to calling me the Man In Black. Really, an honor to be bestowed with as far as I am concerned. But, I always correct them and tell them, no, I am the Man In Black (Two). My penchant for dressing in black - all the time(!) and listening to Johnny Cash on iTunes seems to have gotten me a new nickname. 
All levity aside, I had my surgical procedure done on my temple a week and a bit ago.
It was a nervous wait for the biopsy the results of which I received last Friday night. It wasn’t just a cyst that was removed, but a benign blood tumor. Just hearing the word tumor freaked me out a little but I was assured it was nothing major.
What is major though, is the doctor has messed up some nerve endings which is REALLY freaking me out. When I rub just below the wound above my right eye - it feels as if someone is pulling at my hair above my head. The harder I push the wound, the more the top of my head hurts. It is the weirdest thing I have ever experienced.
When I confronted the doctor about it last week, he quickly changed the subject and next thing I knew - I was talking football with him!
I’m not sure what I should do about this, but something needs to be done… methinks!
Today turned out to be a wonderful day. Playing it very much by ear, Sam and I decided to spend the afternoon in Williamstown. After some lunch and a walk around this beautiful city by the bay, we ended up back in the city and thought it would be cool to check out the Eureka Tower Observation Deck - Skydeck 88. (88 ‘cos it is on the 88th floor).
The magnificent Eureka Tower stands 300 metres and 92 storeys tall - currently taller than any other apartment building in the world.
To say that Sam and I were blown away by the views is an understatement! We were very lucky to get there a little before sunset, so we experienced both a day and night view of Melbourne.
It was a surreal feeling looking down onto the streets that the pair of us know so well… the amount of kilometres we have walked through the streets and alleys of Melbourne, only our Doc Marten’s know for sure, yet now we were looking at it all from way above.
I felt at peace up here. Listening to the hum and drone of the city was almost soothing and musical at the same time. Seeing the look on my girlfriend’s face marvelling at all before her was also such a special and priceless moment for me. It felt so good to share this moment with her and it made me reflect on the past 6 months of our amazing relationship… looking back at all the wonderful things we seem to get up to together. Never a dull moment. No sireee!
We sat on the edge, only a sheet of glass between us and this great height and watched day diminish into night. As if on cue, the sun descended away and the city lights began to flicker and illuminate the vastness below us.
It feels so good to be alive…
Did internet scammers steal Herman Munster’s MasterCard number? Crooks in an underground chat room for selling stolen credit card numbers and personal consumer information offered pilfered data purportedly about Herman Munster, the 1960s Frankenstein-like character from The Munsters TV sitcom.
Banned Game a ‘fine piece of art’. A video game banned in Britain and Ireland and facing restricted sales in the United States due to its violent content was a fine piece of art, the game’s publisher said on Wednesday.
Last Saturday I endured a medical procedure to remove a large cyst-like substance from the upper right of my forehead. This cyst has been there for close to two years and I finally decided to get it checked out as frankly, it was beginning to worry me. On first diagnosis, the doctor informed me it was nothing to be concerned over but until the histology is done on it… I will be worrying. Although the procedure to remove it wasn’t too painful, the recovery over the next couple of days was bordering on the uncomfortable. After getting two jabs of local anesthetic, the doc also injected me with a shot of adrenalin which had my heart racing at an alarming rate as soon as he injected it into my head. In all actuality, it spun me out as I felt I was going to pass out from the shock it gave to my system.
Several hours after the procedure on Saturday night, I was beginning to feel the pain of 7 stitches in my head. I wasn’t prescribed with any pain-killers which was a little surprising. But my girlfriend had some so I took a couple to ease the pain and the headache that was developing. The next morning I was feeling incredibly queasy and dizzy. I ended up spending the entire Sunday flat on my back with no desire to eat or do anything. It wasn’t until later in the day that I was able to have some dinner and recover somewhat.
Today, I still felt a little queasy and dizzy but was able to have lunch. I went to the doctor again at 5.30pm so he could look over the wound. The stitches will be removed this Friday. I was told the results of my removed cyst would also be available.
Having said that, I am incredibly nervous about it all. I am sure all will be ok, but one can never fully know eh? I will try not to think about things and just go about my everyday activities until Friday.
Fox just gave the green light and ordered 13 episodes of a new reality show starring Elvira, a.k.a. ‘Mistress of the Dark’ to begin airing on October 13th, with the live finale on Halloween night.
The idea behind this series is that the real Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) is searching for a double - someone who can make public appearances and represent her. She’s still in pretty high demand, with her manager claiming that she gets requests for “hundreds” of public appearances each year.
All Elvira wanna-bes can audition for the show on July 13th at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.
I’m totally under the pump at work. Sometimes, I honestly feel as if I am doing the work of three people. At least, my superiors have acknowledged that I am doing the work of two but nup, it’s definitely three! Having been at my current gig for 3 months now, I do feel a helluva lot more comfortable now than I did a month ago. I really do not mind the face down, ass up kinda environment. In fact, I think I kinda thrive on that (as long as I can be armed with my iPod, and no one bothers me… I’m good to go! Today for example, is one of those days where I am doing about 5 things at once on 5 different machines (all the while keeping an eye on the clock as pre-sale tickets to the Black Sabbath and Tori Amos gigs go on sale at noon - my credit card is about to get a serious workout as I’m getting two ticks for Tori and three for Sabbath!)
So today, I’m preparing DVD’s using Photoshop, Flash, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Whilst I am preparing the graphics on one machine, the other G5 I am using to burn the DVD’s and then testing them on our DVD rack before getting labels printed and sending the discs up to the library who will dispatch them at the end of the month. At the same time, I am preparing detail documentation of the production process so in future, if I ever leave this gig, the next guy that comes along won’t have as hellish a time as I had having to learn the massive procedures that need to be undertaken in the monthly production cycle. At the same time, I am on the phone with the printer organizing for the printing of some brochures I have prepared and emailing my girlfriend so we can meet at lunch time along Chapel St.
And if that wasn’t enough, I have a photoshoot to do for a hotel tonight (3rd day in a row I have had to go there but with the possibility of regular photo work from them… I’m game!)
I’m under the pump… big time, but at least it is Friday and now that I know what I am doing with the massive workload before me, - I’m freaking loving it! Bring it on!
Mad-haired Hollywood director Tim Burton is in talks with studio bosses about making a film about the life of Marilyn Manson and his estranged wife Dita Von Teese.
“I’m fascinated by Dita and Marilyn,” says Buron. “They’re like a living Brothers Grimm fairytale.”
