Occupy Guitarmy Hard to Take Serious With Terrible Pun
Rage Against the Machine guitarist, and Harvard grad, Tom Morello, is releasing a World Wide Rebel Tour documentary to coincide with today’s Occupy Guitarmy (yes, it has a website) musical march (via Hollywood Reporter). I know headline writers are obsessed with puns to sell the story (not me, I swear), but guitarmy – seriously? The documentary is a 30-minute feature, which songs performed as his alter-ego, The Nightwatchman, plus a Q&A with Morello.
“The World Wide Rebel Tour is a virtual tour spanning the entire planet. From Malawi to Myanmar, from Uzbekistan to the U.S.A., people’s voices and struggles have made their way into my music,” said Morello of the documentary. “On May 1st, I’m returning the favor with this global rebel rocking throwdown. Free. Everywhere. May Day.”
For those of you in New York City, and wanting to say you were part of a “guitarmy”, Morello will be leading the pack from Bryant Park to Union Station as part of the Occupy Guitarmy movement. If I type guitarmy any more times, I’m going to get a guitar-rannosaurus rex and take over New York. Yup, that’s my attempt at contributing to the pun fun.
Damon Albarn Invites Noel Gallagher to Africa (And Not To Secretly Murder Him)
Over the last year, the sun must have crashed into the Earth, as the Damon Albarn – Noel Gallagher feud has budded into a friendship more unlikely than that of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Now, Damon has even talked about wanting to collaborate with Noel Gallagher – what is going on?! (via NME).
Albarn said: “Well, why not? He should come on the Africa Express train in September. That’d be a nice chance to collaborate.”
Speaking about the famous feud, Damon said, “I never held anything against him, even right in the middle of it. I just kind of admired them in a way; that they were better at handling it all than me. They didn’t seem to get too affected by the bullshit.”
Translation: Our single sold more than theirs, so I don’t hold anything against them.
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Friday Afternoon Funnies: Bane 7 Years After Batman
So who else has watched The Dark Knight Rises? Every day? Yeah, that’s what I thought – if there’s one thing we like more than music, it’s Batman. I won’t give you any spoilers
except that Batman is a ROBOT FROM THE FUTUREbut today’s Friday Afternoon Funnies shows you a funny clip that involves Bane, 7 years after The Dark Knight Rises. The most amazing thing about the video? It starts Chris “Where the fuck have you been?” Kattan as Bane. I think the clip is likely more of a documentary on how Kattan is doing these days, not what Bane is up to.Check out Kattan’s pretty awesome Bane impression, as well as how he thought he was fat, asking people to pick up his litter, and trying to order food at a drive-thru. Minor spoilers from the movie are included, so consider this your warning.
Behind the Scenes for the Sights and Sounds of The Dark Knight Rises
Besides being an amazing franchise rebooted by my favourite director, Christopher Nolan, the new Batman trilogy knows a thing or two about music. The Dark Knight won an Oscar for Best Sound Editing, and was nominated for Best Sound Mixing. It also won or was nominated for various BAFTA awards. If you’ve seen the Dark Knight Rises, and want to know about the chanting theme throughout the movie, or other musical tidbits, you’ve come to the right place (for once).
The Soundworks Collection video interviews the legendary music composer, Hans Zimmer, to figure out how he does what he does, what Christopher Nolan’s role is with the sound, and what to do when you don’t have 100,000 friends. Check out a 9-minute video telling you everything (well, most things) that you wanted to know about the sounds and music of The Dark Knight Rises (via Wired). Yes, they used a weed whacker at one point. And yes, Tom Hardy’s voice was not really touched by them – Bane is supposed to sound like Darth Vader played by Sean Connery.
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Post-Olympic Opening Ceremony Sales Boost
So who here watched the Queen jump out of a helicopter with James Bond on Friday night? If you have no clue what I’m talking about, you were either as drunk as I was, or you missed the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies. There was a LOT of music featured, including an opening shot of the Thames, featuring the awesomely named Fuck Buttons. They played Surf Solar, and NOT their aptly named song, Olympians. Performing at the venue were the Arctic Monkeys, Dizzie Rascal, Paul McCartney, Alex Trimble from Two Door Cinema Club, and a few others.
All of the music went on sale on iTunes immediately after the Opening Ceremonies, and impacted the iTunes charts. The Arctic Monkeys’ cover of Come Together and Alex Trimble’s song Caliban’s Dream both entered the Top 70 (via Gigwise). I’m not sure why a Beatles’ cover song was done when there was a BEATLES AT THE CEREMONIES! The other song played by Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor – also re-entered the top 100 (despite sounding a bit flat in the live performance). A compilation album of the Opening Ceremony music, called Isle of Wonder, went to number 1 in the charts in the UK, France, Spain, and Belgium, and number 5 in the USA (via Guardian). See, the Olympics is about much, much more than corporate sponsorship and capitalism!
More Stabby Stabby at Concerts: Fan Stabbed at a Tenacious D Show
This is a trend that I want to see less of –
fat naked men in my housestabbings at concerts. I’ve said it before, and now I’m saying it again – concerts = fun. Leave the bullshit at home – I like NOT being stabbed at shows. During a show at Mandalay Bay’s House of Blues in Las Vegas, a fan was stabbed and the Tenacious D gig was shut down (via NME). A fight broke out and a man was stabbed in the leg. I’m guessing they were arguing over who was sexier – Jack or Kyle. The stab victim is expected to make a full recovery, while we will never know the outcome of the sexiest Tenacious D member.Click for super exciting Morning Music Notes
Friday Afternoon Funnies: Batman Just Doesn’t Get The Secret Identity Part
After realizing that I have no friends and not wanting to see the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises alone, I have recruited a few people to see the show later tonight. See, the Internet can be good for something! This video is a few weeks old, but it’s appropriate for the Batman movie release day. I’ve always wondered why people can’t tell who Batman is by seeing the bottom half of his face. At least it’s better than Superman / Clark Kent, who puts on a pair of glasses and NO ONE can tell who he is.
What if Batman wasn’t as smart and sophisticated as Bruce is, and kept slipping up when trying to conceal his true identity? Well, then we’d end up with a guy like the one in the clip below. To be honest, the clip should’ve ended after about 1.5 minutes, but they try to milk it for every last laugh. Check it out in our na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na FRIDAY AFTERNOON FUNNIES.
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Morning Music Notes – Occupy Guitarmy Movement Rues Poor Name
Occupy Guitarmy Hard to Take Serious With Terrible Pun
Rage Against the Machine guitarist, and Harvard grad, Tom Morello, is releasing a World Wide Rebel Tour documentary to coincide with today’s Occupy Guitarmy (yes, it has a website) musical march (via Hollywood Reporter). I know headline writers are obsessed with puns to sell the story (not me, I swear), but guitarmy – seriously? The documentary is a 30-minute feature, which songs performed as his alter-ego, The Nightwatchman, plus a Q&A with Morello.
“The World Wide Rebel Tour is a virtual tour spanning the entire planet. From Malawi to Myanmar, from Uzbekistan to the U.S.A., people’s voices and struggles have made their way into my music,” said Morello of the documentary. “On May 1st, I’m returning the favor with this global rebel rocking throwdown. Free. Everywhere. May Day.”
For those of you in New York City, and wanting to say you were part of a “guitarmy”, Morello will be leading the pack from Bryant Park to Union Station as part of the Occupy Guitarmy movement. If I type guitarmy any more times, I’m going to get a guitar-rannosaurus rex and take over New York. Yup, that’s my attempt at contributing to the pun fun.
Damon Albarn Invites Noel Gallagher to Africa (And Not To Secretly Murder Him)
Over the last year, the sun must have crashed into the Earth, as the Damon Albarn – Noel Gallagher feud has budded into a friendship more unlikely than that of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Now, Damon has even talked about wanting to collaborate with Noel Gallagher – what is going on?! (via NME).
Albarn said: “Well, why not? He should come on the Africa Express train in September. That’d be a nice chance to collaborate.”
Speaking about the famous feud, Damon said, “I never held anything against him, even right in the middle of it. I just kind of admired them in a way; that they were better at handling it all than me. They didn’t seem to get too affected by the bullshit.”
Translation: Our single sold more than theirs, so I don’t hold anything against them.
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