While I know everyone beat me to posting the new Erika Jayne video, with whips & chains, yesterday. I felt however "Hump Day" was the perfect time to post a video for a song titled "How Many F#@ks." Erika Jayne has been around for a spell in the music world, she is especially known among gay men ( she was named Queen of this year's White Party in Palm Springs after all.) Being on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has given her singing career a HUGE boost! Watching the show it is obvious as to why... Who wouldn't want a loyal, smart, tough, sexy, sassy broad to call their own as a fierce friend?! Like she tells it: "Everyone needs a little Erika Jayne in their lives." Ya know what? I think she's on to something with that. Erika Jayne embodies the bad girl/boy in us all. The things we want to say and do, but don't act upon publicly she does. Her latest song definitely strikes a raw nerve on something that we all want to parade around proclaiming loudly and in public, but for obvious reasons the sentiment is kept private. I know I am feeling this catchy little number in 4,3,2...1!!!
Remember when George Clooney fought Killer Tomatoes with his mullet?!?!
The killer tomatoes are back! But this time around, they're going to have to contend with late '80s George Clooney and his wicked mullet... Is it a fruit? Is it a vegetable? Nope, it's Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
Ten years on from the Great Tomato War, mankind lives in fear of another uprising by the waxy red menace. Meanwhile, Professor Gangreen - played with gusto by John Astin from TV's The Addams Family - sets out to pursue his own evil ends by creating a burgeoning army of tomato militia men (who, somewhat conveniently, look just like regular men).
George Clooney Everything's Better With A Tomato!
Following on from the 1978 cult classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Return of the Killer Tomatoes came armed with a healthy sense of its own ridiculousness and would expand upon a franchise that now comprises four films, two TV series and a video game. So what are you waiting for? Make Return of the Killer Tomatoes one of your five-a-day now!
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS - High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation - Original Stereo audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) - Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing - Brand new audio commentary with writer-director John De Bello - Brand new interview with star Anthony Starke - Original Theatrical Trailer - Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin - Fully-illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by critic James Oliver
Complete product details, hi res art, etc. can be found HERE.
Threesome
Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick & Some Guy Named Adam Devine
Let's alleviate some of the tax day stress with a fun menage a trois, shall we? That's correct here we have two of my favorites Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick pictured with someone I have not a clue as to who he is, Adam Devine. The three of them were snapped promoting their upcoming comedy, with the literal title: Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates at CinemaCon. Where they scored the Triple Crown as Stars of the Year, that's right, Stars, hey there is room for everyone. Efron and Kendrick in a comedy together is like a dream. They both have great timing and know how to work your funny bone. I am looking forward to catching this flick when it arrives. Now if only I had a handle on who the flip Adam Devine is... Need A "Wedding" Date? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2823054/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2
Cool Rider
Jason Walker Jason Walker has a new single out! Aren't you "So Happy"???
Two-time Grammy nominated dance producer Tony Moran and Out Music Award winner Jason Walker unite on the season’s most powerful pop-dance record, “So Happy”. Written by Tony Moran and Chris Willis – the American gospel singer turned electronic dance music phenomenon for his work with David Guetta - the epic single features an amazing vocal performance by Jason Walker, a superstar collection of remixes and a visionary music video by Karl Giant. “So Happy” is available now on iTunes.
So Happy
“With all that's happening in the world today, isn't that what everyone wants: to be happy and feel good,” wonders Jason Walker from his home in New York City. “The dance floor is my happy place. It’s where I can forget my troubles and let the music take over. For me, music is the universal truth and when a hard beat pulses through my body, there is simply no better feeling than that. My hope is that ‘So Happy’ lifts listeners to their own place of pure joy.”
When deciding on a location to shoot the song’s music video, videographer Karl Giant – who has shot videos for Cyndi Lauper, Ultra Nate, and The One’s - had in mind a destination that was a bit grander in scale than a dance floor. He whisked Walker to a land of breathtaking panoramas and transcendent realities.
“We went to the Salt Flats in Utah!” Walker explains. “It turned out to be one of the most exhilarating, life-changing experiences ever. Five days in the desert was insanely riveting.”
"I am the great Cornholio! I need T.P. for my bunghole!" - Beavis "Beavis and Butthead" Yes, Corn Hole is the first thing I thought when I saw this image of singer Michael Buble' at Disneyland. The second thing I though is: "He must not have tonsils anymore" or "Perhaps he is auditioning for gay porn" see how you can add any take you want onto this shot??? Apparently this has got certain segments of the web upset and freaked out. Because they obviously have nothing better to do. Me? I am posting it because I think it is hilarious and who does not love a man with a great sense of humor? I know I do. Obviously Buble' saw the paparazzi and wanted to have some fun with them. He also most likely figured the image would go viral and that there were enough gullible people in the world to actually not be in on the joke. Smart & funny, that's a pretty amazing combination! Trust me... Tweet about the corn to Michael at: https://twitter.com/search/michael+buble
Top: Billie Jean King & Bobby Riggs
Bottom: Emma Stone & Steve Carell
Emma Stone is quite the versatile actress. I actually loved her in Easy A and Zombieland. Although I have not caught her in anything past that. Hey you have to be in something I actually want to see for me to attend and The Help just didn't cut it for me. Neither did re-booting Spiderman. Even your turn as a part Asian woman, which drew some controversy for Aloha could not get me to watch. That film looked so D.O.A. in the commercials anyway and the protest groups were the most attention that piece of celluloid got. Next up for Emma? She will be out tennis legend Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes. The film focuses on her tennis match with arrogant male chauvinist pig and publicity whore Bobby Riggs played by Steve Carell. This actually has the potential to be interesting. I do wonder if anyone will protest Stone playing a Lesbian when she is not one though? To me that would be ridiculous, but.... Go To "Battle" On IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4622512/?ref_=nv_sr_1
You know the old adage: Damned if you do, Damned if you don't?
Carry on then!
Featuring Chrissie Hynde, Dave Gahan, Lemmy, Mick Jones, Billy Idol and more...
After packing cinemas and collecting rave reviews around the world,THE DAMNED: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead is coming to home video on May 20th.
Hailed as "excellent" by Uncut, "fascinating" by The Arts Desk,and "funny, fast-moving and gloriously chaotic" by The Hollywood Reporter, the film was directed/produced by Wes Orshoski, and is the first fully authorized documentary on punk pioneers The Damned.
Ireland's Hot Press raves: "Orshoski came onto our radar with the acclaimed Lemmy documentary in 2011 [which he co-directed/produced] and has once again created a tour de force, presenting an entertaining and searingly honest depiction of the grievously overlooked punk legends."
Filmed around the globe over three years, and world-premiered at SXSW 2015, THE DAMNED: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead tells the story of the third prong in the holy trinity of U.K. punk. In advance of both the Sex Pistols and the Clash, The Damned was the first U.K. punk band to release a single (1976's immortal "New Rose"), the first to release an album ('77's frenetic Damned Damned Damned), and the first to tour America (planting their flag at CBGB in April 1977). Now in their 39th year, The Damned are the only band from London's 1976 Punk Rock Big Bang still touring the world today.
In addition to Damned founders Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies and Brian James, the film includes appearances by such one-time bandmates as The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones (The Clash) and Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead, as well as such rock and/or punk luminaries as Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks), JJ Burnel (The Stranglers), Dave Gahan (Depeche Mode), Billy Idol, Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks/OFF!), Dexter Holland (The Offspring), Jack Grisham (T.S.O.L.), and more.
Taking its name from the title-track of the Damned's 1979 album, Machine Gun Etiquette, the film charts the band's unique history, bitter infighting and legendary bad behavior (drummer Scabies is blamed for creating punk's "gobbing," or spitting, phenomenon); it takes viewers into the toilets once scrubbed by Captain Sensible and viewers follow the Damned on their world-wide 35th anniversary tour in 2011 -- with estranged band founders Scabies and James seen on screen answering that trek with a snarling celebration of their own. In a bizarre twist of fate, other former members find themselves being treated for the same form of cancer by the same doctor in the same Welsh cancer ward; elsewhere, the band's founding members are seen grappling with their legacy, and the fallout from missed and/or bungled business decisions that have kept them painfully working class for most of the past four decades.
"Damned" Trailer
The Arts Desk: "Where many music documentaries have a similar dynamic arc-rise, fall, rise again-Don't You Wish That We Were Dead is a fascinating, rambling saga that emanates a rich, sometimes morose, sense of what it's really like to have a whole life defined by the oh-so-brief explosion that was punk rock."
In the bonus features, Captain Sensible takes viewers on a tour of Croydon, the south London town that gave rise to the Damned, and he busks on the streets of Hollywood with actor/musician/comedian Fred Armisen, a huge Damned fan. Elsewhere, the full story of the band's involvement and eventual ousting from the Sex Pistols' fabled Anarchy in the U.K. tour of 1976 is told in detail for the first time.
In the film, The Damned is credited with helping to ignite the punk scene in America. In 1977, the Damned were the first of the U.K. punks to play in both New York (at CBGB) and Los Angeles (at the Starwood).
In 2010, The Huffington Post's Binky Phillips recalled the band's U.S. debut at CBGB in early April 1977: "I was down at CBGB with a chip on my shoulder. My town was Punk Ground Zero.... I was, in fact, without a struggle, reduced to fan boy within 30 seconds. It was as if the entire evening proceeding them had been in black and white and suddenly we were thrust into Technicolor Oz."
The Damned kick off a West Coast tour in April, which includes two appearances at Coachella (April 16 & 23), as well as stops in San Francisco (April 14, Great American Music Hall); Solana Beach, CA (April 19, Belly Up); Pomona, CA (April 20, The Glass House); and Los Angeles (April 21, The Roxy).
The band officially kicks off its 40th anniversary tour on May 20 with a sold-out gig at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
