by A.J. Focht
Are you sick of spending your primetime television hours with doctors, lawyers, and detectives?
Original tv series ideas are hard to come by. Most of the shows currently on air are just different perspectives on the same stories. If an original show is bringing in a new audience, you can count on seeing a slew of similar shows pop-up on other networks. However the last decade has brought out some innovative ideas that you will be seeing a lot more of in future seasons.
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by Ryan Stewart
“People are living much more hot and racy lives than I am.”
– Peter Hook
The X-Files: I Want To Believe unveiled its theatrical trailer at New York Comic Con and, no surprise, it gives away absolutely nothing about the film. Total secrecy has been enforced from the word “go” on this project and when series creator and director Chris Carter and writer/producer Frank Spotnitz showed up at the Con to talk about the film, they acted at times like lawyers instead of science-fiction writers, parsing questions delicately, often answering in single sentences and sometimes answering a different question than the one asked in order to keep the mystery going.
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by Brett Warner
Go to any Starbucks in New York or Los Angeles and you’re guaranteed to find yuppie after yuppie, hunched over their MacBooks, working on a “screenplay.” By “screenplay,” of course, I mean Facebook…or online poker…or SuicideGirls – hopefully. There are a lot of screenplays floating around out there, though, and only an infinitesimal percentage of them will ever make it to the big screen one day. Why? Because most of them are shit. 99% of them are makeshift, amateurishly conceived pats on the back. Most movies are bad, so writing a screenplay must by extension be a piece of cake, right? Yeah, no. Even the most bloated, awful Hollywood blockbusters start out with a good screenplay. Hard to believe, but it’s true.
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This Sunday (Feb 13th) our very special in-studio guests will be LA’s very own 19 piece 1930s New Orleans Orchestra and Cabaret – Vaud and the Villains. Every Saint has a past, every sinner has a future, and SuicideGirls hanging with Vaud and his Villains will make for a very entertaining present.
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by Erin Broadley
“Everybody has a different memory. And none of it is true.”
– Peter Hook
“Every other band was on stage because they wanted to be rock stars, this band was on stage because they had no fucking choice,” sums up Tony Wilsons narrative. A camera pans across stark landscape of decrepit factories and abandoned warehouses. Wilson says, “I don’t see this as the story of a group, but of a city.” The group was Joy Division and the city was Manchester, England. It was 1976 and the group was about to change music, and their city, forever.
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by Blogbot
This past Saturday Sash and Milloux Suicide modelled for a special two hour live figure drawing session at Gallery Nucleus to celebrate the opening of their Poster Peepshow exhibition, which features pin up art from the past and present.
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by Erin Broadley
“We’re all just a bunch of sojourners, aren’t we? Just troubadours.”
– Dave Mustaine
“That’s terrible,” Dave Mustaine says to me, his eyes fixed on my sleeveless, inked forearm. “I’m looking at your tat. I get it. A musician broke your heart.” Not quite… Well, wait… Yes. One did. I shift in my seat; the Megadeth frontman has just outed me. I resist the urge to move my arm from sight; the tattoo — a beamed eighth note anchored by two halves of a heart — is as subtle as a scarlet letter. This wasn’t how I expected our conversation to start — about vulnerability, or about me — but then again, Mustaine has never been one to mince words. He knows what I know — that if you live in Hollywood long enough, especially if you work in the music industry, your heart will endure its fair share of beatings.
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