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 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 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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by Fred Topel
“You can still be direct without being a total douchebag”
– Jon Hamm
AMC’s hit series Mad Men turned the channel into a legitimate network for original programming. Their previous claim to fame was simply showing old films, as their title American Movie Classics indicated. Harkening back to a more “classic” era, Mad Men takes place in the world of 1960s advertising. The smoldering period piece stars Jon Hamm as Don Draper, the top ad man at Sterling Cooper. The world of the office features lots of smoking, suits and pre-sexual harassment sexism.
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by Fred Topel
““There will be an end when it comes.”
-Michael C. Hall
The first season of Dexter was pretty much based on the book, Darkly Dreaming Dexter. There weren’t spoilers so much as there were dramatizations of the novel. Season two went off with an original story, though still resolving some issues from season one. Now entering its third season, everything is fair game on Dexter.
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by Ryan Stewart
“It all begins and ends with Animal from The Muppets.”
-Rainn Wilson
Robert “Fish” Fishman is in his early 40s. He spends his days as a quiet pencil-pusher in a Cleveland office park and his nights trying to forget about the time, 20 years ago, when he was the drummer of a rising pop-metal band called Vesuvius and was unfairly bounced from their lineup before they blasted off into the rock n’ roll stratosphere. On the eve of the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he decides to distract himself by doing a little drumming for his nephew’s high-school garage band, led by the talented Curtis (singer Teddy Geiger) and the cute Amelia (Superbad’s Emma Stone) and that’s when fate opens up a window for an unlikely second chance at rock glory.
Rainn Wilson called up SuicideGirls recently to talk about The Rocker – how he relates to late-bloomers like Fish, why he thinks drumming is “inherently funny” and whether hair metal bands actually belong in the Hall of Fame.
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by Erin Broadley
““Its shuffling and its surfing and its really bad for the brain.”
– Reuben Wu
Ladytron is the last band one would expect to see wandering through the haunted shacks and abandoned junkyards of California’s high desert. But in the video for their new single “Ghosts” there is a sun-drenched sinister nature to that environment that suits the British band perfectly. Shot entirely on film, the video follows the impeccably dressed quartet through a dusty landscape of weather worn pianos and broken down vintage cars; a surreal place inhabited by oversized rabbits and where cars speed down the highway with no driver behind the wheel. Its the video that Ladytrons Reuben Wu considers his favorite the band has done thus far.
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