math and physics club & other: May 2008

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Cloverfield sets monster record in US

'Cloverfield' has become the first monster hit of 2008 after making $41m (€28m) in the US last weekend, a record opening for January according to studio estimates.
Watch an extended clip from 'Cloverfield' here.
The tale of a giant reptile causing chaos in New York City surpassed the $35.9m premiere weekend of the 'Star Wars' special edition in 1997, the previous best for January.
Featuring a cast of unknowns, 'Cloverfield' tells its monster story from the perspective of a partygoer's hand-held video camera, which captures the mayhem as the creature tears through the city.
The film benefited from cryptic marketing that sent moviegoers on a scavenger hunt to decode clues about the movie's plot, images and even its title, which was not confirmed until shortly before its release.
'Cloverfield' is released in Ireland on 1 February.

Monday 26 May 2008

Roger Chaupin

Artist: Roger Chaupin

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Roses

Year: 2001
Tracks: 10

Pluies

Year:
Tracks: 9

Nuages

Year:
Tracks: 10

As the frontman of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn and his trademark 12-string Rickenbacker guitar pioneered folk-rock and, by extension, country-rock, influencing everyone from contemporaries like the Beatles to acolytes like Tom Petty and R.E.M. in the litigate. James Joseph McGuinn was innate on July 13, 1942, in Chicago, where by his teenage years he was already something of a kinfolk music prodigy. After touring with the Limelighters, in 1960 he signed on as an accompanyist with the Chad Mitchell Trio, coming into court on the LPs Mighty Day on Campus and At the Bitter End; discomfited with his special role in the grouping, he shortly coupled Bobby Darin's group when the isaac Bashevis Singer stirred from come out to common people.

After appearance on sessions for Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins, and Tom & Jerry (presently to be known as Simon & Garfunkel), McGuinn began playacting solo dates around the Los Angeles surface area, where he before long formed the Jet Set with surface area musicians David Crosby and Gene Clark. After a failed unmarried under the name the Beefeaters, the group recruited bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke, changed their name to the Byrds, and sic about crystallisation McGuinn's vision of merging the poetic kinfolk music of Bob Dylan with the miraculous come out sounds heard via the British Invasion. McGuinn was the only member of the Byrds to represent on their landmark debut single "Mr. Tambourine Man," only his jangly guitar work chop-chop became the identical definition of the burgeoning folk-rock form; still, despite the Byrds' immediate success, both commercially and critically, the mathematical group was plagued by internal strife, and following the release of their 1968 country-rock breakthrough Knockout of the Rodeo, McGuinn was the only foundation member static in the band.

Below the direction of McGuinn -- wHO had changed his first key out to Roger afterward a toying with the Subud religion -- the Byrds soldiered on, delving farther and farther into country and roots music in front in the end dissolving in February 1973. That same yr, McGuinn issued his self-titled solo debut, an ambitious, eclectic social occasion which explored non just tribe and land just surf and even place rock candy. 1974's Peace on You and 1975's Roger McGuinn & His Band preceded a stint with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, which helped revitalize his standing inside the musical community. 1976's Cardiff Rose was regarded as his best solo effort to engagement, just the next year's Thunderbyrd, which featured a overlay of Tom Petty's "American Girl," failed to connect with audiences.

In previous 1977, McGuinn reunited with Byrds couple Chris Hillman and Gene Clark; the resulting LP, 1979's McGuinn, Clark & Hillman, saw-toothed a Top 40 pop gain with the McGuinn-penned "Don't You Write Her Off." Midway through recording the follow-up, 1980's City, Clark departed, and the record album was released under the key out "Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman Featuring Gene Clark." Following some other attempt, 1981's McGuinn/Hillman, they went their separate slipway. After undergoing some other spiritual conversion, this clock time becoming a converted Christian, McGuinn spent the rest of the eighties without a recording compress and playing solo dates.

The appearance of a faux Byrds lED by Michael Clarke prompted McGuinn to reform the grouping with Hillman and David Crosby in 1989, resulting in a series of cabaret performances, an appearance at a Roy Orbison testimonial, and a smattering of new recordings for inclusion on a box lay out retrospective. In 1991 -- the same yr the Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- McGuinn issued his number one young solo recordings in over a x, the all-star Back to Rio, which was met with great world and critical herald. Alive From Mars, a retrospective of songs and stories, appeared in 1996.

Simon Cowell speaks out on Miley Cyrus pics

American Idol judge Simon Cowell has blasted teen star Miley Cyrus over the risqu� Vanity Fair photos published last week.

The ‘Hannah Montana’ star, 15, said that the shot, in which she appears wrapped in only a blanket, had not turned out how she expected.

But the music mogul, 48, insists that Cyrus would have the opportunity to stop the photos — taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz — from being published.

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Scorsese making Marley documentary

Following the success of his Bob Dylan documentary 'No Direction Home' and the completion of his new Rolling Stones film 'Shine a Light', Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is to make a documentary about reggae legend Bob Marley.
Variety reports that the as-yet-untitled film has been authorised by Marley's family.
The film is due for release on 6 February, 2010, which would have been Marley's 65th birthday.
To listen to this week's special 'Arts Show' report on Bob Marley, click here.

Thorns

Artist: Thorns

   Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black

Discography:

Existence

Year: 2001
Tracks: 8

Thorns

Year: 2000
Tracks: 8

Thorns Vs. Emperor (Split With Emperor)

Year: 1998
Tracks: 8

The Trondertun Tape and Grymyrk CD2

Year: 1989
Tracks: 8

Although they only released their commencement official product in the late '90s, the band known as Thorns was a crucial player in the early development of the Norwegian black-market metal scene a decennium sooner -- as considerably as the notorious crimes that unluckily brought oecumenical attention. Thorns was in the beginning called Stigma Diabolicum by its founders, Snorre W. Ruch (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Marius Vold (basso, vocals), and BÃ¥rd "Faustus" Eithun (drums), just recorded just i demonstration, 1989's "Luna diethylstilboestrol Nocturnus," before sledding their break slipway. Snorre, like his likewise multi-talented friend Varg Vikernes of Burzum, then decided he could go it solitary and, having settled upon the Thorns sobriquet, simply called upon guest musicians as required for the recording of 1991's massively influential "Grymyrk" demo. This process was recurrent for 1992's review "TrÃ¸ndertun" demonstration tape, which along with its predecessor was believably traded as very much as whatsoever early tape by better-known "interior round" members Mayhem, Darkthrone, and Emperor.

However, what should have served as launch tablet for a sinister alloy vocation of be height was or else derailed when Snorre was convicted to serve eight years in prison for his interest in Vikernes' brute slay of rival Euronymous. Snorre was at once re-embraced by his peers upon release, however, and presently a resurrected Thorns had a split mini-album with Emperor. Then, trio years later, a proper Thorns record album was recorded with the aid of vocalists Satyr Wongraven of Satyricon and Aldrahn of enigmatic DÃ¸dheimsgard, along with black metal's ultimate drummer for rent, Hellhammer.

Kevin Drumm and Lasse Marhaug

Premiere of Sleeping Beauty in Dublin pulled

The world premiere of a new musical version of 'Sleeping Beauty' will not go ahead at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre as scheduled, due to difficulties with financing.
The musical, which counted 'You're a Star' winner Leanne Moore and former 'Red Dwarf' actor Danny John-Jules amongst its cast, was due to receive its world premiere on 29 May before transferring to London's West End.
It is now planned that the musical will premiere in London's West End with much of the Dublin cast being offered roles in the re-scheduled production.
The financial difficulties stem from investors EMI records pulling out of the project. According to the producers of the musical, the record label, "were unable, under their new corporate structure and amidst major cost-cutting measures worldwide, to provide full financing for the production as required by the producers."
Producer John Ward said: "Dublin was always our first choice of venue for the world premiere of this wonderful new musical and I am deeply disappointed that we are unable to proceed with what would have been a fantastic premiere in Ireland.
"I apologise to all theatre-goers who are disappointed by this unavoidable turn of events and hope that they will be able to come and see the show in London when it opens there later this year."
Customers who had booked tickets for the musical will receive a full refund for the cancelled performances from their point of sale.
The world premiere of the musical had previously run into difficulty after its initial opening date of 14 May was pushed back by two weeks.