Jessica Simpson - The Things They Say 8556 & other: June 2008

Thursday 26 June 2008

Crazy Fan to Beckham: Let's Hug It Out

For a few seconds, this crazy fan was the envy of women around the world -- embracing the hottest man in soccer, David Beckham. He was then the envy of no one -- as Beck's beefy teammate Chris Klein gave him a serious beat down!

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Tuesday 24 June 2008

Nancy Reagan -- Just Say No to Aging

Upright 86-year-old former First Lady of the U.S. Nancy Reagan looked heavenly on her way into a nail salon in Hollywood.
Nancy Reagan: Click to view!

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Two People Charged Over Amy Winehouse 'Drugs Video'

As Singer Appears At Home...

'Jennifer Lopez Fears She's A Bad Mother'

Jennifer Lopez's fabled perfectionism reportedly extends to her new role as a parent.

The singer – who gave birth to twins Max and Emme in February – is said feel she's failing in her quest to be the “perfect mother” to her two girls.

"Jennifer wants to be the perfect mother, but she crumbles if any normal little thing goes wrong,” says a source.

"If the twins cry, she thinks it's because she's a bad mom, and bursts into tears herself.

"Marc had to sit her down and make her understand that she's a good mom and it's normal for babies to cry."

And husband Marc Anthony is worried that this self-imposed pressure – combined with her efforts to ditch the 50lbs she gained while pregnant - is taking its toll on her health.

The source tells Closer, "Jen is a total perfectionist, and she's treating motherhood the same way she goes about her career -- it's all or nothing.

"Marc is concerned that she's not eating properly or sleeping because she's obsessed with looking after the twins. If she leaves them with her own mother for a couple of hours to have some time off, she beats herself up about it and feels guilty.

"Marc has forced Jen to take some time off and have a massage to unwind, but she even struggled to relax during that.

"He wants her to stop worrying abut the kind of mother she's being and just enjoy it."

Hudson cast in Secret Life of Bees

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo are to star in the big screen adaptation of the Sue Monk Kidd novel 'The Secret Life of Bees'.
Variety reports that Dakota Fanning and Alicia Keys are also in negotiations to join the film, which tells the story of a 14-year-old who runs away from home and is taken care of by three eccentric beekeeping sisters.
Shooting on the film is due to begin on 9 January in North Carolina.
'The Secret Life of Bees' is due out later this year.

Iron Man First To Cross $300-million Mark

Iron Man has become the golden boy for Marvel Studios, becoming the first picture of the year to cross the $300-million mark at the domestic box office. According to Music by Numbers, the film had grossed $299.3 million through Tuesday and was a sure bet to blow past $300 million on Wednesday or today (Thursday). Three films grossed more than $300 million in 2007: Spider-Man 3 ($336.5 million); Shrek the Third ($322.7 million), and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ($309.4 million).

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"Gossip Girl" Gets Spotted

No doubt her TV persona of Serena van der Woodsen has pissed off a lot of people on "Gossip Girl" -- but getting pissed on may be a first.

Blake Lively got some relief from a hot NYC day on Wednesday -- compliments of her pup's golden shower.

Where's the sisterhood of the traveling pants when you need 'em?!

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Kim Wilson

Artist: Kim Wilson

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Lookin For Trouble

Year: 2003
Tracks: 15

Smokin' joint

Year: 2001
Tracks: 13

My Blues

Year: 1997
Tracks: 15

Harmonica thespian, songwriter and singer Kim Wilson is as a lot a student and historian of classic blues as he is one of the U.S.'s peak harmonica players. Simply put, Wilson has taste; when he enters the recording studio apartment, he has a unclutter vision of what he wants his following record to healthy care. Aside from all this, he's also an extremely difficult worker and a major route hogget, disbursal upwardly of 200 nights a U.S., Canada and Europe with his have Kim Wilson striation and leading the Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Although he's long been known as the magnetic frontman for the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Wilson's solo albums -- which feature bands of his have choosing for different tracks -- is where the mastermind in his function shows through and through most clearly. Born January 6, 1951 in Detroit, Wilson grew up in California. His parents were singers wHO would whistle pop standards on the wireless, and spell Wilson took trombone and guitar lessons, he didn't find blues until he was a senior in high school. Wilson's father-God afterwards worked for General Motors and raised his family in Goleta, California, he recalled in a 1994 question in his adopted hometown of Austin.

"We weren't robust, merely we were o.K.," he recalled. Wilson dropped kO'd of college and began playing blues wide-cut time in 1970. Wilson had a rented way and lived the hipster existence, getting his harp chops together by playing with travelling blues musicians like Eddie Taylor. Even though Wilson had only switched to harp in his elderly yr in high school, his advance on the instrument was rapid and every mo as all-consuming as his blues record-buying habit. Charlie Musselwhite, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Rhodes were among the other Bay Area musicians Wilson befriended and worked with in clubs. But Wilson didn't meet his biggest mentor until after he affected to Austin in the mid-'70s.

"Muddy Waters was my biggest wise man. He really made my report for me, and that was a wild time of my life, existence associated with that humankind," he recalled of his early years with the Fabulous Thunderbirds in Austin. There, at the Antone's megrims cabaret, Wilson and his Thunderbirds would back up whoever came into town, and it didn't consume long for the band to recognize they had Waters' benediction.

As a ballad maker, Wilson takes his clew from the long-forgotten name calling like Tampa Red, Roosevelt Sykes and Lonnie Johnson. His 1993 solo album, Tigerman, for the Austin-based Antone's label, features merely three of his possess tunes. Being the student of the blues that he is, Wilson was clearly hesitant to track record overly many of his own tunes when he'd already had a vision in his head of how he was leaving to make over classics wish Joe Hill Louis's "Panthera tigris Man," the album's title rails. He followed up his debut with the every bit brilliant That's Life (1994), also for Antone's, and over again this recording contains just tierce self-penned songs.

Wilson's life history took a supercharge in the '90s with a major-label deal with Private Music/BMG for the Fabulous Thunderbirds and haunt concert appearances with Bonnie Raitt. Wilson's solo albums are solid productions, extremely recommended for harp students and fans of classic Texas megrims and rhythm & blues.

Monday 23 June 2008

Underoath

Artist: Underoath

   Genre(s):
Metal: Alternative
   Hardcore
   Other

Discography:

Define The Great Line

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

Theyre Only Chasing Safety

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

They're Only Chasing Safey

Year: 2004
Tracks: 10

The Changing Of Times

Year: 2002
Tracks: 10

Cries Of The Past

Year: 2000
Tracks: 5

Act Of Depression

Year: 1999
Tracks: 7

Since their inception, Florida's Underoath has evolved from a run-of-the-mine Christian metalcore band into a fluid, dynamic, and energized rock mathematical group that adeptly blends emotive strain, charged punk john Rock rhythm, and low-set, engaging bottom end. Underoath formed in 1998 in vocalizer Dallas Taylor's bedchamber. Within a yr, the group -- with guitarist Tim McTague, drummer Aaron Gillespie, and keyboardist Christopher Dudley -- had inked a deal with Alabama's Takehold record label. In July 1999, Underoath released the six-song Act of Depression CD, which sold over 2,000 copies. The five-song Cries of the Past followed a yr later, selling over 3,000 copies.

In 2002, Takehold commissioned all of its bands and releases to Seattle's Tooth & Nail/Solid State label. Underoath gain the studio and recorded the ten songs that would represent their first record album below the unexampled partnership, suitably titled The Changing of Times. Taylor suddenly left the group in the middle of 2003's Warped Tour, going distressed fans contemplating the band's unsealed future. Underoath -- which as well included bassist Grant Brandell and guitar player James Smith -- continued on, however, recruitment ex-This Runs Through member Spencer Chamberlain as their new vocalizer.

A year later, the young lineup released They're Only Chasing Safety and supported it on the road with bands like Thrice, the Bled, Hopesfall, and Fear Before the March of Flames. A limited edition of the album was succeeding released in fall down 2005 that included four fillip tracks; touring continued with a spring 2006 headlining term of enlistment aboard Poison the Well, As Cities Burn, and others. Deciding to stick with Tooth & Nail rather of jump to a major label, the sextette showcased significant increment and maturity date on their future cause, Define the Great Line, issued in June 2006.

A heavier, more emotional album than the prison-breaking success of 2004's Chasing Safety, the criminal record sold close to hundred,000 copies in only its first base hebdomad of release and was certified gold by the year's end. Embraced by fans and critics alike -- considered the band's masterpiece by many -- the grouping supported it on Warped's main stage that summer. But with a month of dates leftover, tensions inside Underoath's ranks on the spur of the moment came to a point, causing them to shake off sour the traveling fete. Rumors swirled of their impendent separation, merely the guys remained adamant that a much-needed break was simply due to sort things kO'd. They proved themselves by returning in 2006 with Specify the Great Line. Climbing all the way to number two, the record album became the highest-charting Christian album on The Billboard two hundred since 1997 when LeAnn Rimes took the number unmatchable touch with You Light Up My Life.

Richard Shindell