Artist: Wassabi Collective
Genre(s):
funk
Discography:
Stories Not Forgotten
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Amy dead in three months?
Amy Winehouse�s father Mitch says the Grammy-winning singer is suffering from emphysema and he fears she could be �dead in three months,� usmagazine.com reports.
�The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won�t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,� he told UK newspaper the Daily Mail.
Winehouse, 24, was taken to the hospital last week for tests after she fainted at home in London.
�With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up,� Mitch said. �There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She�s got 70 per cent lung capacity.�
If she doesn�t get treatment, she could need an oxygen mask to breathe, Mitch told the Daily Mail.
�The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid � she wouldn�t have been able to breathe,� he added. �If drugs mean more to her than breathing properly, then so be it.�
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Ellen Degeneres - Degeneres Plans Pre-wedding Trip To Meet De Rossis Family
TV host ELLEN DeGENERES is planning a trip to Australia to meet her fiancee PORTIA DE ROSSI's family - ahead of their planned wedding.
DeGeneres revealed her plans to wed the Australian actress during her daytime show last week (15May08), a day after samesex marriages were declared legal in California.
And now the lesbian couple is hoping to travel to de Rossi's native country, so DeGeneres can meet her grandmother - who won't be able to travel to the U.S. for the wedding.
DeGeneres says, "I've met Portia's mother and her cousins, and I mentioned last night that we should go (to Australia) for Christmas. I can't wait to get there.
"I'd like to get the show there. I'm going to push hard to make that happen."
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Saturday, 31 May 2008
Bears hunt video game stocks
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Apparently, 68% growth just isn't good enough, so investors sold shares of the video game software makers Friday.
Research firm NPD triggered Friday's sell-off with a report that said the U.S. video game sector grew 47% in April, compared with the same month last year, to $1.23 billion, with software up 68% and hardware up 26%.
The data sent shares of Electronic Arts down 3.8%, Activision down 1.6%, Take-Two Interactive Software down 1% and Midway down 1.4%. THQ bucked the trend, with its shares rising 1%. The overall market finished little changed.
But the disappointment should pass, with Wednesday's massively anticipated release of Nintendo's fitness-themed game "Wii Fit." It is already sold out on Amazon.com.
That's why for May, "We look for a 160%-plus increase in software sales and a 100% increase in hardware sales," Kaufman Bros. analyst Todd Mitchell said.
The family-friendly Wii, as per usual, dominated hardware in April with 714,000 units sold, nearly twice as many as the combined sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 (188,000) and Sony's PlayStation 3 (187,000).
Sales of the PS3 and Xbox fell from the month before, a surprising development given that "Grand Theft Auto IV," available only on those platforms, was by far the biggest-selling game in April.
NPD said consumers snapped up 1.85 million units of the raunchy game in April even though it wasn't released until the penultimate day of the month. The second-best-selling game in April, with 1.1 million games sold, was "Mario Kart Wii."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Research firm NPD triggered Friday's sell-off with a report that said the U.S. video game sector grew 47% in April, compared with the same month last year, to $1.23 billion, with software up 68% and hardware up 26%.
The data sent shares of Electronic Arts down 3.8%, Activision down 1.6%, Take-Two Interactive Software down 1% and Midway down 1.4%. THQ bucked the trend, with its shares rising 1%. The overall market finished little changed.
But the disappointment should pass, with Wednesday's massively anticipated release of Nintendo's fitness-themed game "Wii Fit." It is already sold out on Amazon.com.
That's why for May, "We look for a 160%-plus increase in software sales and a 100% increase in hardware sales," Kaufman Bros. analyst Todd Mitchell said.
The family-friendly Wii, as per usual, dominated hardware in April with 714,000 units sold, nearly twice as many as the combined sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 (188,000) and Sony's PlayStation 3 (187,000).
Sales of the PS3 and Xbox fell from the month before, a surprising development given that "Grand Theft Auto IV," available only on those platforms, was by far the biggest-selling game in April.
NPD said consumers snapped up 1.85 million units of the raunchy game in April even though it wasn't released until the penultimate day of the month. The second-best-selling game in April, with 1.1 million games sold, was "Mario Kart Wii."
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Richard Hammond talks about depression
'Top Gear' star Richard Hammond has revealed that he has suffered from depression since being involved in a high-speed car smash in 2006.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, the television presenter said: "I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control."
"[I was] prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to relearn things from scratch."
Hammond also said: "I'll still have a week when I'm freaking out about something and I'll realise it's because I'm encountering a new emotional state and I have to evolve a new strategy to cope with it."
"My memory is a lot better but the other day I forgot the PIN numbers to all my cards. All of them. Completely gone."
The star suffered a "significant" brain injury in September 2006 when the jet-powered dragster he was driving went off a track and crashed at a speed of 288mph.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, the television presenter said: "I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control."
"[I was] prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to relearn things from scratch."
Hammond also said: "I'll still have a week when I'm freaking out about something and I'll realise it's because I'm encountering a new emotional state and I have to evolve a new strategy to cope with it."
"My memory is a lot better but the other day I forgot the PIN numbers to all my cards. All of them. Completely gone."
The star suffered a "significant" brain injury in September 2006 when the jet-powered dragster he was driving went off a track and crashed at a speed of 288mph.
Review : k.d. lang at Aotea Centre
There is a paucity of quality female vocalists in the music charts today. While Britney and Beyonce break out their booty to make a buck, one woman stands alone.Canadian k.d. lang, now 46, performed the final date of her Australasian tour in Auckland to a near sell-out crowd.Devoting more than half of the 90-minute set to new material from her latest album, Watershed, a barefooted lang enraptured the audience with her remarkable vocal range.Pitch-perfect and soulful, Upstream, Thread and Coming Home saw her conquer early nerves and open up to the crowd.It was four songs in before lang finally had a chat, thanking the "good people of Auckland" and reminding them of the merchandise on offer in the foyer. But she needn't have worried.A delve into her classic 1992 album Ingenue brought Wash me Clean and Miss Chatelaine out from the archives, but the pinnacle of the show was still to come.Having introduced her outstanding five-piece band to the audience, lang paid tribute to Canadian songwriter Jane Siberry, whose work, The Valley, lang covered on 2004 album Hymns of the 49th Parallel. Her rendition was nothing short of magnificent, as the vocal swung from powerful to delicate.
A standing ovation 12 songs into the show was a fitting tribute.Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, also from Hymns, was next. And although the odd note was a bit ropey, at this point she could easily be forgiven.Familiar favourite Constant Craving picked up the pace, and a humorous, hillbilly acoustic number, Pay Dirt, got a few laughs, as did Jealous Dog, summing up "life as k.d. lang". The singer also displayed her newly acquired banjo skills.But momentum was lost with a couple of low-key encores. Tony Bennett's A Kiss to Build a Dream On and Shadow and the Frame, from Watershed, didn't overly stretch lang, and after 19 songs it was over.Whether you know of lang as a lesbian, a gay activist, an animal rights campaigner or a pro-Tibet protester, at the end of the day, who cares? She is one of the few artists whose live performances outshine her recorded studio work, and for that she should be celebrated. In one word ... genius.
A standing ovation 12 songs into the show was a fitting tribute.Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, also from Hymns, was next. And although the odd note was a bit ropey, at this point she could easily be forgiven.Familiar favourite Constant Craving picked up the pace, and a humorous, hillbilly acoustic number, Pay Dirt, got a few laughs, as did Jealous Dog, summing up "life as k.d. lang". The singer also displayed her newly acquired banjo skills.But momentum was lost with a couple of low-key encores. Tony Bennett's A Kiss to Build a Dream On and Shadow and the Frame, from Watershed, didn't overly stretch lang, and after 19 songs it was over.Whether you know of lang as a lesbian, a gay activist, an animal rights campaigner or a pro-Tibet protester, at the end of the day, who cares? She is one of the few artists whose live performances outshine her recorded studio work, and for that she should be celebrated. In one word ... genius.
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