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Saturday, 6 September 2008

Mp3 music: Dan Siegel

Artist: Dan Siegel: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Jazz
Rock
New Age

Dan Siegel's discography:

Departure

Year: 2006

Tracks: 11

Inside Out

Year: 2004

Tracks: 10

Along the Way: The Best of Dan Siegel

Year: 2000

Tracks: 18

Clairvoyance

Year: 1998

Tracks: 10

Hemispheres

Year: 1995

Tracks: 10

The Getaway

Year: 1993

Tracks: 10

Short Stories

Year: 1992

Tracks: 9

Late One Night

Year: 1989

Tracks: 10

On The Edge

Year: 1985

Tracks: 8

Another Time, Another Place

Year: 1984

Tracks: 8

Reflections

Year: 1983

Tracks: 8

Nite Ride

Year: 1980

Tracks: 8

Smooth jazz keyboardist Dan Siegel has been serving to condition the literary genre since his recording debut in 1980. Born in Seattle and raised in Eugene, OR, Siegel started taking pianoforte lessons at age 8 and was fronting a stone dance band at 12. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he received a degree in composition from the University of Oregon and began transcription his possess works. Soon thenceforth, well-known independent idle words label Inner City Records signed the young keyboardist, releasing 1980's Nite Ride, which featured guitarist Lee Ritenour. Siegel's second album for Inner City, 1981's The Hot Spot, was more than successful and spent ten dollar bill weeks in the Top Ten of Billboard's jazz chart. In 1983, he touched to Los Angeles to pursue film and television organization work, as easily as a more than active recording career.

Spending half of the decennary composing TV and photographic film slews as well as releasing several albums of varying involvement, he sign with Epic in 1986 and began moving aside from the unwell malarkey fusion scene and into the grownup present-day jazz well-grounded that he had been toying with all along. Highlights of this geological era include 1994's worldbeat-influenced Hemispheres and the urban-flavored ESP, released in 1998. Siegel spent the nineties transcription for a miscellany of labels, on the job with some of the larger names in smooth jazz (Weedy James, Larry Carlton, John Patitucci), and leading the hard boP jazz group Birds of a Feather. In 2000, Legacy Recordings released a superlative hits compilation called On the Way: The Best of Dan Siegel.

Sunday, 17 August 2008

Thousands Pay Respects to Comedy King Bernie Mac

(AP)

As Cedric the Entertainer scanned the crowd of more than 6,000 gathered on Chicago's South Side to remember Bernie Mac on Saturday, he cracked that the comedy king was "still the hottest

Thursday, 7 August 2008

WGA passes screenwriting credit amendments

Verrone, Winship say changes show continued solidarity

Members of the WGA East and West have got passed trey amendments to the guild�s feature screenwriting credit policy.

A total of 1,619 ballots were cast by members. WGA rules expect any change to its Credits Manual be arrange to a vote by its roughly 12,000 members.

Members passed by 90% of the vote to allow the guild�s arbitration committee to teleconference with each other and the arbitration adviser if they�re unable to reach an unanimous conclusion when determinative writing credits.

Additionally, voters passed by 86% an amendment eliminating the "any material contribution" standard that allowed the arbitrament committee to give course credit to production executives or production executive director teams without any specific percentage demand.
With the new amendment, writers experience credit if they canful they can prove they contributed more than 33% of the script as a kickoff writer or a writer adaptation or if they acted as a subsequent writer and contributed 50% on an original screenplay.

A add up of 83% of the writers voting passed an amendment that reduced the percentage for contributions of subsequent writers who ar part of a production executive team. The amendment changed screenplay credit from "substantially more than than 60%" to "more than than 50%."

WGAW president Patric Verrone and WGAE chief Executive Michael Winship said in a statement the changes are "in time another reading of our continued growing solidarity."

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

TV review: Only in the US could this vulgarity exist

If your tear ducts want cleansing or you just need a jolly good cry, then Oprah's Big Give, which started on TV3 last night, is for you.

Apparently after exhaustive auditions the length and breadth of America, 10 people were selected to compete against each other to become the biggest givers.

One wonders what goes on in the audition process to arrive at someone deemed suitable for big giving.

Only in America, where everything has to be bigger and better than anywhere else, could this vulgar show have eventuated.

Americans just can't give, they have to give big and when they do it they need an audience to stand around and applaud to make them feel good and virtuous about giving because it's no fun giving when no one's looking.

We've seen this on those extreme home makeover shows where hosts, who charge round as if they're fuelled on P, swamp destitute families with luxury homes, cars and a huge rates and whopping power bill when the team walks away.

But hey, they can always sell up and move to Beverly. Maybe they could immigrate to New Zealand and get a spot on Mucking In.

In this show giving is about receiving because the twist is that. And guess what? The biggest giver winds up at the end of the journey getting a truck load of Oprah dollars.

Shucks, as if the possibility of that outcome hadn't occurred to the contestants who, if they've done their Oprah homework, would know that Lady Bountiful is prone to random acts of well- publicised generosity.

Remember when everyone in the audience got a posh car?

One would have thought that fundraisers extraordinaire would have been in the final 10 but among their number was Kim, who had led a me-me-me life and had an epiphany that she wanted to give- give-give.

When she reached the ripe old age of 39 she realised that what she needed was "boobs, Botox or a turnaround". I immediately wondered if turnaround was a new augmentation procedure.

And there was Brandi, a pageant queen, who said that she was battle fit and had plenty of character because as a Miss USA title holder she'd had all sorts of heinous acts done to her - including having her dress cut up.

For the first challenge, Brandi got teamed up with Cameron, who'd had his first business at the age of nine and made his first million by the time he left college. He was only 22 but he looked as old and as strange as a social credit voter from the Bruce Beetham era.

The first challenge was a complete ripoff of The Amazing Race as five pairs of competitors raced to their black SVUs and charged off to accost a deserving person.

Kim and Marlene got hopelessly lost and started bickering, failing to find their person in need for a whole 24 hours. He was a soldier who'd got three purple hearts and a medical discharge after serving in Iraq.

Kim and Marlene weren't much use to him but he got the loan of a beach side apartment and $25,000 to help pay the bills, but he and his wife and kids looked a little nervous in their new surrounds.

Among the judges on Oprah's Big Give was Jamie Oliver, who is obviously going to be the best thing about this show. The British cook was always going to look like the proverbial fish out of water in the midst of the gushy Americans but halfway through I realised that there was something vital and missing from his delivery and patter. The F-word.

Well, you can't be having any of that on Oprah, can you.

At the end of the show, there was a segment called The Big Reveal, which sounds jarring to the ear, but it is the money shot when all the money is counted and everyone stands around as if they're a mini Telethon community as all the gifts are distributed.

The crowd cheers, the fundraisers high five each other and speak into microphones like old pros, while the recipient of all this largesse is wheeled out to tear up, weep and cry, and generally break down and sob some more.

People give spontaneous yelps from the crowd as if they've just had a religious conversion as they cheer and get off from all the giving that's going down.

And the really awful thing is that even though I'm hating this show, and as cross as two sticks with Oprah for all her emotional manipulation - and hoping like hell she makes up the difference to the poor people who got stuck with lousy fundraisers - I'm sitting there sniffling into my hanky too.

It's not a pretty sight.

*What did you think of Oprah's Big Give? Post your comments below.

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Thursday, 26 June 2008

the Murder City Devils

Artist: the Murder City Devils

   Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock

Discography:

In Name And Blood

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

Broken Bottles Empty Hearts

Year:
Tracks: 12

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Monday, 16 June 2008

James McAvoy Denies Rumours of Lead Role in The Hobbit

James McAvoy has blasted recent reports he has landed the lead role in upcoming film The Hobbit.

The Scottish actor, 29, said speculation he was set to star in the movie as Bilbo Baggins was unfounded.

Speaking at a press conference for new film Wanted, in which he stars alongside Angelina Jolie, McAvoy insisted, "It's not true. It's all internet rumoring and nothing else I'm afraid. Sorry."

J.R.R. Tolkien's novel is set to be turned into a major blockbuster under the direction of Guillermo del Toro and filming is due to begin in New Zealand later this year. Sir Ian McKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf.

The character of Bilbo Baggins was played by Ian Holm in the previous films of the fantasy franchise, but he is due to be replaced by a high profile star for the new movie.

Del Toro has previously been quoted as saying, "I can tell you it's down to a few names that we all agree upon. For our first choice, completely magically we all have the same name."

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