Word: bandness
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...Infante plays José Carlos, a popular singer who falls for Ana Luisa (Emilia Gul?), a schoolteacher who's very proper, very blond, very snooty to those of darker hue. She's downright rude to José Carlos' closest comrades: his Afro-Cuban bandmate, Fernando (Chimi Monterrey), and the band's sexy, dusky lead dancer, Isabel (Chela Castro), who clearly has a crush on the oblivious José Carlos. "You lower yourself dancing with that mulatta," Ana Luisa sneers, to which her color-blind beau replies, "It was God's decision that she's of mixed race." Ana Luisa also...
...song itself is also iffy at first, but in typical Nine Inch Nails fashion, it inevitably grows on you. The cinematography, while gimmicky, does what it sets out to do: the camera shows surveillance monitors that display different areas of an apartment building and its inhabitants, which include the band. Unfortunately, it’s not a particularly captivating tableau, until, finally, a SWAT team surrounds and infiltrates the building and an unidentifiable someone is dragged away. The video feels like it could be part of a longer movie: perhaps Reznor is further populating the fictional dystopian world...
...seems like a guy you could meet on the street, not a monument cast in bronze. This is the lifelong iconoclast who dropped out of school at 15, stole the books he read, attended poetry readings only to shout down those he disdained, and led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets. This is the life he idealizes in “The Savage Detectives.” The semi-autobiographical novel begins with a series of journal entries by Juan García Madero, a 17-year-old law school dropout who falls in with a group of poets...
...even though--in a moment of pretentiousness that he precedes with two minutes of apology--he says he has started to consider himself an artist, he seems like a pretty commercial one. Most of his movie ideas are action films, and his band plays the kind of pleasant, fake-disaffected pop that might appear on an episode of The O.C. "I wish I came from a more pure place," he says. "I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different...
...know Kevin Costner had a band? Probably not. That's why Costner is suing his music promoter for, well, nonpromotion. "The lawsuit should have profound implications ... leaving promoters leery of ever taking on another [celebrity band]," notes blogsite DEFAMER, "lest Richard Gere and the Dolly Llamas sue them." SCORE...