REDTAILS (HOOORAAYY) By George Lucas (Really?)

George Lucas must have been talking to Steven Spielberg when this story came across his desk. Lord, I pray there isn't a African-American with a Jar-Jar-like speech impediment/problem in the this film or meesa gonna beesa ANGRY. VERISA ANGRY!!! LOL.

On a serious note, history and truth are way stranger than fiction. African-Americans have served in ALL of America's wars!!! I LOVE IT when Hollywood figures that kind of stuff out and actually puts a bankroll behind it.

Peace-a :)
N8

This is why Rugby and American Football are two very different sports.

Do this illegal move in the NFL and you would have both teams kick your @$$! Can you say monetary fines and serious penalties? The look of humiliation on the other guys face was killa but still that wouldn't get pass go with the egos in American sports. Even the still shot for the vid looks crazy wrong.



He definitely has the vert maybe he should play B-Ball??? NAAAAWWWW!!!!!

Keep Laughin @ Life
N8

An Odd Variation On Spider-Man Story

If you watch the trailer closely you "true fans" will see the AMAZING variation. Is it cool? I am seriously gonna watch the film to find out ;)

N8

MORE KICKSTARTER PROMOS FOR BOY

My Kickstarter Plea For BOY: A Story Based On True Events

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/752006192/boy-a-story-based-on-true-events-the-motion-pictur

Some of you may have noticed...

That the counter is back. Let's see if I can each that 16,000 # in less time than before. Old habits die hard.
I tried.
I realllly tried.
:P
N8

This Never Happens To Me At Target

This never happens to anyone at Target. LOL!!

God Rest Her Soul... Amy Winehouse Dead At 27

Police: Singer Amy Winehouse Dies at Age 27

Posted Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:56am PDT by AP in Stop The Presses!

LONDON (AP) - Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.

Winehouse shot to fame in 2006 with the album "Back to Black," whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse - with her black beehive hairdoand old-fashioned sailor tattoos - one of music's most recognizable stars. But her personal life, with its drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and destructive relationships, soon took over her career.

Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.

Singer and actress Kelly Osbourne, who helped Winehouse check into a drug addiction treatment facility in 2008, was one of many who grieved for the singer on Twitter.

"I cant even breath right now im crying so hard i just lost 1 of my best friends. i love you forever Amy and will never forget the real you!" she tweeted.

The singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, had arrived in New York this weekend to prepare for his U.S. performing debut Monday night at the Blue Note jazz club, but upon receiving news of his daughter's death was heading back home to London to be with his family, his publicist Don Lucoff said.

An ambulance could be seen parked beneath the trees outside her London home, and the whole street was cordoned off by police tape. Officers kept onlookers away from the scene.

Last month, Winehouse canceled her European comeback tour after she swayed and slurred her way through barely recognizable songs in her first show in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Booed and jeered off stage, she flew home and her management said she would take time off to recover.

Winehouse was last publicly seen on at a London concert on Wednesday when she joined hergoddaughter Dionne Bromfield on stage. In that impromptu appearance, Winehouse danced with Bromfield and encouraged the audience to buy her album, before leaving the stage.

"I didn't go out looking to be famous," Winehouse told the Associated Press when "Back to Black" was released. "I'm just a musician."

But in the end, the music was overshadowed by fame, and by Winehouse's demons. Tabloids lapped up the erratic stage appearances, drunken fights, stints in hospital and rehab clinics. Performances became shambling, stumbling train wrecks, watched around the world on the Internet.

Born in 1983 to Mitch Winehouse, taxi driver, and his pharmacist wife Janis, Winehouse grew up in the north London suburbs, and was set on a showbiz career from an early age. When she was 10, she and a friend formed a rap group, Sweet 'n' Sour - Winehouse was Sour - that she later described as "the little white Jewish Salt 'n' Pepa."

She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, a factory for British music and acting moppets, later went to the Brit School, a performing arts academy in the "Fame" mold, and was originally signed to "Pop Idol" svengali Simon Fuller's 19 Management.

But Winehouse was never a packaged teen star, and always resisted being pigeonholed.

Her jazz-influenced 2003 debut album, "Frank," was critically praised and sold well in Britain. It earned Winehouse an Ivor Novello songwriting award, two Brit nominations and a spot on the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize.

But Winehouse soon expressed dissatisfaction with the disc, saying she was "only 80 percent behind" the album.

"Frank" was followed by a slump during which Winehouse broke up with her boyfriend, suffered a long period of writer's block and, she later said, smoked a lot of marijuana.

"I had writer's block for so long," she said in 2007. "And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. .. I used to think, 'What happened to me?'

"At one point it had been two years since the last record and (the record company) actually said to me, 'Do you even want to make another record?' I was like, 'I swear it's coming.' I said to them, 'Once I start writing I will write and write and write. But I just have to start it.'"

The album she eventually produced was a sensation.

Released in Britain in the fall of 2006, "Back to Black" brought Winehouse global fame. Working with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi and soul-funk group the Dap-Kings, Winehouse fused soul, jazz, doo-wop and, above all, a love of the girl-groups of the early 1960s with lyrical tales of romantic obsession and emotional excess.

"Back to Black" was released in the United States in March 2007 and went on to win five Grammy awards, including song and record of the year for "Rehab."

Music critic John Aizlewood attributed her trans-Atlantic success to a fantastic voice and a genuinely original sound.

"A lot of British bands fail in America because they give America something Americans do better - that's why most British hip-hop has failed," he said. "But they won't have come across anything quite like Amy Winehouse."

Winehouse's rise was helped by her distinctive look - black beehive of hair, thickly lined cat eyes, girly tattoos - and her tart tongue.

She was famously blunt in her assessment of her peers, once describing Dido's sound as "background music - the background to death" and saying of pop princess Kylie Minogue, "she's not an artist ... she's a pony."

The songs on "Black to Black" detailed breakups and breakdowns with a similar frankness. Lyrically, as in life, Winehouse wore her heart on her sleeve.

"I listen to a lot of '60s music, but society is different now," Winehouse said in 2007. "I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know."

Even then, Winehouse's performances were sometimes shambolic, and she admitted she is "a terrible drunk." She acknowledged struggling with eating disorders and told a newspaper that she had been diagnosed as manic depressive but refused to take medication. Soon accounts of her erratic behavior, canceled concerts and drink- and drug-fueled nights began to multiply.

Photographs caught her unsteady on her feet or vacant-eyed, and she appeared unhealthily thin, with scabs on her face and marks on her arms.

There were embarrassing videos released to the world on the Internet. One showed an addled Winehouse and Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty playing with newborn mice. Another, for which Winehouse apologized, showed her singing a racist ditty to the tune of a children's song.

Winehouse's managers went to increasingly desperate lengths to keep the wayward star on the straight and narrow. Before the June concert in Belgrade, her hotel was stripped of booze. It did no good, and the concert was painful to watch.

Though she was often reported to be working on new material, fans got tired of waiting for the much-promised followup to "Back to Black."

Occasional bits of recording saw the light of day. Her rendition of The Zutons' "Valerie" was a highlight of producer Mark Ronson's 2007 album "Version," and she recorded the pop classic "It's My Party" for the 2010 Quincy Jones album "Q: Soul Bossa Nostra."

But other recording projects with Ronson, one of the architects of the success of "Back to Black," came to nothing.

She also had run-ins with the law. In April 2008, Winehouse was cautioned by police for assault after she slapped a man during a raucous night out.

The same year she was investigated by police, although not charged, after a tabloid newspaper published a video that appeared to show her smoking crack cocaine.

In 2010, Winehouse pleaded guilty to assaulting a theater manager who asked her to leave a family Christmas show because she'd had too much to drink. She was given a fine and a warning to stay out of trouble by a judge who praised her for trying to clean up her act.

In May 2007 in Miami, she married music industry hanger-on Blake Fielder-Civil, but the honeymoon was brief. That November, Fielder-Civil was arrested for an attack on a pub manager the year before. Fielder-Civil later pleaded guilty to assaulting barman James King and then offering him 200,000 pounds (US$400,000) to keep quiet about it.

Winehouse stood by "my Blake" throughout his trial, often blowing kisses at him from the court's public gallery and wearing a heart-shaped pin labeled "Blake" in her hair at concerts. But British newspapers reported extramarital affairs while Fielder-Civil was behind bars.

They divorced in 2009.

Winehouse's health often appeared fragile. In June 2008 and again in April 2010, she was taken to hospital and treated for injuries after fainting and falling at home.

Her father said she had developed the lung disease emphysema from smoking cigarettes and crack, although her spokeswoman later said Winehouse only had "early signs of what could lead to emphysema."

She left the hospital to perform at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert in Hyde Park in June 2008, and at the Glastonbury festival the next day, where she received a rousing reception but scuffled with a member of the crowd. Then it was back to a London clinic for treatment, continuing the cycle of music, excess and recuperation that marked her career.

Kickstarter Promo Poster # 2 for BOY

BOY ON KICKSTARTER

Take a moment to view the new push for funding a feature length version of BOY: A Story Based On True Events.


 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/752006192/boy-a-story-based-on-true-events-the-motion-pictur

Thanks,

N8

Cesar Salazar's MMA training landed him a Virgin... T-Mobile ad that is (LMAO)

NO JOKE!!! The guy is filming this week on a campaign that starts as print ads, then progresses to internet commercials, and finally goes on air. The grappling hold that he shows in the clip is called the Kimora (or as I like to call it the Kill-more-a) Shoulder Lock and when he first gets into position I freaked out saying "No, No, NOOO!" then I remembered he actually got that gig because of it. Trust me if my legs are in the air with some 200+ pound dude between them something is terribly wrong cause I don't know no grapplin' and if I live everybody else is gonna die (lol4real)!

SERIOUSLY, I am super proud of Cesar! He is a versatile actor who has a vast range of emotions and true depth of character. I wish him the best of luck with the Virgin T-Mobile ad campaign. Trust me when I say Cesar is a versatile and talented actor. The fact that he can probably kill us in about three moves only reinforces the point that Cesar is one Bad @$$ Dude.

Cesar when you blow up be sure to remember the people who believed that you would make it to that point. The sky is the limit!

Good Luck!
N8

Another Glimpse At BIOSHOCK INFINITE

As some of you steady readers may have noticed that earlier in the spring I posted BIOSHOCK's opening trailer and game play. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS 15 MINUTES OF AMAZINGLY MINDBLOWING DEMO!!! They tell a better story in 15 minutes than some movies show you in 90. You will be ASTONISHED!!!

N8

RAISING FUNDS

Please donate so that the next few steps in the SAPIEN FILMS venture can be achieved.
Thanks
N8

p.s. There are some very cool perks for donating like producer credits.

Pollinators - Yeah Right!

I was actually going to post a video about pollinators from the "you've got" series then I saw Jessica White...

ENJOY!!!

N8

p.s. Note that I did not make any bad pollination jokes although my mind clearly went there.
p.p.s. Pollinators like butterflies and bees are essential to all fruits and vegetables in the US and the world... OKAY YOU DIRTY B@ST@RDS BACK TO JESSICA!!!

http://video.aol.com/video/youve-got-jessica-white/1366611117

Eminem rapping for MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL

COOL... As long as he doesn't make a guest appearance... That would suck.

LOL and enjoy the trailer!

BTW - I hope there isn't a Tom Cruise hanging from a wire scene because in the first M.I. it was breathtaking, in  the second it was yeah I remember that, in the third it was like ok, in the forth... You get my point. All M.I. fans can hate me now but don't deny the truth.

N8

What No Hands?!!! That Is Somethin' Ya Gotta See Unless You're Robbing A Major Bank

First let me say that my next few statements are not truly related but just what is rolling through my head right now. So Citibank got robbed by a legally blind and Black dude from NYC (YO/OMG!!! I want the movie rights to that film- NO JOKE), Captian America is coming out on the 23rd instead of the 4th (Say What?!?) and this is my fave song on the radio... Hmmm... I wonder if  there are anymore hackers like the cat who robbed Citibank who would like to finance some videos I am working on? I have accounts at... Never mind. I sneeze the wrong way near a bank and I have too many people starring at my @$$ .

Enjoy Waka Flocka.

'Nuff' Said!
N8

HORRIBLE BOSSES WILL BE ONE OF THE FUNNIEST FILMS THIS YEAR!

You take the 9 to 5 formula (Dolly Parton/ early 80s movie) update it with actual murder and a bunch of dudes instead of ladies; throw in some GREAT C and B list comic actors including Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Aniston... WAIT THEY ARE  ON THE A-LIST!!! My Bad!!! And I am pretty sure you have a d@mn funny movie. Watch the clips and judge for yourself ;)

N8

DINO MATIS - D. Bravanti Reading

Dino's dramatic improvisational take on the characters makes him one of the stronger choices for the David Bravanti character.

N8

Another very cool letter from a talented and brilliant guy - BILLY FRANKS

This artist has a BRILLIANT BOOK MARKETING CONCEPT & MUSIC PROMOTIONAL STRATEGY!!! NOW it is time for you (the viewers and listeners) to judge his approach, musical & writing styles, as well as genre choices. 

N8

Nathan,

You may know that I have a book being published in the not to distant future by Black & White, the same publishers for Roald Dahl among others.

I have been networking for over a year now to try and gather as many friends as possible so they could at least consider the book on publication.

It really is a beautiful little book. (I have added the introduction below in case you would like to read it)

So I was thinking I might ask you and a few others if you would be willing to do some kind of promotional exchange:

You email or post to your connections an invitation to download my free compilation album.

In return I will do the same for any product or service you would like me to promote.

Here are my figures.

Myspace: 22,495

Face book: Fan Page members 8,479 -  Friends 3,465

Youtube: Friends 10,667 – Subscribers: 1,631

Mailing list: 10,110

Twitter 10,124

Linkedin: 4,384

Allowing for the little amount of crossover that there is, the total is over 60,000

I would like to know your thoughts before I approach any others with the same proposition,

I hope all remains well with you,

Billy

     Billy Franks: Singer/Songwriter/Author
Email: billy@billyfranks.com
Website: www.billyfranks.com
Free Compilation Album: euphoria@billyfranks.com

A Far Cry from Sunset: - Introduction.

Starting in the summer of 2005, three friends and I took an eight month journey across the two continents of America and Europe.

We were on a mission: – to get ten of the world’s most famous recording artists to record a tribute album to an unknown songwriter; – And that songwriter would be me.

As we travelled, we were going to make a road movie; an epic chronicle of our quest, and a testament to our friendship.

We made it and called it, Tribute This!

The adventures we had and the people we met changed my life profoundly. Not only its present but also how I view its past.

Apart from our struggles with managers, publicists, security, and even one or two of the artists themselves, we ran into so many people from ordinary walks of life; cab drivers, hotel porters, fans standing in line to see their heroes, who couldn’t do enough to help or encourage us on our journey.

For one long summer, we lived life so brilliantly; so full of laughter and a gathering sense of achievement, that I wondered if the artists we were pursuing ever got to see life in anything like the same way.

In contrast, they seemed so protected, so hidden away, so cut off from the world that, towards the end of our travels, the thought occurred to me, at that point in time, I wouldn’t swap one year of their lives for one day of ours.

My hope is, in reading my account of those heady days, along with the memories from my musical life so far, you will understand why

Billy Franks

 

Classic David Bowie - SPACE ODDITY

BEWARE OF MAJOR TOM!!!! Oh wait that is Ashes To Ashes... Still BEWARE (lol).

 

Space Oddity lyrics

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

(spoken)
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....

"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."