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Tuesday, 9 September 2008

Matt Damon - Damon Gia Opens Up My Heart

Movie star MATT DAMON loves that he's go a pa again - because his new baby daughter has opened up his heart.

Damon's wife Luciana Barroso gave birth to the couple's second kid, Gia Zavala Damon, last month (20Aug08).

And The Bourne Identity star is sure that fatherhood has changed his life.

He says, "It plausibly influences me in shipway I'm non even mindful of. I think surely once you have kids it's hard not to see your child in every other child that you meet. And when you visualize the way a peck of children live in the earth it makes you identical angry as a parent."

But Damon, world Health Organization is likewise dad to two-year-old Isabella and Alexa, Barroso's 10-year-old daughter from a late marriage, can't decide what he loves most around being a new father again.

He adds, "Well that's a bad question because there's a lot to love around it. It's probably the indescribable way that a new child opens up your centre. It sounds kinda platitudinal but it's true.

"She smiles now... mostly when she goes to the lav. That's natural."

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Saturday, 30 August 2008

Mp3 music: Alex Degrassi

Artist: Alex Degrassi: mp3 download

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New Age

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Music has long been a crime syndicate matter for Alex de Grassi. Though he's chiefly self-taught as a guitar player, his grandfather played diddle with The San Francisco Symphony and his father was a authoritative piano player. Even more significant ar de Grassi's ties to one of contemporaneous implemental music's near influential labels: Windham Hill. In addition to his status as unitary and only of the company's finest and near consistently intriguing artists, de Grassi is literally a member of the Windham Hill tribe. After earning a grade in urban geographics from U. C. Berkeley and acting as a street musician in London, he made ends meet by encyclopaedism the woodwork craft from his first cousin-german Will Ackerman, world Health Organization was but starting a small instrumental record label. De Grassi was bucked up to record book his first gear album, Turning: Turning Back, for the newcomer Windham Hill caller-out. As it turns out, he had more going for him than full connections. Over the long time, de Grassi has proved to be an advanced guitar player and composer whose mastery of acoustic finger-picking styles has grown to include a variety of other techniques and cultural influences. Though he left wing field briefly to disc with RCA Novus, de Grassi has since returned to the Windham Hill flock. In the mid '80s, his travels to Bolivia became a major inspiration. He made numerous theater of operations recordings during his visits and get-go incorporated endemic influences from the civilization on his 1987 RCA Novus dismissal Altiplano. His contacts with Bolivia's Contemporary Orchestra of Native Instruments too determine in motion the ensemble's get-go American dismissal Arawl on the New Albion label. De Grassi continued experimenting with different genres and sounds that included guitar lullabies (1996's Beyond the Night Sky), his 1999 album of James Taylor interpretation, and 2000's collaboration with knowledge base music creative person Quique Cruz, Tata Monk. Moving back to solo guitar work, his exploration of American folk music hind end be heard on 2003's Now and Then: Folk Songs for the 21st Century.

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Rage will rock Democratic convention

Tickets for free public presentation given away by lottery

NEW YORK -- In co-occurrence with the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Tent State University, Rage Against the Machine will play a free depict Aug. 27 at the Denver Coliseum during the Democratic National Convention.

The performance is division of the Tent State Music Festival to End the War, and will also feature Flobots, the Coup, State Radio and Wayne Kramer.

Tickets will be given away for absolve by lottery. Fans throne sign up by presenting a exposure ID at Cuernavaca Park at the university's campus starting Aug. 24 through Aug. 26 from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The all-ages event is arrange to begin at 11 a.m.

Rage has also scheduled a public presentation for Sept. 3 in Minneapolis, during the same week the Republican National Convention is rolling into town. While the politically outspoken ring hasn't issued any overt statements about the show and the RNC, guitarist/activist Tom Morello has mentioned he intends to perform with Steve Earle at a union rally in the Twin Cities on Sept. 1.

Rage is playacting at the Rock en Seine festival in France on Aug. 20 and at the Reading Festival and Leeds Festival in England on Aug. 22 and Aug. 23, respectively.

As previously reported, Morello will be cathartic a raw effort, "The Fable City," under the moniker the Nightwatchman on Sept. 30 via Epic.

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Hopper Complains He Was "Cut Out" Of Swing Vote

Dennis Hopper may seem to have mellowed substantially since his days as Hollywood's enfant terrible in the late '60s and '70s, only he is still capable of biting the hand that feeds him. In an question with the New York Daily News's "Rush & Molloy" chromatography column, Hopper complains that many of his scenes in the Kevin Costner motion-picture show Swing Vote ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor. Hopper, who plays a Democratic presidential prospect in the film, says that he "got cut out of the movie. ... My [character's ] subplot was completely cut. ... When I saw the final cut, I thought, 'I'm non even in this moving picture!'" Neither Costner, the director, Joshua Stern, nor the distributer, Disney, would comment on Hopper's ailment.

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

BBC to air long lost Beatles interview

Nine-minute chat between Lennon, McCartney

LONDON -- The BBC will air a long lost Beatles interview featuring John Lennon and Paul McCartney talking about the day they met and their songwriting partnership.
The film sat forgotten for 44 years in a garage in south London until film fan Richard Jeffs realized a piece of pop history was inside.
Experts were surprised to find the audio portion still usable for radio broadcast.
The nine-minute interview was recorded at the Scottish Television studios in April 1964 during the early days of Beatlemania. It will be broadcast for the first time on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday and repeated later in the week.
On the tape, Lennon tells how he was playing with a skiffle band outside Liverpool when McCartney introduced himself.