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Viva La Vida

2008-09-27T20:03:00.000-07:00

Hi everybody.This is my personal idea but if you like the music and if you like the alternative metal bands and music's, Viva La Vida is one of the albums you must listen. Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends is the last album.This is a good short introduce from the album if found in Wikipedia:The band began to work on their fourth studio album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, as early as December 2006, with Brian Eno and Markus Dravs as their producers. In addition, music producer Timbaland was rumoured to be collaborating. Coldplay took a break from recording and toured Latin America in early 2007, including shows in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The band revealed that the album seemed to be shaping up with Hispanic influences, after having recorded in churches and other areas in Latin America and Spain during their tour. The group spent the rest of the year recording, mainly with Brian Eno.
Chris Martin described Viva la Vida as a new direction for Coldplay: a change from their past three albums, which they have referred to as a 'trilogy'. Martin has also revealed that this album features much less of his falsetto, and he has allowed his voice's lower register to take precedence. Some songs, such as "Violet Hill", contain distorted guitar riffs and bluesy undertones."Violet Hill" was confirmed as the first single, with a radio release date of 29 April 2008.After the first play, it was freely obtainable from Coldplay's website from 12:15 pm (GMT +0) for one week (achieving two million downloads), until it became commercially available to download on 6 May."Violet Hill" entered the UK Top 10, US Top 40 (entering the Top 10 in the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart) and charted well in the rest of the world. The title track, "Viva la Vida", was also released exclusively on iTunes; it has since become the band's first #1 on the Hot 100 and also their first UK #1, based on download sales alone. On 16 June, Coldplay began their Viva la Vida Tour with a free concert at Brixton Academy in London. This was followed two days later by a 45-minute performance that was broadcast live from outside BBC Television Centre.
On 15 June 2008, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends topped the UK album chart, despite having been on sale for only three days. In that time, it sold 302,000 copies — making it "one of the fastest-selling records in UK history". By the end of June, it had set a new record for most-downloaded album ever.
In a BBC 6 Music interview on 30 August, Martin stated the band will follow up Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends with an EP entitled Prospekt's March, to be released 26 December, and a fifth studio album in December 2009.Hope to hope to enjoy from listening that

Is it true love?

2008-09-22T00:16:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys.I found this photo from digg.com. This photo was so funny for me. Because on the title of the photo write "Is it true love?" I don’t exactly what can i say about this question. Hope you can find a good answer about that.

Hollywood's Most Overpaid Movie Stars

2008-09-20T19:43:00.000-07:00

One of the most anticipated movies of the upcoming fall season is Australia, Baz Luhrmann's epic mash note to his home country, which stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman as Outback lovers. Kidman, more than anyone, is likely hoping it's a hit. Despite winning an Oscar for her performance in 2002's The Hours, Kidman has become the most overpaid celebrity in Hollywood.
According to our second annual ranking of the most (and least) bankable actors in Hollywood, Kidman's films earn a mere $1 for every dollar Kidman was paid, compared with $8 in 2007. The Invasion, a second remake of the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, actually lost $2.68 for every dollar Kidman earned.
To compile our list, we looked at each star's last three films that opened wide before Jan. 1 (in order to give each film time for a DVD release). We didn't count animated movies, supporting roles or anyone consistently earning under $5 million per movie.
To calculate our payback figures, we took half of each film's worldwide box office (to roughly approximate the studio's cut of each ticket). Then we added the first three months of DVD revenues and subtracted the budget to derive the film's gross income. After that, the actor's total compensation (upfront pay plus any money earned from sharing in the film's profits) was divided into the gross income to get the actor's payback figure for the film. The payback for the last three movies for each actor was averaged to calculate ultimate payback. We deliberately used gross income rather than net income in our analysis because the latter figure is so easily manipulated by studio accountants, with marketing expenses treated differently for almost every film.
Our list of the top 10 overpaid celebrities is rife with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Tom Cruise ranks third with a $4 return for every dollar he was paid mostly because of last year's stinker Lions for Lambs, which Cruise's studio, United Artists, produced. For every dollar the star earned the film returned only $1.88.
Cameron Diaz may be the highest-paid actress in Hollywood, with $50 million in income between June 2006 and June 2007, but studios might want to question whether she's worth the money. Her films returned a lowly $4 for every dollar Diaz earned.
In general, actors who earned under $10 million per picture did better on our list. The one exception was Jennifer Garner. Her recent big-budget films, like The Kingdom and Catch and Release, have underperformed at the box office so badly that even her low salary couldn't offer a good return on investment. For every dollar Garner was paid to star in the 2006 romantic comedy Catch and Release, the film earned 34 cents.
Aussie Russell Crowe wins this year's award for most improved. The actor was the most overpaid celebrity last year, earning movies like Cinderella Man $5 for every dollar he was paid. (Kidman came in second.) This year Crowe was the 18th best earner on our list with a return of $6.88 for every dollar he earned.
The bump can be attributed to last year's American Gangster, which grossed $265 million in worldwide box office. Crowe returned a healthy $10.80 for every dollar he was paid on the film, bringing his ultimate payback number up to $6.88. Countryman Kidman could use a little of that good mojo this fall.
Source: Forbes.com

Stranger Than Fiction

2008-09-20T02:20:00.000-07:00

Will Ferrer stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whos mundane existence is transformed when he hears a misterious voice narrating his life. With the help of professor Jules Hilbert ( Dustin Huffman ), Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to Karren Eiffel ( Emma thompson ), an eccentric author famous for killing her main characters in creative ways. Harold must quickly track down Eiffel and stop her before she conjures up a way to finish him off.