- Here’s
hoping the karma police find a way to b*tch-slap the producers and anyone else
associated with the latest James Bond film, “Spectre,” for stiffing one of the
best rock bands in the world. The theme for “Spectre” was ultimately done -
capably so - by British pop singer Sam Smith, but it could have been even
better had Bond producers done the smart and honorable thing by allowing
Radiohead to soundtrack the film’s lead song the way Thom Yorke and Co. had
been asked to do. That’s right, kids, Radiohead
have revealed that they were previously asked to write the theme song for the umpteenth
- and arguably most uninspired - Bond movie and later had that offer yanked off
the table. Yorke revealed the news on Twitter, writing: “As the year closes we
thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas. May the force be with you.”
On their Soundcloud page, Radiohead detailed how it all went down. “Last year we were asked to write a theme tune
for the Bond movie Spectre. Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became
something of our own, which we love very much,” the band explained. That track,
titled “Spectre,” is now available to download for free and honestly, it’s a
much better song than what Smith ultimately came up with. It’s unclear whether
the Radiohead tune will factor into the band's forthcoming ninth album, the
follow-up to 2011's 'The King Of Limbs,' but the rockers have confirmed that
they are in the studio working on the project and hope to go on tour in support
of the album at some point next year…….
- Some
may argue that migrants who successful make it from war-torn, impoverished
African nations to slightly less turbulent nations in Europe have already won
the lottery. Those people may not be happy to learn that African migrants, including at least one rescued at sea
from a rickety wooden boat, are among the top prize winners of Spain's
Christmas lottery. Yes, Spain has a Christmas lottery because as everyone
knows, the holiday season is to the best time of year to get your gamble on and
not only when you take the risk of eating Uncle Larry’s undercooked Christmas
ham and risking a trip to the emergency room to end the day. The lucky migrant
is a Senegalese man named Ngame, who claims that he and his wife were saved by
Spain's coast guard in 2007 when their overcrowded boat was traveling from
Africa's western coast toward Spain's Canary Islands. According to reports from
Espana, Ngame and his wife bought their winning ticket in the southern coastal city of Roquetas de
Mar, where more than 1,000 tickets worth $438,000 each were sold. Ngame, buoyed
by his newfound wealth, decided to do an interview in which he proudly thanked Spain
for saving his life and for giving him the opportunity to win the lottery. In
news that will likely infuriate the more jingoistic, anti-immigrant among us
all, the lottery agency owner who sold Ngame his winning ducat claimed that
about 35 African migrants won. Then again, given Spain’s current economic woes,
anyone within its borders having some extra disposable income is probably a
good thing………
- Phoenix
Suns forward Markieff Morris is quite literally the bratty 5-year-old
kindergartener who shows up to school pissed at the world, gets even angrier
when he find out he’s not in the same reading group as his twin brother and
spends the rest of the day being a Grade-A asshole. Except in Morris’ case, the
rest of the day has become the entire first third of the NBA season and his
temper tantrum is being witness by the whole world. Morris has been angry at
his team since the offseason, when it traded his twin brother Marcus to
Detroit, daring to not abide by the unwritten rule that if a pair of twin
brothers really want to play together, even though you’re a professional sports
franchise free to trade players as it sees fit, you cannot break up their
brotherly union no matter what. Yes, the Morris brothers struck a bizarre
contractual arrangement with the team, agreeing to take a specific amount of
money and split it between the two of them to stay together, but the Suns had
every right to trade one of both of them to different teams and yet after the
deal, Markieff Morris tersely demanded to be traded as well and vowed to hold
out if need be. He ultimately caved and showed up, but has not been happy since
and with the Suns 12-19 and out of the playoffs at present, his dissent boiled
over in the fourth quarter of the Suns' 104-96 home loss to the Denver Nuggets.
The Suns lost their third straight game and with 9:47 to play and Denver
leading 84-75, Morris went spoiled brat. He was taken out of the game and
hurled a towel at coach Jeff Hornacek, earning himself a two-game suspension for
conduct detrimental to the team. "He's mad about not playing,"
Hornacek told. "I look at the stat sheet. He's a minus-13 in 12 minutes.
So there, I took him out. ... He thinks he's better than that. Show me." Wow…if
your coach throws you under the bus that quickly, you know there’s no defending
what you did………
- Rich
people are assholes. Not all of them, but a certain group of the wealthiest
among us undeniably suck and mistakenly believe that having more money makes
them better than other people - it only means they have more money, of course,
and has no impact on the quality of their person. But these rich d-bags do
things like file lawsuits seeking $4,600 for the
designer clothes they were wearing at the time they were struck by a drunken
driver in a crosswalk. Meet Susan Layne, a Portland (Oregon) resident who
deserves a little sympathy because she was indeed hit while walking by a
drunken moron who in no way, shape or form can be defended. Layne sued the
driver for the cost of her medical bills and that part of her lawsuit is both
logical and wholly justified. Anyone in her shoes - Prada, as it turns out -
would do the same regardless of their socioeconomic status and would be right
to do so. But while we can all get with medical bill compensation for someone
who was the victim of a collision that left her with bruises, scratches and
pain, not everyone would top off their lawsuit with an addendum demanding an
additional $4,600 to cover the cost of an (allegedly destroyed) Chanel handbag,
Prada boots and Burberry trench coat. No one involved with the case seems to
recall anyone ever suing for compensation for designer clothes, but again, rich
people are assholes and feel entitled to wring every last cent out of a poor,
possibly uninsured sap with much bigger life issues than a rich lady and her
Chanel bag that need replaced. Maybe a crash victim with high-priced clothing
is entitled to payment much like someone whose camera or laptop was damaged,
but that extra $4,600 on the lawsuit just seems punitive for a woman who easily
could have just asked for a nice, round $1 million to cover her general pain,
suffering and the feeling of sheer terror that will strike her every time she
sees a crosswalk for the rest of her life………
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