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Games

Super sweeeeeeeeet!!

Guitar Hero 5 Full Song Set List
Activision has pulled the wraps off the complete 85 song set list for this fall’s Guitar Hero 5 on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles.
New bands to any music video game are Arctic Monkeys with “Brainstorm” and Dire Straits with “Sultans of Swing.” Considering the plethora of add-on song packs that will commence after the game’s September 1 release, “Money For Nothing” cannot be too far behind.
Here’s the full list of Guitar Hero 5 songs, broken down by newly announced artists and songs and then previously announced ones.
New Tracks
3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite”
Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm”
Blink-182 – “The Rock Show”
Dire Straits – “Sultans Of Swing”
Jimmy Eat World – “Bleed American”
Johnny Cash – “Ring Of Fire”
Megadeth – “Sweating Bullets”
Mˆtley Cr¸e – “Looks That Kill”
Muse – “Plug In Baby”
Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Queen & David Bowie – “Under Pressure”
Stevie Wonder – “Superstition”
The Killers – “All The Pretty Faces”
The Raconteurs – “Steady As She Goes”
TV On The Radio – “Wolf Like Me”
Previously Announced Tracks
A Perfect Circle – “Judith”
AFI – “Medicate”
Attack! Attack! UK – “You And Me”
Band Of Horses – “Cigarettes, Wedding Bands”
Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
Beck – “Gamma Ray”
Billy Idol – “Dancing With Myself”
Billy Squier – “Lonely Is The Night”
Blur – “Song 2”
Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watchtower”
Bon Jovi – “You Give Love A Bad Name”
Brand New – “Sowing Season (Yeah)”
The Bronx – “Six Days A Week”
Bush – “Comedown”
Children Of Bodom – “Done With Everything, Die For Nothing”
Coldplay – “In My Place”
Darker My Love – “Blue Day”
Darkest Hour – “Demon(s)”
David Bowie – “Fame”
Deep Purple – “Woman From Tokyo (’99 Remix)”
The Derek Trucks Band – “Younk Funk”
The Duke Spirit – “Send A Little Love Token”
Duran Duran – “Hungry Like The Wolf”
Eagles Of Death Metal – “Wannabe In L.A.”
Elliott Smith – “L.A.”
Elton John – “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)”
Face To Face – “Disconnected”
Garbage – “Only Happy When It Rains”
Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”
Gov’t Mule – “Streamline Woman”
Grand Funk Railroad – “We’re An American Band”
Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life (Live)”
Iron Maiden – “2 Minutes To Midnight”
Jeff Beck – “Scatterbrain (Live)”
John Mellencamp – “Hurts So Good”
Kaiser Chiefs – “Never Miss A Beat”
King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man”
Kings Of Leon – “Sex On Fire”
Kiss – “Shout It Out Loud”
Love and Rockets – “Mirror People”
My Morning Jacket – “One Big Holiday”
Nirvana – “Lithium (Live)”
No Doubt – “Ex-Girlfriend”
Peter Frampton – “Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live)”
The Police – “So Lonely”
Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde – “Bring the Noise 20XX”
Queens Of The Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
Rammstein ñ “Du Hast”
The Rolling Stones – “Sympathy For The Devil”
Rose Hill Drive – “Sneak Out”
Rush – “The Spirit Of Radio (Live)”
Santana – “No One To Depend On (Live)”
Scars On Broadway – “They Say”
Screaming Trees – “Nearly Lost You”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate”
Spacehog – “In The Meantime”
Sublime – “What I Got”
Sunny Day Real Estate – “Seven”
T. Rex – “20th Century Boy”
The Sword – “Maiden, Mother & Crone”
Thin Lizzy – “Jailbreak”
Thrice – “Deadbolt”
Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down A Dream”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “American Girl”
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
Weezer – “Why Bother?”
The White Stripes – “Blue Orchid”
Wild Cherry – “Play That Funky Music”
Wolfmother – “Back Round”

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Television

I wanna see it!!! Now!!!!!!!!!!!

David: ‘Seinfeld’ cast to reunite on ‘Curb’
PASADENA, Calif. ñ Larry David says the on-screen reunion of the “Seinfeld” cast will be “tough to beat.” The “Seinfeld” co-creator and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator-star says the cast will appear together in the finale of the upcoming seventh season of the HBO comedy series.
It marks the first time in 11 years that Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards have appeared together on screen.
David says the “Seinfeld” stars will appear in five “Curb” episodes during the season in a storyline about the cast reuniting. He says he worked closely with Seinfeld on the show-within-a-show script.
He also says an actual “Seinfeld” reunion is unlikely.
The comments were made at a meeting of the Television Critics Association.

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Awards

Congrats to them all!!

Johnny Reid leads field with 6 country award nods
Scottish-born, Toronto-bred singer Johnny Reid leads the field going into this year’s Canadian Country Music Association awards with six nominations.
Reid received nods for top single, album, songwriter, video, male artist and for the fans’ choice prize.
This year’s show, to be held Sept. 13 at GM Place in Vancouver, will be hosted by actor Jason Priestley.
Reid’s latest album “Dance With Me” was released in March and was certified gold in less than 48 hours.
The singer moved to Canada when he was 16, and went on to attend Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Que., where he met his wife. He now lives in Nashville with his wife and three sons.
Following close behind Reid are George Canyon and Victoria Banks, with five nominations apiece. Last year’s winner of the top new male talent award, Gord Bamford, nabbed four nominations this year.
Newcomer Dean Brody is also up for four awards including the Rising Star award and top single, video and songwriter.
Along with Reid and Canyon, Doc Walker, Jessie Farrell and Aaron Pritchett are up for the fans’ choice award.
Voting can be done online at www.cmt.ca until the end of the day on Sept. 6.
Country superstar Reba McEntire is scheduled to perform at this year’s show, along with Reid, Doc Walker, American chart topper Martina McBride and Montreal’s Terri Clark.
Priestley shot to fame playing Brandon Walsh in the 1990s teen soap “Beverly Hills, 90210,” but later turned to directing.
Recently, he directed CMT Canada’s “The Road Hammers,” which followed the country band of the same name.
The 2009 CCMA awards will be broadcast on CBC-TV with encore broadcasts on CMT in Canada.
Tickets for the event, which is part of Country Music Week, are available through Ticketmaster.

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CBC

Promoting the Mother corp!

CBC plans 90-minute TV newscasts for 5 p.m.
CBC News will begin running 90-minute, early-evening TV newscasts in every region of Canada, beginning at the end of August.
The public broadcaster plans the change, taking effect Monday, Aug. 31, as part of its news renewal ó which includes refocusing on local news.
“It’s really quite thrilling to be able to expand our local news coverage to better serve Canadians in an economic environment where the inclination could be to retreat,” Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, said Wednesday in a release.
The supper-hour broadcasts will vary by region, but include the top national and international stories, followed by local and regional coverage.
They will start at 5 p.m. local time and news, especially local news, will be updated each half hour throughout the broadcast.
Sources said CBC is juggling resources internally to create the extended newscasts at a time when the English-language service must make up an $85-million budget shortfall.
CBC Television has rejigged its schedule around the supper hour newscasts.
The popular British soap opera Coronation Street will begin airing at 6:30 p.m. in each market, a half hour earlier than now.
CBC spokesman Chris Ball said the change of time means the show will suffer fewer pre-emptions for other events.
Wheel of Fortune has been scheduled for 7 p.m. and Jeopardy for 7:30 p.m. Ghost Whisperer will be broadcast at 4 p.m., replacing The Simpsons and Wheel of Fortune.

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Television

Well, she is right, isn’t she?!?

Joan Rivers bashes Jay Leno at critics confab
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) ñ Don’t look for Joan Rivers to be a guest on Jay Leno’s new talk show anytime soon.
The ribald comedienne ripped Leno when asked about the prospects of his upcoming 10 p.m. weekday outing on NBC.
“I think it’s brilliant that Leno is at 10 p.m., because America can get bored more easily and go to sleep earlier,” Rivers told reporters at the Television Critics Assn confab Wednesday. “When was the last time you heard, ‘Did you hear what Leno said last night?'”
Rivers, of course, frequently subbed as guest host for Leno’s “Tonight Show” predecessor, Johnny Carson. She also is a Leno competitor since her new TV Land cable TV show “How’d You You Get So Rich?” will debut in the 10 p.m. slot on August 5.

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Movies

Yes, stay calm!!

‘The Hobbit’ films still in limbo
Director Peter Jackson has warned Lord Of The Rings fans not to get too excited about The Hobbit prequels – because they have yet to receive the go-ahead from movie studio executives.
Jackson has signed on to co-write and co-produce two Hobbit movies, based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, which will be directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Reports suggest the first film is slated for release in 2011, while the second part will follow in 2012.
But Jackson insists the projects are still in their very early stages – and they’ve yet to come up with a script, let alone secure funding for the movies, reports Starpulse.
Speaking at Comic-Con in San Diego, California at the weekend, Jackson said, “I mean, people assume that we have a green light and we’re making the movie which we don’t. I mean, we have to deliver the script. The studio obviously has to approve the script and then we have to budget that script because we have no budget yet. They’re not going to make the film with an open cheque book so we have to figure out how much it’s going to cost and if that’s going to be okay.”
And Jackson is refusing to begin speculating about casting until the script is finished – despite Lord of the Rings actors Sir Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis already expressing their desire to reprise their roles in the franchise.
He adds, “We have a process to go through that really, once we get the script delivered, we can break it down, we can do the budgeting, we can figure out schedules and we can move onto the second script that we have to obviously start writing immediately (after) the first one’s done. Then we can start casting the movie once we have a budget and once the studio greenlight the movie.”

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Movies

Mistakes are fun!!

‘Potter’ film tops bloopers list
Eagle-eyed filmgoers have named and shamed the newest Harry Potter release as the most error-filled movie of 2009 so far.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth instalment of the wizard franchise, was released to North American theatres less than two weeks ago on July 15 but has already notched up a whopping 57 mistakes, each detailed on website MovieMistakes.com.
In one scene, Rupert Grint’s character Ron Weasley can be heard speaking but his mouth doesn’t move, while in another, Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter appears with a windswept and messy hairstyle just seconds after his locks were neatly combed.
The number of blunders means the latest Harry Potter movie is leading a list of the year’s most mistake-ridden films, toppling Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which was littered with 53 bloopers.

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The Simpsons

Rock on!!

ìThe Simpsonsî Adds Coldplayís Martin to List of Musical Guests
Over the past 20 seasons, The Simpsons has recruited the biggest names in music to guest-voice on the show, and Season 21 will continue the tradition: EWís Hollywood Insider reports Coldplayís Chris Martin will lend his voice to an upcoming episode. Martin and Coldplay will appear as themselves as Homer Simpson, after winning the lottery, hires the band to play a private performance for himself and Bart. ìWhen Bart goes to the bathroom, Coldplay has to stop,î Simpsons executive producer Al Jean told EW.
One of The Simpsonsë first musical guests was Michael Jackson, who guested ó under the alias of John Jay Smith ó as a mental patient named Leon Kompowsky whose convinced he is Michael Jackson. Jackson also had a hand in penning two songs that featured on The Simpsons, ìDo the Bartmanî and ìHappy Birthday, Lisa.î (On the Sunday following Jacksonís death, The Simpsons reaired the ìBartmanî video, and followed that with Jacksonís Kompowsky episode the following week.)
Green Day played a large role in The Simpsons Movie, performing the showís iconic theme song and ultimately getting killed after playing a concert that kick-started the filmís garbage-fueled plot line. The show has also featured appearances by three Beatles: Ringo Starr, George Harrison (in the Homerís Barbershop Quartet episode) and Paul McCartney, who along with his wife Linda taught Lisa about the wonders of being a vegetarian.
Episodes have also featured U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Who, R.E.M., Phish, Sting, the Ramones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Blink-182, David Byrne, the White Stripes (more on that here), Aerosmith as endorsers of ìFlaming Moeísî and Johnny Cash as a Guatemalan Insanity Pepper-induced coyote that talks to a hallucinating Homer. But perhaps the most memorable music-related episode of The Simpsons was ìHomerpalooza,î which featured appearance by Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Cypress Hill and Peter Frampton.

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Bruuuuuuuuce!!

I want to see them all!!!

Bruce Springsteen Playing All of ìBorn to Runî in Chicago
A source close to Bruce Springsteen has confirmed what two Chicago newspapers (the Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune) are reporting: that Bruce and the E Street Band will perform their landmark 1975 album Born to Run in its entirety when the tour touches down at the cityís United Center on September 20th.
Itís unclear whether the band plans to do any full-album performances on other dates on the tour, like Aerosmith, Mˆtley Cr¸e and more bands have been doing recently. Last year Springsteen performed Born to Run and Darkness On The Edge of Town at a fundraiser show at New Jerseyís Count Basie Theater. Earlier this year Rolling Stone magazine asked E Street guitarist Steve Van Zandt what album heíd like to perform straight through. ìItís gotta be The River,î he said. ìIíd want to include the outtakes on the Tracks collection. Then you have a hell of a show. You donít have to do anything else.î
Completely unsubstantiated Internet rumors that should be taken with a huge grain of salt claim that Springsteen will do one album a night during his five-night stand at Giants Stadium this September and October. But in the off chance the rumors are true ó and based on very little (but our Springsteen intuition) ó we predict heíll do Greetings From Asbury Park, The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town and Born In The USA.
Springsteen, who turns 60 in September, was recently asked by Italian Vanity Fair about his plans beyond this tour. ìI think that the E Street Band will probably take a rest for a little while,î he said. ìBut it all will happen again. Weíre lifers, weíre gonna go on forever.î

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Television

Cool!!

Jamie Bamber is coming to Joss Whedon’s ‘Dollhouse’
It’s a “Battlestar Galactica” reunion, courtesy of our boy, Joss Whedon.
“BSG”‘s Jamie Bamber will guest star in the season premiere of “Dollhouse” and his character will not only share scenes with Eliza Dushku’s Echo, but with fellow “BSG” alum Tahmoh Penikett (Paul Ballard) as well.
Per FOX, Bamber’s role has him heavily involved in an engagement that Echo and Ballard are assigned to.
Heavily involved, hmm?
Will he be an ally or foe?
Whatever the case, Apollo and Helo sharing the small screen once again? We’re good with that.