Coldplay Accused of Foul Play
Did Chris Martin & Co. swipe the melody for “Viva la Vida,” the group’s new song on those iTunes commercials?
The Brooklyn band Creaky Boards seems to think they did. And the tune in question?
It’s called, “The Songs I Didn’t Write.”
Oh, the irony…
Creaky Boards singer Andrew Hoepfner posted a YouTube video that combines both “Viva la Vida” and “The Songs I Didn’t Write” with text in which he claims he and his band thought they saw Martin in the audience when the Creaky Boards played the CMJ festival in October 2007.
“We were flattered when we thought we spotted Chris Martin in the crowd that night. He seemed pretty into it!…Maybe TOO into it,” writes Hoepfner.
A rep for Coldplay denied the accusations, telling the Guardian that Coldplay cut a demo for “Viva la Vida” in March 2007 and that Martin couldn’t possibly have been at the CMJ show because he was in London recording.
In an email to News, Hoepfner elaborates.
“Soon after the video blew up, I received a call from Coldplay’s manager. They were really nice about the whole thing and explained about their whereabouts and old demos. I guess the song similarities are just a coincidence…great minds think alike?
“Anyway, I must have been mistaken about seeing Chris at the show because all British people look the same. I lived in London for six weeks and I seriously thought every third person on the corner was Coldplay.”
Give it a listen and decide for yourself.
What do you call your remote?
It’s one of the eternal questions in life: what do you call your remote?
Tim Dowling over at The Guardian has a story about all of the different names that TV viewers have for that little device that saves us from having to walk across the room and has probably contributed to the onslaught of ADD we have. All of the names we’ve all heard are on the list, such as “clicker” (my mom used to call it that), “flipper” (which was popular with Frank on Everybody Loves Raymond), “wand,” and “changer.” Of course, The Guardian is a British paper so you’re going to get some words that Americans really aren’t familiar with, such as “tellychanger,” “podger,” and “hoofer-doofer.” Most people I know just call it “the remote.” We should come up with a different name for it. “Binky” is good, but that’s already taken for pacifiers. How about “the glooptron?”
I call mine “Jessica.”
The Guardian Do A Hulk Review In Hulk Talk
I think I’ve just read the best movie review I have ever read in my life. While 99.9% of movie reviews are all the same, a critic talking about the film, the good points, the bad points, overall conclusion. Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian has done something unique and way more entertaining.
Here is a section of his review of The Incredible Hulk:
“Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hulk also go rarrr! Then smash again. Smash important, obviously. Smash Hulk’s USP. What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment. Hulk in boring film. Film co-written by star. Edward Norton. Norton in it. Norton write it. Norton not need gamma-radiation poisoning to get big head. Thing is: Hulk head weirdly small. Compared with rest of big green body.
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No Wire Hangers Ever…Again
Just in time for the 30th anniversary of Mommie Dearest (the book that became the brilliant movie starring Faye Dunaway), an updated edition is being released.
While nothing can top the original Joan Crawford madness exposedhas anyone done more for padded clothes hangers?expect all new details of dysfunction from her disgruntled daughter.
“If she walked in the door now, I’d tell her she’s not welcome and could she please leave. Because that’s what I couldn’t do as a child,” Christina Crawford tells London’s Guardian.
Call us bipolar, but we smell a theatrical sequel.
Via the New York Post