Hollywood hottie, Cameron Diaz says money is not a motivational factor when she picks scripts. “I can read 40 scripts and they can all be huge movies that will make me tonnes of money. But if it doesn’t speak to me, I’m not going to do it,†she said.
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Cameron just wants to have fun!!
May 18th, 2010 |
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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Perform New Songs on SNL
May 17th, 2010 |
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FIRED UP BAND OFFERS PREVIEW OF FAB NEW ALBUM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers will release their much-anticipated new album, Mojo, on June 15. This past weekend, they were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live‘s season finale with Alec Baldwin. JamBase has gotten a special early listen to Mojo and can say it’s one of the band’s best ever and possesses a lot of fire and blues-rock grit. We’ll have more on the new album soon, but in the meantime here’s their lively performances of new corkers “I Should Have Known It” and “Jefferson Jericho Blues” from SNL.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers begin their summer tour on June 1 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Find full tour dates here.
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Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Singing & Dancing “Whatever Lola Wantsâ€
May 5th, 2010 |
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We never took TomKat for the theatrical pair. Nonetheless Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes performed “Whatever Lola Wants” — from the musical Damn Yankees — at A Fine Romance Benefit for The Motion Picture and Television Fund’s A Fine Romance Benefit in Los Angeles last Saturday night.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck Criticizes Erin Andrews’ “Dancing With The Stars†Wardrobe
May 5th, 2010 |
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ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has been the target of death threats, stalking, and even an obsessed Peeping Tom who released secret videotapes of the blonde bombshell in the buff — but these days Andrews is geting sone of her harshest criticism from other woman. Take The View’s Elizabeth Hasselbeck, for example. On Tuesday, Lizzie’s conservative [...]
10 Ridiculous Celebrity Catfights
May 4th, 2010 |
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Poor celebrities. We think it must be hard when you are young, rich and beautiful and all your friends are young, rich and nearly as good-looking as you. Life can be boring, and when it’s not, it’s feverishly competitive. So, in their eternal bid to find themselves accidentally in front of a long lens, who [...]
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May 4th, 2010 |
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We suggest you to use the MPEG to MOV Converter. MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) is an ISO standard for audio and video compression. MPEG is used commonly for videos and most recently it is used in cell phones as a standard for high quality video recording.
Jazz Fest 5.02 Sun | Photos & Best Of
May 3rd, 2010 |
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Words by: Tom Speed | Images by: Dino Perrucci
Jazz Fest – Weekend 2 – Day 4 :: 05.02.10 :: Sunday :: New Orleans, LA
 The Neville Brothers :: 05.02.10 :: Jazz Fest |
The nursery rhyme goes, “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.” Tens of thousands of people were likely chanting that little prayer, to themselves at the least, throughout the weekend. “Another Day” finally came for Jazz Fest’s second weekend on Sunday. While the weather portended rain throughout the weekend, it finally delivered on Sunday. It wasn’t severe. Just drizzles and a brief shower. And who couldn’t use a good shower after seven days of Jazz Fest? But with every cloud there’s a silver lining, and the lining on a rainy Jazz Fest day is that it keeps the fair weather festival-goers away, so the crowds were significantly thinned, and pleasantly so. In many ways, it was the best of days. The best of the best were:
Tom’s Top Three Aural
#1 The Radiators (Gentilly Stage)
For many people, the annual Jazz Fest does not officially end until the “first family of New Orleans,” The Neville Brothers, completes their closing Sunday set at the Acura Stage. For an entirely different breed of freaks, the culmination of festivities is marked by The Radiators’ annual throw-down on the Gentilly Stage. As always, it was a celebratory after party for all those who had made it through the entire 10-day fest featuring searing guitar solos and relentless groove tunes. They continue to be the preeminent progenitors of swampy, blues-based jam rock in New Orleans.
#2 Van Morrison (Acura Stage)
Van The Man earned his moniker with his mid-afternoon, rain-soaked set on the Acura Stage. Nimbly shifting between piano, guitar and saxophone, he led his sprawling band through a passionate set that touched on the most well-known songs of his catalog, with “Moondance” in particular receiving a languid, pleasant stretching out, and included a great take on “St. James Infirmary Blues,” where he stated from the stage, “We’re in New Orleans, so why not?”
#3 Los Po-Boy-Citos (Lagniappe Stage)
This Latin funk band’s set at the covered Lagniappe Stage under the grandstand during a downpour drew a crowd that was perhaps seeking shelter but left having danced away any concerns about it.
Tom’s Top Three Gustatory
#1 Crawfish Strudel
#2 Strawberry Lemonade
#3 Coors Beer
Because on the third day it was really hard to find, kind of like in Smokey and the Bandit.
Tom’s Top Three Lagniappe
#1 Treme
It’s difficult to take in the sights and sounds of New Orleans and Jazz Fest without thinking of the new HBO series Treme from David Simon, the creator of The Wire. That’s in large part due to the fact that in seeking an authentic tone, the show features many local musicians. Kermit Ruffins, Trombone Shorty, Allen Toussaint and members of Galactic were all featured prominently in the early episodes, which have shown great promise.
#2 Scoring a free, legal parking spot on Crete Street.
#3 Wondering how to schedule my Monday without the help of “cubes.”
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Jazz Fest 5.01 Sat | Photos & Best Of
May 2nd, 2010 |
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Words by: Tom Speed | Images by: Dino Perrucci & Chad Smith
Jazz Fest – Weekend 2 – Day 3 :: 05.01.10 :: Saturday :: New Orleans, LA
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Massive crowds swarmed the Fairgrounds Racetrack on Saturday as blustery weather whipped the track and infield into dust gusts. It didn’t deter the sea of people who lined up across the track at the Acura Stage to hear Pearl Jam and filled the Gentilly Stage area for Band of Horses and Jeff Beck. The smaller stages, too, enjoyed swelling crowds. Lots of people, lots of music, lots of food and lots of drinks. And the highlights were:
Tom’s Top Three Aural
#1 Anders Osborne (Acura Stage)
Backed by the Stanton Moore Trio (Stanton Moore on drums, Robert Walter on keyboards and Will Bernard on guitar), Anders Osborne and his prodigious beard delivered a blistering set on the main, Acura Stage Saturday afternoon, leaning heavily on his new album, American Patchwork (released 4/27/10 on Alligator Records), which features the same backing band. The set kicked off the same way as the record with shredding power rocker “Road To Charlie Parker.” It’s a meditation that includes the memorable lines, “You’re like a diamond that doesn’t shine, a Rolex that won’t tell time.”
It’s no secret that Osborne has dealt with demons in the past, and he thanked his backing band from the stage for helping him to “get my shit together.” He got it together all right. Front to back, their performance was a tour de force that included saxophonist Skerik on the reggae bounce of “I’ve Got Your Heart” and similarly bearded guitarist Pepper Keenan (who co-produced American Patchwork) for a string of heavy rockers. Osborne quipped that the pair had a ZZ Top cover band on the side.
Osborne has been a guitar slinger, a pensive songwriter, a genre-bender, a bluesman and more. While this current outing incorporates many of those elements, he’s surfaced as a rocker and is sounding as good as ever.
#2 Honey Island Swamp Band (Fais Do Do Stage)
The Honey Island Swamp is a real place. It resides near the border of Louisiana and Mississippi. It’s therefore a fitting name for this band that draws inspiration from the music of those two states. With the Honey Island Swamp Band, soul, country, R&B and blues are all on equal footing. The two man songwriting/guitarist team of Chris Mule and Aaron Wilkinson produce expressive, hook-laden tunes that honor songcraft while respecting the groove. For their Jazz Fest set at the Fais Do Do Stage, the four-piece was bolstered by a three-piece horn section, keyboards, and backing vocalists. The rousing set included material from their debut Wishing Well and forthcoming follow-up Good To You.
#3 Pinstripe Brass Band (Parade)
If you’ve ever experienced the magnetic pull that causes you to involuntarily become part of a parade regardless of where you were going before the parade reached you, then you know how much fun this was.
Tom’s Top Three Gustatory
#1 St. Charles Street Car Cocktail
This eye-opener at Restaurant Luke features St. Germain elderflower liqueur, peach vodka and champagne. Delicious.
#2 Mango Freeze
This sorbet-type treat is wonderful in its own right, but even better with some smuggled rum.
#3 Canned Coors
Because, if for no other reason, the chorus of “East Bound and Down” from Smokey and the Bandit pops to mind whenever you pop the top.
Tom’s Top Three Lagniappe
#1 Best Festival Flag: “Super Bowl Champions”
Numerous sightings. Who Dat!?
#2 Anders Osborne’s beard
It deserves its own zip code. Would also be a pretty good name for a rock band.
#3 Folk Life Village
Blacksmiths and pirogues and hand drums, oh my!
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Jazz Fest 4.30 Fri | Photos & Best Of
May 1st, 2010 |
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Words by: Tom Speed | Images by: Dino Perrucci
Jazz Fest – Weekend 2 – Day 2 :: 04.30.10 :: Friday :: New Orleans, LA
 Kermit Ruffins :: 04.30.10 :: Jazz Fest |
The best laid plans aren’t worth a damn. Repeatedly, the ad hoc yields the sweetest fruit. Days like Friday, April 30 at the Jazz Festival reinforce this truth time and time again.
The giddiness rears its head when the cubes are published. Hours pored over scheduling increases excitement. When the day comes, it’s irrelevant. A well-planned and structured itinerary is no substitute for a day of happy accidents and splendid surprises. With the rain staying away despite the weatherman’s best attempts to doom and gloom the otherwise optimistic, a gentle fairgrounds-wide mist tent effect cast a pleasant ambiance over a day filled with brilliant unplanned pleasure. To wit:
Tom’s Top Three Aural
#1 Allen Toussaint (Acura Stage)
Allen Toussaint was a contributing factor in the best set of the day on Thursday and helmed the best set on Friday. He’s New Orleans royalty, and his mid-afternoon performance on the Acura Stage proved why. Exuding class and professionalism, Toussaint’s top-notch band (including the resplendent Theresa Andersson as one of the background vocalists) radiated confidence as they spun the sounds Toussaint helped birth many moons ago. Touching on standards and mainstays, they were at times funky, soulful, and moving. Giving “City of New Orleans” a twist that removed any sense of cliche was a mean feat that was handled adroitly, and the sprawling “Southern Nights” closer was awe-inspiring fun.
#2 Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys (Fais Do-Do Stage)
The infectious zydeco groove commands your dancing, your swaying, and your shuffling. The onstage capabilities grab your respect. When the band was joined by three trombonists from Bonerama, it underscored the wide swath that the music at Jazz Fest covers and cross-pollinates at the same time.
#3 Mardi Gras Indian Orchestra (Louisiana Heritage Stage)
A loose amalgamation of Mardi Gras Indian tribesmen and various interested instrumentalists, the Mardi Gras Indian Orchestra celebrates this musical tradition with the addition of a string section and a cavalcade of participants, including Reggie and Camille of The Radiators.
Tom’s Top Three Gustatory
#1 Fried Chicken
Like playing guitar, making fried chicken is easy to do competently but takes real talent to do exceptionally. The fine folks at Jazz Fest have talent.
#2 William’s Plum Street Snowballs
The nectar cream snowball could easily be classified a Schedule IV narcotic.
#3 Coors in a can
Here’s a fun game: try to drink the whole can before the “cold activated” thingy turns from blue to gray. It’s tough in the New Orleans heat, but practice makes perfect. Or something like that.
Tom’s Top Three Lagniappe
#1 Eric Lindell
The overflowing crowd at the Blues Tent before and during Lindell’s set rendered the situation unsympathetic to mellowing out to his groovy vibe. It’s great that he’s catching on with so many new fans, but it’s well past time to put him on a main stage. Ya heard?
#2 Pinwheels
They’re a highly underrated form of entertainment. Just sayin’.
#3 Celebrating your wife’s birthday with her at Jazz Fest
Every year. It’s one hell of a birthday party.
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Jazz Fest 4.29 Thurs | Photos & Best Of
April 30th, 2010 |
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Words by: Tom Speed | Images by: Dino Perrucci & Chad Smith
Jazz Fest – Weekend 2 – Day 1 :: 04.29.10 :: Thursday :: New Orleans, LA
 Dave Schools – WSP :: 04.29.10 :: Jazz Fest |
The opening day of Jazz Fest‘s second weekend brought with it clear skies, temperatures in the mid 70s and a slight breeze – ideal weather for an outdoor music festival. After severe rain and mud stained the first weekend, the sunshine was a welcome respite for festival faithful.
The day’s aural, gustatory and otherwise indescribable cultural delights provided a banquet of sensory inputs for the incessantly insatiable. The following is a brief but faithful recounting of some of the highlights.
Tom’s Top Three Aural
#1 Elvis Costello and The Sugarcanes (Gentilly Stage)
Every day of Jazz Fest is marked by that intangible Jazz Fest magic – a single set or experience that makes the spine tingle. Sometimes it comes as planned, but usually it comes unexpectedly. Thursday it came in the form of Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes, his top-flight acoustic band that includes Jerry Douglas on dobro and Jim Lauderdale on guitar, along with mandolin, fiddle and bass instrumentation.
The group worked their way through a stellar set of roots rock renditions from Costello’s catalog and some choice cover selections. They nimbly navigated their way through the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of The Devil” and the Stones’ “Happy.” They breathed new life into Costello stalwarts like “Allison,” “Peace, Love and Understanding,” and a down-tempo reboot of “Every Day I Write The Book.” Costello brought out New Orleans legend and collaborator Allen Toussaint for a rousing “encore” that consisted of five songs and left the crowd in bliss. Magic.
#2 Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk (Acura Stage)
With a double bass assault, Dumpstaphunk harnesses the runaway power of decades of incessant, ferocious chugging. They serve as the torchbearers of that delightful slice of American music known as New Orleans funk. In a city and festival full of contenders to the throne, they are the kings of the hill. By the time they launched into the now-anthemic thrust of “Put It In The Dumpster” their harnessed momentum had exploded into a full-blown frenzy.
#3 Sunpie Barnes & The Louisiana Sunspots (Congo Stage)
The warm weather was the perfect backdrop for Sunpie Barnes’ soulful set of swinging zydeco.
Tom’s Top Three Gustatory
#1 Crawfish Pie
From the people that bring you the Natchitoches meat pie, this particular crawfish pie was fluffy on the outside, creamy on the inside and possessed just the right amount of spice to become a new favorite.
#2 The Ruby Slipper
Though it’s often inadvisable to eat before entering the Fairgrounds racetrack, an early breakfast at this local mid-city joint provided a much needed and well-spiced Bloody Mary, not to mention a delicious take on Eggs Benedict that incorporated a grilled tomato. It was the perfect prelude to a great day at the fest.
#3 Coors
Because the banquet beer will do in a pinch.
Tom’s Top Three Lagniappe
#1 Field Trips
The sight of numerous middle school groups roaming the festival grounds on field trips gave reason to believe in an oft-maligned local school system that was imparting an undeniably unique life lesson on regional heritage and a serious steeping in the arts.
#2 Funny Hats
Big, small, wide, pointy, colorful, floppy, majestic, droopy. You gotta love a hat party, and Jazz Fest is among the biggest and best in the world.
#3 Chance Encounters
You know those people that you only kinda know, and if you’re bad with names (raise your hands!) you know them only by face and not necessarily by name, but it doesn’t matter. They’re at Jazz Fest, and it’s great to see them.
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Perfect Data Solutions to rescue and recover MS Word document Posted By : Tom Thompsons
April 26th, 2010 |
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You reached home after a long winter night, but you realized that you left the key behind at the bar! A similar miserable situation you may be in is, you have the information but you can not use them.
Retrieve password for MS Excel files Posted By : Tom Thompsons
April 22nd, 2010 |
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Remembering multiplication tables from school days is stupidity. Most people think so with a calculator in your mobile or on your PC. Computation is part of living. Complex calculations, repetitive reworking for What IF conditions and managing large data are done using spreadsheets. Any one using a computer will never be a stranger to MS EXCEL.
Tom Petty: Tour & Album Changes
April 21st, 2010 |
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TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS TO ADD SHOWS, RE-ROUTE BEGINNING OF TOUR
MOJO, THEIR FIRST ALBUM IN EIGHT YEARS, WILL BE RELEASED ON JUNE 15
SECOND SHOW ADDED IN PHILADELPHIA, ADDITIONAL SHOWS TO COME; TOUR NOW STARTS JUNE 5 IN
OAKLAND
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Heartbreakers have announced that the first 10 dates of their 2010 summer tour will be re-routed to September and October to accommodate the delayed arrival of their highly anticipated new album, Mojo. The album will be released on Reprise Records on June 15. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers regret any inconvenience caused to fans and hope they can make the rescheduled dates which are listed below.
Additionally, due to demand the tour will add additional dates including a second show at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on August 1 and others to be announced shortly. Further information for all additional shows and ticket on sale dates will be announced soon.
Tickets for the rescheduled concerts will be honored on the new dates. Refunds are available at the point of purchase if desired. Complete ticket information is available here.
To read about Mojo, click here.
All dates between June 5 and August 27 will go on as planned.
It has not yet been confirmed whether Joe Cocker will still appear as special guest on the rescheduled shows. More
details to follow on this very soon.
Check below for complete dates.
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Removing password and opening PDF files Posted By : Tom Thompsons
April 21st, 2010 |
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When you write an exemplary article, you like many people to read. As more people read, you get recognized as a brilliant writer. At the same time, you do not like any one to reproduce and claim copyright.
“Stupid Fight†Measures Which Star Has The Dumbest Fans
April 19th, 2010 |
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One very clever gent named Tom Scott has created an application that can measure the average level of intelligence of a celebrity’s Twitter fans based on “stupid indicators” in their Tweets. “‘Stupid Fight’ is not an exact science, but amazingly it seems to get it right most of the time! A lot of people [...]
Alex Reid compares himself to Jesus, Gandhi
April 8th, 2010 |
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Katie Price’s husband Alex Reid has compared himself to peacemakers Jesus Christ and Mahatma Gandhi.
The Sun reports, while at the launch of his new TV show, which follows his preparations for his fight against Tom “Kong†Watson, 27, Reid said: “I am a peaceful man but I guess I am an insecure person, why else [...]
RationalPlan Free Project Viewer, a boon to project managers Posted By : Tom Thompsons
April 7th, 2010 |
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Most project managers are assigned the role, because they have experience. Hardly any organization educates them formally on project management. People take it as challenge and succeed with their interest to achieve results.
15 Stars of Tomorrow (Versus Today)
April 5th, 2010 |
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The brightest stars of ten short years ago are already seeing themselves replaced by younger, hipper versions of themselves, and more often than not it’s a heavy downgrade.
Chemical Bros: New Album 6/08
April 1st, 2010 |
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THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS WILL RELEASE NEW ALBUM FURTHER ON JUNE 8,
2010
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The Chemical Brothers are
set to release their seventh studio album, Further, on June 8, 2010 on Freestyle Dust/Astralwerks. This album is the band’s first to be released with corresponding films made specifically to match each of the 8 audio
tracks. The films will be included on an iTunes LP and special edition DVD.
Nearly three years on from the release of their Grammy Award winning and fifth consecutive U.K. Number 1 album We Are The Night, Further sees Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons explore the boundless possibilities of
their sound. Taking a trip through four decades of electronic noise, Tom & Ed have taken the template set up with
their occasional Electronic Battle Weapon releases and allowed them to mutate gloriously into an entire
album. Voice samples and snatches of vocals are woven through tracks to create a record that ebbs and flows like
one of the band’s legendary live sets. Here, West Coast power pop harmonies sit beside German Motorik rhythms
while My Bloody Valentine-esque sonic manipulations plane across the top of early house bass lines. Further is the culmination of nearly two decades of psychedelic exploration, an immersive collection that
finds The Chemical Brothers at their least-restrained and most-melodic best.
As well as an eight-track album, Further is the band’s first proper partnership with long-time visuals
collaborators Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall. Now a respected TV and film director, Adam – aka Flat Nose George –
has been responsible for creating the visual backdrop for every Chemical Brothers gig since their live debut in 1994.
Visuals for Further have been created to correspond with each track on the album and have been planned
during the recording of the record.
The band will play four shows at London’s Roundhouse in May. These will be the first opportunities for fans to see
the band play the album with Smith and Lyall’s new films in sequence and in their entirety. The band will also play
select festivals in Europe including Sonar Festival in Barcelona before coming to the U.S. for summer dates including
gigs at the Hollywood Bowl on August 29 and Electric Zoo at Randall’s Island in New York City on September 4.
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