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9 Podcasts for 2009
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Although these all like to the iTunes Store, they shouldn’t be hard at all to find them on other Podcasting services by entering the same name.
Scene Unseen Movie Reviews is a new podcast that offers a unique spin on the movie review process. The catch? Every week one of our reviews sees a new release… the other does not. Also featured - “Letterboxing” banter, DVD picks and special guest appearances from professionals in the film industry.
Vancouver’s top comedy podcast? Hosted by Graham Clark and Dave Shmka, with weekly guests. Hilarious weekly guests? Yup.
EPIC FU is what happens when tech and culture get it on. It’s your weekly geek-out to the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world. Subscribe to get a fresh new episode each week!
Mars Hill Church: Mark Driscoll -
Mars Hill Church in Seattle lives, breathes and is generally OCD about Jesus. Pastor Mark Driscoll is the lead preaching pastor for Mars Hill and regularly distribures video content via this channel, including sermons, event teaching and the occasional one-off video created for our internet audience. You can find more content like this by visiting our web site at www.marshillchurch.org
By Tech Fans, For Tech Fan! Product reviews, tech tips, viewer questions, gaming and great guests, all brought to you by Robert Heron and the DL.TV crew. We go live every Thursday, then we encode and make available for download.
Diggnation is a weekly tech/ web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.
The Totally Rad Show is the summer blockbuster of geek news shows. Every week, hosts Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata rip into the world of movies, video games, tv, comics, and more and pull out what’s rad.
Embrace digital technology. Join the Tekzilla cew and make your tech work better for you. Or you can go live in the woods with an axe. Every Saturday, Patrick Norton and Veronica Belont deliver product reviews, computer help, tech tips on everything from Ipod to camcorders, HD to the Internet, plus do it yourself projects.
The Hour with George Stroumboulopolous
Want a different look at the news? Watch to The Hour. The Hour isnt your average newscast, its more lik hanging out with someone whos really interested in the world. The Hour - a current affairs show hosted by George Stroumnoulopoulos. Watch new video clipos every weekday.
“You can’t beat meat, Simpson says”
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Earlier this year, Jessica Simpson sported a T-shirt with the slogan “Real Girls Eat Meat.”
Some gossip bloggers thought the phrase was a knock towards music star Carrie Underwood, a vegetarian and former girlfriend of Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Tony Romo, who is now with Simpson.Jason, MacNiel. “Come on over.” (2008, August 22). 24 hours, p. 31.
I read this, either by fait or pure coincidence, a day after I said to my brother, “I wish I were famous, so I could call PETA a piece of crap.” Now, I do not assume those were Jessica’s intentions, but you can see a connection there.
Thing is, I just hate PETA. Last year in English we had to write an essay about the hilarious hipocrasy of PETA
and their dip-shit ad campaigns. In reponse to the old-as-of-now The Holocaust on your plate campaign. My premise? Pigs dont go to space.
But my hatred does not end purely at their lack of taste (which, considering the Vegan diet, I find ironic in the least) in these regards, the blatant hipocrasy makes me laugh my (unfortunately non-literal) ass off. The leader of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, is a damn insulin-dependant diabetic. Besides that, she is also ugly as a pug.
“I’m an insulin-dependent diabetic. Twice a day I take synthetically manufactured insulin that still contains some animal products — and I have no qualms about it … I’m not going to take the chance of killing myself by not taking insulin. I don’t see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals.”
Glamour, January 1990 (Consumer Freedom)
I pray I needn’t explain this? Okay, fine. The very thing she attention-whores herself again, insisting against the use of, she is using herself. It’s like being Jewish, but only on Chanukah’s (that is the actual spelling of it, I learned from a Jew) and on the Comedy Network. Believe you me, hers is not time I deem well wasted.
As you may see, my hatred of PETA is substantial and, in the least, semi-founded. You know the saying, and enemey of my enemy is my friend? Well, by that logic, I theoretically don’t have to despise/ mock Jessica as much now. Although, had you seen her video for Dukes of Hazzard, her fondness of meat would come as much a surprise as Morgan Freeman being a black man in his next movie.
All in all, mad props to Jessica Simpson. After the her sisters entire nose-job yes/ no debaucle, she is officially not the dumbest blonde (natural or non) in Hollywood.
Spoiler Alert: looks like Morgan Freeman is still black in his next (of many) movies, Thick as Thieves.
Jimmy, Eats World and Attacks in Black
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My memory would give a conservative estimate on my Jimmy Eat World fanboyism to be, at least, 8 years. It would be a lie on my part to claim I was a huge fan of the album Clarity, as I really just had no idea who was behind it. A quick Wikipedia search really makes me feel my age, as I explicitly remember swooning over the release of, what is in my opinion the best album ever, Bleed American. The entire album is full of classic JEW songs. You know how ‘tallica has One, Nothing Else Matters, Whiskey in a Jar? Those are classic ‘tallica songs, the ones you can’t forget. Bleed American is full of JEW songs you will never forget.
Attack in Black are a band I found out of the Georgia Straight - a local, free newspaper in Vancouver. The review about them was pretty good, so right when I got home I went and got the album. This was half a year ago, and I still listen to it, straight, over and over.
When I heard of the JEW concert, I was pretty damn excited and asked a friend of mine if he would like to come with. He was pretty into it, things were good. And then, oddly enough right after my first Wizard Rock concert, the Remus Lupins, I saw a pole with an ad for the JEW concert, but it had a subheading I had not seen pior…
with Attack in Black
I nearly wet myself. I had wet myself earlier, but only because I couldn’t find a bathroom. Attack in Black sold me the show, JEW was why I was okay with it being $35.
I have to admit, I was really surprised by how good Attack sounded on stage. Their vocals were up-and-down a bit, but it’s all good. You kinda go into a smaller show, or a shower for someone smaller in this case, counting on some hazy tunes. I really liked it, either way.
In comparison to Jimmy? Eesh, I feel bad for the guys. I have been to only a few other shows, but Jimmy was, by far, the best sounding show ever. My friend at the concert commented on their crazy equilizer box thing. I will assume that is why it sounded so good. Another thing about it is, well, they just had a solid set-list (which I obtained a copy of) that was… really damn long. Jimmy has a great library of songs and they all are great ending-songs. I mean, the ones with a lot of energy and stuff? Yeah, that is every one of their songs. Their encore list was as long as Attack’s entire show.
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Yeah, a damn 21 songs. Only problem with the show was how many kids put their shirts on over what they came in. They should all just assplode.
"Has Video Killed the Blogging Star?"
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http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-editors/2008/06/06/has-video-killed-the-blogging-star/
Okay, we’re joking…..sort of. But be it video-snacking, YouTube resumes, digital video activism or live-streaming to the web from your mobile phone, the world of Web 2.0 is being driven by the moving image.
I do not mean to debate against the article listed above, but I thought it an appropriate reference and example for the point I am hoping to make. And for the record, I agree with you, the quoted title to this article is horrible, I promise you, its from the reference link.
I am in an interesting position with this media-revolution we are having today. I grew up with, and in, the ‘down-fall’ of written word. I transitioned from ‘chose your own adventure books’ as a wee toddler to Shakespeare in English. Not only was I alive then, I believed myself somewhat aware. I, or at least I tried to, view this objectively. I went from when all my friends were reading until I was the last vestige of my literate hope.
Written word has hardly died as much as… it is being refined. I get most of my news off of Digg, Newsvine, Reddit and the like. Now you say to yourself, or to the monitor in front of you, “Andrew, you idiot, all of those are written content!” That much is true, but gone are the days of pouring over a book and trying to find something worthy a citing. Especially in the newspaper industry, our news is being specialized, easier to find and more customizable.
I do not know how much of this is just pure nostalgia, but I enjoy the feel of a book or a magazine. Magazines especially, as the usually topical news is readily available on the Internet. But no matter how hard someone tries, buying a good book will never grow old.
One thing book will always have over video is the accursed ‘rewind’ and ‘fast forward’ buttons. They just do not work at well as a well licked thumb. So especially in these cases, research and news and the like, written word is very much preferred.
It is not so much that video is taking over, although it is, I would not dare refer to it as a trend. Videocasting is too difficult and not nearly as portable and customizable as an RSS feed. The thing is, Blogging is not going away, the medium is far too powerful to give up. Video, it seems, is just filling in the gaps that text did leave behind.
If anything, video is helping Blogging. Sure, it is taking some readers, but it also gives another bar for a writer to reach and to capture the attention of their readers.
A picture was never deemed worth 1000 words until someone actually tried it.
In summation, Blogging will live even longer than written word. And judging by the cult status J.K. Rowling’s novels have, written word has a few millenia left on its expiry date.
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