'Twilight'...what have you done?!

...Thanks to Armando Peralejo for the important update!!

"Whoops, looks like two cultures just got shocked. Obviously that headline is a joke! Except that maybe it isn't? Rumors had been swirling about Thom Yorke and Bon Iver penning songs for the The Twilight Saga: Teen Vampires In Love Some More soundtrack, and those rumors are confirmed with today's OST tracklist, exclusively revealed by MySpace. But you already knew that because MySpace is your homepage. And hey, this thing looks good, like mini-Dark Was The Night good.

In addition to Thom's new tune "Hearing Damage," and Bon Iver's duet with St. Vincent's face on a song called "Rosyln," Twilight scored previously unreleased tracks from Grizzly Bear and the Killers. Atlantic, in conjunction with soundtrack curator Alexandra Patsavas's Chop Shop, will release the album, and so there's a correlatively strong showing of Atlantic-affiliated artists (Death Cab, Lykke Li, and Muse, the lone holdover from the first film's OST) and a Patsavas pet (her Chop Shop puts out Anya Marina who made the cut). You've heard Death Cab's "Meet Me On The Equinox." Here's a few more reasons you suddenly love vampires:

01 Death Cab For Cutie - "Meet Me On The Equinox"
02 Band Of Skulls - "Friends"
03 Thom Yorke- "Hearing Damage"
04 Lykke Li - "Possibility"
05 The Killers - "A White Demon Love Song"
06 Anya Marina - "Satellite Heart"
07 Muse - "I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)"
08 Bon Iver and St. Vincent - "Rosyln"
09 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Done All Wrong"
10 Hurricane Bells - Monsters"
11 Sea Wolf - The Violet Hour"
12 Ok Go- Shooting The Moon"
13 Grizzly Bear - Slow Life" 
14 Editors - "No Sound But The Wind"
15 "Alexandre Desplat - New Moon (The Meadow)"

The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack is out 10/20 via Atlantic, and the soundtrack artists will tour Hot Topic outlets nationwide. As if you needed another reason to go there after school."

--Stereogum (http://stereogum.com/archives/album_art/is-the-new-moon-soundtrack-the-best-album-of-2009_091141.html)

And here is a link to Pitchfork's article, reassuring the fate of these wonderful artists: (http://pitchfork.com/news/36518-grizzly-bear-to-appear-on-ithe-twilight-saga-new-mooni-soundtrack/)

........so who's going to the Hot Topic Tour??! 

Box Office Weekend: Mighty Meatballs

Box Office Weekend: Mighty Meatballs

Weekend Report: Moviegoers Feast on ‘Meatballs,’ Slim Pickings for ‘Jennifer’ - Box Office Mojo

Weekend Report: Moviegoers Feast on Meatballs...Slim Pickings for Jennifer - Box Office Mojo

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Game On!

Chicle and the Apostles hit the ground running, laying out $118 mil for CLOUDY...MEATBALLS (a Pixar-esq Sony fam jam) & LOVE HAPPENS (the new Rachel from FRIENDS rom-com vehicle).


Stanley Fishbein chases the teen boy market with the new Diablo Cody movie, a horror, Jennifer's Body for $15 mil. Be worth every penny if someone gets bludgeoned with a hamburger phone.

And probably the weekend's winner, PEACHES BLEED offers up a heaping helping of Matt Damon with The Informant for $22 mil. More on the opening weekend of the Game very soon

Sony hopes for clearer outlook with 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' -- latimes.com

Sony hopes for clearer outlook with 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs' -- latimes.com

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The Flaming Lips on The Colbert Report

The Flaming Lips on The Colbert Report

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Everyday People in Extreme Situations

"In my films, I focus on pain and fear. The fear just before an act of violence and the pain after. This applies to the perpetrators as well as the victims." - Chan-wook Park

The Revenge Trilogy which consists of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance are films about revenge, kidnapping, pain, suffering, and everyday people. While considered a trilogy they are no more related to each other than Sergio Leone's Man Without a Name trilogy are. Chan-wook Park (writer/director) acts as a conductor who skillfully leads his characters through the worst part of their lives. The pain reverberates through the room leaving each viewer feeling it in their chest as the credits role.

Each person has great days and bad days, the characters within these films are pushed to their greatest extreme during one of those bad days, for some, a bad 15 years. Park builds suspense unlike any other director. Violence hovers over ever shot even when peaceful imagery fills the room. Tension builds as stomaches tighten and sweat pours down foreheads. Hammers, baseball bats, and pairs of scissors are the weapons of choice to exact harm against protagonists and antagonists alike. While the word "senseless" can be thrown around, the violence essentially makes sense. Characters are left with no life left to live except that of revenge, what would they turn to other than violence? (Religion?) In addition it is never glorified and always leaves a sense of disgust or anguish left in its wake.

Where most films involving violence focus on it alone, Chan-wook Park uses it but always focuses on human relations and qualities of being human. He cares about these characters and knows that they are not just violent soles. Great moments are hand crafted with no words exchanged to tell so much about each relationship. From a small smile to a brushing of hair out of another's face, a human quality is given to each character. It's because of these heart felt well constructed scenes that the film work. Tears role down faces and people yell and scream in anguish because love lost is one of the greatest pains in life.

Needless to say the acting with these films are top notch, proving that other countries do have actors to contribute to cinema. Every character is at their wits end and are hysterical at times, only the best actors could pull such scenes off and leave an audience speechless. Min-sik Choi in Oldboy eats a live octopus which he performed four times on set. He also lost 20 pounds for the part and has one of the most emotionally demanding roles in the trilogy. Where is his oscar? (A day late and a dollar short)

No one ever lives happily ever after in these films, but who ever does. Chan-wook Park makes the viewer actually feel something whether it is pain, sympathy, fear, or even disgust. His skill is measured in how much he effects his audience and in that case it is immeasurable. Just like Leone's trilogy there is no order which you have to watch these films, you just should watch them because they are what real movie magic is made of.