Month: December 2011 (Page 8 of 11)

Friday Video – Dandy Warhols, “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”

December 9, 2011 / David Medsker

Click here to listen to the Dandy Warhols’ …Come Down on Spotify

Happy holidays! This song’s about drugs.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth” rocks on a number of levels, but here is our favorite level: while singer Courtney Taylor is clearly unhappy about the song’s subject turning to hard drugs, it’s the reason for them turning to hard drugs that has him so annoyed – he got into drugs because he thought it was the hip, trendy thing to do. “Shouldn’t you have got a couple piercings and decided, maybe, that you were gay?” Taylor pleads in the second verse. It’s a double-edged insult: his friend is both weak-willed and a trend-hopper. Actually, it’s a three-pronged zinger, because the friend is also out of touch with what’s cool. And heroin is definitely not cool. This song is, though. Love those tweaked out dancers, not to mention all of the prizes that await the “winner” of the game show. Puking! Flaming car! Death! Man, what’s not to love?

Oh, right, the puking, the flaming car, and the death. We’ll just listen to this instead.

For the record, the second level we love about this song is the backward snare drum hit in the breaks. That little bit is the biggest hook in the song.

Music, Videos

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Most Beautiful Latina Search to be held at Morongo Casino Resort and Spa

December 9, 2011 / Bullz-Eye Staff

PlayerXT is gearing up for its annual Most Beautiful Latina Search which will be held on the weekend of January 7th and 8th, 2012, at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Palm Springs. We’ve had the pleasure of attending this great event for the past several years, and as you can see from the slideshow above we discovered some amazing Latina models.

Festivities will run all weekend, including a press conference and Fantasy Fubol Shoot Out. Those events open to the public are a Welcoming Party in Club 360 on Saturday night starting at 9:00 PM, and the Most Beautiful Finals Showcase in VIBE Nightclub on Sunday night starting at 7:00 PM.

The International Latina Beauty Pageant will feature 20 beautiful models representing the Latin countries of the world. Latin singing sensation Baby Bash will help ring in 2012 with a New Year Celebration of Latin Heritage, Talent, Music and Beauty with a special appearance. His new single, Slide Over, featuring Miguel is currently impacting on rhythmic radio. Bash will also help judge the Search Finals.

Bash will be joined by the beautiful 19 year old Latina singer songwriter, Jordyn Taylor, whose hit single Accessories won her critical acclaim when her song was included in the soundtrack of the movie Shopaholic with Lady Gaga.

The talent showcase will also feature Peruvian DJ Stephanie Loayza featured in Maxim, Playboy and FHM; Salvadorian recording artist and reality star, Jazmin Siguenza, who was recently featured in Bullz-Eye; Central America’s Got Talent finalist, Bullz-Eye Featured Model Angie Quesada from Costa Rica, winner of the Costa Rica Search for the Most Beautiful Latina; rock violin virtuoso, Esther Anaya of Columbia; and other up and coming Latina artists.

As you can see from our slideshow, the beautiful models featured at these events will take your breath away. Above we have featured 1-Carolina, 2-Cristy, 3-Mitze, 4-Olinda, 5-Elody, 6-Kimberly, 7-Pamela and 8-Ericka.

You can make reservations at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa for that weekend if you want to join the festivities. Enjoy beautiful Latina models and great performers along with the luxuries of a beautiful casino resort in Palm Springs. Palm Springs is a popular weekend destination spot for people in the LA area, and it’s a great getaway if you want to escape the January cold.

Models, On Location, The Opposite Sex

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A Chat with Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe and Jeremy Piven of “I Melt with You”

December 8, 2011 / Bob Westal

The stars of “I Melt with You” want you to know this: this film is no one’s idea of “product.” Opening in theaters this weekend in limited release after a run on VOD, it’s a movie made by guys who are clearly trying like crazy to do something that’s far from the current run of the mill — and also paying tribute to John Cassavetes’ 1970 masculine emota-fest, “Husbands.” Jeremy Piven calls it “an existential horror film,” and Rob Lowe calls it “impressionistic,” and that’s about as good and relatively flattering a description as any. The highly intense drama first screened at Sundance to a number of walk-outs, a matter which one of our speakers will address shortly.

Directed by Mark Pellington (“Arlington Road,” “U2 3-D”) and written by first-timer Glenn Porter, “I Melt with You” stars Rob Lowe, Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven and Christian McKay (“Me and Orson Welles”) as four smart yet deeply stupid 40-something college buddies who reunite for drug and booze-laden fun in Northern California’s ultra-scenic Big Sur. Let’s just say that after way too much fun, things take a sharp and very unfortunate left turn. Despite the appearance of Carla Gugino as a sympathetic local constable and Sasha Grey as a Sasha-licious coed, as well as some great vintage punk rock, we are left to wonder if maybe these guys would have been a lot better off if they’d listened to Nancy Reagan back in the day and went the “just say no” route. Also, suicide pacts are never a good idea.

Bullz-Eye and a select group of other journalists were fortunate enough to meet with Jane, Lowe and Piven — three strong veteran talents known to just about everyone with access to a television screen, most recently for “Hung,” “Parks and Recreation” and “Entourage,” respectively. They discussed the film and, as much as we could manage, other things.

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The Light from the TV Shows: Sneaking a Look at USA’s “Common Law”

December 7, 2011 / Will Harris

When you’re a TV critic, sometimes the coolest opportunities come up at the very last second, and you’re put in a position where you have to scramble to take advantage of them. Such was the case on Monday of last week, when the boss-man of Bullz-Eye forwarded me an email and asked, “Is this something you would be interested in?”

In this instance, I was being offered the opportunity to fly to New Orleans, visit the set of the upcoming new USA series, “Common Law,” be among the first people to view the pilot for the series, and meet and participate in roundtable interviews with a few of the cast members. The only catch: the trip was taking place on Thursday.

Rationalizing that I could surely finish up all of the assignments on my plate before my departure, I said, “Sign me up!”

As it turned out, I could not finish up all of the assignments on my plate before my departure. In fact, I didn’t even come close. I ended up having to finish one of them late on Thursday night, after having had a couple of Abitas, a couple of glasses of wine, a bourbon and ginger ale, and a Pimm’s Cup. That was possibly not my best work. Then I woke up Friday morning and finished two more assignments. And in the midst of the set visit, between roundtable interviews, I finished the last of the deadlines that had to be completed before the weekend. Of course, I still had two more that had to be finished by Sunday night, but I finally just had to say, “Screw it, I’m in New Orleans, that shit’s gonna have to wait ‘til I get home on Saturday.”

But I digress.

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A Roundtable Chat with Colin Firth (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”)

December 7, 2011 / Will Harris

When Focus Features drops you a line and asks you if you’d like to head to New York City for an overnight stay at the Waldorf Astoria in order to attend a screening and press junket for “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” based on the novel by John le Carré, you don’t think about it. You just say, “Yes.” And so I did. After catching a screening of the film on a Friday night, I got up on Saturday morning to begin the interviews of the day. After a roundtable with director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter Peter Straughan, the two gentlemen left the room, to be replaced a few minutes later by one of the stars of the film, Colin Firth.

One word of warning: the potential for spoilers exists within the piece…like, to the point where Firth asks during one of his answers “not to turn this into spoilers when you write about it.” But, look, if you don’t want to know, then don’t read it. But given that the original novel was published in 1974, followed by the TV miniseries in 1979, it’s not as if you haven’t had plenty of time to absorb this information already…

Journalist: Are you a fan of the espionage and spy films?

Colin Firth: I like the good ones, yeah.

J: Do you have any favorites?

CF: No, not really. [Gesturing toward the journalist sitting next to him.] We talked about this, actually, him and I. He had to help me out. [Laughs.] No, I’m one of those people where, if you say, “Tell me what your favorite music is,” I can’t think of any music in the world. So that’s a difficult question. You throw something at me, I’ll tell you whether I like it or not. But, yeah, I’m a fan.

J: Well, we’re all like that. You ask me, and I’d do the same thing.

CF: Yeah, I know. Nothing is more guaranteed to draw a blank, I’m afraid.

J: In the film, we were trying to figure out exactly who the people up in that big office were.

CF: [Uncertainly] Oh, I hope I can help…

Entertainment, Interviews, Movies, News

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