Techcrunch: Mötley Crüe Song Sells More on Xbox Than On iTunes - "Players of Grand Theft Auto IV can buy the songs they hear in the game from Amazon by making their characters dial a number on their cell phones.

Now the rock band Mötley Crüe (yes, they are still alive) is getting in on the action as well. They released a single from their latest album, Saints of Los Angeles, both in the video game Rock Band and as download on iTunes, Amazon and elsewhere. In the first week that the digital single was available for sale (the physical album won’t be released until June 24), it was downloaded 47,000 times on the Xbox alone compared to 10,000 times on iTunes and other digital download stores on the Web."

Wired: "In what has to be a sign of some sort of apocalypse, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice took time off from the war on terror to enlist in the KISS Army during a stopover in Stockholm for a conference on Iraq."

-She got to meet the band, she got to meet the band!

The Guardian: "Where conventional hip-hop celebrates wealth and sex and drugs, nerdcore eschews gangsta themes for "geeksta" interests - its MCs rap about Star Wars, about World of Warcraft and about computer coding.

Well done! This is just what I need!

Spiegel berichtet: Die "Financial Times Deutschland" berichtet, einer ihrer Reporter sei schon im Jahr 2000 mit Detektiven und Kameras ausgespäht worden - in der Ära Ron Sommer. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen wurde Jahre später außerdem ein Maulwurf bei "Capital" eingeschleust.

-Da werden wohl hoffentlich einige Hüte genommen werden...

Richtig schön evil: Ufuk Sahin mit dem schönen Titel "Komm In Mein Ghetto" und Hasan K. mit einer Ballade aus alten Tagen, die da den Titel trägt: "Es stand geschrieben!"

Anilshokker hat auch YouTube Kanal und natürlich Anilshokker Production auf MySpace.

Respekt!

A giant crab will attack New York one more time!

2.6.08, 21:00 at White Trash Fast Food only 3 euros !!! (schönhauserallee 6-7, u2-rosa luxemburgplatz)

The Hot Eskimos are incredible! I've seen them before and they're really great. They are a tight, stripped back four piece rock and roll band formed mid 2005 in Berlin by Carola Nilsson on the double bass, guitarist Tom Burst, Dugald Jayes hitting the skins, and recently joined by Johnny on the pedal steel guitar. Their country tinged rockabilly blues and primal garage beat grabs you by the throat and drags you to the dance floor. The drums pound , the bass thumps, the guitars twang their Nashville thang and Tom and Carola howl at the moon like theres no tomorrow. myspace.com/hoteskimos

The Hunters are pretty groovy too. They're actually a pretty famous duo in disguise. Check out myspace.com/thehuntersmusic for more.

Trailer for the cold war classic Invasion USA (1952): "Five people are sitting in a New York bar with a mysterious Mr. Ohman, when they hear the news that the godless Communists are invading the good ol' U.S. of A. The five rush off to various sections of the country to do their part to stop the invasion, when an A-bomb crashes down upon Manhattan. "

Ha, ha, HackBlowfist has the "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" version!

I didn't know that remake (Invasion U.S.A., 1985) starring Chuck Norris was produced in Oz....

Related:

Some CGI freak had a lot of time: Soviet invasion in USA

Interesting: INVADING THE USA - its possible

Interesting post over at Tim O'Reilly's Radar: "We're collectively working on an Internet Operating System, and that it will ultimately look more like Unix than it looks like Windows. That is, it will be an aggregate of best of breed tools produced by an army of independent actors, all playing by the same rules so that those tools work together to produce a whole greater than the sum of the parts.

(...)

While they [Microsoft] are locked in penis envy, all the really cute girls are going out with startups :-)"

Tonspion berichtet: "Wissenschaftler des koreanischen Forschungsinstituts ETRI wollen den Nachfolger des populären Mp3-Formats entwickelt haben. MT9 lautet die Bezeichnung des Formats, das es mittels Sechs-Kanal-Mischer erlauben soll, die Spuren eines Songs unabhängig voneinander zu steuern."

Every issue of Simplicissimus from 1896 -1944 as PDFs.

This one is pretty funny!

First music video of Jane Walton, Berlin's Favourite Drinking Polka Band. The video was shot in late 2007 by Michael Hlatky, Fabian Zenker, Britta Bieberbach and Manuel Lebelt.

Die Single ist in allerhand Berliner Plattenläden oder direkt über Jane Walton Tipp: Am Mittwoch, den 28.05.2008, findet die dritte Liveschaltung direkt aus der Bar25 statt und Jane Walton sind 3 Stunden zu Gast. Von 21 bis 24 Uhr diesen Link benutzen.

Mehr MP3s und Bilder und so auf der Homepage.

1977 Cookie Monster parody of the theme from Shaft

Classic Sesame Street - Me Lost Me Cookie At The Disco

R2D2 & C3PO were regular guests on Sesame Street in 1978

Dave Chappelle On Sesame Street

Natalie Portman on Sesame Street

James Blunt on Sesame Street

Patti LaBelle Singing The Alphabet Gospel Style!!

Classic Sesame Street - Richard Pryor's alphabet

Elmo singing with the Backstreet Boys

Classic Sesame Street - James Taylor sings "Up On The Roof"

Norah Jones Sings "Don't Know Why" on Sesame Street

Destiny's Child on Sesame Street

Billy Joel: "Just The Way You Are" On "Sesame Street"

Sesame Street - James Earl Jones recites the alphabet

Classic Sesame Street - Cab Calloway sings "Hi De Ho Man"

Sesame Street - Skin,Hair,and Fur with Whoopie Goldberg

Nsync- Believe in yourself (Sesame Street)

Classic Sesame Street - The Count and Harry Belafonte

Sesame Street - Bill Cosby alphabet

Elmo and the Goo Goo Dolls (Sesame Street)

James Blunt on Sesame Street

Stevie Wonder - Superstition live on Sesame Street

Perry Como And Julie Andrews On Sesame Street (1973)

MORE MUPPETS!

Snoop Dogg & Willie Nelson performing Super Man, live at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, April 21, 2008. Note: vision starts after 28 seconds

Louis Armstrong And Bing Crosby sing "Now You Have Jazz"

Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash - Blue Yodel No. 9

Rolling Stones & Guns'n'Roses - "Salt Of The Heart"

Frank Zappa, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai Eric Jhonson - "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"

Frankie goes to Hollywood With Duran Duran - "Relax"

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI - THE FORGOTTEN DUETS

David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull

David Bowie & The Arcade Fire - "Wake up"

DAVID BOWIE DID A LOT OF DUETS AND THEY'RE ALL ON YOUTUBE!

Bellissimo Heroes! Best Berlin song ever!

I didn't really like that. Unfortunately, John was driftin' away from us at that point, so none of us actually knew. He never told us; we heard rumors and we were very sad. But he'd embarked on a new cause, which really involved anything and everything. Because John was that kind of guy - he wanted to live life to the full as he saw it. He would often say things like ,"If you find yourself at the edge of a cliff and you wonder whether you should jump or not - try jumping. ~PAUL, 1986, discussing John's heroin use

Up until LSD, I never realized that there was anything beyond this normal working state of consciousness. But all the pressure was such that, as Bob Dylan said, "There must be some way out of here." I think for me it was definately LSD. The first time I took it, I just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being , that there was a God and I could see Him in every blade a glass. It was like gaining hundreds of years experience within twelve hours. It changed me and there was no way back to what I was before. It wasn't all good, though, because it left quite a lot of questions as well. ~GEORGE , 1987

I know the only time we ever took drugs was when we were without hope. And the only way we got out of it was through hope. If we can sustain that, then we don't need drugs, liquior, or anything. ~JOHN , 1969

I don't recommend it [acid]. It can open a few doors, but it's not any answer. You can go out and get the answers yourself. ~PAUL, 1968

[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time. ~JOHN, 1970

From THE LOST BEATLES INTERVIEWS

VIDEOS:

• John Lennon describes his first acid trip
• Paul McCartney about LSD
• Three Beatles and producer George Martin recall Sgt. Pepper-era drug use. This clip was removed from a Disney Channel documentary but apparently left in the Japanese version.

Heute auch ma' in's vernachlässigte Tiger-Blog geschaut und es ist lustig. Und: "Bald ist es wieder soweit und alle Gedenken an einem Tag im Jahr an U-Bahn Umut"

Am 21. Juni hat Tiger übrigens seinen dritten Auftritt im Engelbrot Theater. Videos sind hier!

Auch die taz hatte gerade eine Story über den Tiger von Kreuzberg, wo man lesen konnte: "Wo in reicheren Bezirken - Zehlendorf - die Polizei schnell kommt, wenn ein kleines Kätzchen grad Schluckauf hat, ruft man in Kreuzberg, am U-Bahnhof Schlesisches Tor, ganz laut OUUUUUUUU, wenn Not am Mann ist. Orhan-Utang, verrückter Kerl, aber ganz in Ordnung, ein guter Freund (wie alle Kreuzberger) von Tiger, kommt dann schnell, um zu helfen."

Selten ist Kreuzberg besser beschrieben worden.

31.5., 15:00 Uhr, Weltzeituhr am Alexanderplatz

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