Gedanken means "thoughts" in German. The term was popularized by Albert Einstein, who applied gedankenexperiment to his work conceptualizing the theory of relativity.
Triskaidekaphobia
Definition:
fear of the number 13
About the word:
Every Friday the 13th, lookups on triskaidekaphobia spike on Merriam-Webster.com.
The word comes from the Greek word for thirteen and the New Latin word "phobia."
The origin of this fear is murky. Some trace it to ancient Hindu beliefs, others to Norse mythology, and still others to the Last Supper, after which Jesus was betrayed by one of the thirteen people present. Interestingly enough, known mention of the fear of thirteen in print dates back only to the late 1800s.
Tintinnabulation
Definition:
the ringing or sounding of bells
About the word:
This word's Latin source, tintinnabulum, means "bell" and evokes the sound of one.
The word was popularized in the mid 1800s by Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Bells": "Keeping time, time, time, / In a sort of Runic rhyme, / To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells / from the bells, bells, bells, bells, / Bells, bells, bells...."
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are halfway through recording a new album.
The ‘Under The Bridge’ group have been in the studio with producer Rick Rubin and reportedly started enough tracks to fill a whole album, according to the band’s drummer Chad Smith.
He told website Musicradar.com: “We're probably halfway through the record. I think we've tracked about 20 songs already, and there's a few more left to do. Then we'll whittle them down to make the best record.
“We always cut a lot of songs and see which ones rise and which ones fall - that's just how we like to work.”
He also confirmed the album would not be a double, like the group’s last, ‘Stadium Arcadium’, which came out in 2006.
Chad - who is joined in the band by singer Anthony Keidis, bassist Flea and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer - also added he’d like for the band to have their new album out in time for the summer months of next year.
He added: “We're definitely hoping to have it out by next summer. It's been a long time in coming.”
Major Lazer are recording with the likes of Vampire Weekend, Lee Perry, Lykke Li, Santigold and more for their new album.
The duo, Diplo and Switch, are currently working on an LP in Jamaica and say the record will contain a mix of guest appearances from reggae and indie musicians.
Diplo told Interviewmagazine.com that they are halfway through the record now.
"I'd like to have it done by the end of the year and get it out for 2011," he explained. "It's a pretty random selection – top-form dancehall guests; Vybz Kartel, Bugle, Timberlee. Also, Vampire Weekend, Lykke Li and Santigold."
He added: "Then we have some classic fellas like Lee Perry and Junior Murvin. It's like reggae is the vehicle, but we really live in this Major Lazer post-apocalypse world where all these artists don't seem strange together."
They made it, top of the world! Flight of the Conchords duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have cemented their star status with an appearance on The Simpsons.
The comedy pair were immortalised as yellow cartoon versions of themselves in the premiere episode of season 22 of the famous show, which screened in the United States in the last few hours.
Flight of the Conchords duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement have cemented their star status with an appearance on The Simpsons.
The comedy pair were immortalised as yellow cartoon versions of themselves in the premiere episode of season 22 of the famous show, which screened in the United States in the last few hours.
p.s.
check out this crazy intro street artist Banksy made for the Simpsons:
This is the teaser trailer of Paul, the new movie of the director of Superbad:
The movie stars one of my favourite duo( duos, duo's?): Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Jup, the guys from:
-Spaced
-Hot Fuzz
-Shaun of the dead.
furthermore, Seth 'Pineapple Express' Rogen voices the alien Paul, and Sigourney Weaver also has a part. Gonne be great, right?
Oh yeah. This is looking good, Michael J. Fox didn't change at all! Wish they would make another one.
Would be awesome, because I saw Piranha 3D( It's so bad it's good) the other day, and 'doc' played a role, didn't change either.
By the way, check out some great quotes from the movie:
[in the past, Marty observes his dad's incompetence] Marty McFly: Jesus, George, it was a wonder I was even born.
Dr. Emmett Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me? Dr. Emmett Brown: Precisely. Marty McFly: Whoa, this is heavy. Dr. Emmett Brown: There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
George McFly: Do you really think I oughta swear? Marty McFly: Yes, definitely. Goddamn it George, swear.
Biff Tannen: What are you looking at butthead?
[last lines] Marty McFly: Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88. Dr. Emmett Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green showed some footage of his next film, Your Highness, at New York Comic Con yesterday, and audiences confirmed it's a stoner comedy: "It looks to be something like The Princess Bride after a couple of harsh tokes ... about a pair of knights who are far more into recreational drug use than defending the realm," Entertainment Weekly reports.
James Franco and Danny McBride star in the film, which Green says was a pet project he didn't think could ever necessarily happen: "On the set of a decidedly more serious movie, All the Real Girls, which he made with McBride in 2003 ... they said that if the two of them ever made it big they would somehow convince a studio to make this movie. Seven years later, voila."
He died at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, on or immediately after a flight from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, where he had been due to perform with De Dijk on October 12.
The cause of death was not immediately clear. Apparently, after having had a heart attack on the plane, he could not be resuscitated.
Burke combined his singing with the role of preacher and patriarch of a huge family of 21 children, 90 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.
"Loving people," he said at a recent performance in London, "is what I do."
Shot in black and white on a hand-held 35 mm DXL Supreme MP, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a period piece without a period, a beautiful glimpse into a world without beauty, a heart-rending portrayal of the heartless. The film swings (no pun intended :)!!) between tortured silences and undistilled brassy mirth, with a fantastic debut performance from trumpeter and lead man Jason Palmer.
Chazelle's entrance onto the scene is nothing short of momentous, an omen of good things to come in a struggling industry. He brings art and subtlety back to a genre that has recent been diluted by big Oscar grabs (Chicago, Dreamgirls, Cadillac Records) and will be sure to make an impression at Tribeca.
Tonite I wish to party, so here is some party music:
Duck Sauce with the song 'Barbra Streisand.' I love this song, it is stuck in my head for days now. Oh, and you can spot Kanye 'Gayfish' West, the singer from Vampire Weekend and many more in the video.
Check this awesome comment on their video:
"I like the part where they say 'Barbra Streisand"
Next are the Wombats with their new single Tokyo:
I really loved their first record, good memories. ( Let's dance to Joy Division, anyone?)
and we finish with a Paul Kalkbrenner song, who I will see live the 24th of october:
127 hours? 127 hours of what? gaming? eating pizzas? nah...It's the name of Danny Boyle's newest movie.Danny who? Danny Boyle, the director of The Beach, Slumdog Millionare, 28 days later and Trainspotting. He's kinda my favourite director, I love every movie he has ever made, and now he's making this new movie with James 'Pineapple Express' Franco. Ka-Schwing!
When I woke up this morning, my boss texted me that I didn't have to go to work. Yippiekayee MF! So today I'm gonna take my bike and take some pictures of Things I'll see.
This is what I saw yesterday:
Matthijs
Vague Lights?
Got the .... in the bag (NOT!)
Tommy and the grey hand
and, because I'm in a good mood, a free song for y'all:
Silver Swans-Secrets. Their music fits with their name.
This is Nina Kinert, a singer-songwriter from Sweden, with her song 'Beast', live on Lowlands 2009.
(If you like her sound/the song, go see her on november the 20th, Crossing Border Festival in Den Haag.)
If you dig dirty bluesrock, like the Black Keys, or the Dead Weather, you should check out The Black Box Revelation, They are a band from Belgium, and they're pretty awesome.
If you don't dig dirty bluesrock, and you are a pervert looking for boobies, you should also check it out.
Then there is Où Est Le Swimming Pool. They are an English synthpop group from London. Charles Haddon, the lead singer of the band, died after a performance at Pukkelpop, Belgium. He is believed to have committed suicide by jumping from a telecommunications mast in the backstage artists' parking area. Their record 'The Golden Year' was released yesterday, and it's filled with catchy song. ( check it out if you dig synthpop, or La Roux.)
and last, but not least, a (legal) free download for you guys:
This means going out alone. I.e. seeing a movie by yourself, going to a restaurant alone.
"Dude I saw Pineapple Express twice by myself. I'm addicted to chronic masturdating"
Speaking of Pineapple Express, there will be somekinda spiritual successor: Your Highness.
This movie is directed by the same guy who gave you Pineapple Express. It is set in...ah fuck, just read this:
Thadeous (Danny McBride) is a lazy, arrogant prince whose brother, Fabious (James Franco), must go on an epic quest in order to save their father's kingdom. Natalie Portman plays a warrior princess who is also the lazy prince's love interest.[4]Zooey Deschanel plays Belladonna, Fabious' virginal bride.[5]Justin Theroux plays Leezar, the evil wizard who kidnaps Belladonna. Michael Clarke Duncan plays the Giant troll.
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