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Faults Movie Trailer

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Claire (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is under the grip of a mysterious cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire’s parents set out to recruit Ansel Roth (Leland Orser), one of the world’s foremost authorities on cults and mind control. But Ansel’s specialty, deprogramming cult members and returning them to their families, is not an exact science, and a series of financial setbacks has left him in debt to his manager. Ansel warns Claire’s parents that his deprogramming methods are risky and expensive, but they agree to hire him to kidnap and deprogram their daughter. Claire quickly reveals herself to be a formidable challenge. Her belief is unshakeable, and her logic is undeniable. A battle of wits develops between the two as they delve deeper and deeper into each other’s minds.

“Faults” opens on March 6th.

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Straight Outta Compton – Red Band Trailer with Introduction from Dr. Dre and Ice Cube

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Courtesy of Universal Studios

 

In the mid-1980s, the streets of Compton, California, were some of the most dangerous in the country. When five young men translated their experiences growing up into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, they gave an explosive voice to a silenced generation. Following the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton tells the astonishing story of how these youngsters revolutionized music and pop culture forever the moment they told the world the truth about life in the hood and ignited a cultural war.

The three stars of the film — O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Ice Cube’s son who will play his father; Corey Hawkins who will play Dre; and Jason Mitchell, who will play Eazy.

“Get Lucky” performed in the style of 10 famous guitar players

What would happen if 10 of the most famous guitar players had played Daft Punk’s Get Lucky ?

Cover by Andre Antunes.

Today in history: The day the music died

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February 3, 1959 has become one of the most mythic days in rock ‘n’ roll history. It’s the day the 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson crashed in an Iowa cornfield. To many, it’s simply the day the music died.

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Never understood this trilogy

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Vintage Led Zeppelin poster

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Foo Fighters cover Tom Sawyer

Very cool.

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What I’m Reading

Everything you need to know about the goth scene. Buy here.

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Author Stanley Gordon West dies

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From Pioneer Press:

Stanley Gordon West, one of the Twin Cities’ earliest self-publishers, died Wednesday morning at a Golden Valley nursing home from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 82.

West, who lived in Montana and more recently in Shakopee, worked mostly without an agent or publicist. His family estimates that he sold 100,000 books in his career.

Readers embraced his St. Paul trilogy — “Until They Bring the Streetcars Back,” “Finding Laura Buggs” and “Growing an Inch.” Those books came out between 1997 and 2003, preceded in 1995 by an unrelated ghost story, “Sweet Shattered Dreams.”

I am very sad to hear he is gone.Until They Bring the Streetcars Back,” was the first book I read of his and it was thrilling. Fans of the book can even cast characters from the book using real celebrities they envision on The Bookcaster. It would be cool if this was made into a movie.

Today in History: Ozzy Osbourne Bites the Head Off a Bat

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In Des Moines, Iowa, performing a date on his Diary Of A Madman tour, Ozzy Osbourne finds what he thinks is a toy bat onstage. Being Ozzy Osbourne, with a certain reputation to uphold, and in the spirit of things, he picks it up and bites its head off. Unfortunately, as his more clear-headed wife and manager Sharon was trying to indicate to him from offstage, it was a real bat. Dead, but real. A month of rabies shots ensues.

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