| Freddy Rodriguez Interview, Grind House
Movies Online sat down with Freddy Rodriguez to talk with him about his new film Planet Terror which is part Grindhouse, a double dose from long time collaborators Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's Death Proof is a white knuckle ride behind the wheel of a psycho serial killer's roving, revving, racing death machine. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a heart-pounding trip to a town ravaged by a mysterious plague. Inspired by the unique distribution of independent horror classics of the sixties and seventies, these two shockingly bold features are presented together on a drive-in style double bill, replete with fake trailers, missing reels and plenty of exploitative mayhem. In Planet Terror, married doctors William and Dakota Block (Josh Brolin and Marley Shelton) find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by gangrenous sores and a suspiciously vacant look in their eyes.
Student bodies: Art students learn to draw from the human form
A line of charcoal on paper mirrored the curve of Cheri Ewing's bare back. She sat still and naked at the front of the class as art students sketched her. She felt perfectly comfortable there in her own skin, aside from the tingling sensation she began to get in her foot from sitting on it too long. It's not about being nude, said Ewing, a Merced native. It's about art. And sometimes the hardest part is just sitting still. Some people initially react to the idea of nude models with surprise or embarrassment. But local artists and teachers say they are an essential part of learning to portray the human form. "Artists don't think of it as a sexual thing," said Freda Rasmussen, Merced College arts division secretary. "It's about the beauty of the human body. It's something artists throughout the ages have been doing." Why do it? For about 10 years, Ewing has worked as a live, nude model for various art classes in the area, including Merced College, the Merced Multicultural Arts Center and Modesto Junior College.
Taking a career break to recharge your life
Ever wanted to take a few months off work to climb Mount Kilimanjaro before global warming melts the remaining snow? Or take a one-year sabbatical from your job to travel the globe, teach English in Beijing or learn Spanish in Buenos Aires? A Canadian travel company is making it easier with the introduction of what it calls a Career Break Guide geared to workers who want to either quit their job, take a vacation or leave of absence and put some meaning into their travel, rather than simply lounge on a beach. "My sister quit her job and she's travelling down in South America," B.C.'s Travel Cuts promotion manager Rob Liddell said. "She's also spending two weeks volunteering in Ecuador. .
KRISTIN HERSH "Learn to Sing Like a Star" Yep Roc DOLOREAN "You ...
"IF YOU LIVED HERE / You'd be home now / And suicidal," warns Kristin Hersh on "Learn to Sing Like a Star," her first album for Yep Roc. The former Throwing Muse has always had a taste for the dramatic, and though she no longer records for 4AD, she hasn't forsaken that label's goth-folk sensibility. In fact, this self-produced disc is her most atmospheric solo outing, with swooping strings and rasping guitars parrying her voice, whose multi-tracked cooing sometimes mingles with a growl. It doesn't always work, and a trio of fragmentary instrumentals, one playfully titled "Christian Hearse," are mere stalling actions. But this album's fidgety arrangements befit such emotionally frazzled material as "Nerve Endings" and "Vertigo" better than the simple guitar-and-voice mode of her previous solo albums.
Bombshell books on Niger docs Iraq war nexus
In his January 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush declared the infamous sixteen words: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The claim was central to the administration's claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking weapons of mass destruction and served as a basis for launching the Iraq invasion less than two months later. Bush's declaration was based on an intelligence document that provided evidence about Iraq's purchase of uranium from the African country of Niger. But there was one problem: the document was a fake.
Democracy Now! spoke with the authors of two explosive new books. Carlo Bonini is the Italian reporter who broke the Niger story. His new book is called “Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror." Peter Eisner is a veteran foreign correspondent and is currently an editor at the Washington Post.
The Pepsi Bottling Group to Host over 240 Children in Celebration ...
SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Children from communities throughout Westchester and Fairfield counties will descend on The Pepsi Bottling Group's (PBG) Somers, NY headquarters on Thursday, April 26, 2007 for the annual "Bring Your Child to Work Day" celebration. This fun and educational day of "work" will include a variety of hands-on activities for the participants, such as making their very own custom-flavored soda, learning website design animation, and previewing the latest Pepsi promotions. In addition to this insider's view of PBG's business, the group will also focus on what they can do to better the environment. The Pepsi Bottling Group has partnered with Teatown Lake Reservation, a regional environmental organization with an 834-acre nature preserve and education center located in the towns of Yorktown, Cortlandt, and New Castle, New York.
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