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Professional Boxing is known as the “Sweet Science” but corruption, a lack of a central governing body, and the rise of MMA have threatened to end this glorious sport. Mega fights still bring in huge revenues but they are few and far between. Here is a list of 10 incidents that have contributed to the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 12:01 am
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If there’s one thing movies do better than any other art form, it’s weirdness. The combination of sight, sound, and music make for a perfect cocktail to take the audience away on a wild and spaced-out ride; and in recent years filmmakers have even started using film as a way to explore heady philosophical ideas [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged $7000 movie, 10, 10000 year old man, 1972 masterpiece, 1999 films, 2001, 2001 movies, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2006 film, 2007 films, A Clockwork Orange, beach boys, beats himself up, best dream sequence, best drug sequence, Bizarre, boxing club, Brad Pitt, brian wilson, Charlie Kaufman, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Controversial, cult movies, David Lynch, director, drugs portrayed in film, Edward Norton, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, eye-popping visual effects, far-out plotlines, Fight Club, film, filmmakers, Hugh Jackman, inventive plotlines, Joel and Clementine, John Oldman, Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite, low budget films, mainstream film, masterpiece of science fiction, Michel Gondry, Mind-blowing movies, Movies, Mulholland Drive, Neo’s training, plot lines, plotlines, Primer, psychological thriller, Rock Hudson, sci-fi romance, science fiction films, Seconds, spaced-out, stanley kubrick, star gate, The Man From Earth, The Matrix, The Prestige, The Transported Man, thought-provoking plotlines, time and space, time machine, time travel, time travel movies, top 10 movies, top ten, wild
While trying to decide which ghost photos are the “best” is largely an exercise in subjectivity, it’s difficult to know which ones are the best with any degree of objectivity. These are the photos I consider the most authentic “captures” of ghosts ever caught on film, but I leave it to you to decide for [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Photos · Tagged afterworld, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Bachelor’s Grove, Brown Lady, Cemetery, Chinnery Photo, Controversial, Corroboree Rock Spirit, death, Ghost, ghost photographs, ghost photos, ghosts, haunted, haunting, HMS Daedalus Photo, hoax, Lord Combermere, Queensland Photo, S.S. Watertown Faces, scary, spirits, The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, top 10 ghost photos, Wem Fire Apparition
While some celebrities and artists embrace the attention their fame brings them, others shy away from the spotlight and choose to lead lives of solitude away from the constant examination of the press. Ironically, this often only inspires an evidaen more cultist devotion from their fans, and encourages the media to speculate about their whereabouts [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 12:15 am
Filed under Art, Literature, People · Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, artists, Bill Watterson, Books, catcher in the rye, Clockwork Orange, Controversial, Cormac McCarthy, emily dickinson, greta garbo, Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger, Literature, pink floyd, recluse, reclusive, reclusive artists, salinger, stanley kubrick, Syd Barrett, Terrence Malick, Thomas Pynchon, To Kill a Mockingbird, top 10 reclusive artists
Internet radio shows, or podcasts, are one of the fastest growing forms of new media. With modern technology, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can become an amateur radio host and start producing a program on any subject they please, and websites like i-tunes and podcast alley now host thousands of different shows. [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Monday, November 23, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Humor, Internet, People · Tagged Adam Carolla, Adam Carolla Podcast, and Center, B.S. Report, Bill Simmons, comedy, Controversial, film, Filmspotting, How Stuff Works, Humor, Internet, Left, Movies, myterious universe, Podcasts, Politics, Public Radio, Right, smodcast, The Moth, The Moth Podcast, This American Life, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me
In the media hungry world, you need to stand out from the crowd to get attention. Publicity stunts are seen to be the answer for many individuals, celebrities and organizations. The motive for a celebrity publicity stunt may be to resurrect a career or to give a boost to the latest project. For protest groups, [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Advertising · Tagged Batman, britney spears, celebrity, Controversial, Donald Trump, Fathers 4 Justice, Give Peace a Chance, greenpeace, headlines, John Lennon, KLF, Lincoln, madonna, Menie Liberation Group, Michael Jackson, Peace, PETA, political, punk, Rock Hudson, scandal, The Sex Pistols, Video Music Awards, Vietnam War, Yoko Ono
“When you go to an art gallery, you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires” – Banksy Some call it street art. Some call it graffiti. Some people love Banksy and some people hate him. His satirical artwork is on display across the world. They are sometimes humorous and [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Art, People · Tagged Art, artwork, banksy, building, buildings, Controversial, design, graffiti, guerrilla artist, logo, London, monkeys, political, rats, street art, UK
Over the years, the American Central Intelligence Agency has gained a reputation for being the most far-reaching, sophisticated, and effective government intelligence agency on the planet. At the same time, the CIA has also become known for its incredible paranoia and propensity to undertake costly, sometimes illegal, and often downright absurd projects in the name [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre · Tagged 9/11, acoustic kitty, Bay of pigs, Bizarre, Central Intelligence Agency, cia, consipracy, conspiracy theories, Controversial, controversy, cuba, fidel castro, Kennedy, military, MK-ULTRA, MKULTRA, operatin northwoods, operation gold, operation midnight climax, operation mockingbird, operation mongoose, political, project pigeon, stargate project, War, weird CIA program
The Broadway stage has always been a place where the freedom of expression runs wild. Some Broadway shows push the limits of what is acceptable in the theater and in society in general. This is a list of shows that went for it with complete disregard of the boundaries they were breaking. Some clips are [...]
Posted by Loni Perry on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Entertainment · Tagged Art, Avenue Q, broadway, Broadway musical, Broadway Shows, cabaret, Controversial, controversy, Equus, hair, homosexual, Music, musical, pornography, Rent, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sex, Shakespeare, Songs, Spring Awakening, The Full Monty, top 10 Controversial Broadway Shows, Victor/Victoria, west side story
The dictionary defines a dystopia as a state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror. These scenarios have been the inspiration for countless novels and movies. They reflect our darkest fears and sometimes, actual elements in the modern world. THX 1138 George Lucas made his name [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Friday, October 9, 2009 at 12:02 am
Filed under Literature, Movies, Television · Tagged 1984, Aldous Huxley, Big Brother, Blade Runner, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, Controversial, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, dystopia, fahrenheit 451, film, films, George Orwell, Harrison Ford, metropolis, Nineteen Eighty-Four, orson welles, Richard Burton, stanley kubrick, the handmaid's tale, The Terminator, The Trial, thx 1138