If you're a local regular joneser here at Scene & Heard, it's likely you're in the know that Bill Clinton is coming to Pottstown tomorrow to ramble on about the dark lord Hillary. In which case, there's no better time than now to endorse our favorite candidate currently in the running.

Obama is pretty cool, but we're pushing our chips in for someone with a little more brass in his buttons. The whole of us here at Scene & Heard HQ spent about 2 hundredths of a second who is right to clean this place up. To re-build America, we look to Gotham. And Harvey Dent is the man who is going to take it back. Do you believe in Harvey Dent? We do. Check the linkage for more info-age.


JOIN THE FIGHT! Vote for Harvey Dent when the time comes. Just go to your favorite local movie theatre on July 18 and buy as many tickets to The Dark Knight as you can afford!

Dear YouTube,

Hey, how you doing? Guess what? You're going to die.

I don't mean to threaten you or hurt your feelings. It's certainly not personal. We had many good times together. Remember that time when I spent all night watching old music videos and Saturday Night Live clips that I thought were long forgotten grains of sand in the degrading temples of time? Or remember those nights when I had to work late and miss The OC on TV, so I scrambled online to you so I could watch the episodes in pieces without commercials at 3 in the morning? And let's not forget all the times I spent hours at work watching commercials for Apple Computers and Geico.

But your time has come. Have you seen this Hulu site? It's here to destroy you, and I have no doubt it can. Again, it's nothing personal. It's just, you're like the Windows PC, and Hulu is going to break through like Apple. I can see the commercials now....

"Hi, I'm Hulu"
"And I'm YouTube. I hate you Lulu."

A lot of your content gets taken off because it's not supposed to be there. So when I go to show my friends clips, and the clip is mysteriously gone, I look like a fool. I'm tired of looking like a fool YouTube, so I'm switching to Hulu when it comes to watching movies and shows online. Because, like, they got licenses for their stuff. And they got a LOT. They got clips AND full length.

I really am sorry YouTube. You've been a good friend. I'm going to go watch Weekend At Bernie's in high streaming online via Hula right now. And I can sit back comfortably knowing I'm allowed to be watching in online.

And yea, we can embed Hulu videos on our blogs and Myspace's too, so, you lose that battle to. Check it out!





Thanks for all the memories. I can't wait to see you in about 10 years on VH1's "I heart the 00's." I know we'll all look back fondly on your memory.

Take care of yourself. I know Hulu will take care of the rest of us.
Chris

It's been a bit since I Top-Fived your humble little Tuesdays, ha'ant it? And there's soo much I want to spill my guts on in the entertainosphere, so I thought, "Yo dude, put one and two together!" So that's what we're going to do today here at S & H. These are the Top 5 entertainment stories I should have blogged about in the past few weeks, but haven't.

5. Movies!
Rambo 5 is apparently building sound stages abroad already. Wicked. The next Clint Eastwood movie--Gran Torino--is (believed to be) a Dirty Harry sequel in clever disguise. And Jason Reitman is already teaming again with Juno writer, Diablo Cody. But this time, they got demon-possessed cheerleaders and our favorite Cohen, Adam Brody!

4. Big screen comic talk geek corner
The Xmen Origins movie of Wolverine is filming in Australia, and we can expect roles from Gambit, Deadpool and Sabretooth to pop up. However, it also sounds like (thankfully) there will not be a Fantastic Four 3. Not that I'm against Marvel's first family at all, but those movies were comic blockbuster kryptonite. And it also sounds like Marvel is planning lots of cross film cameos, with Robbie Downey Jr's Tony Stark popping up in The Hulk.

3. Chapter 27
A movie titled "Chapter 27" doesn't sound entirely creepy. But then you learn it's about the dude who shot and killed John Lennon. And then you see the movie poster with Jared Leto and learn he's put on 60 pounds for the role. By then, you're probably creeped out.

2. Good Vibrations!
Let's just stream of conscious talk about everything music, here at our Number 2 spot. Coldplay's new record, Viva La Vida, will hit stores June 17 and that makes me a happy sentimental boy. Scorsese to direct Bob Marley biopic for 2010 and that makes me a happy biopic fiend. Scott Weilend is breaking up his supergroup Velvet Revolver because he doesn't like that Slash sings backup. Rock's sharpest act going, The Raconteurs, pulled a fast one today by releasing an album no one knew a thing about. "Consolers Of The Lonely" was only announced last week and went under absolutely no promotion. Take that Radiohead. You can bet I'm heading to Best Buy when I get done work today.

1. Where The Wild Things At?
Aside from a mild return to "acting on" sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," Britney Spears has NOT been in the news. No melt downs. No umbrella incidents. No kidnappings. Nothing. And so, if you think about it...that's like, headline news. The gossip world is without a light, a beacon of truth, a leader. The tabloid system may have to revert back to fabricated stories soon if this keeps up.

A month ago, The Mercury was promoting the fact that we were still a good local newspaper you could pick up for 50 Cents. So being the young hip newspaper tycoon I am, I got 50 Cent to help us promote the paper.

But as of today, we had to let go of his services. He just wasn't cuttin it. So we're upping our efforts to bring you the best in local everything. The Mercury is now going for 3 quarters a copy instead of 2. I "relieved" Fitty Cent of his spokesman duties and hunted down a new Mercury man to help us push papers. Ladies and gentlemen, meet 75 Cent. He gives you more bang for your hard-earned buck.

Since it's YouTube Monday here at The (back on schedule) Scene & Heard HQ, it'd be crazy dumb silly to ignore the fact that Chocolate Rain won a YouTube award last week. It'd also be self-defamation of blog character (not to mention, lame) to post a video we've all already seen. So instead, let's sit back and relax to the many wonderfully whack offshoots inspired by Mr. Zonday's froggy baritone. (But what I really want to know is, are The YouTubies becoming more popular than The Academy Awards?)

Chocolate Rain by Tre Cool (of Green Day)


Chocolate Rain (Best Week Ever remix) - by John Mayer


Chocolate Rain - by worst American Idol auditioner ever


Chocolate Rain - by Chad Vader


Cherry Chocolate Rain - By Tay Zonday

Sorry for all the interactive inactivity. But I'm back! And what do I have to say for my partial unbloggingness? This should say it all.



So with that, I'm sceneing and hearding again (which means I'm jotting silly and important thoughts here again, not herding sheep while dressed like a 14 year old emo girl.) Look for some new music reviews, downloads, and other goodies and sharp bantering goodness in the near future, as I'm back in the full swing of things.

If you're truly curious where moi has been, I spent the past couple sleepless weeks providing the bulk of content to today's 64 page section in the paper, INTROS. A couple of pins in the hip and I'll be good as new.

Looks like that guy just watched the Ang Lee directed movie from a few years back, don't it?

If you had the patience to ask every single person who saw "that" Hulk movie, you'd find about 5 people who liked it. And I'm not one of them. You probably aren't either. (Sorry if you are.) I however loved the cinemotography and some of the comic-styled shots, but the movie crawled along like a wounded possum that's been hit by a dump truck and thrown into a foggy canyon. And I don't know how familiar you are with roadkill, but that means it didn't move much.

However, lots of people dig Ed Norton's movie chops. Fight Club? American History X? Death To Smoochy? The Illusionist? These are good flicks and he is a great actor. For his screenwriting debut, he's resurrecting THE HULK from the comic-book adapted movie junkpile wasteland it's been rotting in, waiting for another chance for the past few years.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the new Bruce Banner. Check out those veins!

• MTV
• Music Videos
• MTV Shows
• Entertainment News

What you think? I think the revamped and Norton-0-fied Hulk looks like it plans to cash in some serious redemption chips. But only time will tell. It better not be boring. That would make me angry. You wouldn't like to see me angry. HULK SMASH!

Sorry I am AWOL lately. I've been working on a lot of truly productive projects here at work and the daily amount of time I reserve for playing drunken lawn darts and blogging has been severely cut into as a result.

Not to mention, a recent scientific experiment of mine produced rather unfavorable results for my computer at home. Turns out, pouring lager into your laptop does NOT help it's performance. In fact, it all together stops it from working. So the blogging from home is not an option either.

But, I celebrated my 24th birthday this past week, and I plan on sharing some of that with you as well as a little mix to mark the occasion. But for the time being, all I can leave you with is this ridiculously creepy video of Barney celebrating his 20th birthday. Enjoy!

First a screener of I Am Legend leaks onto the internets, now the alternate (and much better) ending of the movie has dripped onto the net as well. Scope it right here, and do it quick, cause Warner Brothers won't let things like this last long when they find out about them. Fans of the book seem to be diggin on this alt ending much more than what we were served in theatres.

Hey look, here's a still shot from the upcoming Tropic Thunder, which stars Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., and a very Natural Born Killers-looking Jack Black as actors who get caught in a real war and have to drop their act and be the real deal.

But, waaaait a tick, where's Robbie Downey here? I see Jack, an African American, and the Rambofied Stiller. OOOOHHH! Downey's the one who looks like an aged Tim Meadows? wtf!

I gotta say, that's pretty darn authentic. I'm curious to see this one. Look for it in theaters this August.

Yesterday, the temperature outside warmed enough for me to roll the windows down and ride around like a hot shot. So you know what that means? Time to step on the pedal and crank the volume on those semi-embarrassing pop punk records you worshiped for a whole 2-year window of your life as if they were your life support. Well, atleast that's the code I abide to. These warm doses of jumpy guitar gladness have gotten more spins from me than anything else I own, and these were the first bands I grew manic over. I hardly give these songs the time of day anymore, but these were the germs that brought about my entire musical sickness. And when spring comes elbowing it's way through the cold this time of year, there is nothing else I want to hear but these bouncy guitars and lyrics about mean girls.

5. Saves The Day - Through Being Cool
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned you say? Well, that's dandy and all, but I can't imagine anything worse than Chris Conley's lyrical scorn to his ex-romancer on this instant classic. This buzzing record can easily be pointed to as the root of where Fall Out Boy and Taking Back Sunday-style lyrics eventually pooled from, but none of the imitators out-wit the original.

4. Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
If scientists could figure out a way to physically turn sunlight into 13 songs, it would sound pretty close to this.

3. Blink182 - Enema Of The State
Somewhere between pop music, surf rock, skate punk, and fart jokes is this album which is fun, serious, ridiculous, and charming all at once. It's one of those records that taught me you don't have to "grow up" to mature.

2. New Found Glory - New Found Glory
This album seemed like the newest thing in the entire world when I first bought it. For pop punk at the time, it was one of the crispest and cleanest sounding records yet, packing more pop than punk, but never sacrificing the energy or emotion.

1. Over It - Timing Is Everything
It's hard to even lump this with other pop-punk-ish records. It's more of an animated record of slick abrasive skate punk, and Pete's vocal twists and turns blow my mind to this day. It's a simple record, but it's my favorite musical grenade to pull the pin out of once in a while and blow me back a few years.

There are those out there who wax about George Lucas' vast Star Wars universe till the wookies come home. But a 3-year old can break it all down for you in a matter of minutes. Enjoy.