Day: August 7, 2009

ICE CUBE AND BOW WOW SET TO STAR IN NEW FILM ‘LOTTERY TICKET’

Ice Cube Rapper Bow Wow and rapper/actor Ice Cube will star in the new film comedy entitled Lottery Ticket. According to Digital Spy  music video director Erik White is on board to steer the movie, which is about a young man in the projects who holds a winning lottery ticket worth $350 million. He must rebuff attempts from his opportunistic neighbour to steal the ticket over the weekend. Abdul Williams wrote the script for the comedy, which has moved from its original home at Rogue []

QUOTE OF DAY: MIKE TITLE (FRONT MAN FOR THE BAND DEAD KIDS)

I think that the music industry is something I look upon as an anomaly. I don’t really understand what’s going on and who’s going to make money from it, unless you’re a massive pop artist.  It just seems to be about money full-stop. We’ve been playing festivals this summer and I’ve met people signed to big major labels and big indie labels and they look worried. Their foreheads are creased. There’s concern. They’re flogging a product that no one is buying. That’s []

MASSIVE ATTACK STRIKES WEBSITES

Via BBC News High-profile websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter have been targeted by hackers in what is described as a “massively co-ordinated attack”. Other sites such as the blogging platform Live Journal were also reportedly targeted. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook’s service was “degraded”, according to the firms. Google said it had defended its sites and was now working with the other firms to investigate the attack. Continue Reading…. Twitter is still experiencing difficulties and I []