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Eight Items or Less: Kvetching on the Hotel Chelsea Blog, Making Progress on Guns N' Roses Album and Watching Cloverfield on the TV
By Gary Pini

1. When the Hotel Chelsea's management changed hands recently, the hotel's blog started complaining about the takeover and the transformation to a dreaded "boutique hotel." Now they're even going after the planned, but unrelated, Atlantic City Chelsea: "I know hipsters have a reputation as airheads, but are any of them so stupid that they are going to confuse that piece of crap with the Chelsea Hotel? Maybe we can just stomp some chewing gum into their carpet or rub a wad in poster boy Paul Sevigny's hair."
2. Listen to Feist and the Constantine's cover version of the Kenny Rogers/Dolly Parton/Bee Gees hit "Islands in the Stream" here.
3. Mega-manager Irving Azoff (Eagles, Neil Diamond, Van Halen etc.) recently started working with Guns N' Roses and may have finally made some headway for the release of Chinese Democracy.
4. According to Business Week, popular music website Pitchfork grosses around $5 million a year in ad revenue.
5. The Fifth Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair takes place on Saturday, April 26. Running from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb, the free event features Abiodun (Last Poets), Dragons of Zynth, Stephanie Rooker and lots more.
6. The producer of Cloverfield tells the BBC that the film is better watched at home than in a theater. "The movie is like a videotape. It lives on your TV. In many ways it is supposed to be viewed on a monitor." So, can we have our money back?















Comments
I have watched Cloverfield several times at work .....Im still trying to figure out why I would care if any of those people lived or die..? That to me is a important ingredient in any film.Someone needs to alert J.J.Abrahs that Blair Witch project worked this style( and much more affective )several years before...
Posted at 5:10 p.m. ET on Apr 22, 2008 by randy focazio
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