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Johanan Sen

Content guy and film critic from Selangor, Malaysia with a soft-spot for celeb gossip, tech buzz and politicians who say the darndest things.

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First glimpse of Stallone in ‘Bullet to the Head’ Eh eh, pakcik, tolonglah pakai shirt! Sly Stallone loses his top in a new vehicle due out this coming April hoping to prove The Expendables wasn’t just a one off. The film is an adaptation of the graphic novel with the same name. Stallone plays a New Orleans hitman who teams up with a New York City cop to take down the men who killed their respective partners. Bored already! High-res

First glimpse of Stallone in ‘Bullet to the Head’

Eh eh, pakcik, tolonglah pakai shirt!

Sly Stallone loses his top in a new vehicle due out this coming April hoping to prove The Expendables wasn’t just a one off.

The film is an adaptation of the graphic novel with the same name. Stallone plays a New Orleans hitman who teams up with a New York City cop to take down the men who killed their respective partners.

Bored already!

Stan Lee to create Indian superhero, Yoko Ono to conquer Delhi The legendary comic-book writer is working with a Bangalore-based design studio to create an Indian handsome yet geeky superhero. Lee intends to launch Chakra - The Invincible as a a series of downloadable comics in April of 2012. It will draw from classic Indian mythology. [Read more] In other New-Yorkers-conquering-India news, Yoko Ono is bringing her avant-garde art show to New Delhi. The Wall Street Journal puts India on notice, telling New Delhi’s art lovers and media to beware. [Read more] High-res

Stan Lee to create Indian superhero, Yoko Ono to conquer Delhi

The legendary comic-book writer is working with a Bangalore-based design studio to create an Indian handsome yet geeky superhero. Lee intends to launch Chakra - The Invincible as a a series of downloadable comics in April of 2012. It will draw from classic Indian mythology. [Read more]

In other New-Yorkers-conquering-India news, Yoko Ono is bringing her avant-garde art show to New Delhi. The Wall Street Journal puts India on notice, telling New Delhi’s art lovers and media to beware. [Read more]

❏ Peter Weller joins cast of ‘Star Trek 2’ » Specifics of Weller’s role are under wraps. His selection came on the heels of Abrams choosing Alice Eve as a character that’s believed to be new. Benicio del Toro is Abrams’ choice to play the villain, as Variety first reported Nov. 4. Most of the cast from the previous installment is returning, including Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. High-res

❏ Peter Weller joins cast of ‘Star Trek 2’ »

Specifics of Weller’s role are under wraps. His selection came on the heels of Abrams choosing Alice Eve as a character that’s believed to be new.

Benicio del Toro is Abrams’ choice to play the villain, as Variety first reported Nov. 4. Most of the cast from the previous installment is returning, including Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto.

Mariah Carey seduces minor

It has been years since anything has creeped me out quite as much as the sight of a 17-year-old Justin Bieber checking out a 41-year-old Mariah Carey (mother-of-two). 

I honestly think he did this duet to drive down Mariah Yeater’s SEO rankings. 

BTW: Bieber’s mom? 35 years old. Patricia Lynn Mallette. Think about that as you watch Mariah blow him kisses and flash him her rear end. 

Eepy-cray!

Elvis Costello: Please don’t buy my album The singer-songwriter has urged fans not to buy his latest boxed-set, The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook, because it’s priced at over US$260 (or £212.90). In a post entitled Let’s make things sparkling clear, on his official site, he writes: All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless so we are taking the following unusual step. If you want to buy something special for your loved one at this time of seasonal giving, we suggest, “Ambassador Of Jazz” - a cute little imitation suitcase containing ten re-mastered albums by one of the most beautiful and loving revolutionaries who ever lived – Louis Armstrong. The box should be available for under one hundred and fifty American dollars and includes a number of other tricks and treats. Frankly the music is vastly superior. While I actually do agree with Mr. Costello on that last line, it “frankly” doesn’t diminish my opinion of him in the slightest. And the fact that he posted it? Buys him my undying affection!  For some the ethics of this might seem questionable: To have a music label support and invest in you only to then cut your nose to spite their sales. There is, though, a greater concern artists like Costello have (and are right to have). The fear of appearing to have to sold out. One could — heck, I am — argue(ing) that having a boxed-set hit the market at that price point would diminish the credibility and rapport Costello has with his fans.  I don’t think all artists make the best business decisions. For instance, I don’t think Justin Bieber should be allowed to price his next CD. But for a label not to listen, as the above post suggests, to an artist as established and experienced as Costello on matters of his product, is sheer folly. He knows his market. He has sung for them, met many of them, found a way to appeal to them for 34 years.  To look past a suggestion or sidenote? Sure. To go ahead despite an emphatic objection? You get what you deserve! To Mr. Costello I suggest, as a next step, performing excerpts from all of the 39 tracks in this box set on YouTube in a series of medleys uploaded over the course of the Holiday season.  If you do happen to use that idea, sir, I beg you say my name on the first video. It’s: Johanan Sen (pronounced Joe-hay-nen Sen). High-res

Elvis Costello: Please don’t buy my album

The singer-songwriter has urged fans not to buy his latest boxed-set, The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook, because it’s priced at over US$260 (or £212.90).

In a post entitled Let’s make things sparkling clear, on his official site, he writes:

All our attempts to have this number revised have been fruitless so we are taking the following unusual step.

If you want to buy something special for your loved one at this time of seasonal giving, we suggest, “Ambassador Of Jazz” - a cute little imitation suitcase containing ten re-mastered albums by one of the most beautiful and loving revolutionaries who ever lived – Louis Armstrong.

The box should be available for under one hundred and fifty American dollars and includes a number of other tricks and treats.

Frankly the music is vastly superior.

While I actually do agree with Mr. Costello on that last line, it “frankly” doesn’t diminish my opinion of him in the slightest. And the fact that he posted it? Buys him my undying affection! 

For some the ethics of this might seem questionable: To have a music label support and invest in you only to then cut your nose to spite their sales.

There is, though, a greater concern artists like Costello have (and are right to have). The fear of appearing to have to sold out.

One could — heck, I am — argue(ing) that having a boxed-set hit the market at that price point would diminish the credibility and rapport Costello has with his fans. 

I don’t think all artists make the best business decisions. For instance, I don’t think Justin Bieber should be allowed to price his next CD.

But for a label not to listen, as the above post suggests, to an artist as established and experienced as Costello on matters of his product, is sheer folly. He knows his market. He has sung for them, met many of them, found a way to appeal to them for 34 years. 

To look past a suggestion or sidenote? Sure. To go ahead despite an emphatic objection? You get what you deserve! 

To Mr. Costello I suggest, as a next step, performing excerpts from all of the 39 tracks in this box set on YouTube in a series of medleys uploaded over the course of the Holiday season. 

If you do happen to use that idea, sir, I beg you say my name on the first video. It’s: Johanan Sen (pronounced Joe-hay-nen Sen).

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