A Latin Groove - Raving Playlist

White geeks from Ohio can have some ritmo tambien - you better believe it. To prove our point we're sharing our one and only (so far) Latin music playlist on Spotify. If you've never heard Mana, Carlos Vives or Juanes before you're in a for a treat. These guys rock and who cares if you can't understand the lyrics, it never stopped you before, right? There's other interesting Latin music mixed in for fun as well. Mi casa es su casa, disfruta... Juanes...

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A Raving Pitch - Attack of the Right Brain

Today we're going to introduce the Raving Pitch. What is a Raving Pitch you ask; it is our attempt to sell a really great film or television idea to Hollywood, Bollywood or Vancouver (we're not picky). Every Raving Pitch consists of the following elements: A catchy movie title Dramatic synopsis Genre designation/s Recommended cast A catchy slogan or line that can be used on the poster art One liners for the script A mash-up description (e.g....

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Wildfire - A Raving Playlist

We got the inspiration for this playlist several years ago when we were out in Arizona and there was not one but multiple wildfires in the mountains surrounding us. As we watched the helicopters dropping water and fire retardant on the flames we began building our playlist on Napster. Napster has since come and gone and we have updated the list several times to include drought-related themes (from last Summer) and now the list is on Spotify here....

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Flight Crash Lands

We went out to the movies last night and witnessed a horrific disaster - there was an uncontrollable dive - then it burst into flames and crashed into the ground. Actually, we're not talking about the plane crash scene - we're talking about the whole movie. "Flight" has to be one of the worst films this season. This is the worst work Robert Zemeckis has done since "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Roger Rabbit probably did a better job than Denzel in...

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10 Reasons JJ Abrams Should never direct a Star Wars Movie

There are rumors flying about Hollywood this week that Lost creator, JJ Abrams may be hired to direct one or more of the new Star Wars episodes under Disney supervision. We're very concerned about this; in fact we're a bit horrified. JJ Abrams, the force is not with you We don't think JJ Abrams should ever direct a Star Wars film and here's why: # 1 Reason Why JJ Abrams should never direct a Star Wars movie: Because he created and directed Lost,...

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Top 10 Ways to get the Plague - The Tudors

In the Showtime series, The Tudors, one of the things we learn early on is that the plague is an ever present part of Medieval Life. In fact King Henry VIII's son and a close friend both die from what is known as the Sweating Sickness (see the picture below). A victim in the advance stages of sweating sickness While doing diligent research on The Tudors for our reviews we came across some little known but potentially valuable medical advice from...

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