Wiz Khalifa’s ‘Rolling Papers’: Playground hip-hop mixes with synth jams

Thanks to his 2010 time capsule hit “Black and Yellow,” 23 year-old Wiz Khalifa was a star long before “ Rolling Papers ,” his new major label debut, was released. Hook-saturated and amiable, “Papers” takes the hip-pop trend advanced by artists such as B.o.B. and runs with it; this is a hip-hop album for people who didn’t think they liked hip-hop albums.

Kelly Lin "flash marriage" married an American businessman

现年37岁的女星林熙蕾昨天在马尔代夫嫁年长两岁的美籍商人杨晨。尽管她一路保密到家，台湾媒体还是接获“线报”，25日尾随她的家人同班机抵达马尔代夫，26日直击她与准老公杨晨在碧海蓝天下拍摄浪漫婚纱照。
熙蕾与在洛杉矶经营服装事业的男友杨晨，之前爆出即将完婚，天蝎座的她始终保持神秘不露口风，结果婚礼日期既不是外传的3月20日，地点也并非菲律 宾长滩岛，而是邀请30位至亲友人从洛杉矶、台北、香港、上海等地千里迢迢飞抵马尔代夫见证恋情开花结果，参加昨天举行的婚礼。
男方
规规矩矩地自我介绍
这两天，马尔代夫艳阳高照，高温超过摄氏30度。记者在其下榻的饭店，看到即将当新娘子的林熙蕾和爸爸及友人一派悠闲，在海边遮阳亭欣赏海景，准新 郎杨晨则在旁张罗亲友饮料，跑得满头大汗，后来干脆上衣一脱，直接跳进泳池从池畔吧台拿饮料，林熙蕾在旁笑称：“他真的好怕热。”几位林家亲友似乎是第一 次见到新郎，见面恭喜外，还问新郎目前从事行业。他规矩地自我介绍：“我是Chris Young，中文名叫杨晨，早晨的晨。我在美国做成人衣服，有一个小品牌。”
女方
穿礼服高雅性感
林熙蕾与未婚夫享受完阳光后回房，直至傍晚才现身，林熙蕾换上一袭象牙白色长礼服，到海边拍摄婚纱照，小两口还搭着小船取景，洋溢出爱之船的浪漫气息。
林熙蕾穿低胸礼服高雅性感，新郎杨晨虽穿休闲风格服装，但在亲友团众目睽睽下摆Pose则显得有点紧张，加上连岳父都来盯场，林熙蕾则向父亲发娇嗔说：“爸，你不要在旁边看，他会紧张啦。”
第二款大红露肩礼服更让林熙蕾显得艳光四射，杨晨则换上全白色度假风衬衫、长裤，特别的是，两人竟都打赤脚上阵出镜，流露出随兴的一面。

Via http://news.163.com/11/0329/16/70B1CLGO00014AED.html

Sucker Punch: A video game more than an action movie

With “Sucker Punch,’’ Zack Snyder makes his bid for the big time. What, the successes of “300’’ and “Watchmen’’ weren’t enough? Not if he wants to be a showman-auteur in a league with Baz Luhrmann, Christopher Nolan, or Quentin Tarantino. No such luck, Zack, but thanks for trying. The new movie is Snyder’s first original script — cowritten with Steve Shibuya — and it’s a surprisingly joyless mash-up of every bit of fanboy flotsam floating around in its maker’s cranium. It begins with the young, lissome Babydoll (Emily Browning) framed for the murder of her sister and committed to the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane (that’s what the sign says) by her pervert stepfather (Gerard Plunkett). This experience proves so traumatic that the heroine flees to the dank MTV whorehouse in her imagination, where the asylum inmates become a hardy sisterhood looking to escape, Dr. Gorski (Carla Gugino) becomes the madame, and the evil orderly Blue (Oscar Isaac) serves as sadistic pimp. When things get too stressful there, Babydoll plunges into a deeper level of fantasy-action set pieces involving medieval Japan, WWI trench warfare, WWII bomber runs, and outer space. That’s right: “Sucker Punch’’ is “Inception’’ for dummies. But what hasn’t Snyder poured into this stew? The over-directed action scenes snap together “Sailor Moon,’’ “Sin City,’’ and “Kill Bill’’ like pieces of Lego. The most interesting visual idea is the giant two-legged tank with a happy bunny face, but if you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the bit. Actually, this is the rare movie that doesn’t advance on its poster. As with “300,’’ “Sucker Punch’’ resembles a ripsnorting video game or the longest Super Bowl commercial ever made more than it does a movie. The soundtrack is jammed with “Moulin Rouge’’-style modern rawk takes on the Stooges, Roxy Music, Queen, and Björk, and the cinematography drains the movie of all colors except a bilious metallic sheen. For all its noise and supersonic style, “Sucker Punch’’ is a drab drag. Somewhere in here is a genuinely subversive girls-in-prison movie, and the talented cast certainly seems game: Abbie Cornish as Sweet Pea, Jena Malone as Rocket, Vanessa Hudgens escaping Planet Disney as Blondie, Jamie Chung as Amber. They’re power babes looking for a socket to plug into. Instead Snyder dolls them up in Victoria’s Secret cast-offs, hands them ginormous guns, and forgets to let them have any fun. With all the trash culture he has absorbed, you’d think someone would have sat the director down with Russ Meyer’s “Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill!’’ Now, those women knew how to sucker punch. Via

“CK恋”闪电OK(图)

　　电眼美女林熙蕾（kelly lin）要在马尔代夫出嫁！尽管她一路保密到家，但台湾媒体接获线报，26日直击她与准老公杨晨(Chris Young)在马尔代夫碧海蓝天下拍摄浪漫婚纱照，此时她和前男友朱孝天分手其实刚过半年。

　　林熙蕾与在洛杉矶经营服装事业的男友杨晨，邀请30位至亲友人从洛杉矶、台北、香港、上海等地千里迢迢飞抵马尔代夫见证“CK恋”开花结果，参加昨天举行的婚礼。

　　新郎背景揭秘

　　媒体从亲友团打听，婚礼昨日在有着“地球上最后天堂”美誉的马尔代夫举行。

　　真命天子的背景更令人好奇，有传杨晨和吴大维外形相似，媒体目击杨晨身高约183厘米，外形高壮，长相并不像吴大维，较神似混血男星王敏德，大眼挺鼻的五官与蕾蕾颇有夫妻脸。

　 　他在美国成长，但中文说得相当流利，带有一点上海腔。他在8年前在朋友介绍下和蕾蕾有一面之缘，去年10月同一位朋友再度介绍两人见面，当时蕾蕾刚拍完 《夺命心跳》，身心陷入低潮返美休养，杨晨殷勤照顾她，蕾蕾也对他有一见如故的感觉，两人交往半年，火速订终身，情海沉浮多年的蕾蕾终于点头下嫁成为杨太 太。

　　杨晨父母早年就从上海移民美国，白手起家经营服装业，他自己也自创服饰品牌“Smartthreads”，主要是制作大学校系服装与年轻休闲服饰，他服装事业做得很成功，并将公司盈余的50%都捐作慈善公益。

　　听杨家亲友闲聊时提到，Chris并非外传富二代，父母当年以学生身份赴美，家境不好，杨晨是独子，都睡在客厅，从小被家人笑称“厅长”。

　　朱孝天叹“很冷”

　 　旧爱结婚了，新郎不是他的朱孝天前天在微博吐心声：“创作中，很冷……”自失恋后，朱孝天一直用工作麻醉自己。朱孝天的妹妹本月5日结婚，他翌日感慨留 言：“朱老妹昨天成亲了，朱老爹在天之灵一定很欣慰，而朱老哥则是有点惆怅。”日前有网友回复指发觉朱孝天言语间流露出恨结婚，并留言表示可以介绍大学艺 术系靓女相识，朱孝天则回应：“嗯，感谢你的好意，有需要的话我会联系你的。”

　　此外，新娘好友舒淇获邀出席婚礼，她昨日凌晨才到，舒淇祝福说：“希望她幸福，还是可以当一辈子的好姊妹啊。”问到舒淇送什么礼物？她说：“我很土的，买了龙凤金镯，给她配婚纱应该蛮土的，但黄金保值，金光闪闪，可以有好的运气，最重要的是赶快生两个小孩给我玩啦。”

　　林熙蕾情史丰富

　　老公杨晨 今年初，林熙蕾出席活动时就公开表示与朱孝天没有复合，同时甜蜜地透露已有一个欣赏对象。不足两个月，林熙蕾便传出婚讯，踏上“闪婚”之路。

　　朱孝天 31的岁朱孝天和36岁的林熙蕾相恋5年，一度传出宴客结婚，天蕾恋“因了解而分离”。

　　吴大维 吴大维对于这位曾与自己有两年情爱的女星“供认不讳”，他说：“是啊，到现在我们还是很好的。”

　　王晶 王晶是将林熙蕾带进影视圈的一个重要人物，她是继邱淑贞淡出影坛之后，王晶力捧的接班人。

　　林建岳 2000年，盛传林熙蕾秘密怀了香港富商林建岳的骨肉，在林熙蕾怀孕及入住林建岳名下豪宅的消息在台湾传得沸沸扬扬的同时，林建岳女友Monica怀有八个月身孕照片曝光，三角关系扑朔迷离。

　　龙长生 林熙蕾2004年与龙长生在酒店开房被媒体逮了个正着，消息一出，身价超过11亿元人民币的男主角龙长生立即成了大家关注的焦点。

　　马维辰 台湾元大集团太子爷的马维辰，有指其身家约人民币40亿元。于数年前曾与林熙蕾闹绯闻，传由于家庭压力，恋情告终。

　　台湾男模阿丹 林熙蕾与马维辰恋情告终后，林熙蕾被指火速搭上比她年轻5岁的台湾男模阿丹(顾瀚昀)，两人更曾飞往巴厘岛旅行。 （李易）

　　作者：李易

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Kelly Lin and Chris Young to hold wedding in Maldives

Taiwan actress Kelly Lin and businessman Chris Young will hold a wedding ceremony on Monday, March 28, 2011 in the Maldives, Sina.com.cn reports.

The two were spotted on Saturday shooting wedding photos in the Maldives.Lin and Young have invited 30 close friends and relatives from Los Angles, Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai to attend the ceremony, the report said.

Young, who runs a clothing business in Los Angles, is two years older than Lin. They began a relationship last October.

www.china.org.cn 

Read more: http://www.maldivestourismupdate.com/2011/03/kelly-lin-and-chris-young-to-hold.html#ixzz1HyaBzMNG

Lenovo Launches LePad Tablet in China

Chinese PC maker Lenovo said it launched its first tablet computer, the LePad, in China on Monday, marking the company's entrance into one of the hottest emerging areas of the gadget sector.
Lenovo said the LePad will go on sale across China in its company stores as well as electronics retail chains, with online retail outlets already taking orders for the device.
The tablet has a 10.1-inch screen and a 1.3Ghz processor and uses Google's Android 2.2 OS. Lenovo has said the tablet will also go on sale worldwide in June, although the company has not said in what specific markets.
The LePad comes in four configurations. The company has priced the Wi-Fi only version with 16GB and 32GB of memory at 3,499 yuan (US$534) and 3,999 yuan, respectively. A 3G version with Wi-Fi with 16GB of memory will be priced at 4,599 yuan, with the 32GB version priced at 5,299 yuan.
Lenovo has dominated the Chinese market, while at the same time growing to become the world's fourth-largest PC maker. But the company is extending its reach into mobile devices and has begun developing tablets and smartphones.
Tablet shipments worldwide are projected to reach 54.8 million units in 2011, an increase of 181 percent from the previous year, according to research firm Gartner.


Via http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110328/tc_pcworld/lenovolauncheslepadtabletinchina_1

Wolkenreise - Deepak Sharma & Dieter Krause (Hidden Recordings)

i'm gunna put more effort into listening promos from people whose name doesn't immediately mean anything to me. it's a risky business, but one of the joys of electronic music is hearing something from an unknown then scurrying off to unearth more. one such catalyst has been this ep from us producer deepak sharma on us label hidden recordings.  a quick google reveals the man to have once booked craig richards & lee burridge as tyrant - one of my enduring favourites - to play at his brooklyn night a few years ago, and anyone who does that is alright by me, even before they soothe your mind and soul with their dragging deep house.

the track he offers here (alongside dieter krause) is built on a raw, unhurried kick. all important contrast comes from  the dry, echoing claps (which cut gorgeously through the bass clouds like, well, thunder) at unexpected intervals; a distant, longing and muted organ line (i think) and some heavy hearted synths.  it's melancholic but optimistic, and has a certain classiness to it which i really dig.

the first reinterpretation operates on a less emotionally intense, but just as deep, plain than the original. throughout, remixer rene breitbarth is content to go at his own speed, with no curveballs, tempo shifts or huge drops to grab at your attention along the way. he doesn't really want it, what he wants is for you to get lost in the occult and simmering synths which dissipate over the horizon, or the gentle churn of woody clacks which keep you moving, but somehow moving nowhere. this track could go on forever and you wouldn't really mind, which is skilful stuff.

that dj qu influences seem to hang heavy in the air of 'wolkenreise' is only confirmed when he turns up to remix it.   it's a sometimes urgent, sometimes sparse cut which has an intimidating backdrop of faintly shimmering bells fading in and out all the way through. squelchy glitches, indecipherable vocal snippets and alien sounds randomly break through to suggest something nasty lurks behind it, but listening in to find out what is as enjoyable as anything. as well as those, there is also a deep disco-fried effort from gustavo lamas, a reverb heavy, analogue sounding deconstruction by karraskilla and a shiny sci-fi excursion from john tejada, but none sound better than the previous three.  hidden recordings, i'm coming looking for you...

Read my RA review of 'Wolkenreise' here.

Via http://machinesarefunky.blogspot.com/2011/02/wolkenreise-deepak-sharma-dieter-krause.html

LePad vies for tablet market share in China

Chances are it won’t be cheap as the $35 iPad from India, but man, Lenovo’s LePad is so shamelessly wannabe that I kinda wanna try it.  I mean, sounds so French and fancy, no?  LePad, oui oui!


The tablet comes out this week in China…I wonder if people will be pouncing on the LePad as they have for the iPad.  Apparently, Lenovo is planning to munch up over 30 percent of China’s tablet market over the next couple of years.
Even though the name reminds me of some kind of European Maxi Pad, I have to admit that I like the fact that the LePad will be powered by Google’s Android software.
Watch out, iPad…here comes LePad!

the entry about zara's fall line 2010

look it, peeps! this is the new collection for zara fall/winter 2010.

in this picture, this is some clothing pieces obviously fixated on the younger men who are able to go out wearing so many garments on their bodies: there's drapes on the waist, on the head, on the neck… basically it's a no-brainer for asphyxiation, and sometimes it looks a little like a shop-window mannequin.


it seems the supreme elegance implies the use of ties or bow ties with vests. that is a great thing for those men who like to wear in a formal way even if they attend an informal event.




this time, the vintage aesthetic is represented by a pilot look that reminds us of the first years of the aviation. it includes quilted vests and high boots.



and finally, the urban look includes denim jeans, t-shirts, jackets covered with fur (on the neck), and long variegated jackets made of wool.

and whatever happened to singapore's version of zara? i wonder why, i wonder why.