The SXSW Film Conference & Festival is pleased to announce the call for entries for its 5th annual SXSWclick Festival. SXSWclick is a summertime, digital shorts event hosted at: http://sxswclick.com. Winners in each of the five categories will automatically be invited to screen at the next SXSW Film Festival, scheduled for March 13-21, 2009 in Austin, TX.

The call for entries has started, and the final submission deadline is June 13, 2008. Submissions can be entered here: http://sxswclick.com/enter/ and projects cannot exceed 10 minutes in length. Fifteen finalists will be announced in five categories on June 24, with the winners announced on July 15. There will be audience votes and jury prizes. Some of the jurors already confirmed, include: actor Jeffrey Tambor, comedians Eugene Mirman and Doug Benson, filmmakers Ron Mann, Anish Savjani, Mary Sweeney, and many more. Companies that have already donated prizes for the winners, include: Productiontrax.com, Gear Software, Mariner Software, Eye Scream Factory, and Movie Outline Software.

Original post by melissa

Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Film News.
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Lost: Def Leppard’s dignity (but I still love them and consider Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story the best band biopic EVER!).

Found: Roger Waters’ pig. In tatters. In a driveway. In La Quinta. Video here.

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Original post by LP

Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Linda Park, Latest News.
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Roger Waters’ pig has gone missing.

But apparently the sex tape of Jimi Hendrix has been found.

Meanwhile, since we’re in the 60s, Yes is going on tour.

photo by Maciej Lewandowski via Creative Commons

Original post by LP

Posted: April 29th, 2008 under Linda Park, Latest News.
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Okay, we all knew the cel phone video of Prince doing “Creep” video would show up on YouTube at some point so here it is (courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan).

Tom said the MMJ set went okay but that he was told his ass looked huge on the giant monitors. How I wish I’d been there to see that. And David Hasselhoff (and his black eye). Tom gets to have all the fun!

I’ve been to Coachella once and it was grand (Underworld! The Chemical Brothers!). However, I confess that I was not entirely sober. Now that I no longer imbibe, I have to say that standing in 103 degree heat in the desert sounds rather like hell on earth.

That said, I got super wistful when I started reading about…

The National

and The Verve

Also, Tom told me that Portishead was amazing.

I hope you had a smashing time out there in Indio (if you went) and if not, now we can pretend we were there.

I actually will be sweating it out at Bonnaroo so I’ll have first hand accounts of how I can’t stand the heat (but stole Kirk Hammett’s fork. Again!)

Email your tales of Coachella to musicblog@sxsw.com.

It’s really early on Monday morning. Why am I awake?! lp

Original post by LP

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Linda Park, Latest News.
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Prince just covered Radiohead’s “Creep.”

I’m not quite sure what to think about this. In the meantime, since there’s no crappy cel phone YouTube videos of this momentous occasion online yet, please enjoy this completely freaking weird Kermit the Frog cover (which you’ve probably already seen because I’m always late about stuff).

It’s 3.30 am EDT so you heard it here first! Maybe!

Email your Coachella moments to musicblog@sxsw.com. Tell me what I’m missing besides 107 degree heat. And Sheila E. And David Hasselhoff.

Nighties, lp

Original post by LP

Posted: April 27th, 2008 under Linda Park, Latest News.
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Version Excursions

Original post by Austin Chronicle Music

Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Santogold

Original post by Austin Chronicle Music

Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Mockingbird

Original post by Austin Chronicle Music

Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Accelerate

Original post by Austin Chronicle Music

Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Attack and Release

Original post by Austin Chronicle Music

Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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