Morning Dump: ?uestlove’s VIP tales

theashcan — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:52:24 +0000

The internet continues to find ways to be awesome this week with an entire website devoted to ?uestlove’s celebrity stories. His MANY celebrity stories. There’s the one about M.I.A. walking into a glass door, and the one about Will Smith’s disappearing mansion, oh and the one about Rosario Dawson getting uppity about an afro pick. (How many crushes just died?) Honestly, I could just choose one anecdote a week and let this thing feed my morning dumps for the next however many months. -jc
If we’re going to be regaled with celebrity tales, the next best thing after ?uestlove and Charlie Murphy has to be veteran ghostbuster Bill Murray. GQ snagged a rare interview with the gracefully aging comedian and revealed what we already know but enjoy reminding ourselves of: Bill Murray is a funny, funny man. Double Rainbow bonus for Murray’s claiming he did Garfield because he thought it was a Coen brothers movie. That’s going to be my excuse for everything from now on. Oh, I stole your winter tires? Dude, sorry, I totally thought I was in a Coen brothers movie! -sy
…. and continuing with the celebrity-obsessed tone of this dump, something that’s been on my list ever since I saw Knowing (awful!) and Bad Lieutenant: Port of call New Orleans (awesome!!) in the same week is trying to explain what the hell is up with Nic Cage. How do you go from Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation, to say, National Treasure? I mean, it’s just baffling. And Raising Arizona? Come on, amazing movie. The guys is a genius, and then he does Face Off. Anyways, now I don’t need to explain it because Dana Stevens at Slate has already done so. Much better than I ever could.-jkg
And since we’re talking about Bill Murray, why not a little dumpster diving? Like, literally diving in a dumpster on Letterman. When this guys comes out of the wood work, he has his game face on. The following, 10 minute interview isn’t bad either. -jkg

The Morning Dump: Talk Show Host (music), Hollywood heists, El Bulli’s Inedible Swan Song

theashcan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:38:49 +0000

?uestlove of The Roots, band for Late Nate with Jimmy Fallon, writes the piece someone should have thought to write but nobody did, and does it in Twitlonger form no less: a brief history of talk show entrance music and how it works in today’s music marketplace. No, it’s not as easy as him and The Roots just fooling around and playing whatever they want. And for amusement’s sake, last year ?uest walked Rolling Stone through his favourite back-handed song choices. My fav is “Barbara Ann” for John McCain, referencing the senator’s horrible “Bomb Iran, Bomb Bomb Iran” riff, because it made him cop a mea culpa of sorts on the spot.
Is the culture of personality to blame for the “Bling Ring” celebrity-targeting teen robbers? Or is it just bad parenting? Vanity Fair explores the story of a group of L.A.-area kids that allegedly filched $3-million worth of jewelery, clothes and cash from some of Hollywood’s most overexposed talent. Fascinating anecdotes: apparently they got access to Paris Hilton’s mansion via a key left under the doormat; Orlando Bloom had a door unlocked while shooting in Manhattan; one of the accused teens took a crap in Rachel Bilson’s toilet. Fascinating shit, and totally Hollyweird.
If you like food, you probably gasped last week when Spanish Chef Ferran Adria, regarded as the father of molecular gastronomy (think: edible foam), announced plans to take a two year sabbatical from 2012-2014. Adria’s El Bulli is almost universally considered the best dining establishment on the planet for good reason; the 47 year-old Chef runs El Bulli less like Denny’s and more like D.A.R.P.A., spending most of the year researching and developing new unheard of ways for people to enjoy food then unleashing his creativity on just 8,000 lucky epicureans a year. The Wall Street Journal nabbed an enlightening interview with the celebrated chef after his press conference, where he discusses the gig at Harvard he hopes will recharge him after a career of 15 hour days, blurring lines and pushing boundaries between food, science and art. I bet his class fills up fast too.

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Morning Dump: ?uestlove’s VIP tales

The Morning Dump: Talk Show Host (music), Hollywood heists, El Bulli’s Inedible Swan Song