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Opening this Friday at FIFTY24SF . . .
Jamba Juice and McDonald’s: A beef over smoothies…
August 3rd, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
The headline rings on Fast Company: “Jamba Juice to McDonald’s: You Selling Smoothies is Just as Crazy as Us Blending Cheeseburgers.” Ooh, fast food call out. What is really funny is that Jamba Juice thinks they are healthy, and we are pretty damn sure that fast food smoothies are not that healthy. It may SEEM healthy, but whatever yogurt, non-organic fruit and juice they use cannot be good on a day to day basis. Good for hangover yes, but not posed as “health food.” And McDonald’s…. well, why even bring it up.
So, okay, McDonald’s tried to push into Jamba Juice’s market share by starting to make smoothies… crappy, toxic smoothies. The SF-based Jamba reacted, “by launching a new drink called the Cheeseburger Chill, described in a press release as ‘beefy, smothered in cheese, loaded with your favorite condiments and blended to creamy perfection’.”
They even made a commercial.
So Jamba Juice calls out McDonald’s makes a fake commercial, and the battle is on. But really, its a battle of not really healthy versus really not healthy.
Read more here.
Tags: burger smoothie, cheeseburger, fake commericials, fake-commercial, food-smoothies, headline-rings, jamba, jamba juice, make-smoothies, mcdonalds, param-name, perfection, smoothies
Thom Yorke Tuesday: Radiohead “Pearly”
August 3rd, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
This is late 1990’s alternative progressive rock if there ever was. The great track that was supposed to be on Ok Computer, “Pearly” ended up coming out on one of the greatest EPs of the last 20 years, the Airbag: How Am I Driving? EP. And it opens with one of Radiohead’s greatest lyrics: “How’d you get your teeth so pearly?”
Awesome. You think Muse learned something from this song?
Tags: 1997. 1998, driving, Muse, object-class, param-name, radiohead, song, The Citrus Report, your-teeth
Madlib Mondays: Mos Def “Auditorium”from The Ecstatic
August 2nd, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
Madlib produced a few tracks on Mos Def’s fantastic The Ecstatic, and this one was one of our favorites, “The Auditorium,” featuring Slick Rick. Funny, before we ever knew this was officially a Madlib produced track, we thought Mos Def was biting a little too hard on the Beat Konducta’s style, but we were soon put in our place. Enjoy Madlib Mondays.
Tags: beat, few-tracks, headlines, little-too, param-name, produced-track, single, slick rick, the ecstatic
We love the new Arcade Fire song, “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
August 1st, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
Well, any worries that the Arcade Fire were not going to be great this time around can go away. This new track “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” is epic and feels new for the band. Looks like they have done it again. . .
Tags: album, arcade, arcade fire, art, citrus report, embed-src, feels-new, headlines, new album, new single, new track, param-name, the suburbs, time
Sunday Shuffle: Wilco “Impossible Germany”
August 1st, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
We are still on the Wilco tip, and we go to the only song we have liked from the band in the last 5 years, the classy, mature “Impossible Germany” from the 2007 album, Sky Blue Sky. We have always loved the Television ode in the solos at the end. Enjoy.
Tags: citrus report, embed-type, from-the-2007, headlines, News, param-name, television, wilco
Give us Elvis singing “You Were Always On My Mind” and pin-up girls, and you got a video
July 30th, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
This video was shot by Bell Soto for V Magazine featuring Hillary Rhoda, Tori Praever, Ana Beatriz, Candice, Valerie Bullen, Bette and Kim Noorda, and it has Elvis singing. And its called “Pin-Up Girls.” Nothing much really going on but good video footage and Elvis.
PIN UP GIRLS from Bell Soto on Vimeo.
Tags: girls, headlines, hillary, hillary rhoda, param-name, praever, valerie, valerie bullen, video
First and Final Friday: Wilco “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”
July 30th, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot had everything. Story, heartbreak, drama, nostalgia, experimentation, tradition, and Americana, all wrapped into one. What probably was the best American album in the first decade of the 21st Century (finished in 2001, released in 2002), it felt like it came from a lonely studio at the end of the world in 2050, folk written with just a hum of electronic and sonic additions. It was a clean mess. Jeff Tweedy had migraines, you could feel them in each song, and his lyrics, if just for one album, were the poems he had always wanted to write. Drunk barroom conversation, kameras, Kiss covers, and reservations.. It starts with “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” and ends with “Reservations.” Enjoy.
Tags: folk-written, hotel, jeff tweedy, like-it-came, lonely-studio, lyrics, object-class, param-name, poems
Hide yo’ wife, and hide yo’ husbin, cuz they rapin’ everybody out here!
July 29th, 2010
Posted from The Citrus Report
This video is what America means to me. If you don’t have the attention span to watch a two minute video (lets face it, who does anymore?) just fast forward to the 1 minute mark when Antoine takes over and starts talking about what happened after he found somebody in his sisters room trying to rape her. Usually attempted rape isn’t that funny of a subject, but man, get this guy a job writing for SNL, because he took a black-listed comedic subject and made internet gold out of it.
Tags: antoine, art, attempted-rape, clip, dodson, ghetto, huntsville, job-writing, minute-mark, param-name, room-trying
Alex Pardee at Comic Con 2010
July 29th, 2010
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Alex Pardee gives us a full update on his blog about Comic Con and his art/design work on the movie Sucker Punch but here are some of his pics from the event.
Signing some Sucker Punch posters at the Zerofriends Booth.
Shirt-hugs.
From left to right: Jaime Chung, Emily Browning, Me, Vanessa Hudgens, Carla Gugino, Jena Malone & Zack Snyder.
and the Sucker Punch Trailer
