The trailer for Where the Wild Things Are has been released, and it looks terrific. With its refreshingly non-CGI effects and its inspired use of “Wake Up” by Arcade Fire, the preview dazzles the eyes and the ears alike.
The movie, directed by the brilliant Spike Jonze from a script he co-wrote with the brilliant David Eggers — which was of course adapted from the immortal children’s story by the brilliant Maurice Sendak — features a score composed by the brilliant Karen O, and comes out on October 16.
Wondering when you’ll be able to look at your investments again? The answer may actually be in the stars—the pop stars, that is.
That’s the theory of Philip Maymin, assistant professor of finance and risk engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Maymin looked at more than 5,000 hit songs from a half-century of Billboard charts, measured them against the stock market, and found that the beat of popular music has an eerie connection to the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
When Wall Street is jumpy, he discovered, we prefer music with a consistent tempo…Conversely, in a calm market, music charts are populated by songs with more unpredictable beats–tempos that slow down or gain speed, or even veer from the 4/4 rhythm that typifies most pop music.
The legendary artistes of Sum 41 have a new fecal offering for the world, titled All the Good Shit. The best-of album contains fourteen tracks, compiling all of the Hot Topic punks’ hits to date, plus thirteen other songs.
But before you pre-order the album or start camping outside your local mall to pay 18 bucks for it, we at O&B have figured out a way for you to get the album for free. And, get this, it’s totally legal (we think).
