Paw Prints Newsblog

by Lauren Brown

As if this teenage sensation wasn’t doing enough, she has decided to make a rap video! Rapper T-Pain joined forces with Taylor Swift to create a comical rap song called “Thug Story.” The jokes Swift makes about herself create an innocent and silly mood about the song which proves to be extremely entertaining. This “singer turned rapper” explains her “thug life” and the inexperience she possesses in the “gangster” world. Although she doesn’t have a gun, she’s never been in a club, and she still lives with her parents, as mentioned in the song, she is still a “hardcore gangster.” This engaging video fuels my surprise about what this teen will do next. If any country singer can create a rap video and be interesting, I’m not shocked Taylor Swift was the one to do it. Check out the video and watch the surprise ending!

by Rachel Caird

You may think this is a crazy science fiction movie, like a more realistic version of Mars Attacks; well, that’s not the case at all. This film is based on real happenings, caught on tape, and, believe what you may, this movie makes you think. It made me think about the theories on 2012 and how many people believe that “intruders” (the word used to describe aliens in the movie) will come and destroy us. This movie links the Sumerian language to that of the intruders’ tongue, which is virtually the same language. Now, I’m not trying to sound insane or gullible, but when it’s real tapes and people’s first hand accounts of what happened, it is a lot more believable.

So, my review on this movie is a big thumbs up; it was put together very well and definitely leaves an impact on you–absolutely not a waste of money like many movie tickets are.

by Aubrey Walford

Tis the season to be with family, but in the movie 4 Christmases, Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and Brad (Vince Vaughn) would rather spend their holidays far, far away from their families. Every Christmas, the unmarried couple leaves their hometown of San Fransisco to spend their holiday in some place tropical. But for this Christmas, the fog has rolled in and Kate and Brad are forced to spend Christmas with their families. Because both of their parents are divorced,  they have four celebrations, when originally they didn’t want to go to one.
This is an extremely hysterical movie that reminds its characters along with its viewers of the importance of family, especially around the holidays. So this holiday season, get your family to gether and watch 4 Christmases.

The second movie is out in theaters, ladies and gentlemen! For all you Twilight fans, here’s a review. For all you Team-Edward’s, he’s back again with his death-white skin and handsome features. But for all you Team-Jacob’s, he’s back from the first movie, with a total new look of a taller, more built body. But enough about the leading male roles. The story begins where the last one left off, except it’s Bella’s birthday, and the story picks up right when she gets a bloody paper-cut when opening a present in a household full of vampires. With her “delicious” blood’s smell in the air, the plot thickens. Edward realizes how much danger he’s putting Bella in by having her so intimately connected with a family of blood-suckers such as the Cullens. He and his family decide to leave Forks, Washington, in the hopes that Bella can have a better life without her true love.
After months of depression and solitude, Bella finds herself in search of fun and happiness, especially with her worried father wanting to send her to live with her mother in Jacksonville, Florida. She decides to chance an outing with a disconnected friend from her high school, even though she stopped talking to that group of friends right when her depressed state of mind began. When her and her chatty friend Jessica go to Port Angeles, a group of bikers nearby began cat-calling to them. Even though they should probably walk away, Bella stares at them for a long time, thinking about the time Edward saved her from being attacked by a group of guys in the first movie. And as she begins to walk down memory lane, a sort of aura of Edward appears in front of her, and it tells her to walk away. But against what her mind has decided would be his wishes, she walks up to the bikers, talks to one of them, and gets on the bike. With the adrenaline rush of zooming off on the back of some strange guy’s bike, she keeps seeing Edward, who keeps telling her to stop. She then decides that she needs an adrenaline rush to see Edward. Even if it’s not really him, she’ll do anything to retain any piece of his love in her mind.
With this new discovery, Bella decides to resourcefully uses her friend Jacob’s mechanical skills to help her rebuild two old motorcycles she saved from the junkyard. And by spending so much time with Jacob working on the bikes, she forms a friendly attachment to him because his presence and friendship starts to fill the empty whole in her chest where her heart used to be when she was with Edward.
The story continues, but it leaves out tons of information about Jacob’s story-line and how his life is affected by the old Quillette legends that seemingly are coming true. Bella is in danger again with the return of Victoria, and an attempted-adrenaline rush by Bella leaves the Cullens to believe she has possibly committed suicide. That fact leads Edward to end his life because to him, a world without his love Bella is a world not worth living in. When Edward attempts to commit suicide-by-vampire in Italy where the Volturi clan live, Bella travels there with Alice to stop Edward and become reunited with him once again, leaving Jacob and her feelings for him behind in Forks.
The movie was made with a lot of shortcuts between the real story in the book, but it was made well considering it had only about two hours to get the New Moon novel into one movie. Go see it for yourselves; you don’t want to miss wolves the size of a bear and those strangely beautiful vampires we all know and love– and how they end up changing Bella’s life as she enters the age of 18.

by Lindsey Baty
For the second time, Adam Lambert, former American Idol contestant, has had his appearance on ABC canceled. On Lambert’s Twitter account he wrote, “Yes, sadly friends, ABC has canceled my appearances on Kimmel and NYE, don’t blame them. It’s the FCC heat.” Lambert’s vigorous American Music Awards performance had given the FCC and the network thousands of complaints from their viewers. They thought that Lambert’s homo-erotic gyrations was indubitably inappropriate for TV. After Lambert’s performance, ABC canceled his apparence on “Good Morning America” and said that his style was not suited for a morning show. Lambert thought of this as a compliment and took it in good humor. After this happened, Lambert was looking forward to a gig on NBC and New Year’s possibilities. Lambert Tweeted, “I AM doing Leno, though. And looking into something for NYE. It’ll all blow over. Let’s focus on being positive! ”

Adam Lambert is known as an openly-gay American Idol star. He hasn’t yet considered ABC caving into homophobia and doesn’t want to listen to the advice from a British actor Rupert Everett. Everett told the British newspaper that he wished he would have never publicly came out. Everett claimed, “The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn’t work, and you’re going to hit a brick wall at some point. You’re going to manage to make it roll for a certain amount of time, but at the first sign of failure, they’ll cut you right off.” After this Everette added, “Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.”

by Nick Lane

Third Man Records is releasing old White Stripes recordings through their website if you subscribe to their feature called “The Vault.”
One of the upcoming offerings is a record containing alternate versions of the White Stripes 1998 debut 7” with the songs “Let’s Shake Hands” and the B-Side, “Look Me Over Closely.” This is the first time ever that the band has released any outtakes from any past recordings throughout their 10-year career. Platinum subscribers to the Vault also get a double-LP live album from Jack White’s other band the Raconteurs. They also receive a Dead Weather screen print, Jack White’s other band. Subscriptions to the Vault are open through October 22.

by Nick Lane
Jerry Fuchs, drummer for bands such as: !!!, the Juan Maclean, Turning Machine, and Maserati died Saturday, November 9th, after falling down a Brooklyn elevator shaft. He was 34-years-old. According to the Post, Fuchs was at a benefit party in Williamsburg when he and a friend were stuck in an elevator between floors. They opened the elevator doors and attempted to jump across to the nearest floor. Fuchs friend made it, but he did not. On Juan Maclean’s website he wrote, “Jerry was one of my best and most loyal friends. He was hands-down the best drummer I have ever played with or seen for that matter.” On the Maserati website they stated, “”We are humbled to have been able to create music with you for all these years, Jerry. You will be missed more than words can express. We love you, bro.”

by Nick Lane

In an interview with lead singer of The Strokes, Julian Casablanca shared, “I’m done with the predictions. We’re supposed to get back
together in January but don’t hold me to that.” The Strokes announced their first live show since October 2006. They are headlining this summer’s Isle of Wight Fest in England. Other acts include Jay-Z, Blondie, and Orbital. The festival and the Strokes first show since 2006 will be on June 11-13.

by Mallory Stratton

Daniel Radcliff is set to head the cast of the upcoming New York reading of the 1961 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the first musical for the Harry Potter star. Rob Ashford will be director and choreographer, right after his Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry musical Parade, which opened Oct. 4^th at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A. The reading is scheduled for December, with no other cast in place so far. The show is written by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. How to Succeed shows the rise of a crafty window cleaner as he follows the advice of a self-help manual to make his way up through the World Wide Wickets Co. and get the girl in the process. The original production won over seven Tony Awards, including musical, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1962. Hopefully this new adaptation will do just as well.

by Rachel Caird

The amazing gypsy-punk band is finally coming to San Diego. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, let me give you some insight. The international band Gogol Bordello is made up of over 10 diverse members from across the globe, formed on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1999. Their sound is something of a cross between Operation Ivy and a Jewish Bar Mitzvah. Nikolai Gogol, the origin of the band’s name, served as an ideological influence because he “smuggled” Ukrainian culture into the Russian society, which Gogol Bordello intends to do with this Gypsy-Punk/ East-European music in our English-speaking world.  This unusual musical clash will make you ears do a double take.

A couple of their more popular songs are “Immigrant Punk,” which explains how they formed the band, and “Through the Roof n’ Underground,” featured in the 2006 movie Wristcutters: A Love Story, as one of the songs of a dead man’s old band.  Both of which can be heard in their set list when they play in downtown San Diego on Oct. 17^th. Don’t miss the opportunity to put your musical taste to the test!