Kanye West's new album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is out today (22 November). What better excuse to look back at the arch egotist's funniest ever quotes?
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Kanye has been talking up '...Dark Twisted Fantasy' for a while. Back in August he promised it would be his "masterwork. That Avatar-level [work]. I try to compete against the past... Michelangelo, Picasso, the pyramids.” So modest.
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A soldier returns from war unable to get the images of battle out of his head. An earthquake survivor rides out long, anxiety-filled nights. A young woman in a pretty floral dress walks her dog along the streets of Manhattan.
All three may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
The woman walking her dog is Robin Hutchins, 25. She looks confident and self-assured, and few would guess that a year ago she discovered that she had the stress disorder.
“When I tell people I have P.T.S.D., it’s like I have to convince them it’s a real issue,” she said.
The disorder — in which a traumatic experience leaves the patient suffering from severe anxiety for months or years after the event — is often associated with battlefield combat and natural disasters. But as Dr. Frank Ochberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University, noted in an interview, the typical trigger is more mundane — most commonly, a traffic accident.
In Ms. Hutchins’s case, it was sexual violence. During her first year in college, ...
Jared Leto, singer of the band 30 Seconds To Mars, posted very incriminating pictures of Linkin Park singers Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington on his Blog. Apparently the rivalry between the two successful Rock bands reached its climax when 30 Seconds To Mars won the MTV EMA for Best Rock against Linkin Park and found their hotel room vandalized with a mocking message left by their rivals:...
From Cloverfield to District 9, Monsters to Skyline - we stand in the midst of the biggest wave of alien invasion movies to hit cinemas in almost sixty years. The trend shows no sign of abating - the likes of Battle Los Angeles and Cowboys and Aliens are due before the end of the year, Area 51, The Darkest Hour and Simon Pegg's Paul follow in 2011.
But what does it all mean? And more importantly, how can you stay safe?
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Facebook normally catches flack for making private information available to advertisers. But last month, the social-networking site with half a billion users quietly added a feature that makes your private information available to the friends of your friends, which may be a much more nefarious group. A button called "See Friendship" aggregates onto a single page all of the information that two friends share: photos both people have been tagged in, events they have attended or are planning to attend, comments they have exchanged, etc.
To see this stuff, you need only ...
The personal relationships between Paramore's five members must've been pretty darn tense at one point. Judging by the Tennessee group's just-released video for "Playing God," Hayley Williams wanted to tie up the four boys, lock them in a basement, and poison them.
Watch the Video after the break!
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