QUICK HITS
Jan 1, 2006 12:00 PM
WEBSITE OF THE MONTH
Just launching is Motorola's iRadio service (www.getheardnetwork.com), which enables you to download Internet radio stations and your own MP3s to your cell phone. You can listen on headphones or beam the whole lot to your home and car stereos (using Bluetooth). And while your phone is charging, the Internet streams are updated so you'll have hours more music at the next go. Although the “perishable” tracks won't remain on your iRadio, you can add songs to your wish list and purchase them. Nice.
G-UNIT'S WARFARE
Whaddya know? Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has his own PlayStation 2 game, Bulletproof. Written by Terry Winter, executive producer of The Sopranos, Bulletproof comes wrapped in its own bulletproof vest. Art imitates life, somewhat: 50 gets shot nine times, is left for dead and unites with his G-Unit crew (Lloyd Banks, Young Buck and Tony Yayo) to seek revenge on the gang that took him down. Eminem plays character Detective McVicar, and Dr. Dre is war veteran Grizz. As a bonus, the game includes 13 50 tracks never commercially released.
MOVING PICTURES
That Brian Eno is always up to something, isn't he? Hot on the heels of his latest CD release, Another Day on Earth (Ryko, 2005), the ambient master is back with a new DVD, 14 Video Paintings (Hannibal, 2005). The collection packages Eno's early-'80s ambient videos Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan and Thursday Afternoon, which were originally exhibited as art installations. Now you can get the museum or art-gallery experience in your own home. Thanks, Eno!
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