I first heard about this on The Edge and they had different reports from different places like Wikipedia and TMZ and now the below report is from yahoo's page. I'm sure this may change and more info will come to light. I have seen him in a couple movies I forget what it was called but he was in that movie with Julia Stiles and I think he sings to her on the bleachers that was pretty good. Then of course they make a mockery of that is "not another teen movie". In any event it is very young to die. To bad the people taking care of him didn't pay more attention to him and watch out for him more.

NEW YORK - Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan apartment, and police said drugs may have been a factor. The Australian-born actor was 28. Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the residence in the tony SoHo neighborhood, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. A housekeeper who went to let him know the massage therapist had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.

A large crowd of paparazzi and gawkers began gathering Tuesday evening outside the building on an upscale block, where several police officers guarded the door.

Ledger was nominated for an Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain," where he met Michelle Williams in 2005. The two lived together in Brooklyn and had a daughter, Matilda, until they split up last year.

Ledger most recently appeared in "I'm Not There," in which he played one of the many incarnations of Bob Dylan ƒƒ‚‚ as did Cate Blanchett, whose performance in that film earned an Oscar nomination Tuesday for best supporting actress.

Ledger was to appear as the Joker this year in "The Dark Night," a sequel to 2005's "Batman Begins." He's had starring roles in "A Knight's Tale" and "The Patriot," and played the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in "Monster's Ball."

Ledger grew up in Perth, and began doing amateur theater at age 10. At 16, he moved to Sydney to pursue an acting career, quickly landing TV movie roles and guest spots on Australian television.

After several independent films and a starring role in the short-lived Fox TV series "Roar," Ledger moved to Los Angeles and costarred in "10 Things I Hate About You," a teen comedy reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew."

Offers for other teen flicks came his way, but Ledger turned them down, preferring to remain idle than sign on for projects he didn't like.

"It wasn't a hard decision for me," Ledger told the Associated Press in 2001. "It was hard for everyone else around me to understand. Agents were like, 'You're crazy,' my parents were like, 'Come on, you have to eat.'"

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Associated Press Sara Kugler contributed to this report.

I can't believe I forgot to post about this yesterday. On Saturday I went to the Bandits game Vs. New York Titans . I had a good time and thought it was a great game and in the end the Bandits won an exciting game. John Tavares (not sure if that is correct) tied and then broke the all time goal record and has 597 goals. I put up some random pictures at random. If you want to see all the them they should be on my webshots page by some time on Tuesday and hopefully tonight. Afterwards I did go to the Boom Bash at the tralf and had a great time that was fun to. In terms of those of you sports fans who say what is there to watch this weekend, there are allways sports on and starting Thursday the winter X games start or at least on TV sometimes at expn.com you can watch stuff on line.











































Oh yeah I forgot to mention that I have to admit I like the Titan's jerseys with the out line of NYC and then they still have the titan mask on them, I think Last years was just the mask and I liked them last years also. Indoor lacrosse is so fun to watch it really is. Plus you have the Bandettes and the fun intro at the beginning of the game.

I admit that I liked Cloverfield a lot. It was what I expected mostly. The best way to sum it up with out giving away anything is to picture Godzilla or Some Alien Invasion movie. But the entire movie is filmed from some one with a camcorder (yes there is a foot shot). To call it Blair Witch like is also a good way to say it, but it isn't as grainy and there is action and it is full color. I also liked the music on the end credits. Before the movie I saw a few previews for a few movies that look really good "Iron Man" and "Hell boy 2" look really good. The one I need to look into is there is a new Star trek movie in the works. The intrigue is that Nimoy is the one that is doing the talking. I don't know if he is just doing that to get the Buzz going, if he will guest star as spock, or if they are going back to the original crew or what is going to happen, that I'll have to look up.

For the last couple of days I was going to talk a little bit about how different people live there lives differently and why but I didn't have enough really to get into it. But then today I saw in the Buffalo news that New World Record is going to close. I think a good part of the article and the part that I find interesting is how the rent on Elmwood was so high and how tough it is for indie record stores what is below I didn't write it is a blog from there myspace page, I take no credit for it and admit I'm borrowing it. I hope the elmwood area learns something from this and gets better and doesn't drive out buisness anymore

Friday, January 18, 2008
    

Going Out In Style

Hello Friends -

You may already have heard, but just in case you haven't, it is with sadness that we tell you that we have decided to close New World Record. We've started a store closing sale, and we'll be wrapping things up over the next 2-3 months. We expect to really and truly close some time in March or April. In case you haven't seen the article in today's Buffalo News, it's here (http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/254603.html).

We plan to make the next couple months a celebration of what has been a great experience for us. In that spirit, we are encouraging all the bands that are currently booked for the Thursday Local Showcase to go right ahead and play them, and we're getting some other stuff lined up as well. Some old friends have reached out to us about doing "thank you" instores, and we'll be keeping you posted about that.


Some more stuff you'll want to know:

• The Store Closing Sale has begun - everything in the store is 10% off, except for tickets and consigned goods.

• Cobra Starship will be playing live (and free) in the store next Thursday, January 24. You won't want to miss it. (And stick around afterwards for local lovelies A Hotel Nourishing.)

• Special Orders - there's stuff you're looking for, and sometimes you have a hard time finding it. You know we're not going to leave you high and dry - please let us know about the hard-to-find treasures you seek. If we can help you, we will.

• Club Cards - we will continue to honor club cards through February 18. (We won't be giving out any new ones, of course.)

We want to give our sincere thanks to those of you who have patronized New World over the years and who have wished us well. We love the many friends that the store made over the last 23 1/2 years, and will continue to cherish the memories of all the midnight sales, in-stores, debates, top ten lists, and surreal music conversations we have had. Also we thank the many, many staffers that have made NWR what it was, especially our current crew (Eric, Paul, Laura, Mike, Andrea, and Josh), which has seen us through more than any industry should have to go through.


We look forward to seeing you in the coming weeks.

A note to Bands & Artists:

If you have anything on consignment with us, please send an email with the name of your band, your mailing address, and all contact info (including who the payee is) to email@newworldrecord.com. That will let us know that it hasn't been abandoned. Please understand that we have literally thousands of consigned titles in the store right now, and hundreds of them are for defunct bands, or people who have left the area. It will take time to clean it all up.

Assuming we don't get a Blizzard like in the above linked YouTube video of the Blizzard of 77 then I have another busy weekend. On Saturday I'm hoping to go see Cloverfield (looks pretty good and I like that it has that gritty home video look in some parts, hope it is good). That night is The Buffalo Bandits Vs. Titans (new york) lacrosse game at HSBC. At the same time there is the Art Voice Boom Battle of the bands at the tralf. I will get to see the end of it. Hopefully I'll get to see the last two bands and maybe get some pictures also. From what I understand there will be some surprise guest or band after all the competing bands. I'll be meeting some other people there. Should be a good time. Then on Sunday There is some (I assume ) Playoff Football. Friday the Sabres play it would be nice if they could win a game some time soon. I think I'm having dinner with the family.

First of all I want to say that there is all ways people who you see and think there are parts of them that I wish I had. Sometimes it is confidence or how they are able to sleep around and not care. You only think of the good. Today the person that I wish I had some of her Characteristics is (e:ladycroft)'s ability to move around and make new friends and travel. As I'm walking home from walgreens (this happens every so often) I think. Man I wish I could sell or store or give away or give my stuff to someone to hold and hope on a bus or train and start out fresh in a new city. Maybe some place warm like Carolina (either state) away from the water so no huricanes. It would have to be a city. At first this thought was just another part of town and then grew. Yeah I like Buffalo, but there are some parts of it that are really messed up. Sometimes I just want to start over some place else. Of course if I did I would still be part of estrip.org . I wont do it, it is to much work, to much of a chance, takes to much planning, and I'm to lazy but it does sound like a good idea. Oh yeah the new user picture was taken by (e:ladycroft). I like how I'm looking at her. It kinda looks like I'm kinda anticapating it but with the two shots taken it went so fast that I couldn't think about it.

First of all A correction from last post. I said Thompson was the back up we was the guy who got pulled but he and the bandits did wind up winning the next night in Rochester. I'm glad they stopped there long winning streak. Football wise it was a great weekend with a some great games to watch. Maybe the highlight of the weekend was the start of Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicals (how ever you spell it fuck). Yes the second part of the premiere is on after Prison Break tonight on Fox. It is only one episode so far but so far I like the action and the story line and acting. I do have to admit that as I'm watching it I'm thinking it is to bad about the writers strike because then 24 would have been able to start (all the episodes weren't written before the strike) and that we might have to wait an entire year to see the next season. That being said Till then I think this series should be pretty good or at least fun to watch. I admit I will burn it on disc and watch RAW but maybe I will catch the second hour of RAW only, not sure yet. I may feel differently after I have seen the next episode tonight. I hope the series stays good and stays on and isn't canceled like how fox likes to do it. How awesome is that there is a terminator show? I never thought I would see it and so far I'm happy that I have.

I wish I could have made it to that Hockey thing at the Knox last night but I didn't have time with the bandits game. I did Have a good time at the game and the Buffet before hand. The bandits started out close and then the Knighthawks ran away with the game. The Bandits switched goalies and did come back but couldn't catch up in the end and lost by 3 goals. They might have won if the Backup Thompson had played the entire game but it is hard to know really. Tonight the Sabres are playing at home. I will check in on that game every so often as I watch "The Pats" play. I think that could be a really good game tonight. In terms of Pictures I will put up some random pictures from the game and hopefully they are good.



























I guess that is plenty of pictures. The intros are allways dark and fun to watch they changed it up a little bit this year. Pearl st. is a cool looking place to have the Buffet and the place was packed. All in all I had a great time and look forward to there next home game, a week from today. Hope everyones weekend is great.

So this weekend there is a lot of sports. First of all I read in Sunday's paper that at the Allbright Knox they are going to have NHL trophies there on display and there is some first come first serve kind of passes to see the Stanly Cup. I don't think I have time to go I wish I did. That night is The Bandits Home Opener "Lets Go Bandits". Then on both Saturday and Sunday is the NFL playoffs. The teams I like Have lost or didn't make the playoffs. But there are 4 teams that I like to watch. First of all I'm a fan of Brett Farve but no really the packers. Same thing can be said of Dallas I'm not a fan of there's but they are fun to watch with Romo and TO. Then you have Indy who you have to watch cause of how good they are and can be. Then how can you not like watching the Patriots with all there weapons on offense and oh yeah and they have a few good players on defense also. So for me there should be a lot of sports going on to watch.

So I know it is super early to talk about my hate no that is to strong of a word dislike with some aspects of valentines day. But I think In my last post I said I would talk about it in my next one. So then after I do this one then I can talk about how this weekend all four football games have a team a like to watch (different then that I like). I was trying to look back at my post about it and did find that I some how put sports in at least one of them. As I was looking back I also saw some pictures from (e:paul)'s birthday pajama party. There was the bubble machine and the bubbles there was a joke going around that at Midnight it turned into a wear what you sleep in party but that never happened that would have been funny or at least very interesting. Back to the Topic of Valentines day. This year I'm going to try to embrace it not that it will work. I'm not sure what day it is on even other then that two people that I know have birthdays right around it so that is my inspiration well kinda at least. There is this band that Was part of one of the QCRGs events (or maybe they where both at the same event with Art & Body Tattoo) that I didn't go to called "As Summer Dies" who I have never seen in person, I all ways miss there shows. But on myspace they sound pretty good. If what I heard is correct they are having a Valentines day eve show so that might be a good time. So Valentines day by My valentine. For those who don't know my gripe here it is generally: Valentines day is supposed to be this day where you go out and Buy something special (spending money is implied the more the better) or do something super romantic to show how much you love the person you are with because of a day. But it implies that V-day is the only day to do that. Shouldn't you do something special for them because you care about them (any day) not because it is an obligation. That is what V day has been turned into is an obligation and that kinda sucks. That being said I want to change my user picture. That is if it is ok with (e:ladycroft) and (e:theecarey) but I don't know how to do what I want to it. I want to have that same picture inside of a heart of some kind. it could even be one of those broken hearts or something. Or maybe I could go negative again and do the dark rose. Trying to stay "on the positive tip" here as they say in the hip hop world, not sure that it is possible.