Kisses (band)

Kisses is a new wave pop rock duo from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010. The band consists of Jesse Kivel (vocals/lead guitarist) and Zinzi Edmundson (instrumentals/keyboardist). The duo released their debut album The Heart of the Nightlife on November 8, 2010. The duo's second album, Kids in L.A., was released on May 14, 2013. In addition to Kisses, Kivel is currently a member of the indie pop band Princeton.

Background and History

Jesse Kivel grew up on Princeton Street in Santa Monica, California while Zinzi Edmundson's hometown was Providence, Rhode Island. During Kivel's elementary years, he, along with his twin brother Matt and a close friend, began creating music ultimately forming the band Princeton in 2005. The following year, Kivel began dating Edmundson who is currently known for her contributions to Foam Magazine along with Bon Appétit, C magazine, EvilMonito.com and Variety.com. Eventually, although not specified, Kivel and Edmundson began composing music together and, as a result, formed the band Kisses in 2010.

Kisses (film)

Kisses is a 2008 Irish drama film directed by Lance Daly. The film is a coming of age drama about two ragamuffin preadolescents, next door neighbours from dysfunctional families living in a poor area on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland, who run away together one Christmas holiday.

Plot

Early in the film we meet Dylan (Shane Curry), approximately 11 years old, sitting on a couch absorbed in a handheld video game and attempting to ignore his father's (Paul Roe) shouts from the kitchen where he is railing at a non-working toaster. We soon learn that rage is his father's natural state; roughly kicked out of the house to "go play", Dylan talks to his next door neighbour, Kylie (Kelly O'Neill), of approximately the same age, about what a "prick" his father is, and the wise decision of his brother to run away two years prior, to which Kylie observes that at least Dylan's father is not in jail like most fathers in the neighbourhood, implying that her father is incarcerated. She tells him about the "Sack Man", who she's heard kills kids, but Dylan says that it is just a story, like "Santa and God", used by adults to control kids.

A Thousand Kisses

A Thousand Kisses or 1000 Kisses may refer to:

  • A Thousand Kisses (film) (Ik Omhels Je Met 1000 Armen), a 2006 Dutch film
  • A Thousand Kisses (TV series), a 2011 South Korean TV drama
  • A Thousand Kisses (radio play), a 2011 radio play by Frederic Raphael
  • 1000 Kisses (album), a 2002 album by Patty Griffin
  • "1000 Kisses" (song), a 2002 song by Will Smith
  • Oldschool jungle

    Jungle (sometimes oldschool jungle), is a genre of electronic music that developed in England in the early 1990s as part of rave music scenes. The style is characterized by fast tempos (150 to 170 bpm), relatively slow and lyrical reggae-derived basslines, breakbeats, and other heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples and synthesized effects make up the easily recognizable form of jungle. Long pitch-shifted snare rolls are common in oldschool jungle. The terms "jungle" and "drum and bass" are often used interchangeably, although whether the two genres are actually distinct is an ongoing topic of debate. For those individuals who consider the two genres as separate entities, drum and bass is usually considered to have departed from jungle in the mid to late 1990s.

    Producers create the drum patterns, which are sometimes completely off-beat, by cutting apart breakbeats (most notably the Amen break). Jungle producers incorporated classic Jamaican/Caribbean sound-system culture production-methods. The slow, deep basslines and simple melodies (reminiscent of those found in dub, reggae and dancehall) accentuated the overall production, giving jungle its "rolling" quality.

    Jungle (board game)

    Jungle or Dou Shou Qi (Chinese: 鬥獸棋, "Game of Fighting Animals") is a traditional Chinese board game played on a 7×9 board. The game is also known as The Jungle Game, Jungle Chess, or Animals Chess, and is sometimes called Oriental Chess or Children's Chess.

    Jungle is a two-player strategy game and has been cited as resembling the Western game Stratego, but Stratego actually has more in common with another Chinese board game known as Jun Qi (Chinese: 軍棋) or "Army Game".

    Rules

    Objective

    The goal of the game is either to move a piece onto a special square, the den, on the opponent's side of the board, or capture all of the opponent's pieces.

    Board

    The Jungle gameboard consists of seven columns and nine rows of squares. Pieces move on the square spaces as in international chess, not on the lines as in xiangqi. Pictures of eight animals and their names appear on each side of the board to indicate initial placement of the game pieces. After initial setup, these animal spaces have no special meaning in gameplay.

    Jungle (company)

    Jungle (formerly known as Jungleboys), is a production company owned by Executive Producer Jason Burrows, Writer / Director Trent O'Donnell, Writer/ Performer Phil Lloyd and Head of Production Chloe Rickard. Jungle produces TV commercials, TV programs, and branded entertainment. The Sydney-based production company specialises in comedy.

    Its directors include Trent O'Donnell, Scott Pickett, Trevor Clarence, Al Morrow, Craig Melville, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Matt Moore, and Erik Van Wyk. According to Campaign Brief, an industry website that monitors such things, in 2013 Jungle was "one of the five top advertising production companies in Australia".

    TV shows

    The production company has created and produced original comedy shows for Australian television including:

  • "No Activity" directed by Trent O'Donnell, created by Trent O'Donnell, Jason Burrows and Chloe Rickard for Stan first aired in Australia in October 2015.
  • "Here Come The Habibs!" directed by Darren Ashton, created by Rob Shehadie, Tahir Bilgic, Matt Ryan-Garnsey, Phil Lloyd and Ben Davies for the Nine Network to air in February 2016.
  • Spank!

    Spank! is a 1999 Australian comedy film filmed in Adelaide.

    References

    External links

  • Spank! at the Internet Movie Database
  • Spank! at Urban Cinefile

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