…or at least your bank account to your brother.

According to a newspaper interview in Michigan.  Madonna’s older brother, Anthony Ciccone, says he’s living under a bridge.

According to Ciccone: “My family turned their back on me, basically, when I was having a hard time.” He attributes his circumstances to losing his job at his father’s winery over a year ago.

Man, if this can happen to the brother of a kazillionaire music talent in America, this can happen to anyone. I don’t know what the family situation is here, but you would think that a sibling wouldn’t let their own blood live on the streets.

Madonna: Express Yourself and Open Your Heart to help your own brother Keep It Together.  These are your words, not mine.

Maybe that’s too personal of a question.

For some of you, maybe not.  Madison’s 5 year old “please don’t trash my downtown” Halloween Party happens this Saturday.

Tickets are $8 in advance and $12 at the gates, which open up at 7pm.

Not only is it a great people watching event.  They’ve got another indie musical lineup on three stages that should be a nice diversion.

The better known bands include Neon Trees, Locksley and All Time Low.  Here’s a sampling:

Charlie’s Cousin Adam reviews the new spooky movie Paranormal Activity 3. How scary is it?

Rated R – 1h23

Packed with plenty of gotcha moments, Paranormal Activity 3 will make you jump several times. The problem is, we already know the formula and that takes a lot of the frightful edge away.

Set in 1988, we again get a home video obsessed guy who must catch on VHS, the things in his home that are going bump in the night. The added twist of the backstory of the original Katie from Paranormal Activity 1 is a wasted point.

To set up the scary faux-documentary, we’re to believe that were looking back on real archival footage. Dennis, a wedding videographer, has moved in with hot 80’s mom Julie. They live a happy life with Julie’s two daughters Katie and Kristi. One night, Dennis accidentally catches Kristi’s imaginary friend Toby on camera and becomes infatuated. Things escalate poorly for the family.

With just a few exceptions, I almost never recommend the 3rd chapter in a film franchise. That rule is still in effect here. I will admit to jumping several times. That’s the point of watching a movie like this.

In fact, based on this movie, PA1 makes much less sense. SPOILER AHEAD: In this film, young Katie from 1988 befriends the mysterious demon. Are we to assume that her demon friend is the same one that possesses Katie from 2009? The older Katie is more a victim of her boyfriend’s misguided actions. Did the demon and Katie’s relationship mean nothing all those years?

There was something fun I took away from this film. It was in the technical use of a surveillance style point of view, where the camera pans back and forth. I am a lover of puzzles where you have to figure out the difference between two pictures. In this case, the viewer’s perspective pans to the left, so look for the thing that sticks out in the frame. Pan to the right, then back to the left and see what’s spookily changed. I am a film technique lover, so I actually enjoyed this.

Still, would you go see a movie based on someone’s thrill that the camera panned back & forth? I don’t think so. That’s something for movie nerds like me.

The bottom line is, you will be scared with PA3, even if it’s for the lack of creativity.

Damn you JBJ!  Everytime I want to pass you off as a washed up rocker of the 80’s, you go ahead and do something really cool.

A little bit of his history as I remember it:

• Kicked all sorts of Rock & Roll butt in the 80’s with Bon Jovi.
• Wrote an awesome song for Young Guns II and took an uncredited roll in the movie.
• TV appearances including: Sex and the City, 30 Rock, The West Wing, and an extended stint on Ally McBeal.
• Rebooted Bon Jovi in the early 2000’s to notable success.

Now he’s giving respect to the poor.

His latest venture is opening up a experimental new New Jersey restaurant The Soul Kitchen.  It’s a place where people pay what they can for their meal.  It’s a new idea aimed at getting rid of the negative stigma of getting a charitable free meal, or the “soup kitchen” idea.

In fact, he says his new establishment is not a soup kitchen, but a place for people who need a meal to volunteer in lieu of payment. Customers who can afford to donate a few dollars can leave a donation for their meal.

He’s giving families in need the chance to feel normal.  Here’s that he says about it.

“With the economic downturn, one of the things I noticed was that disposable income was one of the first things that went,” Bon Jovi told AP during an interview. “Dining out, the family going out to a restaurant, mom not having to cook, dad not having to clean up – a lot of memories were made around restaurant tables.”

Here comes the play on words:

Awww Jon.  You give love for your fellow man a good name.

Wanted.  Wanted!  Mashed Potatoes with chives.

You were born to be my baker, I was made to eat your sand (wich)

I’ll eat broccoli for you, these five words I swear to you

Your chicken noodle soup is like,  gooood medicine.

Wooaaaah. We’re half way there.  Wooooahh-oh.  Living on e’claires.

Can I just fast forward to 2013? Because really, I want to go back to November, 5th, 1955.

That’s when The DeLorean Motor Company says they’ll be release their brand new, electric versions of the DMC-12, the car Doc Emmit Brown made famous in “Back To The Future.” The new car will be made of original parts and a new electric engine, will be built to order and cost around $90,000.

88 MPH? No problem, the new cars are expected to be able to do 125 MPH and go 70 miles on a single charge.

Here’s the other potential benefits of an electric DeLorean:

• It will be upgradable in the future to be able to fly. “Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”
• It can come equipped to nicely seat two adults, or one adult and a large dog.
• The electric engine eliminates the need for a Mr. Fusion power converter. Who wants a nuclear reactor in the trunk?
• 125 MPH can easily outrun Lybian terrorists.
• It’s gull wing style car doors are impressive, except when you park closely to another car or are in a drive-thru.
• $90,000 seems cheap for being able to go back in time to collect embarrasing stores about your parents.

I know some pretty die hard Beatles fans, in my life, but this story seems a little across the universe.

Next month at an auction in England, one of John Lennon’s teeth is expected to sell for $16,000.

Sounds a little sketchy, but the source of the tooth isn’t that nefarious.

The late Beatle gave the tooth to his housekeeper, Dot Jarlett, at his Kenwood mansion in Surrey, England in the late Sixties. He had originally told her to dispose of the tooth, but upon learning that her daughter was a Beatles fan, told her to give it her as a souvenir.

This certainly has a high creep factor for me, but maybe a die hard Beatle fan might sink their tee….oh never mind.

Other than the wilhelm scream, That may be one of my favorite movie sounds.

Any character that can pull off an evil belly roll has my thumbs of approval. Thanks to IFC.com, here’s some of the best evil movie laughs. Now you’re fully prepared for Halloween.

Predator Laugh

Agent Smith

Emperor Palpatine

Vincent Price from Thriller

Chucky

House MD

The Wicked Witch

Jack Torrance

Dr. Evil

That email to the Badger football student section didn’t seem to have much of an effect stopping their infamous: E.S.F.Y. chant over the weekend.

They weren’t the only one tossing around the vulgarities.

Lady Gaga dropped and F-Bomb and flipped the bird at the President Clinton Foundation event on Saturday night.

Then on Sunday, AJ Hawk let the bird loose during the Packer game. Hmmm…are we witnessing the new birth of a loss of decorum?

With all the Occupy Wall Street protests that have spread around the world, including right here in Madison, it got me thinking about protest songs.

I bet most people could come up with a handful of really good protest songs.  Time Magazine did it.

Here’s their list of the Top 10 in no particular order

• Ohio – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye
• Give Peace A Chance – The Plastic Ono Band
• Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
• War – Edwin Starr
• Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan
• F*** Tha Police – NWA
• Sun City – United Artists Against Apartheid
• Fortunate Son – CCR
• Georgia…Bush – Lil Wayne

Not a bad compilation, but there’s a couple more I’d throw in there.

What about:

Rock The Casbah – The Clash

Fight The Power – Public Enemy

I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty

God Save The Queen – The Sex Pistols

All fantastic choices, but what about the pinnacle of all protest songs about refusing to accept corporate or other social influence. Thank you Jermaine Stewart.