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Awesome may refer to: Music * Awesome (band), a Seattle-based American band * ''Awesome'' (The Temptations album) 2001 * ''Awesome'' (Marc Terenzi album), 2005 * "Awesome", a song by Veruca Salt from ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' * '' A'wesome'', a Korean EP by Hyuna 2016 Film and Television * Awesome (''Chuck'') or Devon Woodcomb, a fictional character from the TV series ''Chuck'' * ''Awesome'' (video game), a 1990 science fiction action game for the Amiga and Atari ST * Awesome Comics, an American comic book studio, 1997–2000 * Awesomeness (company), established as AwesomenessTV is a Los Angeles-based film and television studio People * Awesome Kong (born 1977), female American professional wrestler * Mike Awesome (1965–2007), male American professional wrestler Other * Awesome (window manager), a dynamic window manager for the X Window System * Awesome Foundation The Awesome Foundation for the arts and sciences is an international network of autonomous 'chapters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome (band)
Self-described as "Part band, part art collective."Bio , "Awesome" official site. Accessed online August 31, 2008. They reject the "rock band" label, Lane Czaplinski, artistic director of On the Boards remarks, "If they are not rock musicians, "there is rock payoff."Suzanne Beal You Can Call Them 'Awesome' ''Seattle Weekly'', May 3, 2006. Accessed online July 11, 2013. Czaplinski has compared them to Polyphonic Spree "Awesome" began as a cabaret act thrown together by seven experienced fringe theater actors. Although they continued to perform in theatrical venues, their identity as a band and cabaret act has eclipsed their status as actors.Kirk Heyne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome (The Temptations Album)
''Awesome'' is a 2001 album by the Tempations. Despite many changes in personnel, the album became the 45th to reach the ''Billboard'' 200, the first being ''Meet the Temptations'' in 1964. The lone single "4 Days" peaked at #19 on the Urban Adult Contemporary Charts. It is the last album to featured Barrington “Bo” Henderson and Harry McGilberry before they were fired from the group in 2003. Reception According to Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic, ''Awesome'' contains "mostly ballads here and some innocent concessions to the hip-hop audience." The sound is similar to the group's surprisingly successful predecessor, '' Ear-Resistible'', although "less rewarding", but it is still "the Temptations sounding like the Temptations." Track listing #"Awesome Intro" (Narada Michael Walden, Otis Williams, Sunny Hilden) – 0:58 #"Hurt So Bad" (Andy Cramer, Mechalie Jamison, Jerry Tawney) – 3:56 #"4 Days" (Jasher) – 4:07 #"Lady" (Sandra St. Victor, Tom Hammer) – 4:49 #"Forget Abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome (Marc Terenzi Album)
Marc Eric Terenzi (born June 27, 1978) is an American pop singer and reality show participant. He was a member of the boy band Natural and was married to German pop/soul singer Sarah Connor from 2005 to 2008. They have a son named Tyler and a daughter named Summer. Early life Terenzi was born in Natick, Massachusetts, United States, to Italian-American parents Peter and Antoinette. At the age of three, his grandmother began training him at her dance studio. At the age of seven, he learned how to play piano at his mother's church by teaching himself. He also learned to play guitar himself after his father gave him a guitar for Christmas. At the age of 12, he began to act and host a Boston-based TV show called ''Studio A.T.V.'' Terenzi moved to Florida with a friend named Damion with little funds. Musical career Natural After arriving in Florida, Terenzi took on various jobs including a stint as a bouncer at the House of Blues in Orlando. Terenzi eventually befriended an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight Arms To Hold You
''Eight Arms to Hold You'' is the second studio album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released on February 11, 1997, through Outpost/Geffen Records. Release The album was produced by Bob Rock. The title is a reference to the working title for The Beatles' film eventually titled ''Help!''.Caro, Mark"Veruca Salt reunites years after explosive breakup" chicagotribune.com. July 3, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2020. ''Eight Arms to Hold You'' peaked at number 55 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The single "Volcano Girls", written by Nina Gordon, was a rock radio hit. Veruca Salt performed "Shutterbug", written by Louise Post, on ''Saturday Night Live''. Besides those two, there were three other singles released from the album: "Benjamin", "The Morning Sad", and "Straight". This was the last album to feature all of the original band members - Gordon, Post, Steve Lack, and Jim Shapiro - until the 2015 album ''Ghost Notes''. Track listing Personnel Veruca Salt *Nina Gordon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A'wesome
''A'wesome'' is the fifth extended play (EP) by South Korean singer Hyuna. It was released on August 1, 2016, by Cube Entertainment and distributed by Universal Music. It marks her first release as a solo artist since the disbandment of girl group 4Minute. The EP consists of six Korean-language songs. "How's This?" was released as the lead single. Background Girl group 4Minute, of which Hyuna was part of, disbanded in June 2016. Four of the members, Jihyun, Gayoon, Jiyoon, and Sohyun, parted ways with Cube Entertainment after their contract termination. Hyuna was the only member to renew her contract with the agency, and would continue her career as a solo artist. Release and promotion Later in July, Cube confirmed that Hyuna will be returning as a solo artist on August 1 with the release of her 5th mini album ''A'wesome''. On July 25, Hyuna dropped the first teaser images that were taken in Bali, Indonesia. It was also revealed that Hyuna will be promoting with the title tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome (Chuck)
Devon Christian Woodcomb,"Chuck Versus the Ring" Doctor of Medicine, M.D., often referred to as Captain Awesome or simply Awesome, is a character on the TV series Chuck (TV series), ''Chuck'', and is portrayed by the actor Ryan McPartlin. The character's nickname comes from Chuck's assertion that "everything he does is awesome," and his frequent use of the word "awesome" in conversation. Devon is the significant other of Chuck's older sister, Ellie Woodcomb, Ellie Bartowski, and marries her in the Season 2 finale. In the thirteenth episode of Season 4, their daughter Clara is born. Character profile Devon Woodcomb is the son of Woody (Bruce Boxleitner) and Honey (Morgan Fairchild) Woodcomb,"Chuck Versus the Sensei" and has two younger brothers."Chuck Versus the Marlin" He UCLA Bruins football, played football for UCLA,"Chuck Versus Santa Claus" and met Ellie on the first day of UCLA Medical School, medical school there. He gave her his lucky sweater because it matched her eyes."Chuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome (video Game)
''Awesome'' is a science fiction action video game released by Psygnosis for the Amiga in 1990. It features a variety of gameplay styles, from overhead shooting to ''Asteroids''-esque sequences, and a pre-rendered ray-traced intro. The objective is to traverse the galaxy despite not having funds or fuel to do it. Gameplay Awesome is an action video game set in a fictional planetary system called Octaria. It can be divided into several sequences. The first sequence has the player's spaceship, the Elapidae, in hyperspace ''en route'' to a planet. However, the voyage is interrupted as space pirates and meteors threaten it. The player controls the forward and backward thrusts of the Elapidae and rotates it left or right while the action is viewed from a top-down perspective. The player must clear the area of enemies or meteors before their ship can jump back into hyperspace. The game begins with the Elapidae having a certain amount of energy used for its shields and firepower, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome Comics
Awesome Comics or Awesome Entertainment (also known as Awesome-Hyperwerks when briefly joined with Hyperwerks Entertainment) was an American comic book studio formed in 1997 by Rob Liefeld following his expulsion from Image Comics, a company he co-founded five years prior. ''Awesome Comics'' was the successor of Extreme Studios and Maximum Press, Liefeld's imprints at Image, and was followed by his new company Arcade Comics upon its closure in 2000. Netflix was in talks to adapt the characters for a series of films in 2018 but the deal collapsed. Pre-Awesome Extreme Studios and Maximum Press In 1992, seven high-profile comics artists left Marvel Comics to form their own publisher, where comics creators could publish creator-owned material without having to give up copyright-control to their characters. The seven artists (bar Whilce Portacio, who opted not to become a full partner) formed a partnership between their individual studios, and published their comics under the over- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesomeness (company)
Awesomeness (abbreviation of AwesomenessTV) is an American-based film and television studio as well as a multi-channel based multilingual television network owned by Paramount Digital Studios, a division of Paramount Global. Established in June 2012 by Brian Robbins and Joe Davola, the network initially focused on children’s programs, teen dramas, comedies, live events, and music videos targeting adolescents and young adults. AwesomenessTV initially operated an eponymous YouTube channel and multi-channel network. The company later expanded into talent, branded content, music, publishing, and retail. In 2013, DreamWorks Animation acquired AwesomenessTV. In 2014, Hearst Corporation acquired a 25% minority stake. In 2016, Verizon Communications acquired another roughly-quarter stake in the company for $159 million (valuing it at $650 million), while AwesomenessTV entered into a multi-year deal to produce content for Verizon's streaming video service go90. In 2018, following NBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome Kong
Kia Stevens (born September 4, 1977) is an American actress and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)/Impact Wrestling under the ring name Awesome Kong. She also worked with Ring of Honor (ROH), Shimmer Women Athletes, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and with WWE under the ring name Kharma. Stevens began her professional wrestling career in 2002 after appearing on a reality television show. For the first five years of her career, she primarily wrestled in Japan and held numerous championships there. In 2006, she began wrestling in her native United States again, wrestling on the independent circuit before appearing on national television with TNA, where she was a driving force in the foundation of their Knockouts division. During her time with TNA, she became a two-time TNA Knockouts Champion and one-time TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with Hamada. She later signed with WWE, where she became the third woman to enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Awesome
Michael Lee Alfonso (January 24, 1965 – February 17, 2007) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the American professional wrestling promotions Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment under the ring name Mike Awesome and for his appearances in Japan with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling as The Gladiator. Alfonso achieved the biggest success of his career in FMW as The Gladiator, where he became a three-time world champion, with two reigns as Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion and one reign as Independent Heavyweight Champion. His second Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship reign from 1996–1997 was the longest reign in the title's history, lasting for 489 days. During this reign, he defeated W*ING Kanemura to unify the title with the Independent Heavyweight Championship at the 1996 Year End Spectacular. He would then tour wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awesome (window Manager)
AwesomeWM is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager. Its development began as a fork of dwm. It aims to be extremely small and fast, yet extensively customizable. It makes it possible for the user to manage windows with the use of keyboard. The fork was initially nicknamed ''jdwm'', where "jd" denoted the principal programmer's initials and dwm denoted the software project it was forked from. The first git repository for what was to become awesome was set up in September 2007. jdwm was renamed to awesome, named after the same phrase used by the ''How I Met Your Mother'' character Barney Stinson. awesome was officially announced on the dwm mailing list on September 20, 2007. Aim Awesome has emerged as a dwm fork featuring customization through external configuration files (see Configuration and customization below). Although highly extensible, the defa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
