Awkward Commas

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Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:47:20 -0500

(via Mick Jagger Albums Continue Inexorable Decline in Quality — Vulture)

perpetua: Dan Chamberlain looped the “OH YEAH!” from Jane’s...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:54:59 -0500

Dan Chamberlain looped the “OH YEAH!” from Jane’s Addiction’s Entourage theme for eight minutes straight. It’s hypnotic and annoying and awesome and the most trippy thing ever made involving Perry Ferrell.

“OH YEAH!”

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Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:57:19 -0500

(via Iggy and the Stooges, Farmington High School, MI, December 5th, 1970 | HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT)

(via New Dialogue That Was NOT Added To The Star Wars Blu Ray |...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:46:11 -0500

(via New Dialogue That Was NOT Added To The Star Wars Blu Ray | Videogum)

"What also could be happening, though—if you happen to watch this show looking for deep, spiritual..."

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:35:21 -0500

“What also could be happening, though—if you happen to watch this show looking for deep, spiritual meaning like I sometimes do—is a call to arms for like-minded individuals to continue creating great things. If you love Pete And Pete, let’s say, don’t just lament the loss of the show on the ’net, or say “Hey, remember Clarissa?” Watching old DVDs to try and recapture the feeling you once had the first time you saw something might be fun, but it can be a little pointless, too. Blasphemy, I know, considering that’s basically what we’re doing here—and then writing about it. Pete’s lesson—and our lesson—from this show is not just “find a song and love it,” but rather, “if you love something, go make something someone else can love.” Polaris did this for Pete when they accidentally fed him the song that he loved. The Blowholes did this when they played “Surfin’ Bum, Surfin’ Fun” for grumpy Fred Hurley. The creators of Pete And Pete deep, I know did this when they heard a Magnetic Fields song they liked or saw a Hal Hartley movie and said, “Hey, we should introduce this band or these actors to other people.” It’s a little bit of a stretch, maybe, but it makes sense all the same. Nostalgia’s a hell of a drug, especially these days. Every other Tumblr is all, “Remember so and so?” People are nostalgic for things that happened earlier this week, like the days before the East Coast earthquake. That’s fun and everything, but it’s dangerous. It puts this hazy veil over everything in the past and all the time we spend thinking about those things, we’re not making new things, pushing art and culture forward, or saying, “Hey, Pete And Pete did so much for me, so maybe it can do that for someone else, or maybe I can take those ideas and, even though I don’t make TV shows, do whatever I can with them to make someone else happy. “ If we’re stuck in the past—or in Pete’s case, stuck listening to the same song over and over again, even if it’s our very favorite song ever—we’re not moving forward. That song’ll still be there in a day or a week when we want to go back and listen to it and feel that way all over again—unlike the unreleased DVD set of The Adventures Of Pete And Pete’s third season, but that’s another story all together.”

- “Hard Day’s Pete” | The Adventures Of Pete And Pete | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club

Nation's Weirdest Teenager Buys Season One DVD Of 'Murphy Brown' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:39:42 -0500

Nation's Weirdest Teenager Buys Season One DVD Of 'Murphy Brown' | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

This could have been me.

Madeon - Pop Culture (live mashup) (by itsmadeon) Ok, I know...

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:37:52 -0500

Madeon - Pop Culture (live mashup) (by itsmadeon)

Ok, I know this is like a week old and everyone has probably already seen it, but it is still pretty cool.

So Spotify is pretty awesome and the hype from Europeans for the last 3 years is justified. But I...

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:01:00 -0500

So Spotify is pretty awesome and the hype from Europeans for the last 3 years is justified. But I get that same feeling of anxiety with it that I do when I go into a library, where it is just like, here is (nearly) every piece of this specific art that I love so much, how will I ever find the time to enjoy all of it.

I’ve started to build playlists off the Acclaimed Music song lists, if nothing else to educate me on all the songs I’m supposed to know. I’m in the 1920s right now and have stumbled upon some pretty cool stuff (and I know…these are all obvious to anyone who has heard the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music set). But it is pretty crazy to listen to a Blind Willie McTell song from 1928 and realize where Jack White stole a bunch of his moves from.

Going Home With Pulp | The Awl

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:37:33 -0500

Going Home With Pulp | The Awl

The Replacements Broke Up 20 Years Ago Today in Chicago

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:10:28 -0500

The Replacements Broke Up 20 Years Ago Today in Chicago

Backbeat Band 6-4-1994 Money, Long Tall Sally, and Helter...

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:01:24 -0500

Backbeat Band 6-4-1994 Money, Long Tall Sally, and Helter Skelter (by 20YearsInTheDakota)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Out In The Street Of...

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:33:38 -0500

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Out In The Street

Of course, the solo in “Jungleland” is amazing, but this is what the Big Man did better than anyone else.

The Ultimate David Lee Roth Karate Kick Compilation Basically,...

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:54:55 -0500

The Ultimate David Lee Roth Karate Kick Compilation

Basically, I’m trying to achieve just one of these kicks and I’ll consider myself a success.

epic: This American Wife Episode 30 - Ned Hepburn, Dan...

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:15:41 -0500

epic:

This American Wife Episode 30 - Ned Hepburn, Dan Dominguez, The Morning After, and YOU, with special guest Dave Horwitz

“Dirty Jobs” This week, stories of occupational hazards. Ned Hepburn tells a tale of a shocking job interview. Comedian Dan Dominguez recounts horror stories from his time at McDonalds and in the Air Force. Our sister podcast Planet Monotony gets an interesting email from a Nigerian heir (Dave Horwitz) and Sasha Wilkes-Bronstein (Jen Goldberg) checks out an exciting investment opportunity. We have listener stories from Paul Mikesell, Catherine Smith, and Rye Silverman. Finally, Jake Weisman and Eli Olsberg of “The Morning After” podcast interview adult movie legend Gene Faruka (Eric Martin). Hosted by Paul Jay. File those TPS reports, and stay with us.

Created by Ned Hepburn and Eric Martin.

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Download episode here.

Subscribe on itunes here.

Should have reblogged this last week when my podcast debut dropped. I’m the first story that was miraculously edited into being the most ridiculous style pastiche I’ve been involved with for a while.

The story is all true, by the way.

The Videogum Movie Club: The Hangover Part II | Videogum

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:50:14 -0500

The Videogum Movie Club: The Hangover Part II | Videogum:

While I don’t feel as strongly about it as Gabe Videogum does, he essentially nails all the same issues as I have with The Hangover Part II.

"Hounded by the mainstream media and cowed by a fascist censorship that limits her to a mere four or..."

Wed, 25 May 2011 13:02:23 -0500

“Hounded by the mainstream media and cowed by a fascist censorship that limits her to a mere four or five soundbites per day, Sarah Palin will finally tell her story in the feature-length film The Undefeated, which chronicles the triumph of the will that allowed Palin to overcome everyone being totally mean to her by quitting her job and becoming a TV star.”

- Sarah Palin made a movie about Sarah Palin | Film | Newswire | The A.V. Club

Look, there is a lot to make fun of regarding this project, but the thing everyone seems to miss is that it is called The Undefeated, yet I can think of, I don’t know, a time in 2008 when she was defeated.

"I was so convinced that this rare R-rated event comedy featuring women burping and farting for our..."

Sat, 14 May 2011 18:34:33 -0500

“I was so convinced that this rare R-rated event comedy featuring women burping and farting for our female amusement wouldn’t make over $13M, even $15M tops, that I promised Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson that I would leave Hollywood reporting forever if Bridesmaids did the $20 million he thought it would. Well, I’ve called the moving vans because I clearly have no idea what works at the domestic box office anymore. (So you won’t have Nikki to kick around in the comments section. Say goodbye now…) I couldn’t believe that this is why generations of women fought the feminist revolution: to ensure we had the same opportunities to watch our sex make the same raunchy movie stuff as men. I wasn’t alone. Tipsters told me that the studios weren’t touching any new film comedies that featured women until they saw how Bridesmaids did. “And they’re hoping it tanks or at least does business they can put a negative spin on,” one source emailed. “Talk to Natalie Portman about the double-talk she’s enduring over Best Buds, a female stoner comedy she’s trying to set up. When Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler or Seth Rogen tank, there are no ramifications. It’s ugly out there.” But Universal had faith in this net $32.5M-budget pic from the start, mostly pinned to the pedigree of mogul Judd Apatow’s banner behind it. Weeks of decent tracking popped dramatically going into this weekend, especially in the ‘unaided awareness’ category. It went into this weekend with great reviews from the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times and 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Yet I found the first trailer laugh-challenged along with the TV ads in heavy rotation, and the movie lacked big name stars (Saturday Night Live regular Kristen Wiig leads an ensemble cast of mostly TV actresses), and its release was middling but by no means giant. Whch is why I had such low expectations and now I’m packing up.”

- The Mighty ‘Thor’ Holds Onto #1 Friday; ‘Bridesmaids’ Yucks Up $21.5M Weekend; Vampirical ‘Priest’ Bites For $14M – Deadline.com

Don’t you love people who report on entertainment that clearly don’t get entertainment? There are a variety of things wrong with Nikki Finke’s take on Bridesmaids. But the main one is that there are only about two or three “gross-out” scenes in Bridesmaids and it obviously isn’t the focus of the actual movie. They’re big comedic set-pieces, but that’s it.

However, the very first trailer for Bridesmaids only featured these gags, selling it as the “female Hangover.” And I wasn’t sold on that first trailer. I thought, “Well, I like all these people involved and I’m glad to see a women-centered comedy but are women supposed to be better/smarter than us? Why is this movie that is supposed to be a comedy by women using the same stupid comedy by men tricks?” But the rest of the marketing was true to the actual tone of the movie, which is sweet and funny and a little filthy, but so are the best women.

This further convinces me that Nikki Finke (and most of the people working for her) never actually see these movies and shows they are reporting on/are part of the awful Hollywood machine that wasn’t buying or listening to any pitches of female-centered projects until they saw if people actually went to go see Bridesmaids.

Ugh.

(But seriously, Bridesmaids is really good and funny)

"Everybody knows by now that there’s a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the..."

Fri, 13 May 2011 13:12:27 -0500

“Everybody knows by now that there’s a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I’m encouraging anybody who’s ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.”

- To my fans and followers | Bob Dylan

NBC Status Update: Where Does the Fourth-Place Network Stand Heading Into Upfronts? -- Vulture

Tue, 10 May 2011 13:43:00 -0500

NBC Status Update: Where Does the Fourth-Place Network Stand Heading Into Upfronts? -- Vulture:

I’m glad we were able to find every single person who likes Outsourced in one place (in this case, it is in the comments section).

(via WATCH: Seth Meyers’ Strangely Topical Osama Bin Laden Joke...

Mon, 02 May 2011 03:07:15 -0500

(via WATCH: Seth Meyers’ Strangely Topical Osama Bin Laden Joke | Best Week Ever)