October 2011
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WatchI know there’s been a lot of edutainment aimed towards very young children. Kindergarten and pre-K children never seem to lack vaguely disturbing shows about aliens who want to teach them how to read, but sometimes I wonder about kids older than that. Where do they get their moral lessons from?
Shows like the new “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” series have somehow...
September 2011
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Remix: ‘All the President’s Men’ vs. the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’
“I can’t stand it, I know you planned it, I’m gonna set it straight, this Watergate,” begins the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.” All the President’s Boys is one of those perfect remixes that works so well, you can’t believe you didn’t think of it first. Editor Jeff Yorkes “cinemashup” of footage from All the...
July 2011
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Hypem.com unveils 'Fast Forward,' a music blog...
Have you tried Fast Forward yet?
I’ve always enjoyed The Hype Machine because it allows me to play through new music and popular favorites with a little more personalized context than a service like Pandora. If I want to know more about specific tracks, I can click through to blogs, and then also discover whole new corners of the music blogging abyss. Their newest experiment, Fast...
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June 2011
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WatchShia LaBeouf Directs Video for Kid Cudi’s ‘Marijuana’
After Shia LaBeouf directed Cage’s music video for “I Never Knew You” in 2009, it’s not too surprising that he’s trying his hand at more. It’s not even that surprising that he ended up running around with Kid Cudi since Cage does appear on Cudi’s latest album, Man in the Moon II.
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May 2011
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Watch the Trailer for 'Fright Night' Remake
Last weekend, I watched the original Fright Night with a couple friends, and then mentioned several times that I was extremely excited to see how the 2011 remake shaped up. Two reasons:
a) Colin Farrell is hot.
b) Hot Colin Farrell gets to be dangerous and seductively threatening toward Anton Yelchin.
Those are the facts, and I’m voting yes, and now the first trailer is online.
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April 2011
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'The Batman Complex' Is My Favorite Movie Never...
The Internet is a magical place, evidence #6930875379046c —
Themanbatman is one of those glorious online fan producers dedicated to “visual creative writing” by chopping up other movies and media to create new narratives. As the name suggests, many of them are in some way related to Batman. In February, “The Batman Complex - Teaser Trailer” hit YouTube, and now the...
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Anna Faris Plus Every Recently Relevant Dude In...
It doesn’t matter how many times I get burned, I’m always going to try out the latest romantic comedy.
Anna Faris stars in a new one this fall, called ‘What’s Your Number?’ where she tracks down all of her old boyfriends to figure out if any of them might’ve been Mister Right. Luckily for her, all of her past flames happen to be every male actor who got added...
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Wim Wenders' Dance Tribute Movie 'Pina' Gets US...
Here’s some amazing news that I missed last week: director Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary about the famous German choreographer Pina Bausch, Pina, will now get a limited US release.
In a recent interview with Dazed Digital, Wenders described the film as “the complete reversal of what theatre and dance usually is.” It was originally meant to be a collaborative project...
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The Beastie Boys' "Make Some Noise" Video Is A...
The Beastie Boys’ new video for “Make Some Noise” is packed with recognizable white people that I tend to like. Elijah Wood, Seth Rogen, and Danny McBride step in for the real rappers, and then stumble through a neighborhood full of famous cameos.
Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise - Free Music Videos - Top Songs
Somehow, it was the appearance of Ted Danson that suckered me into...
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'30 Minutes or Less' Trailer Online
I know what movie I’m going to lose a couple hours of my life seeing August 12 — 30 Minutes or Less.
More 30 Minutes or Less Videos
In the ‘Michael Cera vs. Jesse Eisenberg’ debate, I have always championed Eisenberg, and Aziz Ansari brings me to real-life laughter constantly. This movie looks ridiculous enough to be amazing.
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Full Kanye West 2011 Coachella Performance Online
Part of me didn’t want to watch Kanye West’s 2011 Coachella set, because I’m still waiting for an official tour announcement to happen already, and I’d like to save the magic for then. But let’s be honest, it wasn’t that big a part. I mean, if Rap Dose is just going to put it in my face, I might as well look.
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"Hot Ad Girls" Made Fun
Hey, have you seen ‘Who Is That Hot Girl?’ on Tumblr? On the surface, it’s another site about hot women. On the other hand, it’s a blog that dedicated to giving names and quick backgrounds to generally unknown actresses in the industry. Also, I support attractive ladies doing their thing, so I’m cool with seeing more of them.
For example:
Q: Who is the cute...
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Donald Glover Releases "Break (AOTL)" and Only...
As part of the preparation for his upcoming “I AM DONALD” tour, Donald Glover released a new Childish Gambino track today. It’s called “Break (AOTL).”
Break (AOTL) by Childish Gambino
More than once I’ve tried to write up something extensive about Donald Glover and his Childish Gambino persona to no avail. The main point, though, is that I’m...
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Hulu Sets Users Back 15 Years
Have you checked out Hulu.com today? For its own April fun, the video-streaming site has decided to pay homage to a time web design should never revisit: 1996.
Check out popular clips from X-Files, music videos for 90s radio hits, images with a lot of radio static, and about a dozen buttons, image counters, and blinking text. Oh, and don’t forget to sign the guestbook. Dial-up connections...
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'The Aurors' Should Be A Real Harry...
I hate April Fool’s Day, because I’m far too gullible in my everyday existence, and this whole day is full of people trying their best to trick me. (I got my college acceptance letter on April 1st and was hesitant to believe that up until I actually showed up at the school.) It’s even worse nowadays, because an internet full of new media means sometimes whole production teams...
March 2011
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'Celebrity Apprentice' Gary Busey Makes...
For his first few tasks on The Celebrity Apprentice, actor Gary Busey provided an expected amount of inexplicable gibberish metaphor. He’s the comic relief with a lot of heart on Team Backbone, but in the words of Mark McGrath, the men’s team decided to “stop handling him with kid gloves” and put Busey to the project-manager test during the newest challenge to advertise RVs...
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Mashup Monday: Rebecca Black vs. Friday the Movie
The best thing to come out of the Rebecca Black song hoopla from last week:
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'Historically Hardcore' Posters: The Coolest...
This “Historically Hardcore” collection of posters has been making the rounds online so much in the last week that many folks assume they were commissioned by the Smithsonian.
Artists Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler have had to edit what was actually a school art project in order to remove the Smithsonian logo thanks to all the viral attention, but that’s more a testament to...
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They're New Here: Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx
I did not become someone different
that I did not want to be.
But I’m new here,
will you show me around?
So who exactly is Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx? More importantly, why should you care who they are?
Here’s a quick recap if you want to be in the know:
Gil Scott-Heron: 60-something American musician, spoken word artist, and all around sincere fellow. If you attended a...
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Ding Dong, The Zune Is Dead
I’m not even one of those people who uses only Apple products and is entirely invested in Steve Jobs’ plan to take over the world. Still, I’ve loved taunting my sister for owning a Zune since she got one, because let’s be honest, the iPod is just better. And today I get to bask in the ultimate taunt: Microsoft has announced that it plans to discontinue Zune devices. They...
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Fun Listen: Briar Rabbit - The Company You Keep
One of the more relevant ways the digital revolution has changed music is by giving us more customization. iTunes, personal mp3 players, and sites like Pandora have allow us to make the entire music landscape a perpetual game of Soundtrack To Your Life.
Listeners can be as general or as particular as we please. I have one playlist labeled “R&B Joints” and another playlist labeled...
February 2011
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Chuck the SEO Rapper Teaches "Page Rank"
Have you heard the song “Page Rank” by Chuck? It’s about good SEO practices. I would just like to thank Schoolhouse Rock, the entire hip-hop generation, and the Internet for leading us to this glorious 21st century moment:
I don’t teach any best practices for SEO seminars, but if I ever do, I’m recreating this whole experience.
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Land a Superhero This Valentine's Day with...
Team Unicorn have produced the ad for superHarmony.com just in time for Valentine’s Day.
The idea of Lex Luthor (especially the version of Lex in this) on a dating site is hilarious and terrifying.
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Sendhil Ramamurthy in "Egypt's Facebook...
While searching for Sendhil Ramamurthy interview clips to confirm for someone that he definitely doesn’t have any kind of European accent, I stumbled across his recent Funny Or Die appearance as ex-president Hosni Mubarak. This FoD exclusive video makes use of Egypt’s recent news and the hoopla around Facebook (because of the movie, hacking, e-i-e-i-o, there’s always something...
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Yes, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" Does Sound Like...
Everybody who’s already listened and reviewed it is right: Lady Gaga’s new single, “Born This Way,” sounds just like some amalgamation of Madonna’s “Express Yourself” and “Vogue.”
Granted, those Madonna 80s singles are great songs, so at least she mimicked something people already know they can get down to for over 20 years. But my least...
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James Blunt Cover's Katy Perry's "California...
The thing about James Blunt’s voice is that he sings the way I imagine a young Herbert from Family Guy might sound. This could be his voice before the whistle got quite so pronounced, when it was marginally less creepy that he was trying lead 13-year-olds into a comfortable den of geriatric perversion. Now that James Blunt has covered “California Gurls” for AOL Music, all I can...
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Bad Rabbits Cover Michael Jackson's "Human Nature"
I appreciate all Michael Jackson covers, and I’m just always a fan of the band Bad Rabbits. So their cover of “Human Nature” please me this Wednesday evening —
Download the track here.
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Trailer for 'The Social Network' as a Comedy
Speaking of The Social Network, I’m really glad a friend of mine just showed me this remix trailer for the movie. What if the movie about Facebook had been summer comedy?
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Bradley Cooper Plays Performance-Enhancement Drug...
I only realized this morning that Bradley Cooper’s next movie, Limitless, is the film adaptation of Alan Glynn’s The Dark Fields I heard about almost three years ago and that the trailer’s been out since December:
I was originally interested in this movie because Shia Labeouf was tagged to play the lead role. I’m inexplicably drawn to that guy on film and the way he...
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James Franco To Teach Class On How To Be James...
I’ve often tried to figure out how James Franco juggles the 87 professional obligations he seems to have, on top of getting about 37 degrees. Now it seems that Columbia College Hollywood will partner with Franco to offer a course studying the details of his career.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
The course, called “Master Class: Editing James Franco … With James Franco,” will be taught...
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Andre 3000 on Ke$ha's "Sleazy" Remix is Like...
I was talking about the movie Four Brothers last night, then heard John Legend’s “Green Light” for the first time in a couple days ago, end up singing “Hey Ya” while getting dressed this morning, and all of these things made me wonder: where is Andre 3000? To be fair, I wonder this about once a month, because dude is overdue for a new album. Big Boi’s dropped...
January 2011
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Patrick Stump Mashes Up 2010 Hits
His solo album isn’t out yet, and in the past week, Patrick Stump has proven that he spends his down time doing what every other 20-something with a computer does:
1. Tumbling 2. Making a cappella YouTube videos:
He manages to fit Jay-Z and Alicia, Eminem and Rihanna, Lady Antebellum, B.o.B and Bruno Mars, and Cee-Lo into one mash-up. My YouTube videos aren’t ever quite that...
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Andrew Garfield, Helena Bonham Carter and More...
Lynn Hirschberg interviewed actors from W Magazine’s “Best Performances” portfolio and asked them all one essential questions: what movie(s) made you cry?
Watch actors like Natalie Portman, Andrew Garfield, Robert Duvall, Helena Bonham Carter and more talk about the movies that have made them shed tears more than once. It’s fascinating how many people automatically...