January 2011
7 posts
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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...
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Listening Room Wants Us to Keep Jamming with...
Few things top a good listening party. Now that I’m out of school and working full-time, I have less and less time to simply chill out with friends. Some of my favorite memories pre-adulthood feature vegging and enjoying a record with people, singing along, cracking jokes, and improvising stellar (translation: awful) interpretative dance moves at 2AM. That’s all harder to do when I...
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50 Cent Camwhores for Sleek Headphone Sales
People in the music industry have been looking for a way to either counteract the reign of mp3s or at least make up for record sales starting near beginning of the century. One of the more recent and most notable ways industry giants have tried to engage listeners is to bring them new headgear, partly constructed and fully endorsed by famous artists. That is, in 2008 Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine...
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Cosmo Jarvis - Gay Pirates
You know, I’ve never thought to put on a short stage play and film it for a music video. Thankfully Cosmo Jarvis did for last year’s “Gay Pirates.”
It’s a fun video, but where other artists might have aimed only for something hokey and light, Cosmo Jarvis’s song is also awesomely produced and touching. Yes, a touching number about gay pirates! Cosmo Jarvis...
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Can Kanye West Get His Own Home Decorating Show?
Surely you’ve seen the clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live from the other day, featuring Josh Groban’s promo for his collection Kanye West Tweet songs?
I’ve been singing “Do you know where to find marble conference tables? I’m looking to have a conference…” ever since I first watched it and then assaulted everyone I know with the link. It’s the latest...
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Christina Hendricks Has Curves (Stop the Presses!)
Fifty gazillion years after the rest of the world, this Christmas I have finally started watching Mad Men. Because I do not live under a rock, I went into my viewing experience already knowing a lot about the show: I’ve heard specific plot spoilers, I’ve skimmed through interviews with cast members, I’ve heard endless amounts of commentary about how it’s the best thing...