A deluxe serving of new YouTube videos, awesome in-studio guests and the distinct possibility that I will forget we're being broadcast live and scratch myself between jokes. You don't want to miss this.
Police are looking for a pregnant woman they say tried to rob a North Carolina bank at gunpoint but left empty-handed after answering her cell phone.
Fayetteville police spokeswoman Teresa Chance said Wednesday the woman had a handgun and demanded money when she entered a Carter Bank & Trust branch at 9:43 a.m. the previous day.
But she got distracted when her cell phone rang.
Police said she began talking to the caller and left the bank without taking any money.
Did anyone else read this and immediately envision the trailer it would have as a mainstream comedy, possibly starring Kate Hudson?
"Teresa Chance has a big problem..."
CUT TO: Hudson looking at her pregnant belly in the mirror:
HUDSON: I'm hideous!
"But that was just the beginning..."
LANDLORD: Who's the father?
KATE HUDSON: He's...out of the picture.
LANDLORD: Sorry, no bastards in my building...We need you out of the apartment by Friday.
"Now, to protect her new family, she's going to take the biggest chance of her life..."
CUT TO: Kate Hudson walking into a bank, pregnant, with a gun.
KATE HUDSON: Okay, everyone put your hands in the air, I guess, or something!
Kate's cell phone rings.
DOCTOR (on phone): We have some test results for you!
KATE HUDSON (into phone): Can't this wait? I'm sort of busy now, and I really have to pee!
BANK CUSTOMER: Do we still need to keep our hands up!
CUT TO: "The Fugitive"-style scene with cops standing around on a manhunt.
"But can a single gal take on the long arm of the law alone?"
SHERIFF: I need a hard target search of every Maternity Store, Baby Gap, ice cream parlor and public restroom in that area!
CUT TO: Hudson running into a door or something, like they do in every comedy trailer. (Here we'd also cue in one of those songs that's in every comedy trailer, like "Got My Mojo Working," "Walking on Sunshine" or that one that just goes "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!")
CUT TO: Hudson talking to her Mom from a pay phone.
KATE HUDSON: I just want to do what's right for my son!
KATE'S MOM: First, you just have to do what's right...
"From the producers of some crap like 'Bride Wars', Kate Hudson, Tommy Lee Jones and Annette Benning star in 'Expecting Trouble.' Rated R for dick and poop jokes."
NPR is streaming St. Vincent's entire new album. I'm only one song in so far, but I like it!
I also highly recommend this cover of Jackson Browne's "These Days" (also memorably covered by Nico).
Interesting posts about brands that will no longer exist after 2010. Some are kind of bittersweet. (I once worked at a Borders Books, and have fond high school memories of hanging out in their Mission Viejo store drinking coffee and reading books for free.)
One that I was surprised and delighted to see, however, was Crocs, the loathsome shoe company responsible for arguably the most irritating, ugly footwear in history. I mean, look at these fucking monstrosities. It's like wearing a MySpace page on your foot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/twelve-brands-that-will-d_n_188368.html
It was part of a larger discussion, I assure you, but that's not an excuse. I must now leave the house before I do something I'll later regret.
I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeah's on Conan when "Fever to Tell" was coming out, and it was terrible. Kind of put me off the idea of seeing the band live, even though I like their first EP and full-length a lot.
Now I see this clip from Letterman the other night and they sound really good. Perhaps it was just an off night?
Gah!
http://www.kottke.org/09/04/it-hurts-when-i-pee
What I love about this image the most is the expression on the urinator's face. Is he surprised to feel a red line signaling "electricity" surging through his torso? Or is that just this author's interpretation of the face dude's make when we relieve ourselves. He's like the Mona Lisa of illustrations warning you not to pee on to wires.
Oprah's Twitter page is gross.
http://twitter.com/Oprah
I hate everything about minor celebrities like Ashton Kutcher attempting to ride Twitter to 12 extra seconds of notoriety. (Make no mistake...This is not about charity or technology or anything else. Ashton makes shit movies and shit websites and he is just latching on to a fad a few years late so that he can get on Larry King. It's cynical and pathetic. John Krasinski's on Twitter, too, but you don't hear him blustering about it every five minutes, because he can talk about his hit show and the movie he just directed.)
But honestly, major celebrities with splashy Twitter ego pages may be even worse. The one thing saving it for me is that I just don't have to follow any of these people, so I can sort of block it out. But Diddy and the guy from "My Boss' Daughter" pontificating to CNN about technology like they're Jobs and Wozniak is just a lot to stomach.
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I mean...differ from the President on Tax Policy if you must...but come on. This is hardly going to be persuasive.
Denim is the infantile uniform of a nation in which entertainment frequently features childlike adults ("Seinfeld," "Two and a Half Men") and cartoons for adults ("King of the Hill"). Seventy-five percent of American "gamers" -- people who play video games -- are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote. In their undifferentiated dress, children and their childish parents become undifferentiated audiences for juvenilized movies (the six -- so far -- "Batman" adventures and "Indiana Jones and the Credit-Default Swaps," coming soon to a cineplex near you). Denim is the clerical vestment for the priesthood of all believers in democracy's catechism of leveling -- thou shalt not dress better than society's most slovenly. To do so would be to commit the sin of lookism -- of believing that appearance matters.
Jesus, this guy needs help. It's like one of those rare, asexual outbursts from Humbert Humbert. Maybe people like jeans because they are comfortable, George, and they wear them around town because they're not overly concerned with impressing your ignorant, crotchety old ass. Now go have an Ensure and a smile and leave the observational comedy to under-85's, anyone really whose understanding of American pop culture extends beyond the fucking Howdy Doody show.
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Wait...so it's better than "Bad Boys 2"? Is that even possible? How many large Cuban villages are decimated by brash, cocky American police officers in this film? Because, I'll be honest, post-BB2, that's my barometer of film quality.
Oooooh, she's so adorably indie! She still shops for records! She wears vintage dresses!
If you have 3D glasses handy, this actually looks pretty good. (Yeah, we have 3D glasses sitting around in Mahalo HQ. Thanks, Eliot!)
Also: Way #13869 that you know people on the Internet are dumb...The blogger had to note at the bottom of the post that a 3D "Citizen Kane" is not coming to an IMAX near you.
If you haven't been listening to Blitzen Trapper, you're doing yourself a great disservice. I highly recommend 2008's "Furr."
Because stories about drunk losers who are stuck in the past and their sleazy, self-involved college buddies are universal.
The middle of an article from the Vancouver Sun contains this ditty: "Vancouver post-production units are salivating at the prospects presented by the Disney remake of Tron, which carries a whopping $300 million budget and opportunities aplenty for effects and digital polish." If Avatar's big price tag was a typo, I can only assume this is as well. It's the only thing that makes sense!
I mean, the original looks cool, and features Jeff Bridges. But come on. Are there THAT many people who will even recognize the name?
http://www.cinematical.com/2009/04/10/is-disney-really-spending-300-million-on-tron-2
He can't have ever really watched this movie, right? It's excruciating for me to watch, and I was utterly uninvolved with the production. I can't imagine how it would feel to see YOURSELF up there on the big screen, punching old ladies wearing bear suits.
This site has changed the way I look at the Internet. Not boners, though. I still try not to look directly at those, if I can help it.
A man faces an arson charge after telling authorities he wasn't thinking when he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apartment, and then tossed a lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked cushions and clothes.
What more is there to say? These five cats distinctly resemble Liberty Medical pitchman and "Thing" star Wilford Brimley. Enjoy.
Really trippy, insane video for this amazing Department of Eagles song. Enjoy.
I see your girls kissing and raise you CELEBRITY girls kissing!
Okay, they don't so much "make out" as kind of nuzzle, then hug. But still, if THIS video doesn't get some views on YouTube, I just don't know what to believe in any more.
Fun art depicting Disney princesses if they turned all dark and twisted. I mean...beyond just filling little girls' heads with the twin aspirations of being beautiful and marrying to a rich guy. Actual rip-your-face-off evil.
Newell, who's been asked "Are they real?" more times than she can count, seconds Seery's advice.
"We've sensationalized the whole plastic surgery industry with shows like 'Extreme Makeover' and 'Nip/Tuck,' so now people feel they can discuss it, even with complete strangers," she says. "But it's none of your business, and it's extremely offensive to pry. What if I was a cancer survivor?"
The whole article, about how you should go out of your way to give people who have had plastic surgery compliments that don't make them feel awkward, is pretty ridiculous. But this paragraph was the worst.
Ms. Newell, no offense, but you got fake boobs. You are not a cancer survivor. It may not be classy to point out a stranger's fake boobs in public...but it's still not anything remotely like being a cancer survivor. I mean, don't you get work done on your breasts so people will notice them?
I'm not saying that means it's okay to sexually harass women who have had implants. At all. I'm just saying that it's not like you have cancer.
LOTS of great videos this week. Sometimes, it's tough to find 10 individual videos that I want to highlight. Other weeks, I have to cut down a long list. Any week that gives us both a stop-motion animated film starring Bruce Lee, Nickelback getting crap thrown at them AND a music video featuring Tay Zonday and iJustine is going to be strong.
Also, please ignore the fact that I was sick all day today, and that it's readily apparent that I'm pale, sweaty and nasally in the above video.
This teenager's drawing of a 60-ft. weiner atop his parent's house stayed there for over a year before it was seen. That is how you prank!
Looks like cocaine to me, but what do I know? Maybe it's salt and she just has a very unconventional margarita recipe. Anyway, Radar Online has pictures of Khristine Eroshevich snorting SOMETHING off her pants with a straw. The timing's not great for the psychiatrist, who's in jail right now for prescribing Anna Nicole Smith with lots and lots of pills the model probably didn't need. Unless by need, you mean "wanted a lot to make having to be around Howard K. Stern less unnerving."
More info on Mahalo's page:
http://www.mahalo.com/Khristine_Eroshevich
Looks like cocaine to me, but what do I know? Maybe it's salt and she just has a very unconventional margarita recipe. Anyway, Radar Online has pictures of Khristine Eroshevich snorting SOMETHING off her pants with a straw. The timing's not great for the psychiatrist, who's in jail right now for prescribing Anna Nicole Smith with lots and lots of pills the model probably didn't need. Unless by need, you mean "wanted a lot to make having to be around Howard K. Stern less unnerving."
More info on Mahalo's page:
http://www.mahalo.com/Khristine_Eroshevich
At a hearing Thursday of the House Committee on Human Services, Elkins and other members of the panel considered more than two dozen bills related to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Three hours into the hearing, Elkins asked: "What's Medicaid?"
The Houston Republican continued: "I know I hear it — I really don't know what it is. I know that's a big shock to everybody here in the audience, OK."
He could have kept quiet. He could have asked an aide. He could have Googled it. Instead, he asked the question into the microphone in the middle of a public hearing.
Medicaid, for the record, is the federal-state health insurance program for low-income people and people with disabilities. Elkins is new to the Human Services Committee. However, he's served in the House since 1995, where one of the main tasks is crafting the state budget.
A quarter of the state budget is Medicaid.
Did that student say "What's a battle?"
No, he said "What's that rattle?"
Sounded like "battle" to me...
Well, I have a cold.
So you'd hear b's as r's...
Yes.
That is the challenge and the payoff and the thrill: the never knowing, then the waiting, then the finding out. Can you handle uncertainty?
This is the magic, the apotheosis, of the random. In a paved world, modern scavengers reclaim discovery. Adventure. Self-reliance. Self-sufficiency.
The modern scavenger reclaims the quest.
Some scavenge for fun. Some scavenge to save. Money. The world. Their souls. While consumers around us drown in debt, we liberate ourselves with every cent we save while liberating would-be trash. We know the difference between brand-new, full-price products and their dented, scavenged counterparts is —
Debt.
Some scavenge to recycle. Repurpose. Reduce. Reuse.
Some scavenge to revolt.
Some scavenge to survive.
Some scavenge for the sake of spontaneity. That is another primal ecstasy that consumer culture has quashed. Consumer culture wants consumers to imagine themselves free and democratic, decisive and bold. Consumer culture teaches that choosing the color of your phone is creativity. Up to a point, it is. A tiny calculated creativity comprising elements designed and sold by corporations. Control disguised as creativity. A short-leashed independence based on your ability and willingness to buy. But what is missing from this picture?
It's funny: Consumers think they're free.
Why is AlterNet so insistent that I start going through trash bins? This is seriously the third of fourth "you should really start dumpster diving" article I've seen on there recently.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do anything to try to conserve resources and be less of a wasteful American consumer.
But if we're going to solve the considerable environmental, economic and social problems we're facing as regards excess consumption and waste, we need PRACTICAL solutions. Not encouraging more Americans to forage for scraps in the trash. I'm betting most of them are like me, and prefer to spend their weekends NOT exhausted and running from security guards whilst coated in refuse. Thanks all the same.
Looks like pretty standard vampire movie stuff, but I'm sure it will be more than that. I like his entire Vengeance Trilogy - "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance," "Oldboy" and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance." Really impressive.
Love it. I know it has been a troubled production, but this just looks beautiful. Can't wait. Don't let me down, Spike!
On March 16, 2009, Richardson was hurt in a ski accident while vacationing in Mont Tremblant, Canada, near Montreal. She suffered what is being called a "traumatic brain injury" and was rushed to the city's Centre Hospitalier Laurentien.
http://www.mahalo.com/Natasha_Richardson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/16/natasha-richardson-ski-ac_n_175573.html
I'm not sure how many of you caught Glenn Beck's Fox News special on Friday night, "You Are Not Alone." I certainly didn't. I caught up with clips from it over the weekend, and needed some time to PROCESS what I had seen.
When you first see this clip, you can't help but be distracted by the fact that Beck is a bad actor and an utter fraud. He's not feeling the emotions he play-acts here, and he's not even doing a halfway-decent job of feigning them. I seriously think I could do a better job of pretending to be worked up over my love for America. (Maybe I'll try it on This Week in YouTube...hmm...) That's somehow even more insulting.
It's only after seeing it a few times that I realized how CREEPY the whole thing is, and how unsettling it makes life in modern-day America that this vapid blubbering actually RESONATES with some of my fellow citizens.
Yes, I watched it a few times. I've found Beck a loathsome little man for a while now, but I found this clip particularly disturbing. It's like watching an image beamed down from an alien planet, or some wretched dystopian future. If you were making an Orwellian satire of this moment in history, you could not render our media in a more over-the-top fashion. This is it. Beck here makes the propaganda guy from "V for Vendetta" look like Edward R. freaking Murrow.
At one point, Beck pretends (badly) to have the spontaneously realization that he sounds like a televangelist. It's an odd moment, because that's obviously the sort of pose he's trying to adopt (though most televangelists go about it in a more natural, charismatic fashion). You're wondering why someone who even pretends to have informed opinions about world events would want to invite comparison to charlatans like Benny Hinn, who yell at strangers and hit them with sport coats for a living. I guess that's what passes for austere sagacity in Beck's mind. Frightening.
We've prepared a metric crap-ton of Mahalo pages on this year's NCAA Tournament. Seriously, Angie and our Sports and News teams have really outdone themselves. I can't think of a better way to follow all the action than hanging out in the locker room. And as an added benefit, Mahalo doesn't smell funky and contains significantly less full frontal nudity. Unless that's your thing. http://www.mahalo.com/NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_Tournament_2009
http://www.mahalo.com/March_Madness_2009
http://www.mahalo.com/NCAA_Bracket_Predictions
http://www.mahalo.com/Print_NCAA_Bracket
Say what you will about the guy's politics, but Ron Silver was a great actor. Love him as Dershowitz in "Reversal of Fortune" and as the villain in the "Heat Vision and Jack" pilot. Trailers for both on the Mahalo page.
Claiming O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, an effort is under way to solicit money for the former football star's appeal of his Nevada conviction and prison sentence on kidnapping and armed robbery charges.
Barrett Prody, the brother of Simpson's former girlfriend, created a nonprofit corporation and an Internet Web site, the Society Against Legal Injustice Inc., to raise money for Simpson.
This Viceland photo essay is really disturbing. Abandoned Detroit schools left to decompose for decades...Feels like a chilling glimpse of things to come, in some strange way.
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n2/htdocs/schools-out-forever.php
If you surf the Internet, you've seen the ads for IQ tests which claim: Barack Obama's IQ is (the numbers vary from 135-171); Joe Biden's is 150; Hillary Clinton's is 155 and so on. Naturally, Republicans are rated much lower and a fake article on the presidents' IQ once claimed that George Bush's IQ was the lowest of all. The ad goes on to ask-Are you smarter than...? Well, I am and I can prove it unlike all these so-called claims of how smart our newly elected president is.
This whole article is glorious. See, because Alicia Colon's thesis is: "I am smarter than Barack Obama." And in the course of "proving" this thesis, she makes a metric ton of logical and grammatical errors.
Care for another example?
"Many of my alleged intelligent friends told me that it was that memoir, Dreams from My Father that convinced them of how bright Obama is."
Alleged friends? She heard a rumor that these people were here friends, yet she's uncertain whether or not the friendship genuinely exists?
Okay, okay, one more...
"Besides how can you conclude that the planet is undergoing rapid climate change when we've only been documenting those records for a few hundred years? The planet was warmer before there were human beings on it."
The planet...was warming...before there were human beings on it...Oh yeah, this person's smarter than the first black president, a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School (and a former Constitutional Law professor AND the first black president of the Harvard Law Review).
But is he in Mensa? Case CLOSED.
Lots of great shows among the nominees. On one hand, it's a bit disappointing, conceptually, that SO MANY nominees for web television are stars from...regular television. And movies. Felicia Day aside, shouldn't web shows have their own stars? Otherwise, isn't it just TV that didn't quite make it on to television, as opposed to some new kind of format? But on the other hand, I can't deny that Paul Rudd was hilarious on "Wainy Days," NPH was great in "Dr. Horrible" and though I haven't seen "Gemini Whatever," I'm sure Rosario Dawson was considerably fetching. So I guess the panel behind these selections did the right thing - nominate the best stuff they saw without any kind of outside considerations.
Background and major nominees here: http://www.mahalo.com/Streamy_Awards
Full list of nominees here: http://www.streamys.org/nominees.shtml
Saw these guys years ago, at the Fonda I believe. It can be a BIT much at times, but many of their individual songs are great. I didn't even know they had a new album.
(Found by http://twitter.com/bryanbrinkman on Twitter)
Mahalo walkthroughs are always super-helpful. I've been relying heavily on the "Fallout 3" guidelines for days now.
Our latest is about the new "Resident Evil 5" game. I'm going to try to pick this up some time this week, if I can't borrow the Mahalo copy before then...
The George Clooney-flavoured tofu - or CloFu - would be available to all his fans.
PETA wrote to the 47-year-old actor to explain the idea.
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“The technology actually exists to take your perspiration and make it into George Clooney-flavoured tofu (CloFu)," they said in a letter.
To quote Doug Benson: "T...to the A...to the S-T-E-Y!"
She's also been on "Girls Next Door." Plus, a little trivia, she's the daughter of former Playmate Gale Olson! Way more details on the Mahalo page:
36 episodes...amazing. Shira's doing an amazing job, and the special guest in today's episode was all her. That is how you produce!
If she really doesn't understand economic issues, how come she's on TV every day talking about them? Just gracefully decline the opportunity to be interviewed about the economy, if you genuinely don't think you have any kind of grasp on the topic to be discussed, dear. It's not that hard. This is why you rarely see me popping up on the Style network.
Michael Gallagher may be one of the great geniuses of the YouTube Era. His web show's first video? Interactive Sex. #2? Girls making out. That's called "knowing your audience," folks.
Does Gervais actually start discussing the Holocaust with Elmo? It's hilariously traumatizing!
http://www.mahalo.com/Ricky_Gervais
http://www.mahalo.com/Elmo
Here's some footage of me talking to the, um, celebs at the Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy. In all seriousness, Doug Benson is a really nice dude and HI-LARIOUS. And Gary Busey is crazier than even this video makes him look.
The Adventures of That Yellow-Shirted Such-and-Such. This is extremely well-done.
Jada Plinko Smith's controversial school in Calabasas, the New Village Leadership Academy, is thriving!
The actress turned musician turned producer opened the doors to the experimental
ScientologyAcademy last fall after more and more parents requested for their kids to join the home-schooling program Pinkett Smith had started for her two children!"More and more parents were like, 'Can we come?' Then my house started to fill up. We had like 20 kids and I said, 'We might as well start a school,"' Jada said on the conception of the Academy.
I think that's how Harvard was founded too, right? "Hey, we might as well start a school!"
Based on this article, I can only assume that the Smiths are teaching kids how to discover who they were in past lives or travel to the Omega Quadrant or something. There's no way this is a real school for the learning of actual things. You'd be better off sending your kids to the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good.
A Yale University student from Ohio has filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million from US Airways for a video game console he says was taken from his luggage.Twenty-one-year-old Jesse Maiman alleges that during a flight from New Haven, Conn., to Cincinnati in December, his Xbox 360 with a specialized hard drive disappeared from his luggage.
Still not sure who to blame in $10 million suits over lack of girlfriend and Cheeto stains on shirt, pants.
Well played. They couldn't come up for anything for "Montgomery Flea Market," though? That's one of the all-time greats.
They are saying that “word around town” is that 20th Century Fox is looking to reboot the Fantastic Four franchise. The reboot would be a eying a tone that is “less bubble gum” and more along the lines of what Iron Man was, with enough edge to keep fans interested and enough mainstream appeal to find big box office success. And it makes sense, seeing as the two Tim Story directed movies were decidedly goofy, earning mixed reactions from die-hards and casual moviegoers alike.
Yes, please. Not sure it has to go TOO serious, but I'd like to see an FF movie that at least gets Dr. Doom right. One of the all-time great comic book villains...I wasn't really feeling the dude from Nip/Tuck in this part...
Did Juan from Manolith just confirm my theory?
And I quote: "I don't want to sound judgmental here, but if you see "The Watchmen" and feel the need to giggle at the sight of Dr. Manhattan's penis, or comment on how you did not appreciate seeing it later, you kind of need to grow up."
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.
I guess this part was always more likely than that whole "no possessions" part. I mean...John...it's a catchy tune and all...but come on...
This is so sweet. Live Phish has put all 3 of the new Phish Hampton reunion concerts online for FREE! I am downloading Night 2 right now. Setlist includes Split Open and Melt, Punch You in the Eye, Gumbo, Reba, It's Ice (from my all-time fav Phish studio album, "Rift"), Guelah Papyrus, Lawn Boy, Run Like a goddamn Antelope, Birds of a Feather, Wolfman's Brother, MIke's Song, Character Zero and Day in the Life. EPIC.
I don't want to sound judgmental here, but if you see "The Watchmen" and feel the need to giggle at the sight of Dr. Manhattan's penis, or comment on how you did not appreciate seeing it later, you kind of need to grow up. I mean, it's an animated penis. It has a place in the story and a reason to be there. It draws attention to two things:
(1) Dr. Manhattan is god-like, but he's still a real man with a real connection to the human race. His body is not entirely vestigial.
(2) Superheroes are frequently depicted as larger-than-life in comics, whereas "Watchmen" ponders what they would be like if they were, in fact, real people. Seeing Dr. Manhattan's genitals draw us back into this idea, reminding us that his heroics and supernatural abilities are nevertheless seated in a being that is tangible and recognizably human.
We won't think you're gay just because you looked at a cartoon penis in a film. Grow the F up.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday he'd seriously consider running for president in 2012.
With the mantle of the Republican Party still unclaimed, Gingrich told reporters in Ashland, Va., before a speech to Randolph-Macon College that he and his family would examine the political environment in early 2011, and "look seriously at whether or not we think it's necessary to do it."
Oh, I hope he's serious! I predict this will go very well. For Jon Stewart and Bill Maher.
EW reports that the cast members of the Seinfeld NBC television series will be reuniting for a multi-episode arc on Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. That sounds gold, Jerry...Gold!
The Wes Anderson one is the best. He's so easy to parody...
New trailer for Jim Jarmusch's latest, "The Limits of Control." Looks really good. Sort of like Antonioni's "The Passenger" meets "Ghost Dog."
http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/thelimitsofcontrol/
Williams was checked into a Miami hospital suffering from unspecified heart issues today. He had already canceled four shows in his "Weapons of Mass Destruction" tour. Hope he's alright.
Background and Info: http://www.mahalo.com/Robin_Williams
This guy is actually the hardcore champion of life. Don't hate.
The first trailer for Michael Mann's new film looks SWEET. Very "Untouchables." I'm looking forward to it.
Bob Dylan will release a new studio album in late April, Rolling Stone reports. The magazine quotes an anonymous insider who says the 10-song set's arrival "came as a surprise" to those around the folk-rock legend. The currently untitled album reportedly centers on "raw-country love songs, sly wordplay and the wounded state of the nation."
New Dylan album full of "raw-country love songs" and "sly wordplay"? I'm in.
Not really my sport. I'm more a badminton guy. But I'm very proud of the work the Sports Team has done with our NHL Trading coverage. Check it out.
DesignByHumans has a bunch of cool shirts, and they will send you one at random in exchange for $10. (Well, you can tell them your gender and size. You know what I mean.) Chances of getting a cool, or at least wearable, design are strongly in your favor.
Unfortunately, what he does is convince children to blow into his conveniently-placed air hole.
Seriously, just not appropriate...Gives the term "Fast Ball Special" a whole new and unpleasant meaning.
Convicted on 22 counts for molesting two young girls. What a sicko.
It's pretty accurate...I'm constantly being added and then unfollowed because I no longer auto-follow back. And I've spoken out about the constant lunch-themed "nom nom nom" tweets. Weak...
Krispy Kreme ARE very delicious...but maybe not that delicious. A little decorum, please...
Spinal Tap announced at a press conference yesterday that they will be going on tour later this spring –- but not as Spinal Tap. Confused? Let me explain. The core Tap trio of actor-comedians, Christopher Guest (aka "Nigel Tufnell"), Michael McKean ("David St. Hubbins"), and Harry Shearer ("Derek Smalls"), are hitting the road for a 30-date "Unwigged & Unplugged" tour, which starts on April 17 in Vancouver, B.C., and ends in Milwaukee on May 31. And they will be playing songs from both 1984's This Is Spinal Tap and 2003’s A Mighty Wind, in which the three played aging folkies The Folksmen. BUT they will be leaving their Tap outfits –- and, in Shearer’s case, the foil-wrapped vegetables -– behind and perform as themselves. The Tap are also set to release a new CD on May 25. I can’t confirm at the moment as to whether they will try to “milk it for a few more years in Europe.”
Not sure I totally get this...They're going on tour playing Spinal Tap songs, but as Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Christopher Guest? I'm not saying it won't be pretty awesome, but why do it this way? It obviously won't be as much fun as seeing them as Spinal Tap. I don't know...sort of smacks of self-importance.
