So it was fake-nounced today on imdb that they are moving forward with the Arrested Development movie. I'm waiting until I hear this from a more credible source, but in the meantime, check out this amazing gallery of Arrested Development gif's.
I lol'd all over the place when I found these on oh no they didn't.
The video for LSGHLS just came out, which is just one of the great songs on Santogold's eponymous album.
It and another cut, appear below. Yay!
Beckstar blog lovin' Lil' Wayne.
Beckstar blog what the hell is he talking about at 0:55?
Beckstar blog Weezy invented a new style of talking.
Beckstar blog I am seriously considering replacing R Kelly with Wayne in my heart.
Beckstar blog Weezy considers good sex to be a job.
Beckstar blog how do I become one of Weezy's goons?
Beckstar blog WOW WOW WOW.
Beckstar blog watching this video over and over while hungover from Pride fun.
Beckstar blog you will love this.
Facebook ads suck sometimes. I mainly get ones about tightening my abs and reminding me that I'm '29 and still single'. Well you know what, Facebook? I'd rather be single than married to someone and trolling the service below...
But just to hang out. Maybe drink lemonade. Certainly not to write and act hours of Buffy/Dr. Horrible slash fanfic.
Oh Joss, you make me want to do evil.
So, anyhow - Joss Whedon created and wrote/produced Buffy - the best television show of all time, period. What Tarantino is to action film, Joss is to genre television - deep fans of their medium, their projects are a blend of homage and original creation, playing to a populist audience but with rich payoff for smarter/deeper viewers, and done with so much fun they make it look easy. Love the Joss.
So, during last year's writer strike, instead of getting bloated and lying around the California coastline, he wrote, produced and directed (with collaboration from his brother and some others) a three-part supervillian musical miniseries called Dr. Horrible, starring Neil Patrick Harris. Love the Joss.
It was broadcast online only, for free (although after this weekend it is supposed to be only on iTunes - $4) as an experiment in alternate distribution and, as Joss describes in a LA Times interview, to create an Internet event for the fans (and others) to enjoy because we enjoyed it so much Mission accomplished. The first installment was successful enough to crash the servers and, most importantly, is an amazing, compelling, hella fun little bit of cinema.
In the same interview, Joss mentions that he is doing a musical commentary for this, which is pretty much the best idea ever. LOVE THE JOSS.
You should go watch it right now.
...but what y'all call beef is not beef at all.
I don't know if you're following the old skool versus new skool beef between Ice-T and Soulja Boy, but if not, the Beckstar provides.
The play by play goes as follows: Ice-T disses Soulja Boy on the MixTape, Soulja Boy responds with video, Ice-T answers in kind. Kanye chimes in. Enjoy:
Ice-T --> "Soulja Boy - let me talk about Soulja Boy. I know you're young enough to be my kid, but you singlehandedly killed hip hop"
Soulja Boy --> "Real talk though. Mr T. you gots to- you must understand, shit is different now. When you was born, niggas was still driving in wood cars, god-damn Walmart wasn't made yet, you know. There wasn't no internet, there wasn't no video cameras to record this, to diss your whole ass on."
Ice-T --> "If any war, it's going to be good hip hop versus bad hip hop, you understand what I'm saying? And if there has to be a war on that battlefield, then' I'm proud to be the general, nigga. And I will never shoot a round off."
Where has this show been all my life?
It's called She's Got the Look, and is totally Top Model for the MILF set. What else do you need to know?
a) it's hilarious - a woman talks, in her audition, about her lifelong dream of posing with a lion styled like a siamese twin. And she's definitely not kidding.
b) it's proof that age does not equal maturity - one of the women freaks out after losing a competition and rants "I know why you won, and it's SUPERFICIAL". In a modelling competition. Brillance.
c) beyond belief MILF-iness. One of the women, when asked to share her 'darkest secret', admits that she likes younger guys... eighteen year old guys, and another says that she made her sons sign a contract never to love anyone as much as her.
d) hot, hot, hot ladies. Seriously - these women are smoking. Check it:
You can watch the whole business online on the TV Land 'She's got the Look' site, and I highly recommend that you check you at least the first episode.
Or check out the 'best moments' compilation prepared by one of my favourite bloggers - Tracie Egan.
MILFs for life!
TURTLE POWER!
You will watch this video because:
a) you were with me when I was one toe over the line outside of the Astoria after the completely amazing Clips/Woodhands show, yelling this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle theme line and having people call back the Turtle Power! part;
b) you've ever seen the original version;
c) you wish to finally settle the question of whether any words can sound soulful and sincere with the right delivery;
d) you deserve a mellow, turtle-powered jazz break (which, obviously, you do);
e) you are willing to indulge me in a musing on media;
Quod erat demonstrandum - you press play now.
0:54 to 1:20 will blow your mind and break your heart simultaneously
Friends, meet David Choi. He's a moderately talented aspiring singer from LA playing mainly acoustic covers of popular songs, and his own saccharine ballads. But what strikes me is that David Choi is so 2.0 it's 2.econd nature.
Witness davidchoimusic.com - re-launched recently, it includes a member's community, links to multiple networks (he has about 15,000 myspace friends) an active text blog, video blog and Twitter feed, a (currently empty) store and even a LIVE DAVID CAM. Yes, you read that right. He even accepted my friend request on Facebook within twelve minutes of sending.
Hidden Website Secret! You can softly caress David's pet hamster in real time by pressing control-shift-e repeatedly on his homepage!
I've recently the pleasure of hearing two of today's most relevant digital thought leaders speak: Chris Anderson at this year's Vidfest keynote, and Richard Edelman at our offices (full disclosure - both Vidfest and Richard Edelman are connected to my current place of employ.)
Both made speeches which included an identical statement: If you're under 25, you know this already.
The need for this sentence is interesting. It isn't necessarily generational, but the gap between those who are using the digital space and those who are learning from slideshows about it has never been more important.
Social media is so specifically about interaction, I wonder if it's possible to understand it without actually participating in it.
Long-time readers will remember that this site used to have a '10 reasons why this blog is better than your myspace page' sidebar. Then I registered an account for personal reasons. I loved it, and am now active there and on Facebook as well as peripherally on some other sites. Being open to new social networking ideas helps create smart strategies, organize life, and have a lot of fun.
But, if you're under 25, you knew that already.
Yet another awesome comedy vid inspired by the world of social networking.
If nothing else, the popularity of vids like this is a clear indication that the social net. phenomenon has reached critical mass, and that we're all trying to figure out what it means.
'cause it's gonna get sloppy!
1992 was amazing.
I love this line in particular:
By the time you add up all the people who are involved in creating an application, you'll end up with as many as 20 or 30 people.
Idiots of Ants are a UK based comedy troupe. These particular ones are based on the premise of Facebook-style interaction in the real world. Enjoy the LOL's.
It's funny to watch, as obviously Facebook communication is stilted and strange when done in person. The hundred or so comments added since the video was uploaded four days ago are quick to crow about how it
This is great, now I can send this to my friends when they ask why I'm not on Facebook.
brilliant.. i dont understand why anyone would want the world to see what the frick they are doing...frikin hate facebook...
Great...that's why a Removed my account from Facebook lol
HA thats so funny i guess its realy like that when u think about it'
Well, it's not quite Stephen Colbert's sublime White House Correspondent's Dinner keynote, but Tim Robbins had some interesting things to say at the National Association of Broadcasters confab.
Check them out here.
"He's in his wiiiiiide stance! with his hammer pants down!" Hats off to you Jon Stewart.
Together in one amazing user-created vid. Seriously - this rules.
Flight of the Conchords. New Zealand's fourth most popular digi-folk paradists. If you don't know - now you know.
This video is obviously the theme song for anyone who's recently moved to Montreal.
Or check out this amazing rap battle between Hiphopopotamus and Rhymenoceros. You might want to say those out loud for maximum effect. Word.
My rhymes are so potent, that in this small segment
I made all of the ladies in the area pregnant
... a fifty-first of Miss Teen USA 2007 delegates is jawdroppingly stupid.
This is either a moment of nerves taking over a brain, or an amazing insight into the world view of the extreme idiot.
You know, I always found the whole 'pageants are about academic scholarship' angle a bit dubious...
But this is insanely viral right now, and I thought, out of service to my readers, you should be ahead of the curve on this madness:
If someone says 'Youtube? Isn't that all just autistic kids with keyboards these days?', you'll know to what they refer.
It's the anthem of the summer. It's the video of the year. It's the cutest robot ever.
Lupe Fiasco has been quietly ruling for a while, so stop sleeping and bear witness:
Praise due also to Jill Scott, who brings the vocals.
And this... is the weirdest commercial of the year. It's extremely disturbing and creepy, but hey - when you're trying to sell Slurpee's to kids, you do what you can. Noting, of course, that one of the more successful Slurpee flavours/promos in recent history was the Bloody Zit. Yeah. Maybe this works.
What, exactly, is he supposed to be drinking?
So last night we went to the Harry Potter book seven launch! Woohoo!!
I've just finished the book - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - and witnessed memorable characters and worlds find their fate written, their destiny sealed. I'm going to discuss it in full, spoiler-y detail right now - but I'll mask the text. Highlight it with your cursor if you're sure you want to read it:
Loved it! The resolution of many of the plotlines happened along the lines I expected, but wasn't sure. Some key points:
1. That Snape betrayed Voldemort out of love for Lily. Plausible. Awesome. As we saw in Book Five, his worst memory may not have been the day he was humiliated by James and the boys, but rather the time he called Lily a mudblood. And this explains why Dumbledore trusted him so deeply. And his death was pretty much a given. Poor, poor Snape. In many ways, I'd consider him the real hero. And the epilogue? When Harry admonishes his son (Albus Severus Potter!) for speaking against Slytherin? So good.
2. That Harry was a horcrux. How you like that? This one was ultra-controversial. The pottercasters were sharply divided over this question, although the scarcrux theory, as it had been called, explained so many things it seemed like the right fit. To whit:
3. Harry Lives! Of course he does. Puffaw. Seriously.
Good book, poor Snape, yay Harry. I also liked it when Neville kicked ass at the end. Woot! I did think it would be cool to know more about their lives at the end - like what jobs they had - but it was pretty awesome overall, most definitely.
