I was hoping to devote Cocktail Crashers to the history of Black Friday, but it’s far less interesting than I thought. Instead, I figured I’d go back to my favorite past time- finding the bizarre etymology of words and phrases that seem slightly out of place, until you study their origin, and find that they’re not only out of place,…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
I was watching a part of the Macy’s Day Parade yesterday. I saw something I had always wanted to see, and never knew I did. The Fred Hill Briefcase Drill Team. The group was created by Fred Hill for his suit store he opened a long time ago. Well since then the store closed, but the drill team has not.…
By Hawkes Klein
Finally we can start listening to Christmas music again! Growing up we listening to Elivis and Willy Nelson’s Christmas albums and watching “White Christmas” and “Christmas Vacation” over and over! I just moved my 100+ Christmas song mix over to my ipod and I’m listening to it now!
I synched up my ipod with this video (because I dont have sound…
By Matt Lambert
You know what there’s not? A dearth of reviews of Chinese Democracy. Well first of all, the only review of Democracy that anyone really needs to read is Chuck Klosterman’s. Secondly, this isn’t really a review, it’s a Popten list. And thirdly, Guns N’ Roses has been my favorite band since I was eleven, which I feel gives me a special,…
By Jeremy Kotin
-Not quite just another meal in the big city
It started as a standard meal in the West Village. As the appetizer was being served, I turned and saw we had been seated next to Lisa the “evil lesbian” from Top Chef: Chicago. I wasn’t sure if this meant I was at a good restaurant, I mean she was in the…
There’s nothing I love more than finding a passage in Shakespeare or Moby Dick that I’ve heard before in a hip hop song. What better proof that all ideas are recycled, translated for the current generation?
Dr. Dre? Quoting Moby Dick. Eminem? Quoting Chuang Tzu and Shakespeare. (Really, my theory is that Eminem and Dre travelled back in time, freestyled some…
By Chivo
Forget moving further and further out on the L, or- dare I say it- sprawling out to the JMZ… HOBOKEN is where it’s at. Sure the people suck, but we’ve got so many “artists” here in Williamsburg and East Bushwick that we can infest the Jersey shore, attract the yuppies and BAM! Sooner than you know it, Hoboken’ll be the…
No cavemen, I promise.
You have to click the link “Burger King Commercial” to view. Don’t miss that one!
The rest after the Jump…
In a country where all the good ideas have been taken by all the awesome people in other countries, we’ve resorted to repetition. I mean really, who doesn’t like their parents clothes, or music, or drug habits? It’s pretty much the basis of this whole pop culture thing. I remember being in seventh grade, and the new new Jordans came…
As I was searching for a specific part of every M.A.S.K. cartoon that reminded me of Obama’s Economic Team Formation, I came across this video…
I had to post it, because it is so completely, unbelievably off. I’ve never even heard of half of these shows, and I was a cartoon junkie for that entire decade! However, it completely makes up…
Matt Ellsworth and I met while making Second Skin, a documentary I directed on virtual worlds. He’s one of the boys from Indiana who loves to game. Our conversations over the years have led to a few things, one of them was finding a common love for Johnnie Walker Black Label, and the second was a penchant for postulating about…
The geek have officially inherited the Earth, as was prophesied in Psalms 37:7 (more or less) so many bearded men ago. It’s a fairly recent thing, having happened somewhere between Google’s ascent to ubiquity, the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the eyebrow-raising popularity of Weird Al’s White & Nerdy. And since history is told by the…
How much does James Cameron ride George Lucas’ dick? Only enough to base an entire movie, Avatar, on the final battle sequence from the last good film in the Star Wars franchise, Return of the Jedi. Each film has its ragtag band of native creatures, each film pits basic bush weaponry against mechanized slaughter machines, each film has exploding trees.…
Come with me, friends, to another time. Let’s say 1998ish. Ross and Rachel rule the airwaves, ER is hailed as the Best Drama Evar. As the sun sets on Seinfeld, critics mourn its passing, proclaiming that we’re not likely to see a show of its brilliance ever again.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld yesterday. It’s still funny, despite the canned…
I sincerely hope I made every attempt to be fair and honest and if I left off a film you love, please know that it was not with malice and there are only ten spots. I even split them into two genres because taking any of these off the list kind of made my heart hurt. Also, feel free to…
