By Hawkes Klein
If you haven’t been sold on Twitter yet… you will be now. Last night I turn on my TV and NY1 is on (per usual) I see a 20 second spot where they announce that the MTA is now twittering updates for each subway line. This morning I go to the new site www.twitter.511nyc.org and sign up for my own line…
Like many others, my first experience with the epicness that is Monty Oum was Dead Fantasy I and Haloid. Yes, that’s right, I didn’t see the server-overloading Halo and Metroid mash-up first. But no matter which you watch first, only one word can describe Monty’s work. Epic.
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Ah weddings. That word you hear every once in awhile, until you get down on one knee, and suddenly, months later you speak nothing but that word. It becomes an entire language that means “anxiety, expensive” more than “love, bliss”- it soon becomes that hairy ape on your back, pommeling you awake at midnight as you remember the 403,201th tiny…
I was having a bad morning on Friday, and the sour mood seemed like it was going to hover throughout the weekend. The rain wasn’t helping. Scanning through Facebook updates, I saw two or three mentioning a wedding video I had to see. Being less than a month after my own wedding (and the year and a half I obsessed…
By Hawkes Klein
It’s much more fun working when Mad Men is on TV! I dress nicer and I even bother to do my hair! Looking forward to a tweed-filled Fall with high waisted skirts and martinis after work with the ladies! Vulture reported it about an hour ago, therefore it’s insanely slow at the moment but AMC just debuted www.madmenyourself.com.
Give it a few hours…
By Randee Dawn
As children of the 1980s, we had it all. That is, if by “all” you mean fluorescent socks, tiered haircuts swathed in color, gender bending as a way of life – and bucketloads of buttons. Look, in my crowd you wouldn’t be caught dead without having at least one Major Button Statement on your jacket – be it bomber, jean,…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Allow me to introduce a special guest writer for the next month, Randee Dawn. Above she is pictured with Ice-T. I wish I had a picture with Ice-T I could flaunt too. We met on the film festival circuit where she was writing for The Hollywood Reporter. She’s a huge talent and her work spans some of the biggest publications…
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
First there was Sham Wow. We bought it.
Then there was the Slap Chop. We bought it.
Finally there is the slap chop rap.
Unbelievably, this is not only hilarious but actually well made.
By Jeremy Kotin
1. MOVIE (500) Days of Summer (2009)
This movie is already getting a little too much hype, but I cannot deny that I was swept into this flick, enjoying it from beginning to end. Sure it’s novel in the approach to love out of order and made up of moments (albeit questionably so, Two for the Road comes to mind as similar in…
I watch a lot of television, I will not argue that point. However, until recently I never typically watched commercials in this age of tivo. I recently let whatever was on my dvr keep running through the ads (gasp!) and heard such a beautiful song. I had to know what it was. It took me a little while to google,…
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…