Bad Religion will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year.

Also turning 30 this year: CNN.

Bad Religion pre-dates Magnum, P.I.

When Bad Religion formed, Israel did not have colour television.

Ric Flair was a 0-time world champion.

Streetlight Manifesto will release its long-gestating covers album, 99 Songs of Revolution, on March 16.

Confirmed songs:
» "Hell" (Squirrel Nut Zippers)
» "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" (Paul Simon)
» "Linoleum" (NOFX)
» "Birds Fly Away" (Mason Jennings)
» "Such Great Heights" (The Postal Service)
» "Red Rubber Ball" (The Cyrkle)
» "Punk Rock Girl" (The Dead Milkmen)
» "Country House" (Blur)
» "Skyscraper" (Bad Religion)
» "Troubadour" (Louis Jordan)

Ska "Country House"? That's a bingo! I can hear it in my head. Increase the tempo...

If you were to sit down and listen to every officially released song by the Beatles, you would be finished in under ten hours. [source]

I nominate Daft Punk and The Who's stage and lighting designers for Super Bowl XLV halftime.

• Artist Craig Gleason's Lady Gaga bills are fucking genius.
• The North Face Drags [Parody Brand] The South Butt to Court

At first I was like:

But then I was like:

The Wolfman's R rating suggests that Universal lacks faith in it, but if the studio ever greenlights a sequel... Idea: Che Guevara becomes a werewolf!

Historical twist!

Furry Vengeance is a terrible title for a family comedy.

Free association: Furry Vengeance.

The Scooby-Doo gang only seems to catch cosplayers. Criminal cosplayers.

• Erotic Werewolf Lifestyles Involving Mexican Food
• Two Words: Juggalo Furries
• Dogs reacting to the Law & Order theme song

The rest of my Sundance trip:

Emphasis mine.

An Italian restaurant's restroom decor.

Heh.

Slamdance's closing night film was a documentary on the creator of Jelly Belly beans.

There is no good way to transport cupcakes by air.

Hammacher Schlemmer's 40 Second Electric Toothbrush is frightening.

Has anyone tried the QuickGym 4 Minute Workout?

You get the same results from 4 minutes on the QuickGym as:
• 25 to 45 minutes of aerobic exercise
• 45 minutes of weight training
• 20 minutes of stretching

"Phoenix Sky Harbour: America's friendliest airport!"

If it's so friendly, why can't I find a map of this place? And why aren't these walkways moving? Barry Goldwater terminal – pfff!

—you're still feuding with that airport?

There are unused icons on your desktop.

A sign outside a taberna promoted DirecTV's Sunday Ticket. "Every Sunday. Every game. Join us!"

All you need is 17 airline tickets to get past security.

"We'd like you to paint a mural..."

This Fox Sports Bar also features this fabulous wall:

If memory serves me right: Favre, Yankees, McGwire. Yes, three moments.

Next: Tribeca Film Festival

• America's "drunkest" and "least drunk" cities
• Sinatra "My Way" Karaoke Killings Plague Philippines Bar Scene

#clipoftheweek

Oh God... It looks like Allan Ray's eye.

"Insurance information! Right!"

Where is it? Where is it?

Five minutes later:
"I'm sorry. I can't find it. Do you have a card? I'll e-mail it to you. I promise!"

Ten minutes later:
Fuck. I forgot to note the damage to his car.

Fifteen minutes later:
I should probably renew my auto insurance before reporting the accident.

I am now just one right taillight away from completing a corner light grand slam.

• Hipster Puppies
• Small Wonder: So so gay
• Football

Kick-Ass

MacGruber

Bear Nation
A thorough and stylish examination of the gay sexualization of fat and hair.

World's Largest
Desperate for tourism, hundreds of small towns across America claim the "world's largest" something. [Doc] visits 58 such sites and profiles Soap Lake, Washington's five-year struggle to build the World's Largest Lava Lamp.

Barry Munday
Barry Munday wakes up after being attacked to realize that he's missing his [testicles]. To make matters worse, he learns he's facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can't remember having sex with.

The People vs. George Lucas
A no-holds-barred cultural examination of the conflicted dynamic between George Lucas and his fans over the past three decades.

Saturday Night
James Franco and his crew document what it takes to create one full episode of Saturday Night Live.

Guh. Now I want to go to South by Southwest.

I wish I had friends in Austin. Someone let me crash on their floor, please?

—have you spent enough time in manhattan to have any recommendations for shit to try/do?
—mmm
—i've spent less than 24 hours of my life in new york city
—that's what i figured
—we're banging out a completely guerrilla wedding on thursday
—it's not guerrilla if you set a date
—it's guerrilla in that we planned it less than a week before the date

Hello, darkness, my old friend...

Cheers to Mr. and Mrs. McKern.

Blood Into Wine
The story of Maynard James Keenan and his mentor as they pioneer winemaking in the hostile deserts of Arizona. Featuring Tim and Eric, Patton Oswalt and Milla Jovovich.

[pause]

Joe Montana on Radio Row pitching avocadocentral.com? So, so sad. [source]

• The Official Wife Crying at Movies Site
• Round Monopoly!
• If People on the Internet Told the Truth

I saw every film I wanted to see at Sundance, and sold my ticket for Winter's Bone, which won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Screenwriting Award.

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Eh...

Animal Kingdom

» World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic

After the death of his mother, a 17-year-old boy is thrust precariously between an explosive criminal family and a detective who thinks he can save him.

Animal Kingdom is a competent Aussie rehash of existing crime family dramas.

Hesher

» Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Rainn Wilson

A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss.

The writer-director of Animal Kingdom co-wrote Hesher.

I did not expect to cry at the ending.

Blue Valentine

» Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams

A complex portrait of an American marriage. Charts the evolution of a relationship over time.

I was hesitant to see Blue Valentine because it sounded like a film that Steven would like.

Steven will love it.

Two parallel storylines – a courtship and a break-up. Ryan Gosling is utterly charming in the courtship half.

Four Lions

A comedy tour de force about a bunch of self styled British jihadis.

If nothing else, Four Lions merits a "sweet" rating for sheer audacity. I mean, a tragic farce about Muslim terrorists?

You'll guffaw, you'll cringe...

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happythankyoumoreplease

» Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic
» written and directed by Josh Radnor (Ted on How I Met Your Mother)

Six New Yorkers negotiate love, friendship, and gratitude at a time when they're too old to be precocious and not ready to be adults.

happythankyoumoreplease is...Empire State.

Tony Hale refreshingly plays against type and slays a touching monologue.

Louis C.K.: Hilarious

Sharp-tongued comedian Louis CK pulls no punches in this visceral concert experience.

Louis described Hilarious as a "cinematic" record of his 2009 material.

I needed an inhaler when he describes his scrotum.

"Shame glaze" – Bwah!

Exit Through the Gift Shop

» directed by Banksy
» Critics' Best Non-Competition Film

The story of how an eccentric French filmmaker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results.

Catfish

When a young New York City photographer is contacted on Facebook by an 8-year-old painting prodigy from rural Michigan, he becomes deeply enmeshed in her life, even falling in love with her older sister—that is, until a crack appears in her story.

The two hottest tickets at Sundance were documentaries.

Well, Exit Through the Gift Shop is billed as a documentary, but some people suspect that it is an elaborate Andy Kaufman-esque joke.

Catfish, meanwhile, may fall victim to hype.

Buried

A U.S. contractor working in Iraq awakes to find he is inside a coffin.

Yes, Buried is just 90 minutes of Ryan Reynolds inside a box, presented stylishly and sustained with questionable contrivances, like a season of 24.

The denouement is oppressively tense.