Jon: Cover ideas for our year-end mixtape: A play on the cover of Hello Nasty with Adam Yauch lying alone in a coffin. Rory: Too morbid. Jon: A play on the Now That's What I Call Music! series – Apocalypse Now 12. Rory: Eh… Jon:…
Date Archives August 2012
Coming Attractions
Malody is like an indie version of the hallway scene in Inception. It will screen as part of Short Cuts Canada: Programme #1 at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Meanwhile, in Short Cuts Canada: Programme #2: Asian Gangs In 1994, Langley, B.C. Grade…
Apologize to Melo 5
What if every superhero in the world had to give up what makes them special in order to save the world, and become their meek alter egos forever? I just finished reading A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King, a former CIA counterterrorism operations officer…
No Church in the Wild
Shouldn't Green Day be birds? Over the next five months, Green Day will release three albums – ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!. BREAKING: ¡Tré! will be split into two albums. Billie Joe Armstrong: The songs just kept coming. I'd go, "Maybe a double album? No, that's…
Style Project
Bradley Cooper in Hit and Run He went to Jarret's Room. Jeff Ross on The Burn Rockin' the "Season Four Spinner" (when he resembles Paige's gay brother, pre-"What the Flock of Seagulls"). Yu Darvish Tom Hanks in Cloud Atlas How to describe it… Eurotrash Ben…
Goats go to hell
Taiwanese Little League players are so brown, they should represent "Filipino Taipei." China won't let Taiwan call itself "Taiwan," but dominating at Little League is okay. Taiwan and its former ruler Japan account for 94% of all Little League World Series teams from Asia since…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
33. Train Robbery (Breaking Bad, S05E05) Jesse Plemons kills is the new Sean Bean dies. Stray Observations "There are two kinds of heist: Those where the guys get away with it, and those that leave witnesses." (Breaking Bad, S05E05) "She is a bitch. B-I-C-T-H, and…
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