22. Adult 2.0 Keynote (Silicon Valley, S02E07) Stray Observations "Oh my." (Game of Thrones, S05E07) "All rulers are either butchers or meat." (Game of Thrones, S05E07) "Before he brought us Digg, Kevin Rose had to bring us…a whole lot of useless things, then after Digg…
Date Archives May 2015
Rapid Decompression
Kids shows these days… At tonight's Tumblr Fuck Yeah Party Sponsored by Entourage—that is the party's official name— I meet an Entourage fanboy named Jeff. I ask him why he loves the show. "It's the life I wanted," he says. "I just missed out on…
The Best Pictures: 2000-2014
Previously on Adam Riff™: 21st century mixtape. Our favourite songs. One per year. I thought it might be fun to do the same exercise with films. Our favourite films of the 21st century. One per year. The Participants A. Me B. Drew, who is a…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
21. The End (Late Show with David Letterman, 05-20-15) RT: Jesus Christ it's like watching a montage of your own life RT: "Everlong" is the halfway point between "Diary" and "Clarity" and that probably explains why I think it's the best rock song of the…
I must not have smacked you hard enough
A $56 cheese pizza at the Rock in Rio music festival in Las Vegas (of Anaheim) Last Call with Carson Daly has been on NBC for 13 years, and I have never seen a single second of it. Has Late Night with Seth Meyers produced…
The Man Who Would Be King
My first real exposure to David Letterman was in elementary school, when Steve Marsh brought The Late Night with David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists and The Late Night with David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists: Roman Numeral Two! to class. I flipped…
Cast of thousands, but we were the real two
Henry Rollins plays Jack, an immortal cannibal who avoids all emotional entanglements, as he either tends to outlive his friends, or eat them. Jack is forced to confront his past when he meets the daughter he never knew he had, and must walk a tight…
Adam Riff™ Clip of the Week
20. Adam Sandler's Musical Ode to David Letterman (Late Show with David Letterman, 05-12-15) Honourable Mention Junior's a Republican? (Black-ish, S01E23) David Letterman Interviews Tom Waits While Handcuffed to George Clooney (Late Show with David Letterman, 05-14-15) Tom Waits – "Take One Last Look" (Late…