Business Casual Superstar
If you type "Chri" into Google image search, Christina Hendricks is the first thing that comes up. Before "Christ." Jesus should have shown off that hourglass figure more, yo.
I was all set to put together an AWESOME, big, fat post today, the kind of post that's so fat with awesome that it doesn't take its shirt off when it goes swimming. I was going to make my own fanmix, like the one I shared last time that someone made for Lindsay Bluth of Arrested Development fame...
Posted by Huma Rashid on Aug 10, 2010 @ 10:22 pm
News for Now
Did anything happen this weekend besides Lollapalooza? Time to find out.
I swear, life did happen in the midst of Lady GaGa's giant cock and Arcade Fire's Arcade Fire-ness. People went to the movies! To see a flick that I have yet to hear anything about. Seriously, this is freaking me out. Some movie called The Other Guys won the box office war this weekend with $35.5 million. BUT WHAT IS IT? Apparently, it features Will Farrell and Marky Mark. Other than that, I have no idea. Up until this point, I thought my not owning a TV wouldn't be an issue. I was gravely mistaken. To the Best Buy!
OK, I can sort of understand not knowing about a movie--without a TV, how will I see previews? But not knowing about the upcoming Weezer album? Besides actively trying to block it from entering my brain, there's no real excuse. I didn't absolutely despise their last album, but I certainly wasn't impressed. However, Lost fans might like it? It's called Hurley, cover art = a huge picture of Jorge Garcia's face, and it drops on September 14 via Epitaph.
I feel bad for robots and hipsters--they've kind of mutually hijacked one another. It's hard for most people to think of a hipster that doesn't like robots, and, well, robots do love a good skinny jean. Anyway, as much as I hate to feed into stereotypes, I can't really think of anything hipper than this sentence--the soundtrack to I'm Here, Spike Jonze's upcoming short film about robots in love features Animal Collective, Sleigh Bells, Girls, and Lost Trees (composed of YYY's Nick Zinner, Flea, and an L.A. artist by the name of Aska Matsumiya. Check out those jams on October 5.
Posted by Alyssa Vincent on Aug 10, 2010 @ 11:11 am
Business Casual Superstar
If you're going to be married to a never-nude, you might as well look good in your clothes 24/7.
The only people that don't like Arrested Development claim not to like it because it is pretentious, and it's because THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE PRETENTIOUS GOD WHAT DOUCHEBAGS.
:-|
Sorry.
Can you tell Arrested Development is one of my favorite television shows ever? Sure, it's no Blackadder, and it's no Jeeves and Wooster or Fry and Laurie, but it edges out past the Office, How I Met Your Mother, and The Big Bang Theory, which are some of my other favorite shows. The live action ones, I mean...
Posted by Huma Rashid on Aug 04, 2010 @ 9:21 pm
News for Now
The article in which I re-discover that I (not-so-secretly) love synth-pop covers, anything and everything that has to do with Sleigh Bells, and cat movies.
How cool is this? Doug Martsch and Brett Nelson of Built to Spill decided to cover seven of their songs in a synth-pop style. Actually, now that I think about it, that might piss off a bunch of legit Built to Spill fans...
Posted by Alyssa Vincent on Aug 03, 2010 @ 10:10 am
Ups and Downs
As long as we're selling the body parts of famous dead people, can I get my hands on Che Guevara's beard/hat? I want to look cool for the hipsters.
Up: When Advertisers get me: The irony of the near-complete media saturation of our culture is that more than ever, teenagers are complaining that advertisers don’t understand how to communicate with today’s youth.* WELL NO MORE. Who knew that it would take a beverage company--The Dr. Pepper-Group, to be specific--to identify with the pressing needs of adolescents? To wit:
Posted by Ryan Peters on Aug 03, 2010 @ 1:01 am