you don't even have to remember that far back to remember when he went all bonkers about how this sort of thing was crass commercialism and undermined his blabbitty bla:
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2009/01/28/billy-corgan-now-okay-with-crass-commercialism
Yesterday, I learned of the existence of Top Chef: The Game. It is awful and the trailer is worth watching to see how desperately they try to make it look fun:
http://www.topchefthegame.com/about/top-chef-the-game-trailer/
I like at the end where it says, "Congratulations! You are our next TOP CHEF." and then your only option is to click "OK".
(Bonus: imagine the corporate circle jerk where they all congratulate each other for how awesomely multi-platform it is and get raises because they "GET" the new reality of media and how kids play games instead of watching TV. Then someone with expensive hair gel says, "If this isn't available for the iPhone YESTERDAY, you dickless wonders are all fired.")
This is as good a place as any to lodge a formal complaint with the presidents of tv and movies that the Pitt/Jolie Mr. & Mrs. Smith's horribleness will be driving people away from Hitchcock's only comedy, 1941's Mr & Mrs. Smith. It's obvious that Hitchcock doesn't know how to end it about 30 minutes in, but that first 30 minutes is definitely worth watching if you like black & white screwball comedies starring couples. It's an inverse Ocean's.
I remember a Kids in the Hall sketch where (I think) one of the Kids is doing a product demo, and keeps getting interrupted, and says to a heckler, "I don't come down to where you work and jump on the bed, do I?" Maybe they had to tone it down for broadcast in a way that HBO didn't ask Mr. Show to.
I enjoyed the moment when the swooping camera work did a jump-cut to a hip kid against a graffiti background who said that these kids wouldn't be distracted by shiny things.
if it was fake, they went through the trouble of building up the username (as in username@domain.com from which it was sent) with photos of VT on various social networking-type sites. or maybe someone knew about that username and decided to prank us, which is always a possibility.
Gabe, please call Eric and ask him if he has a bunch of old equipment salvaged from some Idaho community college fire sale, or he's using crazy "Avid in Minority Report" equipment to make these things. I just don't know but I'd really like to.
Then ask him to do Hamletmachine.
i like to think the bits about a "him" and "he" was written about some American college junior on study abroad. maybe farther along in the video she explains who it is? i didn't get that far. but just savor the imaginary emotional cocktail of that junior, back home this semester, having all his frat buddies sing this to him alllllll day.
all three sort of resemble rob thomas, right? I think each time they clone him, he just gets worse and worse, like in house of cosbys, which is why they had to cover them in fake tan and makeup.
in defense of whoever she is, you can take your car on the chunnel. you can't drive it while you're there, but you could get in a car in london and then get out of that same car in russia mostly driving.
is this some sort of massively overthought dorm counselor's "let's get to know each other" project? "ok, each floor is going to make a music video and put it on youtube!"
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"Paul, why are you choking Opal and screaming 'LIARRRR' in one scene?"
you can! just type it in there. there was a very small error that kept 30 rock from popping up, but it should be working now and all the write-ins for it are counted.
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