23/1/2012
I think I have cracked the Ryan Gosling code.
The line between “hipster” culture and “jock” culture is starting to fade.
Suddenly hipsters are into organized sports and find once indie girls, now “overrated”. Suddenly jocks and business bros are active in Williamsburg on a Saturday night and are into bands like Wild Beasts and Tallest Man on Earth. I was once at a bar in Philly when a Neutral Milk Hotel song came on the speakers and this group of drunk pink polos started grabbing at each other, high fiving each other and generally being obnoxious as they sang along, bud lites in hand and eyes tightly closed.
“This song is the the fucking best, man. I love the album.”
In “hipster” culture, its ironic to wear a baseball cap and drink beer at a sports bar while suddenly being interested in hockey. For jocks its finally cool to admit that there is more to life than the Dallas Cowboys, cars and boobs (but not a whole lot more). Being indie is sexy and main stream now. The 80s are over. The cold business brat is over. Being cool, is uncool.
I personally welcome the change. The sooner “hipster” generation gets over them selves and admits that they never heard of The Shins until they saw Garden State, and jocks can open up and write poetry, the sooner I can come out and say that I read mostly the Post over the Times because it has more pictures in it.
And that’s why Ryan Gosling is so perfect right now. He is the perfect mix between tender heart, silent creative genius and Brooklyn speaking buff jock. He is a hybrid of what everyone wants to be. Take off the glasses and the ukulele and he really is just a very very talented good looking buff Hollywood DUDE. But add the band, the masculine nonchalant necklace and a dog and you’ve got an ARTIST.
(Source: ryangoslingaddicted)
This post shamelessly stolen from Whiskey and Goats Milk.
17/1/2012
ROCKY VS RAMBO
Around a year ago, a few friends and I watched all four Rambo movies in one day. We got to talking about how much fun it would be if John Rambo were to meet Rocky Balboa. So we wrote a movie about it.
We wrote the outline on one page of paper (in gold ink), split it up into six sections, and each wrote around 15-20 pages, without looking at each others’ work. I got the last section, and it was also my job to clean the script up, join the sections together, and try to get it to make sense.
Then we had a reading of it to hear what the others came up with. And then we never did anything else with it.
…UNTIL TODAY!
So here it is. Enjoy!
The writers:
Paul Rust (actor, “I Love You Beth Cooper;” currently co-writing the new Pee-Wee Herman movie)
Kulap Vilaysack (co-host, “Who Charted?” podcast; actress, “Childrens Hospital”)
Michael Cassady (actor, “The Office,” “Freakdance”)
Harris Wittels (writer, “Parks and Recreation,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Eastbound & Down”)
Neil Campbell (UCB Theatre LA Artistic Director; writer, “Mike Detective”)
Scott Aukerman (host, “Comedy Bang Bang;” writer, “Mr. Show;” co-creator, “Between Two Ferns”)
Click on the TITLE of the article to be taken to the script!
This post shamelessly stolen from The World Of Scott Aukerman.
11/1/2012
When everyone started overdoing those “Shit [blank] Says” videos (which, by the way, was considered “overdone” as soon as there was more than one) I was thoroughly displeased by the internet. I distinctly remember telling a friend of mine that these are all so hacky and terrible and that it is only a matter of time before some dumbass thinks he’s being so funny for uploading 30 seconds of a black screen and naming the video “Shit Helen Keller Says”.
Well, that time has come.
Actually, not quite. Instead of a black screen, some dude dressed up and mumbled gibberish. Perhaps the funniest part of this to me is that the stupid and hacky idea I came up with is funnier. To be clear, both are awful, and the thesis of this post is that these kind of videos need to die a death as tortuous as Hellen Keller’s life.
I didn’t need to make that last joke. I regret it.
09/1/2012
Uh oh! Baby Boy is on Tumblr! I’m John Mulaney and this is my first post. I am silly but also a guys’ guy. This is my best photo.
This post shamelessly stolen from mulaney.
5:07
To think that these guys are not only writing all of these videos, and all of the articles on the website, but also writing countless headlines that just scroll along the bottom of the videos. It’s incredible. Wait until the end of this one for “Viggo Mortensen charged with hissing like a snake at a small child”
05/1/2012
Sam Reich: Another email from Streeter
Me: I’ll hurry this into production.
Streeter: Make haste, young Sam. For a kingdom may be your namesake, but at the banquetting hall of The Mighty Internet, tis he who claims the mutton first who rules! True, in days of yore we practiced our merry arts without thought or regard for time. Why…
This post shamelessly stolen from Sam Reich.
01/1/2012
Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:
“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.
So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”
We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.
And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.
It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
This post shamelessly stolen from delete the adjectives.
08/12/2011
Lil Wayne and Robin Thicke perform “Shooter” on The Tonight Show in 2006
This performance is about as close as you can get to nailing the exact moment in which Lil Wayne’s career shifted. Before this he was little more than another New Orleans rapper that rapped over Mannie Fresh beats. He was good, and the music was good, but what else? The song “Shooter” showed Wayne becoming a much more unique artist. Here he was moving beyond the traditions of New Orleans rap. His song structure had evolved into something more cohesive. It was putting less focus on dropping three dope verses on a song and more about having a song move through transitions and create its own feelings. He doesn’t perform the final verse on this show, but the three verses all have a distinct feeling that give the song an arc. This willingness to explore the basic structure of a song in that way is something that you don’t see a lot of in southern rap, and it is one of the reasons Wayne really stands out amongst his peers. I doubt Juvenile would have rolled up for a late night television appearance and play hypeman to a singing white dude for a minute and a half before starting to rap.
07/12/2011
One of the best sketches of the season.
(Source: lawyerupasshole)
This post shamelessly stolen from cockenblog.
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