Archive for July, 2009

Monday Mix Tape

July 31, 2009

All right, I know it has been YouTube clip week on this blog, and I also know it’s Friday (not Monday), but some days it really helps to watch this scene over again. I’ve definitely been each character in this bit multiple times before.

This movie is also pretty cathartic at times. At other times it just kills me because all that catharsis is completely negated by the ending. I guess it is John Cusack so I should expect it, but, come on! How could this not end in depression?

Also, skate dorks at Milwaukee and Honore (record store location in the movie) have now been replaced, not even a decade later, by Urban Outfitters goers.

Breaking News

July 30, 2009

How sad is it that this is called “breaking”?:

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In the Loop

July 29, 2009

This was perhaps the funniest movie I have seen in years! Find out where it’s playing and watch it. Now!

Shatner Does Palin

July 28, 2009

Palin’s resignation speech recited by William Shatner as a [terribly ambiguous and nonsensical] poem on Conan (read: brilliant!):

Update: The YouTube link is down, but here is one at Hulu. You just have to endure 30 seconds of ads first.

Everything is Amazing…

July 27, 2009

…and Nobody’s Happy. Thanks, Gracie, for showing me this phenomenal social commentary from Louis CK on Conan: