Posts tagged “pop culture”
A video (probably fabulous) plus a chat with isaac about Obama being a giant nerd, Spider-Man being the geek's superhero, and X-Men being a pretty much perfect analogy for gay people. Powers manifesting at puberty, some hidden, some flaming. It tracks.
I want to hear George Takei sincerely say "Oh Em Gee." That's it. Also, Heroes is basically a Star Trek reunion at this point, and things will get truly ridiculous when Colm Meaney shows up.
I'm late to the party, but What Would Tyler Durden Do is the funniest celebrity gossip site on the internet. It's to gossip what The Daily Show is to news.
Harry Potter's emotional arc across six books, told entirely in emoticons. New book out tomorrow!
Adorable, clueless, and pretty: Kyle XY is Smallville minus the kryptonite nonsense, plus plenty of homoeroticism. Perfect brain-off TV. I burned through all of season 1 in four days and I'm ready for season 2 tomorrow.
Watching the Oscars on the West Coast with a room full of competitive gay men is basically Eurovision without the voting. Highlights: Beyonce's barely concealed fury, the three-way diva-off, too much Jack Nicholson, and Forest Whitaker's inexplicably hot wife. Also, my back is finally better.
A masterpiece of unintentional storytelling: Tom dominates the frame, baby Suri is his trophy, and Katie literally cranes her neck just to fit in. One photo captures their entire dynamic perfectly.
Five months of hype vindicated: Snakes on a Plane is gloriously, unapologetically awesome. Samuel L. Jackson, snakes, a plane, B-movie clichés cranked to 11. Go see it.
Snakes on a Plane opens today! I can't see it until tomorrow, but I'm excited nonetheless. Snakes on a Plaaaaaaaaaane!
The *Snakes on a Plane* music video is here, complete with an original song literally about snakes on a plane and a Samuel L. Jackson cameo. This meme shows no signs of stopping.
The Snakes on a Plane meme spawned a board game called Cobras in the Cockpit, where you play as the snakes. The "based on a fictional movie" disclaimer is doing a lot of legal heavy lifting there.
Samuel L. Jackson predicts Snakes on a Plane wins Best Movie at the MTV Awards. Who am I to disagree? He's Samuel L. Jackson. I am nobody.
Snakes on a Plane is five months from release and already a cult phenomenon. The trailer is everything I hoped for, including Samuel L. Jackson loading a gun mid-sentence. It's going to be magnificent.
New Woman readers have ranked David Cameron just above James Blunt on the sexy list. Blair's probably annoyed, but spare a thought for numbers 93-99, beaten by a podgy-faced Tory. Worryingly, his policies almost make sense too.
Season 2 of Beauty and the Geek is back and I'm hooked. Equal parts hilarious and genuinely sweet, with great one-liners flying in the first few minutes. Less annoying host this season too.
George Takei came out today. CNN marked the occasion with the gayest photo they could find. Also worth knowing: he spent ages 4-8 in a Japanese internment camp. America, you've had your moments.
Saw Star Wars. It's good. Very good. Slow start, then serious ass-whupping. Go see it. Also, apparently I'm Cheer Bear.
Hollywood's shit-dial is cranked to 11 this summer with terrible team sports movies and a Lindsay Lohan Herbie reboot. At least Fantastic Four looks promising.
Madonna dressed as a nun, Guy as the Pope. My day is complete.
The Scissor Sisters' debut tracklist maps the lifecycle of The Gay Pop Artist, from innocent twink with fag-hag to scene queen to bitter, dried-out wreck. Laura doesn't fit, but the rest holds up. Too tired to analyze further. Run with it.
Liveblogging Smallville season 4, episode 4: kryptonite love potion, Chloe goes crazy for Clark, and way too many oiled-up football players. Lots of hot boys, minimal Lana, cookie-cutter plot. Not terrible, not good. Ken-doll is really hot though.
Smalltime Smallville season premiere recap, line by line. Naked Clark, flying effects, cheesy dialogue, questionable plot holes, and Lois Lane's hair color all get the treatment. Overall B+ mainly for the flying. May do this every episode. It's too much fun not to.
I've been obsessing over this boyband cover of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me." It's either brilliantly layered parody -- hairbands inside boybands inside a TV set, Beatles costumes and Hey Mickey references -- or it's just terrible. I've watched it three times and still can't decide. Neither can you, now.
William Shatner covers Pulp's "Common People," produced by Ben Folds, on his new album *Has Been*. It's fucking amazing.
A scattered collection of links: Reagan trivia, Transformers motion capture, censored album art, Murphy's Laws, the new Superman, a blog-themed song parody, TiVo for radio, and more Reagan-adjacent oddities than you can shake a stick at.
A countdown meme borrowed from Matt. My live music history is embarrassing (Steps, Vengaboys, Geri Halliwell) so I'm motivated to do better. New job tomorrow, summer plans looking good, still haven't finished my personal projects, and Mr. Right remains at large.
Been using AudioScrobbler to track my listening habits. Jellyfish dominates everything, all ten of my top songs are theirs. Also loving JC Chasez's underrated album and Alanis's return to form. I'm getting more into music than ever, and I'm not sure why.
A grab-bag of links: Jellyfish are a great band, Abu Ghraib reflects routine US prison abuse, Jon Stewart gave a funny commencement speech, and Smallville is getting good now that it's ditching freak-of-the-week for real Lex-vs-Clark conflict.
Rik made a killer Kelis vs. 2Unlimited mix. Grab it before Kiss FM ruins it.
Been exploring design sites and RSS readers. Got a good laugh from a Google rebrand showing "Britney Spears" as a search query, captioned "the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips." Also rewatching Daria, which holds up.
Posting 20 random songs from my MP3 collection to dilute the embarrassing ones. Highlights include Kelis, Queen, and Fiona Apple. Lowlights? Phil Collins, Bon Jovi, and Gareth Gates. At least Magnetic Fields saved some credibility. Britney? Totally unapologetic.
Polaroid says don't shake your photos like Outkast told you to. Also, I'm rating my blog on Hot or Not because yes, that's a thing now.
I get all my movie news from Apple's trailer site. Trailer editing is an unsung art form, and judging by how entertaining even the obvious bombs are, my attention span may be shot. Here are my five-words-or-less reviews of upcoming releases, based solely on their trailers.
The Fab Five have been reimagined as comic book superheroes. I cannot stop giggling about this.
I watched the Smallville season premiere and have many, many plot hole complaints. But let's be honest: I watch it for Tom Welling, who appears to be trending increasingly shirtless. No complaints there.
TV looks terrible this fall, but at least Smallville is back October 1st. Small victories.
Caught a Robbie Williams lyric on my way out that perfectly captures how I've been feeling lately. Also, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrr.
Stealth Disco has consumed my office and, inevitably, me. Also: Jason Mraz is great, the RIAA is suing Share Bear, Angle Grinder Man is our sad answer to the Naked Cowboy, and Teen Girl Squad is getting weird.
Watched Queer Eye, found it equal parts funny and cringeworthy. Jai Rodriguez is hot but visibly mortified. Also: Matthew is having a baby (hilarious), and apparently Sesame Street is now a tool of American foreign policy.
Shamelessly noting Madonna's kiss with Britney and Christina for the publicity stunt it is, while admitting the Google traffic won't hurt either.
A big batch of bookmarks: twisted webcomics, sexy blue men, Orlando Bloom gossip, bamboo bicycles, whale guilt, a weather-based font, TV mind control patents, Eclipse getting PHP support, and apparently I'm a Level 7 Very Feminine gay man. Enjoy the megablog.
Jewel's back with "Intuition," a catchy, danceable pop song that's a welcome change from her meandering hippy phase. The video cleverly plays commercial sellout for laughs, contrasting "real" camcorder footage with glossy video world. She wimps out a little, but it's fun and self-aware. Go download it.
Massive link dump covering: someone falling off a Segway, the UK's new supreme court, old Netscape versions, Burning Man VR, Matrix Reloaded hotness, barcode self-valuation (I'm worth £6.06), P2P legality, carfree cities, blog hype, X2, Iraq war stage-management, and lists of lists.
Yes, someone really did make "Weapons of Ass Destruction," starring Arnold Schwarzenpecker. I went looking after the Onion mentioned it as a joke. Rabbit hole also led me to "Shaving Ryan's Privates" and "Gone in 69 Seconds." Porn parody titles: apparently a thriving genre.
Michael Jackson isn't a paedophile, just profoundly broken about childhood. But after settling a lawsuit for £18.5 million, doing it again is both unbelievable and sad. He needs to grow up, but he's too rich for anyone to tell him that.
Spent the morning sleeping in, eating well, and soaking in a hot tub on the roof. I'm on vacation and it's glorious. Also spent too much time thinking about a Christina Aguilera video, of all things, and getting weirdly emotional about it. Don't judge me.
Marvel's reviving the Rawhide Kid as gay, and everyone from CNN to CBS has weighed in. My take: watered-down camp references aren't representation. If you're going to make a gay character, give him real romantic storylines. It's 2003. A gay character who never kisses a guy isn't groundbreaking.
Scott Adams keeps selling out harder than ever. Also, I fell down a rabbit hole from Slashdot to the deeply disturbing story of Gary Heidnik, a man who kept women chained in his basement. Don't say I didn't warn you.
I love the Weekly World News: the sun's exploding in 6 years, Hitler's clone just turned 7, and aliens seized NASA's moon base. Also: a Python DDR clone exists, and Ridiculopathy is required reading.
Watch Skeletor dance to a Japanese YMCA cover, explore Middle Earth in Lego, make fruit flies gay, and trash Tokyo with a novelty USB hub. People have too much time on their hands. Or boring jobs, like me. 8 days till Warwick!
The Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 toy broomstick vibrates. You stick it between your legs. The Amazon reviews are priceless. Also, I scored 0/10 on the BBC culture quiz, so there's that.
Vegan bondage gear for the ethically conflicted, the Osbournes on every magazine cover including Popular Science, and a genuinely hilarious breakdown of pop idol formats worldwide. Click that last link. I mean it.
A gay RPG geek blogger who makes me jealous, plus Homestar Runner links that are very funny.
British kids can't play, marshmallow roasting is deadly, Austin Powers 3 is rubbish (though Beyonce helps), the stock market refuses to dramatically collapse, and 80s TV makes you smarter. Just another day in the news.
A roundup of links: invisible comets, powers of 10, a great domain name, Television Without Pity's Sex and the City recaps, and fat people suing everyone. Also, I'm not alone in threatening to kill people with a spoon. Finally got a work project, but clearly not too busy to blog.
Avoiding revision with SatireWire, X-Men: Evolution trivia, and coveting t-shirts I'm too cheap to buy.
Clearing the backlog: inner-city inmates make "hick-hop," OnlineConversion.com is surprisingly useful, and I've been down a webcomics rabbit hole with mixed results. Also, there are way too many Final Fantasy characters.
A song skewering pop music clichés, structured as a duet between a "serious artist" narrator and exaggerated prefab popsters. I collected actual radio lyrics over 24 hours to prove the point. Spoiler: I caught myself using a cliché at the end.
I'm totally addicted to bass.
Garbage's Beautiful Garbage is their best yet. "Androgyny" is perfectly me, and I'm manifesting a live performance while wearing my "Nobody Knows I'm a Lesbian" shirt. "Cherry Lips" makes me wish I'd written the lyrics myself.
