Office by Alex Penny
Fine arts for the Fortune 500 and their kids.
Dear Pauly D:
Music videos are, by their nature, commercials. They traditionally exist to advertise the song being played underneath. That’s why so few have been made available for sale over the years; it would be like buying a DVD of McDonald’s ads.
So, when you stop the video for your utterly generic song, the one that sounds like a Casio keyboard’s new pre-programmed “EDM” setting, to encourage people to buy the song on iTunes, you are placing an ad inside an ad, which makes you the final of the “Jersey Shore” crew to officially become insufferable.
Sincerely,
A Picker of Low-Hanging Fruit
“We’ve seen some success. It looks like a Camaro.”
A thousand times, yes.
Appropriately for a site with a soul made of used tin foil, Deadline.com asks the question: “Is it Time to Let Movie-Goers Send Text During Films?”
They continue, reporting on a debate at the Cinecon gathering currently underway in Las Vegas:
Regal Entertainment CEO Amy Miles says that her…
Friday: Sheepdogs to Kendrick Lamar to James to Grouplove to Arctic Monkeys to PULP to Mazzy Star to Black Keys to Refused to Swedish House Mafia
Saturday: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang to Dragonette to theVaccines to Destroyer to Grace Potter to tUnE-yArDs to Laura Marling to St. Vincent to Feist to Bon Iver to Miike Snow to Radiohead
Sunday: Fanfarlo to Lissie to Metronomy to Santigold to Fitz and the Tantrums to the Hives to Gotye to Girl Talk to Florence + the Machine to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
…I think.
My new Comedy Central 1-hour special premieres Saturday, April 21st at 11pm E/P. FYDVRI (for your DVR’s information), its searchable title is PAUL F. TOMPKINS: LABORING UNDER DELUSIONS.
In it, I recount various adventures I have had as a show business person and as a non-show business…
Attended the taping of this last fall. It’s fantastic. See it, then buy it.
(Source: comedycentral.com)
There are only shady people doing laundry at this laundromat at 9:30 p.m. on a Saturday. Yet, I am also doing laundry here, at that time. I hate the transitive property, is what I’m saying.
Inner emo kid, meet inner child. “A punctured bicycle, on a hillside desolate…”
I am furious that this has reached its download limit.
UPDATE: It has been downloaded for me.
This Charming Man in the style of the Super Mario Bros. theme
AMAZING.
Mad Men X Archer. I love you, Internet.
(Source: sterlingarcherdraperpryce)
To clarify: My reward for texting the answer to you (and getting put on your spam list) is the smug satisfaction of proving that I knew the answer. Proving it to a SIGN.
