Today's am.fm.pm mixtape is sitting in a padded manilla envelope underneath a fruit basket on the desk of Harvey Weinstein. It's from a former Massachusetts boy made good- Troy Duffy, writer and director of The Boondock Saints and star of Overnight. Live it up on Sunday night everybody, but you'd best have that cell phone busy by dawn. Long time no chat, Bro! What's the happs? For starters,
Readers love plugs even more than I love writing them! Make sure you go check out the Bleak!Comedy crew, whose Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre Spank Showcase premieres tomorrow evening- Friday, Feb 22 at 6:30pm. UCBT's Spank is the show to check out New York's behottest sketch comics putting up their freshest material, and hey! It's only Five dollars, 'yall! Bleak will be performing back to back
Nine Depressing True Life Adult Counterparts of Beloved Children's Books 9. Frog and Toad Were Friends 8. Goodnight World 7. Lowly Worm's Great Office Petty Cash Box Theft 6. Ramona Quimby, Failed Graphic Designer 5. Horton Hears His Daughter Say She Doesn't Love Him 4. Where The Wild Things Aren't 3. Now We Are Thirty Six 2. Bridge to Terrible 1. Bar, bar
How insanely hot are those new M.I.A. ads for Marc Jacobs? She looks like a summer camp girl- the one you avoided at the dances and never talked to because you figured she was into Lilith Fair rock and weird oils and burning sage and shit- but then on the last day of camp she says something nice about your scuzzy Nine Inch Nails shirt and you realize just how fucking bad you blew it with her.
These last few days have seen a one-two punch of cool casting news in regards to Fox's X Men Origins: Wolverine. AICN swears that Ryan Reynolds will be appearing in the film as wise-cracking assassin Deadpool, and Empire is reporting that Friday Night Lights' Taylor Kitsch has been cast as RemyLeBeau/Gambit- or as my little brother pronounced "Gambit" when my older brother and I taught him about
Andre Benjamin (a.k.a. Andre 3000, Chamelio Salamander, Cupid Valentino, Possum Jenkins, and Dookie Blossumgame III) wears a lot of hats. I don't mean he overextends himself as an actor, rapper, producer and star of his own Cartoon Network series, or thug dandy about town- I literally mean he wears a lot of hats. Like headwear. Turbans, helmets, and Tam O' Shanters enough to smartly cap his afro
Whaddup, yo. So, I was out of town for the long weekend, and with Monday off for President's Day, you'll forgive the tardiness of today's SJ. That's the other thing: it turns out that Gawker's lady blog Jezebel has a regular feature called Snap Judgments, so... that title's gotta go. As of today, SJ will be titled Tails You Lose. Injury, meet insult! China bans all online video content featuring
Today's am.fm.pm mixtape was compiled by Dr. Ted Lawson, creator of United Robotronics Project V.I.C.I.- aka Vicky Lawson. UR shut down the plant a few years back, and without work, Ted now spends his days watching television. Project V.I.C.I. has begun to act out, perhaps, he hypothesizes, as part of some cyborg adolescence. Exasperated by the antics of his surrogate robot daughter, he has