tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77760493157709602602011-11-27T18:35:13.989-06:00brett grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12479928462667159688noreply@blogger.comBlogger4721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776049315770960260.post-53473014203140101222009-07-28T13:57:00.002-05:002009-07-28T14:02:26.153-05:00

If you've spent any time around me discussing various video games, you probably know by now that I am no fan of Final Fantasy VII - honestly, I never got into the game because all of the best characters were the villains and the heroes were all people that I wanted to die horrible deaths. Of course, we're now twelve years on from Final Fantasy VII and people are still obsessing over the damn

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I've never classified myself as a "fan" of Penn & Teller's Bullshit!, but I took time out of my day today to watch their latest episode on video game violence because its an issue that I've spent some time studying in graduate school. Like Penn & Teller, I've never been convinced by "aggression level" studies that link violent video games to school shootings, and this episode goes an excellent

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Everyone knows I love a good Sci-Fi romp, so you can bet that I've been looking forward to District 9 - luckily I haven't been prying too much, so most of what I'll discover will be fresh and exciting. I am extremely excited now that I've seen the new trailer, however, as it really makes this flick look amazing.

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Been a fan of The Sound of Animals Fighting since a friend gave me a copy of Tiger and the Duke a few years ago, but somehow I managed to completely miss them releasing The Ocean and the Sun last year - strange. Anyway, The Sound of Animals Fighting have posted an amazingly trippy video for "Another Leather Lung" - it features the paintings of Vasily Kafanov and was animated by Eric Stodolnik.

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I recently picked up Ghostbusters: The Video Game for Wii and I've been enjoying it quite a bit, so I'm excited about all of the buzz that has been building for a third Ghostbusters movie. Hopefully it happens. Here's an interesting little interview with Harold Ramis where he talks about Ghostbusters 3 among several other interesting topics.

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The International - 2009Director - Tom TykwerStarring - Clive Owen & Naomi WattsSuspecting that the International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC) is engaging in illegal activities, Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Eleanor Whitman (Watts) are struggling to keep their investigation open as all of their witnesses either disappear or die. Salinger and Whitman must make one final desperate

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Vals Im Bashir (Waltz With Bashir) - 2008Director - Ari FolmanAfter meeting with a friend to discuss a recurring nightmare that he's been having relating to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Ari Folman discovers that he blocked almost all memory of his experiences during the war. Determined to discover what happened, Folman begins to investigate what his exact role in the Sabra and

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Synecdoche, New York - 2008Director - Charlie KaufmanStarring - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, & Samantha MortonCaden Cotard (Hoffman) is a down on his luck theater director suffering from a number of mysterious physical ailments that he is convinced will take his life at any moment until he mysteriously receives the MacArthur genius grant. Given his new found financial freedom, Caden

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Killshot - 2008Director - John MaddenStarring - Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Thomas Jane, & Joseph Gordon-LevittBlackbird (Rourke) is a hitman working for the Toronto mafia who befriends a petty thief named Richie Nix (Gordon-Levitt) because of Nix's resemblance to Blackbird's younger brother. After Nix botches a blackmail attempt against a Michign real estate developer, however, the pair are

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Yeah, its become pretty clear that Dante's Inferno is going to be a God of War clone, and I'm perfectly fine with that - this game cannot get here fast enough, and given the little bit of dialogue at the end of the latest trailer it sounds like they're departing from the literature a bit. Makes it sound like Lucifer is trying to escape from Hell (I assume that means he's trying to break into

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New video from The Mars Volta, this time for "Since We've Been Wrong," the opening track from their recently released Octahedron.The Mars Volta - "Since We've Been Wrong" fr. Octahedron

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Seriously, I've probably heard The Gaslight Anthem's "The '59 Sound" a thousand times already since its release, and no matter what kind of day I've had the song perks me up and make me crank the stereo. Well they finally recorded an official video for it, so I kind of have to post it, don't I?

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I've been hearing about It Might Get Loud for several months now and I must say that I am incredibly excited - the possibility of seeing Jack White, The Edge, and Jimmy Page all in the same room sharing secrets and trading tricks is amazing. Though it isn't going to be out until August 14th, at least now there's an official trailer that's been released to the web - I can honestly say that this

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The New York Times reported today that former Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was one of the 104 players that tested positive in 2003. Sosa's name is coming out on the same list that included Alex Rodriguez's name. I know that Major League Baseball said that it would keep the list of players that tested positive confidential, but these names slowly trickling out isn't helping anybody - just release the

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More and more info is becoming available about the upcoming Dante's Inferno game, and I must say that everything that I'm seeing is only making me more and more interested in it. It looks like they're taking a route similar to the one found in the God of War series, which is definitely a good thing. Of course, all of this news raises the question of where the heck Virgil is in all of this - I

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In an interview with Drowned In Sound, The Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala dropped the bombshell that an At the Drive-In reunion might not be as impossible as it was once thought - apparently Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez have been mending some of the bridges that were burned when At the Drive-In broke up.I discovered At the Drive-In just a little too late - I didn't

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Taken - 2008Director - Pierre MorelStarring - Liam NeesonA former CIA operative, Bryan Mills (Neeson) has retired and moved to Los Angeles so that he can spend more time with his daughter Kim - when Kim reveals that she and her friend Amanda have made plans to spend their summer vacation in Paris, Bryan is initially skeptical but eventually signs off on the venture. Kim's vacation is cut short,

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The Hangover - 2009Director - Todd PhillipsStarring - Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, & Zach GalifianakisAfter a wild night in Las Vegas celebrating their friend Doug's bachelor party, Phil (Cooper), Stu (Helms), and Alan (Galifianakis) awaken to discover that they can't remember anything that happened the night before - worse yet, the three can't remember what happened to the groom-to-be. With only

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Land of the Lost - 2009Director - Brad SilberlingStarring - Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, & Anna FrielLaughed out of the scientific community for theorizing that it was possible to travel through time and space, Rick Marshall (Ferrell) remains down on his luck until he meets Holly Cantrell (Friel), an attractive young scientist who believes in him. Together Marshall and Holly travel to New Mexico

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Mastodon's video for "Oblivion" reminds me a lot of the film Solaris (no, not the crappy Steven Soderbergh version, the awesome 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky version). Something about making videos for five-minute songs really lets you tell an awesome story like happens here.Mastodon "Oblivion"

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I honestly can't tell if the video for Basement Jaxx's "Raindrop" (an amazing track, btw) is amazingly hot or just really creepy. Warning, it's possibly NSFW as there are lots of girls in make-up and with nipple pasties.

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Been looking at a lot of info from E3 about New Super Mario Bros. Wii and I have one question to ask - Why isn't Princess Toadstool/Peach in this game? It would totally make sense. You have four players, why not include all four of the guys from Super Mario Bros. 2? Maybe its just my love of Super Mario Bros. 2 showing through, but I wish Nintendo would actually do something in that style

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The similarities between the new set for The Tonight Show and the various backgrounds of Super Mario Bros 3 have been making the rounds of the internet for a few days now, and Conan has finally commented on it. Conan, you are so full of win, how did I ever survive three months without you?

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This is what happens when I find my internet access limited for a few weeks, I find a ton of stuff that I missed that I want to post on my blog. This is a couple of live performances by the Silversun Pickups for two tracks off of their latest disc Swoon - the first is "Panic Switch," which I ranted and raved about before, but the second is "The Royal We," which is another killer cut from the

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In case you missed it, Pearl Jam was Conan O'Brien's first musical guest on "The Tonight Show" and they debuted some new material in the form of "Get Some." I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan, so if you have an MP3 rip of this song you should send it to me. Pronto.

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Half a decade in, Kanye West's The College Dropout is still a classic album. Don't believe me? Check out the never-released video for "Spaceship," which recently surfaced on the internet. Damn, I forgot just how smooth this album is - I know what I'll be listening to on the bus tonight.

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Nike just released the third in their series of Kobe and LeBron puppet commercials (I wonder if they would have if the Lakers had been eliminated last round? Oh well, that didn't happen) and I must say that these are some of the funniest spots that I've seen in a while. The first one is still my favorite, but this third one is hilarious too and the second one is still better than 95% of the

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Seriously, nothing about Quizno's commercials makes me want to eat at their restaurant - in fact, a number of their commercials make me not want to eat there (including this one). If it wasn't for the fact that there's a Quizno's two blocks closer to my place than the nearest Subway, I don't think I'd ever eat there.Oh, and we're doing "Two Girls, One Cup" parodies now? Seriously? Way to be on

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The Thermals are going to be playing Pitchfork this year and luckily for me, they'll be playing on Sunday (I can't make Saturday, unfortunately). I must say that they're one of the acts that I'm most excited to see on the lineup period, so I'm glad they're playing on the one day that I can make it. Here's the video for The Thermals' "Now We Can See".

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My childhood continues to be raped and pillaged thanks to Michael Bay. No, he isn't directly responsible for this horrible update of Stan Bush's "The Touch" (aka the theme from Transformers: The Movie), but I still hold him completely responsible. Just stop already, please.

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Star Trek - 2009Director - J. J. AbramsStarring - Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nemoy, & Eric BanaAfter the complete and utter flop that Watchmen was, if I have to make one prediction for 2009 it is that this could very well be the year with the worst blockbusters in recent memory. Watchmen was completely uneven and didn't come anywhere close to the hype, the work print of X-Men Origins:

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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - 2002Director - George ClooneyStarring - Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, & Julia RobertsA successful TV producer, Chuck Barris (Rockwell) was responsible for a number of hit game shows for ABC from the mid-60's through the 70's, but Chuck also lives a second life, secretly working as a freelance CIA operative. As Chuck becomes more and more

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Just in case you missed it (and you probably did, since it was on Friday night), Mastodon recently played "Oblivion" on Letterman. The sound mix seems a bit off, but still a righteous cut off of Crack the Skye - if you don't own it yet, I don't know what's wrong with you, seriously.

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Thanks to all of these old franchises getting rebooted (Batman, Superman, Star Trek, etc), apparently Spawn creator Todd McFarlane is serious about rebooting the Spawn movie franchise. You know, the movie franchise that never got off the ground because the original movie was stinking horrible and probably never should have been made in the first place.Look, I like Spawn, I read it all the time

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Zack and Miri Make a Porno - 2008Director - Kevin SmithStarring - Seth Rogen & Elizabeth BanksFriends and roommates Zack Brown (Rogen) and Miri Linky (Banks) have hit rough financial straights, unable to pay any of their utility bills, the two are stuck in the dead of winter without any water or electricity. After a chance meeting with a gay porn star at their high school reunion, Zack and Miri

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Transporter 3 - 2008Director - Olivier MegatonStarring - Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, François Berléand, & Robert KnepperWhen a car carrying the mysterious Valentina (Rudakova) crashes through the wall of his home, Frank Martin (Statham) finds himself trust back into the job of transporting packages for shady businessmen (Knepper) - this time charged with transporting an unknown package from

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Role Models - 2008Director - David WainStarring - Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, & Christopher Mintz-PlasseDanny (Rudd) and Wheeler (Scott)are two energy drink salesmen who travel from school to school giving presentations intended to to keep kids off drugs, but when they accidentally deface school property with the company care they're forced with 150 hours of community service or 30 days in

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According to Jack, apparently The White Stripes still exist, which is some of the best musical news that I've heard in a while. The duo had largely put their music on hold since Meg revealed that she had acute anxiety, but luckily it seems that most of that has disappeared.Jack says that the duo have worked on some new songs and that a new album could come as early as next year - here's hoping

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The Talented Mr. Ripley - 1999Director - Anthony MinghellaStarring - Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, & Cate BlanchettA struggling pianist in New York City, Tom Ripley (Damon) is offered the chance of a lifetime when approached by Herbert Greenleaf, a wealthy businessman, and asked to travel to Italy and persuade Greenleaf's son Dickie (Law) to return home. Upon arrival, however, Ripley

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Love Liza - 2002Director - Todd LouisoStarring - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, & Jack KehlerWithout explanation, Wilson's (Hoffman) wife Liza has committed suicide leaving only a note that Wilson discovers several days later - fearing that the note contains an indictment of him, Wilson refuses to open the letter and draws the ire of his mother-in-law (Bates). In order to deal with the

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Capcom has finally confirmed that the classic Marvel Vs. Capcom 2: New Age Of Heroes will be coming to the Playstation 3 and X-Box 360 for online download later this summer. I'm a little disappointed that they took away the unlockable content (as in, every character will be available from the start), but its cool that they've added online play. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to hook up my

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I really should have studied astrophysics in college instead of film, at least then I could make wicked-cool videos like this one:

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For being such an important film genre, you'd think that there would be a few more Westerns populating the video game landscape. Nope. Hardly any, actually. That being said, I'm very interested in trying out Call of Juarez when it comes out this summer (if I can find a PS3 or 360, that is), because it looks like its got the genre down pat.

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Congratulations are in order for Georgia Quarterback Matthew Stafford, who reached an agreement last night with the Detroit Lions to be the first overall selection in the 2009 NFL Draft. All it took was a five-year $72 million deal with $41.7 million in guaranteed money - normally the numbers on contracts don't really mean anything in the NFL, but since its Stafford's rookie deal he'll probably

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Long speculated, but finally confirmed, the work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine that leaked to the internet several weeks ago is in fact identical to the final print that will be shipped off to theaters (sans some sounds and FX work). So if you've heard about the negative reviews and still hoping beyond hope that the theatrical version of Wolverine would indeed be significantly different than

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New Tekken 6 trailer = want. Even if I haven't played the series since Tekken 3. Oh, and a 360 will let me play Street Fighter IV and King of Fighters XII. You know, for somebody who doesn't have anybody to play fighting games against, I sure do consider them to be "system sellers."

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Word out of Hollywood is that Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Hancock) is finishing up his script of yet another adaptation of Frank Herbert's Sci-Fi epic Dune. I must say, I'm very excited about this - I thoroughly enjoyed the first three Dune novels, David Lynch's version, and the two mini-series that the Sci-Fi Channel did a few years ago.What's more, Peter Berg is probably one

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Well Perry sure took his sweet time, didn't he? Whatever, I'm not going to complain too loudly because Lollapalooza is my bread-and-butter festival since I get to sleep in my own bed each and every night. Honestly, Grant Park takes such a beating each and every year that they hold Lollapalooza there, but apparently they pour a lot of money back in to taking care of the park and lord knows

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New Orleans-based Mute Math have released a video for their song "Spotlight" that does a wonderful job of highlighting just how difficult it is to play while riding in the back of a van. I'm digging the video a lot and the song is just a good time - check it out:MUTEMATH - Spotlight

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Owning Mahowny - 2003Director - Richard KwietniowskiStarring - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, & John HurtDan Mahowny (Hoffman) is a seemingly ordinary bank manager who enjoys going to the track on the weekends, but when Mahowny is confronted by his bookie to repay his debts, Mahowny begins embezzling funds from the bank. As Mahowny's responsibilities at the bank grows, do does the amount

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Quantum of Solace - 2008Director - Marc ForsterStarring - Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, & Judi DenchShortly after Casino Royale, James Bond (Craig) meticulously hunts down the recently escaped Mr. White and attempts to gather information on the mysterious organization that White works for. Bond hunt leads him to Dominic Greene (Amalric), an environmentalist organizing a coup in

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Set your calendars for June 23rd, as The Mars Volta will be dropping their fifth full length album Octahedron on that date. We've already even got word what the first two singles will be: "Since We've Been Wrong" will be the first US single and "Cotopaxi" will be the first European single. Why they're doing separate singles for each continent is beyond me.Also, be sure to check out your local

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Probably my favorite track from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's latest release The Century of Self, "Isis Unveiled" has finally gotten the music video treatment. I got the chance to finally catch ...Trail of Dead live last month and they really blew me away - rumors are floating that they could get tapped for a set at Lollapalooza, and that would be amazing if true. Here's

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"Panic Switch" by Silversun Pickups has been on an almost infinite repeat for me this past week or so and there's finally a music video for the song. I first heard "Panic Switch" while listening to 93 XRT in my car one night and quickly went out and downloaded the single - the Silversun Pickups first album Carnavas was easily one of my favorite albums of 2006 and it is an album I still find

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Slumdog Millionaire - 2008Director - Danny Boyle & Loveleen TandanStarring - Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, & Madhur MittalOne question away from winning 20 million rupees on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Jamal Malik (Patel) is brought in by the police on suspicion of cheating. Jamal must now explain how a teenager raised in the slums of Mumbai without any formal

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Never mind that the high today is only supposed to be 36 degrees and its supposed to snow during the morning hours, or that the White Sox have already postponed their game against the Royals, today is officially the first day of summer. That's right, baseball is finally back. Thankfully, the Cubs open up the year on the road for the first week at Houston and at Milwaukee, and the temps for next

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Cursive recently dropped their new disc Mama, I'm Swollen and the first video to come from that material is "From The Hips." Personally I think the track is incredibly catchy and the video is actually quite funny to boot:

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Okay, so I'm a week late. Sue me. Maybe it's just taken me a little bit longer to get over the ending of Battlestar Galactica than most people. That's not entirely true - I don't claim to have invested nearly as much in Battlestar Galactica as almost everyone else on the internet (I watched the entire series on DVD and then Hulu thanks to Sci-Fi not being included on my cable package), but I

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Talk about finally getting a vote of confidence from NBC - Friday Night Lights is set to be renewed for not one, but two seasons soon. Finally. Friday Night Lights has had a rough existence, with the end of each season feeling like it is going to be the end of the series, but NBC has finally woken up and realized that this is a series that needs to have a legitimate vote of confidence to grow

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Want to see just how great Pearl Jam songs are? I give to you this video of rapper P.O.S. covering Pearl Jam's "Why Go" from Ten.P.O.S. - New Music - More Music VideosP.O.S.'s latest is Never Better, which I highly recommend, and Pearl Jam just re-released Ten, so if you don't already have that album you no longer have an excuse not to own it.

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Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder - 2008Director - Peter AvanzinoStarring - Billy West, John DiMaggio, & Katey SagalWhen the Wong family begins building the new Mars Vegas, the Planet Express crew encounter a group of eco-feminists protesting the construction, but as Leo Wong deals with the protest a piece of jewelry becomes lodged in Fry's head. Fry soon discovers that he once again is the

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How To Lose Friends & Alienate People - 2008Director - Robert B. WeideStarring - Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, & Megan FoxSidney Young (Pegg) just got his dream job, covering celebrities for Sharps Magazine in New York, but soon discovers that his personality manages to annoy everyone around him and he is unable to get any of his work published. When Sidney is introduced to

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The Ten - 2007Director - David WainStarring - Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Famke Janssen, & Liev SchreiberAs his marriage collapses around him due to his own infidelity, Jeff Reigert (Rudd) introduces ten loosely intertwined sketches based around the Ten Commandments. Each of the sketches takes a different commandment and stretches its meaning to the breaking point, resulting in unique

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I have a confession to make: I really don't care about college basketball. On a whole that is. I've just never been that into it - basketball long ago was passed by hockey in my mind, and I'd rather not watch the inferior style of basketball that they play on the collegiate level if there is something better on television. Unfortunately, there usually isn't (thanks largely to the NHL losing

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Mastodon's upcoming Crack The Skye is now up and streaming in its entirety on their MySpace page. Go listen to it - now.

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Eagle Vs Shark - 2007Director - Taika WaititiStarring - Loren Horsley & Jermaine ClementA shy and somewhat eccentric fast food cashier, Lily (Horsley) harbors a crush for the video game store salesman Jarrod (Clement) who comes into her store every day for lunch. After she is fired from her job, Lily makes a move on Jarrod and attends a costume party at his house as a shark where the two begin

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Teeth - 2007Director - Mitchell LichtensteinStarring - Jess Weixler, John Hensley, & Hale ApplemanDawn O'Keefe (Weixler) is just your average teenage girl, forced to deal with her emerging sexuality and the way it conflicts with her decision to remain abstinent. Dawn soon discovers that she's not like other girls, however, when her crush Tobey (Appleman) forces himself on her and has his penis

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Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer have been having a nice little mini-feud for the last week or so, and I have to admit that Jon has been doing a wonderful job making Jim Cramer look like an idiot (not that its very hard). Well, the two finally appear to have put down their swords and come to some kind of truce thanks to Jim Cramer's appearance on The Daily Show last night. Apparently their interview

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Watchmen - 2008Director - Zach SnyderStarring - Malin Akerman, Billy Cudrup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, & Patrick WilsonMarch is officially here, and that can only mean one thing - its blockbuster season! Okay, that's not exactly true, but it does mean that we're getting what is supposed to be the first big blockbuster of the year in Watchmen. Finally. Took them

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Manchester Orchestra have announced that they're going to be releasing a video for each track off of their upcoming disc Mean Everything To Nothing, and the first track to get the official treatment is "The Only One." I'm not sure if this is supposed to be the first in a longer storyline or anything like that, but I still really enjoyed the track and the video (plus these guys rocked at

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Mastodon's "Divinations" has been a track I find myself listening to over and over again ever since it was released as a single all those weeks ago. Well, good news, Mastodon have recorded a music video for it, check it out:Mastodon - New Music - More Music Videos

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Ben and Greg of Dillinger Escape Plan have been off on tour with Nine Inch Nails, and last week it appears that they got a chance to hop on stage with Trent Reznor and Co. to join in a rendition of "Wish" (off of Nine Inch Nails' Broken) and since Trent has been recording everything of late, the performance was recorded and found its way onto the internet. I suggest you watch it in full screen

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CNBC, and every other news organization that specializes in business reporting, is such a giant fraud that it isn't even funny. Do people honestly expect to get honest answers from business people when they know that suits are trained to give positive answers because any negative publicity will cause their stock prices to fall? Gee, its almost like business reporting is just a giant public

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Damn you Zooey Deschanel! Just when I feel like I'm ready to get over you, you go and make what appears to be an amazingly quaint and fun little movie like (500) Days of Summer. Why must you taunt me so!? Seriously, call me - Ben Gibbard is a goober, everyone knows it.

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About a month or so ago I was pointed to the MySpace page for rapper P.O.S., as he was streaming his then yet to be released album Never Better for the world to hear. I listened to a few tracks, enjoyed them, and when I noticed Never Better in stores a week or so later, I picked it up. I've actually been listening to Never Better quite a bit since I picked it up, and I must say that I've really

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I'd like to start out by saying that this post is entirely speculation at this point, but since both the Coachella and Bonnaroo line-ups have already come and gone, the last big festival of the year (for me anyway) to speculate about is Lollapalooza.I've already kicked around some theories with friends of mine about Jane's Addiction (not playing Chicago proper on their upcoming tour with Nine

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Poor, poor Dave Neal. Maryland's only senior on Senior Night, came out and had a fantastic game with a career-high 19 points, grabbed 6 rebounds, and was 5-6 from beyond the arch. And nobody's going to remember because of what Jeff Teague did to him with just over four minutes left in the game.Jeff Teague took the ball at the three point line, cut to the rim, and slammed the ball down over Dave

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How scary is it that "Toxic" by Britney Spears could stand as one of the best songs of the last decade? I know, sounds crazy, but just wait a minute and think about that - "Toxic" is just too damn catchy, and everyone and their mother does a cover version of it. Heck, its even one of my karaoke staples (though I do have a love for singing female pop songs at karaoke). To give you an idea of

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Righteous Kill - 2008Director - Jon AvnetStarring - Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, & Curtis JacksonAfter a sting operation against the drug-dealing club owner Spider (Jackson) goes wrong, veteran detectives Turk (DeNiro) and Rooster (Pacino) are forced to undergo therapy before they can return to the force. As a rash of murders hit the city, marked only

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The Last Supper - 1995Director - Stacy TitleStarring - Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner, & Courtney B. VanceOn his way to a weekly homemade supper with his fellow graduate students, Pete's (Eldard) car breaks down and he is given a ride home by the creepy Zack. After their political discussion becomes heated, Zack is stabbed to death and the five students are forced to

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How sad is it that of all the games already available for the Playstation 3, its taking the upcoming release of King of Fighters XII that gets me thinking long and hard about whether or not I actually want to plunk down money for the system? Crazy, I know, but it just looks so pretty.

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Muse frontman Matt Bellamy recently spoke with the BBC about the work that the trio have been doing on the follow-up to 2006's Black Holes And Revelations and revealed that Muse have been kicking around the idea of working with a full orchestra on their next record (which shouldn't really come as much of a surprise, as Muse have always had a wide range of classical music influences). What is

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Max Payne - 2008Director - John MooreStarring - Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, & Beau BridgesAfter working three years in the Cold Case department, Detective Max Payne (Wahlberg) continues to investigate the murder of his wife and young child as a vigilante on a nightly basis. After a lead turns up empty, Max meets Natasha Sax a party and notices that one of her tattoos is similar to the one found

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F For Fake -1974Director - Orson WellesStarring - Orson WellesElmyr de Hory set the art world spinning when it was revealed that he had been forging works for almost two decades in the 1960s - de Hory's story would later be chronicled by biographer Clifford Irving, a biographer who would later pen a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Originally intended as a simple documentary on de Hory, F

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The Coen Brothers (you know, those guys with all those Academy Awards) have finally gotten around to doing something useful with their time and made a hilarious little commercial for the coal industry.And remember kids, Clean Coal is just like regular coal, except it has the word "clean" in front of it.

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Well, Spring Training at least. Thanks to the World Baseball Classic taking place again this spring, Spring Training has kicked off earlier than usual for baseball this year. The Cubs actually have four big league players in the WBC this year (Zambrano, Soto, Lilly, and Fukudome), so I suspect that those guys won't be straining themselves too hard at the start (and since they're starters they

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I feel like I haven't ranted and raved about how good Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound is lately, so with that in mind I was very happy to see that they've released another music video from the disc. This is the video for "Great Expectations," a nice and simple video for a nice and simple band:

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It certainly took me longer than I had hoped it could, but I finally got around to finish William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, and I don't know if I've ever read something as unquantifiable as this. It has happened before that I have struggled to wrap my brain around certain texts, but usually this happens when I am reading various theories that I find to be quite incongruous with reality and I

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Okay, maybe he doesn't rule the world, but Aaron Curry certainly went out and destroyed the NFL Combine today. Don't believe me? Just look at his combine numbers. That's right, Aaron Curry graded out as the top linebacker in four of the six skills on the day. That's just sick.I've always felt that the 40 is an overrated stat, because rarely are football players asked to run 40 yards in a

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Okay, last time it turned out that the video leaked was for Kid Cudi's "Day 'n' Night (Crookers Remix)" and Kid Cudi didn't actually like the video. This time, it appears that the original version of "Day 'n' Night" finally has an official video that Kid Cudi actually likes, so it was released. I must say, its a fabulous video - lots of crazy trippy animation going on there that makes it a

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Last night Wake Forest made the trip down Tobacco Road to visit Cameron Indoor Stadium and the Duke Blue Devils. Like Wake Forest's play this season since achieving the number one ranking, the game was a very up-and-down affair for the Deacs before they eventually lost by ten. It is notable because I wore my lucky Wake Forest jersey (a Tim Duncan senior year throwback), and this is the first

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Now I'm going to actually have to choose between watching Letterman and Conan, what am I going to do?

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Given that the release for No Line On The Horizon is now a little under a week away, U2 have made the entire album available for your listening pleasure over on their MySpace page.I haven't had a chance to listen to the album as a whole yet, but I'm going to try and get to it real soon. If you want to hear some professional people's opinions on No Line On The Horizon, you can check out Rolling

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Something I didn't know about the lead singer and songwriter for Thursday is his long-standing love of comic books. That's not really that surprising, given how much the two media have converge in the last few years - it feels like every rock star is writing comics at the moment, and that includes Claudio Sanchez, lead singer of Coheed & Cambria.Anyway, in continuing the promotional circuit for

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Traitor - 2008Director - Jeffrey NachmanoffStarring - Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, & Neal McDonoughWhile trying to negotiate an arms deal in Yemen, Samir (Cheadle) and Omar (Taghmaoui) are apprehended by FBI-aided Yemeni police and quickly thrown in jail together. After a terrorist organization attacks the compound, FBI Agents Roy Clayton (Pearce) and Max Archer (McDonough), unaware

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Wristcutters: A Love Story - 2006Director - Goran DukicStarring - Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, & Shea WhighamAfter breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Fugit) slits his wrists and commits suicide, but instead of winding up in heaven or hell, Zia gets stuck in limbo with all the other suicide victims. While going about his new daily routine, Zia discovers that his ex-girlfriend has also

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Today is a good day for records, surprisingly, as two bands that I've been following for most of the decade each have released a new album today (and, strangely, each album features at least one track released on an EP released last fall as well). Best of all, both bands will be stopping over in Chicago within the next month for concerts as well.Thursday released their fifth album with Common

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Well, not quite, but its still something that I wanted to talk about. For years now, makers of sports video games have been helping to pay for the cost of development of their games by placing advertisements in the game. Not that big of a deal, really, because sports arenas throughout the world are littered with advertisements. It appears that the guys at 2K Sports were a little overzealous

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And it was legendary host Alec Baldwin who did it. Thank god. Nothing like a good masturbation joke to make a Saturday Night Live episode memorable, right?

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People who know me relatively well know that I'm a bit of a Spider-Man junkie - I have been for years. I always liked comics, but it wasn't until my aunt gave me a big box of comics that used to belong to a cousin of mine that I really found myself being pulled to Spider-Man. It was probably because the majority of the comics in the box were Spider-Man titles, but thanks to this little fact

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