A little different from what even I was expecting. All I can say is it's 36 hours later and I'm still listening to it with a sense of intrigue, exploration, and enjoyment. Strangely, the songs I'm currently gleaning the most enjoyment from are the same songs I didn't much care for upon first listen-through. Weird.
"No"
Apparently General Zod can also write Chinese
"No"
From the new trailer for Man Of Steel, this summer's Superman movie.
Song of the Day: Firesuite
Doves
A little glare? No problem.
Who needs GoPros? Climb Dance 25 years later
A little glare? No problem.
Jean Louis Mourney. Ari Vatanen. Pikes Peak. Sunrise.
Climb Dance stands alongside C'était un Rendez-vous as perhaps the most iconic, raw, unfiltered, mythical automotive masterpiece in filmmaking history. Long live the dirt.
Song of the Day: Where Is My Mind
Yoav feat. Emily Browning.
I just finished reading Ender's Game for the first time since elementary school (it's still an amazing work of literary art). I was inspired to buy and read the iBook edition after seeing the trailer for the new Ender's Game movie. Much as 'Exile Vilify' came to symbolize the emotional exhaustion felt by Abraham Lincoln while reading Team Of Rivals, 'Where Is My Mind' became my anthem for Ender and his battle against isolation, loneliness, and depression.
I want to be like Treadmill Dancer
Amazing.
This 'positive compliation of Russian dash cams' made my night
Now I can go to sleep peacefully. From Jalopnik.
Song of the Day: Say It Ain't So
Weezer
Add 'Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon' to the list of games I desperately want to play but probably never will
Blood Dragon is a standalone expansion for the video game Far Cry 3. Below is a live-action short made to promote Blood Dragon. Just take my money already and make a full-length movie, please.
Update: Below is the first 15 minutes of the game with commentary.
Song of the Day: Get Lucky advert loop
Daft Punk featuring Pharrell and Nile Rodgers
Daft Punk
Hope Daft Punk's new album lives up to the hype, because it looks pretty amazing
Daft Punk
French duo Daft Punk never really entered my frame of consciousness until I went off to college and discovered, with the help of some schoolmates, some of their earlier music and music videos. The past few years have seemed pretty quiet on the Daft Punk music and news front (I enjoyed Kanye's Stronger and the soundtrack to TRON). Then mysterious ads started appearing for what seemed to be a new album. Finally, a few days ago a longer ad, embedded below, was shown at the Coachella music festival for Random Access Memories. Three "Collaborator" episodes have also been released thus far (embedded below) containing interviews with the various collaborators on this new album.
I just watched all three episodes and as intended, the episodes have caused me to become very curious and excited about this album. Just watch the Nile Rodgers episode and try not to be intrigued. This is probably the most excited I've been for a new album release since Radiohead's Hail To The Thief and The White Stripes' Elephant, both released a decade ago (omg I'm old). I'm sure I was also excited about a Kanye album along the way.
I hope Daft Punk's new album turns out to be amazing, because everything points to it being so.
On second thought, iSteven is now just my second 'most anticipated movie of 2013'
Why the demotion of Funny Or Die's 'iSteve'? That's because the new trailer for Neill Blomkamp's 'Elysium' has just been released and it seems to contain pretty much everything I want in a movie. 'District 9' was amazing. Elysium looks set to be amazing.
Bat Fight - It's anyone's game
One of my favorites.
RIP Roger Ebert
"Did you know that for Gene, speech is a second language?"
"Roger's first language is 'Yes, I'll have apple pie with my order.'"
Slate Magazine on "The Original Frenemies." What an interesting relationship.