What if Karen Carpenter had recorded the theme to “Welcome Back, Kotter”? It might sound something like this, an online offering from the wonderful Rumer - one of my favorite discoveries of the last several years. Although, to be fair to Rumer, her personal styling has developed since her first album, and although her voice recalls Carpenter’s, as an instrument, it’s becoming much more her own (even though there are shadings of Ricki Lee Jones in here as well).
Not Where You Saw: Two brothers watch late ’80s home videos of themselves. And provide commentary. (Thanks to Ally’s FB feed - always a source of fresh comedy)
Vulture.com’s Your Box Office Explained takes on the already partially-submerged Battleship. “You sank my Battleship,” indeed.
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Black Eyes
My boy is getting awfully good at Lego art. Some of these pieces used to be Star Wars ships.
Excellent advice (and fun to watch it, too).
Instructions:
1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds.
2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall).
3. Blink repeatedly and quickly.
4. WTF! one+infinity
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The Snickers “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” campaign just gets better and better. Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham vamp it up in locker room taffeta in the latest - is this their Super Bowl spot?
Around Super Bowl time, everybody starts talking about commercials. And whenever people start talking about Super Bowl commercials, they inevitably bring up Apple’s brilliant “1984.”
But ever wonder why Apple doesn’t advertise in the Super Bowl today - why, indeed, they haven’t advertised in the Super Bowl since 1985, the year after their famous Orwellian triumph?
Enter “Lemmings,” the Apple spot that aired in 1985. There’s so much I could say about this deeply cynical, ham-fistedly depressing debacle - but I wouldn’t be able to do it justice. Just watch.
