the OTHER Slam-Dunk Contest from last weekend…
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009On Friday night of All-Star weekend, while the likes of Dwight Howard and Nate Robinson were (presumably) deciding on their dunk repertoire for Saturday night’s Dunk competition, the best of the NBA’s D-League were putting on a show to rival that of their marquee-name counterparts. From NADSYDE comes a link to videos of their best […]
Your 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend GUIDE
Saturday, February 14th, 2009L O S T : season FIVE, “THIS PLACE Is DEATH” (episode 5)
Friday, February 13th, 2009Now we’re cooking with gas, or at least with a smoke monster! The season’s fifth episode, “THIS PLACE IS DEATH,” started off with the resolution of last week’s soap opera cliffhanger… Sun’s going to shoot Ben! Wait! Jin’s not dead! What? It’s true! (cue dramatic music cues!) Sayid and Kate copped telenovela attitudes and stormed […]
Is being serious “BIZZARRE”? Mass media says YES!
Friday, February 13th, 2009Web headlines of “Joaquin Phoenix’s BIZZARRE Behavior on David Letterman” were all over my laptop screen yesterday, so of course I tracked it down on YouTube. I recently read a piece by director James Gray (who had worked with Phoenix in The Yards, We Own The Night, and the new Two Lovers) that was an […]
Move over, Vista; get ready for Windows…7 ???
Thursday, February 12th, 2009For those that have been avoiding Windows Vista like the plague (love that XP!), it will soon be replaced by a newer version. Working title? Windows 7. There will, like Vista, be SIX DIFFERENT VERSIONS. Confused? Let the excellent site ArsTechnica sort it all out for you HERE.
TOO cute? Marnie Stern on the streets of NYC
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Recently, I read an interview on Pitchforkmedia.Com with an artist whose music I had not even heard (something I NEVER do). That artist was Marnie Stern, the new indie rocker girl who’s got indie rock dudes a-flutter from Silverlake to Williamsburg.
H-O-R-S-E makes debut at NBA All-Star Game
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009In what should be a fun addition to the Skills Challenge, 3-pt ShootOut, and the Dunk Competition, an all-star game of H-O-R-S-E will be played in Phoenix at the 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend. Kevin Durant (last year’s rookie-of-the-year), O.J. Mayo, and Joe Johnson will battle it out in the first year of what I hope […]
Ticketmaster merges with Live Nation to form WORST MONOPOLY EVER
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Mere days after being called on the carpet by The Boss for scalping its own tickets, TICKETMASTER has thrown down an a$$hole trump card and merged with live music artist/management/venue conglomerate LIVE NATION. Clearly oblivious to the meaning of anti-trust, monopoly, or evil, our beloved Congress will probably let this past. Despite charging THREE SEPARATE […]
TOP TEN reasons Lil’ Wayne is psyched ’bout tha Grammys
Friday, February 6th, 2009LIL’ WAYNE dropped the Top Ten List for Letterman (last night?)… Lil’ Wayne presents Letterman’s Top 10 List [2009]Uploaded by lilwayneTV thanks to NadSyde for the heads up…
M.I.A. to drop baby, Grammy performance on SAME DAY???
Friday, February 6th, 2009PITCHFORKmedia.com reports that M.I.A. will perform for the Grammys ON HER DUE DATE, February 8th! I’ve always thought of her as the ulitmate badass since seeing her from the very back of a sardine-can-packed gig at The ECHO, but still… D A M N! Her recent interview on The TAVIS SMILEY show charmed me so much that […]
FLEET FOXES : “Mykonos” music video
Thursday, February 5th, 2009This song is from their Sun Giant EP and was also recently performed on Saturday Night Live: