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It’s impossible to cover every bit of new music that comes out during the week, so every Friday, we’ll be doing an end of the week music roundup. It’s called Final Track, and we’ll count off a few songs released during the week that are worth giving a listen to. (Banner via)
Today we’ve got: Joey Ramone, R Kelly, the xx, Leonard Friend, and more.
Just days after it was announced the show was being renewed for another season by NBC, news broke late last night that Community creator/showrunner Dan Harmon was being replaced in that capacity, but that Harmon would maintain some sort of advisory role (“consulting producer”) on the show going forward.
But today, in a post to his Tumblr, Harmon called bullsh*t, saying that no one even bothered to tell him he was being dismissed and that he will have nothing to do with the show going forward — which is extremely distressing because, as was detailed in this Wired profile, the show was a direct reflection of his weird, manic mind. I just can’t see how anyone can replace Harmon without the show changing drastically.
The day after taking Facebook public, Mark Zuckerberg married longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan today. He announced it to the world by changing his Facebook status to “married” while posting the photo above.
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple.
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The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg’s backyard before fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan’s graduation.
What I really want to know is what the hell Donald Trump knew and when did he know it?
According to Wikipedia, “Nguyen” is the most common Vietnamese last name — it’s their Smith (although with a more disturbing history). Presumably fed up with answering questions about whether they’re related, eight lady Nguyens who go to school together did something brilliant with their senior year yearbook quote. Take a look at what it is below, but needless to say, it’s better than, “Live. Love. Laugh.”
If, by chance, you’re near a computer on Saturday at 5pm est, I’d like to suggest something for you to do: watch the Lumineers — an amazing new band whose debut album (available for $5 on Amazon) lots of people are crushing on right now — perform a set at my house that will be livestreamed on Liveset.
(In case you’re wondering why the Lumineers are livestreaming a show from my house, and I’m sure you are, let me just say this: it’s an old (built in the 1840s) house that was abandoned for a number of years and portions of it still are raw/in need of renovation — but, at the risk of sounding immodest, it’s gorgeous in an aging starlet sort of way, and it looks great on film. Think of it as the Helen Mirren of houses. Hence, Tom Lennon and Ben Garant just filmed the majority of “Hell Baby,” their directorial debut about a young, expectant couple who move in to “New Orleans most haunted fixer-upper”, here. More on that next week, btw.)
ANYWAY, the Lumineers are pretty great so check out the show tomorrow if you’re on the internet. Below is an embed of their performance on Conan a few days ago. Enjoy, and y’all have a great weekend!
It’s not a BEAUTIFUL DAY, it’s a DIRTY DAY, because numerous reports claim that Bono, lead singer of U2, is about to become the number ONE richest musician in the world (though Bono denies it). I wish you could WALK ON from this news, to WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME (like, space or somewhere), but you’re STUCK IN A MOMENT YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF.
Overheard recently in a “Girls” production meeting…
“Okay people, we’ve been getting a lot of sh*t for the show’s lack of diversity. What are we going to do about it? Louis C.K.’s support just isn’t enough.”
“Maybe one of the girls can get a Mexican cleaning lady?”
“No, shutup. That’s exactly the problem. All the people of color we’ve featured on the show so far have been walking stereotypes.”
“Maybe Hannah Can start boning a black dude?”
“YES!!!”
“We should get someone really edgy, like that black guy on Community who raps — the one who recently went off on his haters on Twitter — that way no one can ever accuse us of hiring the whitest black person alive.”
“THIS is what I’m talking about people. We’ll have Lena tweet out some photos of him to get the rumor mill churning!”
“Even better, let’s invite some paparazzi to set when he starts work so they can get photos of him and Lena doing scenes together circulating on the web. That way we can say, ‘See, back off…we’ve got a black person.’”
Soooo, yeah, Donald Glover is going to be on the next season of Girls. Or, in the words of the New York Post‘s headline writers, a “black actor” is joining the cast for the second season.
To the untrained eye Nicolas Cage is seemingly in every film and television project ever. This — sadly — is not actually the case. There are plenty of popular projects he somehow missed out on and an argument can be made — slightly ironically albeit — that they would have all been improved if Nic Cage had been in them starred in every single role.
If there was only some way the internet could right this injustice?
Enter: Our Brazilian friend Matheus Candido, the man behind modern masterpiece Nicolas Cage as every Avenger. Matheus recently reached out to let us know he is in the process of answering his life’s calling with a new Facebook page dedicated to photoshoppping Nic Cage in all the roles he should have done. Some make perfect sense. Some make zero sense. Some are precision photoshops. Some look like I made them in MS Paint. All are glorious.
Here are a whole bunch of Matheus’s finest work to inspire us to begin a letter writing campaign to ensure that Nicolas Cage is cryogenically frozen and then replicated in the future when we have the technology.
The Douchebag Guitarist meme has been around for a while, but it was based on a less interesting photo and wasn’t really catching on. Then, this past Tuesday, a Redditor found the perfect storm of guitarist stereotypes embodied in the photo above, and the meme was resurrected in its new, “sensitive guy” form. Gee, I hope he plays “Wonderwall” by Oasis. Nobody who’s recently purchased a capo ever plays that one.
The Douchebag Guitarist is the guy who only knows four chords but wants to make sure every woman in the room hears them. We’ve all had to ignore this guy at a party or perhaps when he was an upstairs neighbor who played one awful song five times in a row every day for ten weeks straight, yet somehow never improved. I hate you, Paul. I hate you so much.
Our favorite 45 Douchebag Guitarist macros are collected here courtesy of Quickmeme. Remember them when you run into a douchebag with a guitar, say, this weekend. Thanks to Pleated-Jeans for the assist.
Okay so it’s well established that Jack White is ““the coolest, weirdest, savviest rock star of our time,” right? Everyone knows this. So what is White doing now to uphold the reputation he’s crafted for himself? Trying to get himself into the Guinness Book of World Records, of course.
The whole thing started with Guinness turning down the White Stripes’ bid for the record of World’s Shortest Performance with a one-note concert in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
So, yeah, iTunes won’t censor “bitch,” but it will censor “jailbreak.” Or at least it did.
For those who have Android, “jailbreaking” is the term applied to modifying iPhones and iPads to accept software Apple hasn’t approved of, and potentially can be used for app piracy. It invalidates your warranty, so you need to know what you’re doing before you do it.
Apple has fought jailbreaking for years, even though, really, once your phone is paid off, they have no right to tell you what you can and cannot do with your property. And, temporarily, they were trying to censor the term, although once it was pointed out to them that this meant apps and songs by Thin Lizzy were suddenly ridiculously censored, they knocked it off.
As you may have heard, Mick Jagger is hosting and performing on SNL this weekend, where he’ll be joined by Arcade Fire and the Foo Fighters. So, naturally, Jagger is appearing in a number of spots NBC is running to promote the occasion.
In the spots, Jagger is joined by Kristen Wigg and the two just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. Seriously, their chemistry is just great and the spots, which you can view in the video below, come off as engaging and funny — they actually make me want to make a point to watch SNL this weekend, which says a lot.
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