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Feb 16

[video]

Feb 15

Finally, an all-rap spectacular for my generation! (via Philebrity)

Feb 12

Worth a shot!

Feb 07

[video]

Jan 26

allisonweiss:

aeiiouu:

Cant wait guize

the best thing I’ve ever seen

I’m going to Coachella this year!

(via cestlahaley)

Jan 21

eyeonspringfield:

“Sit perfectly still! Only I may dance!”

(via ifc)

Dec 04

jakefogelnest:

Here are my top 10 records of 2012. Thank you.

These ARE good records.

Nov 30

valentrinatapia:

brule

(Source: bensears)

huffpostcomedy:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

[via oldloves]

This is from the great oral history of SNL from a few years back. It makes the rounds every couple of months and I love reading it every time.

(via ifc)

Nov 20

This year, I’m thankful for health, family, and this GIF of Van Hammersley.

(Source: jeffrubinjeffrubin, via ryanetics)

Nov 16

“

Just like video killed the radio star, film killed vaudeville, and television killed bowling leagues, so did blogs allegedly kill journalism and mainstream media, replacing these with idiots and amateurs who failed to check their facts and ranted about their pet issues (as well as issues with their pets).

There’s a constant underlying all this killing – corporate power. Even as some media forms eclipse others, global conglomerates profit from the innovations and pernicious arrangements of state power benefit from a diverted populace. Television can’t deliver the requisite eyeballs? No problem. Switch gears, locate other sites to capitalize. The dominance of capitalism as a system requires changes in industry; innovation drives capitalism.

State forms adapt as well: disintegrated spectacles allow for ever more advanced forms of monitoring, tracking, and surveillance. People plead for more cameras to keep them safe as they shop and happily relinquish personal data in exchange for saving a few cents here or there, for shaving seconds off this site or that.

” —

Jodi Dean, “Blog Theory.” (pdf)

Food for thought when reading about Spotify, Pandora, and the like.

(via marathonpacks)

Pretty much.