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Guys, come next Tuesday all of the mysteries of this long and glorious weekend will have been revealed. We will know our success and our failures. We will know which guilty pleasure movies we guiltily watched the second half of on cable late one night for the one thousandth time and we will know exactly which drink was one too many. We will know who had a barbecue but didn’t invite us and is now a person who we will forever associate with having had that barbecue to which we weren’t invited, and we will know which friend texted us out of the blue and made for a totally fun and unexpected hang out. But for now, it’s all potential. Who even knows! See you on Tuesday. Be ready to DISH.
After the jump, the five Highest Rated comments, as voted on by you, the Lowest Rated comment, the winner of the B-Hole At The Zoo Caption Contest, and the Editor’s and Associate Editor’s Choice.
What you’re about to watch is a video of a grandmother skydiving on her 80th birthday. At about 1:45 she jumps out of the plane. At about 2:40 she NEARLY FALLS OUT OF HER HARNESS. The entire time there’s an Offspring song playing in the background. Watch if you dare! Be careful! Put on your desk chair seatbelt before you press play!
AHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! Please remember this video for the rest of your life. (Via Geekologie.)
- FilmDrunk has gathered up this week’s newly released movie posters and movie stills. Want to look at them? I bet there will be some you haven’t seen! Aw, c’mon. Take a look. Take a loooooook. -FilmDrunk
- John Malkovich is the newest celebuddy to star in a Siri campaign, and it’s just like you always imagined it would be. He also asks Siri about the weather, and THEN he asks Siri for a joke. Click to find out what joke Siri tells him! Have you purchased Siri yet! -TheDailyWhat
- I’m not sure if you’ve been keeping up on the controversy about Lindsay Lohan finding a Dick for her Liz & Dick Lifetime movie (just kidding, I’m SURE you’ve been keeping up with it), but good news! They’ve found an actor to play a role! Finally you can get some sleep. -Dlisted
- Ooooh, here’s a bit of Willow Smith’s Annie news. Will Smith says the new Annie will be set in modern-day New York (gr8 already) and that Jay-Z will be writing new songs for its soundtrack. How about it. -HitFix
- The A.V. Club has a feature in which an old fan and a new fan discuss something, and here they are discussing the first season of Six Feet Under. What a great show! Let’s read them discuss it! -AVClub
- Want to see how network shows did in the ratings department this past season? No? Well, are you sure? You’ll probably look at the info if it’s easily accessible? Great. You seem very reasonable. Parenthood did better than a lot of things! -WarmingGlow
- New York‘s Daily Intel caught up with the famous “Magic _and” Wheel of Fortune guy, Zach Barron, and asked him about the days since his beautiful loss. -DailyIntel
- And, finally, here’s an interview with Bill Murray. Read it if you want! -Esquire
With this week, we begin the long summer of our Thursday-night-TVless GIF roundup. How will we even survive? What other GIFs do we even LIKE? (Just kidding. We like all the GIFs. They’re all great!) And also, with Community having moved to Friday nights, how will we ever survive without Community GIFs? Everybody loves those Community GIFs! The Thursday Night TV post comments are always 92% Community GIFs! Will we just include the GIFs in the following week’s GIF roundup? I guess so. I guess that’s a solution. Problem solved! Let’s celebrate with some GIFs!
HEY GUYS! Whoops. Hey guys. Regular hey guys. It’s a holiday weekend and you know what that means: MOOOOOOVIES! Hahaha. Maybe? I don’t know. There are so many ways in which a holiday weekend does not mean movies. I can easily think of 10 things off the top of my head that you should do this weekend besides watching some stupid movies, and I’m not even going to bother listing any of them here because we all know what they are and not everything has to have a list. But if you DID go to a movie this weekend, what would it be? BESIDES Men in Black 3? Like, after you go see Men in Black 3 when you are thinking about sneaking into a second movie, which you should never do because that’s stealing and don’t do it but if you were a criminal and you lived a secret double life as a criminal, what would it be? Probably Moonrise Kingdom. You’re the dorkiest criminal ever. Invite me to your barbecue, you dorks.
Hahaha. It’s almost crazy that this topic (what celebrity would have to be on a stamp in order to make you want to buy that stamp) hasn’t been discussed on Videogum before, but it’s probably only because there has never been a piece of news to introduce us into the discussion. But, finally, here’s that piece of HOT HOT HOT US Postal Service news we’ve been waiting for, to get our imaginations going! From SlashFilm:
If you’ve ever really wanted people who handle your mail to know you’re a film fan, the US Postal Service has the answer. They’ve just created four new stamps featuring four of the greatest directors of all time: John Ford, John Huston, Frank Capra and Billy Wilder. Designed by Derry Noyes and Gary Kelley, each stamp portrays one of the director’s best known works. For Ford, it’s The Searchers. Huston, The Maltese Falcon. Capra, It Happened One Night and Wilder, Some Like It Hot.
“OOOoooooohhh.” – Linda from Bob’s Burgers voice. Although these directors ARE great and we probably DO like a bunch of those movies, or at least pretend to, I think it’s safe to say that none of us will be buying these stamps or caring about them or would have even heard of them if I didn’t choose to talk about them right now for some reason (the game). But obviously this leads directly to the question/game: WHO WOULD HAVE TO BE ON A STAMP IN ORDER FOR YOU TO WANT TO BUY IT? These are my honest choices:
There aren’t any other parodies of Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song “Call Me Maybe” because there don’t need to be any others. Everyone saw this one and put their cameraphones down. “Wrap party!” This is the only one, and it’s perfect. (Via Interweber.)
