Zachary is the best, and I would not be surprised if he gets a call from Hollywood soon asking him to do all of the soundtracks for everything. Seriously, move over John Williams. Your time has passed. It's Zachary's time now.
This video is particularly great, though, because kids rarely have any real conception of what it means to do something when you grow up, much less what the path was that got you there. Even most of us adults grapple with what all that means. It was a lot simpler when the choices were "fireman" and/or "magician." But, like, "lab technician"? I bet that guy loved getting the question "why did you chose this job?" It's probably his favorite question.
Keep up the good work, Zachary! You're a regular Albert and David Maysles. (Thanks for the tip, Aftershock.)
Excuse me, WHO GAVE THE COUGARS THEIR OWN CONVENTION? Didn't you read the sign? It says PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE COUGARS*. (NSFW, headphones UP!)
Uh....is this real life?
It must be weird for you seeing all your boyfriends AND girlfriends in the same place. You used to pound and/or get pounded by all of these people. (Yuck. Sorry.) Back braces and arthritis medication bottles all over the floor. "Let's get in the hot tub!" "You know that I can't get in the hot tub with my heart. Let's just describe the hot tub to each other." Treating niggas right (that guy is still and will always be your boyfriend who you love and want to marry probably you love him so much). (Via BuzzFeed.)
*Let us hope this is the laziest and lamest joke of the day.
Weezy is the best rapper alive. We already know that. And unfortunately that seemed to be the only conclusion to take away from last night's hour long season premiere of Behind the Music. They did a serviceable job of tracing Lil Wayne's career path, and it really is a pretty show, with lots of nice images and good pacing and if you like the musician they are talking about then it also has a great soundtrack. Last night's episode had plenty of those little tricks the show likes to play, like running "Dr. Carter" underneath the segment about Wayne accidentally shooting himself when he was nine. (He still has bullet fragments close to his heart that don't move and won't hurt him unless he, in his own words, "get in a magnetic field.") But overall I think the show was a disappointment, Miss Katie. They kept his crazy to a minimum. There were no extended nonsensical mumble-riffs as promised in the advertising. And even if you are his biggest fan, you have to admit that Lil Wayne is a strange person, but not on this show. He was just a very hard-working performer, which is true, but there is more to talk about than that.
For one thing, they totally glossed over the Baby thing. Like, this is the story with Baby?
Here's a preview clip of the episode, which airs this Thursday at 10PM.
Excuse me, Miss Katie, but I just have one question: um, what? Something something riff something something I was like something something show my fingers something something make anything sound good. No offense, but how is he not dead yet? Make no mistake: I hope that Lil Wayne lives to be 1,000,000 years old, the oldest man who ever lived, and he is placed on a hoverstool in a space museum and people line up to pay 1,000 moon dollars to go visit the eighth marvel of the world. But what I want and what are the reasonable medical prognostications for someone drinking that much codeine out of styrofoam cups are two different things. You know he turns 27 this month, right? You know about the 27 Club, right? Right this way, sir. That's morbid. Let's hope his membership is denied.
In any case, this obviously carries the Videogum DVR Seal of Approval. I could watch him mumble mouth nonsensically without normal pause breaks the phone book.
We can argue all week about whether or not the media's reaction to Michael Jackson's death has been overly sensationalized and deeply disingenuous, and I'm sure that if the media has its way we will, but one thing we cannot argue about, because there is no argument, is that Michael Jackson had a lot of fans. So many fans, in fact, that you are bound to get a few crazies. It's just statistics. His sampling pool of humanity was too large not to include just so many crazies that if, for example, just a random example picked for no reason, he were to be put on trial for child molestation, enough fervent supporters would leave WHATEVER THEY WERE DOING IN THEIR LIVES, and go to support him outside of the courthouse, and there would be enough of them there that you could make a whole feature-length documentary about them.
This is a promotional video from the Ed Hardy website about the company's founder, Christian Audigier. It seems to have been made for the express purpose of reminding everyone that he is the worst, but it also reminds us that if you give celebrities enough free stuff they will pretend that you're not (the worst). Because they are also kind of the worst.
This thing is upholstered in wall to wall class. ET TU, CHEADLE?
There is so much Larry King in this video it's nuts. Larry King has his finger on the pulse of America*. He's like, "Mom, come pick me up from the mall." He's like, "Mom, I want a new bejeweled tank top with a dragon fucking a skull made of roses for my 900th birthday." Look at him:
The trailer for The Best Worst Movie, about what the people who made Troll 2 are up to now:
A lot of people were talking about this documentary at the March screening of The Room. It's supposed to be great. Troll 2 is a funny bad movie, but The Room is the best worst movie in my opinion -- hopefully we won't have to wait until 2021 for The Best Worst Movie 2: The Room. (Via Buzzfeed.)
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