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Catfish the TV Show is casting

by Jon on May 15, 2013

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While I wasn’t a fan of the movie, the MTV series is hard to look away from. It’s like the old car accident analogy except in this analogy the car turns out to be a man.

This show has to come back for a second season. What’s that Futon Critic? MTV renewed Catfish on December 19th of last year? Well good. Now let’s agree to never tell anyone that we watch this show.

In case you have a story to share, my brother found this on Rhode Island’s Craigslist page:

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http://providence.craigslist.org/tfr/3805452838.html

 

Maybe I’ll submit my story about being a guy that writes about LA events when I actually haven’t left the house in months. I Catfished all of LA!

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2001 Space Odyssey Blu RayApparently I’m not the film aficionado I’d thought I was. This was made clear when I realized I’d been confusing 2001: A Space Odyssey with both Close Encounters of the Third Kind AND Cocoon. I should be embarrassed but I had a busy childhood and I was really more interested in Short Circuit anyway.

I can see how all of this would sound insane to a real film buff, but I am making up for lost time. It is clear to me that after one viewing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, that it should be considered mandatory viewing. I may have paid closer attention to my science teachers. After watching Star Wars my ears only perked up when the word “lasers” was mentioned, and that did not happen enough.

The best part about films by Stanley Kubrick (or my director hero David Lynch) is that it’s quite possible you’ll leave the theater (or couch) not fully understanding what you just witnessed. It’s also a promise that we’ll never hear an official explanation of any of these films either, which is where the internet comes in. When I went on my hunt for interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I found plenty to keep me busy.

Spoilers inside the links below:

Kubrick: and beyond the cinema frame An in-depth analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey

The Hidden Meaning of “2001: A Space Odyssey”

Kubrick 2001: The Space Odyssey Explained

The biggest question I walked away with was, How did Joel McHale fend off aging from 1968 through 2013?

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Beyond uncanny.

Movie night it up with 2001: A Space Odyssey on Blu Ray, or if you see it playing anywhere around LA, please let me know!

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Someone buy these kids a Playstation. Check out the video for “Middle of the Night” by Canadian band Teenage Kicks.

http://teenagekicksteenagekicks.tumblr.com/

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vlad the impalerI travel down Wikipedia wormholes on the reg. and I am thinking that I should start sharing some learnings here. For a while I would just choose a classic professional wrestler and spend all night jumping from Hulk Hogan to Hillbilly Jim etc. Lately it’s been historical figures.

I can’t remember where I started last night but I ended up on the Wikipedia page for Dracula, which led me to his namesake Vlad the Impaler, which led me to the page for Impalement.

The photo on that page alone is sure to give me nightmares for days.

I thought I understood the definition of “impale” and I took it to mean that Vlad just went around stabbing people.

Apparently Vlad’s style of impaling more resembled turning a person into an olive on a toothpick, using an already available entryway and exit.

Anyway, don’t read that page. Instead, check out the Wikipedia page for Care Bears.

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A Is For Alpine, the debut album from lauded Australian band Alpine, will be released stateside May 21 on Votiv.

Alpine is Phoebe Baker and Lou James (dual vocals), Christian O’Brien (guitar), Ryan Lamb (bass), Tim Royall (keys) and Phil Tucker (drums).

The new album was recorded in Melbourne with producer Dann Hume who helped the band experiment with sounds and textures. Of the record Lamb notes, “We wanted to represent the different sides of our music, so there’s some sad moments, some dancey moments, some rocking out and lots of harmonies.” No strangers to the benefits of shared ideas and the collaborative process, Alpine’s own methods for song writing reflect the strong and respectful working relationship they had with Hume. Baker describes the new album as the band’s “innocent and not so innocent explorations through our twenty-something emotions.”

Alpine will support Crystal Fighters at the El Rey on June 4

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This kid’s freak-out level is way above mine.

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It used to be that “The Best of Craigslist” was the most amusing thing on the internet where people could anonymously go for it with their creative writing in posts in long-er form.

Many a website later, we have How About We. Sure, it’s a dating site, but sometimes it looks like a breeding ground for practicing comedians who have to relate what they want in a limited amount of words/characters.

Would you go out with these “guys who like gals”? Pick out the funny man in each screenshot.

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Old fashioned charm, ladies?

 

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Is this an activity to get the heart racing– like watching a scary movie?

 

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Working backwards, kinda clever, mister.

 

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No explanation needed.

 

I’d like to meet the women who take these guys up on their date offers— Anyone? Bueller?

 

I would also like to meet the women who went to the wedding with these two:

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tnadola

xx T

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T&A Do Double D-s

by T and A on February 14, 2013

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If you’re wearing one of these shirts, DD #2 will find you.

 DD is not one of The Ramones

You probably think of giant boobs when you hear “Double D-s” (or maybe Dungeons & Dragons comes to mind for you). Let’s change that.

This year, you’re getting spared the acronym joke of VD, Valentine’s Day vs. Venereal Disease.

 DD #1

Douche Detector

I was reading recently about an iPhone app that helps detect ghosts. I’m all for supernatural and occult research, but what we really need in LA is a Douche Detector app. Would love to hold my phone out at a bar and have it beep within a foot of offenders so I can walk the other way.

Let’s see, how would it detect? Olfactory senses perhaps – too much hair product, scent of other women’s nether regions, anyone got other ideas?

 DD #2

Default Dude

This is what you call the friend of the guy your friend is hooking up with. Here’s the situation- you’re the wing woman to your friend. She meets a guy who’s out with his roommate or friend. You go back to their place.

It’s past 2 a.m.. Your friend is off doing gawd knows what with her guy. You’re stuck with the other guy. He’s cute enough for your beer goggles. You commence acts of faux amore with said guy. This is the Default Dude.

DD, eat this:

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DD #3

Dick Demerit

This is when your friend does stuff because she’s dick whipped.

You’ve been spending all your gas money for years driving your friend around, and finally you ask her one favor- however she won’t pick you up at your car dealership when you’re getting your vehicle serviced five minutes away (while she’s laying around your house because she’s crashing there for a month), but she’ll drive car-less dude she’s been screwing to the valley for an interview. She gets a Dick Demerit.

Your friend hoards food when you’re eating out together and won’t share with you and whips out the calculator app at the end of the meal, but she’ll take the broke dude she’s screwing out to eat and cover whatever he wants, including alcohol. She gets a Dick Demerit.

If the only time your friend spends with you is when the dude she’s screwing is at band practice or out screwing some other chicks and she’s waiting for him to come home, your friend gets a DD #3.

If you invite your friend out to fab parties and she says “I’m not really that social of a person” but then goes to all of some douche’s band gigs and “likes” every frickin’ one of this dude’s Facebook updates, she gets a Dick Demerit.

After so many Dick Demerits, your friend gets cut off and you go have fun with your more sensible self respecting female friends.

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone, and remember–

We should invent a DD together- saves time, saves effort, great for the environment…

Be wary when hooking up with a DD when you’re bored.

Don’t rack up too many DD-s or else your friends with brains will get bored of you.

Don’t motor-boat too many sets of DD-s either, k?

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x T

tnadola

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