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just saw Moonrise Kingdom aka Hipster Super 8. and…it was...

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:14:00 -0700

just saw Moonrise Kingdom aka Hipster Super 8.

and…it was awesome.

BR5 Tries Stuff: Frigo No.1 Athletic Underwear Review I Reviewed...

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:12:00 -0700

BR5 Tries Stuff: Frigo No.1 Athletic Underwear Review

I Reviewed A $100 Pair Of Underwear

A Swedish company Frigo sent my office a pair of new athletic underwear and BR5 decided to review them.

I ripped open the FedEx package and found a pair of black underwear. Said to be better than underarmor and designed with the active sports guy in mind. I wore them all day from walking around the office, to running around washington square park, and then to the Red Bulls stadium that evening for an event.

The insane thing was that it didn’t even feel like I was wearing underwear and they were super comfortable. It has a weird contraption inside that, word for word the manual says “you stick your junk into” and it actually feels like nothing. It feels like i wasn’t wearing anything and that was awesome. Anyways - I don’t think I’d usually go out and buy $100 pair of underwear but if I was running a marathon, tough mudder or doing an iron man competition i’d definitely invest in these. or just watch the video.

hologram tupac has been shot.

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:04:00 -0700

hologram tupac has been shot.

The Master Teaser Trailer The first trailer from The Master,...

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:14:00 -0700

The Master Teaser Trailer

The first trailer from The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow up to 2007’s There Will Be Blood.

Joaquin Phoenix kills in this.

DIABLO 3 REVIEW i’ve never played diablo but everyone was...

Fri, 18 May 2012 17:04:00 -0700

DIABLO 3 REVIEW

i’ve never played diablo but everyone was talking about the new game diablo 3 so i decided to review it for work. check it out it’s on youtube.

Trailer for michel gondry’s next film The We And The...

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:29:24 -0700

Trailer for michel gondry’s next film The We And The I.

takes place on a bus on a group of kids last day of high school.

When I was 11 years old my Dad picked me up in our then three...

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:16:00 -0700

When I was 11 years old my Dad picked me up in our then three year old white Jeep Grand Cherokee to drive to Monterey to go to the Del Monte Shopping Center. My Mom lovingly let me sit in the front seat with my Dad as I was a “big boy” now and was able to sit in the front while she sat in back with my little brother.

My Father never really shared music with me. He played guitar and played the same off-Mexican riff every so often when he came home and was waiting for us to get ready in our living room, but for the most part he never really talked music with me.

This day in the summer of 1996 my Dad opened up the middle counsel and pulled out a pink paper cassette tape. He slide the cassette tape out of the pink paper cover, stuck it in the cassette slot to the car stereo and turned the black nob to the left up. A couple drum bangs and mellow guitar rifts written in the key of G, performed on instruments tuned down a half-step so the actual pitch is G♭* and I knew this foreign tape was projecting a tune I was familiar with. Obviously being a self proclaimed pre-teen in the mid 90’s, MTV was the next logical step of television after Nickelodeon so I knew who the Smashing Pumpkins were and I was both accustomed and enjoyed the song titled, “Tonight, Tonight”.

My Dad, I believe, loved the music video first, an obvious shout out to Méliès and the 1902 film, A Trip to the Moon. But he also loved the song. It’s the only mainstream piece of music, a single cassette from 1996, that I ever saw or heard him purchase. The biggest question that ran through my pre-teen head was why? What were the ingredients why was that song was so significant to him? Did the visuals of the dawn of filmmaking capture his attention so much that he had to go out and spend $6.99 on the single? I remember he said he didn’t really like the b-side of the album but “Tonight, Tonight” was great. We listened to the song, mostly in silence as we drove through highway 68.

This weekend I went to Chicago and interviewed Billy Corgan for a documentary I’m working on about Resistance Pro, a wrestling league he’s created with the help of the Baron Brothers out of Chicago. Billy was an insanely nice guy, extremely humble and articulate. The wrestling was actually very entertaining and honestly extremely fun, something I would totally do again if given the opportunity or if I lived in Chicago. It’s a different form of theater, almost like an alternate Sleep No More.

All in all this has been one of the best projects I’ve worked on in awhile and I’m not even close to being done. While I didn’t find it appropriate, and I doubt i’d be able to articulate the correct words in person - a little bit of me wishes I shared this story with him.

I also wish I asked him if he enjoyed Hugo.

*thanks Wikipedia

'Chaplin' Musical Coming to Broadway in Sept | NY Times

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:53:00 -0700

'Chaplin' Musical Coming to Broadway in Sept | NY Times: ok i might stay in nyc a little longer..

kid gets hit by a bus (@:31).

Thu, 10 May 2012 14:03:00 -0700

kid gets hit by a bus (@:31).

Oh man! Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was awesome last...

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:00:00 -0700

Oh man! Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was awesome last night!

toutpetitlaplanete: Maurice Sendak - I Love New York, 1993

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:06:57 -0700

toutpetitlaplanete:

Maurice Sendak - I Love New York, 1993

2 things millions of people waited until the end of the weekend to do*:

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:33:00 -0700

1. Wikipedia’d the shit out of Thanos 2. Ate shawarma *according to box office estimates

the greatest exchange in Mad Men history happened last night...

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:23:00 -0700

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

the greatest exchange in Mad Men history happened last night between pete & harry (non spoilery).

I love how harry comes out of the elevator like he just had a fantastic lunch with a tv exec only to have his day daunted by pete campbell in a manner of seconds.

storyboard: Welcome to Storyboard An introduction to Tumblr’s...

Mon, 07 May 2012 08:42:00 -0700

storyboard:

Welcome to Storyboard

An introduction to Tumblr’s new home for community features.

Wow. Tumblr’s new Storyboard is it’s own This American Life of the Tumblr community and that’s awesome.

my understanding of cinco de mayo

Sat, 05 May 2012 11:05:00 -0700

Mexico ran out of money in 1860. France lent Mexico a bunch of money. Mexico still ended up...

"That’s what."

Thu, 03 May 2012 18:48:00 -0700

“That’s what.” - She

I saw The Shins in nyc at terminal 5 the other night and this is...

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:35:00 -0700

I saw The Shins in nyc at terminal 5 the other night and this is what i thought about while they were on stage:

- it’s depressing I could tell the difference between the iPhone 3Gs and an iPhone 4s as the screens illuminated my sight of the stage as they captured instagram photos

- concerts are the only place where I’m always surrounded by people taller then me

- I could tell the popularity of songs by the amount of smart phones recording & photoing in the air. FYI People love to take videos of ‘New Slang’, they also love screaming to it and making out to it (and grinding)

- so. many. instagram. photos.

- can’t believe how a really shitty The Shins song can be so important to people

- they didn’t play “Kissing the Lipless”?! WTF!

- stoked when I heard, “Oh I know this song, it’s from Garden State!” (twice)

- just realized I’m not really into The Shins at all

- so many X’s on the back of hands, not enough O’s around wrists

- when ~~bands~~ er, The Shins break into long winded instrumental rock outs, “fans” get bored

So in the end I came to the idea of the “concert / party” shoe. Instead of wearing nice shoes to a concert at Terminal 5 or a warehouse party in Brooklyn, wear your really crappy old converse you forgot to throw away because they are bound to get stepped & poured on and it’s dark and no one cares. Especially at a Shins concert.

yes. Can’t wait for the new Kate Hudson movie!

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:17:00 -0700

yes.

Can’t wait for the new Kate Hudson movie!

kate upton cat daddy dance so i cat daddy’d with kate...

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:02:00 -0700

kate upton cat daddy dance

so i cat daddy’d with kate upton a week ago and we put it up today and it’s the only place on the internet to find a video of kate upton dancing to the ‘cat daddy’ dance in a hoodie!

joesabia: Delighted to share the news of the launch of a new...

Tue, 01 May 2012 07:41:58 -0700

joesabia:

Delighted to share the news of the launch of a new YouTube channel called “cdza”.

Every other Tuesday, the channel will feature Juilliard-trained musicians in musical video experiments.

8 months ago we uploaded “History of Lyrics That Aren’t Lyrics” as opus 1. Now we’re kicking things off officially with “History of Whistling”.

Follow us on all that social media jazz, blah blah.

that is awesome of the day. SUBSCRIBE!