Fifteen Minutes To Live
12/1/09
Yahoo's football blog Shutdown Corner list the 10 best NFL teams of the past decade, the 10 best NFL players of the past decade, the 10 biggest professional football flops of the past decades, and the 10 best NFL games of the past decade.
11/30/09
RJD2 "Games You Can Win" (featuring Kenna)
RJ dropped the first single from his upcoming album Colossus for free download.
RJ dropped the first single from his upcoming album Colossus for free download.
11/29/09
11/28/09
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11/26/09
Why does the NFL have a two-minute warning?
The custom of giving teams a two-minute warning dates all the way back to the NFL’s first years. In those days, fans and coaches couldn’t just take a look at the stadium clock to see how much time remained in the half. The official game clock resided in the pocket or on the wrist of one of the officials, and the stadium’s clock was just a rough estimate of how much time remained in the game. Thus, the NFL instituted a two-minute warning where the referee would stop the clock and let both teams know exactly how much time remained in the game.
11/25/09
The complete first season and select episodes of the second and third seasons of The Larry Sanders Show are now streaming on Hulu.
(via Maximum Fun)
(via Maximum Fun)
Youth In Revolt trailer #2
directed by Miguel Arteta
starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long
based on the novel by C.D. Payne
Saxx Laws from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
This was a bonus video we made during the shoot for the Sexx Laws video. Bass player Justin (JMJ) volunteered to dress up as a Kenny G style Smooth Jazz soprano sax player and serenade the destruction wrought by the day glo football team. (Coincidentally, Kenny G sat behind me on a flight to Seattle (regrettably not Ojai) a few months after this shoot). It was shot in a few takes before the lunch break and assembled later during the editing for the actual clip, essentially for our own amusement. The track came about when the idea arose to get some one to do a Smooth Jazz arrangement of the song instead of a remix. The music was played by the band, except for the sax player, who was an actual jazz session player. The track beautifully evokes the abandon of smooth. Its a little long, but if you stay with it, it will reward you with a smooth outlook for the rest of the day.(from Beck.com)
11/24/09
Objectified, a documentary on industrial design, is on PBS's Independent Lens tonight.
It's airing at 10pm on my local PBS station. Check listings for the time in your area.
Greenberg trailer
directed by Noah Baumbach
starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rhys Ifan, Mark Duplass, Greta Gerwig
11/23/09
Buy the complete series of Homicide: Life on the Street on dvd for $59.99.
Here's more info on the show, if you are unfamiliar with it.
Here's more info on the show, if you are unfamiliar with it.
Re-Meet Ricky Williams from Metafilter
Here's a random fact: Williams played minor league baseball in my hometown in the summer of 1998.
Here's a random fact: Williams played minor league baseball in my hometown in the summer of 1998.
11/22/09
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11/19/09
ESPN believes the root of the Buffalo Bills' problems is the team's organizational approach to offensive tackle.
April 17: Unable or unwilling to negotiate a contract extension, the Bills trade two-time Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters to the Philadelphia Eagles for draft picks.
April 25 and 26: Bills decline to select a tackle in the 2009 draft.
Forbes magazine names Will Ferrell the most overpaid actor.
Forbes looked at 100 top actors based on their widely released films over the past five years. It factored in the production costs of those movies against how much boxoffice, DVD and other revenue they generated in order to come up with an operating income for each film, which it then compared with the salaries the stars earned.
In Ferrell's case, the actor's films earned just $3.29 for every dollar he was paid. That's a pretty poor contrast to the $160 that Shia LaBeouf's movies returned to the studios for every buck he earned.
11/18/09
Edan - Echo Party video snippet
After Edan labored for a year to complete his new project Echo Party he was very happy with the outcome but wanted it to have a visual accompaniment to help compliment his live DJ set. He approached Tom Fitzgerald who also happens to be Cut Chemists go to video guy and film archivist who works for the The Silent Theatre in LA. What has been created in nothing short of a perfect visual marriage for the unmistakably unique album. There will be a full length version for the whole album with a party at The Silent Theatre in LA to debut the full length video in early 2010 (and yes Mr. Edan will be DJing). For now peep this shorter version and dont forget to check out the album Echo Party out now on new boutique label Five Day Weekend.(via Grand Good)
11/17/09
The Buffalo Bills have fired head coach Dick Jauron.
Defensive coordinator Perry Fewell will serve as interim coach for the remainder of the season.
Defensive coordinator Perry Fewell will serve as interim coach for the remainder of the season.
Purchase It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia seasons 1-4 on DVD for $44.99.
Amazon is also offering an extra ten dollars off if you also purchase the It's A Very Sunny Christmas dvd, which would bring the grand total for the four dvd's to $51.98. This deal is only good for the rest of the day.
Amazon is also offering an extra ten dollars off if you also purchase the It's A Very Sunny Christmas dvd, which would bring the grand total for the four dvd's to $51.98. This deal is only good for the rest of the day.
11/16/09
Trevor Ariza loses a sneaker. Ron Artest picks it up and throws it into the stands.
(via Ball Don't Lie)
Madness or Method? Tough To Tell
Manohla Dargis on Nicolas Cage for the New York Times
Manohla Dargis on Nicolas Cage for the New York Times
With most actors such computation is largely unnecessary: they navigate the space between professionally serviceable and exceptionally adequate, rarely reaching into the beyond. What makes Mr. Cage such an unusual screen presence and an even more atypical movie star is that he’s habitually very good and very bad from movie to movie, and sometimes scene to scene in a single film. Unlike most movie stars, whose stardom is partly predicated on a recognizable, coherent, stable persona and the ability to deliver a similarly coherent, stable performance — George Clooney almost always delivers a George Clooney-worthy turn, no matter how goofy the mustache — Mr. Cage is reliably unreliable.Also, the Village Voice and New York Magazine have recently weighed in on the strange acting of Nicolas Cage.
Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams flips off Bills players during his team's 41-17 victory on Sunday.
(via Yahoo)
The Wall Street Journal interviews Cormac McCarthy.
I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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