February 2012
64 posts
SXSW Comedy: Upright Citizens Brigade Presents The... →
deneece:
spolikeluzhate:
If you are going to SXSW, check us out!
If you have friends going to SXSW - tell them to come!
YOU GUYS, THIS IS MY EVERYTHING. If you don’t go to SXSW, you are seriously missing out.
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Watchclassicajays:
Hey, remember at the end of that “What Up with That” sketch this weekend where D’Andre Cole said they would figure out a way to put up an online video so that Lindsey Buckingham could speak? Well, this is that online video! I just thought that was just apart of the sketch but these guys actually put one together. So, enjoy Bill Hader (as Lindsey Buckingham) finally talking
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“Here’s another good line of reasoning, one that speaks to angsty, entitled,...”
– “I Am The World’s Worst Sperm Donor” by Jack Stuef at The Awl.
Brace yourselves, comedy nerds: SXSW Comedy... →
Here’s the current full list of performers (more TBA in the next few weeks):
James Adomian, Scott Aukerman, Kevin Allison, Todd Barry, Doug Benson, Mike Birbiglia, Kurt Braunohler, Jerrod Carmichael, Wyatt Cenac, Chris Cubas, Andres du Bouchet, Ian Edwards, Cameron Esposito, Matt Fulchiron, Brett Gelman, Chris Gethard, Gary Gulman, John Hodgman, Pete Holmes, Louis Katz, Martha Kelly, Robert...
“It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and...”
– David Foster Wallace (via walkwhilereading)
Yesterday’s Links We Love:
The A.V. Club schools you on Elephant 6; A look back at the early days of internet celebrity.
Downton Abbey paper dolls!
New episode of Julie Klausner’s How Was Your Week features guests Jenny Johnson and Max Silvestri.
The Rumpus takes a ride in NYC’s dollar vans.
Canadian man has spent seven years digging out his basement with remote-controlled toy...
Yesterday’s Links We Love:
6 terrifying user agreements you’ve probably accepted; Supposedly shocking films that fall short; Lesser-known Lana Del Rey songs.
Austin Energy funds Seaholm Power Plant wall art project.
This Russian man who tattooed his cat is the worst person in the world; 95-year-old socialite dies in front row of Fashion Week show.
The story of Juliane Koepcke, the sole...
“I would make the argument that removing all traffic lights from the...”
– In The Phoenix, Ryan Walsh talks about his brilliant piracy project, The Overdub Tampering Committee.
“6:35 p.m. On the subway with a very large Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. Fighting a...”
– Max Silvestri’s Fashion Week journal on The Daily is a thing you should drop everything and read.
Yesterday’s Links We Love:
An only slightly cynical V-Day mix, from Bigger Splashes; Stream Sleigh Bells’ latest, Reign of Terror.
Cautionary Notes, from former Austinite / writer Amelia Gray, lets you send slightly creepy message to your friends (and frenemies).
Would you trust therapy via iPhone app?
Apparently, David Arquette had a run-in with the Westboro Baptist Church; Apparently,...
Love this parenthetical:
Two reviews in particular crystallize a certain kind of ignorant animosity toward the Apatow touch. Writing for the New York Observer, the inexplicably furious Rex Reed called Apatow a “tasteless no-talent” before decryingFunny People as “smut that reduces the oxygen in the brain.” (Seriously, this review should be required reading for FBI profilers seeking insight into...
WatchCould not be more excited about Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress.
In anticipation of tonight’s Rumpus party, can I go ahead and get on record with the Sugar’s-real-identity prediction I made last year? Excellent.
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Yesterday’s Links We Love:
Celebrate Adele’s Grammy win with her Tiny Desk Concert, recorded last Feb; Scott Rudin’s win for Book of Mormon makes him an official EGOT; Girls covers “I Will Always Love You.”
The Daily Texan profiles tattoo artist Rachel Kolar.
Lady we’d love to hang out with: Ruth Finley, calendar-keeper for New York Fashion Week.
The Christian Siriano for Payless line is...
IMPOSSIBLES REUNION SHOW JUNE 9 AT THE MOHAWK!!1! →
“When people ask you about them, tell the truth. Practice saying...”
– Life-changing advice from Choire Sicha on dealing with The Way Shit Really Is.
“Also: I tend to forgive blogs their sillier moments because I understand the...”
– Emily Gould
Today’s Links We Love:
Tumblr to waste time on: Clear Eyes, Full Parks, Can’t Lose.
The A.V. Club interviews Karl Pilkington, best known as Ricky Gervais’ podcast audio engineer-slash-adorably dim-witted punching bag.
Kevin Smith has a new reality show about comic book nerds, because of course; Spike Jonze’s next film will be about a man who falls in love with a computer, because...
Today’s Links We Love:
With the help of Pinterest, GSD&M has created a pretty killer SX Survival Guide (only 29 days, y’all).
(Love Pinterest? Thank Skimlinks.)
New episode of Who Charted? with guest Jake Fogelnest (appropriately titled “Indie Cred”).
15 wacky US town names; 13 awesome tweets from Kumail Nanjiani.
Happy birthday to Seth Green, here’s seven reasons why you...
Gawker has described Zooey Deschanel as a:
Melted bead craft project
Lisa Frank needlepoint
Sentient glitter cloud
Over-iced Funfetti cupcake
Living Pinterest board
Probable Yelp reviewer
Novelty ukelele tune
Possessed Anthropologie mannequin
Animated Hipstamatic photograph
Crocheted Etsy woman
Satchel of fairy dust
Living dog sweater
Hipster labradoodle with bangs
Actress/grammatically creative indie songstress
...
Today’s Links We Love:
Esquire has helpfully compiled a slideshow of 79 things we can all agree on; The Frisky’s (actually totally legit) 5 dangers of flirty texting; 7 epic roommate pranks.
Lawsuit filed on behalf of “enslaved” Sea World killer whales.
Dalkey Archive Press posts excerpts from the forthcoming David Foster Wallace volume of their Literary Conversations series.; Writer Emma...
“My private life hasn’t suffered because of the Internet per se (other than...”
– Julieanne Smolinski @ xojane, “So, Uh, How Do I Know If I’m Addicted To The Internet?
Today’s Links We Love:
The 25 best sitcom couples; Paramount’s 47 alternative titles for Vertigo; 5 albums to stream for free (including the latest from Austin’s Shearwater); 739 (that’s the number of plastic surgeries Joan Rivers has had).
The Daily Texan rounds up quotes overheard at this past weekend’s Occupy Austin eviction.
Esquire presents a beginner’s guide to the recent...
Watchbobbyfinger:
I just made a trailer for the Oscars. It focuses on Glenn Close. I’m quite proud of it.
