In the new movie Observe & Report Seth Rogan plays a mall security guard who happens to be Bipolar. The reviews have included 'bipolar' within lists of such sneering adjectives for his character as 'mean,' 'unhinged,' 'racist/sexist/homophobic,' 'violent,' 'evil,' 'angry,' and so on. The New York Times review even uses the word 'psycho' ( Read more... )

The nice thing about The Onion's ONN segments is that the content is often funnier than the headlines:

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'cause tonight's was delightful.

I remain very impressed by this show.

2009 = 3 Outkast albums.

From the article:

"Besides being holed up in the studio working on these records, Daddy Fat Sacks has also been spending time on the set - he's due to appear on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" next Tuesday, November 25. He plays a rapper - Gots Money - who gets greedy. Instead of just relying on the loot he gets as an ( Read more... )

My friend Julian Wass, old bottlenoser and music cohort, and proud son of the dad from Blossom (sorry, Jules), has just finished producing an album. He's set up a website where you can stream his catalog (I pointed him to Bandcamp, Joe...his player seems to have problems with Firefox).

Julian has a great, indiscriminate ear and a wonderful artistic ( Read more... )

I think it's time that musicians and the music industry accept that music is free. And that it should be ( Read more... )

Update: More details, better post at Kos

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Wow...if this turns out to be true and is pursued by the mainstream press...dooood.

Here is the headline that may leap from DailyKos to the front page of the NYT (worded more gracefully):

McCain VP Pick: Mentally Retarded Son is Actually Grandson.

Put less gracefully: Sarah Pallin is Her Own Retarded ( Read more... )

I made a more extensive playlist of the 'keepers' from the last 2 (now a full two) years of music:



Headphones highly recommended. Skip around, ingest in small doses to avoid nausea.

Truly, earnestly flattered by anyone who bothers to listen. Be you Thai, Hong Kongian, Vietnamese, or heck, even American.

No surprise here: I hated Juno.

But after getting so much flack for ripping on Garden State and its soundtrack whenever either came up, I never voiced my disdain. Thanks to Digg, I get to post a link on my livejournal months after forgetting about the whole thing!

If Juno Was 10 Times shorter and 100 Times More Honest