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Agree/disagree?

Old Movie Trailers: Demolition Man

So I'm pretty bummed right now, this is on television and it might well be the only thing that can make me feel better.



They really don't make 'em like this anymore.

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Y'all ready for #1??

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Full House Rocks

My sis and I were watching Gilmore Girls this morning, and as happens every morning at 11:59, the show ended and Full House began. Well, before we could change the station, we caught this gem of a clip:



Simply amazing.

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OMG WTF!

Apparently they're gonna kill Batman. Is nothing sacred?

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Cookie Monster is not a letter of the alphabet!

The adorableness of this video will make you melt (in a good way, not in a Wicked Witch way).

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My Mom will be so pleased that we chose this one...

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SNL Recap: Paul Rudd

David and I got to watch SNL together this week, which is always a treat--the first half was a little slow, but you can always count on Justin Timberlake and Snagglepuss!

Videos after the jump!

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Star Trek - The Trailer

So the first full trailer for the new Star Trek film is out on prints of Quantum of Solace. Someone was kind enough to record a bootleg and post it on youtube:



It's going to take me some time to figure out how I feel about this. I'll definitely see it... but it sure doesn't look like a Star Trek movie.

FOTC NYC TOUR

On Friday Evening, David and I decided to take a "Flight of the Conchords tour." This entailed us going to the fake New Zealand Consulate, Dave's Pawn Shop, and Bret and Jemaine's Apt. This was an interesting trip, as neither of us had spent much time in China town, which is actually really cool and fun at night. Here are some pictures!!! (note: it was kinda dark and foggy, so excuse the pic quality).

New Zealand Consulate.

Dave's Pawn Shop

Bret and Jemaine's Apt

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Snakes on a Plane

This afternoon Laura and I caught this masterpiece on Cinemax HD.

Foreign Accent Syndrome

This woman has a case of the Madonnas...

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Everybody's freeeeee

Repo! The Genetic Opera at the Angelika

So we saw the 1:30 showing of Repo! The Genetic Opera this afternoon at the Angelika and it was every bit the hot mess I was hoping for. It's showing right now in LA, Austin, New York, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. It'll be in theaters in Toronto on November 21. If you like rock operas, gore, hating Paris Hilton, Anthony Stewart Head, staring at a screen with incredulity or torturing friends who don't enjoy any of those things... grab a friend and GO NOW! If you aren't lucky enough to live in one of those few cities, where it's showing on a combined 8 screens, the DVD is coming out January 20th! 

"I am only living out a liiiiiiieeeeeee!" 

Trust Me on the Sunscreen

Romeo + Juliet

Last night while waiting for delivery from Insomnia Cookies, Laura and I watched this masterpiece...

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We, in fact, do love Duck Tales.

David and I have been getting a lot of flack recently for our "slight" to the Duck Tales Theme song. In all honesty, we forgot to place it on the original list--the only reason it got added was because I couldn't find an acceptable version of the SNL intro. Glad I got that off my chest. Right now I'm sitting in the Charlotte airport waiting for my 1:40 take off and I'm trying to think of a way to appease the Duck Tales Gods (and Girl Woodie and Tug). All I came up with was sharing the wikipedia synopsis.

From Wikipedia:

The show features the adventures of Scrooge and his nephews. The nephews, who were originally living with their uncle Donald, are left in Scrooge's care when the former joins the Navy.

Though Scrooge is the richest duck in the world, he constantly tries to find ways to increase his wealth. Many episodes involve protecting his wealth from villains who want to rob Scrooge of all his money. The prominent recurring antagonists in the show include the Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell who are always finding ways to rob and swindle Scrooge and his nephews. Scrooge's nemesis in the show is Flintheart Glomgold, who always tries to devise plans to dethrone Scrooge McDuck from his "Richest duck in the world" title.

What a fascinating show. As my dear friend Rebecca "Soul Glo" Morrell will most likely add, Donald Duck didn't care for pants, which leads me to ponder his decision to go into the Navy. Don't ask don't tell, indeed.

The New Enterprise!

Entertainment Weekly has the first look at the new USS Enterprise NCC-1701. Nerd alert!



Generally I like it. It's faithful to the original but much more modern looking. Eh, what do I know. I only really liked the Original Series movies. I'm a Next Generation man.

Creep - Scala & Kolacny Brothers

The following is a cover of Radiohead's Creep by a chorus of 60 Belgian women, a concept which sounds awkward and amusing, but is actually haunting, etherial, and absolutely beautiful. 

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ME TOMORROW!!

I'm heading to NYC tomorrow! I get to see David and so many other people/places. It should be exciting for you readers out there too, as we're going to be co-blogging from the same city--ooohhhh...

I'm the Boom King!

Here's some more Flight of the Conchords. This song is great for facebook statuses:



"I think I need a 1983 Casio DG-20 electric guitar set to electric mandolin."
"I want to tell her how hot she is, but she'll think I'm being sexist. She's so hot she's making me sexist. Bitch."

The Net

The bold documentary film, my personal favorite, which challenges that age old adage: "Well, it must be true if it's on the interweb."



"Give us the disc and we'll give you your life back."

British Television is Just Cooler

So earlier today I read about a new TV series that simply BLOWS MY MIND... Dead Set, a horror mini-series that aired on Britain's E4 in October. Combining two of my favorite things ever, reality television and zombies, Dead Set aired over five consecutive nights, chronicling a zombie outbreak that strands housemates and production staff inside the Big Brother house during the taping of a fictional season. It can be viewed on Youtube here:

Dead Set - Episode 1 (Parts One, Two, Three, Four, and Five)

This came on the heels of me reading about a 1992 BBC program, Ghostwatch, which featured prominent broadcaster and journalist, Sir Michael Parkinson. This 90 minute fake docudrama was purported to be about a news team's investigation into a haunted house which goes horribly wrong, resulting in the live possession of the aforementioned journalist. Large segments of the viewing public responded poorly, with children suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and one teenager committing suicide. This led to the BBC enacting a decade long ban on the program. The program in it's entirety follows.

Ghost Watch

Epic Car Crash

This clip, from Final Destination 2, is without a doubt the most melodramatic and insane car crash ever put to film. When I worked at a movie theater we had this film and I would run into the theater just to see this sequence. Warning: viewing this sequence will make you REALLY freaked out whenever a logging truck is in front of you on the highway. It also makes me mildly paranoid about beverages in the car. Seriously a hot cup of coffee and a water bottle KILL PEOPLE in this scene.



Princess Clara approves!

Nevermind, No Seriously

Seventeen year-old Spencer Elden, aka the naked kid from Nirvana's Nevermind, has recreated the album cover he's famous for at a recent photo shoot.


Proving that cool babies don't necessarily turn into cool people, Spencer remarked: ""it's kind of creepy [to think] that that many people have seen me naked — I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star.... I have to use stupid pickup lines like, 'You want to see my penis ... again?'"

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I'm in the mood for...

Sorry, I'm posting yet another video instead of actually writing something, but for some reason I'm really in a Last Waltz mood right now.

Without further ado, The Band singing Up on Cripple Creek:

What if The Matrix ran on Windows?

This Matrix/Windows parody from College Humor is brilliant. It's also got pretty spectacular production values.



"Hope you have cookies enabled"
"Your free trial of Kung Fu has expired."

Quake III: Simpsons Edition

This Quake III map, which recreates the interior of The Simpsons' house and Springfield is brilliant. Favorite bits: 1) the Spider-pig tracks on the ceiling in the living room and 2) the clip of the game in action with Green Day's version of the theme song playing in which the words "you fragged mr. burns" appear. Heh. Well played, nerds.

Kanye West - Heartless

Kanye West's new rotoscoped music video begs some very important questions... Why, god, why is he singing? The autotuning makes it sound like Cher circa "Believe." And why is he in a room filled with paintings of Jetsons' characters with no eyes? Does that mean something?

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Part 1)

This song has been in my head all weekend and it's still there, so I thought I'd post the video :)

I think I'm gonna make my facebook status something like "Laura Major won't let those robots eat you" or "Laura Major knows it's demanding to defeat those evil machines" or something like that...

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Best Commercial Ever: Uno Attack

The riskiest game EVER... "You might get no cards. You might get AIDS."

Old Movie Trailers: Just One of the Guys

I used to watch this movie on cable all the time.



"Of course you're confused. You're wearing my underwear."

Dear Sister

Since SNL was a rerun last night... I thought I'd throw out this gem from two years ago.

SNL Digital Short - Dear Sister

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Britney and Madonna "Live"

Britney Spears made a surprise appearance at a Madonna concert recently, as did Justin Timberlake. Though they weren't on stage together at the same time. What are they odds they made up back stage? Oh slim to none?

Alas, he's the footage of Brit and Madonna performing together. Enjoy as Madonna pretends to play the guitar and Brit pretends to sing.

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Anorexia to the Extreme

Ladies and gentleman... the most photoshopped model... EVER.



She is apparently on a diet so fierce that she only has one thigh.

Scariest Thing on the Internet

I'm pretty sure this commercial for Baby Laugh-a-lot just ate my soul.

Dollhouse Officially the New Firefly

Joss Whedon's new series Dollhouse has been plagued with production issues. The network decided the first Pilot's tone was off, so a new pilot was shot and the original was made the second episode, until it was decided that it should be scrapped altogether. Production shut down entirely for two and a half weeks so Whedon could work on script issues. The episodes have all been produced out of order. Once again production is being delayed so because of script issues with episode 7.

To top this all off FOX announced today that it will no longer be on Mondays with 24 but instead will be inheriting the Friday night slot of death. Dollhouse premieres Friday Feb 13 at 9pm. Feel free to pick up the Complete Series set with all the unaired episodes next fall.

What the Frak?!?

Frak is my favorite word ever and the following clip shows you the many ways it can be used:

All the Fraks from Battlestar Galactica Season One:

More about Frak after the jump!

Veronica Mars Fraks with you!

The Office - Jim tells you all about BSG

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SNL Roundup 11/1/08 - Ben Affleck

They finally put up some of my favorite clips from last week's SNL!! Whoever selects clips at NBC.com needs to start getting on the ball with this stuff. If only they had the REALLY weird clip with Ben Affleck and Bill Hader pitching movies, where Hader's clearly on drugs and keeps suggesting weird porn fetish scenarios...

Giraffes! 

Night School Musical: Senior Year Equivalent

"And then I'm gonna smoke meth, 'cause I'm addicted to meth!"

Top 5 James Bond Themes

With the release of the ridiculously-named, but awesome-looking Quantum of Solace on Nov 14th getting closer and closer I thought I'd take a look back at some of my favorite James Bond themes. Quantum of Solace's theme by Jack White and Alicia Keys, an odd pair for sure, is "Another Way to Die." If you haven't heard it be sure to click on over and check it out. 

The World is Not Enough - Garbage

I feel like this Bond theme is seriously underrated. Shirley Manson's bizarre, singing, severed robot head makes the video worth a look all on it's own.

More naked ladies, guns, and music after the jump! 

Die Another Day - Madonna

The video for this makes the mistake of referencing Madonna's ridiculous cameo as a fencing instructor but it's a GREAT dance song. "Sigmund Freud.... analyse this... analyse this.... analyse this... this... this... this..." That bit of randomness along with the beat stopping abruptly so that Madonna can grunt make me happy. 

A View to a Kill - Duran Duran

This video is psychotically 80s. "Dance into the fiiiiyah!" I'm a firm believer that you can never go wrong with Duran Duran.

Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney 

You know you did used to say Live and Let Live....

Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey

Goldfinnnnga! I mean it's the classic bond theme. I count my mom's LP of this soundtrack as one of my most prized possesion. 

Metaphor-Free Radio

I feel really bad about it but the Eric Clapton part of this video made me laugh out loud. Also, who doesn't know how to pronounce Dave Coulier?

The Onion - Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

Holy crap. This video is SO harsh and delicious.

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Favorite Election night/Nov. 5 facebook statuses:

These are real statuses from some of my 694 facebook friends (yeah, I’m that popular), but names have been changed so they don’t get mad at me. I have as many liberal friends as conservative ones, but the messages from the right are funnier, which is why there are more listed here—most of the Probama messages just say things like “Gobama,” etc…

John Doe, socialism, get the f*ck out of here, John McCain suspsended his f*cking campaign to complete a 700 billion dollar bailout proposed by the bush admin, socialism.

Jane Doe, for all those people who want to leave the country now...you are silly...also where are you going to go? The whole world loves OBAMA!!!

John Doe- is everyone ready for socialism?

John Doe is saying don't blame me, I voted for Mike Ditka.

Jane Doe is moving outta America! ASAP.

John Doe, all right time to put your money where your mouth is Obama.

Jane Doe, democracy, liberty, and unyielding hope ... that's the beauty of America. It's about time we lived up to this. Obama 08.

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John Doe, is Ross Perot 2012!

Jane Doe is available once more for dancing in the streets.

Jane Doe had a historical night. Obama won (!!!!) AND I saw Michael Phelps in the flesh @ Publix. No, seriously.

Jane Doe is loving everyone's statuses ..... and hopes she still has internet access to read them when her plane lands in some remote area of Canada.

Jane Doe wants a recount.

Jane Doe is all "Yes We Did!!!".

Jane Doe is wondering what happened to the American people? Costa Rica here I come!

Jane Doe thinks Levi is off the hook now...

John Doe is looking for jobs in the Caribbean.

Jane Doe, We're screwed.

John Doe, at least there will still be a filibuster.

John Doe feels bad for small business.

Jane Doe don't worry my friends '76 w/ Carter was the reason for Reagan in '80!

Jane Doe Buckle up, America. We're in for QUITE a ride.

John Doe can't wait to share the wealth!!!!

Jane Doe can't wait to stand in line for bread.

UPDATE:
I'll be updating this post throughout the day, because I keep seeing great ones...
also, follow girl woodie's example and leave some in the comments!!

John Doe is anticipating Palin's next career move: replacing Hasselbeck on "The View".

Jane Doe feels like the United States of America just won the superbowl.

John Doe is going to colonize northern Antarctica. Penguins and capitalism!

John Doe, hold on to your property people, because one day the government might think they are better suited to manage it than you.

Jane Doe has 46 remaining Gap, Inc. Friends and Family invitations for 30% off at Banana Republic, Gap, Old Navy, and Piperlime. Email me if you want one!

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Whoever Wins, We Lose

This short from College Humor shows us what the future will look like when either Obama or McCain wins the election... according to their opponents.



"Dad who married a box turtle" gets me every time

When Is a Vote Not a Vote?

So I went to go vote today and was told by the volunteers at my polling station that my names weren't on the roll. This was my first election since I registered in New York State. Up until now I'd always voted absentee from my home state of South Carolina. I had checked repeatedly on the New York Board of Elections website to see if my registration had been added and I even attempted to call to talk to a representative there last week to see what the hold up was, as I'd sent in my registration weeks before the deadline. I spent 30 minutes on hold on my cellphone before I gave up.

I went to the polling station with an ungodly amount of ID on hand. I had my Driver's License, my passport, a recent utility bill with my name and address clearly on it. And because of the Board of Elections failure to post my registration to their rolls I had to cast a provisional ballot. Assuming the Board of Elections can eventually verify that they received my registration... it will be counted.

According to one commentator on The NY Times Cityroom blog:

 "People that registered on time, but at the last minute (myself), were not put into the system. There are approximately 200,000 people this happened to according to the NYC board of elections representative i spoke to. I called on friday to check on the status of my registration and was told that “due to the backlog, they wouldn’t have time to enter everyone in the system”. When i asked the extent of the problem, i was told 200,000 people. I don’t understand 1) how this could happen and 2) how the NYT could not think this warrented a story. I called the city room at the New York Times on Friday to report this problem. The editor(s) didn’t think it warranted a call back nor a story. In short, i was forced to fill out a provisional ballot."

It's amazingly disappointing that after taking the time to register in New York because it felt important to me to vote in person for this election, my vote may not count at all.  I feel like I did my civic duty today but sadly I don't feel like I voted. 

Lando '08

When you go out to the polls today... consider Lando.



"Admiral Ackbar says, 'It's a trap!'"

One part patriotic, one part pop culture.

I hope everyone votes, blah, blah, blah, It's your duty as an American, etc...

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Election Night Tools

For those of you who'll be obsessively watching elections night coverage like it's the super bowl (i.e dorks like me), here's some Election Night tools.

A map of poll closing times in EST

And here are links to live prediction market results and the most recent polls map where you can create your own electoral college map on Real Clear Politics. 

Starbucks Gets Out the Caffeine Junkie Vote

According to this commercial, Starbucks is giving away a free tall cup of brewed coffee to those that vote tomorrow. All I want to know is... will they give me a soy latte if I vote for the candidate of Starbucks' choice? 'Cause I am so there. Yum!

Puppies vs. Kitties

Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones are at it again, encouraging people to vote... for kitties. Not to long ago, they were saying the answer to the global financial crisis was puppies. Which is it ladies?





We here at Pop Cultured try to stay out of these kinds of divisive politics but I'm going to have to take a stand. Puppies '08! If puppies throw Karen Filippelli on the ticket I am even more there. 

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Cake - Never There

A great song. A great viral video. This kid knows how to work a jump cut and a pair of aviators. He's not hard on the eyes either.

Things That Exist - Theodore Rex

The other night, during an insomnia prompted channel surfing endeavor, I came across this gem of a film. According to wikipedia New Line dropped out of theatrical distribution on this bad boy after some negative reaction at screenings. Who could've predicted that? It thus became the most costly direct-to-video film ever at the time of it's Blockbuster debut. Without further ado... here's the movie where Whoopi Goldberg solves crimes with her dinosaur partner.

Theodore Rex (1996) 

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