Black Mirror, the tech ‘Twilight Zone-like show that’s been just plausible enough to be completely unnerving, won’t be returning anytime soon. Creator Charlie Brooker says the pandemic has soured his enthusiasm for working on new episodes. He tells RadioTimes, “At the moment, I don’t know what stomach there would be for stories about societies falling apart.”
In the meantime, he says he’s working on scripts that make him laugh.
Big day for festival news: Pitchfork officially announced that its 2020 festival won’t be happening, due to COVID-19. In an announcement, organizers said they expect to be back next year, provided the “public health situation allows for it.”
Meanwhile, Lollapalooza is still on the calendar. In an email yesterday, organizers let fans know that a final decision about Lollapalooza 2020 will be made by the end of the month.
Tom Cruise wants to fly into outer space in the name of filmmaking, and NASA says it’s happening. The head of the space agency has confirmed that NASA is working with actor Tom Cruise to make a movie on the International Space Station. https://t.co/iujouGyIuR
So Grimes later posted the meaning behind the name, and no it still doesn’t make sense.
•X, the unknown variable ⚔️
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍
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(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
(⚔️🐁 metal rat)
X Æ A-12 is going to have a very interesting first day of school. Especially since the teachers are going to have to solve a calculus problem just to pronounce this name.
MTV changed the music world when it debuted in 1981 with it’s original culture impact bringing new adventurous music to the masses with wild visuals and an overall sense of cool. A wonderful person has revived all of that fun as it aired on TV with all of the VJ’s, interviews, outdated commercials, and of course the music videos featured in hundreds of hours of video posted on Internet Archive. Yeah, you won’t see any of reality shows that the channel is known for now. You can dive into this treasure trove of content here.
The first video in the collection shows MTV as it first signed on the air on August 1, 1981 with the epic moon landing themed opening that saw the Bungles ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ as the first music video aired on the network.
Currently you can watch the footage for free which is not HD obviously, but it has a charming grainy VHS quality to it and you get see all of the memorable shows like the alternative music showcase ‘120 Minutess’, ‘Headbangers Ball’, and much more. The collection does require a log in, and it runs from 1981 to 1989. This is a must-see for any music fan even the younger crowd who just know MTV for everything post-2000.
If you want more 80’s and 90’s alternative musical gifts, listen to ALT_Backspace with Brian Phillips (Saturdays 6a-8a, Sundays 10a-12p) on 101WKQX. Stream us anywhere in the world on your phone, smart speakers, Alexa, and the radio which we can confirm was not killed by the video star despite what you’ve heard.
The wild outlandish Joe Exotic who has become the meme dream of our collective existence from the highly-watched ‘Tiger King’ docuseries on Netflix, made another ridiculous move this week: he is going to seek a pardon for his crimes by President Trump. TMZ reports this week that Exotic’s legal team recently covered a bus in a giant decal asking the President to do just that, and they are rolling out some other part of the plan in the days to come.
Exotic is the former candidate for Oklahoma governor who ran a shady zoo for tigers, bred the exotic animals for similar exhibitors, and was convicted of plotting to pay a man to murder a rival animal exhibitor Carol Baskin in Tampa. Yeah, that’s the short and not-so-sweet version of it that you could catch up on the show which has sparked network TV specials and popular podcasts.
As if that was not enough news on the weirdest man of 2020, Nicolas Cage (who is quite the character off camera in his own right) is set to play Exotic in a scripted series for CBS Television that has been in the works since well before the Netflix series premiered. It’s not the only scripted TV take on ‘Tiger King’ as a SNL cast member is set to do version where she portrays Carol Baskin. Read more on that here.
Spears has been trying to entertain her followers all throughout the stay at home orders that people have been subject to due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
And based on that video… she is doing a great job!!
