… and it doesn’t end well.
… and it doesn’t end well.
This is the best/worst thing we’ve seen all week. The man behind the worst movie ever, “The Room,” shows his chops as he campaigns to play iconic Batman “big bad” the Joker. There’s so much nope here it’s practically a yep.
New England Patriots star Tom Brady was challenged to a chugging contest on The Late Show last night. He accepted, and you can guess the rest…
TONIGHT: Tom Brady doesn't usually drink beer, but when he does… pic.twitter.com/xGWdnlhJOR
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) March 13, 2018
Stone Temple Pilots got some guest vocal help from 9 year-old Vedder on Saturday night. He kills it on “Dead and Bloated!”
Don’t know about you, but I spend way too much time scrolling through Netflix trying to find that perfect thing to watch. The problem is, the listed categories don’t always cover my specific needs. Here’s what you get when you click “genres”:
You can get a lot closer to what you really want by drilling down with specific category I.D.s. To get to what you’re looking for, enter:
http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/NUMBER
Then swap out “Number” for the number below that corresponds with the content you’re interested in. Some of the categories are super-specific, like “Deep Sea Horror Movies.” Check it out:
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Comic book creator Dan McDaid started something Friday with this tweet:
Bad news: the last text you sent is what’s going on your headstone
— Dan McDaid (@danmcdaid) March 9, 2018
Some of the results have been amazing. Mine is kinda perfect:
So… what does your last text say?
-James VanOsdol
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Here’s hoping Addison Russell has a good day at short for the Cubs home opener; he’ll be appearing that night on the CBS show “Superior Donuts.” According to EW, he’ll be stopping by Superior Donuts to meet Arthur (played by Judd Hirsch), who’s trying to attend the most consecutive games on opening day.
GO CUBS.
GO DONUTS.
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Oh no, I said “steamed hams!” Its a pretty classic moment from The Simpsons, and you might have seen its rebirth this year in a meme explosion about the famous Chalmers-coming-to-dinner sketch.
This….well, this is too good to pass up.
I present to you….“Steamed Hams…But Its Gorillaz” [📷 : YouTube/NPCarlson]
Dave Grohl and Josh Homme go back almost as long as the music itself…(Dave of course drummed on the Queens Of The Stone Age album Songs For The Deaf)…so you would think for as many times as Josh has seen his buddy’s band, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal, right?
During an stop in Argentina, look where the QOTSA singer perched himself to check out the Foo Fighters’ set:
What we do for the love of music. For the record, no injuries…and no stage dives. — [eric]
Updated: This piece of video artwork is now LIVE. Stroll past the mart at dusk from NOW until December.
The former home of 101WKQX, the Merchandise Mart, will be transformed into a giant digital canvas starting this fall.
It’s called “Art On theMart,” And it will feature 34 digital projectors teaming up to create giant pieces of public art on the side of the famed Chicago building. Non-commercial pieces, I might add. Expect to see zero ads and 100% creativity over the 30-year run of this project.
Projections will begin each day at dusk, and run for two hours each night of exhibition (Wednesday – Sundays). You can get a great view from Wacker Dr. as well as the Chicago Riverwalk. — [eric]
[📷 : Art On The Mart/Carol Fox & Assoc.]
The Smashing Pumpkins will once again tour this summer with most of their original lineup, playing to big arena crowds, but that is not all they are up to. Billy Corgan with guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chammberlin rejoining him as well as Jeff Schroeder (whose been in the Pumpkins since 2007) are working on some fresh material. The reunited band is close to finishing two new EPs of new music to usher in the fresh era. As if that was not enough, it’s being produced by the rock music producer Rick Rubin who worked with Corgan on his solo album ‘Ogilala’ and has been at the helm for albums from Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System of a Down, and Johnny Cash.
Corgan confirmed the new music and shared the titles of the 8 songs that will make up the two EPs.
“Solara”
“Marchin’ On”
“Travels”
“Seek and You Shall Destroy”
“With Sympathy”
“Knights of Malta”
“Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)”
“Alienation”
Corgan gave more updates on the recording process of the EP’s. It’s worth noting that he’s also building towards another solo record as well.
It’s March 10, Mario Day! And to celebrate the day of the beloved plumber turned adventurer Google has honored in a very unique and wonderful way that you can experience right now on your phone. For today, Mario has taken over Google Maps turning the GPS app into Mario Kart! I don’t know if you can lay bananas down to trip somebody else up or shoot off turtle shells, but it’s hoot to see Mario in his cart as I am looking the same route I take into NBC Tower.
Google calls the augmentation “Mario Time” and patterned with NIntendo to make it possible.
Happy Mar10 Day!
Navigate and share a screenshot of your #MarioMaps with us this week. https://t.co/IutHDz5C14 pic.twitter.com/MlaiLWeseG
— Google Maps (@googlemaps) March 9, 2018
Billie, Mike, and Tre share stories of performing in small clubs on their way up with surprise strippers and how they made it to top in this EXCLUSIVE Lounge Press Conference
Green Day one of the biggest bands in the world, Rock & Roll Hall of Famers who played Wrigley Field last year, are still able throw a good curve ball. GD’s Billie Joe Armstong and Mike Dirnt along with touring guitarist Jason white, audio engineer Chris Dugan and tour manager Bill Schneider to create a cover-band so appropriately billed as the Coverups. The not-so-cover band played this week at the small venue, Thee Parkside in San Francisco this week. It’s something else to see such accomplished musicians play their favorite songs by their favorite bands. Here some posts from the lucky few that got to see it. Thanks to AltPress for turning us on to this.
Tre Cool in the house #TheCoverups pic.twitter.com/i7lTXaZW4G
— Zack Ruskin (@zackruskin) March 9, 2018
Green Day did this last year at a tiny bar in Albany, New York back in January. The show never advertised anything about Green Day, how neat is that?!
You can watch the entire show from January below in this fan shot video.
Here are some of the things we learn for the latest edition of Creating Saturday Night Live: Foo Fighters…
Check out the mini doc! -wALT
Amazon’s smart voice-commanded Alexa speakers have been creeping people out across the world, by randomly laughing at people without being prompted by anyone. Ugh, are the machines laughing at us before they revolt and our lives become ‘Terminator: Rise of Machines’? That movie was not easy to watch, so imagine living in that reality.
Multiple people have posted about this skin-crawling experience online. The ball of terror got rolling when Twitter user @CaptHandleBar.
So Alexa decided to laugh randomly while I was in the kitchen. Freaked @SnootyJuicer and I out. I thought a kid was laughing behind me. pic.twitter.com/6dblzkiQHp
— CaptHandlebar (@CaptHandlebar) February 23, 2018
According to the Verge, Amazon is aware of the problem and is working on it. The company deactivate the phrase “Alexa, laugh,” and changing the command to “Alexa, can you laugh?” Yeah, that will calm me down when you randomly hear a computer laughing you in the middle of the night ….or not. Many people who have endured the cackling smart-ass speakers did the most obvious thing: they unplugged their Alexa.
Youtube dudes ETC Daily explain the phenomenon and riff on how scary it must be to hear it.
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