The museum is dedicated to the “importance of the visual arts, including filmmaking”. George Lucas’ proposed $1 billion Museum Of Narrative Art has been given the green-light by the Los Angeles city council.
Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, has been proposing this project throughout 2017, initially pitching it to the city of Chicago. The filmmaker spoke extensively to the council members about how the showcase of popular art “appeals to people emotionally, but also tells you something about who you are.”The museum will begin construction early next year and will take 36-months to complete. It will showcase the importance of the visual arts, including filmmaking, in shaping history, perception and myth. (MORE HERE)
For so many years, we looked across the Atlantic with envy. Not because England was home to both the Beatles and the Spice Girls, or because of Queen Elizabeth’s amazing hats, but because of their grocery stores. British grocery stores are home to literally dozens of varieties of canned cocktails, from elderflower gin and tonics to mojitos, and we here in the U.S. were sorely lacking.
Not anymore, though. Cutwater Spirits, the recently relaunched division of San Diego’s Ballast Point, has finally given us what we need: strong booze, good mixers, and aluminum cans. And they’re now available in Chicago. But can they possibly be any good? We tried all of them to find out.
Though several companies have made forays into the prepared cocktail market, including Chicago’s own Crafthouse Cocktails, these individual-sized mixed drinks are still a revelation. You can take them to the pool! To the beach! To a barbecue! With no glass and no leftovers, you’re finally free to sip a great rum and Coke, no sticky Malibu bottle required. (MORE HERE)
Late 90s alt-pop band Smash Mouth has been curiously injecting itself into weird issues that seem completely unrelated to them like the recent beef between Corey Taylor of Stone Sour/Slipknot and Chad Kroeger of Nickelback but now Smash Mouth has a beef with the most feverish fanbase in music, Twenty One Pilots ‘Clique’. Yes, the band that did that song in the Shrek soundtrack is in a twitter fight with Twenty-One Pilots fans after being asked what they think of the duo. It’s a very silly and ridiculous argument so it let be known we are taking no sides on this, but we are watching the shade get casted. Let it be clear the band Twenty-One Pilots themselves are not in this, just whoever runs the Smash Mouth Twitter and the TOP faithful.
Ok, so Smashy Mouth ( I call them that, because it’s not clear which member of the band runs their twitter) has taken the public stance of endorsing TOP, so what’s so bad about that? Well, apparently asking a band if they approve of band also means they must also endorse individual members of the band? Yes, they took it that way or at least it appears they did. It’s just confusing and odd sign of misconstrued context in an age of mass collective wanting throw the daily #(insert celeb/artists whos says something remotely negative about my favorite)isoverparty with hopes of getting shallow likes and retweets with no progressive result.
If you were a fan you'd know that that both put in as much passion and time and effort and emotion. it's a band not just a singer. https://t.co/oGVFpYliZk
Then at the same time, you can say the Clique is correct in that drummer Josh Dunn is indeed a critical central force in TOP’s success, and just ignoring him is disrespectful. Still, it’s all subjective, this is having an argument for the sake of just arguing. Twenty-One Pilots is a great band who puts on amazing shows, writes wonderful music, and inspires people. Fighting over it is just a real waste of time.
Have fun with music! Debate about what songs are the best or what show you saw was better. That’s fandom for the sake of good, this is just collective bellyaching. This is just my take by the way, maybe your opinion is different. And look you, reading this whole thing! If you got thoughts hit us up on @101WKQX and tag @Kevkellam so we don’t confuse everyone else.
You can scratch your head to this mash-up of Smash Mouth and TOP, too.
What Ya Missed, Nicci bought an adult toy on her parents Prime account, a Lansing off duty officer is in the news and Brian’s bag was stolen on the plane.
A new poll had people rank the best ice cream flavors, and we fully expected a BORING pick at #1 . . . either chocolate or vanilla. But apparently we’re NOT quite that boring . . .
More than 5,000 people voted online, and COOKIES AND CREAM took first place. Here are the top ten . . .
1. Cookies and cream.
2. Chocolate.
3. Vanilla.
4. Mint chocolate chip.
5. Strawberry. Neapolitan with vanilla, chocolate, AND strawberry came in 12th.
6. Regular chocolate chip.
7. French vanilla. (If they’d lumped it in with regular vanilla, it probably would have come in first. They’re different though.)
8. Rocky road.
9. Coffee.
10. Peanut butter cup.
T.J. Miller who recently left the hit HBO comedy series about a demented team in tech world ‘Silicon Valley’, spoke with Vulture about why he decided to the leave the show after the fourth season. It could have something to do with big movie roles like the blockbuster ‘Deadpool’ and it’s upcoming sequel that could be pulling him away from his conniving modern day dude Earlich Bachman. Here are Miller’s perspective on leaving the show.
On the end of his run at HBO: “It felt like a breakup with HBO. The final phone call was them going like, ‘Well, I don’t think this is the end of Erlich. I still want to see him on television,’ and I was like, ‘I know but I think this is for the best.’”
On Erlich’s decreased importance to the show: “I actually think the writing with Erlich gets funnier and funnier the more inessential and irrelevant he becomes. He’s an annoyance.”
On parting ways with Thomas Middleditch and executive producer Alac Berg: “I think that HBO and Alec Berg, specifically, kind of thought — and I guess apparently Thomas Middleditch — I guess they thought, “Alright, maybe this is the end of the character. But like everything in the show, we’ll sort of solve this and then it’s back to normal.” And they just didn’t imagine that I would be in a position of being like, “I think that’s it.” … I don’t know how smart [Alec] is. He went to Harvard, and we all know those kids are f—ing idiots. That Crimson trash. Those comedy writers in Hollywood are f—ing Harvard graduates and that’s why they’re smug as a bug … I think that in television you usually have one element that is very challenging, very frustrating. It’s an obstacle, right? So you’re doing the best work that you can do. Alec was that for me, and I think I was that for Alec. And a very good article was written that says that Erlich in the show is just this constant annoyance to Richard … And I think in some ways, that is analogous to real life. I think in some ways Thomas Middleditch is … we have a contrarian relationship, like a big brother–little brother relationship. And this is also an opportunity for me to be like, “Let me just step off, dude. Like, just do your f—ing thing. You’re amazing.” I did a two-man improv show with him for a decade. He’s amazing.”
Miller who was born in Colarado, got his start in comedy through improv and stand up in Chicago before moving west where he broke into movies and TV with roles in ‘Cloverfield’,’How To Train Your Dragon’ and ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’. Check out his new HBO stand up special ‘Meticulously Ridiculous’ , here is the trailer.
Miller also roasted the haters on a BBQ with this bit on CBS’s ‘Late Night’ recently.
