(In no particular order)
Nothing But Thieves – Nothing But Thieves
Jagwar Ma – Every Now and Then
K.Flay – Crush Me EP
Lewis Del Mar – Lewis Del Mar
Glass Animals – How To Be A Human Being
Tigercub – Abstract Figures In The Dark
Kings Of Leon – WALLS
Haelos – Full Circle
Catfish and the Bottlemen – The Ride
The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect
It is very common in Shanghai for people to perpetrate accident fraud. Actually, it happens in a number of European and Asian nations. Hence, the number of dash cams overseas. And hence, this video below for the world’s worst actress:
From NPR:
The Chinese term for this kind of fraud is “pengci” — literally translated as “touch porcelain.” During the Qing Dynasty, a person — usually from a formerly wealthy family — would dress as a nobleman, position himself in a crowded public place holding expensive-looking china (usually fake) and let others “hit” him, causing him to drop the china. He’d then demand compensation.
The Oscars are in February. Worst actress in a foreign film, hands down. — [eric]
This is usually a time to reflect on a year gone by,but 2016 was pretty depressing. If you don’t believe me, read this.
I felt the impulse to look back farther in our collective past, because of a song that we were playing today. The Smashing Pumpkins track “1979” was on the playlist this morning, a wonderful song that was written about the wild emotions we go through in our youth. Those emotions provoke maybe crazed actions, those silly things we remember and laugh at now. The stuff you did when you were bit a younger and not as wise as you are now.
This prompted a call on all of you listening to text in to 312101 with your dumb teenage stories. And man, you all delivered a LOT of really fun stories. There was not enough time to share them all on air, so check out these tall tales of teenage fury and fun.
When I was 14 I attempted to ride a shopping cart down a steep hill off of a 3 foot ledge the front tires hit the ledge a flip forward got major road rash on my face and arm and sprained my elbow and wrist – Blake in Indiana
When I was 16, I accidentally sent a girl a text meant for my brother that was about her. She got mad at me so I drove 30 miles to see her and try to explain myself. It was 4 degrees outside and I left the heat off because I thought my being cold would help my chances. It did not. Lol. – Anonymous in 708
As teenagers some and some friends of mine were making a class film for school. We thought it would be a good idea to speak paint my friend metallic silver. His mom was livid and it took two days to get off. Head to toe. Including his face. His mom made us buy the paint thinner! We got a B on the project though! – Graham, Naperville
We used to go to funeral homes on Friday nights ….Just went and acted like we knew the person that died. Ate snacks, went in the empty caskets they used for display I’m actually on my way to work right now… At the funeral home. LOL! 13 years later and I guess I’m still a wee bit morbid. – Killey from somewhere in Chicago
My friends and I used to walk around with cable remote controls turning off people’a cable while they were watching it. – Gregg, Romeoville
There was 6 of us and we picked up the entire car and moved it. A few buddies and I picked up a smart car and moved it to the owners neighbors driveway. Doing what high schoolers do best and trying to impress a couple girls we were with by doing the stupidest thing we could think of …– Michael, Bartlett
Now there was a lot of grand tales of hormone-drenched mischief and misadventure, that was shared on air but this story from Jason in Glen Ellen, is the story you could tell every time your at a bar with nothing to talk about. He stole his dad’s car, his dad’s cop car….and then pulled people over in it.
With 2017 only being one day away, we should probably go ahead and start looking for movies we would want to see in the new year. filmschoolrejects.com put together a list of all the movies worth seeing come 2017! There are for sure going to be some very cool films coming out the next few months! Click HERE to see the full list!
We all know GoPro can make some pretty sweet videos. Well they made a year in review video featuring all the best GoPro footage from around the world. Let’s just say that it makes you jealous that you can’t do half the things these people do! Check out the video below!
The future is getting scary, weird, and closer to scenarios once only presented to us in science fiction which are now becoming a part of our everyday lives. This is evident again with news this week from IGN who reported on a new artificial intelligence computer program that can write and create ‘movies’ by itself.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study recently pitted two A.I. systems against each other, with one making a short movie and the other being tasked to find the machine-made video out of group made by real people when presented with the results. The short videos made by the A.I. were only one and-a-half seconds long with a 64×64 pixel resolution and they were able to pass the opposing A.I. as realistically-created content. The same videos were also able to fool 20% of a human sample of workers at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
The short video can not create episodes of TV and movies but this tech can be applied to future initiatives with self-driving cars and other A.I. driven ventures. Still imagine what it would be like if a computer program was writing one of your favorite shows and you never even knew it wasn’t made by a real person? It is not guaranteed that this tech will grow out of control and replace all the talented creators behind the shows we love, it’s just uncomfortable to think it’s remotely possible.
If you were wondering, yes this is scary. Even computer genius and philanthropist Bill Gates has stated his fear of how the future of A.I. if left unchecked, could be dangerous for us humanity. It’s unsettling that highly intelligent person like Gates also thinks that something like ‘the Terminator’ movies could become a reality.
Read the entire article from Scientific American,
The crazed future of computers taking over our world has been played out in almost any form of storytelling but an odd one that people seemed to be collectively seen as a miss is ‘AI: Artificial Intelligence’ the train wreck scifi film in 2001. Channel Awesome’s Nostaglia Critic breaks down the big theory of this man melding with machine story in one of this review.
The Nashville Predators are continuing their years-long mission this week to keep Chicago Blackhawks fans from attending games between the two teams at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Hockey fans attending the game tonight between the two teams, can get in with a season-ticket holder ID card or tickets by credit card but “will be restricted to residents of the Nashville Predators television viewing area — Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Residency will be based on credit card billing address. Orders by residents outside the viewing area will be canceled without notice and refunds given.”
The team confirmed the move in a tweet.
🚨 Reminder: Tomorrow's game is Passport or Credit Card entry ONLY! #CHIvsNSH
Passport: https://t.co/vFDalWPsnl
CC: https://t.co/cVzhYxtCL7— Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) December 28, 2016
In 2013, the Predators started these restrictions to dissuade Hawks fans from coming south when they would not allow anyone to purchase single game tickets to Predators/Blackhawks games, rather offering two-game ticket packages. This evolved into another heavy-handed blockade during a playoff series (which the Blackhawks won by the way) where fans could only buy tickets locally and in person.
Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp (NCVC) has publically stated they are unhappy with the move.
This is easily the most selfish and insecure move by any sports team in a while.
Here is a local TV report from Nashville touching on the topic.
Oh, and Tampa Bay Ligthning are dumb and petty too. Remember the Stanley Cup finals with them….
WGN sportscaster Pat Tomasullo reacted to this bs with this delightful bit filmed in Florida.
Friend Dog Studios has done a pretty good job turning the events of 2016 into a horror film trailer. I’m terrified! -wALT
I honestly didn’t think we would get to this point, but we officially have. We now have an APP that will write your handwritten notes for you. It’s called Bond and it’s all done by a single robot. Check the video to see what I am talking about!
Now that the end of the year is upon us, we should all go ahead and laugh at some of the funniest live TV Moments! Check out the 2 videos below of bloopers from around the world!
#Westworld is over. So…what should be the next TV show to infect my brain? Please…help me choose. #BingeFest #TV
— Eric Kristensen (@erickristensen) December 28, 2016
Ahhhh, Carrie Fisher. Too young. Rest in peace….
You get the feeling that more celebs have died in 2016 than most years?
You would be….in the ballpark. But not necessarily because of the reason or reasons you think.
I was wondering if it was a psychological phenomenon, so I started doing some Google searching. What I found was this article from the BBC that gives us some clarity on the question: have more famous people died in 2016?
Here’s what they found:
I’ll leave you with this: as you grow older, you’ve had more of an opportunity to form some sort of bond, however trivial, with those who have become famous. So an 18 year old is not going to have as much perspective in this as say, a 38 year old.
It will be good to move on to 2017, but if you think we are going to escape this phenomenon, expect the Grim Reaper to keep on doing its thing. — [eric]
Carrie Fisher was flying from London to Los Angeles on Friday, Dec. 23, when she went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics removed her from the flight and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for a heart attack. She later died in the hospital.
📷: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty
More from People HERE
Dear 2016,
Uncle.
<3 @laurenoneil
The 1975 sold-out the 02 Arena in London a few weeks back, so why not film the whole show and put it up through Vevo? Sure, why not, we’re not going to tell them to stop. That’s right an entire HD pro-shot concert for free online, what a time in music right? Beware some strobey light effects and naughty words for those of you with sensitive eyes and ears.
If that’s not enough for the 1975 fans, here is there #Lounge session with us from November.
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This might be the best pick me up to start a Monday after Christmas! I can not stop laughing!
Marconi originally let you get a sneak peak of the collaboration between twenty one pilots and Mutemath. Turns out that Tyler and Josh are big fans of the band…and were really happy that they agreed to open their tour in 2016. They really had a mutually enjoyable experience…and decided to hit the studio to reimagine five of their songs. I’ve been listening to it all weekend long as I drove around Chicagoland.
NOW…here’s the link to get the five song EP they recorded together for free. Consider it a belated Christmas present. It won’t be available forever, though. You have until January 18th.
And if you missed the video link that Marconi dropped on you, its below…all five songs.
Could you imagine seeing this in person! I guess when you are hungry, you are hungry!
Christmas morning is here. The kiddies have sprung from their beds to sprint down the stairs to see what wondrous delights Santa Claus and their loved ones have wrapped up for us to open. Oh and um, you run there to give gifts as well, right?
This general point in the childhood experience is one that hopefully most can relate to, that magical gift we got one year on a big holiday or a birthday that made us so happy. That type of built-up excitement makes children react in many different ways that become talked about for ages within families, such is the case with the viral video known to most as ‘the Nintendo 64 Kids’. According Know Your Meme, the video which has garnered 21,123,804 since 2006 when it was uploaded by a man named Brandon (who is the maniac child in the video) after his girlfriend saw some of his home movies, and thought he should share this moment with the world. The world responded by sharing the video thousands of times and making it into one of the biggest memes of 2006/2007. The video became so successful that it was used for a car commercial.
For anyone who had a piece of their youth during the heyday of the N64 and rentable video games, has to appreciate the passing line where the kid says “Now we can rent games from Blockbuster!” which will make you feel very old and nostalgic at the same time. Though it’s outrageous, in this one singular moment you see unfiltered pure joy in a kid knowing he’s going to have a great time ahead playing video games, and there is just something beautiful about that.
Here are some of the best remixes and videos related to the legend of the N64 Kids.
The maddness of N64 goes much deeper than a mult-player Mario Kart marathon in this twisted re-edit which foreces the video zooming into the mania of it all.
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