TV Nostalgia Hits a High
With just a few days remaining before the release of 15 brand new Arrested Development episodes on Netflix, the hype built up over the last year is raising into a crescendo. All fans of the show—whether they watched the series when it first aired, binged on its DVD/Netflix availability long… [Read More]
Cult Classics 101
Each year, hundreds of movies hit theaters and pretty much just get classified as good or bad—thanks in part to Rotten Tomatoes’s Tomatometer, word of mouth, and people’s general willingness to only see black and white, but never the gray area in between. Clearly, that’s a mistake. In the gray… [Read More]
Behind Enemy Lines: An Away Fan’s Plight
SO I got playoff tickets to see the Warriors host the Nuggets in game 4 of their first round series last week. Normally the build up to a game like this is super exciting for any sports fan—playoff games are tighter, there’s much more on the line, and every play… [Read More]
SMELLY COACHELLY
I attended Weekend One of Coachella this year with a full understanding of what it would mean at face value. Sadly, when classifying fans of live music, there seems to be a consensus now that only two types exist: those who go to Coachella, and those who don’t (feel free… [Read More]
Mad About Being Mad About ‘Mad Men’
The other day I read a fantastic article by Andy Greenwald of Grantland about what complexities and secrecy have made Mad Men (in his opinion) the best show on television. Now, I’m a huge fan of television, much like Greenwald himself—but I used to pay little attention to what the… [Read More]
We’re All in Agreement: This is the Best Time of the Year
It’s March 28th. The weather is getting warmer, girls are replacing their vibrant pants with under-butt-revealing shorts, guys are rolling up their respective shorts another cuff’s length, and everyone, well everyone’s just in a better mood. Let’s examine a few important genres of this American life and pinpoint the reasons why: Sports… [Read More]
Why Guys Can Relate to ‘Girls.’ The Show.
This season of Girls tested the limits of its viewership in a way no series before it has done. Lena Dunham placed her characters in strange, cringe-worthy, and straight up outrageous situations, then no doubt watched closely to see how we’d react. Jessa built off of her immature and premature… [Read More]
Indie Shows: A User’s Manual
So last weekend I went to two pretty low-key, awesome live shows. Friday night I saw Starfucker/STRFKR, and Saturday night I saw YACHT/Y△CHT. Arguably, the fact that there are multiple ways to refer to each band is enough to classify them as “indie”—but that’s actually not what I want to… [Read More]
Oscar Talk: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Was Probably On Blow
Won Christoph Waltz Fluent in German, English, and French. Wins a second oscar for playing essentially the same clever-bastard role he did in Inglorious Basterds (less Nazi this time, granted) over Tommy Lee Jones, Alan Arkin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Robert De Niro. How can I get a dinner reservation… [Read More]
PSTMDRN NGLSH
Many of us have been in a decade-long, love-hate relationship with lol. At the height of the AIM era, we threw it around at everything. Funny? lol. Stupid? lol. Heartbreaking? lol. Then different camps popped up either in feverish support or staunch opposition of lol. Haha jumped into the field… [Read More]
