the onions audiovisual club has posted an interview with j. j. abrams in which he discusses fringe his other television shows and his upcoming trek feature film avc how do you put your varied interests to work in a franchise like star trek which has fans deeply devoted to certain immutable core elements how do you make it yours ja well i was never the type of star trek fan that had expectations or...
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in my own life i married a korean lady and i know the enchantment bewilderment and isolation of trying to fit into a culture and not knowing how. all of those feelings are organically rolled into bangkok dangerous. nicolas cage lat weektoweek that show answers a lot of questions just not always the ones people feel are the ones that matter. j.j. abrams acknowledges that lost is just toying with...
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im kidding it says applause edition todays links of interest samsung bluray has 5 years leftwell if this doesnt sell a lot of blu ray players i dont know what will. my year of flops focusgroupapproved case file 117 mad dog and gloryforgotten about this one despite deniro murray uma and it being penned by richard price. why apples event next week wont rock at allapple backlash. catch it google am...
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im in jury duty this week for the fine city of new york or the fine county or the fine state. i cant tell. im proud to serve some government entity named new york. all the jury waiting rooms have free wireless internet access. that might seem like a standard perk but in the court buildings which have all the modern styling of a 65 corvair it was a surprise nonetheless. yet web content downloaded...
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in the book notes series authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. dirk witteborns pharmakon is an intriguing novel. semiautobi ographical the book is at times a gripping psychological thriller and a moving family drama. the new york times wrote of the book whats best about pharmakon beyond the curiosity value of its unusual pr...
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yeehaw time for gamesetlinks and theres a fun set of randomness in here with everything from a new trailer for the lucasartsian a vampyre story through nokias scott foe on the pictured reset generation as well as kohler discussing the new craziness from japanese quirkoid developers skip. its very cool actually when developers are individual enough that you can just tell theyve made a game and t...
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heres a list of interesting things to entertain you for a few moments. this fall is the tenth anniversary of wes andersons film rushmore. to celebrate the fan site rushmore academy is putting together their first issue of yankee journal an online art and literary journal for anything inspired by andersons films though they dont need to be directly about them. theyre looking for graphic art of any...
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shtetloptimized aa blog archive aa can we iaaad like propose the following question what nonobvious things can nerds who are so inclined do to help the democrats win in november tags politics us society culture computing internet i watched this on purpose biodome the a.v. club biodome doesnt exist to please critics...
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puzzle games boombot walkthrough comments and more free web games at freegamesn ews.com yo ure a little robot. youre also indestructible. use bombs to bounce yourself around the level but dont run out. lovely little flash game. tags flash games physics explosions fun super mario brothers is frustrating pt1video in which an entertaining man plays a hacked superhard super mario map swears...
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humorous fauxnewspaper the onion has launched a new local directory site called decider in beta. while the onion is famous for its satirical news articles decider is a decidedly serious guide intended to complement their other offerings like serious classifieds and the a.v. club the onions arts and entertainment site. decider brings local business listings for bars restaurants music venues events ...
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photo getty images thats some bullshit. im beating down the internet as we speak. t.i. on the leak of swagger like us mtv i just dont accept thats a bad film. its exactly the film i intended to make. its supposed to be ironic and the most politically incorrect film of its period. but the irony was lost by the enormity of her fame i suppose. guy ritchie insists that you just didnt get his madon...
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pajiba love madonnas new tour has got more 50yearold beaver than the large rodent geriatrics home. yeeeah lindsay lohans dad challenged kevin federline to a fight. i am not making this up. wimb ha ha this is outstanding. dear gop suck it love tds. deus ex malcontent illegal produce sales will not be tolerated. can we get the department of homeland security on this please quizlaw tk said that ...
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i deliberately stay away from politics here but i see this as a nonpartisan issue.this is the sort of policy and lack of transparency combined with the publics complacency and indifference that bodes ill for our countrys future much less our economy. from the nytimes bolding mine a justice department plan would loosen restrictions on the federal bureau of investigation to allow agents to open a n...
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my people are nordic edition todays links of interest aaron sorkin announces new west wing animated series at sorconwell sure who wouldnt want to see what the matt santos administration got up to better late than never watchmennathan rabin of the a.v. club finally reads watchmen. at the risk of being slightly hyperbolic watchmen is such a monumental achievement that it makes moby dick look like a...
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courtesy of columbia every once in a while americas community of film critics puts their heads together and decides to anoint a new star. its usually a young actress and shes usually working in a movie that in some way seems below her gifts whether its amy adams shining in the terrific but lowbudget indie junebug or rachel mcadams in the sappy the notebook or emily blunt being tart and awesome...
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photo getty images i realized that while two people from two entirely different countries and backgrounds may seem to have nothing in common the only thing they might have in common is me. david hasselhoff on his new socialnetworking site hoffspace lifetline liveusat i think ellen page is hott doublet hott. all that sexual tension will probably be on the 25thanniversary dvd as the torrid eroti...
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the a.v. club interviews woody allen. the new orleans timespicayune profiles author bill loehfelm who won the first amazon breakthrough novel award. prefix calls vampire weekend the most punk band of 2008. the waterloo record experiences a trip to the seinfeld bus. how did it come to this how did the most successful sitcom of the past two decades a show so groundbreaking it changed the ...
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like the dotcom bubble the disaster bubble is inflating in an adhoc and chaotic fashion. journalist naomi klein discusses how corporations and governments are working together more closely than ever using the mandate of catastrophe whethernatural or manmade to further concentrate power in fewer hands with less oversight from illegal sales of american police technology to china to avert hypotheti...
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sheer elegance in its simplicity edition todays links of interest georgia men claim hairy frozen corpse is bigfoothavent really been paying much attention because of the olympics is this why russia invaded bigfoot fails dna testwell if you call proving that bigfoot is actually 96 opossum a failure then i guess this is bad news. the headline should read bigfoot may have prehensile tail the couple ...
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as the fog of isaac hayes death rises to expose the culture vulturesapicking theastory clean for every publication this side of marine radio enthusiastcombined with elvis death week well im not going to leave the house for a while. good thing i have blog content ready forathe posting.athis time its selfpromotional informative. check out josh modellsaonion av club blog in which he thoroughly docum...
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the reclusive whit stillman on the free release of metropolitan on hulu.com how to find that rare last days of disco dvd on the cheap criterion edition someday dancing mood an upcoming project set in 1960s jamaica an adaptation of christopher buckleys little green men and living and working in paris. whit come back soon to theaters. ifc woody allen on vicky cristina barcelona romantic chemistry ...
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ein bisschen offtopic aber passt gerade da ich die tage auch wieder eines dieser fertigprodukte getestet habe dessen aussehen nicht viel mit dem bild auf der verpackung zu tun hatte und ich mir nicht sicher bin ob ich es am geschmack erkannt hatte wenn ich es nicht schon vorher gewusst hatte was es ist. pundo3000 vergleicht jedenfalls verpackungen mit ihrem inhalt. einfache idee mit einem ergebnis...
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photo getty images my films are misinterpreted all the time. i dont mind that. everybodys films are misinterpreted. but theres no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. woody allen makes us feel better about misinterpreting vicky cristina barcelona as hot a.v. club in israel its like star wars the first star wars not the crap recent ones. if there is a cinematic corporal pu...
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great list 29 terrific instrumentals by bands that usually sing. a headline so horrible i couldnt type it i had to copy and paste it afi fall out boy my chemical romance remix the cure on benefit ep. liam gallagher says radiohead fans are boring and ugly. iron maiden would like to be unnominated for best live return. the hold steady will be opening for the counting crows. sonic youth plays jo...
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