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Buy: Carla Bruni’s “Quelqu’un m’a dit”

In the fall of my junior year, I lived with a Macedonian exchange student named Orhan. He was a pleasant enough fellow, except that he was homesick and so spent all hours of the day Skyping in Macedonian. I soon grew used to this, and learned to treat garbled Macedonian as just another ambient noise [...]

Buy: Respectful Tributes to Michael Jackson

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Buy: Timberlake

I’m not ashamed to admit it… I own both Justin Timberlake solo albums and I enjoy them.  Guilty pleasure I guess.
In case you don’t know he hosted SNL last Saturday and the results were expected. Very entertaining.
The obvious highlight is “mother lover.” He teams up with Samberg for a digital short that brings them back [...]

BODB: Gossip Girl Launched Music Careers?

It’s already fairly well-known that Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick in the real world) has a music “career“. But, he’s Chuck Bass and is allowed to do whatever he wants. And he’s secretly British.
But how about “Lil J” aka Taylor Momsen. She is in a band called Pretty Reckless (ugh). She sings. She’s also 16. I’m [...]

Buy: The Coldplay Simulacrum

Somehow, the video for Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor ii” escaped my notice until today:

Is it bad to find the puppet-Chris Martin more interesting than the real one?

BODB: David Lynch TV

First: By “David Lynch TV,” I don’t mean Twin Peaks. That would be a definite Buy.
What I do mean is his newly launched website, David Lynch Foundation Television. The David Lynch Foundation was created to promote Transcendental Meditation, which Lynch has been practicing for 35 years, and to provide funding for students to [...]

Don’t Buy: The Libertines still being broken-up

It was always the Libertines’ peculiar curse that people were nostalgic for them even when they were still together. Their songs were never particularly great and now sound nearly indistinguishable, but every so often you’d catch on to some wonderful moment that made you think they certainly had the possibility of greatness in them. (My [...]

Don’t Buy: Ironic Action Remakes

I’m talking about those television shows and movies that were totally “rad” back in the day that had explosives and a lack of plot. It’s already been rumored that the A-Team might be made ironically as a frat-bro comedy. But today’s post is focusing on MacGyver.
While half the nation cringed as MacGruber, a MacGyver-like character, [...]

Buy: A Weird, Sad Sense of Nostalgia

Remember this?

Well, Miley Cyrus wrote a book about her 16 year life expeience in a memoir called Miles To Go. And this is the cover.

Woahhhhhhhh
Woahhhhhhhhhh-woahhhh

Image Sources: People, Disney Society

Don’t Buy: Quirk

Scene: A family, ripped literally in half by divorce (he LITERALLY ripped his head off!), sits around a dining room table. The catch? The father works in latex, the family is kosher, and they keep half their silverware in condoms.

No wait–too dirty/unPC. The mother only speaks around words from her word-a-day calendar, and the daughter [...]