Adios and tomorrow's issue
Here she is, she’s a beauty. The Babadook, Jessica Knappet from Drifters, Raleigh Ritchie and the new breed of Brit actors turned musical artists, thrash band Oozing Wound and Robert Downey Jr all feature in Saturday’s issue and make it look lovely on your coffee table.
We’re back on Monday for more japes and freaky videos like this:
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Birdman has wise words for us all
It feels like a long old while since Ed Norton had any scripted psychobabble to chew over but here he is in Birdman, going at it in a way that’ll no doubt make Fight Club fans get something that rhymes with ‘jiffies’. He goes at it in this new clip from Birdman – and Michael Keaton has the best response. It looks like it could be part of a Goodfellas-ish tracking shot, too, which will probably excite some of you in other ways, too.
I’m excited about this clip, though, because it means I now have an excuse to post up this 1980s clip of Michael Keaton doing not-very-good standup comedy in New York, as found by Rolling Stone, and it feels like I am ‘doing the internet’ ie ‘compiling links in a way that feels satisfactory and cathartic’.
The Boiler Room Knows What You Did Last Night nails why streaming clubs is lame (and LOL)
If you haven’t clocked the brilliant Boiler Room Knows What You Did Last Night Tumblr yet then it’s basically going to save your afternoon – a load of GIFs that highlight how watching a bunch of people dancing behind a DJ for a live web stream can be accidentally funny. In other words, while you’re usually wasted in a nightclub and puking in a bin, this is what may or may not be going down.
There’s this guy, for example, who is casually eating a burrito during a Toro Y Moi set.
And this funster, who has a quick dance in a Halloween mask and then appears to float through the crowd.
Be warned: some gross guy, or your boyfriend, might try to tongue you for all to see…
Other times, there’s slow-dancing while NO ONE ELSE IS THERE
Pit sniffing is a real thing that happens
And rest assured that awkward dancing is everywhere
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#ReviewAnything – it's TIME
I almost forgot but then I didn’t. Today’s Review Anything is here, it’s live and it’s a corker, mainly because it includes a review of this…
…and a lecture about Georgian corspe-pinchers.
Oi, America, stop ruining everything
Namely British comedy telly series. Just because The Office was a big smash doesn’t mean you can get your grubby mitts on everything and try to make it funnier.
Remember the ill-fated Imbetweeners US remake? “Bus turd” doesn’t have quite the same effect as “bus wanker,” does it?
And so it is with The IT Crowd, which is due to have another bash at a US version sometime soon, with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence and Community’s Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan at the helm.
It’s not the first time America tried to make a new IT Crowd. In fact, they pretty much reshot it scene for scene in 2007, including the original Richard Ayoade, which is weird.
Here’s the full clip of the old pilot starring Community’s Joel McHale as a ripped Chris O’Dowd.
Presumably they’ll be having a rethink this time around, if they want to make classic IT Crowd gags like this work across the pond…
A comprehensive blog post for every type of new music fan. Even YOU
Some people like to do individual posts for new music streams to make them feel special but I say, ’ere, have it all in one long unwieldy scroll of audio goodness.
First up, Kylie looks sad on a bed. She should cheer up as this Flight Facilities track that she’s magically become the new vocalist for is a// a magical pairing and b// the best thing she’s done in years. Here’s the ‘teaser’ for the ‘actual song’:
Tink is great because she raps and she sings, she’s trying to do something different to Chicago’s dominant drill scene and here, on ABC Fantasies, she presents a hip-hop answer to Mambo No. 5 as she runs through her list of conquests and boys that fancy her.
Coming to a hipster disco near you, probably at The Macbeth in Hoxton, very soon…
He’s back! Over and above the fact that this is a promotional track to launch Twitter’s new audio service, Chance has written an extended, extended version of the 10 Things I Hate About You poem dedicated to all the things he hates and it’s rather good. FYI he hates most things.
The post-dubstep poster boy debuted a new post-James Blake track during his Radio 1 show last night, which is all kinds of weird and shadowy and just begging to be played in pitch black on a booming sound system. If you would like to read a sincerely over the top description of how it’s great to the power of nth unicorns, you won’t find that here, go HERE instead.
And if you don’t like any of those, you are dead inside.
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Purrfect remixes. Pawsome music. We could go on.
Let’s all imagine some things for just a minute.
Imagine that there’s a creatively brilliant rap duo called Run The Jewels and that they released a mixtape earlier this year that got five stars from the Guardian’s Alexis Petridis. Now imagine that that the followup to that mixtape, which is coming out on 28 October, is also being remixed into exciting new shapes and sounds. And NOW imagine – stay with me – that those sounds, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign started by a keeno fan, will be comprised solely of cat mews, purrs and miaows.
Behold, the magical trailer for the Meow The Jewels, in which your favourite cat memes get their own rap spirit animals. T
Next up: Flying Lotus’s You’re Dead remixed with goat screams? Rustie’s Green Language mashed up with dog woofs? Well, anything can happen if you Kickstarter it hard enough.
Enrich your morning with some pop culture poetry
Welcome to another day of Epic Guide Daily Dapper Bantz before the weekend hits you like a hurricane of awesome.
First up, while we all hold out for Benedict Cumberbatch’s Weekly R&B Poetry Jam, you too can be one of the millionth persons to discover this serious spoken word version of Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda. Bum raps have never sounded so soothing.
