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You Guys, The Ellen Page “Don’t Stop Believin’” Video Is Supposed To Be Terrible

Lindsay Robertson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:12:20 +0000

Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat (Maeby), and Har Mar Superstar made this video where they sing off-key to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” and everybody’s FREAKING OUT because it’s so bad, but don’t you guys see: it’s SUPPOSED to be bad. Any old shy person can do a lip dub, but to actually try to sing this apparently difficult song is to not only brave, but it’s supposed to jerk us out of our comfortable Ikea existences with its inherent tension and excruciating pain. This video is like Fight Club for our ears:

Steve Perry Is Less Of A Dick Than Steve Spielberg

Gabe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:52:03 +0000

Even though it’s really old news, I can’t help but remain consistently fascinated by the group of childhood friends who made a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film, as you probably know by now, because seriously, this is like back-when-the-internet-was-in-black-and-white era news, took them seven years to make, and you can see them visibly age as the movie progresses. Due to copyright issues, the film’s release is limited to small-run screenings, moving deliberately from town to town, which ensures that the project will retain its cult status, but is also pretty ridiculous. At this point, a shot-for-shot remake starring CHILDREN is really no threat to the Indiana Jones franchise, and doesn’t take any of that precious, precious caviar-money out of Spielberg’s and Lucas’s solid-gold pockets (lining their trousers made of diamonds). It just feels like the final restrictive throes of an intellectual property system that’s being made increasingly irrelevant by the internet.

But like I said, OLD NEWS. Blog me something I don’t know. The point, though, is that a few childhood friends from Mississippi make pop culture gold and we have to shut the whole thing down, while some kids in Williamsburg with a couple of wigs and a pile of dirty laundry can make a shot-for-shot remake of Journey’s “Separate Ways” video and no one bats an eye.

Journey At The Center Of The Earth

Gabe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:35:09 +0000

This is easily the best thing Brendan Fraser has ever been involved with, and I’m including Encino Man, buuuuuudy.

It’s sad that even Brendan Fraser’s best thing isn’t that good (sorry, Black20, you’re great, HUGS). But not that sad. Not sad like Brendan Fraser’s thinking he can hide the fact that he’s balding sad.