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- TV Premiere Report: 'The Vice Guide To Everything'
- Brazil Officially Run By Clowns (And Mimes)
- Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Doll Recap: New Faces And New Boyfriends!
- Daily WTF: Justin Bieber's Mustache
- Exclusive Video: Atlantic/Pacific Croons For Crushable
- Crush This: Natalie Portman And Kirsten Dunst Battle At The Box Office
- Gallery: The Most Insane Photos From Art Basel
- Night Terrors: What's Making You An Insomniac?
| Posted: 03 Dec 2010 11:10 AM PST Quitting Smoking Makes You Happier – At least, that’s what the scientists are now saying. Obviously they have never had a mental breakdown in front of Joy Behar before. (Daily Mail) Post from: Crushable |
| TV Premiere Report: 'The Vice Guide To Everything' Posted: 03 Dec 2010 11:08 AM PST
Before the screening, there was a cocktail hour (lest we be expected to site through an hour of television sober!) where we were served mixed drinks of Coke and Sailor Jerry brand spiced rum — which, all Ed Hardy associations aside, was actually rather delicious. Spike Jonze (who appeared in the pilot episode) was there along with Nick Zinner from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and lots of good-looking kids. Instead of talking to any of them, I fiddled with my iPhone for a while (you guys, how subversive is it to stand in the corner by yourself reading the New York Times at a Vice Magazine party?) until someone flickered the overhead lights off and on — which either meant it was time for the screening or that a Vice intern was siphoning too much electricity from the theater into his witch house band’s RV. The problem at this point was that no one knew could find the screening room! A super tall, crop-haired woman started yelling for someone named Moose to come and figure things out. She screamed: “Hey Moose! Moose! What floor’s the screening room on?” and an enormous antlered creature stumbled into the room and bellowed “Calm down, everyone. Screening’s on the first floor.” Then he leapt through the window and bounded uptown where he ate the entire Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The Vice Guide to Everything stars Shane Smith and two of his cohorts: tattooed dreamboat Ryan Duffy and the geekily charming Thomas Morton. We watched the first two episodes, each comprised of three or four segments. (Note: Um, it’s not that number changes from ep to ep, I just can’t remember how many parts were in each. Thanks for nothing, Sailor Jerry!) Included amongst the segments: Shane travels behind the iron curtain of North Korea and does drugs in Yemen, Thomas checks out a Mexican tourism company that stages simulations of illegal border-crossings, and Ryan visits a Detroit strip club in the basement of some middle aged weirdo’s living room. The show’s footage is partly original and partly culled from a series of web videos the brand’s been producing for several years on the online network VBS.TV. I was surprised by how interesting and engaging the stories were — but that’s the thing about Vice, right? Most of what they do is really great, but I constantly forget that because in my mind the mag’s so inextricably tied to the eye-rolly dirty hipster epidemic. (And also because of their whole special brand of faux-empowerment misogyny, but that’s an issue for another time.) But overall: the show’s short explorations are very good and it’s a refreshing break from MTV’s standard (read: Snookish) programming fare. The experience was very much akin to reading a Vice article — but without having to feel chromosomally inadequate because you’ve never been photographed holding Terry Richardson’s penis in your hand-o-chipped nail polish. Hooray! After the screening, I cornered Shane and asked him a few questions. I wanted to know if he felt any nervousness about presenting super-abridged versions of political stories to an audience who might not have any background on the topics. “Yes, we’d like to do longer segments,” Shane explained. “We have like 40 hours of footage from Yemen. But we’ll be putting a lot of that stuff on VBS. And were there any wish-list stories that had been too dangerous to take on? ”The pirate stock exchange in Somalia… We were going to dress as Somali pirates, but a news crew doing the same story got shot, so we were like ‘yeah, we’re not doing that.’” (photo via Getty) Post from: Crushable TV Premiere Report: 'The Vice Guide To Everything' |
| Brazil Officially Run By Clowns (And Mimes) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:59 AM PST
“Tiririca” (real name Francisco Silva) is be beloved by all, but prosecutors were trying to stand in the way of taking office, just because he couldn’t read! Luckily, yesterday the courts officially ruled that Francisco was passibly literate And who are we to judge? After all, Levi Johnston is running for mayor of Wasilla. But what's disturbing about this precedent in public policy is that it reminds me of a story I heard not so long ago, about a successful American CEO of a major company telling a dinner party that the way to eradicate traffic problems in Brazil was to replace traffic cops with street mimes. At the time, this person seemed like a loony, and I thought it was little more than a clever anecdote. Now with Francisco in office, he might decide to go the way of Columbia's 2004 initiative to actually instate these silent enforcers to keep our streets safe. What do you think? Could you ever take a clown seriously, whether he was telling you about tax cuts or writing you a traffic ticket? Post from: Crushable Brazil Officially Run By Clowns (And Mimes) |
| Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Doll Recap: New Faces And New Boyfriends! Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:53 AM PST
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| Daily WTF: Justin Bieber's Mustache Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:21 AM PST
Why? We don’t know. We’re not Bieber-readers. However! The Daily Mail says Bieber had a temper tantrum last night in London.
That doesn’t sound like a huge temper tantrum to us, but what do we know? This: my new fake band name has been decided. And it’s going to be: Justin Bieber’s Mustache. Post from: Crushable Daily WTF: Justin Bieber's Mustache |
| Exclusive Video: Atlantic/Pacific Croons For Crushable Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:20 AM PST
And we were lucky enough to have Garrett and John film exclusive covers from their latest album (released October 26th) just for us! Squee! One of One Meet Your New Love Check out more of Atlantic/Pacific’s music and tour dates on their official site. Post from: Crushable Exclusive Video: Atlantic/Pacific Croons For Crushable |
| Crush This: Natalie Portman And Kirsten Dunst Battle At The Box Office Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:05 AM PST
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| Gallery: The Most Insane Photos From Art Basel Posted: 03 Dec 2010 10:10 AM PST
Yesterday was the kick-off of Art Basel, Miami’s annual contemporary art festival. And where there’s crazy art, crazy art word people are sure to follow — with festive hats and suits in tow. Which means: outrageous pics for us to gawk at! We searched the web to find the most ridiculous photos (like that grill/toilet contraption. WTF?) from the festival so far. Post from: Crushable Gallery: The Most Insane Photos From Art Basel |
| Posted: 03 Dec 2010 09:59 AM PST Conan Looks Great In Jeggins – Excuse us, are those American Apparel high-waisted jegging pants, or just regular jeggings? (The High Definite) Post from: Crushable |
| Night Terrors: What's Making You An Insomniac? Posted: 03 Dec 2010 09:54 AM PST
All I know is that between Freddie Krueger, BOB from Twin Peaks, and Tim Curry in IT, there is no good reason to hop into bed, secure in the knowledge that nothing is hovering in the shadows…waiting, lurking. We decided to ask the rest of the office: What’s the creepy image keeping them awake? Drew: Slender Man. He may be the first urban legend that’s completely Internet forums based. It’s hard to explain his origins, but Know Your Meme has a very good description: basically, photos of this tall, faceless figure started popping up on SomethingAwful forums awhile back, and then last winter, a user named Marble Hornets started posting these “found” videos. The whole thing kind of took off from there, and admittedly gets kind of student film-y halfway through, but images of this guy in a suit tapping at my window at night still keeps me awake. Some people think that this stuff is just silly, but I find it terrifying. Ashley: Large Marge from Pee-Wee Herman’s. I thought I was watching this cute movie about Pee-Wee, but then this horrible claymation woman made her eyes pop out. It made me wonder about the fabric of reality. I didn’t want my face to turn into clay!
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The Vice Guide to Everything is a new MTV docu-series from mag founder Shane Smith that tacks Vice’s unique brand of dirt and glitter to investigative stories of culture, politics, and chicks. On Wednesday night, I pulled out my most coolly contemptuous look (winter box, next to a Santa Sweater) and headed to the premiere.
I don’t know much about Brazil, since I have never been there. But based on what I’ve seen from movies, it’s a Orwellian totalitarian state where Robert DeNiro fixes your pipes. J/k, Carnival is in Brazil! The whole country just wants to have fun, and they even elected an illiterate clown (not like our last president, but like an actual clown)
Oh, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. We missed you during your week off for Thanksgiving! Luckily, all the housewives are back, and in (not so) rare form! Puppy problems! Blind dates! Continued delusions of grandeur! Join Crushable’s Barbie Repertory Theater as we look at the best scenes from this week’s episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills!
Have you ever wondered what Justin Bieber looks like with a mustache? Well, wait no longer. Last night in London, the Biebs took a marker to his face and drew on a jaunty pencil mustache.
When we first heard that Brooklyn-based folk duo Atlantic/Pacific’s new album was titled “Meet Your New Love,” we were like “Done.” Both Garrett Klahn and John Herguth are undeniable heartthrobs, though roving ones at that: the twosome has traveled across the Atlantic to tour, and released their first EP, Autumn Edition Volume 1, in late 2009. With haunting melodies and soulful lyrics, Atlantic/Pacific sounds like the baby of Fleet Foxes and Iron and Wine.
Crush This is your weekly guide to what’s coming up in movies, TV and music. Tonight Black Swan, All Good Things, and I Love You, Philip Morris all come out in theaters. Hardest movie ticket purchase decision…ever? While I Love You, Phillip Morris may be excellent, I’m going to so boldly state that All Good Things and Black Swan will topple it. We also have what movies to watch at home this weekend…and how to get lessons on parenting straight from David Hasselhoff.
Have you been having a hard time sleeping lately? We here at Crushable have, and it seems to have hit us all at once. This nameless, faceless fear that’s keeping us up at night with the lights on. Can anxiety be transmitted through a workspace?
Christine: Home invasion…I wasn’t scared of the thought of people breaking into my apartment to steal stuff when I wasn’t there, but then this became this trend. And it didn’t just happen to rich people anymore, regular people would be home while someone snuck around their apartment. It used to be that people would make sure that people weren’t home when they tried to rob them, but now just the term “home invasion” gives me the creeps.| You are subscribed to email updates from Crushable To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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