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Kyle Kinane is my pal and one of my favorite up and coming-type comics. Please enjoy this Kinanimation of one of the tracks from his new album “Death of the Party,” then go trade money for it at AST Records or iTunes.

PS – This is effing hilarious.

If Alan Rickman ever holds this guy's Bonnie Bedelia hostage, he'll be ready.

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The more we can disassociate Star Wars from the prequel trilogy, the better.  The best way to do that is that our parodies should only acknowledge the original trilogy (and the real original trilogy; none of that special edition bullshit).

The more you watch Parks and Recreation on NBC, the better because it’s one of the funniest shows on TV right now.  After the jump is a parody of the opening of Parks using Star Wars.  The video is only 22 seconds, but it’s a kind of stupid-weird humor that makes me giggle so I’m posting it.

Parks and Recreation airs Thursday nights at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

Click on the image to see the hi-res image of this terrific Pawnee, Indiana mural, “Trading Post”:

Christoph Waltz won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but here, he talks about his most famous role to date. Uber-bingo.

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It’s not uncommon for people on the Internet to say bad things about Jennifer Lopez. It is, however, unusual for such editorial content to show up on Hulu, where some lowly coder or page designer tagged her “Saturday Night Live” episode with “has-been” and “cellulite.” And I can’t help but feel that the “comedy” tag is a little sarcastic.

Even though I pity J.Lo more than I dislike her, I love any little example of corporate drones fighting back and displaying some individualism. It always reminds me of the Independent Thought Alarm:

“Willie, remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.”

If you need any incentive to watch the Gone with the Pope trailer after the jump, allow me to describe just two parts of it. Actual dialogue from the above frame:

“People of the United States: Judges, cops, all the law; I got somethin for ya!  Take this!  And stick it up in ya mother’s twat!”

Actual dialogue from the frame below:

“Looks like brillo.”

(NSFW for swearing, brief boobage, and the apparent sexual assault of a 400-pound hooker)

As discovered by /Film, it’s a B-movie originally made in 1975, but left unfinished after the death of star Duke Mitchell. It was recently completed by Bob Murawski, a film editor from The Hurt Locker and Drag Me to Hell. The finished version is set to premiere March 12th at the Egyptian theater in Hollywood. From /Film’s press release:

Of all the films I have been involved with, the one that I am most proud of is GONE WITH THE POPE,” Murawski said. “Completing this movie was a 15-year labor of love. No expense or effort was spared in rescuing this classic from cinematic oblivion and finishing it with the utmost quality.

Man, how is it b-movies have taken such a huge step backwards in the last 30 years? This makes the best thing Troy Duffy’s ever done look like a retarded kid farting on a speak n spell.

Depending on your interest in film, you might not have heard of Roger Corman. He’s going to get an honorary Oscar this year, largely because the tireless director/producer helped launch the careers of Hollywood luminaries like Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Robert De Niro, and Sylvester Stallone, among others.

More notably for our purposes, Corman is producing the Syfy original movies Dinoshark and the unrelated Sharktopus, neither of which should be confused with his 2004 work Dinocroc, or, for that matter, the other 400 films — mostly B-movies — Corman has made during his career. Clearly, this is a man who knows and understands the appeal of a hypothetical monster comprised of two or more badass animals.

But there are still so many possibilities that have yet to be made into low-budget Syfy original movies with terrible CGI animation! Why, I went through Corman’s IMDb page, and not one movie had the word “bear” in the title. HOW CAN YOU WORK IN THE MEDIUM OF BADASS HYBRID MONSTER MOVIES WITHOUT ANY BEAR-BASED MONSTERS?

So let’s correct that. Here are nine totally badass hybrid monsters that deserve to star in their own B-movies. Some are bear-related; some are not. Some of these you might have seen around the Internet before; others were pulled from the ether of my mind. And I’m not just being poetic when I say that; I huff a lot of ether.

1. BEARSHARKTOPUS!

Why is Roger Corman wasting his time with Sharktopus when he could be making BEARsharktopus? Sharktopus is always going to be plagued with the weakness of JAWS, in that the danger is limited to the water. But Bearsharktopus? THERE IS NO HIDING FROM BEARSHARKTOPUS.

2. GREAT WHITE ‘69 MUSTANG!

Part great white shark, part 1969 Mustang Fastback, this is either the fastest car in the sea or the deadliest fish on the road. And look, it’s driven by Steve McQueen!

3. WOLFOENIX!

When I was a kid, I read a book called David and the Phoenix. It’s about a boy who befriends the phoenix before the mythical bird is reborn in its pyre. I still recall a scene where David and the phoenix get ice cream, and the phoenix talks about how much he likes strawberry ice cream as opposed to chocolate or vanilla.

Do you think Wolfoenix eats strawberry ice cream? HELL NO. Wolfoenix would eat David and crap him onto a waffle cone.

4. BEARODACTYL!

(original cartoon by the terrific Matthew Inman)

I used to think flying sharks were the scariest creatures in my imagination. And now I know why: because flying bears with reptilian wings are TOO TERRIFYING TO IMAGINE. Holy crap, how could you possibly stop bearodactyls? I think gorillas with Stinger missiles would be our best hope, but those apes can barely learn sign language. I’m not sure I’m ready to trust them with surface-to-air missiles.

5. CTHULHUNICORN!

H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu is widely respected by Internet denizens as the biggest, baddest, most terrifying monster ever created, but he has yet to really break into the mainstream consciousness. Why? I suspect it’s because he’s TOO scary, so I gave him some big blue eyes and a unicorn’s horn. Now he’s practically cuddly!

6. BEAROTAUR!

Oh, that is one medieval nightmare of a killing machine. Fast like a horse, powerful like a bear, armed with a morning star, and not even slightly relaxed by a stroll on the beach.

7. TRAMPIRE!

Everyone knows that Charlie Chaplin died decades ago… OR DID HE?!? Maybe he was bitten by the blood-sucking undead, and now he lives on in the perpetual darkness of Michael Mann movies, sneaking up on his victims while ominous piano music plays.

Hmmm… In retrospect, I should have gone with the slutty kind of “tramp” and not the silent film character.

8. PIGEONSHARK!

Pigeons are already crawling with disease and flying around our cities, unafraid of pedestrian traffic. What if they had a TASTE FOR FLESH?!?!? Sure, it might seem great when they start eating the old people and hobos who ordinarily feed pigeons, but what happens when the hobos and old people are all gone? Then they come for us! And if the pigeonsharks don’t get you, the typhoid and black plague they spread will!

9. CHIM-PAND-EAGLE!

I take back what I said about bearodactyls being unstoppable. This is the hero who could stop them.

In devising the soundtrack for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright has chosen specific bands and artists to sub for the fictional musicians of the comic strip. Pilgrim’s band Sex Bob-omb have had their tunes supplied by Beck, Broken Social Scene will be providing the noise of Crash and the Boys and Metric were tapped to bring The Clash at Demonhead to life, at least in terms of the music they make.

Today, Metric have made their first Scott Pilgrim track available via their Facebook Fan Page. It’s simple enough - you become a fan and the streaming player is activated. The song is called Black Sheep and while it was not written specifically for the film, it seems that this recording was done specifically for the soundtrack.

One such fan has already commented on the song featuring guitar whereas the band in the strip don’t have the instrument in their live line-up. Hardly a deal-breaker is it? Indeed, I’m relieved that Wright is fiddling with the fine details and hope he’s not held back at all in his adaptation. There’s not much I find more disappointing than a slavish big screen translation of a comic or novel that just wasn’t going to work unaltered in cinema.

Via Edgar Wright

• Michael Cera Doesn’t Expect a Scott Pilgrim Sequel, Isn’t Signed On For Future Films
• Edgar Wright Wants To Make Baby Driver Next
• Scott’s Pilgrims In Action
• Michael Cera in Final Talks to Star in Scott Pilgrim’s Little Life For Director Edgar Wright
• Scott Pilgrim Diverges From The Graphic Novels Around the Third Book
• Early Buzz: 15 More Reviews From Another Test Screening of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

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Derrick, you are not going to fucking believe this. You know the show you’re up against? Soul Quest Overdrive? It’s my fucking show. I’m the Scottish soccer ball in the pilot!!!

David Cross, the bowling pin, and Me McInnes, the soccer ball

Derrick, you are not going to fucking believe this. You know the show you’re up against? Soul Quest Overdrive? It’s my fucking show. I’m the Scottish soccer ball in the pilot!!! I recorded that voice a year ago and totally forgot about it until checking the link on your post right now.

It’s Kristen Schaal, David Cross, Jon Benjamin and my fucking ass. I heard the show wasn’t getting picked up and didn’t even know they had animated it. We have been pitted against each other against our wills. Since when is God so fucking funny? Wow.

Think of it this way: Whoever wins, we win. It’s like the Superbowl. No matter what happens, America wins.

See both shows here.

-GAVIN McINNES

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This is really funnier than it has any right to be–Aziz as Randy freestyle complaining over beats about not getting verses from his rapper collaborators on his upcoming mixtape. And the beats are fairly tight.

Produced by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek, along with Baltimore’s DJ Granwizerd and LA’s The Have. That’s the RZA on the spoken outro.

You can download the MP3 here or here.

Oh, and NSFW.

Love and Haiti Benefit with Aziz Ansari, Ben Stiller, Sarah Silverman, Thomas Lennon, Ed Helms & Nick Kroll, Largo at the Coronet Theater, January 25, 2009

Aziz Ansari, Live, Largo at the Coronet, February 4

There seriously isn't, you guys. Because Sony took down the original Rick Astley video because of a terms of use violation. Sorry internet, no more Rick Rolls for anybody. Truly a sad day for memes.

SUCKAZ!

There are still like a bajillion other versions on YouTube. Just go here, here, here or here. They just took down the one with 40 million views. So instead you get the one with 30 million views. Still has that fresh Rock Roll'd scent on it. But seriously, Sony doing this does accomplishes nothing this except display their ignorance about new media.

[Mashable]