Whatever this concert is, the crowd includes lots of pretty young women and one conspicuously older-looking man.

Camcorders? Fuck that noise. Super-8 film cameras and tape recorders from now on!

Wreck-It Ralph 64

If this film wants my respect, it had better have Ralph and Vanellope spend a lot of time exploring the world of online bootleg Frozen games, like "Frozen Elsa Flu Doctor," "Pregnant Elsa Emergency," "Elsa Cooking Ricotta Pie," "Anna Frozen Fever Birthday," "Pregnant Elsa Bathroom Cleaning," "Disney Anna Tooth…

True story: around 1993 a kid showed me this weird thing he had on his computer, where he could use his house's phone line to connect to this program that was kind of like a computerized bulletin board, where people from all over the country could post messages and get into discussions about things; he was using it to…

I'd be more happy if I were related to a crème brulee, and could snack on myself.

Yeah that was in the New Yorker too; right here, actually: http://www.newyorker.com/bu… One point that that article raises, briefly, is that the sort of people who can afford those kinds of fancy neighborhoods also generally like to live in areas that feel unique and distinguished - as in, not just banks and…

Oh I know that there's still a massive amount of art/creativity happening in NYC, but I also think it's gotten a lot more difficult to both live here and make art. Williamsburg and Greenpoint may be cheaper than Manhattan, but they ain't cheap, and even Bushwick is surprisingly pricey (it's been said that on the…

Also, Videology (also in Williamsburg): originally a video store, now a combination video store/cinema/bar.

It's been said already (like in this New Yorker piece: http://www.newyorker.com/cu… ) that the end of Other Music fits in with a lot of other "the end of…" narratives (the end of brick-and-mortar record stores, the end of the music industry as we know it, etc.) but I think a really pertinent narrative to consider here…

One of the tricky things about it is that it's kind of an 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' scenario: it's easy to say how many people are killed with guns every year, but much harder to pin down how many lives are saved thanks to guns (guns undoubtedly help save lives sometimes), or how many of those…

Yeah, well, I always wondered how they'd look pissing on a Chevy logo. You like that, buddy?

This newswire prompted me to take a look at Ratner's filmography, and I have to admit I'm impressed by how forgettable most of it is; like, in my mind he was kind of a Michael Bay figure - making critically-despised but popularly-beloved films - but most his movies seem to be lazy-afternoon time-wasters, at best.

The other day I took the official Pottermore sorting hat quiz, and I got Slytherin! I really don't think I'm a Slytherin type at all. So, rather than get hung up on how I must be secretly evil at heart, I think it's more accurate to say that the quiz - and the whole sorting system - is silly.

It's easy: just make it about space aliens. In this case, the falling Tetris blocks are alien spaceships descending down to Earth, and people figure out that they need to divert the ships in such a way that they form contiguous lines because that makes them vulnerable to some sort of electromagnetic shockwave, or…

You know, Anne Hathaway did an interview with Terry Gross and this issue came up. Here's an excerpt from the transcript (at this point they had been talking a bit about the movie):

When you first start watching, you might get the mistaken impression that Hathaway is a gorgeous young woman, but then the movie makes it clear that she's basically just a gross, misshapen blob of a person.

The Met always charges 'suggested' admission prices, so you can pay as little as you want to get in (though if you pay really little the people at the admission desk might give you funny looks); that's a little bit away from Midtown, though. Same deal with the Natural History museum (pay-what-you-want admission, not…

For a long time, whenever I'd hear someone complain about how lousy or inefficient the NYC subway is, my response (real or imagined) would be something like 'Well, it has its problems, but when you think about how complex the system is, and how many people use it every day, you see it's only natural that there would…

Anyone got the lowdown on how 'Children of Men' stacks-up compared to its source novel?