0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 9/5/2014
As rumors continue to swirl about the cast, the mood, and the location for season two of HBO’s True Detective, a series of scenes apparently deleted from the first season have appeared online featuring season one detective Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) being Rust Cohle while behind the wheel of a Lincoln MKC. In the first […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 8/13/2014
Arrested Development star Michael Cera quietly released a solo album, true that, on Bandcamp last week. This lo-fi endeavor is mostly instrumental, and includes a cover of Blaze Foley’s “Clay Pigeons” that is sure to make listeners Google, “Blaze Foley.” Cera has performed in the past with groups Mister Heavenly and The Long Goodbye, and […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 8/8/2014
The Black Eyed Peas, Madonna, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and “Weird” Al Yankovic? That grouping of artists may seem strange, but if an online petition at change.org is successful, “Weird” Al would be the halftime performer for Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona. The petition currently has almost 100,000 signatures, and while other petitions have been […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 7/31/2014
In late January, Gawker posted an article containing a link to the leaked script for Quentin Tarantino’s stagecoach western The Hateful Eight. Tarantino allegedly only gave the script to a handful of people, and in a rage he decided to shelve the movie and sue Gawker. A few months later he decided to withdraw his […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 7/25/2014
This week I returned to work after spending the past 10 days at home on paternity leave after my wife gave birth to our second child — another son who has a head full of black hair, and the jaundice that also afflicted his older brother. My life during these 10 days was spent playing […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 7/24/2014
Roger Corman has given a lot of actors and directors their Hollywood breaks, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jack Nicholson. Now Corman can add Conan O’Brien to that list after O’Brien premiered his entire two minute cameo from Corman’s Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda last night on Conan: We’ll have to wait to see if how […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 7/3/2014
The United States of America will celebrate its 238th birthday this Fourth of July, and many Americans will spend the day firing up their grills, drinking beer, and blowing things up. Unlike its more somber brother Memorial Day, the Fourth of July is meant to be a day to celebrate and have a good time. […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 6/13/2014
By now, most of us have had a few days to digest what is possibly the greatest photograph ever taken. Obviously, I am referring to the photograph that was posted to the Guns N’ Roses Instagram account on Sunday featuring Nicolas Cage. The majesty of an Academy Award winner (Leaving Las Vegas) standing with the aid of a cane […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 5/19/2014
Saturday Night Live is in the middle of a transition. The past two seasons of SNL have seen the departures of Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, and Kristen Wiig. Easily six of the best performers of the past ten years, all-time great cast members, and enormously huge shoes to fill. To use a sports phrase, the 39th […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 5/8/2014
On his new stand-up album, Waiting for 2042, comedian Hari Kondabolu has a joke where he wonders “What the f*** happened to Weezer?” Kondabolu’s joke meanders to a self-proclaimed “disappointing end” which the comedian explains is his attempt to “echo the trajectory of Weezer’s career.” It’s a question that any fan of The Blue Album or […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 5/2/2014
Worried you spent too much money this week at the comic shop because of new releases like the Amazing Spider-Man, Southern Bastards, and Batman ’66? Well, this Saturday comic book shops across the country are hoping to ease the pain on comic fan wallets while adding to their collections with the 13th annual Free Comic […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/24/2014
In 1945’s Tintin in America, the intrepid Belgian reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme travels to Chicago to report on the city’s organized crime problem. Tintin is quickly kidnapped by the gangsters and escapes. The gangsters then knock him out and throw him in Lake Michigan where he recovers and then follows the dastardly Bobby Smiles to […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/10/2014
The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum sits on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It’s an oddly shaped triangular building between a science center and an airport. The official reason this building sits in Cleveland is that local disc jockey Alan Freed coined the phrase “rock n’ roll.” The […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 4/2/2014
The Flaming Lips have never been a band to follow the basic blueprint for popular rock bands. Whether it was releasing an album like Zaireeka, which requires the listener to play four CDs simultaneously, or the 24-hour song “7 Skies H3” that has its own website playing a continuous audio stream, the band likes to […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 3/20/2014
After decades of scandal, war, and protest, the 1980s were a decade defined by excess and greed. Pop culture became the norm with entertainment and news merging into one entity. Hell, the president was a former actor who quoted Dirty Harry, and Clint Eastwood was the mayor of Carmel, California. It was a decade struggling […]
