This Is One of Those Endurance Challenges
I learned a few things when this video hurtled into my life today:
Surprisingly, one of those facts was not “Puddle of Mudd is still a thing?” That I already knew for reasons we’ll not go into right now. Before the singing even begins, you can tell from the uncomfortable expressions of lead singer…Samuel Mudd V (I’m assuming, this fact isn’t going to be something I look up so let’s just go with him being the descendant of the Lincoln collaborator. All of them, actually). The guitar intro is going smoothly enough, and then the vocals kick in and, if this isn’t some sort of modern art masterpiece, then it was rude of everyone involved to do this to Kurt Cobain, leave him alone please.
Watch This: THE FAREWELL - available via Amazon Prime Video
While it was very successful in its theatrical run last year, it feels like THE FAREWELL, written and directed by Lulu Wang, was overlooked when it came to awards season. Which was a shame, since this story of a family who comes together to hold a sham wedding to conceal their true intentions of saying their goodbyes to the matriarch of the family, who is unaware that she’s been diagnosed with a terminal illness. The family decides not to tell her because of the belief that the stress of knowing will accelerate the process of death, and the film deftly veers between hilarious and heart-wrenching, often in the same scene.
In other turn-of-the-century nu-metal/exhausting my hyphen supply news: in one of the first few days of this thing we brought you a story about the band Trapt absolutely losing it on Twitter. Today, we have an update on the situation, via Ashley Feinberg, the author of the original piece:
Yes, at some point it looks like Trapt and the real, no-joke Ice T, who I found out was a musician as well before joining Law & Order: SVU how neat! The amazing part is that the original Trapt tweet was in response to one from Ice T that was not even directed at Trapt what are you even doing.
In much more wholesome news, this video set to William Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by famed Seattle video store Scarecrow Video is a nice way to show off their absurdly large library.
This tale of one reporter’s attempt to find out who all is in charge of Tom Brady’s social media and, by extension, the fake newspaper posted through Brady’s accounts is as compelling as it is weird. And I say that as someone who actively dislikes Brady and his love of cheating and lingeringly open-mouth kissing his son.
There are many things to be upset about by this story:
I’d sue everyone. my husband, the doctors,the babies. https://t.co/A9GAp3Ykxc
CNN @CNN
A month after giving birth, this mother returned to a hospital with abdominal pain. She gave birth to twins from a second uterus. https://t.co/6QJrCG0Bht https://t.co/E6wuzGv9RZLuckily this wasn’t America otherwise having to get a second hospital stay and bill would obviously be the worst part, since I don’t think hospitals would let you bundle the second and third babies together like a repeat repair at the auto center or something. Partially it’d be the order of the births, like it would be easier to mentally grapple with going from 2 to 3 babies, a 50% increase in total baby, rather than 1 to 3, a full tripling of the baby population.
Finally, I appreciate the attempt to relate here:
But at least do some research on the thing the kids are talking about we’ve all got the time brah.
