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Monday, March 30, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Don't you Twitterstand?
Posted By Ciara Lilly on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:48 PM
The Twitter craze is greater than ever, and just like Facebook it WILL consume lives. Check out this animated video that very accurately portrays the influence Twitter has on people, including myself. P.S. Follow me at www.twitter.com/CiaraLilly.
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals I Love You, Man: Male pattern badness
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:47 PM
By Matt Brunson
I Love You, Man comes dangerously close to striking out before it even steps up to the plate. First off, the basic premise, about a guy who goes off in search of a male friend to call his own, sounds imbecilic even on paper. Strike one. And then there's the trailer, which, continuing an alarming trend these days, is cut in a shrill fashion to make the movie itself seem like a complete waste of time. Strike two.
But I Love You, Man avoids striking out by remaining true to its own good-natured core. Like most films in the Judd Apatow vein (the man himself wasn't involved with this project, but the principal players are all veterans of his works), it attempts to strike a desirable balance between sweet sincerity and risqué raunch. Yet perhaps more than any of the other films (Knocked Up, Superbad, etc.), it frequently pulls back when it reaches the edge of vulgarity. That's not to say the picture doesn't fully deserve its R rating: With its ample selection of crude language, no one will be mistaking this for Mary Poppins. But by focusing on the sweetest lead character since Steve Carell's 40-year-old virgin, the movie emerges as a possible date-night selection that both sexes can enjoy.
Read the rest of Matt's review here.
Watch the movie trailer here:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Musing over music in kiddie-centric TV shows
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM
A nasty flu forced me to take some sick days and spend time at home a few weeks ago. While I was stuck in the bed, I found myself watching some weird TV programming; at one point, I flipped to an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood — and I was immediately stunned by the quality of music being played on the show. Remember that closing theme song? It was filled with some seriously jazzy piano riffs. And that got me thinking about just how good music was on children's television back in the day. Yeah it was cheesy, but just on sheer musicality, the shit was on the up-and-up.
For example, let's check out that closing theme from Mister Rogers. Listen for that piano at the end. That's some fresh improvisation — and it was different every episode:
Speaking of jazz in children's program, obviously the Charlie Brown cartoons always presented the best stuff. Here's a sample:
Going back to Mister Rogers, as I stated before, I dug his closing music; however, in other children's programming some of the best music came at the start of the show. My favorites were always the opening themes to those Marvel Comics cartoons from the late 1960s. The themes featured catchy lyrics and some rather off-beat musical accompaniment. Here's a sample:
And of course, Marvel's other mega-star superhero Spider-Man probably had the best theme of all:
Then again, I think I dig this 1970s version of Spidey's theme from the Electric Company a little more than the original one. And pay attention to the funky background music:
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Not Knowing is better than Knowing
Posted By Contributing Intern on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM
By Matt Brunson
It's unlikely that Knowing will become a classic YouTube howler like The Wicker Man (go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo to enjoy the hilarity), but this latest dud starring Nicolas Cage does bring to mind the title of MAD magazine's Close Encounters of the Third Kind spoof. With its plotline involving extraterrestrials, a kid in potential peril, and a man obsessed with uncovering the truth behind unexplained phenomena, this could easily have been tagged Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind.
Sober in its intentions but laughable in its execution, Knowing begins promisingly, as a letter written by a little girl in 1959 finds itself, 50 years later, in the hands of John Koestler (Cage), an MIT professor whose wife died in a hotel fire a year earlier and who now must raise his son Caleb (Chandler Canterbury) by himself. Koestler soon figures out that the piece of paper, on which the child scrawled nothing but a lengthy series of numbers, actually foretold all the major disasters of the past five decades (well, all the disasters that resulted in deaths, as it appears the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were not included). The problem is that three of the prophesied disasters have yet to occur, leaving Koestler in the unenviable position of trying to figure out how to stop large-scale tragedies from taking place. Meanwhile, a group of shadowy figures spend their time trailing young Caleb; they're meant to appear menacing, but that's hard to accomplish when they basically all look like Sting impersonators.
Read the rest of Matt's review here.
Watch the trailer here:
Monday, March 23, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals What is this Lindsay Lohan garbage?
Posted By Web Editor on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:49 PM
Is this supposed to make me WANT to buy Fornarina?
Here's a note from The Superficial:
NOTE: For those of you unable to watch video, just imagine a talking skeleton surrounded by the shittiest 80s music and graphics you can think of. Then again, you're probably light years ahead of what I just saw. You lucky bastards.
Found video / CL-TV Originals Common, Kanye West, Erykah Badu do “The Light” at SXSW
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM
In case you didn't go to the SXSW music conference last week, here's some video from the G.O.O.D. Music showcase at The Levi's®/FADER Fort on Saturday night. The clip features hip-hoppers Common and Kanye West along with soul vocalist Erykah Badu for special rendition of "The Light" — after which they both broke into freestyles for Austin crowd.
For more, visit The Fader. Aaaaaaannnd, here's the video:
Found video / CL-TV Originals Remember the Power Rangers?
Posted By Ciara Lilly on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM
As a child, I can remember watching the Power Rangers every now and then, so when I stumbled across this video, I thought it would serve as my dose of nostalgia for the day. Boy, was I mistaken.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals The Twitter Song
Posted By Web Editor on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM
This song is dedicated to our editor Carlton Hargro, who went Twitter crazy.
Found video / CL-TV Originals Obama on Jay Leno
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:28 AM
In case you missed this last night, here's the full video of President Obama on the Tonight Show:
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Found video / CL-TV Originals Amber Rose, Kanye's new girlfriend, talks dirty
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:49 PM
In case you haven't heard (and if you give a rat's ass at all), rapper/producer Kanye West appears to have a new lady friend: a damned-pretty model named Amber Rose.
And judging from a recent raunch-tastic interview on satellite radio, she's definitely a keeper! Check it out for yourself:
