Entries Tagged as 'americans'

Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Diary of an ex Disney Employee

No matter where you work, even if it’s the Magic Kingdom (probably especially if it’s the Magic Kingdom), you’re going to have those co-workers who are so annoying that just seeing them will send you into fits of maddening rage. This guy had someone like that and here he tells the story of why this [...]

Friday, May 24th, 2013

The National Mood is Still Gloomy

In case you didn’t know, The National is an American indie rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio. There was a moment on their last tour when Brooklyn’s (their new adopted home) The National reminded you just how special they can be – and are regularly. I find it hard to believe this will not be [...]

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Catch Phrase: I’m Jumping on Your Couch

Host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, Mike Rowe, picks a random video off the interwebs and gives us a dramatic reading of a family photo with a bunch of shit-faced relatives. The situation is tense as they gather together to try to get a shot. Will they fail or achieve in their endeavor? There [...]

Thursday, May 9th, 2013

This Is Water

Not many people have ploughed their way through David Foster Wallace’s magnus opus Infinite Jest — at over 1000 pages long and with a complex narrative it takes some dedication. But many people have listened to or read his talk he gave to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College, where he treats them to [...]

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Grand Theft Auto V: Character Trailers

Rockstar games are like the virtual drug-dealers of the video game industry, every year or so they develop a new game that is even more addictive then the last and hand out samples of their latest creation for us to get completely addicted to before they go mainstream and launch it on the street and [...]

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

Raw Video: Obama at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner is where the prez gets to flex his comedic muscles and cut loose a bit. In his last term Obama saw it as a chance to ridicule Donald Trump and the birthers, much to the megalolz of the audience. This time he pretends he’s Daniel Day Lewis playing Obama [...]

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)

Welcome to part one of the documentary ‘This Film is Not Yet Rated’, which explores the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating system and the effect it has on American culture. It’s the sort of system that is super-tough on nudity, but isn’t bothered when it comes to extreme violence (which in light of the [...]

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Trolling with Craigslist

The Craigslist is a very weird place to hang out at the best of times, and to take it to the next level and allow a user (well, a potential buyer) into your house takes real guts, or is that stupidity? Especially if they intend to troll you. Two guys respond to a guitar ad [...]

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

Paranoid Prank Returns!

Oh lolz. It’s the simple ideas that are always the best, and this one involves a guy on his phone describing the people around him and what they’re wearing and doing so they become increasingly uncomfortable and paranoid, turning to look at him incredulously, as he carries on the phone conversation. It’s surprising that no [...]

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

Keith Apicary: Kimberly Cole Music Video Audition

Yeah, yeah, yeah, i know it’s a repost, but it’s more than worthy of another viewing -Take a look at Keith Apicary here, from seeing him you’ll think he’s a bit of a joker and is in this audition just to wind everyone up. But that’s only partly true, because he’s actually a damn fine [...]

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Mark Kroos Plays Dueling Banjos Solo

Now this takes a special kind of skill to be able to play Dueling Banjos from Deliverance by yourself. Either Mark Kroos is very, very talented, or he has no friends. So how does he do it? Cajun magic? No, he uses a double-necked guitar to play both parts and he totally kills it. Who [...]