Artwork by TOMER HANUKA BOYHOOD (2014, directed by Richard Linklater, 166 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC It would seem impossible not to be moved by Richard Linklater’s intimate epic Boyhood, where the filmmaker took an epic leap-of-faith by committing himself and his cast to a 12-year shooting schedule. Following an entire family but especially young Mason (newcomer Ellar Coltrane), we see history not just imagined but revealed before our eyes. It’s a triumph of ambition, giving us an unusually immersive experience into those tumultuous years in which we come of age. Yet while the film is a certified […]
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: Only You Can Save The Internet, Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace About Low Speed, High Prices & Few Choices
Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they’re attacking the Internet–their one competitor and our only refuge–with plans to charge websites arbitrary fees and slow (to a crawl) any sites that won’t pay up. If they win, the Internet dies. Unlike cable channels, sites don’t need to negotiate deals to get on the Internet. That changes if cable companies get their way at the FCC. We need to stand up and defend an Internet that is fair, and equal. Are you in? Go HERE to literally […]
I, DESTROYER: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
This is brilliant.
THIS JUST IN: Neil Young @ The Academy Of Music
Illustration by DAN SPRINGER October 8th and 9th. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 am via KimmelCenter.org. PREVIOUSLY: Neil Young At The Wells Fargo Center PREVIOUSLY: Top 5 Things You Should Know About Neil Young @ The Tower Last Night
CINEMA: Her Satanic Majesty’s Request
SKATETOWN U.S.A. (1979, directed by William A. Levey, 98 min., U.S.) SON OF DRACULA (1974, directed by Freddie Francis, 90 min., U.K.) BLOOD (1974, directed by Andy Milligan, 69 minutes, U.S.) MURDER ON THE EMERALD SEAS (1973, directed by Alan Ormsby, 85 min., U.S.) THE SATANIST (1968, directed by Zoltan G. Spencer, 64 min., U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC The Philly-based cinema curators of Exhumed Films traffic in the weird, wild and often disrespected fringes of cinema history. What started 17 years ago as a forum to present 35mm prints of the modern classics of contemporary horror has, […]
SOUND ADVICE: Dude From Gym Class Heroes
NOISEY: Sound Advice, the hilarious web series co-created by Saturday Night Live’s Vanessa Bayer and her brother, Noisey contributor Jonah Bayer. This week’s episode features Travie McCoy—the frontman of Gym Class Heroes and the man responsible for that song about wanting to be a billionaire so fucking bad—getting “fixed” by Bayer’s character, media consultant Janessa Slater. […] Think “Between Two Ferns,” but with musicians. MORE
COMCASTIC: The Customer Is Always Raped Wrong
HOUSTON CHRONICLE: Ryan Block, who works at AOL and at one time was Engadget’s editor-in-chief and is co-founder of gdgt, was moving and decided he wanted to cancel his Comcast service and start at his new home with a different provider. Simple, right? Just pick up the phone, call Comcast and disconnect. Well, no. It wasn’t that simple. Listen to this astonishing recording in which Block is badgered by a Comcast rep who demands to know why he’s canceling the service. It’s a train wreck. MORE RYAN BLOCK: This recording picks up roughly 10 minutes into the call, whereby she […]
Q&A: Steve-O, The Jackest Of All Asses
AS TOLD TO JONATHAN VALANIA Steve-O of Jackass fame will be performing nightly at Helium Comedy Club from July 16th-19th, so we got him on the horn for one of our patented Phawker heart-to-hearts. DISCUSSED: Clown college, cocaine, stilt-walking, sobriety, his father being president of Coca Cola Brazil, things he’s put up his ass, suicide, Samuel Jackson, the permanent damage of his Jackassery, Ryan Dunne & Amy Schumer, psychiatric lockdown, veganism, kindness to animals and the importance of flossing after every meal. PHAWKER: So, you moved around a lot as a kid. Your dad was actually president of the […]
EARLY WORD: A Confederacy Of Dunces
If you’ve ever seen Tim and Eric (the duo of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) live, you are already aware these two know how to put on a performance – complete with singing, dancing, and all sorts of other Tim and Eric-isms. If you haven’t experienced the comedic force behind Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (and the soon-to-be-unleashed Tim and Eric’s Bedtime Stories) in person, well, you’ve obviously missed out on some key moments in history, but we’ll let that slide for now. Past triumphs aside, NO ONE has seen Tim AND Eric AND Check It Out‘s […]
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: This Is What The Children Of Honduras Are Running From
Photo via ANORAK NEW YORK TIMES: Cristian Omar Reyes, an 11-year-old sixth grader in the neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, tells me he has to get out of Honduras soon — “no matter what.” In March, his father was robbed and murdered by gangs while working as a security guard protecting a pastry truck. His mother used the life insurance payout to hire a smuggler to take her to Florida. She promised to send for him quickly, but she has not. Three people he knows were murdered this year. Four others were gunned down on a […]
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: Tommy Erdelyi, AKA The Last Ramone Alive, Dead At 62
LA TIMES: Tommy Ramone [PICTURED, SECOND FROM RIGHT], drummer and last surviving original member of the punk-rock band Ramones, died Friday, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times by the band’s manager with Silent Partner Management. He was 62, the manager confirmed. Born Thomas Erdelyi in Budapest, Hungary, on Jan. 29, 1952, Ramone was the drummer for the band from 1974 to 1978, as well as co-producing the band’s first three albums.The Ramones, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 — had to wait until most of their membership had died to be hailed by mainstream […]
ATLAS FUGGED: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
SALON: The night before the 2008 Nevada Republican convention, the Ron Paul delegates all met at a Reno high school. Although I’d called myself a libertarian for almost my entire adult life, it was my first exposure to the wider movement. And boy, was it a circus. Many members of the group were obsessed with the gold standard, the Kennedy assassination and the Fed. Although Libertarians believe government is incompetent, many of them subscribe to the most fringe conspiracy theories imaginable. Airplanes are poisoning America with chemicals (chemtrails) or the moon landings were faked. Nothing was too far out. […]
CINEMA: North Korea Calls New Seth Rogan-James Franco Comedy ‘Terrorism’ And ‘An Act Of War’
THE GUARDIAN: North Korea has complained to the United Nations about The Interview, a forthcoming Hollywood comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, on the grounds that it promotes terrorism against the country. In the film, a TV host (Franco) and his producer (Rogen) manage to secure an interview with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea – only to find themselves hired by the CIA to assassinate him. Despite clearly being in the comic stoner-quest lineage of the pair’s films Pineapple Express and This Is The End, North Korea isn’t laughing. “To allow the production and distribution of […]