Posts tagged as Friends
Rihanna's "We Found Love" Vs. Friends' "I'm His Girl"
Two new videos came out this week for songs sung by women in their early 20s. One is the one above. And while it's blatantly banking on reminding people of last year's smash hit "I Love the Way You Lie," and it's always creepy, because of what we know about her real-life past, to watch Rihanna flirting with the notion of domestic violence as turn-on, I like it. It's certainly very titillating. Like Requiem for a Dream, from which it also borrows heavily. The song itself is great, too, which certainly helps. Big dumb disco done just right. I think I like it more than any song of Rihanna's since "Umbrella." As good as it is, though, it pales in comparison to "I'm His Girl," by the new Bushwick, Brooklyn band, Friends. READ MORE
We Desire That You Subscribe to Jauntsetter
If you subscribe to Jauntsetter this week—it's the once-a-week email about local and fun travel!—you could win, of all things, a heart-shaped 2-quart LeCreuset casserole dish, and there is nothing I want more, so win it and give it to me.
Boston Celtics Put On a Great Show in the Locker Room
What do NBA players do to blow off steam after practice? Apparently, it's put on Halloween masks and have a dance-off to Rick Ross' remix of Waka Flocka Flame's "Hard in the Paint." Kevin Garnett really does go hard in the paint! This is great.
Scientists Prove Existence Of "Relationship Black Hole"
Have you started dating someone recently? Have you noticed that in the rush of your new relationship and finding out all the cute things about your new squeeze and the dates and the fun and the lovey-dovey social-networking proclamations and omg the sex that some of your closest friendships have run a little, well, cold? Well, OK, you probably didn't notice. (Because omg the sex!) But that's all right, because once you come up for air and/or breakup drinks, Science will be here to remind you why certain people haven't been returning your calls as quickly as they might have mere months ago. READ MORE
Broadway Plays Now As Unrealistic About New York Real Estate As 'Friends'
From a Times piece on the really nice real estate on display in many plays of recent vintage, despite the characters maybe not being of the means to afford said spreads: "Several of the set designers for these productions said that they did not aspire to reflect precise reality in their rendering of Manhattan and Brooklyn homes, but rather achieve exactly the sort of jealous stirring that New Yorkers can feel about the digs of their friends and neighbors." Weren't we all supposed to be done with the age of ire-stoking aspirationalism by now?
Ask the Internet: Or Don't
Ooh, hyper-modern ethics questions! My favorite. "I went to high school with a girl who I came across on Facebook. She's clearly got an eating disorder. What on earth do I do? I can't just friend her, and say, 'Hey! We went to high school together twelve years ago and I just found your profile, and you need some help! Go Bulldogs!'" That would be amusing. But one answer for sure is of interest. READ MORE
The Oscars are Next Week and Nope, I Still Haven’t Seen 'Avatar'
No, I'm not some joyless prude. I was once like you, even. Remember when we were sitting around your apartment and decided to watch the trailer online? How we laughed! Someone had tried to adapt early 90s Trapper Keepers® for the screen! And they'd spent a small nation's GDP to make it happen! If, some months from that point, James Cameron Trips Over A Fanboy Wishlist Into The Uncanny Valley wasn't going to be the flop of our young century, jeez, it really should've been. READ MORE
Toby Young Nuzzles Hand That Once Bit And/Or Fed Him
Huh! Toby Young, writing on Gawker-and billed as a "friend" of Gawker. Who thought that day would ever come? The former New York Press columnist and current Top Chef judge filed his Emmys report for the august webzine... which was published on Tuesday afternoon. This tardy report, thoroughly amusing, revealed little. Maybe if Top Chef won an Emmy, he would rush the stage! Maybe if it didn't, he would pull a Kanye! Neither happened. Most amusing: the sidebar of "related posts" on Gawker, in which Young is referred to as "vaguely annoying" and a "professional annoying person." (Disclosure: I can't even remember why I dislike Toby Young! He took some needless swipe once? He is probably a swell fellow, and God bless him for torturing Graydon Carter. (Although! Flashback! "One of the things that struck me about Toby Young's book on his experience at Vanity Fair was that all the best lines were Graydon's."))
Reality Show Contestants Still Not Present For Amity
Rich "fourfour" Juzwiak's 2009 "I'm Not Here To Make Friends" compilation is live, and it's just as entrancing as the original, which you can find here. There ought to be some kind of recutting Emmy for this kind of genius.
Social A's: I Am A Hermit And Is That Okay?
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