Maybe I’ve been living under a rock, but I hadn’t even heard of this movie until I stumbled across the trailer on Monday.
It’s from producer Michael Bay, but seriously — it looks like Chronicle meets The Butterfly Effect and Chronicle was awesome.
The movie is slated for a February 2014 release.
[Source: YouTube]
DarendukesI wonder what the "instructions" really say.
Gamer Guys and Gals, please be aware:
4chan’s /b/ forum — the same one that convinced lots of people to dunk their phones in water — has now promised new Xbox One users a way to “hack” their new gaming units so they will be backwards compatible.
INSTEAD, IT BRICKS THE CONSOLE, RENDERING IT INOPERABLE.
THERE IS NO WAY TO REVERSE IT.
IF YOU SEE THIS, PLEASE DO NOT DO IT:
A Tweet from Xbox Live’s programming director Larry Hryb:
[via The Daily Dot]
DarendukesFor Ryan.
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DarendukesPretty damn good cover. (except for the trying, first 30 seconds)
The video is rather entertaining as well.
Tears for Fears are, effectively, an eighties band. They released their latest album in 2004, but are prepping for a new one in 2014, and what better to acclimate themselves to the contemporary music scene than by covering recent indie hits?
In August, they covered Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start”, and in October it was Hot Chip’s “And I Was A Boy From School.” And now it’s Animal Collective’s turn to get the cover treatment, with their single off of 2009’s “Merriweather Post Pavillion,” “My Girls.”
When I first started listening (and watching the accompanying original video), I thought that it was going to be the worst thing ever in the world. I was wrong. Admittedly, the first 30 seconds feel very…dated, in a ‘90s cheesy kind of way. But then the song kicks into swing in earnest, with a (fittingly retro) 3d-animated video psychedelicly touring some sort of Myst-like environs.
The arpeggiated synths that the original are based on are still here, replicated quite faithfully. A weird synth riff and some debatably unnecessary moaning samples have been added. But the vocals are incredible, at once true to the original musical “intent” but also much clearer, mixed above the music rather than entangled into it. Multiple vocal tracks give it an a capella compositional feel at times, in a really fantastic way. And the second refrain of each chorus has this delightfully inauthentic drum pattern that feels so out of place on first listen but grows on me with each successive play.
Whether you’re a Tears for Fears fan, an AnCo fan, both, or neither, you owe it to yourself to hear this unusual pairing. Listen and watch below.
h/t: Consequence of Sound | Image: MTV]
DarendukesWhy are Beatles songs treated like reliquaries?
When I heard that Apple Records were digitally releasing a 59-track album of various 1963 bootlegs by The Beatles, I thought “huh, sounds like a cash grab.” Then when I heard that the album is only being released so that it will extend copyrights on the tracks within for another few decades, I thought “huh, sounds dumb.” And when I learned just now that the release was only available on iTunes for a few hours early this morning before being removed from the store, I thought “now that’s obnoxious.” There is no longer anywhere you can buy the release. If you missed it, too bad.
Sure, it’s mainly tracks that have been floating around Beatles bootlegs for ages, but supposedly in slightly better quality. More insulting is the fact that the entire release was masterminded solely for benefit of the royalty owners rather than music fans. These are tracks for which Apple Records seems to have no plans for a legitimate release (hence the delay until it was absolutely “necessary”), and yet they want to effectively ensure that you won’t hear them in decent quality for at least another twenty years. Thanks guys.
I have to say my jaw dropped in disbelief when I read, from The Telegraph, “Without this little manoeuvre, a flood of cheap, sub-standard Beatles albums would have soon started appearing, with profits going to any enterprising salesman who could think of a catchy way to market the freely accessible songs.” Too bad! That’s capitalism, baby, and if you don’t like it, don’t release your music. In the EU, you have 50 (now 70) years to make your money on the music and then it belongs to the people. Can you name a single example of a work of art, in any medium, that has had its brand image sullied by entrance into the public domain? The vast majority of artwork predates the copyright system completely, and we still worship the Mona Lisa and Starry Night. But because of lobbyists and copyright warriors, no books entered the public domain in the US in 2013.
So the chances are that you missed out on “Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963” and the record industry keeps milking old product and giving the finger to the fans. In fifteen years from now, when copyright extensions mean it will still cost you a fortune to put a Beatles song in your movie, if you’re allowed to at all, don’t say I didn’t warn you. Then again, maybe the remaining Fab Four really do need the money, Paul seems to be low on shirts.
h/t: Consequence of Sound, The Telegraph, NY Times | Image: TheBeatles.com
Darendukeshahahhahhhahaahhaahaha!!!1!
A Detroit-area woman who was allegedly trying to "protect" her dog from a stray cat went about it in the worst possible way — by kicking snow in its face.
    
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Darendukes"The moment you were born we should have cut your head off. You are a message from God that he doesn't love us."
Even the leader of the X-Men gets fired. Soon, Professor X will be left all alone.
The spandex Starfleet uniforms they wore on Star Trek: The Next Generation may have looked like the future, but they stank like nobody’s business. Costume designer Bob Blackman described the problem in an old BBC interview unearthed by Fast Company Design:
“Spandex retains odor, so there is a certain part where if you’re wearing them for a long period of time, you can’t really clean all the smell out, and it becomes a little bit annoying. And it also retains the odor of the dry cleaning fluid. It is, on a day-to-day basis, unpleasant.”
Ew. That’s just nasty. They were also very uncomfortable and gave the cast back problems which was why the uniforms changed in Season Three.
(via io9)
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DarendukesTexas: You can't own more than six dildos.
Is your sex life against the law? Better make sure. We've painstakingly compiled a map of all the most biarre and unnecessary laws regulating what you do, with whom, and where. Check out our complete map of all the weirdest laws regulating sex in America below.
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Police say a Japanese man stole nearly $200,000 over a year-long burglary spree because he wanted to feed his 128 cats gourmet cat food.
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DarendukesI think I might do this...
My wife and I dizzily coughed flu sputum at each other this weekend, taking turns holding our sick baby son on our laps, lugging his tons of accoutrements cross-country as he screamed through delayed wintry flights, and all I could think was: Pity the monied urban childless! How may we improve their lots?
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DarendukesWow. I really should watch season one.
The road to absolute power is paved with hypocrisy…and casualties. Praise Frank Underwood, the House of Cards season two trailer is here to tide us over until February; SNL will have a black woman on the cast by January; Spider-Man is getting spinoff movies; and Adam Sandler will be overacting the role he was born to play: himself.
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As the mystery surrounding the Mandela memorial's "fake" sign language interpreter deepens, at least one question has finally been answered: What the hell Thamsanqa Jantjie was actually signing.
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DarendukesComputer, end program.
In an absurd twist to everything you know and love, physicists tackling what sounds like a question for the chronically stoned—"What if the entire universe is just one big hologram?"—have come to a tenuous conclusion that, yeah, that might actually be the case.
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DarendukesI wish I could go see this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOxG4aSQOO8
io9 and the American Museum of Natural History hosted a special screening of Dark Universe last night. Neil deGrasse Tyson['s voice] lead us on a journey through the ever expanding universe of dark energy, dark matter, red shifts, and all things that make one feel incredibly inconsequential and scared that something much more advanced than ourselves is somewhere out there.
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DarendukesNo idea what show this is but this is badass.
DarendukesThis one makes me smile.
A Texas man carrying a sword sheathed to his waist unsuccessfully tried to liberate six tacos and some gas before he was arrested last week.
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