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The staff members at The A.V. Club with children have, once in a while, repurposed a favorite song or two as non-traditional lullabies. For example, our own Kyle Ryan has been known to serenade his daughter with a lovely rendition of Japandroids’ thunderous “The House That Heaven Built.” A three-song Sparrow Sleeps EP on Bandcamp takes this idea and takes it to a fully formed conclusion, creating instrumental covers of songs by emo staples Saves The Day. There are two songs from Stay What You Are—“At Your Funeral” is downright lovely as a song fit for a mobile spinning above a crib—and one from the band’s debut Can’t Slow Down. We humbly request that a full lullaby version of Stay What You Are finds its way onto the Internet sometime in the near future, if only to hear what "As Your Ghost Takes Flight" would ...

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Kanye West’s new tour merch certainly isn't boring. Rather than make cheap, giant T-shirts emblazoned with his name and the Yeezus tour dates, West has opted to make a run of fairly dark merch, including shirts featuring praying skeletons, Confederate flags, and bleak images of a computerized West. West even co-opted a little bit of Metallica’s style, both for the shirts’ bleakness and for the typeface used for his Yeezus logo. The shirts run $35 and are being sold at West’s tour stops, all of which are listed below. 

And about those tour dates: West has only done one Yeezus show so far (a scheduled second night was suddenly canceled and rescheduled under "unforeseen circumstances"), but judging from the early reviews, the production sound bananas. Filled with religious imagery, the show involves not only 12 dancing apostles and a bunch of dancers swinging incense burners, but ...

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Not long after J.J. Abrams paid penance for his abuse of lens flare, Damon Lindelof has written an essay in which he attempts to end, once and for all, any further argument over the Lost finale—a confession suggesting that the co-creators of Lost are rapidly trying to unburden themselves in order to ascend. You know, like in the finale of that TV show Lindelof keeps catching shit about.

Lindelof was reminded anew of how people didn’t like the Lost finale—and how they like to remind Lindelof of that—when Sunday’s Breaking Bad prompted a fresh Twitter hell of people taking shots at him, because that’s what Twitter is for: the spontaneous discussion of shared cultural experiences, and the immediate ranking of them as better or worse than other cultural experiences. Then you find the person who created that loser art so you can tell ...

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I am jealous of those who went to the panel for FX’s Archer on Saturday at New York Comic-Con because they get to not only see the cast, and hear about the new season that drops in January 2014, but they also got to see this take on the music video for the 80’s classic Kenny Loggins song "Danger Zone." [We also got free "Archer" hats! - Ed.] Fortunately, those of who didn't attend the panel are able to bask in the glory, courtesy of Uproxx.

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Ghostbusters fans will want to get their hands on this Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow Man 24-Inch Vinyl Bank and save up all of their money for more Ghostbusters toys. This Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is a 2-foot tall vinyl bank. That’s huge. Just imagine all of the money that you can save in this thing. […]

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine having something in common with famous actors and actresses. Though they make their living entertaining us, often playing larger-than-life characters, they’re still human. Simple pleasures like a fantastic TV show dazzle them as much as it does us.

With that in mind, here’s a crazy story. Recently, Anthony Hopkins binge watched the entire five seasons of Breaking Bad, buying the newest episodes on Amazon to finish the series. Afterwards, he was so inspired, he wrote a letter to Bryan Cranston praising the show, and calling Cranston’s performance as Walter White “the best acting I have seen – ever.”

It’s a beautiful letter coming from, himself, of the best actors ever. Read it below.

The letter was posted by Gomey himself, Steven Michael Quezada, on Facebook. Thanks to Vanity Fair for the heads up. Here it is:

Dear Mister Cranston.

I wanted to write you this email – so I am contacting you through Jeremy Barber – I take it we are both represented by UTA . Great agency.

I’ve just finished a marathon of watching “BREAKING BAD” – from episode one of the First Season – to the last eight episodes of the Sixth Season. [Ed note: There are in fact five seasons of Breaking Bad.] (I downloaded the last season on AMAZON) A total of two weeks (addictive) viewing.

I have never watched anything like it. Brilliant!

Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever.

I know there is so much smoke blowing and sickening bullshit in this business, and I’ve sort of lost belief in anything really.

But this work of yours is spectacular – absolutely stunning. What is extraordinary, is the sheer power of everyone in the entire production. What was it? Five or six years in the making? How the producers (yourself being one of them), the writers, directors, cinematographers…. every department – casting etc. managed to keep the discipline and control from beginning to the end is (that over used word) awesome.

From what started as a black comedy, descended into a labyrinth of blood, destruction and hell. It was like a great Jacobean, Shakespearian or Greek Tragedy.

If you ever get a chance to – would you pass on my admiration to everyone – Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Aaron Paul, Betsy Brandt, R.J. Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Steven Michael Quezada – everyone – everyone gave master classes of performance … The list is endless.

Thank you. That kind of work/artistry is rare, and when, once in a while, it occurs, as in this epic work, it restores confidence.

You and all the cast are the best actors I’ve ever seen.

That may sound like a good lung full of smoke blowing. But it is not. It’s almost midnight out here in Malibu, and I felt compelled to write this email.

Congratulations and my deepest respect. You are truly a great, great actor.

Best regards

Tony Hopkins.

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For most of the history of television, the barrier to syndication—and to profitability—has been 100 episodes. The shows that have made it to that mark are an unusual group. Many were big hits. Some found small cult audiences. Still others just hung on as best they could and never posted numbers quite low enough to be canceled. In 100 Episodes, we examine shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced or reflected the medium and what contributed to their popularity.

The idea of television that originates on the Internet is still a new one. No matter how many Emmy nominations Netflix receives for House Of Cards, no matter how much critical acclaim for Orange Is The New Black, the very idea of pulling up a browser screen and plowing through a full season of TV is still an exotic one. And even looking beyond ...

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Jimmy Fallon isn’t the only late-night host to feature delightful musical interludes with famous guests. Jonathan Ross has proven adept at creating an entertaining talk show for over a decade in the UK, on BBC and now ITV. The fifth series of The Jonathan Ross Show kicked off with Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, promoting Captain Phillips and Gravity, respectively. Ross even had a surprise in store for Hanks, unveiling a walking piano on the set, because it has now been a staggering 25 years since Big. And like the consummate charmer he is, Hanks can still bust out a bit of the FAO Schwartz routine from the film, in addition to fooling around to create the illusion of walking piano mastery. To top it all off, Sandra Bullock joined him—in heels, mind you—to play a little “Chopsticks” duet.  

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Step Brothers co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are breaking out the proverbial bunk beds and making another (totally not Step Brothers-related) movie together. The duo will play old pals Leonard and Gabe in Devil’s Night, a movie set around the Oct. 30 evening known as, yes, Devil’s Night. In the film, the eve set aside for pre-Halloween mischief made the two pranksters friends as kids, but eventually drove them apart. Now, 15 years later, they must reunite for another Devil’s Night, this time to save the neighborhood they love—and probably to also yell at each other and stuff, like Ferrell and Reilly do.

Devil’s Night is being written by Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, who also just sold a TV series, All Business, to Fox. Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions banner is producing. 

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Everyone who watched the Breaking Bad finale offered an opinion on the show in some form. And a lot of the debate swirled around where to place Walter White’s hellish odyssey in the pantheon of great television. But rapper Phonte, of Little Brother and The Foreign Exchange, took that game to the extreme, tweeting an extended analogy comparing major rappers to television shows based on career trajectory. He starts by outlining The Wire, Breaking Bad, and The Sopranos as Jay Z, Nas, and Rakim respectively, and then riffs on 14 other rapper/television show parallels with frightening accuracy. His assessments of Lupe Fiasco as The Newsroom and Snoop Dogg as Law & Order are incredibly on point, and though Kanye would quibble with being compared to a show that isn’t the unanimous GOAT like Lost, the shoe fits. (His self-assessment as Arrested Development has just the right twinge of ...

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In what will be the final thing ever said about Breaking Bad this paragraph, a group of fans—who have no patience for people who complain about spoilers—have taken out an obituary for Walter White in today’s Albuquerque Journal. Commissioned by Albuquerque resident David Layman and other members of the “Unofficial Breaking Bad Fan Tour,” the obit, which you can see below, is meant to provide “some closure” to locals who, in Layman’s terms, were proud that the series “brought Albuquerque into the light, and we’re no longer a stopover.” (Indeed, now it’s a meth-and-misfortune wonderland!) Anyway, while it’s a bit unusual to see an obituary for a fictional character make it into an actual newspaper, from what we’ve learned from Breaking Bad, you can pretty much get away with anything in Albuquerque. [via Yahoo]

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The official name of this traditional Bedouin dish is unknown, but most people refer to it as a “camel Turducken”. According to most sources it’s sometimes prepared at wedding feasts and special parties in Arab countries like Saudi Arabia.

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Remember when The Hulk fought a bear?  Yeah, that happened.

From The Incredible Hulk, 1x02 Death in the Family. GIFs by gameraboy.

Insuperable.