Once again, since nobody asked, we went ahead and made an iTunes Music Store iMix of the singles we’d rank among the top songs of 2005. It’s creatively titled Crappy’s List 2005. We’re sure you’ll be as thrilled with the contents as you are with the title.
Note that, due to iTunes not being a complete repository of all music, some songs that should be in the mix aren’t listed. These are: Jeniferever’s “You Only Move Twice,” Oktober People’s “The Sky Is Falling” (highly recommended), Ponce De Leon’s “Snap Goes the Gator Jaw” (strongly recommended), Pretendo’s “Harbor” (because we miss Creedle), and Sufjan Stevens’s “The Lord God Bird” (also highly recommended, but available for free from NPR).
Watching HD movie trailers at Apple’s recently re-designed Quicktime movie trailers site. Why settle for crappy, pixelated Real Player choppiness, when you can watch in Quicktime HD, pause the second Harry Potter trailer, and read the Daily Prophet?
Although we do question the need for an HD version of the Barnyard trailer. And are the genius animators at Nickelodeon aware that male cattle generally don’t have udders, floppy or otherwise? Or is Kevin James’s “Otis, a carefree party cow” supposed to be a transsexual? Just wondering.
Okay, so we hear this guy…
…may be tiring of having to say exciting lines like “The tribe has spoken” and “Survivors ready? Go!” 36-plus times a year. We know, we know, it’s a tough job, and like most actors, his true passion has always been directing. And we know, given that an “exciting new challenge” in your book is one that’s already been on the ten previous seasons, but this time is in a different country (or, for next season, at least has mostly different people). So we know you have trouble thinking outside the box, and coming up with creative, novel ideas.
With that in mind, we think you should consider the guy below as a potential Probst replacement. Here are a few reasons why:
- A Survivor host needs to be quick on his feet, and able to be articulate under the most trying of circumstances, to keep those Tribal Councils moving along. Ask anyone, you’ll find nobody better than the guy below at that.
- In order to empathize with the trying conditions in which the contestants find themselves, the host ought to have an implicit understanding of hard work, and making do in life with nothing but the barest essentials. Seems like a good match here!
So without further ado, here he is:
- Sure, he already has a job at the moment, but that will be done with, one way or another, in 3 years. Plus, taking 4 months off a year to film the show, plus making the various talk-show rounds and special appearances, shouldn’t be much of a problem.
- His wife has already appeared on a reality show. And as we all know, it’s not about your desire to be on this show, it’s about the people you know, or perhaps those your agent knows.
Most of all, who better to host a show that venerates lying and deception? Where the most successful are those that shield and promote their friends, then jettison them whenever it becomes expedient? Or perhaps ride the coattails of your friends while they shield you and backstab others?
We’re pretty sure he’ll come cheap.
“StepheME”… for the love of all that is good and holy, Please. Stop.
Yeah, it was clever the first time somebody used it. But now that every 13-year-old and their dog has taken to using it three or four times a post, it’s become not unlike having nails rammed through your eyelids, and being scraped bodily along a chalkboard, while listening to “Who Let the Dogs Out” on infinite repeat.
In the arms race of car commercials with indie pop/ electronic soundtracks, the new Civic ad would seem to have the edge. What’s next, Toyota pumping out The Faint as they pimp the new Prius?
Although it is amusing to watch Honda mix semi-hallucinatory, eco-themed visuals with a song ostensibly about nuclear holocaust. But as long as their checks to Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard don’t bounce, we guess that’s their problem.
