The Modern Age

YouTube - Billy Idol - Start It Up (Ikea)
Billy idol raps in this amazing 2001 Ikea Commercial. Wtf?

The Strokes‘ annual Christmas picture:

So as you might have noticed, for the last few months I’ve been Captain Super Boring, rarely going out to see *gasp* concerts and even less frequently going to dance/club nights of my friends. On one hand that makes me feel like a bad person, on the other hand I am an old lady and [...]

Insider’s Guide To New York City : Condé Nast Traveler on Concierge.com
Behind the scenes story of Naomi Watt’s daring pose on a gargoyle on top of the Chrystler Building
(tags: nyc magazines photography)

Hotel Fox, Copenhagen
The 61 rooms are like mini installations: Tinkp Eepe (#116) is painted with vaguely suggestive pink clouds with tongues and wings; Two [...]

YouTube - I’m From Rolling Stone Trailer
The trailer for the new MTV reality show I’m From Rolling Stone, where six contestants fight for a job with the world’s biggest music magazine. Link from Golden Fiddle.
(tags: rollingstone youtube video)

Tesla - the missing secrets of Nikola Tesla - Google Video
Jack White would love this: Documentary phenomenon the [...]

Did you see it? Oh. Holy. Crap.
Discuss. Were your suspicions about some of the characters correct? What did you get wrong? What is going to happen next season!?!?
DO NOT READ ON IF YOU DON’T LIKE SPOILERS OR HAVE NOT WATCHED DEXTER SEASON ONE YET.
Unless you’re a nosy little bum…

Everyone knows I love The Cinematics AND I love Beck, so you can imagine how overjoyed I was to hear this cover of Scotland’s own Cinematics covering Becks’ “Sunday Sun”, which is featured on the ‘Matics “Break” EP.

DOWNLOAD: “Sunday Sun” by The Cinematics
The band’s debut full-length A Strange Education is due in late-February, with a [...]

I had never heard of Coleco Vision until today, but apparently it was all the rage in the early ’80s. Relive the magic, even if you tripped over your neighbor’s Coleco Vision cord and broke it and then the mean neighbor mom made you give your new Coleco Vision set to your neighbor since you [...]

Last month I watched Will Smith complete a Rubik’s Cube on Oprah (he learned how to do it for his role in The Pursuit of Happyness), and now I saw this video of beloved movie/video director Michel Gondry solving a Rubik’s Cube…WITH HIS FEET! Although if you look carefully you can see that he is [...]

Holy crap! I was in the magazine shop today and they had Fox News on their televisions. All I heard were the words “celebrity blogger” and “sued” and my ears perked up and when I looked up at the screen I saw a giant picture of Mario (aka Perez Hilton) staring back at me.
“Celebrity photo” [...]