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EPIC

Just posted this on Facebook, but a video this epic needs multiple venues. What follows is clips of the season finale of SMALLVILLE where Clark finally wore the Superman costume...

...and one fan's reaction. I don't even care that it's 95% likely to be fake.

This was kinda rad

http://www.hulu.com/the-confession

Web series of 10 episodes, about 6 minutes each. It wasn't amazing, but I enjoyed it. I think the short format was part of the experience though. I might actually suggest you DON'T sit and watch it all together. For those worried that it's some sort of religious thingie... it ain't.

So, Uh... My So Called Life

Is actually legitimately good, or at least the opening episode was.



I watched the opening episode from netflix streaming on a lark (and because I remember when it was on, my 16 year old self really wanting to fuck Angela and Rayanne silly) and really liked the first episode. The entire series is 19 episodes and available on netflix streaming. I liked it so much that I did an imdb search from my phone while I was watching it.

It shares writers with:

The Wonder Years
Thirtysomething
Friday Night Lights

It shares directors with:

Friday Night Lights
Veronica Mars
Breaking Bad
Lone Star
Californication
The Shield
Thirtysomething
The West Wing
Malcolm in the Middle

I thought it was pretty rad

not like uber rad, but still pretty rad. Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Jason Clarke (Brotherhood), Delroy Lindo (Kidnapped) are all names that make me wanna be excited and hope for a move up from pretty to uber though

aaaaand it's on hulu, so there's actually a chance I'll watch it




On a side note, Red Shoe Diaries is also on hulu now. If you wanna see some soft core skinimax as narrated/introduced by Agent Mulder, now ya can!

It's Up!!



Finally, the official trailer for The Walking Dead. Looks pretty great.

Hey Randy

This is the song we were talking about the other day from that particular scene on Breaking Bad that involves the foil balloons. I was mentioning that the band is actually Brazilian, and we talked about how that was probably intentional?

Well anyways, here's the song/video. The band uses A LOT of native tribal influences, especially when it comes to the percussion. This song in particular is hugely native tribal percussion in it's structure and arrangement. I know you're not one for the metal, but I really do suggest you listen to the first full minute before giving up on it.

Also, the video is all stop motion puppetry by the same chick that won a ton of awards doing stop motion puppetry videos for Tool. It's a super cool video even if you don't dig on the music, and you oughta at least watch it even if you have to mute the music :P

(as a bonus, there's a giant skull with a tongue made out of a creepy baby head bouquet at 2:50)

Sepultura: Ratamahatta
(if you hover over the vid while playing, you can downgrade from HD to SD if that helps on slower computers)

Old school D&D commercial

It's awesomely cheesy, but I imagine if I'd watched it as a kid it would have looked like the coolest thing I'd ever seen.

Walking Dead - San Diego Comic Con Trailer

It's a little grainy, but it's certainly watchable.  Looks good to me.

New Conspiracy Show on AMC

Rubicon was previewed after the finale of Breaking Bad Season 3, and I just got around to watching it. It's slow-paced, has a '70s conspiracy feel to it, and seemed like the kind of things some folks here (especially Dave and D3) might dig. Check it out if you're so inclined, the first episode is streaming on AMC's website. Show starts in August.

LONESOME DOVE

Alright, western movie suggestion to all my peeps playin' Red Dead Redemption: famed miniseries Lonesome Dove. I just watched it for the first time recently and it was so good it immediately jumped up there with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Tombstone and Deadwood among my favorite westerns. It's tough as nails and it's got the best characters ever.

Foremost among them, Robert Duvall as Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae. Let's watch a nice sleazy scene where Gus - a horny old scoundrel with a sly wit - tries to get a "poke" with the town whore:



I just bought the miniseries, so anyone wants to borrow it, shout.

Yes. Oh so very yes

So this is getting detailed at the I/O conference right now. Do Freaking Want.



In related news, current estimates put the date at which Google becomes SkyNet at about 7 years from now.

Lost: The 14 Casting Tapes That Started It All



io9 article with all the videos here. My favorite? Emerson (Ben) as Hurley is awesomely hilarious. Honorable mentions - Garcia (Hurley) as Sawyer is freakishly credible and Monaghan (Charlie) actually woulda made a decent Sawyer.

Josh Holloway Auditioning For Sawyer
Matthew Fox Auditioning For Sawyer
Dominic Monaghan Auditioning For Sawyer
Jorge Garcia Auditioning For Sawyer Too!
Evangeline Lilly Auditioning For Kate with J.J. Abrams Giving Notes
Naveen Andrews Auditioning For Sayid
Daniel Dae Kim Auditioning For Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim Kim Auditioning For Kate
Emile de Ravin Auditioning For Claire
Harold Perrineau Auditioning For Michael
Malcolm David Kelley Auditioning For Walt
Maggie Grace Auditioning For Shannon
Ian Somerhalder Auditioning For Boone
Michael Emerson Auditioning For Hurley