Quick Hits
May 19th, 2008 by Kawehi HaugGood morning! It’s Monday. Respond accordingly. Here are today’s hits:
•Here’s a list of the worst movie-inspired video games.
•Lou Reed has been given his own satellite radio show.
•Variety reviewed Sex and the City and it isn’t very positive.
•IGN.com’s Todd Gilchrist ranks the new Indie Jones flick as the third best in the franchise.
•NPR examines the support and criticism of a new Martin Luther King statue that some say makes the civil rights leader look “confrontational.”
•Paulo Coelho’s best-selling book The Alchemist will be made into a movie.
•Apparently the Mario Brothers are still big in Russia.
•Here’s a cool Flickr gallery of vintage classical album cover graphics.
•George Clooney has been cast in a film, Men Who Stare at Goats, based on a an alleged US Army unit that was to use telepathic methods to kill goats.
•Vice magazine is using super-secret advertising techniques.
•Angelina Jolie is a pet killer. (Isn’t that one of the symptoms of serial killer-type psychosis?)
•If you missed it, here’s a video of Steve Carrell’s Saturday Night Live skit about the Japanese version of The Office:
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May 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Haha love that clip! Speaking of those album covers, have you seen this website?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sleeveface/
May 19th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
your quick hits are better than anything i could possibly consume from the internet ever.
in one nice easy to pick through list.
so well done.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
LOVE the Super Mario Brothers car. LoveLoveLove it. I want it. On my bright green German Fiat.