No words exist to describe the monstrosity that follows. Rest assured, the name of Kinect will never recover.
Scott Lewis takes on Lana Del Rey’s critics.
Despite taking over from Ashlee Simpson as provider of the worst Saturday Night Live performance ever, being the object of endless derision from HIPSTER RUNOFF and so many others (the Llama Del Rey meme) and receiving mixed reviews for her debut album, Born to Die is getting advertised during prime time and her songs are getting heavy rotation on commercial radio. This won’t come as a surprise to Lana herself; Born to Die’s lyrics guess at the bitter-sweet taste of fame that is coming her way and longs for it the harder. The Pitchfork review seen as the final nail in the coffin of Lana Del Rey’s indie career says of Born to Die:
“You’d be hard pressed to find any song on which Del Rey reveals an interiority or figures herself as anything more complex than an ice-cream-cone-licking object of male desire (a line in “Blue Jeans”, “I will love you till the end of time/ I would wait a million years,” sums up about 65% of the album’s lyrical content).”
So, as previously mentioned, Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day have teamed up to produce a web series called Tabletop. Each episode involves Wil and friends playing a different game while briefly explaining the rules. Episode one is all about Small World, a really fantastic game where you spread your minions across the land, conquering your neighbours and then letting them rot as soon as you weary of them.
Wil is joined by Sean Plott (DAY9TV host), Grant Imahara (host of Mythbusters) and Jenna Busch (writer of the Girl Meets Lightsaber blog).
It’s a great watch and hopefully the series will achieve its goal of bringing more people into the seedy world of board gaming. I won’t spoil the ending by telling you who won but rest assured it was a close one.
Earlier this year I received a disquieting text: 21 Jump Street was being made into a film. A film starring Channing ‘She’s The Man’ Tatum and Jonah ‘Superbad‘ Hill, the latter of whom had helped write the script. My disbelief turned to horror. My horror turned to silence. My silence turned to red, simmering rage.
The Titanic is not a new subject for film and television by a long way. Doctor Who has tackled it twice, the 1997 film took out a million billion Oscars, and no-one can stand over water without screaming ‘I’m the king of the world’.
Elizabeth Flux
H D Thompson
Mike Stuchbery
Adam vanLangenberg
SUBTERRANEAN DEATH CULT 