And if possible, I love them more. 

Discuss amongst yourselves. 

You didn’t know you needed this, but now you know that your life was incomplete without it.

Ugh. You tried way too hard guys. Too hard. 

It could have been 5 minutes of Blue Ivy rolling around on the floor and I would have liked it better. 

From a tweet from M. Night himself:

“I don’t want to let go of either form. Maybe the tag line should be, “If you loved Tree of LIfe and Jurassic Park, you’ll love After Earth.”

What? No. That’s not a thing. If it’s a movie about dinosaurs, it’s a movie about dinosaurs. If it’s an existential acid trip of a film, then it’s an existential acid trip of a film. IT’S NOT BOTH. 

And who does he think is, comparing his shit to Jurassic Park? NO. You haven’t made anything decent in the last 10 years. 

ALSO. Will and Jaden Smith? You’ve got be kidding me. If you hadn’t lost me at Jurassic Park meets Tree of Life, then you most definitely lost me at casting those two asshats.

NO. Bad M. Night. Bad. 

I *want* to want to see this. But I don’t. I might, if only to see Anne Hathaway looking miserable for 2 hours. 

I know I’m super late on posting this, but it won’t even matter once you watch. I am now a weeping mess. The creativity and thought put into this proposal is astounding. 

Yes yes yes. 

It’s so close now, dear fangbangers. So close. 

John Mayer is all grown up. 

John Mayer’s latest album, Born and Raised, is a glorious work of art. After several years out of sight after acting a like fool all around town, Mayer is back and better than ever with a strong collection of beautiful songs. 

Mayer has always walked that fine line between jazz/blues/pop beautifully, and with his latest, he’s managed to add in a whole new layer of country/old school twang to those already existing notes. And the end result is fantastic. 

Born and Raised has your typical Mayer tracks: radio-friendly pop tunes, heartfelt ballads, and sprinkles of aching truth all throughout. But there’s something starkly different with B & R. Gone are the songs about broken relationships and struggling love.  Instead, Mayer languishes on about growing pains, life dreams, bad decisions, and the legacy that one might leave behind. It’s instantly obvious that Mayer has grown up over the last few years, and so has his music. 

While his previous album, Battle Studies, was nice and very classically Mayer, it wasn’t his best album of late. I’d save that honor to Continuum, which I believe is one of the strongest pop albums of the last decade. But with B & R, he has managed to evolve his sound into something that’s just new enough, but still absolutely familiar—which isn’t always an easy feat. 

The melodies on Born and Raised are beautifully weaved together to create a bluesy/country/folksy/but still pop/jazzy sound that is hauntingly catchy. His trademark exquisite guitar riffs are still present, with the addition of some Neil Young-like inspiration.

One of my favorite tunes is “The Age of Worry.” Just like so many of his other tracks, the base melody for this track is just divine. It’s got more of that epic country twang, almost even a little gospel sounding. It’s different, but still so familiar. Again, proving that Mayer hasn’t changed everything he is as a musician, but has made the necessary (and successful) transition to a hybrid of new and old sounds that works on every level. 

The title track, “Born and Raised,” is a fantastic number. It’s the perfect example of his new blended sound, and the lyrics dive deeper into Mayer’s recent personality-shift, as he coos “Then all at once, it gets hard to take/it gets hard to fake what I won’t be/’Cause one of these days I’ll be born and raised/and it’s such a waste to grow up lonely.”  It’s an aching notion, and one that is present over most of the record. 

Another one of my absolute favorites is the strikingly honest “Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey.” This is such a devastatingly pretty song, both in lyrical transparency into Mayer’s own life, and the harmonies themselves. He laments about the time in his life when he was seemingly lost, wandering, out of control. It’s a wonderful, wonderful track. 

One of the last tracks on the album packs quite a punch as well, “A Face to Call Home.” This is one of the tracks from B & R that reminds me so much of the lovesongs from Continuum. It’s a soft love story, but it’s a grown up one. It’s not about lust or a broken heart, it’s about the future and growing older together, putting down roots. It’s about the wonderful life one can have with the one they love. It’s just so incredibly lovely, and this exemplifies the mature tone Mayer has managed to conquer with this album. 

The whole album is really quite amazing, and the best work he’s done in quite some time. His maturity and musical evolution is present on every track, in every note, with every word. It’s a fabulous listen. And if this is the direction in which he is headed from now on, count me in. 

Pre-order the poster here! 

(via Buzzfeed)

I mean. How do they always have the best parodies? They’re INCREDIBLE. Great quality, great commitment from the actors, great jokes. Fallon’s always had a knack for absolutely nailing parodies and original sketches that poke fun at current pop culture trends, but this is even better than I could have ever imagined. And here I was, thinking the best parodies were Late and 6-bee! (Don’t get me wrong, those are incredibly top notch as well. I mean just top fucking notch.) 

My favorite is Lady Hedith. Obviously. 

This is incredible. This is a 1 minute stop-motion video, created using only stock photography from Getty Images. It tells the “story of life” in 873 images. It took 6 months to research and animate. 

If you’re wondering whhhaaattt??

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH BECAUSE GARY OLDMAN CAN DO WHATEVER THE HELL HE WANTS. 

Even this. 

Via I Watch Stuff: “

Oldman will reportedlyplay Norton, “who creates Robocop and finds himself torn between the ideals of the machine trying to rediscover its humanity and the callous needs of a corporation.”

WHATEVER HE WANTS, I SAID. 

I know a lot of people think this looks absolutely ridiculous. I’m hoping that’s just naysayers who haven’t read the book. Because the book is FANTASTIC. 

The first trailer that came out a while back was great enough, but this red band trailer shows even more (awesomely) gratuitous axing and beheading—just my kind of trailer.

Take a look for yourself and just admit it: you’re definitely going to see this one.  

Yes, this is different that the bootleg one that I posted a week or so back. This one is for real, and still hilarious. I really cannot wait for this sequel; just seeing the gang all back in action, I can barely contain my excitement. Here’s hoping they will capture that lolz magic one more time.