In honor of the end of the passing of another year, I will join the ranks of internet lists everywhere for a year end round up. The internet, although good for lolcats and checking to see if your friends have changed their status to single, but occasionally there is something on the internet that will [...]
I become irritated when people dismiss twitter as “a lot of noise” and people posting what they had for lunch. Sure, people do that, but it’s an ignorant view. Follow the right people and twitter becomes this amazing, real-time, capture of the exact zeitgeist of our time. Sure, it’s difficult to have a decent, respectable [...]
We’re not ones to get political about things here, but part of the fun of an election is that election is just another word for contest. And what’s the most important thing about a contest? Gloating over the win. Thanks to the wonders that is our internet, we can seek out those people who lose [...]
It’s times like these that prove that the internet/social media is not just for cute kitten videos and talking about your lunch. During Hurricane Sandy’s treacherous run over the Northeast, I was glued to my computer with updates and photographs posted right in the moment. Lucky for me, I was sitting comfy in my home [...]
The big news of the internet is obviously Gawker v. Reddit, in which Gawker writer Adrian Chen outed one of the biggest “curators” of questionable content on Reddit, including Jailbait (posting pictures of underage girls) and Creepshots (users submit pictures of unsuspecting w0men in public for the purpose of sexual gratification), among others. What [...]
We here at Yourpopfilter.com risk lives and limbs to bring you the latest and greatest from the worlds of film, music, television, (sometimes) books, and video games, but, thanks to Al Gore, today’s world of pop culture now has a sixth dimension: The Internet. The World Wide Web. The Net. Or, in my case, my [...]
In a 2005 review of the dreadful Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”, and hence, there was a beautiful succint term to describe so many cliches. Rabin describes the MPDG as existing “solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its [...]
Last week was a rollercoaster of emotions for comedy fans, when it was announced that 30 Rock, Community, and possibly Parks and Recreation would have abbreviated, final seasons. Since, then, Parks and Rec now has a full season five order, but who knows what the peacock Channel has in store. It’s always a painful experience [...]
I MISS MY MTV 80′S FLASHBACK! DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS – COME ON EILEEN Fiddle? Check. Stock footage from the past? Check. Banjo? Check. Overalls? Check. This video was the 80′s in the best and worst way possible. The style, fashion and mentality of this video all make me want to crap barf. However, AND THIS [...]
Pop culture, we sometimes have a stormy relationship. I really do love you; you are actually my reason for living.However, like all great loves, we have our differences. Lately there are some things that have really been irking me. Sit down, some of these may be hard to hear. Gripe #1 I’m tired of people [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE SASQUATCH HUNTING Gobbledigook – Sigur Ros In addition to being a beautiful song with a strangely driving beat, you get that creepy little ‘la la la’ piercing your brain every now and again. This will serve as a reminder that you are crazy and that all of your friends are crazy. [...]
This week was the premier of 2 Broke Girls/Happy Ending hybrid with a title too racy to spell out, Don’t Trust the B— in Apt 23. Starring the fresh-faced Dreama Walker (Dreama? Really?) and the gorgeous, talented and luminous Krysten Ritter. Whereas I think this was supposed to be a dark comedy, let’s face it, [...]
My previous post on un-appealing fictional men seemed to cause some discussion, so why not find a few more ovary-shrivelers? Jim Halpert, The Office Once upon a time in the early seasons, Jim Halpert was cute, smart, and helplessly in love with his best friend Pam. We were all rooting for her to break up [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE TOXIC WASTE POOL PARTY Main Theme – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Now I have forgotten exactly why we are having a toxic waste pool party, but the fact remains that we are here and splashing around in some shit that we shouldn’t. If we don’t end up with lymphoma or some [...]
THE POP FILTER TOP TEN META MOVIES 10. AIRPLANE Aside from being perhaps the best comedy of all time, Airplane! is a “meta” masterpiece. A nun, reading an actual ‘Boys Life’ magazine is followed by a boy reading a fictional ‘Nuns Life’ magazine. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a basketball player in real life, plays the co-pilot, who [...]
I MISS MY MTV SKRILLEX- BANGARANG Skrillex is here, and here to stay at least for the time being. There’s no denying that. Even if he fades into obscurity, he’s brought dub step to the minds of the general population with all of it’s controlled chaos, dissonant robotic sounds and aggressive rhythms. Even with that [...]
I get a crush on a fictional character practically every time I turn on the tv or watch a movie (Ben Wyatt, call me!). There are some, however, that just have such negative appeal that make me physically cringe from repulsion. This is not about their physical attractiveness, because as we all know, actors are [...]
Look, let’s leave Lindsay Lohan alone. Many people are saying that her hosting stint on Saturday Night Live this weekend was one of the worst ever. I mean, really? The worst? Have you seen the January Jones episode? For some reason, I’ve felt really defensive about Lindsay. I mean, I’m not in full Chris Crocker [...]
We need another social media site like we need a hole in the head. I’m baffled by the insane growing popularity of Pinterest. For those not up on your social media, Pinterest allows users to create “pinboards” based on categories like “books I love”, “My Style”, “Favorite Products” and any other categories the user wants. [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE FOR SITTING COMPLETELY ALONE Little Smoke – This Will Destroy You Sometimes, you want to be sitting completely alone: you get frustrated with the world around you and all of the idiots that you have to take on and you just need some fucking alone time. Other times, however, you find [...]
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