I MISS MY MTV 80′s FLASHBACK SOFT CELL- TAINTED LOVE If you were an 80’s band that covered a sixties hit, and wanted to make a video to you you’re newer, darker version of the song,–what’s the obvious route to go? A GrecoRoman/Victorian/Preppy theme of course! You’re going to want to just mash different time [...]
666 Park Avenue (ABC) I’ll be the first to admit that I’m easily pleased with the pilots of new series. It’s no secret that I enjoy watching TV. I watch it to help me relax and unwind at night. What’s difficult for new shows is keeping me as a viewer. I may like your pilot [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Best Friend’s Funeral Guilty Cocker Spaniels – Modest Mouse Nobody on the planet knows what this song is about, but there is a strange and euphoric comfort that I receive from this song. When my best friend dies, I will be upset. I will need a comfortable pile of gibberish to [...]
I MISS MY MTV The Walkmen-Heaven I really like this band. This song is a pretty good representation of why. The video reminds me of one of those images that is made up of a million smaller images. The smaller images chronicle the life and times of the band, where they are from, who has [...]
Revolution / The New Normal / Sons of Anarchy / plus music reality show changes. Revolution (NBC) When I first saw the trailer for this show months ago I practically died of excitement. This is the kind of sci-fi dystopian drama that I love. Fast forward a few months and I’ve been bombarded with all [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Anger Bang Poison and Wine – The Civil Wars The go-to reaction to ‘what song to pick for a hate fuck’ is something loud, aggresive and punk rock. However, nothing says I hate you like a song that realitically depicts a passive aggressive relationship going even more sour. The music is [...]
I MISS MY MTV HEADBANGER’S BALL Dethklok-Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle I know just as much about heavy metal as I do about building a Mars rover, but that doesn’t mean I won’t speak with an arrogant confidence on the subject. This may be a fake band from a cartoon, but it’s fully brutal. From [...]
T.V. Reviews Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC) I’m so excited to write about TLC’s new show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. This show has been blowing up on twitter and all over pop culture’s radar. It’s trending, friends are tweeting about it. It’s a phenomenon. It recently made news for beating out the RNC [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE Exercising Hungover Lua – Bright Eyes For me, exercising is not an activity that exists but, unfortunately hangovers do. Now I understand that exercising requires strenuous movements of the body, which is the last thing I would ever want to do, and certainly not something I would do hungover. That said, [...]
I MISS MY MTV Everybody Talks – Neon Trees This song is fucking rad, this video is cool as fuck and I’ll be goddamned if I didn’t have a good time enjoying both simultaneously. This video captures the fun and excitement that MTv used to portray on an hourly basis. The cinematic shooting of the [...]
Who should win: I’m coming off of this high from the Olympics feeling all patriotic and shit. And being the great American that I am I’m going to just give my opinions without anyone asking for them (or possibly even wanting to know them). And again being the great American that I am, I don’t [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE THE BITCH/BASTARD LIED TO YOU! Tiny Vessels – Death Cab for Cutie This song is tricky. If that bitch lied (presumably about not fucking someone else), I would like her to know that I haven’t loved her for a really long time. Listening to this song, I think she would get [...]
TRAILER TRASH In which we review movies based on only the previews with 100% accuracy. Hope Springs Think of this movie as a romantic comedy about old people getting sex counseling. Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones star in this movie about a couple who has lost that spark in their relationship. So Meryl’s character [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE FOR WALLOWING IN SELF-LOATHING I Better Be Quiet Now – Elliott Smith There has never been a song that is more perfect for hating yourself than this song. It is full of a sentiment of things left unsaid, unfortunate things that were said and having to deal with the consequences of [...]
I MISS MY MTV TAKE A WALK – PASSION PIT What if you could see the world throught the eyes of the bounciest ball of all time? What if that world was full of CGI clouds and real footage of city streets? What if that view was accompanied by some rad fucking music? What if [...]
Breaking Bad (AMC) So far just two episodes have aired of AMC’s Breaking Bad and it’s still fantastic. It’s probably the best show on T.V. Yeah fuck you Mad Men. This show is better. And don’t fret. Jesse Pinkman’s catch phrase ‘Bitch’ is still around. Episode 1 starts after the death of Gus Fring when [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE STRANDED ON A LIFEBOAT Goodbye Sky Harbor – Jimmy Eat World This song was chosen for one reason and one reason only: it is 16 minutes long. I have never actually had the patience to sit through the whole thing but with a 16 minute song, something new and interesting will [...]
I MISS MY MTV 80′S FLASHBACK! MICHAEL JACKSON – BEAT IT To this day, I have no fucking idea what is going on in this video. I think two rival gangs are assembling in the city but people are coming out of the sewer and joining when they walk by an alleyway all willy nilly. If [...]
Perception (TNT) Pilot. Perception is your pretty basic crime solver show. You take an unexpected character with strange attributes (In this Case Eric McCormick with Schizophrenia) and pair them with a real cop (Rachel Lee Cook) and they solve crimes. Neither of the two seemed to have aged much considering they’ve been off of the [...]
THE POP FILTER MIXTAPE AMERICA- FUCK YEAH! 99 Problems – Danger Mouse This song is AMERICA! A DJ (Danger Mouse) took some of the best work of people that are more talented than he is (The Beatles and Jay-Z) and made something artistic out of it. This song encapsulates the American spirit of making pre-existing [...]
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