putting the j in jjosh

I'm sure that somewhere there's a way to make MIA's Paper Planes sound lame, but this is not it. Onion AV is doing this thing where they have bands cover new and old classics, and this is The Clientele rocking MIA. The violins and everything…it's so good… The Clientele covers M.I.A.

from Slate:

“But asking whether the “Iron Man” franchise has jumped the shark is meaningless. It is the shark. That question, indeed, assumes the existence of something in the universe that is non-shark. Robert Downey Jr. has stared the shark in its abyssal eyes until it flinched, blown pot smoke up its horny nostrils and kneed it in the ‘nads. Now he’s back onstage with the dancing hotties.”

whoa.

[from dvblog]

photo retouch by artist in union square…

from the Bear Party

Joseph Gordon Levitt, aka the kid from 3rd Rock From the Sun, aka the main guy from Brick, aka by all accounts a pretty awesome guy, turned his camera on the paparazzi and made this short film. It's pretty entertaining…

[from the pretty great DVblog]