In case you've ever wondered what the lyrics to Pearl Jam's - Yellow Ledbetter are, here you go:

Back before the internets ruined everything

Remember when you went to the News Center and labored over the music magazines to find that one that had 2 sentences under a tiny picture about a band you loved? You bought it and proceeded to cut it up and hang every little piece of paper having anything to do with them all over your room. You listened to that old tape over and over again while working tediously on finding every little caption you could, covering your notebook, folders, and dividers.

When you walked into the aisle and saw the band's name was on the cover of another magazine, you got so excited you couldn't wait to flip through and find what was the single paragraph about their tour that wasn't even coming near you, but that didn't stop you from reading it 3 times.

You know what? I really miss the days of sitting with my the radio in the afternoon when the DJ announced that they would be playing that new song from the upcoming album with my finger on the record button so I didn't miss even the first note. The excitement of what the album was going to be like when I got it, watching the clock at school all day waiting to get out so I could go to the record store on release day, and how I played it to death once I did. I miss my old boom box, back when I actually - yes I'm going to admit to owning and wearing - band t shirts.

I miss being that excited over the potential of new music.

- Kali

First of all, I'll get this out of the way. Fuck every single one of those critics who bashed "Speed Racer" which was almost every single one. I don't recommend the movie for everyone to see but if you were a fan of the cartoon, then I think you should be pleased. Plot-more than the show at times. The special effects may be candy-coated over the top eye-popping but so was the cartoon (for the time it came out). It's supposed to look like a cartoon world, that's what they were trying to achieve. All of the actors did very well, except Susan Saran-wrap. But I think the worst part was the re-vamped theme song, so it gets my vote of approval. Now onto the rest of the summer....

MAY 2ND
Iron Man - Saw this opening night, and will probably see it again. It's a very comic accurate movie with great actors throughout the whole movie, and stay till the very end (you know post credits) cos you get an extra scene with a surprise guest. If only he had the line, "Tony, help me get these motherfucking snakes off my motherfucking heli-carrier."

Made Of Honor - This is one of those reasons the movie business is going down the drain. The same old sentimental drip they have to spoon feed you.

MAY 9TH
Speed Racer - SEE ABOVE!

What Happens In Vegas - $5 for anyone who can find
something not annoying about this

What Happens In Vegas - Didn't they already make "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days"? Sure this time it's six months but just means more bad jokes to sit through.

MAY 16TH
Prince Caspian - The first "Chronicles of Narnia" did pretty well, and these are the books I read alot growing up so I'm hoping this one does just as good. The trailers indicate a lot more action than the first movie had, but the same thing occurred with the second "Lord of the Rings" and that was my least favorite.

Son Of Rambow - Two little British boys making their own Rambo movie. Guaranteed their version is better that the last one Stallone just put out.

MAY 23RD
Indiana Jones and TKOTCS - A very big toss up on this one. Trailers seem to be promising but did they have to include that kid from Transformers? And also can a 60 something man still crack his whip like that? Try the latest drug: Whipgra....don't have that same crack in your whip that you had when you were young? Try new Whipgra, and you'll be whipping commies like you used to. Warning: if still whipping after four hours, please seek medical attention.

Postal - Uwe Boll strikes again, nuff said. Shouldn't he be bankrupt by now?

MAY 30TH
The Fall, The Strangers, and Sex In The City - Not looking forward to any of these. Lucky my weekend here is crammed full of more interesting stuff to do than watch Scott Speedman stumble through another shitty performance (even if Liv Tyler is in it, I fell for it once when he tried the same with Kate Beckinsale in "Underworld") and yet another adapt from tv movie. When's the Sopranoes movie? Oh shit, giving them ideas.

JUNE 6TH
You Don't Mess With Zohan - Award goes to worst concept for a movie. Terrorist becomes hair stylist??? Whatever they were smoking, I'd like to have some. Maybe it came from the set of "The Wackness" (SEE PART 2 OF PREVIEWS).

Kung Fu Panda - Typical animated movie from Dreamworks. Draw in the big names and pretty colors to get the kids coming. Luckily I still consider myself a kid and will probably get sucked into this as well.

Stuck - I remember when this story was in the news. Woman hits guy, guy becomes embedded in windshield, girl drives home and passes out drunk. Just to avoid getting in trouble. Ah I love the stupid people in America, and there's plenty to go around. Enough to keep making movies about them.

Screenshot from the new Incredible Hulk movie

JUNE 13TH
The Incredible Hulk - Hoping this does prove to be "incredible". After the ultimate stinker of a first movie (I'd think I'd rather watch the original Punisher movie with
Dolph Lundgren), this should be a mass improvement. The Hulk looks better, and a real villian this time. Leave your oversized dogs and fathers with powers very similar to
Absorbing Man at the door please.

The Promotion - "Employee of the Month" wasn't that long ago so why a remake already?

The Happening - M. Night goes on and on and on and on. *Banging head on desk right now*

JUNE 20TH
The Love Guru - Austin Powers is back...as a Hindu guru. He even brought Mini-Me with him. Should be interesting, yes.

Get Smart - Another made from tv movie but one I'm more interested in. I remember when they first mentioned doing this movie, and my boss asked me who would make a good
Maxwell Smart. I said Steve Carell, and boom it happened. I have yet to see any shoe phone use in the trailers but I'm excited. Can't be worse than the original movies they made, no offense to the late Don Adams.

JUNE 27TH
Wall-E - Another kid fest with amazing animation. But being mostly non-verbal, will it hold people's attention?

Wanted - Mark Millar is a genius comic writer so hopefully it will translate well again onto film. However a secret society of assassins with Angelina Jolie, the same actress from "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", talk about typecasting.

JULY 2ND
Hancock - Will Smith, super hero, and they pick this for their 4th of July weekend release?

JULY 11TH
Hellboy 2 - I enjoyed the first one despite it not being a big hit. It's nice to see a non-Marvel or DC comic making it at the movies. They create nice plot lines and very different characters to work with, and what else would you see this weekend?

Meet Dave - Is Eddie Murphy still funny? Give me Charlie Murphy any day.

Journey To The Center of the Earth 3D - I just saw this trailer two days ago, and cried. How far does this former comedian have to go? Oh wait, there's another Mummy movie coming soon (ALSO SEE PART 2 OF PREVIEW).

JULY 18TH
The Dark Knight - Ah, my most anticipated movie. And that was long before Heath Ledger's death. I knew he was going to pull off the dark vision of the Joker that Jack Nicholson camped up in the original version. Don't get me wrong, he was great ("Where does he get those wonderful toys?") but I need the insane darkness of the man who killed the second Robin. A complete psychopath, and Harvey Dent on top of it. Nice foreshadowing on his bit with the line, "Some of us die as heroes, and others live long enough to see ourselves become villians".

There's no way Mamma Mia could possibly live up to the awesomeness
of this Abba photo circa 1970

Mamma Mia! - ABBA on the big screen and while the band is actually on tour (I think...). With the success of "Hairspray" last year, this one might just pull it off as well but opening against Batman will be really tough to get through.

And so concludes the first part of my summer movie preview, stay tuned for part 2 when I tear my way through The Wackness, Pineapple Express, Mummy 3, Hamlet 2, Star Wars, and many more.

~StEvO

Many people don't know what anime is, or they think it is like cartoons that only kids watch. But in fact anime is a genre just like any other form of entertainment, which can express a wide range of emotions and appeal to any demographic. There is anime for kids, like the Pokemon shows that most of the U.S. thinks of when they hear anime, but then there are also anime series that are mature in their themes and sophisticated in terms of artwork, storytelling, and complexity.

Shows like "Serial Experiments Lain," only released officially in Japan but available subtitled by fans on the internet, explores the darker side of the human psyche and studies the influences of cyberpunk and internet influences on modern urban life. Series like Death Note, which has been dubbed and is actually growing in popularity in the U.S., examine the ideas of justice, ego, and obsession in a fast-paced mystery-suspense detective show.

Serial Experiments Lain is one of many anime
series that appeal to more than just kids

So if you've never watched any quality anime before (and no Dragonball Z and Pokemon do not count), you should give it a try; you might find something that's entertaining and makes you think about the world in a new way. You can read some anime reviews about action shows, drama/soap opera shows, even cooking shows, to find something that sounds interesting. Give it a try!

- Susie Q

Ever since the first Music Video Time Machine post, I've been searching through crazy places in my brain looking for something really good to post myself. Well, I finally found something:



I had this song on an old Maxell tape that someone made for me when it was first being played on the radio. I never had a clue who released this song, nor did I care - I was like 11. But after re-discovering the song for this post I looked into it. It's by a group called Smart E's. After seeing that promotional video and listening to the song again, I'm not sure why looking into who did it even occurred to me.

- Krissy

Kids In the Hall (L to R): Kevin McDonald, Mark
McKinney, Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Bruce
McCulloch

You spend the summer after you graduate high school doing certain things. You party, you work some crappy summer job, you get ready for college, and, um…you party. Except for me. I had my wisdom teeth out two weeks after I graduated and promptly become so sick from the medication that I spent most of the remaining summer months in bed.

But if one good thing could be gleaned from this misery, it was that this was the summer that I discovered Kids in the Hall. Re-runs of the Canadian sketch comedy show used to air at 2:00pm every day on Comedy Central, and with nothing to do but watch, I managed to see nearly every episode. I fell in love with the Kids irreverent humor and never understood why they didn’t receive more attention in the States, given that their envelope-pushing skits were leaps and bounds ahead of anything else airing at the time.

I don't know, the one in the front's kinda cute

Kids in the Hall might have been best known for their cross-dressing – which resulted mostly from the fact that they had no women in the troupe – but, while Dave Foley did look pretty hot in a dress back in the day, the real magic of KITH was their ability to create sketches that took everyday life to its most absurd conclusions. Kids in the Hall sketches often began with some base in reality, even if they ended as far from it as possible. There was nothing they were afraid to touch and no part of existence that wasn’t ripe for comedy.

Needless to say, I was thrilled to finally get the chance to see the comedy troupe live when the “Live As We’ll Ever Be” tour made its way to the Warner Theatre in DC this past Saturday night. I’m happy to report that 14 years after airing their last original episode, the Kids have still got it; they’re just as funny, smart and raw as ever.

Many of the classic characters were present – Cathy and Kathie, Buddy Cole, The Chicken Lady, and everybody’s favorite head crusher were all in attendance. But it was also great to see that they’re still more than capable of creating original sketches (there was a skit about just how much men love their cars that really had to be seen to be believed). If they produce a live DVD from this tour, I can recommend without hesitation that you pick it up. In fact, if you don’t, I’m sending the Chicken Lady after you.

- Amirah

The classic Head Crusher vs. Face Pincher skit:

Eiffel 65: I heard the guy third from the
left did all the work.

You know you remember every one of them!

La Bouche
Nikki French
Real McCoy
Cici Peniston
Alice DeeJay
Eiffel 65
Sonique

And I bet you danced a little too.

- Kali


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The Roots saw the future of rap video

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Sure it's a cliché, but sometimes it happens to be true. And oh my, did I ever find truth in that cliché while watching the Yo! MTV Raps marathon that's been running on digital channel MTV Jamz for the past few weeks. Thank Baby D's "I'm Bout Money" clip for providing this revelation. Now, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about this video. It's every cash, hos, bling clip you've ever seen. But what I do find remarkable is that I remember The Roots parodying this exact video -- 12 years ago. "What They Do" was a perfect send-up of mid-90s rap video excess. There's something sad about the fact that it's still just as relevant over a decade later.

- Amirah

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The Roots - What They Do

They like to party

Who could forget the Vengaboys? Many of us tried and failed, especially when Six Flags resurrected "Who Likes To Party" for their own commercial purposes. Or if you ever saw the fateful karaoke of "Boom Boom Boom Boom" that Art Brut posted online, enough said. But go onto YouTube and type in their name, and sure enough over 1000 results show up from Asian guys singing in their cars to the "two girls in a bedroom singing" skit to even the Simpsons dancing to it (20th Century Fox has removed this clip now). Now relive the good old days of the Vengaboys; just promise me to still avoid Aqua.

- StEvO

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Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom Boom


Vengaboys - Who Likes To Party


Vengaboys - Up & Down