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Pop Candy Arcade
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Pop Cultural Ramblings From One Deeply Superficial Person. Love, Wilde.Dash
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RIP: Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston was found dead last night in her suite at the Beverly Hilton. She was 48-years old.  While the cause of death, at the time of writing, is still unknown, and were all familiar wit...

12 feb 12

Seen & Heard: St. Vincent, "Cheerleader& #34;

It made my list of favorite songs for last year and now St. Vincents "Cheerleader" has been given a lovely, rather surreal official video in which Annie Clark becomes a living work of art. &n...

08 feb 12

Novelty Treats: "Video Games" meets "Hunger Games"

...and we all win.  Second Citys Holly Laurent has mashed-up Lana Del Rey and your new favorite YA series in a way we all should have seen coming.  This would be notable for the line "I...

08 feb 12

Seen & Heard: Die Antwoord, "I Fink U Freeky"

The problem with Die Antwoord is that the moment I hear one of their songs it becomes trapped in my head for days running on a loop of sounds and accents and rolling verses and Vi$$ers (thats her abo...

05 feb 12

Seen & Heard: M.I.A.

WHAT WAS MISSING FROM YOUR FRIDAY NIGHT?  WAS IT M.I.A.?  YES. IT WAS.  PROBLEM SOLVED. YOURE WELCOME.  THATS MY OPINION ON THIS RIGHT NOW.

04 feb 12

Seen & Heard: Madonna, "Give Me All Your Luvin"

Hey Sportsfans. The Super Bowl is this weekend. Thats a thing thats happening.  On Monday, people will be talking about things like "plays" and "did you see that one dude do that one...

03 feb 12

Review: Haywire

Between Haywire and Steven Soderberghs last film, Contagion, one could posit that the director is very much in a period of genre exploration.  To an extent, hes always been this w...

31 jan 12

Award Season: Golden Globe Winners

During the Golden Globes I was all over the Twitter tweeting the usual inane reactions to the disappointing wins and celebrity back patting.  Is it just me, or have the Golden Globes really beco...

17 jan 12

The Playlist, 60 Most Excellent Songs of 2011, 41-60

Welcome to the conclusion of the annual music list, just in time for the New Year.  Its a dreadful holiday, made slightly better by summarizing and compiling.  Today I thought about it as I...

31 dec 11 1 person likes this

The Playlist, 60 Most Excellent Songs of 2011, 21-40

Yesterday you asked, today you shall receive.  In an effort not to clutter up memory space or freak out browser pages, you can find the Youtube playlist for this installment at the bottom of the...

30 dec 11 1 person likes this

The Playlist, 60 Most Excellent Songs of 2011, 1-20

Ive heard it said that the worst way to preface a "best of the year" list is to hem and haw on the subject of how difficult it was to narrow down.  We all know its difficult, and we all ...

29 dec 11 1 person likes this

The Playlist: The 10 Guiltiest POPtimist Pleasures of 2011

I hate calling something a guilty pleasure.  Despite my deep cynicism, Im a firm believer in poptimism and owning up to the crappy bubble gum noise I enjoy.  I believe that if you like some...

28 dec 11

Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

When I read the novel sometime last year, the greatest mystery inherent in Steig Larssons bestselling The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was how it managed to become so wildly popular.  Here was a ...

28 dec 11

We Need to Talk About Kitten.

24 dec 11

Review: The Artist

There are times, my friends, where I find myself deep within the critical minority. The Artist, I fear, is one of those rare moments of nearly complete disagreement.  After all, the film ha...

24 dec 11

Review: Young Adult

A dark comedy done right is a thing of terrible beauty.  When the mean-spirited, black heart of a deeply cynical film can be effectively punctuated with sharp, stab wound laughs, it becomes impo...

20 dec 11

Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Guys, we need to talk, ok?  Just, like, take a seat or something so I can try to explain to you how this works: can we please remember that Guy Ritchies version of Sherlock Holmes is not a ...

20 dec 11

Review: Shame

What you know about Shame is that its an NC-17 portrait of a sex addict.  To a teenager (or those who have never watched an Almodovar film) the taboo rating signifies something immedia...

18 dec 11

Award Season: Golden Globe Nominations!

The nominees for the 69th annual Golden Globes were announced in the morning half-light earlier today.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the silent The Artist came in as nominee front-runner with  j...

15 dec 11

Merry Christmas, Super Models...

Its a Christmas miracle: RuPauls 1993 VH1 Christmas special has appeared on Youtube and even though Im only 10 minutes in as I write this, I must gift it to you early.  Over the top camp, ridicu...

15 dec 11

Awards Season: SAG Nominees

The Screen Actors Guild nominees were announced the other day and if this is what we can expect from the Oscars, its going to be another milquetoast year.  The Help scored the expected slew of a...

15 dec 11

Seen & Heard: Lana del Rey (again)

I know I just posted the audio for this a couple days back, but now theres an official video for Lana del Reys "Born to Die." I cant remember the last time I anticipated an album this much. B...

15 dec 11

Seen & Heard: Karen O/Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross

As you may recall from the first posting of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trailer some months ago, I was pretty crazy about the Karen O and Trent Reznor cover of Led Zeppelins "Immigrant Song.&...

15 dec 11

Novelty Treats: Mondo Ghibli

Guys, Mondos Olly Moss is releasing a series of posters based on Studio Ghibli films!  While getting your hands on a Mondo poster is a nearly impossible task, what with the limited prints and th...

15 dec 11

Seen & Heard: Anna Calvi, Lana Del Rey, Lynchian Ladies...

Ive been digging Anna Calvis debut album (which has popped up on quite a few best of lists) and was a huge fan of TV on the Radios Return to Cookie Mountain album, so, when Calvi cover...

12 dec 11

Touch of Evil

If you havent already, find a few minutes to wander on over to the New York Times Magazine site, where theyve put together a virtual portfolio of villains specific and archetypal starring some of the...

12 dec 11

Award Season: Independent Spirit Nominees

While Ive been busying myself watching as many Award Season contenders as geographically possible, Ive completely neglected my pop culture blogger posting duties when it comes to actually covering no...

12 dec 11

Seen & Heard: Holy Ghost!

Speaking of synth-pop: Holy Ghost! covers Ministrys "I Wanted to Tell Her" and we all reap the rewards.  Namely: neon, sequins, BMX tricks, and 80s movie dance sequences.  Assuming ...

12 dec 11

Seen & Heard: Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp has been in synth-pop overload for the past few years which is fine, but which has veered away from the otherworldly electro sounds of their first two albums and towards something deliberat...

12 dec 11

Novelty Treat: Peggy Dvoraks Home for Actresses

Megan Mullallys Peggy Dvorak teaches wayward actresses how to be come sardonic and "cool" in this amusing little Funny or Die video featuring a whole host of ladies you like from sitcoms pres...

12 dec 11

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