Here's the latest Gag Me With A Tweet, our weekly look at some of the best tweets from some of our favorite '80s musicians, actors, and celebrities!
I just realized I'll never be as smart as my phone.
— johnette napolitano (@therealjohnette) June 2, 2013
I know how to say "have you farted?" In Farsi.
— Simon Le Bon (@SimonJCLeBON) June 2, 2013
"Okay, M. Night, we're going to give you just a few dozen more chances, and then seriously, THAT'S IT." -- Hollywood
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) June 1, 2013
Jay Lo & Rod doing EDM. What does that tell you?
— boygeorge (@BoyGeorge) June 1, 2013
Welcome to a brand new feature on Culture Brats: Gag Me With A Tweet, a weekly look at some of the best tweets from some of our favorite '80s musicians, actors, and celebrities!
Just saw @lanadelreyin concert. She's like a mythical princess! Utterly gorgeous from top to toe!
— boygeorge (@BoyGeorge) May 19, 2013
Watching "Adventure Time" w/my boys. Makes me feel like I smoked massive bong hit. Paranoid that that my kids think I look high.iiii]; o'
— Slash (@Slash) May 19, 2013
I need a Peet's Coffee like Gucci Mane needs a bail bondsman.
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) May 19, 2013
For the Modern Family series finale, are the characters going to watch the documentary they've been shooting this whole time too?
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) May 19, 2013
FOOLS confuse motion with progress. A rocking chair is moving but it ain't going anywhere!
— Mr. T (@MrT) May 18, 2013
I was thinking today about doing a pet clothing line. I think it would be extremely credible.
— Nikki Sixx (@NikkiSixx) May 18, 2013
LINK | Posted by Robin on Monday, November 26, 2012
Last night was the much anticipated premiere of Liz & Dick, the biopic of Elizabeth Taylor and... one of her husbands. It doesn't matter, because all eyes were on Lindsay, and not in a good way. Early word was that the film is dreadful, and so is Lindsay's performance. You all know that I love Lindsay and just want the best for her. Was she really that bad? Seriously, this is a Lifetime made-for-TV movie. Let's be realistic with our expectations. Vulture, my go-to site for reviews, already pegged it as horrible and not in a good way:
The contrarian in me would love to tell you that Liz & Dick is not that bad – that it has redeeming qualities, or that it's a parody of mediocre TV biopics. Alas, no: it's just bad-bad. Specifically, it's retro-bad – a compact yet still lumbering TV biopic that, back in the day, might have starred Kate Jackson and Richard Chamberlain and been filmed on whatever Dynasty sets were available that month.
Let's all realize that it's a Lifetime movie! Of course she is going to ham it up! Let's blame the awful screenwriter, not Lindsay!
I fear that Lindsay will never be given a chance. She tries to do satire like Machete, she doesn't catch a break. She does something sublime and meta like The Canyons, people are already predicting failure. Here she is doing something that is a snarky hipster's dream, something that can become a cult classic, and she's being panned.
I think that everyone wanted it to be bad because we could get some clever live tweets about it. It's not about her, it's about who can be the most clever. Here are some highlights from Twitter. Although clever, my heart dies a little bit every time I laugh. Here are some of the best from my timeline:
LINK | Posted by Robin on Monday, October 22, 2012
Ever since I heard The Canyons was going to be made, I have been out of my skin excited. The idea is pure Bret Easton Ellis, the casting is both genius and ironic, and now it seems the filmmakers are creating a meta-awareness of making a movie about Hollywood. Originally billed to be a dark drama, this current trailer goes the way of a pulp story.
I first read American Psycho in 1998 when I was still in college, and it blew my mind. I was a women's studies major, so I was conflicted with my obsession over this novel. One of the most violent, misogynist, graphic novels ever suddenly made me fall in love with literature. The author, Bret Easton Ellis, became a literary sensation at age twenty-one with the nihilist, depressing Less Than Zero, which established him as the author with the monopoly on writing about the empty, self-loathing of the incredibly wealthy and good-looking. I quickly devoured his four other novels, chastising myself that it took so long for me to discover my literary god.
However, after his 1998 novel Glamorama, there was a stretch of seven years before his next novel, Lunar Park, was published. The late nineties was still at the beginning of the internet, so not much was known about Ellis, and I always wondered how such a person could have such a sick, twisted, but brilliant mind. I mean, if you couldn't find anyone on the internet, they may as well been a recluse.
Fast forward fifteen years and the rise of Twitter, which Ellis seemed to latch onto and has never looked back. His tweets are equal parts bitchy, honest, controversial, intellectual, and sardonic. For a while, he was incessantly tweeting about his desire to adapt the most famous mommy-porn book in the world, Fifty Shades Of Grey, and shared his stream of consciousness and most recently, expressed his annoyance at the selection of writer Kelly Marcel to adapt the screenplay:
LINK | Posted by Chris on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
You might think it's pretty silly to review a Twitter account, but if you feel that way, you probably aren't following Discographies. What is Discographies? It's simple. It's genius. It's a 140-character (or less) review of a musical act's entire discography (studio albums only). Here are some examples:
And my absolute favorite:
Pretty cool, huh? In this day and age where everything is turned into a movie or TV show, I can easily see Discographies: The Book hitting the shelves one day. But unlike most of the other websites that are turned to books, this is one I would actually purchase.
So do yourself a favor and follow Discographies. And if someone from Discographies is reading this, you need to review Guns N' Roses.
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I first read American Psycho in 1998 when I was still in college, and it blew my mind. I was a women's studies major, so I was conflicted with my obsession over this novel. One of the most violent, misogynist, graphic novels ever suddenly made me fall in love with literature. The author, Bret Easton Ellis, became a literary sensation at age twenty-one with the nihilist, depressing Less Than Zero, which established him as the author with the monopoly on writing about the empty, self-loathing of the incredibly wealthy and good-looking. I quickly devoured his four other novels, chastising myself that it took so long for me to discover my literary god.
