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Culture Consumption: Fall Out Boy, Allison Weiss, And The Simpsons: Tapped Out
Hello and welcome to Culture Consumption, my sometimes-weekly-but-mostly-monthly look at the best of pop culture!
Fall Out Boy, Save Rock And Roll
"Are you ready for another bad poem, one more off-key anthem?" Patrick Stump asks the listener after Courtney Love finishes Jim Carrolling the beginning of "Rat A Tat." He's being too hard on himself: his voice is as awesome and ever and the lyrics are bombastic, a little cheesy, but a lot of fun. This is the album for the summer, something to blast through your speakers as you sing along. Fall Out Boy is not saving rock and roll with this album, but they're making you remember why you love it.
Consume Now: Everything. Get the whole album.
Allison Weiss, Say What You Mean
This is my favorite album of 2013. Say What You Mean is ten songs about heartache and pain, but you don't realize it at first because you're digging the catchy rock-infused pop songs. Then you start listening to the lyrics more intently and they're so incredible, it's like discovering a whole other album! These are emotionally deep, heart-on-your-sleeve lyrics that everyone can relate to. Heartache never sounded so good.
Consume Now: Everything. Get the whole album.
The Simpsons: Tapped Out
This game is addictive as hell. Basically, you're building your own Springfield. You start out with just Homer, standing on a track of land and you gradually earn money through tasks to use for buildings and to gain other characters. But it doesn't happen overnight. This is a game you'll play everyday, a little at a time. This is a freemium game, meaning there are things to be bought. The game itself is free, but you can purchase donuts with your real-life cash and use them to speed up tasks or to purchase items you can't earn through normal gameplay. That part kind of sucks, but the free items in this game are so awesome, it more than makes up for it. And it's not one-and-done either: they come out with new content and buildings for it every few weeks. There's a reason EA claims it's "life-ruiningly fun."
Albums Of The Moment
Fall Out Boy, Save Rock And Roll"Are you ready for another bad poem, one more off-key anthem?" Patrick Stump asks the listener after Courtney Love finishes Jim Carrolling the beginning of "Rat A Tat." He's being too hard on himself: his voice is as awesome and ever and the lyrics are bombastic, a little cheesy, but a lot of fun. This is the album for the summer, something to blast through your speakers as you sing along. Fall Out Boy is not saving rock and roll with this album, but they're making you remember why you love it.
Consume Now: Everything. Get the whole album.
Allison Weiss, Say What You MeanThis is my favorite album of 2013. Say What You Mean is ten songs about heartache and pain, but you don't realize it at first because you're digging the catchy rock-infused pop songs. Then you start listening to the lyrics more intently and they're so incredible, it's like discovering a whole other album! These are emotionally deep, heart-on-your-sleeve lyrics that everyone can relate to. Heartache never sounded so good.
Consume Now: Everything. Get the whole album.
App Of The Moment
The Simpsons: Tapped Out
This game is addictive as hell. Basically, you're building your own Springfield. You start out with just Homer, standing on a track of land and you gradually earn money through tasks to use for buildings and to gain other characters. But it doesn't happen overnight. This is a game you'll play everyday, a little at a time. This is a freemium game, meaning there are things to be bought. The game itself is free, but you can purchase donuts with your real-life cash and use them to speed up tasks or to purchase items you can't earn through normal gameplay. That part kind of sucks, but the free items in this game are so awesome, it more than makes up for it. And it's not one-and-done either: they come out with new content and buildings for it every few weeks. There's a reason EA claims it's "life-ruiningly fun."
Warwick Davis Has An App!
I don't know how this escaped my notice, but Warwick Davis (AKA Willow Ufgood) released an app for iPhone called Pocket Warwick. The release was timed to coincide with the iPad Mini last year. Genius right?
Pocket Warwick is basically a much cooler version of the old '90s Tamagotchi. You have your own Warwick. You feed him and train him and increase his acting status from Z-list to A-list. There are tons of audio clips from Warwick and the whole thing is adorable, hilarious, and kind of addictive.
Warwick did a great interview last year with MacWorld UK and he said this about the whole experience:
How did designing the app compare to Warwick's usual acting roles? "For me it was just as challenging and rewarding as doing Shakespeare, and it sounds weird but you give a little bit of yourself to this. A bit of my soul is in that game, every download: it's a bit like Voldemort. Do you see what I did there? Your iPhone basically becomes a horcrux," he joked.and also:
The Pocket Warwick app was Warwick's idea from the start. He initially conceived of the idea as a way to combine his interest in technology and his love of acting.Smart and funny is Warwick. The app is free and is available for iOS and Android devices so download it and make Warwick do your bidding!
He told us: "I'm tech-savvy. I love gadgets, particularly my phone [we asked if it was an iPhone and he said it was]. I also like acting, and being an actor I'm always looking for ways to develop."
"I didn't think 'I Wanna be an App'," he admitted, clarifying: "I thought: 'I'd love to be in a phone'."
Culture Consumption: Girls, Santigold, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, And Pudding Monsters
Hello and welcome to Culture Consumption, my sometimes-weekly look at the best of pop culture!
Judging by all the press it receives, the awards it earns, and the countless blogs that provide weekly recaps, I assume that I am the only person on the planet that does not watch HBO's Girls. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the greatness that is the soundtrack from the series. In addition to awesome tracks you might already have on your iPod by Robyn ("Dancing On My Own"), Sleigh Bells ("Infinity Guitars"), Icona Pop ("I Love It"), and Belle & Sebastian ("I Don't Love Anyone"), the Girls soundtrack boasts new songs from fun., Santigold, Grouplove, Micheal Penn, and Tegan & Sara. The fun. track sounds like something that might've been written between Aim And Ignite and Some Nights. "On Your Way" is awesome, like most of Michael Penn's songs. Tegan & Sara cover the Stones' "Fool To Cry," and it's one of the soundtrack's strongest tracks.
Consume Now: Grab the whole thing even though you might already own several of these songs. It's a really great album.
Video Of The Week: Santigold, "Girls"
Album Of The Week: Various Artists, Girls Soundtrack
Judging by all the press it receives, the awards it earns, and the countless blogs that provide weekly recaps, I assume that I am the only person on the planet that does not watch HBO's Girls. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the greatness that is the soundtrack from the series. In addition to awesome tracks you might already have on your iPod by Robyn ("Dancing On My Own"), Sleigh Bells ("Infinity Guitars"), Icona Pop ("I Love It"), and Belle & Sebastian ("I Don't Love Anyone"), the Girls soundtrack boasts new songs from fun., Santigold, Grouplove, Micheal Penn, and Tegan & Sara. The fun. track sounds like something that might've been written between Aim And Ignite and Some Nights. "On Your Way" is awesome, like most of Michael Penn's songs. Tegan & Sara cover the Stones' "Fool To Cry," and it's one of the soundtrack's strongest tracks.Consume Now: Grab the whole thing even though you might already own several of these songs. It's a really great album.
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