I wrote a feature for Wired magazine on the Asylum, a ridiculous (but lucrative) film studio that had a viral hit earlier this year with the accurately titled Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Asylum specializes in what are not-always-affectionately referred to as “mockbusters”—cheaply made knock-offs of high-profile, big-studio movies (among its more recent releases: Transmorphers: Fall of Man, Paranormal Entity. and The Terminators). For the story, I went to Wales, so that I could watch a man in a robot costume walk around an old castle. It was great. Anyway, you can read the article here.
1) Fela!
2) Future of the Left, Travels with Myself and Another
3) Paul F. Tompkins’ too-brief Best Week Ever hosting stint
4) Peter Capaldi in In The Loop
5) Fred Melamed in A Serious Man
6) Drake, “Best I Ever Had”
7) Robert Altman: The Oral Biography Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero”
9) Screaming Females, Power Move
10) Super Mario Bros. Wii, which is hard as fuck
11) playhimoffkeyboardcat.com
12) Phoenix, “1901″ b/w “Listzomania”
13) Asterios Polyp
14) David Byrne at Radio City Music Hall
15) Japandroids, “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
16) The-Dream, Love vs. Money
17) Zeitoun
18) Kindle 2
19) The season finale of Friday Night Lights
20) The 30 x 30 episode about the USFL, though ESPN should given it another 30 minutes or so
21) The trailer for Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
22) The Superchunk EPs
23) Watching Judah Friedlander shout down a heckler at Comix in NYC
24) Miranda Lambert, Revolution
25) The Hall & Oates box set
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero”
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