Pillowfight

Strikers, exciting news! I was on Joseph Gordon Levitt's twitter half an hour ago and followed a link on a whim to the new Dan the Automator project, Pillowfight. It's really fantastic. Like, I-can't-stop-listening-to-it-on-repeat-and-I-just-bought-A$AP-Rocky's-new-album levels of fantastic. For some context, I've been waiting for Live.Love.A$AP for months and months and now it sits completely forgotten in my iTunes library.  This doesn't happen to me often and when it does I know better than to fight it. Pillowfight is goddamn great.

I know there's a lot of stuff out there on the internet that's tempting besides this but please please please give it a shot.  The sound is elegant and dope, with Dan's handcrafted beats filling in the cracks around Emily Wells' seductive crooning, this supergroup oozes cool out of every pore.  Every song makes me think of an old jazz bar complete with smoke, scotch, and a lonely songstress crying every night over the microphone. Except this time her backing band has turntables and 808's.

They're also brand spanking and shiny new on the scene and came out of nowhere. Their twitter has not even 200 followers and before yesterday they'd only released two tracks. One of which is the ardently earnest, "Get Your S*** Together" which is not to be missed. How this came together under the radar with the mind that helped bring the world Deltron 3030 and Gorillaz is beyond me. Listen to the rest of the new album on huffpost that was released yesterday. Thanks JGL for the heads up on this one. Get in on the ground floor with Pillowfight and watch this rocket take off.

 Bonus: This is what comes up when you google Pillowfight

New Star Wars Movie in 2015?

There are few things on this planet that I care about as deeply as the rich historical documents referred to simply as "Star Wars."  Six episodes have been released in theatrical form, getting Earth up to speed on the events a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

The first three episodes -- IV, V, VI -- were easily the best movies I have ever seen.  They told the story of a young farm boy, Luke Skywalker who started out on the remote desert planet of Tatooine with...

Alright, look, I'll cut to the chase, here.  On Tuesday, George Lucas, every fan boy's idol and the creator of Star Wars, has agreed to sell Lucasfilm, and all other umbrella businesses, to Walt Disney.  I'll let that sink in.

Lucasfilm, Lucasarts, Industrial Light & Magic as well as Skywalker Sound now belong to Disney after they forked over $4.05 billion to Lucas in the form of half cash and half Disney shares -- which adds up to about 40 million of those bad boys.

Now the tough part to stomach.  Disney has already said that a new Star Wars movie, which they referred to as "Episode VII" will be in theaters some time in 2015.  I've seen every Star Wars movie in theaters.  I saw the re-releases of the sequels, saw the prequels -- Episode III three times -- and I even sat through "The (god-awful) Clone Wars."  Given the recent trend in the Star Wars universe, on screen anyhow, things are headed south, and I'm already nervous.

The silver lining here is that, no matter what, it's going to be another Star Wars movie.  I don't think Lucas will make that same mistake again in going with an animated feature, as he will still be involved in the production as a creative consultant.  So another live-action Star Wars epic will be hitting the screen at some point in the year 2015.  I gotta put the odds of it being a success at about 250 to 1, to be honest. 

But hey, Disney knows how to market themselves, meaning Star Wars will live on even longer, and hopefully they put in some sweet new themed rides at Disney soon, I haven't been in a while.

Note: the last hyperlink -- "things are headed south" -- had to find its way into this article to bridge the gap between Disney and Star Wars in your minds, but for the life of me, I could not bring myself to make it the main picture.  It still hurts me to look at.

New Star Wars Video Game?

In keeping with the last post's Star Wars theme, awesome news came out in the video game world yesterday, possibly regarding one of the greatest video game franchises of all time.

Word on the street is that LucasArts, a video game company founded by George Lucas that mainly produces Star Wars-themed material, took out a trademark application to use the everything Star Wars within the title.  Then, cover art was leaked online, showing the games' title - "Star Wars: First Assault."

With that sort of name, and the cover art showing the city of Theed from Episode I housing stormtroopers from Episodes IV-VI, everyone's best guess is that this will be a continuation of the legendary Battlefront series.  Battlefront III has been rumored for years, but the company in charge, Pandemic, folded a few years back, and hopes were all but completely dashed for the series' return.

If this game is really coming out, whenever it does, the blog may be on sabbatical for any amount of time, but fair warning will be given.  If you're a video game nerd, then stay tuned, and we'll keep you posted.

Even More Proof Star Wars Rules

Like we needed any more evidence that Star Wars is one of the most iconic and influential forces of good in this or any universe, be it near or far, far away.

But let's get down to brass tax...how do I get my hands on one of these hoodies? With it I could be the most popular walking carpet on the block.

Call Me Maybe Done the Right Way

Look, as much as I hate having two versions of "Call Me Maybe" in this blog now, I gotta admit this one is pretty awesome.  Enjoy it fast, who knows when it'll be taken down from a million different copyright infringements.

Any time they show Anakin, its even more noticeable how horrible Hayden Christensen's acting is.  Also, every time Han Solo says 'hey,' I nearly die laughing.  He does it about six different ways.