Thursday, November 28, 2013

JUST WHO IS MARTIN GARRIX?

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - NOVEMBER 10:  DJ Martin Garrix attends the MTV EMA's 2013 at the Ziggo Dome on November 10, 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images for MTV)Ian Gavan/Getty
He may look like the lead singer of a fresh-faced teenage boyband, but 17-year-old Dutchman Martin Garrix is in fact one of the most respected young talents on the EDM scene, having just scored a U.K. number one single and U.S. Hot 100 hit with his insanely infectious instrumental "Animals." Here are seven things you need to know about the latest superstar DJ.

The 2004 Olympics kickstarted his interest in dance music
Garrix first developed a love of dance music after watching fellow Dutchman Tiesto perform at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens at the tender age of eight years old. Bringing things full circle, the veteran DJ recently premiered Garrix's new single, "Wizard," at the Amsterdam Dance Event.

He's a self-confessed computer nerd
Perhaps too young to indulge in the hedonistic lifestyle of his fellow EDM DJs, Garrix has admitted that he's a computer nerd and that when not at school, he spends most of his spare timed holed up in his bedroom studio.

Christina Aguilera is a fan
Garrix's most high-profile production prior to this year was his remix of Christina Aguilera's US Top 40 single "Your Body," which appeared on the deluxe edition of her 2012 album, Lotus.

He likes guessing games
Much of the initial buzz surrounding "Animals" stemmed from the fact that no-one knew who was responsible for the track. Unveiled anonymously, the club anthem was at various points attributed to the likes of Hardwell, Sidney Samson and Bassjackers before Garrix came clean.

He's breaking records left right and center
Not only did Garrix become the youngest ever artist to reach the top of the Beatport charts with "Animals" but he's also the youngest ever artist to write and produce a U.K. number one hit for themselves.

He's signed to Justin Bieber's management
Following in the footsteps of PSY, Ariana Grande and of course Justin Bieber, Garrix became the latest teen sensation, but first EDM client, to sign to Scooter Braun's management company earlier this month.

He's aiming to conquer the US next year
Having already spent eight weeks inside the US Hot 100 with "Animals," Garrix will be hoping to expand on his initial Stateside success next February when he embarks on his first US headlining tour.

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WE MISSED ROSE TYLER IN THE ‘DOCTOR WHO’ 50TH SPECIAL

Picture shows: BILLIE PIPER as Rose Tyler and JOHN HURT as The Doctor in the 50th Anniversary Special - The Day of the DoctorBBC
When we heard Billie Piper and David Tennant were returning toDoctor Who for the 50th anniversary special, we were excited — some might say uncontrollably ecstatic — but after watching “The Day of the Doctor,” we were a little disappointed. Although everyone assumed Piper would play her iconic character, Rose Tyler she didn’t; Piper played the consciousness of the world-ending device the Doctor planned to use to end the Time War. Although the device’s consciousness recognizes it is the face of Rose Tyler, it’s not actually Rose Tyler. We don’t know about anyone else, but we feel a little cheated.
Half of our excitement for “The Day of the Doctor” was based on getting to see Rose Tyler meet the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) or finding out what happened to Rose after she went off with TenToo, the non-Time Lord clone of Tennant’s Doctor. But we didn’t get any of that! Piper only interacted with John Hurt’s War Doctor, and then it wasn’t even as the Rose we fell in love with.
On the bright side, some might say the lack of Rose was a good thing since some fans were wary of how Doctor Who showrunner and writer Stephen Moffat would treat our favorite companion. Since he’s called her a “needy girlfriend,” maybe it’s for the best that he decided not to touch the actual perfection that is Rose Tyler.
However, all of that being said, we still expected to see Rose and when we didn’t get Rose, we were sad. Our only chance to see Rose again was snatched away. (Maybe we’re getting a little carried away.) We’ll have to take comfort in the fact that at least we got to see the Tenth Doctor again. 
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TURN ‘GROUND FLOOR’ INTO A MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW

Ground Floor, Skylar AstinTBS
When Pitch Perfect came out, Skylar Astin became everyone’s newest celebrity crush. He can sing, he can dance, he can act, and, c’mon, he looks like he’d be a great boyfriend. Prior to Pitch Perfect, Astin was in the original cast of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening as Georg. (If you haven’t listened to the Spring Awakening soundtrack, we definitely recommend it; Lea Michele, Jonathan Groff, and John Gallagher Jr. were in the musical as well before they made the transition to Hollywood.)
Since we adore Astin, we’ve been patiently — and by patiently we mean watching Pitch Perfect over and over again — for his newest role as Brody on TBS’s sitcom, Ground Floor. However, we were disappointed to see a lack of singing on Astin’s part. Except for ten seconds of “Your Song” by Elton John in the pilot, Astin’s musical abilities aren’t even showcased. Ground Floor is just a bunch of not-so-funny jokes thrown on top of a tired Romeo and Juliet premise. 
But you know what might make the show better? Turn it into a musical.Glee has found a niche in the musical comedy/drama genre of television, but who says the series has a monopoly on it. We can’t speak for all TV viewers, but it’s high time we get another musical comedy show andGround Floor — well, at least Astin — might be the best option.
Or just give us half an hour of Skylar Astin singing every week. We’d be happy with that.
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10 FOOD SCENES IN MOVIES THAT WILL MAKE YOU HUNGRY JUST IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING

Ron Weasley, Harry PotterWarner Bros.
Food is a staple of life, and therefore, it's a staple of film. While some people aren't that good at making food look that appetizing on camera (we're looking at you, Martha Stewart), many excel at making the food look so delectable in films that you want to throw the bowl of popcorn in your lap away in frustration. Popcorn is tasty, but not as tasty as whatever Ron Weasley is eating.
Here our 10 movie scenes that make us wish that we could jump through the screen and eat anything and everything:
(Warning: The below content will make you hungry.)
1. Any Great Hall feast scene in Harry Potter: Unlimited delicious food is one thing, but the fact that it magically appears and replenishes itself makes it possibly the best thing ever. If I'm ever as happy and content as Ron is while he chows down on chicken legs, then I will have lived a good life. 
The Great Hall, Harry PotterWarner Bros.
2. When Harold and Kumar finally get to eat at White Castle in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle: I think it's someone's dream out there to be surrounded by burgers and fries. (If it's not, it totally should be.) Yeah, you might feel like s**t afterwards, but it's totally (maybe) worth it.
HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, Kal Penn, John Cho, 2004, (c) New Line/courtesy Everett CollectionNew Line Cinema Via Everett Collection
3. The food critic eating the ratatouille in Ratatouille: The warm colors! The sauce! The presentation! Remy the rat more than mastered the French dish, so much so that Anton Ego's tastebuds drifted him back to a time in his childhood of pure joy. Any food that floods you with memories of happiness is a dish that needs to be tasted by all.
RatatouilleWalt Disney
4. The "Pure Imagination" scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Food is one thing, but candy is whole other ball game. We're talking gigantic gummy bears in trees, a chocolate waterfall, arm-length candy canes, jawbreakers the size of pumpkins, and edible teacup flowers. I don't care if I drop down a chicken chute -- I want to eat everything.
WILLY WONKA THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY - 1971 willywonka1971-fsct15, Photo by: Everett Collection (willywonka1971-fsct15)Everett Collection
5. Almost every scene in Marie Antoinette: The film may lack plot and progression, but it sure knows how to make stuff look good. From shoes to dresses to hair to food, Sofia Coppola knew what kind of look she was going for. Now someone please pass me anything that has strawberries and whipped cream on it.
MARIE ANTOINETTE, Kirsten Dunst, (on left), 2006. Sony Pictures/courtesy Everett CollectionSony Pictures Via Everett Collection
6. The surprise breakfast scene in A Little Princess: Waking up to breakfast in your bedroom is a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning, but this scene managed to take it a step further by decorating the whole room with sunset orange curtains, sunflowers, and, most importantly, a table filled with breakfast foods. And the meal is even more special because it's basically the first time Sara is treated kindly since she was banished to a life of servitude at a boarding school after her father went missing and was presumed dead. Is anyone else tearing up? 
A Little PrincessWarner Bros.
7. When Steve Martin and Meryl Streep make croissants in It's Complicated: Not only does Streep's character have the most country-chic kitchen ever, but she knows how to make a chocolate croissant while flirting. Now that's a skill. The croissants are a perfect golden brown, there's a light crunch to them, and they're so delicious that they cause Martin's character to say, "Oh, baby." (Plus, cooking/baking in a kitchen after hours is something I've always wanted to do... I'd also take being stuck in a grocery store over night.)
It's ComplicatedUniversal
8. Basically any scene in Julie & Julia: Because this movie aims to make us pass out from hunger the whole way through, every scene in this movie makes the list. Except for the raw chicken scene... I don't want that.
Julie & JuliaColumbia Pictures
9. When the Grinch cuts the "roast beast" in the How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1966 TV special: Combine Christmas dinner with a heartwarming ending to a story and you've got yourself the ultimate holiday meal. Or maybe I just want the cartoon food so badly because I know I'll never be able to have it...
How the Grinch Stole ChristmasCBS
10. When Timon and Pumbaa eat bugs in the Lion King: So I guess I like animated food scenes -- so what? Yeah, I've been told that I'm weird for thinking that the bugs look absolutely delicious, but I firmly stand by my belief that they would taste amazing. Slimy yet satisfying! 
THE LION KING, Simba, Pumbaa, Timon, 1994. Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett CollectionBuena Vista Pictures Via Everett Collection
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

SANSA STARK IS THE MOST UNDERRATED CHARACTER ON ‘GAME OF THRONES’


The eldest Stark daughter gets a bad rap on HBO’s Game of Thrones, but we think Sansa should get a little more appreciation. Let’s be honest, on a show that kills off characters as often as Game of Thrones, it’s an impressive feat that a teenaged girl has lived to see the fourth season. However, Sansa usually gets shafted in favor of her little sister Arya — who is a total badass with a sword at the age of 11. (She’s even killed some people.) 
Just because Sansa can’t swing a sword doesn’t mean she can’t play the game — yeah, we’re talking about the game of thrones. When she arrived at Kings Landing in the first season, Sansa was only 13 and she was engaged the marry Joffrey, the sociopathic prince whose best scene was when his uncle Tyrion slaps him in the face. Despite the dangerous engagement and her father being sentenced to death for treason, Sansa managed to stay alive. (We really can’t stress how much of an accomplishment this is. Seriously, we don’t think we’d last even a few days.)
Despite all her hardship, though, Sansa still has hope. She befriended Margaery Tyrell in season three and tried to get out of Kings Landing by wedding one of the Tyrells. It didn’t exactly work out that way, but the fact that Sansa can try to find a silver lining in her life is seriously admirable.
Even Tyrion, who we can all agree is a political mastermind, said in season two that Sansa might outlive them all, and we’d really love to see that. Sansa would make a great queen. She and Daenerys can rule Westeros together with love and dragons.
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ADAM BRODY TO GUEST STAR ON 'NEW GIRL,' SETH COHEN FANS GO WILD


In the humble and unbiased opinion of a faithful member of the Seth Cohen fan club since 2003, this might be the best casting news of the year. According to PeopleNew Girl has signed on Adam Brody for the 14th episode of the current season. While an air date has yet to be set, the episode will begin shooting on Dec. 2.
The O.C. dreamboat is set to appear as Berkeley, Jess' ex-boyfriend who has been pinned as a "hip, stay-at-home dad." Did you hear that? Seth Cohen is all grown up, and he's taking care of a baby. Dreams really do come true. And to make this casting news even more amazing, this isn't even the first time that Brody and Max Greenfeld, who plays Schmidt, will appear in the same show together; in a 2007 episode of The O.C., Greenfeld played a younger version of Sandy Cohen, a.k.a Seth's dad. Woah.
The casting decision to bring on Brody makes it seems like the Fox show is relying more and more on outside actors to liven things up, especially since it aired recent episodes with guest stars Damon Wayans Jr., Taye Diggs, and various other noteable actors. The move is similar to one of Fox's other Tuesday night comedies: The Mindy Project. Mindy Kaling's show, which is on hiatus until April 1, seems to have a big-name guest star every week (even if it's not good for the character progression of the regulars). But whether the move to have more popular faces stroll through the loft's space is to garner more ratings or not, Adam Brody's presence is sure to bring gaggles of squealing girls to the TV on Tuesday nights at 9 PM. 
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Monday, November 25, 2013

THE BEST OF 'BOB'S BURGERS' THANKSGIVING EPISODE

BOB'S BURGERS: Determined to have a perfect Thanksgiving, Bob meticulously prepares the family turkey. Then, to his horror, he finds that someone then dumps the turkey in the toilet in an act of Thanksgiving sabotage iin the all-new "Turkey in a Can" episode of BOB'S BURGERS airing Sunday, Nov. 24 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.   BOB'S BURGERS  and  2013 TCFFC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
If there's anything that this week's episode of Bob's Burgers teaches us, it's that three days before Thanksgiving, you better be adding a "Father-of-the-Brine" to your turkey and making sure to check the side effects on your allergy medicine so you don't accidentally submerge it in the toilet while hallucinating that you're potty training your children as an expression of your anxiety about them growing up. After last year's Thanksgiving episode established it as Bob's favorite holiday to A) get furious at Linda and the kids and B) get completely wasted on absinthe, add absuing over the counter medication as one of the Belcher's hilarious family traditions. 
So, quickly, here's the best moments from each character that brought the laughs. Then, get back in the kitchen! There are cats roaming everywhere!
Bob: You might think Bob's increasing rage as his lovingly brined turkeys keep ending up in the toilet would take the prize, but instead, it was his unintentional seduction of the male supermarket deli butcher who keeps giving him new turkeys. Jon Benjamin and guest Tuc Watkins sell it. "I'm mostly straight. Also, I'm married. But if I wasn't... who am I kidding, you're out of my league. It would never work." 
Linda: "I don't know... All these turkeys... it makes me horny!" Sure, it makes absolutely no sense why thirty pounds of raw poultry drenched in salty walter would seduce a woman, but it doesn't have to. Also great: her constant gagging at anything in or involving the bathroom. 
Tina: Obviously, it has to be Tina falling off of a chair while attempting to cross her legs like a "lady" to be taken seriously at the adults' table. There are no other acceptable answers. (Except maybe her adult talking points. "In this economy?")
Gene: Upon seeing the first turkey submerged in the toilet, "Who pooped that? And may I apprentice with you?"
Louise: Her lovingly constructed conspiracy theories were completely wrong, but while Gene and Tina didn't team up to destroy the turkeys, she did accidentally admit she's "been slowly stealing their allowances over the last five years."  
Guest Star MVP: Megan Mullally playing Linda's sister, Gail, is always good for laughs, but this week her insane mood swings and desire to be named as the culprit (despite her innocence) added exactly the right amount of chaos. "Was it Gail? 'I DON'T KNOW!' It wasn't." 
Running Gags: Linda's love for Thanksgiving singing resulted in last year's improvised "Thanksgiving Song." This year, Gene, Linda, and Gail teamed up for a T-Gives carol about gravy. "Sailors in your mouth... sailors in your mouth... That's what Thanksgiving is all about!"
Overall Assessment: Holiday heartwarming murder mystery = Instant classic!
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