Look who’s laughing now, Homer Simpson. Uruguay’s win in tonight’s penalty shoot-out means Ghana is out and striker Sebastian ‘El Loco’ Abreu is not only a National Hero, but a rather good-looking soccer dad as well. What a dude.
Do you like Miles Fisher? His latest EP marks a new peak of professionalism. This is his take on David Byrne’s ‘This Must Be the Place’.
In case you missed it in 2009, Popmatters has recently rediscovered Fisher’s version of the Talking Heads hit (below), which in a brilliant tribute to American Psycho, examines how ‘even monsters love pop music’.
According to a little research, Fisher is a former Texan with a penchant for a capella (he took his Harvard troupe, the Krokodiloes on a tour of 24 countries). He does a mad Tom Cruise impression and played Kinsey’s preppy Princeton drug-pushing buddy Jeffrey Graves in Mad Men, below. (You may recall uptight Peggy’s defiant introduction: ‘I’m Peggy Olson, and I want to smoke some marijuana’).
The fact that he bears an uncanny resemblance to both Tom Cruise and Christian Bale, combined with his mum sitting on the board of the National Film Institute, makes me think he’s pretty much cut out for a life on screen. However, his Ivy League education and the almost excruciating level of detail he’s gone to make the Byrne cover work shows there must be something more to him than just looking like an early-80s Cruise/Bale hybrid.
But then… maybe he’s just riding on the fact that two formerly respected actors are now almost universally known for being either difficult or virtually insane. Plus he’s probably demanding a much, much lower rate for the charming yet slightly sleazy prepster roles.
Hell, it’s a great, great song. And a personal favourite. I say more power to him. You can check him out at Milesfisher.com, read a mega interview with American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis over at Vice (just don’t blame me if the photos of his smug face make you want to retch/never read a BEE novel again) or enjoy the original David Byrne track below:
This time it’s from TV Tokyo, where five Legomaniacs created 1,000+ piece Lego hamster* wonderlands.
First up is the ‘exciting fruit paradise’ – with a pineapple wheel, grape tree jungle gym, melon ball pool and a banana see-saw. According to the narrator, ‘it’s a hamster paradise!’.
There’s also a *yawn* Robinson Crusoe recreation, a pretty cool ninja house, a modern transformable block house and bizarrely, the Metabolic Syndrome Reduction Training House (メタボ解消トレーニングハウス).
The latter is for chubby hamsters struggling with the dreaded Metabolic Syndrome, one of those crazy health problems that became a major buzzword a few years’ back in Japan. The Training House features a bicycle wheel with a dynamo mechanism to power the front lamp (above), a treadmill, dumb-bells and even mini vermin-sized scales to measure progress.
*The featured hamster looks more like a mouse without its tail cut off. Or do all hamsters look like that? More importantly, do hamsters taste like guinea pigs? If so, find five delicious recipe ideas here.
Citizen Japan has unveiled the Citizen i:Virt M, a new £200 wristwatch that recalls dear Penny’s telephone watch of old.
Thanks to Bluetooth, the i:Virt M connects wirelessly to the wearer’s mobile phone and flashes to alert of incoming calls or text messages. It can also display (but not send) text messages.
The i:Virt M was created for those times when you’re not comfortable whipping out your phone but still want to know what’s going on, such as during meetings or on the train. The problem here is that the wearer can’t really do much with what they see, save for pressing ‘reject’ when faced with an unwanted call.
On the plus side, Citizen’s design team integrated a totally Inspector Gadget-style shutter release button, so you can take photos (using your phone) from afar. Sneaky, huh?
A cheaper alternative for Gadget fans may be designer Anti Christa’s iPad wallpaper (below). Anti Christa’s gone to excruciating detail to replicate Penny’s computer book - note the blue jack where Penny connected her book to her computer - and it’s available to download for free! (iPad not included).
If I had to choose my Penny-themed gizmo of choice, I’ll take the wallpaper. (With the iPad, of course).
John Hamm sure can throw some shapes. You can see the Mad Men cast sing Bye Bye Birdie for creator Matt Weiner by clicking on Betty & Don in all their muted glory.
But where’s Emmy-award-winning co-writer Kater Gordon? Oh that’s right, she was fired before she even got her ceremony dress back from the drycleaner.
I also didn’t spot Sal nor Grandpa Gene… and was that Roger in an auburn wig? More importantly, where’s Joan?!
