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YRP in Theatrhythm, 50% off games from the SE online store, Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster screencaps, Tomb Raider merchandise. This is a video game post.


YRP is ready to perform in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call

All of the lead characters from Final Fantasy X-2 are in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call. Players can add Gunner Yuna, Thief Rikku, and Warrior Paine in their party. The Nintendo 3DS game has two versions of Yuna and Rikku, FFX and FFX-2. Other newcomers in the game include Zach and Y’shtola from Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call is slated for release in spring 2014 on Nintendo 3DS.
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Up to 50% off from the Square Enix online store

Square Enix's online store is offering up to 50% on select games. You have from today to January 5, 2014 to save, and while supplies last. Here's some of the more desirable deals

  • Army Corps of Hell -- $14.99

  • Hitman: Absolution - Professional Edition -- $19.99

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution -- $14.99

  • Just Cause 2 -- $7.49

  • Sleeping Dogs -- $19.99

  • Tomb Raider -- $14.99

  • Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn -- $19.99 (PS3) / $14.99 (PC)

Most notable is how damn cheap Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy XIV are right now. Plus, A Realm Reborn got a gigantic update this week so there's a ton of new content worth exploring.

Way more games on sale over on the Square store, go check them out.
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FFX-2 getting some love - newly released screenshots and artwork (full gallery at the source)
Square Enix has released a new batch of screenshots detailing Final Fantasy X-2′s HD revamp with just over a week to go until the full game releases in Japan.

The screenshots and artwork – all 55 of them – are meant to represent the game as a whole and include event scenes, mini-games, characters, menu systems, dresspheres, a look at the creature creator and of course battles. Also included is a brief look at the game’s Last Mission content, which was previously only available in the International version of X-2 and will be making its way to North American fans for the first time.

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster will release on December 26th in Japan, with a March 18th release in North America and March 21st in Europe. Launch details for the PlayStation Vita versions have yet to be announced.





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Gaming Heads reveals Lara Croft survivor statue - detailed images at the source
Crystal Dynamics, a Square Enix studio today unveiled in collaboration with Gaming Heads the first resin statue from Tomb Raider’s recent reboot. New premium Tomb Raider merchandise from the franchise that is known for it.

Sculpted by Spanish artist Alejandro Pereira, this 1/4th scale statue was styled directly from in-game assets, capturing Lara’s look of determination as she accepts the heavy responsibility bestowed on her by Yamatai.



Lara stands 20 inches tall and is cast from polystone resin, with all the paint and detailing done by hand.

The Survivor statue comes housed in deluxe, full-color packaging, and ships with a hand-numbered base and certificate of authenticity which guarantees you the opportunity to purchase the same model number in future releases from the Tomb Raider collection.

The Lara Croft Survivor statue is available in two variants: The standard statue showcases Lara with her iconic bow and is limited to 1000 units worldwide, which can be ordered from the official Tomb Raider Store. The exclusive Lara Croft Survivor Statue arms her with a combat shotgun in addition to a bow, is limited to 500 pieces worldwide, and is exclusively sold at Gaming Heads’ store.

Both versions are up for preorder now – the standard statue for $319.99 and exclusive statue for $339.99. Expect Lara to ship Q2 of 2014.
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Ciara Working on New Album: "I Want to Share Pieces of Myself With The World"

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With a steady 2013 for Ciara, there may be plans to unleash an album in 2014.
In a recent interview with Genlux Magazine, in which she covers the December 2013 issue, the Princess of R&B
says she’s working on new music.“I’m in the process of making a new album,” Ciara told the mag.

The upcoming project follows up the July 2013 self-titled release, Ciara, which spawned the steamy hit single “Body Party,” and boasted appearances from Nicki Minaj and fiancé Future. Like its predecessor, Ciara says the pending effort will continue to portray her "reality".

She adds: “My inspiration is life and reality. It’s important to express myself musically. I am so connected to who I am now, and I want to share pieces of myself with the world.”

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Speaking of fiancé Future, we’re sure Ciara catered to his every need following a recent interview with Nylon magazine, in which he talks about being in love before his proposal.
He tells Nylon magazine, "I wanted to do it (propose) one time. I was never searching for love. I wanted it to come to me. And when it did, I embraced it. It's a feeling that I never want to leave."

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Comic Book Writer Scott Lobdell Outs Self as Comic Con Panel Sexual Harasser

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Two days ago cartoonist and comics professional MariNaomi published a piece on xoJane entitled “It Happened to Me: I Was Sexually Harassed Onstage at a Comic Convention Panel.” In it she describes a truly awful experience: accepting an opportunity to speak on a panel about queer comics, and enduring another panelist with a “bigger” career in the industry than her questioning her bisexuality, expressing a distracting sexual attraction to her, and offering a veiled sexual proposition, all during the course of the panel. MariNaomi chose to anonymize the identity of her harasser with the initials DB, but Scott Lobdell, writer of the New 52 titles Red Hood and the Outlaws, Teen Titans, Superboy, and Superman, today stepped forward to identify himself and apologize.

You can (and should) read MariNaomi’s story in her own words and pictures at xoJane, but in brief sentences: Lobdell was the only straight person on the panel. He excused losing his train of thought on being distracted by MariNaomi’s lipstick, grabbing her stained drinking glass as a visual aid for the audience. When her microphone drooped on a lose hinge, he made the joke illustrated by MariNaomi at the top of this article. After recounting one story from her graphic memoir, of innocently mistaking her first attraction for a woman as a food craving, he asked if she had then had an orgasm while eating. After receiving a response in the negative, he implied that she must have mistaken her sexual identity, and really only be into men. He asked her if he had a chance of appearing in a sequel to her first book, a memoir of her adolescent sex life. After the panel, when introduced to her husband, Lobdell became immediately contrite and apologized… but only to MariNaomi’s husband. During the after panel group shot, he made a racist remark about her Asian facial features.

Lobdell offered his apology for publication on The Beat to Editor in Chief Heidi MacDonald, who had published a righteously strident (if I may say so myself) editorial on MariNaomi’s account of the panel yesterday. MacDonald understandably ran it by MariNaomi first, and published it along with her own comments. Offering an apology for hurting someone when you genuinely felt, in the moment, that you were being charming and funny, is a tricky business. Of utmost importance is that you stress that your attempt in making jokes resulted in not-jokes, that you not rest on “well if you knew me better you’d know I was joking,” and that you affirm what was unclear from your earlier interaction: that you are aware that the person you hurt is a human being.

Lobdell apologizes “for offending a fellow comic book creator.” He says he is sad that he did not realize she was offended by his “failed attempt at humor” at the time so he could not immediately apologize to“MariNaomi or her husband,” that he is sad because he was very impressed by the candor of her work, and that MariNaomi did not deserve to be treated the way he treated her. On that last note, I think I can firmly agree. You can read the full text of his apology here, and your mileage may vary.

It’s hard to get around the fact that when Scott Lobdell met MariNaomi, he treated her as less than human. It is not okay, in any sense of the word, to jokingly say to a stranger things that many folks say with all seriousness, not to mention a stranger sitting captive in front of an audience, and expect to be taken as charming. It’s also hard to ignore that he continues to include MariNaomi’s husband in his new apology. We no longer live in a world where it is reasonable for people who are expected to play to the tastes of, for example, the young demographic that DC comics purports to be after to be ignorant of certain negative social issues. Certain negative social issues like the scrutiny and ridicule that bisexuals undergo for not adhering to either a fully heterosexual or homosexual identity; or that women are often praised first for their appearance or capacity to receive the favorable sexual gaze of men rather than their creative achievements, often doubly so for women who identify other than straight; or that women are less likely to be the targets of harassment if they appear to be associated with or “claimed” by a man, because many harassers respect a man’s “right” to claim “dibs” on a woman more than the autonomy and humanity of a woman.

That Lobdell immediately came forward with a public apology, even though her account of his behavior did not name him specifically, is a step forward from the last major male-creator-on-subordinate-female-comics-creator story to spread through the industry. Let us hope there are many more steps forward in the future.

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'Girls" post: Zosia for Instyle and Allison for Glamour + more

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Zosia Mamet for Instyle US January 2014









No matter how different Zosia tells InStyle her own look is from her beloved Girls character Shoshanna, it’s hard to picture Zosia as anything other than Shosh–if only because she does “Shosh” so well. Zosia Mamet talks fashion, her boyfriend, and the stark differences between her and Juicy-velour-wearing character, Shoshanna.

They’re completely, entirely, inexhaustibly DIFFERENT, the 25-year-old says:

“Shoshanna’s style is, I think, the exact opposite of mine. We are intrinsically opposite human beings. Her’s is very specific. There’s a lot of pink. I think she likes something tailored. I don’t think Shoshanna would ever wear a shift dress. I think she would refer to it as a “sack” probably; whereas my favorite dress is a dress that my boyfriend calls the “sack dress,” that I would live in if I could. I don’t know where she gets her hairstyles from, but they come from somewhere. It’s like an amalgamation of every fashion mag ever, and probably some from Japan.”

But don’t worry, she still loves Shosh:

Something I love about Shoshanna is how unabashed she is. She puts her foot in her mouth all the time, but she doesn’t apologize for it. She’s very worried about what other people think, but she still really does her own thing.”

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Allison Williams for Glamour Spain January 2014


with her bff Katy Perry in NYC




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Zosia looks so pretty in her shoot <3

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Drake to Host 'Saturday Night Live'

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Drake is headed back to Saturday Night Live, this time as host and musical guest.

He'll be the first host of the new year, pulling double duty on Jan. 18, 2014. Drake was the musical guest back in 2011 but has never hosted.

Drake released his third studio album, Nothing Was the Same, in September.

Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. on NBC.

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new Star Trek TV series in 2016 would make sense

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The new Star Trek series...

It’s been a while since we saw Star Trek on TV. With the success of the new Star Trek films, CBS don’t have much appetite for creating a new series, but will fortunes turn the tide in 2016?




With the 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek franchise in 2016, and the 3rd ‘Star Trek’ film being released (in theory) the same year it would make sense to use the milestone opportunity to launch a ‘new frontier’ on TV.
TV audiences haven’t disappeared for Star Trek, but there is a saturation point and with the big blockbuster releases coming out every few years, it doesn’t make sense to overload the Trek universe. However, it might be time to put the breaks on the movies, and go back to the TV roots after the 3rd film, which is where the franchise was born.

The last Star Trek TV series finished in 2005, 4 years before the new ‘Star Trek’ came out, directed by J.J Abrams and starring Chris Pine. It wasn’t the most successful series of the Star Trek history, but it certainly gained prestige, winning 4 Primetime Emmys.

After the cult success in the 90s of ‘Star Trek : The Next Generation’ and ‘Star Trek : Voyager’, it was always going to be a challenge to create a new storyline. The prequel series, which launched in 2001 was set 100 years prior to the first Star Trek episodes with William Shatner, but was so far out of sync, that it didn’t resonate with the fans as much as the others.

Previous Star Trek movies have been based on TV episodes, but could we see a role reversal where the characters from the new movies get put into a series? Wouldn’t that be interesting?



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Dylan Sprouse from Disney's Suite Life of Zack & Cody nudes leak round 2

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.........is that cum? gorlllll


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Have you ever sent nudes ONTD? Have you ever been exposed? Tell it all

Bristol Palin: "Leave Phil Robertson Alone!"

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From Bristol's Blog dated December 20th, 2013:

Everyone needs to leave Phil Robertson alone for expressing his beliefs. I think it’s so hypocritical how the LGBT community expects every single flippen person to agree with their life style.  This flies in the face of what makes America great – people can have their own beliefs and own opinions and their own ways of life.

Everyone needs to treat others like God would, with love. 

It goes both ways.

I hate how the LGBT community says it’s all about “love” and “equality.” However, if you don’t agree with their lifestyle, they spread the most hate. It is so hypocritical it makes my stomach turn. They need to learn how to respect others’ opinions and not just jump to the conclusion that everyone who doesn’t support homosexuality and gay marriage is homophobic.

They take the easy way out every time anyone speaks out about their beliefs on the Bible.

If I were Duck Dynasty, I would take my show to another channel.


So much disrespect.


This homosexual writer has a lot right about this incident in Time Magazine:


For the record, I’m undecided on whether or not I think Phil actually is homophobic, although I certainly think his statement was offensive, and not only to the LGBT community. But I also think that if I were to spend a day calling ducks with Phil, I’d probably end up liking him — even in spite of his position on gay men. It’s quite possible to throw one’s political support behind traditional, heterosexual marriage, and yet not be bigoted.

I’m reminded of something Bill Maher said during the height of the Paula Deen controversy: “Do we always have to make people go away?” I think the question applies in this situation too.

Why is our go-to political strategy for beating our opponents to silence them? Why do we dismiss, rather than engage them? One of the biggest pop-culture icons of today just took center stage to “educate” us about sexuality. I see this as an opportunity to further the discussion, to challenge his limited understanding of human desire, to engage with him and his rather sizable audience — most of whom, by the way, probably share his views — and to rise above the endless sea of tweet-hate to help move our LGBT conversations to where they need to go.

G.K. Chesterton said that bigotry is “an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.” If he is right — and he usually is — then I wonder if the Duck Dynasty fiasco says more about our bigotry than Phil’s.



Of course, I don’t agree with everything he writes, but I do think we should elevate the conversation, stand for free speech, and let people hold beliefs that you might make you uncomfortable.
It’s what freedom sometimes feels like.

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Z For Zachariah to be shot in NZ

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A new star-studded film set in a remote valley which survives a nuclear holocaust will be shot in New Zealand commencing in late January next year.

The film, produced by Spiderman star Tobey Maguire and Icelandic company Zik Zak Filmworks, is based on the 1974 children's science fiction thriller Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien.

In the book 16-year-old Ann Burden survives a nuclear holocaust and nerve gas attack because her farm is located in a remote valley with its own weather system.

Her belief she is alone is shattered when a scientist arrives in the valley.

The screenplay departs from the book by bringing two men into Anna's orbit, not one.

Amanda Seyfried (Mama Mia) plays Anna while Pine (Captain Kirk in Star Trek Into Darkness) plays one of the men and British star Chiwelel Ejiofor the other.

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DailyFail Tries It - Attempt No. 547: Claims Beyoncé is Shading Miley

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 In response to her Instagram photo where she is wearing a Tom Ford outfit:


They write this headline and story:

She is yet another young pretender to her queen of pop throne. And Beyonce Knowles delivered a very public smackdown to Miley Cyrus after referencing her glorification of Ecstasy in a new Instagram post.
'I don't pop molly...', wrote the 32-year-old, using the nickname for the drug, which Miley sings about in a new song.
The message accompanied an image of Beyonce flaunting her bootylicious curves in a black dress as she attended her album party in New York City.The message comes after Miley makes quite the impression on the remix of French Montana’s song Ain’t Worried About Nothin,’ which debuted on Tuesday. The 20-year-old can be heard singing about the party drug molly, otherwise known as MDMA, which is the active ingredient in Ecstasy pills.
‘Pop a Molly and you know you'll never stop,’ Miley belts out. ‘You think I'm turned up wait until my album drops.’
This is not the first time the former Disney star has referenced the drug in music. In her hit single We Can’t Stop, Miley can be heard singing about ‘dancing with Molly.’ The hit-maker then opened up about the joys of what she calls ‘happy drugs’ in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine last month. She told the magazine's contributing editor Josh Eells: 'One time I smoked a joint with peyote in it, and I saw a wolf howling at the moon.'

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One Direction 2014 tour will top $1 billion

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Huge ticket sales for next year's Where We Are stadium tour have put them on track to surpass rock gods U2 and The Rolling Stones by becoming the first act to break the billion dollar mark (£610million) in a single year.

If that wasn't enough, 1D are also set to eclipse U2's record for average tour attendance which stands at 66,110 for their 2009-2011, 110-show 360° Tour.

U2 and the Stones currently hold the top two spots for onthe-road earnings, raking in £467million and £341million for their 360° and Bigger Bang tours.

Harry, Louis, Liam, Zayn and Niall already have 88 dates booked for 2014 at some of the biggest stadiums in Europe, South America and the US.

Venues that hold 80,000 plus concertgoers have already sold out across the US, as have others across South America and Europe.

A spokesman for the band in the US told Rehab: "Demand was so enormous for Where We Are tickets that 21 American dates had to be added to the original schedule.

"It is absolutely conceivable that still more could be squeezed in before the end of 2014 but that will ultimately be up to the band and its management.

"Until now we hadn't even thought in terms of breaking records.

"But it would be amazing for 1D to climb to the very top of the tour league so early in the group's career. That would be a phenomenal testament to the loyalty and support of their fans."

Last month's release of Midnight Memories saw 1D become the only British band ever to have their first three albums debut at No.1 in the US charts.

The boys are also in a two-horse race with Robbie Williams to land the Christmas No.1 album.
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Leonardo DiCaprio on 'The Wolf of Wall Street' (interview)

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The actor talks to the Daily News about his fifth collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, calling the film is thematically similar to 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino.

Leonardo DiCaprio is living the good life as Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street."

The wolf of “The Wolf of Wall Street” may have been a wild man, a louse and an convicted swindler, but director Martin Scorsese’s antihero Jordan Belfort really knew how to spend his ill-gotten booty.

A huge ocean liner, with a landing pad for his helicopter. A Hamptons estate and Manhattan penthouse. Ferraris and Lamborghinis to drive (and smash). Fantastic food. Trashed Vegas hotels. Expensive suits, bottomless vials of Quaaludes and tons of cocaine to sniff off hookers’ backsides.

“We wanted to create the sense of a modern-day Roman Empire,” says “Wolf” star Leonardo DiCaprio in an exclusive chat with the Daily News. “We wanted the film to have this sense of everyone giving in to every temptation, minus the maidens putting grapes in our mouths.”

He says Jordan Belfort’s 2007 biography of the same title “reflected everything that’s wrong with today’s society. This hedonistic lifestyle, this period in Wall Street’s history when Jordan gave in to every carnal indulgence.

“We purposely didn’t show [Belfort’s] victims. We wanted the film to be a hypnotic ride the audience goes on, so they get lost in this world and not see the destruction left in the wake of this giant ship of greed.”

Still, DiCaprio and Scorsese’s fifth collaboration is a comedic satire, inflating Belfort’s bacchanalia lifestyle in order to puncture it.




“Marty said, ‘We’re gonna talk about a serious subject matter, but it won’t be like taking medicine.’”

It’s a gray moral area the maestro of New York filmmaking has mined before, most memorably in the underworld settings of “Goodfellas” and “Casino.”

“There is a mythology around the notion of ‘honor among thieves,’” says Scorsese. “‘Goodfellas’ showed that maybe there’s not. It’s more primal here. Nobody knows here where the [controlling] hand comes from, which makes it more insidious.”

Yet if Belfort’s story reminds people of other Scorsese films, that may not be a coincidence.

“I don’t want to say that Marty does ‘unconscious trilogies,’ but ‘Wolf’ is thematically the same type of movie as ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Casino,’” says DiCaprio.




“It’s like, ‘What would the kids of those guys in “Goodfellas” go on to do?’ The more I started researching Wall Street, the more I thought, ‘These guys have an underworld mentality.’”

The film is set mainly from Oct. 19, 1987 — aka “Black Monday,” which was actually Belfort’s first day as a broker — to 1998, yet doesn’t feel dated. That’s probably because Wall Street excesses have existed before and will happen again, Volcker Rule or not.

“It feels like it’s about today, tomorrow and yesterday all at once,” says co-producer Joey McFarland. “In that [financial] world, it’s always tempting for everyone to only look out for themselves.”

To convey Belfort’s hard-charging selling power and charm, DiCaprio had constant contact with the man he played, who now lectures on morality in business (see sidebar).

That doesn’t mean they became pals.




“What he did was deplorable,” says DiCaprio. “But I do respect anyone who’s going to be forthright about his mistakes. He’s not the way he was anymore.

“He said to me early on, ‘If you’re going to depict me, let me be even more candid with you than what’s in the book.’ We all know, and he knows, we’re depicting the darker side of his nature.”

DiCaprio optioned Belfort’s book in 2007 — and screenwriter Terence Winter had already read it in galley form. Winter, who worked on “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” was not only a logical screenwriting choice for “Wolf” because of his understanding of cinematic criminality, but also because he shared Belfort’s outer-borough upbringing and even spent time on the Street.
“In 1987, I was a paralegal, and was on the Merrill Lynch trading floor on Black Monday,” says Winter. “It was like being on the deck of the Titanic.”
Winter sees Belfort’s story as a warped American Dream, but also a twisted New York fixation.

“Belfort is from Queens, I’m from Brooklyn — there’s that bridge-and-tunnel thing, where [glamour and wealth] are so close, it’s like Oz,” says Winter.

To prepare, DiCaprio spent time on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

“There’s a lot of responsible people in that job,” says the actor. “But you can see how excess can run rampant.

“That attitude is not just Wall Street — it’s part of human nature,” adds the three-time Oscar nominee. “There are people in Hollywood who are manipulative and obsessed with wealth. It’s anywhere there’s power.’”

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Henry Rollins slams Daft Punk and Miley Cyrus

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Henry Rollins has laid into Daft Punk and Miley Cyrus.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the former Black Flag frontman criticised the artists featured in the magazine, picking out the 'Random Access Memories' duo and Cyrus, along with Kelly Clarkson and Robin Thicke as being particularly unworthy of his attention.

He said: "I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on? You know what, you will take this any way you will. That to me is like Rolling Stone music. It's the shit that's in your magazine. And it's like, that world... I'm so glad that you all have found your people, but that world is so alienating to me. Anything that gets on the Grammys or the American Music Awards... like, was Miley Cyrus on the cover of your magazine?"

Of Cyrus, he added: "She's part of that bigger world of music I was just talking about. All of it to me is like, long may it wave, I don't have anything against anyone doing their thing, but it's just not for me. I like real music. John Coltrane's my favourite musician, what am I doing reading Rolling Stone, you know what I mean?"

He went on to say he has no idea what Robin Thicke sounds like, and has never heard Kelly Clarkson. "I live in a different musical world," he said, before talking about the situation with his former bandmates in Black Flag and variant Flag.

"I'm not interested in the past unless it's the rerelease of a record; I'm not interested in my own past that much. But I've heard that the Flag thing is pretty powerful. I've never seen it, but I know some people whose opinions I respect who went. And they said it was solid. It is what it is: men in their 50s playing 30-year-old music. But as far as the politic of all of it, what's going on with all of those people, I stayed well away from it. I'm looking forward to 2014 and what will come."

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Top Comedy Episodes of 2013

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This is part two of my yearly list of the year's best episodes. Part one, the dramas list, is here, along with a bit of ruminating on terminology and format: sitcom versus drama, half-hour versus hour, and where the distinctions start to blur.

As I did last year, I've mixed in live-action half-hour and hour scripted shows with cartoons. I know some readers don't think that's fair, because animation gives storytellers a level of visual freedom that you can't get with actors and sets (not on a TV sitcom budget, anyway). But as far as I'm concerned, a story is a story is a story, and once you've committed it to paper, the rest is structure, style, and performance.

Share your own picks — or argue with mine! — in the comments section.

1. Arrested Development, Season Four
Am I cheating by counting all of season four as one episode? Maybe. The Netflixed fourth season of Arrested Development also claimed the No. 1 slot on my series list for its structural innovations and kooky visionary grandeur. But think of it this way: There isn't a single self-contained episode of this series that feels truly complete until you've watched the whole season, preferably in a binge-type situation that assures that setups from one or two episodes ago pay off in whatever chapter you're watching at that moment. So where does that leave us, definition-wise? Is season four a rare example of what cinema-cowed TV producers keep insisting they've made: a long movie? I don't think so, because the entire season doesn't feel like a movie broken into pieces, as Neftlix's Americanized version of House of Cards did, and as the miniseries Top of the Lake; Arrested Development has the rhythms of a sitcom, not a very long film, and it's practically Cubist in the way it stages and restages key moments, or shows us the "beginning" or "end" of a scene we already thought we'd seen the "beginning" or "end" of in an early episode. (Orange Is the New Black, which I've cited below on this list, attempted something similar, but it wasn't as radical in the way it leapt around in time and space — and it is possible to treat particular episodes as self-contained, or at least satisfying, stories.) As Ellen DeGeneres might say, my point — and I do have one — is this: The fourth season of Arrested Development isn't just a lark and a puzzle, it's an innovative work that confounds the usual distinctions between the season and the episode, as well as the usual distinctions between episodic television as "a long movie."

3. Girls, "One Man's Trash"
Wherein Girls creator and star Lena Dunham and guest star Patrick Wilson enact the arc of a whole relationship in less than two days. This episode prompted some arguments about whether anything that occurred in it was supposed to be perceived as "real," but the script fudged that subtly enough that you weren't entirely sure how to take the affair, much less what impact it had on the heroine's emotional development or what it revealed about her limitations.

4. 30 Rock, "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World"
Liz Lemon and the gang hatch a plan to save The Girly Show by seeking sponsorship from Bro Body Douche; its exec wants to re-title the program Man Cave and have Liz supervise it under the pseudonym Todd Debeikis, to hide her gender. It’s a great meta episode of an already super-meta sitcom — creator Tina Fey is working through some real anxieties and grievances here — but it's also one of the show's tightest, funniest half-hours. The B-plot, in which new Kabletown CEO Jack Donaghy leads potential successors on a talent-scouting tour modeled on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — is a feast of sustained silliness.

5. Parks and Recreation, "Recall Vote"
Leslie gets depressed after losing the recall election; Tom and Ron desperately try to save Rent-a-Swag; the office sets up a haunted house. Pretty much every mode that Parks and Recreation does well is represented here: shtick, relationship humor, office politics, regular politics, and the gap between our dreams and reality.

10. Veep, "Running"
A hilarious show that's not known for real-world political complexity (or terribly interested in it, really) aired a stingingly observant half-hour with "Running," which finds Selina chafing at the tight spot that her vice-presidency has wedged her into. Her boss's administration seems to be cratering, but she can't set up the pieces for her own redemptive presidential run without seeming like a disloyal schemer. What's a veep to do?


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In her own words - Beyoncé Answers Fan Questions During Director’s Cut Screening of Her New Album

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Beyoncé held a private screening of her new visual album Saturday night at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in dowtown Manhattan. Dressed in an amazing Tom Ford dress and sickening Tom Ford boots, Bey answered fan questions via Instagram.

She talked about growth, what it meant for her to finally release such a ‘brave’ project, feeling empowered as a mother, who exactly is Yoncé, and much more.


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Guitar legend Carlos Santana reunites with old drummer who now lives off the streets

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"And if you say this life ain't good enough
I would give my world to lift you up"
These are the lyrics of the guitar legend Carlos Santana's award winning song Smooth from the album Supernatural. He now has the opportunity to actually live up to these lyrics after being reunited with his old drummer, Marcus Malone, about 40 years after parting ways.

Marcus Malone has been living on the streets for decades. All he has to boast about, unlike the rockstar who made it big, is a $800 pair of discarded jeans he found himself in trash.
"My name is Marcus, Marcus Malone. At one time I was in the Santana band, the original Santana Blues Band," the landscaper tells Stanley Roberts, a news reporter in Oakland, California.

"Now I'm homeless and on the streets," he tells the reporter while rummaging through piles of trash for valuables.

Turns out, he was telling the truth - he was the percussionist for the band. He was forced to quit some 40 years ago in the late '60s due to personal problems.


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ONTD do you have any homeless friends?

Chris Cornell and The Civil Wars’ Joy Williams Team Up For “Misery Chain”

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Joy Williams might not be ready to reconcile with John Paul White, but she’s found a lookalike duet partner in Chris Cornell. The two hit up David Letterman earlier this week to croon and crescendo their way through “Misery Chain,” the pair’s contribution to the 12 Years a Slave soundtrack. It’s a murky, melancholic tune, caught somewhere between the worlds of gospel, Americana, blues and jazz. Cornell sounds pretty fantastic, like some sort of raspy, devil-may-care tenor who dropped out of music school to go smoke pot beneath the bleachers. And Williams? Well, she always sounds fantastic. If this is what happens while Williams and White continue to fight about whatever it is they’re fighting about, then we’re gonna cross “Civil Wars truce” off of our Christmas wish list.

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