February 2012
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January 2012
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Wait, Rick Perry was still running for president?
Did you guys hear? Apparently Rick Perry, everyone’s favorite racist, mass murderer Texas governor, Rick Perry, has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination. In even bigger news, apparently Rick Perry was STILL running for president as late as yesterday!
I honestly thought Perry had dropped out months ago. I mean there was the whole Republicans at a debate cheering for his...
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The Top 10 Albums of 2011
Ladies and gentlemen, here we are. The end of the line. List season is officially over because this is THE BIG ONE. Many hours of intense soul searching went into this one, and the final decision was not easy. Now I’m not trying to make it sound like putting this list together wasn’t fun, because it was. I’m trying to communicate to you that we here at The Sauced Bulletin...
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The Best Albums of 2011: Honorable Mention
All right people, we’re nearing the end of our struggle. “What struggle?” you might ask. Why, the one we’ve been engaged in since early December: systematically categorizing and ranking an entire year’s worth of music until we arrive at the music that was THE BEST. And this week we will find out just which 10 albums were better than all the other ones, at least...
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Well, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was pretty...
I mean hey, it blew The Descendants and The Artist out of the water in every conceivable way, but THAT’S JUST ME! Don’t worry, it probably won’t win anything significant in America because it’s too dark, too confusing, and too….well, British.
But it was great and you should go see it while you have the chance! Gary Oldman continues to be the fucking man.
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The Top Songs of 2011-Part Two!! (aka The TOP 10)
Here they are, folks. The best of the best. The creme de la creme. The 10 songs from this past year that were better than all the other ones! At least in our opinion! I mean sure, there were HUNDREDS of songs released this year (some would even say thousands). I think Rihanna had like 70 or 80 top ten singles alone, and you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing some rehashed...
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And so it begins: The Top Songs of 2011 - Part...
Yeah, I know 2011 is over and we’re a few days into 2012. What of it!? these lists are hard to make! They take time, which is something I didn’t have much of over the Christmas/New Years holiday week of debauched extravaganza-ing. But don’t worry, it’s still totally acceptable to recap 2011 at this point because nothing has happened in 2012 yet. No albums of note...
December 2011
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Newbies: The Top 5 Debut Albums of 2011
It’s not quite Christmas yet, but since you guys have been so good, you can open one present early this year. And that present is: our Top 5 Debut Albums of 2011! Woohoo! I know, we shouldn’t have, but you really don’t have to thank us. We here at The Sauced Bulletin are all about encouraging new, awesome bands to continue making music, which is the point of this list. So...
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The Golden Globe Nominations Be Crazy
So they released the nominations for the 2012 Golden Globes the other day and, first of all, who cares? I mean what is this thing even? An awards show that attempts to cover all of film AND television? What a dumb idea. We already have the Oscars and the Emmy’s, so what the fuck is your deal, Golden Globes?
But, the extraneous nature of the Golden Globes aside, they are considered to...
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The List You Don't Want to Be On: The 3 Most...
The way I see it, year-end lists can’t be all fun and games. Sure it’s nice to collectively praise all the great music that was released in the past year, giving credit where credit is due to artists who gave us worthwhile projects that we’ll be listening to and enjoying for years to come. But what about those other albums? What about the albums that let us down, that we...
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Rolling Stone released their Top 50 Albums of 2011...
Click here to check out Rolling Stone’s ludicrous list of the supposed Top 50 Albums of 2011. Certain albums aren’t as high as they should be (St. Vincent, Bon Iver, Kurt Vile, Florence), certain ones are way, WAY higher than they should be (My Morning Jacket, Kanye and Jay-Z, Adele) and certain important albums have been omitted entirely (M83, Neon Indian, The War on Drugs, Atlas...
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Hey guys, guess what!?!? It's.....
That’s right! It’s DECEMBER now. I mean it has been for a few days, but I’m just now getting around to posting so SHUT UP.
Ahh…December. The best month of the year. Know why? Because it has Christmas, of course, New Year’s Eve, and my birthday! (December 19, will only accept money as a gift). Could it get any better!?!?
Oh, but it can. Because December...
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THIS JUST IN: Herman Cain will not be president. ...
Was anyone honestly surprised when Herman Cain announced today that he’ll be suspending his campaign? I mean we knew this was coming right? The instant the first sexual assault charge was leveled against him, Herman Cain’s chances of winning the GOP nomination were over. Like come on, if Bill Clinton was almost impeached over a blowjob, how could Herman Cain possibly get elected. ...
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BREAKING: New Flora & Fauna!!!
You guys, you know Flora & Fauna? Of course you do because they’re your favorite band! Wait, they’re not your favorite band? Who said that? GET THE HELL OFF MY BLOG!!!
Are they gone? Ok good. Anyway, for the rest of you, your favorite LA-based indie band, Flora & Fauna, have a new song out! It’s called “Secret Preference” and it’s awesome. ...
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Michele Bachmann Solves Gay Marriage: Have you...
At a recent townhall meeting in Iowa at a place called the Waverly Pizza Ranch (which, you know, of course), Michelle Bachmann further demonstrated how much of an uneducated bigot she is in front of some kids. You can watch the clip here, courtesy of Videogum (hey guys!).
Did you watch it? HOLY SHIT, this woman. She’s supposed to be a presidential candidate and that teenager just OWNED...
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My Annual Post About How Strange the Grammy...
So the Grammy People, or whatever their governing body is called, released their nominations yesterday for what has become the most laughably out of touch awards show around: The Grammys! Honestly, does anyone even watch and/or care about the Grammys anymore? Do the Grammys actually reward the best music released in the past year with the recognition it deserves? These are questions for...
November 2011
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OMFG TWILIGHT ZOMG LOL!!!!!!!!!!
I guess, as the writer of an entertainment blog (or whatever this is), I would be remiss on some level if I didn’t mention that the new Twilight movie is out today. It’s called “Breaking Dawn - Part 1” (Part 1!!!) and, if the trailer is any indication, it’s going to be horrible. But that won’t stop adolescent girls and creepy middle-aged women from coming...
WatchOh fuck yeah. Get ready everyone for some new tunes from your favorite LA indie band. And if you missed their last double A-side monster single, and I have no fucking clue how you could have, get it here.
floraandfauna:
One track at a time. New single and EP coming soon.
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So the new Drake album is.......really good!
I remember when Drake first came out I always heard him mentioned at the same time as Kid Cudi. They were both young hip-hop artists with a penchant for slow, murky beats and emotional lyrics. And not like forced, fake angry, straining for credibility Eminem-style emotion, but real-sounding emotion. Identifiable emotions like when you’re sad and lonely at 3am and you know the girl you...
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So like, Rick Perry and Herman Cain don't get to...
After what’s gone down in the last week or so, I think we can safely call it a day for the “campaigns” of Rick Perry and Herman Cain, don’t you think? I mean one of them can’t put together a cohesive sentence, or remember important elements of his policies. And the other one has apparently sexually harassed every woman he’s ever worked with. You don’t...
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You guys, I'm worried about The Walking Dead
I don’t know how many of you watch this show, but The Walking Dead is a pretty cool show on AMC about life during/after the zombie apocalypse. Last season it felt fresh and original and every episode that I recall was pretty full of tension and suspense. But something seems to have gone horribly wrong with season 2, with last night’s episode representing the nadir of the series so...
BREAKING NEWS: Justin Bieber may have fathered an...
Ladies, and by ladies I mean 13 year old girls, you might not want to read the rest of this post. Things are getting pretty GROWN UP in Justin Bieber land, and I don’t know if all of you have the emotional maturity to handle the news. But here goes:
According to various news sources, such as this article at CBS.com, a California woman has declared J-Biebs to be the father of her...
The Ides of March: let the year of Ryan Gosling...
Politics! Intrigue! Lying and cheating! Shit goes down in the new political thriller The Ides of March, sexily directed by George Clooney. I was not surprised to learn, during the end credits, that this movie is based on a play. Because that’s exactly what it feels like! Not in a bad way, but just in the way that the whole movie is essentially just really good actors talking to each...
October 2011
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Fox & Friends can't get over Grinnell University's...
Oh boy. So this is the kind of day it’s going to be, huh? Did you watch the link? WATCH IT! Watched it? Good. So I get to work today, turn on my computer, and there in front of me is the cast of Fox & Friends just laughing it up in a mixture of horror and incredulity at Grinnell University’s new gender neutral floors. GENDER NEUTRAL FLOORS!?!? You heard it here first,...
Coldplay gets 7.0 from Pitchfork; Hell Reportedly...
As you guys know, I read a lot of Pitchfork (yeah, yeah boo Pitchfork, elitist snobby hipsters, blah blah WHATEVER). Wine all you want, but they write the best music reviews I’ve come across and most of the time I agree with/trust their opinions…. Well most of the time…ok some of the time…
ANYWAY, the big news today is that Coldplay’s new record Mylo Xyloto has...
THIS JUST IN: Iraq War officialy done. Also, it...
You guys, President Obama announced today that all the troops will be coming home by the end of this year and the Iraq War (which has been going on for what feels like my entire life) is done. Seriously, it’s finished! DONEZO! For real this time. Not like “Mission Accomplished” done. But for real done!
Here we have direct footage from the president’s press...
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You guys, I have some news about Sammi and...
You guys should sit down. Are you sitting down? Now I don’t want you to freak out, and I want you to know that this is in no way your fault, but Sammi and Ronnie, of the Emmy-winning unscripted TV drama Jersey Shore, have broken up. Again. Apparently they do this a lot, so I don’t know why I told you to sit. But are you ok? Do you need some tissues? Time heals all wounds,...
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Remember how said my copy of the new M83 record was coming today? Well it came! BUT, and there are two very significant buts here, problems arose.
1. The record lacked the little slip that normally comes with a vinyl album saying “Here’s the code for your free digital download!” Um, excuse me Mute records, but this had better be a joke, or a mistake. Every record label, and...
NEW M83 ALBUM TODAY!!!!!
That picture up there is me at my front door waiting for the UPS guy to bring me my vinyl copy of the new M83 record Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. It’s a double album, it’s supposed to be huge, nuts and, by all accounts, AWESOME! SO WHY ISN’T IT HERE YET!?!?
An actual review will be here in a few says, once I’ve had time to digest all 72 glorious minutes of...
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Welcome to The Great Depression 2: 2Great...
Well, it happened just like everyone said it would. President Obama’s jobs act, something that (if you believe in polls) most Americans actually supported, was killed in congress today by the Republicans. Not one, NOT ONE, Republican representative would even agree to talk about it, let alone vote for it. What catty bitches!
This was a bill that, according to this article from noted...
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Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost is good but kind...
I’ll admit that it took me a little while to warm to Girls’ debut album, Album (get it?), back when it came out. I found Christopher Owens’ vocals off-putting at first, and the songs and lyrics seemed a bit too simplistic. But, the more I listened, the more I started to dig what was going on. I realized just how catchy songs like “Lust for Life” and...
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Conservative Response to Occupy Wall Street: "Oh...
So by now I assume you’ve all heard about this Occupy Wall Street big crazy protest thing. People have been camping out all over the place in New York for almost a month in order to speak out against corporate greed and the general fucked up-edness of the current American economic climate. Which is great! Let me take this opportunity to say that I think this whole movement is awesome and...
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BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Palin NOT Running for...
September 2011
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The GOP Candidates: Uh......Good luck?
I was watching the news this morning (oh yes, I watch the news from time to time) and the people on my TV were talking about some poll or whatever that just happened regarding the republican presidential candidates. At one point they showed a graphic of all the GOP hopefuls and it suddenly hit me: none of them has a fucking chance at being Obama. NOT ONE! Please. These people?
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Era Extrana: Neon Indian gets cinematic on...
Of all the artists saddled with the “chillwave” moniker in the past few years, Neon Indian always struck me as the one most dedicated to sounding like the 1980s. Lo-fi production, warm synths, electro drums; the feeling that you were hearing something recorded in a bedroom, watching the dust particles float through the sunlight, was always present. You know that I’m talking...
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Radiohead plays the FUCK out of The Colbert Report
As you guys know, I generally try to report on any and all significant Radiohead news, and there was some yesterday! Last night Radiohead (aka The Greatest Band in the World) took over The Colbert Report! They were the show’s primary focus, performing a bunch of songs and even talking to Stephen Colbert. The whole episode is right here! Watch as Thom Yorke and Ed O’Brien kind of...
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Contagion aka Gwyneth Paltrow Destroys the World
Contagion is a big, BIG movie. I don’t mean like Avatar, break all the box office records-big. I don’t even mean like “important” big. Contagion attempts to tell a really large-scale story with a giant cast well known actors. This is the film’s strength, but also its biggest weakness. But don’t get me wrong, it was pretty good!
By now you know what the...
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Drive: Ryan Gosling + Badassery + Synths =...
I always find it interesting to be in the audience for a film that is wildly different from what people expect it to be. The trailers for Drive, while not completely misleading (like the ones for Catfish were), would lead you to believe that this is a pretty straightforward action film about car chases and a heist gone wrong. The thing is, it actually IS those things, but the way...
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James Cameron says Avatar 2 and 3 will be SHOT...
James Cameron recently told reporters that he’s pulling to shoot the next two Avatar movies (yes, those) at 60 frames/second, rather than the standard 24fps. You can read what he told The Hollywood Reporter here. Basically he says it will make the 3D better, like taking glass away from a window or some shit.
Great! Because the only problem with Avatar was, you know, how it looked. That...
Strange Mercy: St. Vincent's dark masterpiece...
I’m going to get this out of the way now so we can get on with the rest of the review: Annie Clark is a beautiful woman. She has a very stately, demure, and all-around gorgeous fairy-like quality to her. She’s pretty, ok?! So for the rest of this review of her new record, Strange Mercy, I’m going to do my best to focus on the music and put aside thoughts of how nice it...
The Debt: 8/10 Because who doesn't like some...
It is a well known fact that people like to see Nazis die in movies. Ever since WWII ended Hollywood has gotten a lot of mileage out of showing those bastards get what’s coming to them. Whole films are built around it. Even more specifically, whole films are built around the theme of Jews (usually badass Mossad agents) killing the aforementioned Nazis. Israelis killing Nazis can...
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In the Mood for Love: 10/10 (Duh)
So for the past week or so I’ve been on a bit of a Wong Kar Wai binge. Chungking Express while on set (hey guys!), Fallen Angels, and now finally In the Mood for Love (I skipped Happy Together because I was so excited about this one, but I’ll go back don’t worry!). As you can see above, in our new and improved ratings system this movie gets a perfect score. What a good way...
HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND YOU GUYS!
(above: family on Labor Day weekend obviously)
So it’s apparently Labor Day weekend. Hooray! I’m not actually sure what that means, or what we’re all supposed to do. Sounds like we should all be working, right!? LABOR day? Well that’s what I’ll be doing. People seem to view Labor Day as some kind of unofficial end to summer, I guess because all the...
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"Intro" by M83 aka An Epic Start to an Epic
Remember back when M83 mastermind/acid wizard Anthony Gonzalez said that his new record would be “very, very, very epic”? Well here’s the first track off said record and it’s, um, SO FUCKING EPIC! It’s called “Intro” and features the gothed-out wailings of Zola Jesus (aka Stevie Nicks mark II). Synths build on top of impassioned vocals on top of more...
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The Netflix Price Hike Day of Reckoning was...
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I forgot to cancel the physical DVD component of my Netflix account! FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! Now I’m going to be charged $16 a month instead of the old $9.
Yeah, you heard it folks. If you have the good old Netflix basic package of one DVD at a time and unlimited online viewing, your bill just got jacked the...
The Sauced Bulletin Promise
Ok you guys, I want to talk to you for a minute. I want to talk to you about us. More importantly, I want to talk to you about us and this blog. This blog is the intermediary between you and me, which would be us if the blog weren’t in the way. But the blog isn’t in the way because without the blog there wouldn’t be an us in the first place because we never would have found...