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From Rihanna going #seapunk to the most intense Kanye performance ever, this was a banner year for music on Saturday Night Live. Frank Ocean, "Thinkin' About You" [Sep. 15, 2012] Source: youtube.com Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, "Can't Hold Us" [Mar. 2, 2013] Paul McCartney with Nirvana, "Cut Me Some Slack" [Dec. 15, 2012] Rihanna, "Diamonds" [Nov. 10, 2012] Source: youtube.com View Entire List ›

Last night's episode will never be remembered for its host Ben Affleck, who received little fanfare for his fifth hosting stint on the show, which combined with the fact that it was the season finale, likely made us more forgiving of Affleck as host. In his monologue, he brought out his wife, Jennifer Garner, and they awkwardly joked about his awkward Oscar acceptance speech earlier this year. It was, at best, a charming failure. His first sketch, an Argo send up, was nearly as charmingly bumbling, and the only reason to even watch is for a hilarious self-effacing joke Affleck made. It was followed by one of the better parody commercials of the season for Xanax: For Summer Gay Weddings. Affleck is kind of like that hot waitperson who is both enthusiastic about his job, and embarrassed to be there, and for whatever reason, that mix elicits a kind of amiable sympathy, as was the case in this depression skit, a watchable misfire. What made Ben Affleck the perfect host for the season finale, however, was his graciousness, and the fact that he was totally cool to give up the spotlight to two long-time departing cast members, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader, who -- along with Jason Sudeikis, who is also rumored to be leaving -- dominated the night's sketches (ironically, Bill Hader's very first appearance on "SNL" was in an episode hosted by Affleck). Hader would get his farewell sketch on "Weekend Update" as Stefon, which was absolutely terrific, and featured the return of Amy Poehler doing another "Really?!" segment with Meyers. It felt like something of a goodbye for Meyers, too, although I understand he will return next winter, ahead of his new gig on "Late Night." Stefon's wedding has EVERYTHING. Armisen also got a big farewell, a sweet song he performed with Bill Hader, Aimee and Michael Penn, his "Portlandia" co-star, Carrie Brownstein, and several other familiar faces. Kanye West did a fantastic job of trying to detract attention away from Hader and Armisen, however, with two new songs called "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves." I have no idea what to say about the performances. But beyond Ben Affleck's gracious hosting gig, Stefon's farewell, Fred Armisen's song, and Kanye West's numbers, in the end, the night may be best remembered for a single line by Cecily Strong. "Whole hand in." It was probably the single funniest line of the entire season, in a sketch that somehow gets better each time she and Vanessa Bayer trot it out. Overall, it was a great episode, not for what it did, but for what it represented. So long, Fred Armisen. So long, Stefon (and Bill Hader)! If you get a chance, find the entire episode on Hulu later just to see Hader and Armisen's goofy, emotional waves during the cast farewell (and Sudeikis, like last year's finale, looked pissed again).

The pair star in Aselton’s new movie Black Rock . On being a female filmmaker, she says: “I think if you have a movie to make, make it. If you happen to have a vagina, that’s okay. Still make it.” Lake Bell, Katie Aselton and Kate Bosworth Via: Jason Merritt / Getty Images Right in the middle of our phone conversation, as Katie Aselton is describing how making the dark action flick Black Rock came from a desire to stretch her legs creatively and move her body and "hurt somebody," she pauses, waits a beat, and then declares: "I think we just had an earthquake. Not a bad one. Just a jiggle."And then, just like that, she suggests we continue on with the interview, like the ground hadn't just rearranged below Hollywood."It literally just felt like a big truck drove by, but we're in a massive hotel, so it's not possible that the building could have shook from a truck," she says. "Continue, next question. I'm still alive. Everything is still on the wall. You're good to go."The 34-year-old Aselton, an actress-writer-director, seems to take a lot of tectonic shifts in stride. She established herself through entirely anti-establishment means, co-founding the so-called mumblecore movement alongside her husband and creative partner, Mark Duplass, her co-star on FX's The League. Black Rock, which Duplass wrote, is her second directorial effort, a film that, in and of itself, is something of a groundbreaker: a survival thriller featuring three women leads that isn't genre torture porn, a damsels in distress trope, or stylized action from the overactive imagination of a comic book writer.Black Rock, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and hits theaters in limited release on Friday, features Aselton, Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth as three childhood friends reuniting in a house on the small island where they used to vacation together. Their reunion has its emotional difficulties — Aselton and Bell's characters are estranged, and neither realize Bosworth, their mutual friend, had invited them both in hopes of forcing a reconciliation — but old resentments quickly fall by the wayside. A night spent camping and drinking with three men (recent dishonorable discharges from Iraq as it turns out) begets an attempted rape, a self-defense killing, and a Battle Royale-style island faceoff, an actual war between the sexes.The three women in Black Rock have no formal fight training, and much of the movie is dominated by tactical fleeing and flailing, desperate combat."I choreographed as little as absolutely possible, because I loved the idea that these girls weren't fighters and didn't have those skills and didn't throw a punch before, so I specifically told Lake please don't work out, don't get any type of fight training," Aselton explains. "I had never held a gun until we shot this movie. That was terrifying, to hold up a gun to someone. I had never been in a kerfuffle. So I wanted it to be messy and weird and kind of ugly, and we did that. And we have all the bumps and bruises and scrapes and scars to prove it." Source: filmequals.com Bell says she particularly enjoyed the experience both because neither she or Aselton are a major studio's first choice when it comes time to cast an ass-kicking woman, and, just as her director/co-star points out, the ass-kicking they did was particularly sloppy."That just becomes live or die, whether you're a woman or a man. I think there are definitely some girl power elements to it," she explains. "There are parts of levity and comedy, because these are real people who are messy and they don't have ninja skills. In real life, when something's scary is going on, there are moments that are awkward. It's not like boom-boom-boom. It's not like there's a score going on and everything is action packed. There are m

Technically, yes, this is a video about building bikes, but really it’s much more. Shot over the course of two days, The Bike Maker is really about dealing with adversity, uncertainty, and finding a purpose in life. It also features a bike made without a seat. Just watch it.

YouTube/CBS The sitcom is a staple of the American television experience. Wholesome, simple, for years its familiar laugh track has served as the cue for us to turn off our brains, curl up on the couch and descend into a blissful, stupid nirvana. But beneath the placid simplicity of these shows which have contributed mightily to television’s well deserved nickname of the idiot box, there occasionally lies a disturbing world of weirdos, degenerates and outright freaks. We thought we’d take a look at a few of these shows and hopefully, through this, you can learn that sometimes the simple sitcom isn’t so simple, but is a roiling cauldron of sin, depression and utter depravity. Ahem. I’ll calm down now. Anyway, let’s do this.Photo credit: YouTube/CBS 7 ‘Saved by the Bell’ While, on the surface, this simple show about high school kids in Southern California seemed innocent and wholesome enough, the reality is much more sinister. First of all, Zach Morris was damn near a sociopath. Ultra-charismatic, good looking, from a fairly well off family, he was almost the teenaged version of Patrick Bateman. Zach did whatever he wanted whenever he wanted and didn’t care about the consequences. And he did it all with a smile and an easy charm. It wouldn’t be that hard to imagine a 30 year-old Zach ordering his good buddy Screech to dig a grave in the backyard while he chases a hooker or two through his house, naked, wielding a chainsaw. And don’t even get me started on Mr. Belding, that hapless old fiend. As the years go by, he finds himself sucked deeper and deeper into the world and personal lives of a bunch of teenagers. And everyone is fine with this! They even all found themselves “coincidentally” vacationing at the same Hawaiian beach resort. By the time Kelly and Jesse disappeared in the final season, I’m guessing Zach and Belding would have been running neck and neck in the suspect department. 6 ‘Charles in Charge’ Originally, young Charles, played by Scott Baio, was a college student hired to work as a live-in babysitter by the Pembroke family. I know if I needed to hire a live-in babysitter, the first person I’d turn to would be some random college dude. I mean… come on. But it gets weirder -– and far more disturbing — than that. Eventually, the Pembroke family is ordered to move across country by the good people at Nielsen and in moves the Powell family and somehow, Charles is apparently just sold right along with the house, because he immediately becomes the live-in babysitter for this new family. Hey, why not? I mean, sure, he’s just a college kid we found living in the basement of our new house and he has a creepy best friend who may be the horniest man alive and yeah, we have two teenaged daughters, but what the hell, it’s hard to find good help these days. Really? 5 ‘Alf’ This one’s sort of self-explanatory, right? I mean, come on, the whole plot of the show revolves around a nice, normal family essentially adopting an alien. Yeah, Alf looks like a Muppet and he’s quick with the jokes, but still, would you allow an alien to just chill in your house when you’ve got kids running around? Especially a slovenly, cynical asshole of an alien with a ravenous appetite? “Hey Alf, can you watch the kids while I run to the supermarket?” “Sure thing, Willie!” “Thanks, pal. Oh, and Alf? Can you try not to eat the damn cat or probe the children?” “No promises, Willie.” Sounds like a good situation to me! 4 ‘Full House’ Probably most famous for spawning the demon Olsen Twins and for Bob Saget playing perhaps the lamest man who ever lived, Full House was for years a staple of ABC’s TGIF lineup of shows. But what no one ever really talks about was how weird it was that Danny Tanner willingly created an environment in which his daughters essentially had three fathers all living under the same roof. I mean, it’s weird enough for a single father to li

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The latest video exposé of the power of makeup in the hands of Japanese women has been circulating online to the usual howls of terror… This time the comparison comes courtesy of “S Cawaii,” which proclaims that “girls change themselves as much as they want with the weapon called makeup!” and kindly warns men to “exercise discretion in viewing”:

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Family love anime Ore no Imouto brings out a new episode centered around the awkward relationship between Kyosuke and Ruri Gokou – a change in direction that may hopefully change opinion amongst the show’s notoriously polarised fans… Omake: