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Requiem for a Dream Gets Re-Imagined with Puppets

You’d think adding puppets might lighten the mood for anything, but as a Fake Film Fest entry proves, that’s not necessarily true. A video posted by Skelemo on YouTube depicts Darren Aronofsky’s classic Requiem for a Dream with puppets, and the result is, well, super creepy. The re-imagined clip was done by Brendan James Boyd, Jess Wood, Matthew Jacques, Marcela Rausch, Ali Hasan, Dusty Hagerud, and Karla Kampars with music by Michael Gordon, Live for Films pointed out. Take a look below to see the film’s most recognized scenes recreated, including the signature shot of an eye dilating, only this...  read more

Ask Community's Dean Pelton Anything You Want

Ever wanted to ask the flamboyant dean of Greendale Community College a question? Now you can thanks to Ask Dean Pelton, a hilarious Tumblr that offers people the chance to ask Dean Pelton burning questions that are answered with unique drawings of the man himself. Most questions involve how good-looking Jeff Winger is or what it feels like to hug Jeff Winger or what Jeff Winger’s torso is like (we’re getting the feeling Community fans are just as obsessed with Winger as the Dean is), but since the site just started a few weeks ago, we’re sure that a variety...  read more

Reading Rainbow Twitter Handle Returned to Its Rightful Owner

It’s always great to see something returned to its rightful owner, especially when that “something” is Reading Rainbow’s Twitter account and that someone is Levar Burton. Maybe it was his appearance on Community that showed the former Reading Rainbow host how important the show was to some people. Because just yesterday, Burton tried contacting the account @readingrainbow, which hadn’t tweeted in three years, to try to reach out to fans of the show. At first, Burton tweeted directly at the account, but then moved on to higher authorities, and within hours Twitter seems to have taken care of that problem...  read more

Listen to the Flaming Lips Collaborate with Siri

The Flaming Lips’ recent track “Now I Understand” has an unexpected —and not even human— guest on it. The track samples Siri, the super-intelligent personal assistant found on most iPhones. The track sees Siri directly addressing frontman Wayne Coyne, stating “Wayne, I don’t understand the moon, the stars and the sun.” Apparently the Lips’ music changed that for the monotone PA, who comes to some sort of resolution at the end. Take a listen to the track below. ...  read more

Watch the Return of Ferris Bueller

The Internet blew up last night with the mysterious 10-second video of a middle-aged Ferris Bueller claiming, “How can I handle work on a day like today?” The date of the Super Bowl pops up on a black screen, which made many believe it was just a great marketing scheme to prep for a Super Bowl commercial. Now Chicagoist (a website from Ferris’ hometown) has reported that a source claims it is a teaser for a Honda commercial. Oh, how the mighty Ferris has fallen. Remember when he drove around town in a Ferrari? It looks like he had his...  read more

Watch What Happens When a Cell Phone Rings During a Recital

During a recital, a classically trained musician requires and deserves complete silence. We’ve all seen the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry and Elaine laugh over a Pez dispenser and it causes George’s pianist girlfriend to go on a tirade. For some reason we love seeing people freak out, but this is a fresh take on responding to a disturbance in the audience. Watch how this violist (that’s someone who plays the viola, if you didn’t know) handles a a cell phone ringing during his performance. ...  read more

Bon Joviver - "You Give Love a Bad Name"

Here are three things we absolutely love: Bon Iver, ‘80s rock and song covers. Miracles of Modern Science decided to take Bon Jovi’s classic “You Give Love a Bad Name” and perform it in the style of Justin Vernon’s band. The video they filmed is only a snippet of the song, but here’s hoping if enough people ask for it, we shall receive a full length song. Check out the video below and be sure to demand a full version of this Bon Joviver song. ...  read more

Watch President Obama Sing Al Green

Today you can go ahead and add “singer” to the President’s list of duties. At a recent fundraiser, President Obama broke out into a few bars, and in case you can’t tell from the crowd’s reaction, it went over pretty well. And he just doesn’t just sing—he sings Al Green. I mean, come on. ...  read more

Movies From An Alternate Universe

What if James Dean starred in Drive? What about the Rat Pack in The Hangover? Can’t imagine it? Well, thanks to Peter Stults we can now see movie posters with a unique spin. He posted a series of movie posters from an alternate universe over at Behance that include classic actors starring in modern movies. Take a look at some of our favorites below and be sure to check out his entire collection. ...  read more

The Official SOPA Protest Song: "The Day the LOLCats Died"

We just published an article recently about how there hasn’t been a great protest song of this generation. Well, looks like we were wrong. It turns out Ben Huh was just waiting for something worthy of a protest in the eyes of the technology generation. Today’s blackout from sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Live Journal in response to SOPA/PIPA is only a stepping stone. Now there’s an anthem we can all sing together once and for all. Watch this, spread this and in the words of Huh, “speak up before the internet dies.” ...  read more