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Sunny Road | Emiliana Torrini

This is the very first song I ever heard by Emiliana Torrini and I don’t know if that’s why, but it’s my favorite to this day.

fuckyeahcory:

Glee 1x07

DRIZZLE!  OK, I can’t believe I’m saying this - but that’s enough Glee for now.  Anyway, I have to gear up for The Vampire Diaries tonight.  God, my taste is so good.

At an industry summit in NYC on Oct. 21, News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey revealed that online video hub Hulu will begin charging users for content as soon as 2010, according to Broadcasting and Cable. Carey told reporters that a subscription system is likely, although some content will probably continue to be offered free of charge. “I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. I think what we need to do is deliver that content to consumers in a way where they will appreciate the value,” he said. (via)

I understand why Hulu is looking for new ways to monetize, but I don’t understand how anyone who works there could actually think a subscription program is the way to go about it.  It’s possible, though improbable, that Hulu could find success creating some sort of premium membership program without ads, with additional content, or whatever - but trying to restrict the product as it stands now, the same product to which people have spent more than two years acclimating, is ridiculous.

I would go so far as to say that Hulu’s ENTIRE appeal is rooted in its price-point (zero dollars).  Yes, it’s nice to stream instead of download and yes, the picture quality is quite good.  But those are only minor conveniences.  Hulu is based on making money by being a comparable and legal alternative to internet piracy.  If it’s no longer free, it’s no longer comparable and I strongly believe their audience base will disintegrate.

megalong:

monkeyknifefight:

I just think you want it too much, which is something I can relate to. I want everything too much.

Great Cylon-fetishizing/skin mag-reading audience overlap optimization model of tv movie promotion, or greatest?  (via)

jamesnord:

I hope they at least bought him dinner first

Three hours after I first read this headline at breakfast and I guess my maturity level hasn’t risen since then, because it’s still funny.

There goes my Sunday productivity potential!

monkeyknifefight:

paperbuildings | malfoyy | thedailywhat [via.]

I wish that balloon kid had walked up behind his folks in the middle of it all, drinkin’ a Pepsi, like, “WHAT’S UP WHAT ARE YOU GUYS LOOKIN’ AT. HOLY SHIT THAT FUCKER REALLY TOOK OFF DIDN’T IT. NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT AM I RIGHT. HOW COME ALL THESE COPS ARE HERE. DID DAD SET THE BARN ON FIRE TRYING TO “PHONE HOME” AGAIN. FOX MULDER MOTHERFUCKER. WELP IMMA GO INSIDE MY CARTOONS ARE ON, LET ME KNOW IF THE SHIT GETS REAL SEE YOU BITCHES ON THE FLIP SIDE.”

Violet, re: some crazy people

megalong:

Daniel Craig photobombs Taylor Swift. Putting those 007 skills to use, I see. (via)

Presented without (further) comment.

I was pretty much overcome with joy (for realsies) when I read in the Times this weekend that a revival of Bye Bye Birdie is opening on Broadway this week.  Despite, or perhaps because of, how old-fashioned it is, Birdie is one of my favorite musicals of all time.

When I saw the headline I demanded that everyone change out of their pjs and get immediately into the car for an impromptu, all-family roadtrip.  Luckily, when the parental unit didn’t snap to I read the first paragraph of the article and discovered it wasn’t playing yet.

But MARK MY WORDS.  I will be in NY before that play closes.  And much, much sooner if I have my way.  Mark ‘em.  (via)

Yeah, that’s John Stamos and Gina Gershon you see.  No, they don’t temper my joy even a little.

nerdgasms:

onepointofview:

Since 1901 763 men and only 40 women has been given the Nobel Prize. Do you need any more evidence of male superiority?

Or evidence of, I don’t know, the patriarchy…

I can almost guarantee it was a dude who thought there was a Nobel Prize in ‘Litterature’.

I’m getting a crazy amount of traffic from searches for Steven R. McQueen (who knew he was so popular?!) and all I did in the post in question was talk about how he’s no Ethan Peck, haha, so I thought I’d throw something up* to appease the dozens - or maybe just one or two really scary stalkery (I didn’t check the IPs) - of Steven R. McQueen fans.  So have a ‘candid’ shot, courtesy of Kayla Ewell, TV Guide Magazine (have they been replaced by the editorial staff of Bop!?), my google-fu, and Vampire-Diaries.net.**

YOU’RE WELCOME.

*ew, this whole post is coming out wrong.

**a real website.

Just about every aspect of this photo has been making me laugh for the last five minutes.  Thanks, ONTD!