WEEKLY POP CULTURE UPDATE (12.01.08)
TINA’S SCAR TRUTH
Top 1 sign that you might be gay:
1. You care that the Tina Fey picture shown doesn’t show her scar.
We all know what it looks like, so I felt no reason to show it. When I first saw it on SNL, I thought it was like an “invisible” microphone or something - one of those with the clear casing. It took me a few weeks to realize it was a scar.
The truth has come out about the scar via Fey’s husband, Jeff Richmond. It was the result of a brutal slashing. The details of this story are a bore-fest, but we love any excuse to talk about Tina Fey.
“It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.”
She claims that she doesn’t like to discuss the incident because “it’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it.”
One thing is for sure: she’s the hottest chick with a huge scar on her face. TSF can’t decide if she’s hotter than she is funny or funnier than she is hot. Decisions decisions…
REAFFIRMATION: KATY PERRY CAN’T SING
TSF is a flip-flopper. First, we love Katy Perry, then we don’t. While “Ur So Gay” is a hilarious song and Katy sounds great behind the doors of a professional studio with a great producer, get her on stage and all credibility goes out the window. If you don’t have an ear for music, we will fill you in: this is about as bad as it gets. This is Katy Perry performing her latest hit “Hot ‘N Cold” on YouTube Live.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
One word can be used to describe this World War II story of the friendship between a Jewish boy and the son of a Nazi soldier: Emotion. Calling this film “moving” would be doing it a disservice. It stars two unknown child actors who play their characters to perfection. It took me a while to get past the fact that Nazi soldiers have British accents and are speaking English throughout the entire movie, but it was filled to the brim with great dialogue (English or not) and characters whom the writer did a great job ensuring you walk out of the theater falling in love with their personas. The film highlights the innocence of a child by using one of the worst regimes in world history as the backdrop. TSF highly recommended. In theaters now 8.5/10
HE’S SMARTER THAN US
This dude named Axel Peemoeller from (I assume?) Germany designed a car park with very interesting paint designs. I’ll let him explain:
“In Melbourne, I developed a way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark while working for Emery Studio. The distorted letters on the wall can be read perfectly when standing at the right position. This project won several international design awards.”
Upon first glance, I thought these were Photoshopped - but they are definitely real. I can’t imagine the time and patience required to design something like this. I sure as hell know I don’t have it. We applaud you.
Visit his website to see more pictures. Click here.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
This video is an embarrassment to the human race. This is worse than anything SkyMall has ever invented. I’ll go out on a limb and say that this is the single worst invention in American History.
PICTURE OF THE WEEK
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I thought Katy Perry was pretty freaking good considering she was running around and bouncing her boobies. If it had been Britney, you would have heard nothing but a pre recorded track and her lip syncing.