Star Fucking Hipsters
From The Dumpster To The Grave
Fat Wreck Chords
2/10
Oh, shut up. “From the Dumpster To The Grave?” REALLY? You would think that after a few decades, the socially-conscious arm of the punk movement would have something new to offer. But, I guess we’re stuck with the same contrived, cliche bullshit that does nothing to forward any kind of change towards the system that SFH loves to bitch about. Yes, yes, “the system,” “the Vietnam War,” “bitching about Christianity,” I GET IT. At least the riffs are decent, so if …
The AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi announces this year’s crown jewels. The festival is springing off with the world premiere of Love and Other Drugs staring Ann Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in a Viagra-fueled tale of romance, and plans to end with a bang with Natalie Portman’s pirouetting spiral of self destruction in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan.
Other gala screenings announced include the romance Blue Valentine, Barney’s Version starring Dustin Hoffman and Paul Giamatti, Abel- A tale about a disturbed child trying to become his own father, Company Men with …
The pay-what-you-want phenomenon is back! Four games, all awesome. Frozenbyte is offering a game collection worth almost $50, and is letting you name your own price. $1? A million dollars? You decide. The best part is all proceeds go directly to the developers and Charity! The package includes Trine, Shadow Grounds, Shadow Grounds: Survivor, and a special pre-order bonus of Splot and Jackclaw. All games are DRM free and cross platform compatible for Mac, Windows, and Linux. What are you waiting for? Bundle up!
-By Laura Gaddy
If you’re a fan of comics from the 90’s, you’ll be pleased to hear some surprising titles just got new action figures as part of Shocker Toys’ Indie Spotlight collection. All the toys in the line have a bonus Isz figure from The Maxx to use as target practice. A throwback to the era when MTV still played music and showed cutting-edge alternative animation like Liquid Television instead of reality show douche-bags on a continuous loop.
I was actually pretty excited to see they had a figure for Scud the Disposable …