Coi Leray’s extended rollout for her second album, Coi, has included a string of singles including “Players,” “Bops,” “My Body,” and “Run It Up.” Now that the album is out, she’s keeping the party going with the video for “Get Loud.” The song is a bit of a poppy jock jam, and fittingly, the video takes place in a locker room, where Coi and her soccer team — which includes USWNT forward Trinity Rodman — turn up.
It’s fitting that Coi teamed up with another women’s athlete after collaborating with the WNBA on a new campaign featuring her song “Players.” It seems that the star really is all about sisterhood and solidarity, as she previously suggested with her idea to remake Lil Kim’s classic “Not Tonight” remix, “Ladies Night.” She reiterated the sentiment in an interview with Ebro Darden for Apple Music after Ebro asked her about her short-lived flap with Latto over “Put It On Da Floor.”
“My advice to the girls out there is moving forward, find a better way,” she said. “Rap beef is for the guys — and I don’t even think they should do it.”
Check out the “Get Loud” video above.
Coi is out now via Uptown and Republic. Get it here.
NPR Music wanted to celebrate Black Music Month off with a bang, bringing in Babyface and more for its beloved Tiny Desk Concert series. But that doesn’t mean the platform has forgotten about Pride Month. Muna made sure of that as lead singer Katie Gavin joked, “It’s very cool to see that everyone who works for NPR is gay.”
However, instead of their usual indie pop sound, they opted for a rustic country feel. The trio (Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson) is backed by fellow musicians Geo Botelho (on bass), Sarab Singh (drummer and percussion), Tia Allen (violinist), and Susan D. Mandel (cellist) gave a sample of what their full show consists of.
Muna’s setlist was short but impactful. The group started with their 2022 song “Loose Garment,” featured on their self-titled project, 2019’s
“Stayaway” off their album Saves The World and their 2021 queer love anthem “Silk Chiffon,” which originally featured Phoebe Bridgers.
Before closing out their set, Gavin was sure to tell the crowd, “We love being queer, and we find a lot of joy in it. We think, like, if the world is gonna change in the way that it needs to, it’s very important for our revolution to be based on joy, and what brings us joy, and chasing after that.”
The youngest Holocaust survivors are now in their late ‘70s, and the challenges that come with aging mean their needs have never been greater. That’s why the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has agreed with the German Federal Ministry of Finance to provide $1.4 billion in direct compensation and social welfare services for survivors across the globe.
The agreement will bring the overall compensation that Germany has paid in Holocaust reparations to over $81 billion.
More than 128,000 Holocaust survivors will receive annual payments for the next 4 years of $1,370 per person for 2024, $1,424 for 2025, $1,479 for 2026 and $1,534 for 2027. The agreement also provides tens of millions for Holocaust education.
As the number of people who witnessed the Holocaust first-hand goes down every year, the greater the need to keep their memories alive to prevent it from happening again.
The beneficiaries of these payments are primarily survivors from the former Soviet Union who escaped the clutches of the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile execution squads of the Nazis tasked with annihilating whole Jewish populations. These units killed over 1 million Jewish people, mainly through mass shootings of hundreds and sometimes thousands of people at a time.
Nearly $105.2 million in compensation will go to home care programs to address survivors’ increased needs through 300 social welfare programs in 83 countries. These agencies will provide in-home care, food packages, medical needs and transportation for survivors in need.
“Every year, these negotiations become more and more critical as this last generation of Holocaust survivors age and their needs increase,” Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference, said in a press release. “Being able to ensure direct payments to survivors in addition to the expansions to the social welfare services we are able to fund is essential in making sure every Holocaust survivor is taken care of for as long as it is required, addressing each individual need.”
The reparations agreed upon by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the German Federal Ministry of Finance are a continuation of 71 years of the historic Luxembourg Agreements. The agreements were the first time in history that a defeated power compensated civilians for loss and suffering.
The atrocities of the Holocaust are beyond any measure of compensation, but the agreements highlight Germany’s commitment to take responsibility for Nazi atrocities.
“I am inspired that, as shown by the extraordinary results we have achieved this year, so many decades after the end of World War II, far from waning, the German government and its people continue to feel a deep responsibility to provide additional care to Holocaust survivors,” Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, Special Negotiator for the Claims Conference Negotiations Delegation, said in a press release.
“It has been nearly 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and the need to negotiate for survivor care and compensation is more urgent than ever,” Eizenstat continued. “Every negotiation is a near-last opportunity to ensure survivors of the Holocaust are receiving some measure of justice and a chance at the dignity that was taken from them in their youth. It will never be enough until the last survivor has taken their last breath.”
Ted Cruz has had so many at-or-below-the-border adventures. Naturally, no one will ever let him live down his ill-advised decision to flee to sunny Cancun during Texas’ deadly 2021 ice storm. He has subsequently tried to be the comedian over Cancun, but people would not let that fly. Ted Cruz is not allowed to get away with Cancun jokes. Only other people can do that in a victorious way, and oh, their Cancun jokes will never die.
As well, Ted has been obsessed with the U.S./Mexico border situation, which he continues to insist is completely President Biden’s fault, as though it’s never been an issue before. The Texas lawmaker has even lurked in the bushes at the border in the dead of night while filming himself to attract attention for his cause. So naturally, these two sides of the Ted spectrum add up to quite a picture. This week, he bragged to Fox News, “I spend a lot of time at the southern border. I’ve spent a lot of time with our border patrol agents.”
I spend a lot of time at the southern border. I’ve spent a lot of time with our border patrol agents.
It’s never been remotely this bad.
This is an invasion & our families are less safe because Joe Biden is president. pic.twitter.com/2jHC8CxMtn
Stephen King, who sometimes ignores Ted’s attempts to outwit the author, also does not waste fancy words when he does talk back to Ted. And this time, the horror maestro could not resist: “You’ve also spent a lot of time in Cancun. That’s pretty south, right?”
You’ve also spent a lot of time in Cancun. That’s pretty south, right? https://t.co/MfkkZhLNCs
Well, it’s no “Dumbo,” but it will have to do. King must have used his supply of Dad jokes up last weekend, so it might take him time to replenish the supply.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse delves deep into various iterations of the iconic web-slinger thanks to its multiversal plot, but now, it appears the film itself has more than one version swinging around. Across the Spider-Verse editor Andrew Leviton has confirmed Twitter reports that audiences may see different scenes when watching the highest-rated film on Letterboxd.
Leviton responded to a fan who noticed that a scene with Miguel O’Hara, Spider-Man 2099 and his holographic helper Lyla now ends with a selfie instead of Lyla pointing at Miguel.
“I was wondering when people might start noticing…,” Leviton tweeted.
According to IGN, Leviton also shared the below tweet, which confirmed changes to The Spot’s dialog:
the spot also has slightly different dialogue in that hologram flashback before he uses his own collider, in the version i watched he says “-which would… not be good” but in the most widespread version online he goes “oh what the heck”
As for why Across the Spider-Verse has at least two different versions bouncing around theaters, the most likely explanation is the “update” that Sony Pictures sent out to fix an audio issue with the film’s opening scene. Some audiences were having issues hearing Spider-Gwen’s narration during her drum solo, which prompted the studio to push the update.
While the sound issue was isolated to only a “handful of theaters,” a source close to the movie tells Variety that “all the prints” of the film have been updated, adding that it’s not entirely uncommon for distributors to send re-edited prints to exhibitors, “if the opportunity presents itself.”
Whether each theater had their copy of the film successfully updated, or when, could lead to audiences seeing slightly different versions of Across the Spider-Verse. Although, the dialog changes were something that wasn’t mentioned when the update was announced, but clearly, Sony did a little tweaking, which Leviton has now confirmed.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now playing in theaters.
Earlier this month, a report came out that the Chicago Bulls were “quietly gauging” the trade value of Zach LaVine, the team’s All-Star guard who just finished up the first season of a 5-year max extension that he signed last summer. While it’s unclear just how available LaVine would be in a trade, a new report indicates that those around would like to avoid sending him to one Eastern Conference team.
According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, LaVine’s representation is against him getting moved to the New York Knicks. Bondy’s report largely revolves around the fact that LaVine is represented by Klutch Sports, while the Knicks are run by Leon Rose, a former agent at CAA.
Zach LaVine’s representatives would be against a deal to the Knicks, the Daily News has learned. The Bulls are reportedly gauging interest in the All-Star guard, which prompted speculation that the Knicks — who are strapped with future draft assets — would get involved. But a source said the LaVine camp isn’t interested in dealing with the Knicks, who have a reputation around the league of favoring clients of CAA, the agency that employed Leon Rose before his move to the Knicks front office.
It’s worth noting that this does not mean a LaVine trade to the Knicks is impossible, as his deal doesn’t include any sort of no-trade clause and if the Bulls determine the best package they could get for him would come from New York, they’re free to act how they want. Having said that, it’s fair to wonder if the Knicks would seriously engage with a team and part ways with anything from their war chest of draft capital for a player who isn’t especially interested in playing for them.
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Peso Pluma has changed the game for Mexican corridos with his trap-infused twist on the genre. The Mexican superstar is now ready to make regional Mexican music go global with his new album Génesis. On his breakthrough LP, Peso Pluma teams up with his corridos contemporaries like Natanael Cano, Junior H, and his cousin Tito Doble P. He also pushes his sound into a new direction with Puerto Rican rapper Eladio Carrión.
In the past year, Peso Pluma has become one of the most-streamed Latin acts in the world alongside reggaeton stars like Bad Bunny, Feid, and Karol G. In a rarity for regional Mexican music, he has scored countless hits on all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart, including “Ella Baila Sola” with Eslabon Armado, “Chanel” with Becky G, and “BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 55” with Bizarrap. Peso Pluma is proving there’s nothing regional about the music from Mexico.
“I’m happy to see how this project has grown in an incredible way in just a few months,” Peso Pluma says about his success. “I’m grateful for all the people who have supported me on this project since the beginning.”
Peso Pluma recently notched another Hot 100 hit with his breakup ballad “Bye” and is currently performing in concerts across the US on his Doble P Tour, which added arena shows due to popular demand. Over Zoom, he caught up with Uproxx about his LP, the big hits, and his thoughts on the future of corridos in our latest Q&A.
How do you feel to be representing regional Mexican music and corridos around the world with your music?
I’m very shocked to see how música Mexicana and corridos have reached such a level that people who didn’t like them at all are now the same people who are asking for corridos in the nightclubs. They’re the same people who are asking for this music everywhere. We’re very grateful that this has become something that’s global.
You made the word “bélico” popular with your corridos. What does that word mean to you?
To me, bélico means chingón [bada*s]. If I can’t use a vulgar word to describe it, I would say it means “flashy” in English. It’s standing out in a way that you like. It’s something that’s aggressive, but in a way that you like. I’m not the first person to do that type of corridos, but thanks to God, it’s been on me to extend this reach of this on a global level. I’m very grateful that now everyone is bélico.
One of the biggest songs in the world right now is “Ella Baila Sola.” What’s the story behind that song with Eslabon Armado?
It’s a very beautiful song that was written by my friend Pedro Tovar. He has his group Eslabon Armado. He invited me to a part of their album Desvelado on that song. Thanks to God it was the song that performed the best on the album. It’s the song that’s racked up all these numbers. I’m very grateful and happy that they had me be a part of this and that everyone has liked it. Now there are remixes of it in all genres. I’m very proud to be Mexican and to raise the Mexican flag high up.
Another big song this year is “BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 55.” How would you describe the experience of working on a corrido with Bizarrap?
It was an incredible experience. Since I met Biza, we talked [about working together]. He is an incredible person. He’s a man who is very serious about his work. He gives his full attention to what he’s doing. That’s something that I like a lot when I work with artists. I was also very attentive to what the song needed. Above all, he let me offer my ideas and give my opinions about it. Biza is a monster. In terms of the production, he took care of that and made a huge song.
Why did you decide to name your third album Génesis?
I named the album Génesis because it means a new beginning. It’s a new beginning to this new era. Now only for us as a group or as artists, but it’s a new era for the industry. The Mexican industry is starting to break through and we’re the leaders of this [movement]. We’re the leaders that have made this happen, for música Mexicana to be heard everywhere. That’s why I named the album Génesis. It’s the genesis of this story.
On this album, you work with other corridos artists like Natanael Cano, Junior H, Gabito Ballesteros, and Luis R Conriquez. I love how there’s a sense of camaraderie among you guys.
It was very easy [to work with them] because we’re all friends. We all support each other. At different times, we’ve all spoken with each other and said that what we can do as artists who are raising the Mexican flag up high is come together and support each other on different projects. The most important thing is to come together as Mexicans and represent our flag very well. Like how they have collaborated with me, I’ve collaborated with them. I’m on Nata’s album [Nata Montana] that’s coming. We don’t fight over release dates. We don’t fight over who is going to release music first. What’s important is that we’re in this together. We’re all proud to be raising the Mexican flag up high.
You write your songs with your cousin Tito Doble P and he also features on a few of them. What’s the experience like to work on music together?
Making songs with him is something that I do daily. We can be in a hotel writing together the whole night. It’s a part of our lives to write about these cities we pass through, what we see, what we feel, and what we want to put out there. He’s like my brother. I’ve been with him since I started this project. Now I’m very proud to be able to say now he’s coming out as an artist. He released his first single, which is a dembow song [“Dembow Bélico“], and it’s something that’s very different for him. I’m very proud that each person on the Doble P team is finding their own space, their own path, and that’s what we want to do with my record label Doble P Records.
Eladio Carrión made his corrido with you in the song “77.” How did that unique collaboration come together?
It was something that was very different. We’re the first ones to be attracting people from different genres to make music with us. Eladio is someone who is very versatile. He is very talented. You can put on whatever kind of beat and he’ll hop on it. In fact, when I heard his verse, I was shocked about how he can rap to different tempos and different types of music. That’s what’s beautiful about it. It’s a mixture of cultures and genres.
What’s the inspiration behind your song “Lady Gaga” with Gabito Ballesteros and Junior H? Are you a fan of hers?
Yes, I’ve listened to Lady Gaga, but we really named the song that because there’s a verse that says that she wears sunglasses on her face like Lady Gaga. I remember Lady Gaga wore extravagant sunglasses at different types of galas. Like exotic [sunglasses]. It’s an exotic corrido and that’s why we called it “Lady Gaga.”
Some of your fans in the LGBTQ+ community were writing on social media about how they hoped “Lady Gaga” was a song for them and Pride month because it’s named after an LGBTQ+ icon.
Yes, she’s an icon for the LGBTQ+ community. I knew that. I was just talking with my tour manager about how the LGBTQ+ community is very excited about that song, but no, it’s not about the LGBTQ+ community. Well, I’m very happy that everyone is keeping an eye out. However you identify, my music is for everyone. Everyone can listen to my music. It’s a very diverse album that has a mix of cool cultures. The idea of Génesis is to bring everyone together.
What can we expect from you next that you can tell us?
You can expect a lot of fire. A lot of new music. Expect to see me jump into different genres. Expect a lot of very cool collaborations that we have coming soon. We’re excited to release a lot of new music. Expect my tour throughout all the United States.
What do you see for the future of corridos and regional Mexican music?
The future I see for música Mexicana is incredible. In this genre, it’s a genesis that’s just getting started. I believe what’s most interesting is when something gets started, we all have big expectations. I believe we’re all expecting very good numbers. We’re expecting to be received well by the public. It’s only the beginning. Expect everything that’s yet to come. We’re planting a seed for tomorrow’s young artists who are coming up next. The artists are not only Mexican. Now there are Cubans doing corridos. There are Puerto Ricans doing corridos. There are people in Europe listening to corridos. That’s what we hope for with this type of music.
Génesis is out now via Doble P Records. Listen to it here.
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At less than three minutes, the track is an off-kilter, sputtering journey that offers an immersive atmosphere. This track also follows the release of “Mona Lisa,” his song for the deluxe version of the Across The Spider-Verse soundtrack.
Shortly after the unveiling of his new record, he’ll be hitting the road on the Don’t Stare At The Sun Tour, which kicks off in Indianapolis and stops by Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Austin, and more.
Fike is most known for his role as Elliot in Euphoria, though he flaunted his musicianship on the season finale with a five-minute song on an acoustic guitar that left watchers bewildered. “The last year and a half was kind of a rollercoaster, in a weird way,” he said in October. “A lot happened in my personal life, I think. I took a break from music and whatnot. And eventually, I kind of hopped back on … and started working again.”
Listen to “Mama’s Boy” above.
Sunburn is out 7/7 via Columbia. Find more information here.
Stormzy‘s new video for “Toxic Trait” uses art to reflect life, taking references and design cues from modern art museums to depict his struggles for self-improvement. However, he doesn’t sound like he regrets these traits so much as he confronts and accepts them, so let’s just call it “self-effacement” for now. Among the attributes he describes in the new song are an abhorrence for seeing people in the same jewelry (so much so, he’ll stash his away forever), an affinity for cannabis, and an unfortunately large carbon footprint.
Fellow rapper Fredo appears on the second verse does much the same, listing his materialism, ambition, and self-reliance as his own toxic traits (which they can be in excess). “She wanna link up, tell her, ‘Not today,’” he muses. “‘Cause I’m on the block till late (Late), still got this guap to make.” The beat is a skittering drill production crafted by Dave, who recently released a slick joint EP with Central Cee, Split Decision.
“Toxic Trait” is the second single from Stormzy’s upcoming, as-yet-untitled fourth album. It may take a while to arrive; he’s just eight months removed from his third album, This Is What I Mean, which he released in November last year.
The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.
ITEM NUMBER ONE – This is a love story
It’s a little weird to think about how long It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has been on the air. The first episode aired in August 2005. We are coming up on 20 years of these maniacs on our televisions. A child born the day it premiered will be able to vote in the next election. That’s crazy to me. It’s one thing when cartoons do this (Simpsons, South Park, etc.) because animated characters do not age and recording voiceovers require much less time than actually going to set and getting into wardrobe and filming every scene in every location. But to do this with live-action for almost two decades is… it’s wild.
It also gives them the opportunity to pay off lonnnnng-simmering jokes, which the show did in glorious fashion in the third episode of this season, which aired last Wednesday. And I’ll get to that. But first, a brief trip back in time…
The year is 2009. The Hangover is burning up movie theaters. Beyoncé is singing about single ladies. The Philadelphia Phillies are coming off of a World Series victory, led by second baseman Chase Utley. Always Sunny ran with this in a classic bit where Mac writes a letter to Utley, his favorite player. Here, look.
The text of the letter is important because it is very funny, so let’s go ahead and blockquote it.
Dear Chase, I feel like I can call you Chase because you and me are so much alike. I would love to meet you someday, it would be great to have a catch. I know I can’t throw as fast as you but I think you would be impressed with my speed. I love your hair. You run fast.
Did you have a good relationship with your father? Me neither. These are all things we can talk about and more. I know you have not been getting my letters because I know you would write back if you did, and I hope you write back this time and we get to be good friends. I am sure our relationship would be a real ‘home run.’
Great stuff. Wonderful bit. A classic moment in television comedy.
A few years pass…
The year is now 2013. Miley Cyrus is swinging around on a wrecking ball. Everyone is doing the “I’m the captain now” thing from Captain Phillips. And the Philadelphia Phillies use their little fan mail segment to have some fun.
This, to be clear, is Chase Utley answering Mac’s letter. These words are important, too. Another blockquote.
Dear Mac, I feel like I can call you Mac because you called me Chase. ‘Sorry it took me five years to write back but I am really busy playing a lot of baseball for the Phillies. Thank you for the compliment on my hair. It is my fourth favorite thing after baseball, running fast, and my dad.
I’m sorry your dad doesn’t like you. Maybe you could try being a better son. Meeting you and having a game of catch sounds like a lot of fun but like I said I am really busy playing a lot of baseball for the Phillies.
Great stuff. Another wonderful bit.
A few more years pass…
The year is 2019. Horses are being taken to the old town road. Leonardo DiCaprio is pointing at his television in Quentin Tarantino movies. And Rob McElhenney, who plays Mac, has been invited to catch the first pitch at a Phillies game. Thrown by Chase Utley. They are having a catch.
It’s all happening. Here, look.
And it would be fine if that was where it ended. If the journey came to a close after a full decade with a crowd of South Philly lunatics shouting all around them. That would have been both nice and fitting and fun.
But.
Then Always Sunny came back for its 16th season earlier this month. And in the third episode of that season, well…
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Yes. Chase Utley appeared on the show. As himself. With Mac this time. (He actually appeared in an episode back in 2010, too, but Mac was stranded in the woods and never got to meet him, which was also very good.) And Mac repeatedly referred to him as “Mr. Utley,” which was really kind of perfect. Also kind of perfect: Mac held up his phone and played the real fan mail video Chase filmed over a decade ago, just to smash reality and fiction together a little further.
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The actual plot here isn’t even that important. I mean, it is, and I strongly recommend you watch the show if only because life is stressful and you deserve nice things, but this one plays even without the specifics, which, for the record, involve curses and monkey paws and all of the other madness that makes this show so good. But yeah, the real story here can be summed up in three bullet points:
The show paid off a bit that had been brewing for almost 15 damn years
This made me so happy that I’m still sitting here smiling about it over a week after it aired
Go Phillies
Oh, also, it gave me this GIF, which I really do enjoy.
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I am so proud of everyone involved in making this one happen.
ITEM NUMBER TWO – Apparently my favorite genre of show is “Kaley Cuoco uses binoculars”
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Do you guys remember The Flight Attendant? I hope so. That was a fun show. Kaley Cuoco played a boozy party girl who got tangled up in a murder mystery and kind of hallucinated a lot of things, including at one point a giant stuffed teddy bear that was wearing sunglasses and tending bar at an airport lounge. She spent a surprising amount of time looking at things through binoculars. Rosie Perez was in the show and her character went on one of the more chaotic journeys in television history. I wrote about this all a while ago but let’s just copy and paste the Rosie bullet points here…
She opens the season living in hiding in Iceland with a black market tuna smuggler played by Margaret Cho
She picks a bunch of mushrooms from a forest, which we later see her mashing up into a fine dust/paste
You guessed it, they are poisonous hallucinogenic mushrooms
She is running around dosing people with them to keep her secret and/or investigate other secrets
Her cover gets blown and she comes back to America using the pseudonym “Hildegard Bouffant”
She goes hunting for a lockbox she hid in her friend’s strip club, but the friend sold the contents of the room to some strange lady, so Rosie and her stripper friend track her down to a weird trailer in the woods and, yup, you guessed it again, dose the woman with mushroom paste and steal back the lockbox while the woman has a full-on mental collapse on the woods
Which was and is a delight. And something I am pleased to be able to bring up again today thanks to the new Peacock series Based on a True Story, in which Kaley Cuoco plays a scattered real estate agent who is pregnant and in a stale marriage and decides that she and her husband should do a podcast with a charming serial killer. It’s a lot. I’m enjoying it so far as I creep my way through it. But that’s not the point. The point is…
PEACOCK
BINOCULARS
AGAIN
KALEY CUOCO LOVES USING BINOCULARS IN WEIRD LITTLE MURDER SHOWS
This is now officially something I am monitoring. I do not know why I am like this. I’m sorry. Kind of.
Okay. This is a video Vin Diesel posted on Instagram this week. It’s him and Sung Kang — who plays Han in the Fast & Furious franchise, as if I needed to tell you that — chilling in some luxurious outdoor location with torches around them and Vin is saying… no. Let’s just go ahead and use Vin’s own words here.
“The conversation never stops. 5 am, Cayman Islands. And the world would never realize that we’re here dissecting the mythology of Fast, going over it. Going over all of the feedback from our incredible fans and how much we’re just enjoying being in this creative dojo.
“So much inspiration and time to reflect. And to talk and work out [Fast X: Part 2] and to double check all the aspects that need to be hit, and this kind of scary path that we’re going on for Part 2 for Fast X. We’re done with our press tour and now we have time to go back to building and that’s so much fun. We take it seriously because we know how important it is to all of you.”
A few notes:
“Creative dojo” is just incredible
I really do think Vin is under the impression the Fast & Furious movies are a cinematic endeavor on par with the Godfather trilogy
I like to imagine Sung Kang just wanted to chill and have fun in the Cayman Islands but then Vin told him it was actually a work trip and he got very, very sad
Again, the man fascinates me. I imagine he’s exhausting to hang out with but I will gladly read anything anyone else writes after hanging out with him. That seems like a fair compromise on my part.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR – I have been thinking about this all week
Putting this here just because it has resulted in the creation of a visual that has not left my brain for a few days. It might never leave. It’s too early to tell. It all started when Trent Reznor — yes, the one you are thinking of — said this…
“I heard my daughter, who’s six, singing Dua Lipa the other day. She’s so into it, and it was so cool. Like, this is her music, you know? This is her thing… It really reminded me that the art of writing a well-crafted song. I teared up listening to a Dua Lipa track the other day because it was just a really well-done piece of music, you know? It was clever. It felt good. It’s difficult!”
… and then hopped into the comments of a Stereogum Instagram post about it to clarify exactly which song he was talking about.
Reznor himself responded, commenting, “it was Levitating. Her execution was spot on and when she got to the ‘sugarboo’ line it broke me.”
Okay, here’s what I need you to do…
Picture a sunny Saturday afternoon. You’re walking out of the grocery store, pushing your cart, with bags of groceries piled high and a long baguette sticking out of one of them like you’re a cartoon character who just went to the market. You hear the muffled sounds of a song playing from inside a car, just the thumping of the bass at first, but then… as you get closer… ahhh, yes, you recognize that song. It’s “Levitating” by Dua Lipa. And as you keep moving through the parking lot toward your car, you realize it’s coming from another parking spot in your row. And as you walk by this car, the one bumping a contagious and peppy dance song about young love, which I choose to believe is a jet black SUV, you peek inside the driver’s side window and you see former Nine Inch Nails leading singer Trent Reznor sitting there. By himself. In the car. With the windows rolled up.
And he is
Crying
His
Eyes
Out.
You see why this has been stuck in my head all week now, yes? And it’s probably stuck in yours now, too, right?
Well, I am sorry and/or you are welcome.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Honestly, this sounds like a better movie than Avengers
Marvel
There’s a new Marvel show out called Secret Invasion. It’s got Emilia Clarke and Samuel L. Jackson and… actually, that is the extent of my knowledge about the show Secret Invasion. I only really mention it because I wanted an excuse to share this quote Samuel L. Jackson gave on the press tour about how wild Marvel gets over spoilers. So… yeah. Let’s post the quote!
“I remember when we got ready to do Avengers, someone printed out a copy of my Avengers script that had my watermark on it, and put it online for sale. I was shooting in Canada and Marvel came to Canada. It had been printed in the production office… They found out who it was, dude quit, left the country. They set up a fake buy for the script, dude didn’t show up. It was crazy.”
I’m going to be honest with you. And I’m going to say right up front that I am not a huge comic book guy so my opinion on all of this is colored by that. But…
Yeah. I really think I would rather watch a movie about someone stealing the tightly-guarded script to a massive comic book movie and then navigating the underworld with it while a massive media conglomerate engages in subterfuge to stop him than I would the actual comic book movie the script is for.
That would be fun. A little script heist. Please, for the love of God, someone consider this. Let Shane Black or Danny McBride write it. Let Ryan Gosling steal the script. Get Chris Tucker in there as the studio’s security expert. Have Zendaya play the star of the fake movie the script is for and get her tangled up in it all somehow. These are good ideas. To me. Which is what matters here. Because I am the one typing this paragraph.
Thank you.
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From Paul:
I saw a sign the other day, one of those ones that tells you various weight guidelines for things, like a scale, but the numbers had been erased and so it just said this:
MAX
MINIMUM
And that, thanks to you, caused me to immediately think of a real guy named “Max Minimum.” I picture him with two days of stubble and a cigar and a jaw that makes it look like he chews on rocks all day. This is your brand.
Two notes here:
I am so happy right now
I just kind of whisper-shouted “GET ME MAX MINIMUM” into my empty living room
National park rangers are trying to figure out who stole reptile track fossils dating back at least 200 million years from land at Capitol Reef National Park, and they credit an astute social media follower for noticing the previously undetected theft.
FOSSIL HEIST
“A visitor commented on (the post) and said they had noticed something was missing from that trackway,” she told KSL.com on Wednesday. “It came from a visitor who is a paleontologist and was familiar with the site.”
After sifting through photos and paleontological records, park officials determined it was taken within the 2017-2018 timeframe..
Okay, just to be clear, I love this guy. Sitting around his house looking at pictures of bones, piecing together a mystery in his kitchen. Imagine how thrilling this must have been for him when he realized what was happening. When he looked at various pictures from various dates and noticed the fossil was missing. Sprinting into his bedroom to tell his wife — whose name is either Sharon or Linda in this scenario — with his laptop in his hands and wildfire in his eyes.
Good for him.
Park officials are hoping someone may have information about the theft or knows who currently has the fossils. They are offering up to a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the prosecution of the responsible party.
I choose to believe this is one of those situations where the person who stole the fossil didn’t ever try to resell it and just has it behind a trick wall in his office so he can admire it while sipping wine after dinner. I hope his cleaning lady uncovers it while dusting and reports him and I hope she uses the $1000 reward to buy herself a nice little spa weekend.
I would watch this movie tonight. Right after the script heist one I suggested earlier. We can make it a franchise. Starring an investigator named Max Minimum. Look at us out here connecting dots on a Friday. We’re doing great.
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