Juice WRLD‘s posthumous video for “Conversations,” the latest single from his album Legends Never Die, features a CGI giant and some impressive motocross tricks interspersed with footage from Juice’s tours and performances. He also freestyles on his tour bus at the end of the video, highlighting the impressive skills that endeared him to his fans even more during his life.
The CGI monster in “Conversations” is just the latest use of the technique in a posthumous Juice WRLD video. Previously, he and Trippie Redd were digitized to fight apocalyptic zombies in the cartoon-ish video for Internet Money’s “Blast Off,” while Juice teamed up with The Weeknd in the animated video for “Smile.”
Meanwhile, the real Juice WRLD appeared alongside Young Thug in the “Bad Boy” video directed by Cole Bennett, which was filmed before Juice’s passing in 2019. As more videos come out, it’ll be interesting to see what other techniques will be used to keep Juice’s image and memory alive. Could a deep-fake video or hologram eventually perform for him in the future? Maybe, but for now, the animated avatars and archival footage have done more than a serviceable job of providing fans a visual component as they continue to enjoy his music after his death.
She’s still readying that album for release next month, but as NME points out, in a recent print issue of Mojo magazine, Lana said she’s already recorded an entire album of country covers. Additionally, she pointed out an Americana tone in some of her older music, one that is carrying through into what she’s writing now, a collection of “other folk songs.”
“I went back and listened to “Ride” and “Video Games” and thought, you know they’re kind of country,” she said. “Maybe the way “Video Games” got remastered, they’re pop — but there’s something Americana about it for sure. So let’s see how these things come out. I’m not going to have pedal steel guitar on every single thing, but it is easy for me to write.”
Maybe these folk and country leanings are connected to the album White Hot Forever she teased the day that Norman F*cking Rockwell was released? Guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but a Lana country record seems like a good step toward getting past her recent downturn.
French toastfeels like it’s simple, but it’s also insanely easy to screw up. The type of bread you use is a key factor, sure (thickness, etc.). Then there’s the custard or creamy egg wash for dipping said bread in — some recipes are closer to a scrambled egg wash while others are almost eggnog (plus there’s the matter of how long you soak the bread). Finally, there’s what you put on your French toast to give is that x-factor and really make it pop for Sunday brunch or a date night sleepover.
When it comes to bread, you want it thicker-than-a-regular-whitebread-loaf but not overly thicc. That way, you can get a crispier edge while holding onto a softer middle, adding a textural counterpoint. I love the heft of challah but you can really use anything you prefer. I’ve had French toast made with King’s Hawaiian Rolls before, which came out pretty great. (If you go with bread that’s full of seeds, know that the flavors of those seeds will be drawn out by the heat of your pan — do with that knowledge what you will.)
The next most important factor is the custard you soak the bread in. I like to go almost full eggnog with my French toast custard. That means egg yolks, heavy cream, a lot of brown spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice), plenty of bourbon, and dark sugars with a nice dose of vanilla. But really, this depends on your palate. Maybe use my recipe as a baseline, then find the balance you like and stick with that.
Lastly, there are the toppings. There are so many directions you can go from fruit and whipped cream to butter and syrup to peanut butter and jam (trust us, it’s good) to ham, turkey, and cheese to make a goddamn Monte Cristo. You can even go super luxe and top your French toast with avocado, poached eggs, Hollandaise, and caviar if you want (trust us, again … it’s delicious). You do you.
All of this is to say that the recipe below is a jumping-off point and not a French toast mandate. Good luck!
This time around, I’m using large-format Italian white bread they use for deli sandwiches down in Italy. It’s mildly sweet and already comes out of the package slightly dry. It’s good leftover bread that’s pre-cut about 1/2-inch thick. Again, if you can source day-old challah, use that.
When it comes to thickness, there’s a lot to go back and forth on. Too thick and your custard will be surface-level at best (or you’ll soak your bread for so long that the custard inside won’t cook). Too thin and that custard will completely disintegrate your slice. I like a thinner slice, but that’s just me. With a 1/2-inch but lightly stale slice of bread, you can get that custard into the body of the slice without it falling apart. It also allows for crisp edges with a soft middle — which is ideal.
Toppings/Syrup:
Unsalted butter
Handful of roughly chopped pecans
1 cup Maple syrup
1/4 cup bourbon
Pinch of salt
Again, this is personal. I like pairing the slight touch of bourbon in the custard with a hit of bourbon in the syrup. Plus, this is a great exercise to help you realize how easy it is to amp up your average bottle of maple syrup. You really just have to put everything in the pot and let it simmer for about 15 minutes while stirring occasionally until it has a nice, syrup-y consistency. Then you have bourbon-infused maple syrup with softened and candied pecans and a touch of salt.
It’s a winner.
What You’ll Need:
Shallow bowl or glass baking dish (for the custard dipping)
Large non-stick frying pan or griddle
Whisk
Spatula
Baking sheet
Wire rack
Small pot
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Method:
Preheat over to 250f/120c.
In a bowl or shallow glass baking dish add the cream, yolks, spices, sugar, vanilla, bourbon, salt, and orange zest from an orange and whisk together.
Heat two large tablespoons of butter over medium heat until it just starts to foam.
Soak the bread in the custard mix for about five to ten seconds on each side depending on the slice’s thickness.
Add the custard-soaked bread to the pan.
Brown the toast on each side until golden brown — about three to four minutes on each side.
Remove the French toast to a wire rack and place it in the oven to keep warm and continue cooking, creating a more fixed crust to the toast.
Repeat the process with the remaining pieces of toast.
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Pecan Bourbon Maple Syrup:
Add the maple syrup to a small pan, bring it to a light simmer.
Add in the pecans and bourbon with a pinch of salt.
Bring back to a light simmer while stirring.
Once the syrup starts to rethicken slightly (while stirring periodically), remove it from heat.
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Put Everything together:
Fetch your french toast from the oven.
Stack them up and top with a pad of unsalted butter and drizzle with the syrup.
Serve.
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Bottom Line:
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What can I say? This is pretty damn good and incredibly easy. It’s decadent but not “I feel like I really shouldn’t eat for the rest of the day”-level rich. My version here isn’t perfect. I would have preferred challah for my bread base, but they were already out when I hit the bakery.
The overall flavor was pointed and lush. The bourbon and orange really stood out with a nice note of nutmeg. The syrup really was the brightest spot. The maple remained prominent but the bourbon really helped mellow it while the pecans added a nice earthiness and textural crunch.
If you like to cook, this is a nice one for your repertoire. Perfect for slow mornings after big nights (yes, we know “big nights” aren’t a thing again yet, but they will be soon enough.)
It’s not every day that an Academy Award winner begins selling vibrators. But even rarer is when a vibrator-selling Academy Award winner claims that she’s the one who popularized people wearing masks. Gwyneth Paltrow is making history, folks.
The Shakespeare in Love actress and Goop tycoon was interviewed by the New York Times last week about her company’s sold-out “Double-Sided Wand Vibrator.” It retails for $95, which is shockingly reasonable compared to the $75 vagina candle. After answering whether she’s, um, tested her product (“I think you’ve made me blush. I’ll just leave it at that”), Paltrow was asked about her pre-pandemic selfie where she’s wearing a mask. “This is a familiar pattern in my life. I do something early, everyone is like, ‘What is she doing? She’s insane.’ And then it’s adopted by the culture,” she responded. It’s Paltrow claiming that she invented yoga all over again, and she’s rightly being mocked.
Paltrow, who contracted COVID-19 “early on” and still has “some long-tail fatigue and brain fog,” is also selling supplements, hiking shoes, and a $500 blanket on Goop’s website. “I’ve always been into oils, but this one’s got amazing clinical results: You see fewer wrinkles, firmer skin, softer skin. But layer it on over the vitamin C serum and I’m telling you, the glow is next-level,” she wrote about some fancy oil, even though “a study published [last] week found that vitamin C and zinc don’t really make a difference in COVID-19 symptoms,” according to the Huffington Post. No matter. “Do that every morning and your skin is going to look great no matter what,” Not-a-Dr. Paltrow claims.
But that would require removing your culture-adopted mask! It’s a tough choice.
Mayans M.C.‘s second-season finale aired November 2019, and we’ve been waiting all this time to find out the identity of the SAMCRO member who was killed at the Vatos Malditos M.C. party. Well, I have good and bad news for you all at once because the Season 3 trailer has arrived, but obviously, FX isn’t about to tell us the answer to that burning question yet. We do get to see a lot of action, though, including EZ and Angel discussing how to clean up the massive messes plaguing the club, and since EZ is now a fully-patched member, he can stress out even more this season. Yay!
This season looks to be a lot less about personal conflict (all that drama between Dita and EZ’s family) and more about club maneuvering that could lead to war — between the two rival M.C.s and between the Mayans and the Galindo cartel — as they also deal with life (and death) on both sides of the border. So, yes, it’s gonna be stressful and dark, but this trailer does show EZ lightening up (for at least a few moments) with his new love interest while Emily’s living her own life (taking a swim and apparently cozying up with Miguel while hopefully not thinking about that damn agripark). Coco’s going off the deep end, and we can probably expect Angel to follow, given what happened with Adelita, and showrunner Elgin James is officially taking the show into the post-Kurt Sutter era of the Sons Of Anarchy franchise. Previously, James gave some clues involving one of my favorite words, “reckoning.” Via EW:
“Season 3 picks up just a few months after the slaughter of the Vatos Malditos. EZ, now fully patched, struggles to find his footing within the club’s hierarchy and, haunted by his murder of Dita, finds himself torn between darkness and the gravitational pull of his new love interest. Angel, gutted after having Adelita and his child ripped away from him, loses himself in sex, booze, and violence, until a shot at redemption lands on his doorstep…. [G]hosts of the past come calling for all of the M.C., both individually and as a club; from past loss and loves, to a dead SOA member buried in the Mexican desert. This is a season about reckoning. This is the season we get to know these characters beyond the kutte. This is the season we tell their stories.”
Previously, J.D. Pardo (who portrays EZ) called this season “cinematic, raw, unfiltered, touching your soul and breaking your heart at the same time,” and this trailer fits that bill. Yet I’m still hung up on the mystery of that dead SAMCRO member. As our own Dustin Rowles previously noted, Clayton Cardenas (who plays Angel) hypothesized that it could be Chibs or Happy, but it makes no sense for this to be Chibs (because there’s no way they could dump him in the desert without someone noticing right away). I do not want this to be Happy (because who would take care of his dog, Opie?), but it could be Montez… possibly. Heck, I would not mind if Kim Coates made a cameo as a corpse. That doesn’t sound possible to bring Tig into this rivalry — there’s absolutely no reason for Tig to be involved with VM — but hey, I’d be alright with that twisted-logic outcome.
In what may eventually be known as the “weirdest flex of all time,” MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is reportedly ecstatic over the $1.3 billion lawsuit Dominion just slapped him with.
Lindell, who’s dedicated most of his time recently to spewing conspiracy theories related to the 2020 presidential election, visited Steve Bannon’s podcast — which is titled War Room Pandemic … because, of course — this morning to share how thrilled he was at the news of this latest lawsuit. Dominion has been handing out billion-dollar defamation filings to some of Trump’s favorite voter-fraud-spouting mouthpieces including lawyer Sidney Powell. Lindell is the latest lackey to land in their crosshairs after he crafted a bizarre “documentary” that claimed to have evidence of Dominion tampering with its own machines in Georgia. Most of the claims within the film had already been debunked but that hasn’t stopped Lindell from working on more docs he alleges will expose the tech company. A $1.3 billion lawsuit might change that, or it might just add fuel to the out-of-touch-with-reality fire Lindell seems to be kindling.
In his talk with Bannon, the business mogul seemed in good spirits, despite the announced legal proceedings.
“So they finally did! It’s a beautiful day here for America,” Lindell said. “I want everybody to know that this is a great day because the truth is going to come out. I don’t care how long it takes and how much money it costs.” Lindell went on to taunt national news outlets like CNN and Fox News, saying “I dare CNN, Fox, Newsmax, any of you guys to have me on TV today to talk about Dominion.”
Either that pillow money is really good, or Lindell is even more delusional than we thought. Either way, if any news shows want to contribute to Dominion’s case, granting this guy airtime so he can dig himself a deeper grave seems like an option.
The premiere of the Billie Eilish documentary The World’s A Little Blurry is only a few days away, as it is set to debut on Apple TV+ this Friday, February 26. Now it turns out the artist will be marking the occasion with a special event leading up to the premiere.
The night before, starting at 9 p.m. ET, Eilish will be hosting a global live premiere event that will be available to stream for free via Apple TV, Apple Music, and Eilish’s YouTube channel. On the schedule is a stripped-down performance from Eilish, some video previews of the film, an interview with director RJ Cutler, and an “intimate conversation” with Eilish, all of which will be hosted by Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
Ahead of both the film and the premiere event, Eilish has shared the audio of a live rendition of “Ilomilo” — the song from which the movie’s name originates — as it is heard in the film.
A new trailer from the documentary dropped at the start of the month, and in it, Eilish’s mother Maggie Baird discusses how it’s a “horrible time” to be a teenager, saying.”I honestly don’t know how any artist of any age is doing it without a parent. It is a horrible time to be a teenager. Kids are depressed.”
The Hi-Fi streaming experience has been touted before, with Jay-Z’s streaming service Tidal initially orienting their messaging around a lossless streaming tier, and of course, there’s Neil Young’s obsession with his Pono player and high-definition digital archives. But today, Spotify announced they will be joining the lossless streaming world too, letting Spotify Premium subscribers upgrade to Spotify HiFi, which will “deliver music in CD-quality, lossless audio format.”
According to Spotify, this has been one of the most-requested additions, and the rollout was announced with the help of Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas. “High quality audio means more info, there are things you will not hear if you don’t have a good sound system. It’s really important just because we make music that [we] want to be heard in the way that it was made,” Eilish said. Her brother added: “Anytime anyone really takes time to sit down with our music and listen to it in a really high quality way it’s very exciting because I know they are hearing everything that we intended them to.”
The service will roll out in select markets later this year, though no pricing info has been released yet. It’s a big day for the streaming platform considering they also announced a brand new exclusive podcast with Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama.
The Atlanta Hawks are trying to pull themselves out of what has been a season-long funk and picked up a big win in their quest to do so on Sunday as they beat the Denver Nuggets 123-115 at home to move to 13-17 on the season.
The Hawks had expectations of a playoff berth coming into this season in large part due to spending big in free agency on Bogdan Bogdanovic, Danilo Gallinari, and Rajon Rondo, among other smaller signings. Unfortunately, just about every player they signed this offseason has been on the shelf for various injuries, with Bogdanovic and Rondo currently out, Kris Dunn having missed the entire season, and Gallinari still working his way back into form.
Gallinari has struggled to find his consistent form that made him such a key piece of the Thunder’s playoff team last year, and has looked especially slow on the ball, even understanding he’s never been a particularly quick player. One of the best examples of Gallinari’s struggles to create space in isolation came on Monday with one of the funniest sequences you’ll ever see, as he attempts to draw a foul on a three, gets stripped instead, grabs the ball, pulls up for a shot, reconsiders and throws himself a pass off of the backboard, and stumbles, somehow, into a foul as he falls down.
On principle, the referees should not have rewarded this effort with free throws, but kudos to Gallinari for the persistence and effort, I guess. He finished the game with 12 points and five rebounds in 21 minutes of play, as he continues to be eased back into the rotation, and the Hawks will need him to find his form as the season wears on, particularly given their depth issue on the wing due to injuries. Once fully healthy, one would expect him to look much more like the Gallinari of old, but for now, he should maybe take it easy on isolation attempts.
TMZ reports Trick Daddy, who was arrested in Miami on DUI and cocaine possession charges this past January, has pled guilty to cocaine possession in exchange for a reduced sentence. He’ll get credit for time served, while the DUI charge has been dropped. The amount of cocaine was small enough that it resulted in “a very low-level,” third-degree felony, with no additional probation required. There was, however, some community service tacked-on, which Trick was apparently happy to oblige.
Trick Daddy’s attorney told TMZ, “As part of the plea he was also able to give back to the community he loves so much with a donation to Camillus House homeless shelter.” Trick was arrested, according to the Miami Herald, after police responded to reports of a dark Range Rover running red lights and hitting road signs. Trick Daddy failed a field sobriety test, while the cocaine was found on a dollar bill among his possessions. His bond was set at $5,000 for the cocaine charges and $1,000 for the DUI.
Trick was recently the focus of an episode of Uproxx’s React Like You Know that saw up-and-coming young stars like 2KBaby, NLE Choppa, and Shordie Shordie offer their thoughts on the Miami veteran’s classic 1998 video “Nann N****” with Trina.
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