Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston have starred in three movies together, “Just Go with It” (2011), “Murder Mystery” (2019) and “Murder Mystery 2” (2023), and their chemistry is undeniable. They probably work so well together on screen because they’ve been friends in real life since they were in their 20s.
Aniston revealed their closeness in an anecdote she shared in WSJ Magazine. “Aniston, who does not have children and has spoken openly about her struggles with fertility treatment, says Sandler and his wife [Jackie Sandler] send her flowers every Mother’s Day,” the profile’s author, Ellen Gamerman, writes.
It’s a touching move for the Sandlers to reach out to Aniston on a day that must be hard for her. Last year, she opened up about her struggles to conceive through in vitro fertilization (IVF) with Allure.
IVF can be a very challenging process for a woman to go through. It involves invasive procedures and hormonal fluctuations and can be a real emotional rollercoaster. On top of that, Aniston was the subject of baby bump tabloid speculation for years and was often criticized for being “selfish” and choosing her career over motherhood.
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“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” Aniston said about a time in her life a few years ago. “I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese tea, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Upworthy has covered a few stories about people who decided to live permanently on cruise ships because it’s cheaper than living on land or in a nursing home. These stories have connected with millions because they say a lot about the modern cost of living but are also aspirational.
Christine Kesteloo has become popular on TikTok with over 680,000 followers because she shares what living on a cruise ship is really like. Kesteloo is the wife of the ship’s Staff Chief Engineer, so she gets to live on the boat for free. She only has to pay for alcohol and soda, which she gets for half off.
“I live on a cruise ship for half the year with my husband, and it’s often as glamorous as it sounds,” she told Insider. “After all, I don’t cook, clean, make my bed, do laundry or pay for food.“
Kesteloo’s life seems pretty stress-free. After all, she’s basically on a permanent vacation. However, even though she lives on a cruise ship as a “wife on board,” there are a few things she either can’t or shouldn’t do.
She shared these four things in a TikTok video with nearly 10 million views.
I go through four things I can, and cannot do it while living on the cruise ship with my husband #weliveonacruiseship #4things #alaskacruise #cruiseship #cruiseshiplife #cruise #alaska #caribbeancruise #cruiselife #livingstsea #getreadywithme
1. No gambling
Kesteloo says she cannot sit at a slot machine and “play my heart out until I win.” She believes it would “look a little weird if I, as the wife of the staff chief engineer, won a big jackpot.”
2. Can’t leave the ship with the guests
When the ship arrives at a destination, she can’t get off with the guests. She must wait about an hour and exit the vessel with the crew. When returning to the ship, she also has to be on time. “No, they will not wait for us,” she says. And the same goes for her husband, if they “miss the ship, someone else will take over the role.”
3. Sit in a crowded pool
Although Kesteloo has access to the pool, gym, and all the ship’s amenities, she’s cautious not to interfere with the guests’ good time. She’ll exit the pool if it’s busy because “it’s just the right thing to do.”
4. Must have international traveler insurance
She must have insurance in case of a misfortune on the ship. But as a citizen of the Netherlands, they already have coverage and just have to pay a few extra dollars a month.
Some of the most popular commenters on the video were from women regretting that they married men who aren’t chief engineers on cruise ships or those who want to know where to find a single one.
“OK, can you explain how to marry a cruise ship engineer?” one female commentator wrote.
“How. in. the. H E double hockey sticks do I become the wife of a cruise ship engineer???? I don’t have to work AND cruise for free!” Cute_n_catchy added.
“Does he have any single friends with same job??? Asking for me.” Hannah LaCaze asked.
Earlier this summer, L’Rain participated in the Re:Set Concert Series with Idles, LCD Soundsystem, and Jamie xx. Around the same time, L’Rain released “New Year’s UnResolution,” the first material from Taja Cheek’s musical project since 2021.
“New Year’s UnResolution” was just an appetizer, as Cheek announced on Wednesday, August 23, that her third L’Rain album, I Killed Your Dog, will arrive on October 13. The news was accompanied by the single “Pet Rock” and its Studio Jojo-directed video.
“The song is based around an old story I’d been told about a woman who was riding the train but looked strange, and the reader eventually figures out that she’s dead, with glasses on, being propped up by the people that seem to have harmed her,” Cheek said in a statement. “As a lifelong collector of tchotchkes, the music video is based on a concept I came up with featuring miniatures.”
A press release describes I Killed Your Dog as “a crystallization of L’Rain’s tactile approach to songwriting” as well as “an implicit interrogation of the electric dreams and failures of early synthesizers, toying openly with rock music tropes, the lineage of folk as Black music in America, and Cheek’s own background playing in experimental guitar bands.”
Watch the “Pet Rock” video above, or check out the I Killed Your Dog artwork and tracklist as well as L’Rain’s upcoming North American tour dates below.
1. “Sincerity Commercial”
2. “Our Funeral”
3. “Pet Rock”
4. “I Hate My Best Friends”
5. “I Killed Your Dog”
6. “All The Days You Remember”
7. “5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)”
8. “Sometimes”
9. “r(EMOTE)”
10. “Uncertainty Principle”
11. “Oh Wow, A Bird!”
12. “Knead Bee”
13. “Monsoon Of Regret”
14. “Clumsy”
15. “What’s That Song?”
16. “New Year’s UnResolution”
10/20 — New York, NY @ Pioneer Works
10/25 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
10/26 — Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
11/29 — Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey *
12/01 — Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
12/02 — San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
12/05 — Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
12/06 — Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s
12/07 — Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret
*w/ Cate Le Bon and Mega Bog
I Killed Your Dog is out 10/13 via Mexican Summer. Find more information here.
On Wednesday, August 23, SZA confirmed that the video for “Snooze” is coming this Friday, August 25. This comes roughly two weeks after she posted two steamy Instagram videos billed as behind-the-scenes “Snooze” footage.
As of this writing, “Snooze” has charted for 36 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 — peaking at No. 10 — and 15 weeks on Billboard‘s Radio Songs chart with a No. 4 peak. The song also spent 36 weeks on the publication’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at No. 3.
In May, Anjimile announced The King, his forthcoming sophomore album, by releasing its title track. Then in June came “Father,” which Uproxx selected among “The Best Indie Music” from that week because of how powerfully the ballad acknowledges his parents supporting him while getting sober.
Anjimile’s The King rollout continued on Wednesday, August 23, with “Animal,” a potent protest against police brutality. The acoustic track was accompanied by an evocative video, directed by Robby Opperman, and an announcement that Anjimile will head out on tour later this year.
“‘Animal’ is one of the first protest songs I ever made,” Anjimile captioned an Instagram post. “I was pissed off when I wrote it and I’m pissed off now. F*ck police brutality. Link to video in bio + stream the tune wherever you listen to music. And we’re going on F*cking tour! See you in the UK/EU in November + east coast US in December :).”
The video begins with a candle burning in an otherwise pitch-black room. It cuts to an up-close shot of Anjimile’s face. He references George Floyd’s May 2020 murder, singing, “I lost my mind I couldn’t handle it / Burned my fingers on the candle lit / Madness manifest / Kneeling on my chest / I’ve seen the footage and the camera roll / If you treat me like an animal / I’ll be an animal.”
Per a press release, The King finds Anjimile as he “continues exploring what it means to be a Black trans person in America.” It adds, “Featuring the singles ‘The King,’ ‘Father,’ and ‘Animal,’ the brutally honest reflection of 2020’s deadly summer is less reminiscent of the pink cloud of early sobriety and more rooted in the reality of seeing brutality with clear eyes. Drawing from influences ranging from religion, Phillip Glass, and lived experiences, the album is a grand step forward for Anjimile.”
Watch the “Animal” video above, and check out Anjimile’s upcoming tour dates below.
09/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch
09/28 — Montreal, CA @ POP Montreal
11/03-04 — Reykjavik, IS @ Iceland Airwaves
11/07 — Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Zonzij
11/10 – Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Paris
11/11 — London, UK @ Pitchfork London
12/o1 — Winston-Salem, NC @ SECCA
12/02 — Washington, DC @ DC9
12/03 — Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
12/05 — Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records
12/07 — Kingtson, NY @ Tubby’s
12/08 — Boston, MA @ ICA
12/10 — Toronto, ON @ The Drake
12/12 — Chicago, IL @ Schubas
12/13 — Lexington, KY @ The Burl
The King is out 9/8 via 4AD. Find more information here.
On Wednesday, August 23, Daniel Lopatin announced the arrival of Again, his first album as Oneohtrix Point Never since 2020’s Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, which piqued the interest of Uproxx‘s Steven Hyden. The album will drop on September 29 via Warp Records. Lopatin shared the cover art and teased the LP with an endearingly self-deprecating trailer.
The 70-second trailer is shot man-on-the-street-style in New York City and captures a slew of strangers trying, and mostly failing, to pronounce Oneohtrix Point Never.
Again is billed as “a speculative autobiography,” as per Pitchfork. The official announcement also said that album “imagines what might have been, as the musician made his music through space and time. Which decisions foreclosed some realities? What might those other worlds have sounded like?”
On Wednesday, Fike released the video for “Think Fast” video. In it, Fike is back home in his beloved Florida. He’s riding a lopsided boat, laying on a roof at sunset, peeling oranges, and hanging upside down from a moving vehicle as he sings, “Think fast, you only get one try / Sleep tight, I wanna get sunshine / Wake up, you know we got things to see.”
Throughout the slow-burning song, Fike tries to make sense of an elusive person in his life (“What’s worse, what stings, I saw her in / The garden with the snakes”) and reflects upon his conflicting upbringing (“I wrote rules the wrong ways, had blues and long days”).
At one point the video shifts to black-and-white, capturing Fike withstanding a wind storm before elevating above the clouds while sporting a tee that reads, “I KICKED THE HABIT.” The final scene finds Fike alone, strumming his guitar.
“Think Fast” follows “Mona Lisa,” which became Fike’s first-career solo entry on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart this week (No. 98).
Fike has five remaining Don’t Stare At The Sun Tour dates before wrapping on August 30 at Iroquois Amphitheater in Louisville, Kentucky. He’ll next perform at Huntington Bank Pavilion At Northerly Island in Chicago on Thursday, August 24. See all of his upcoming dates here.
Rudy Giuliani hasn’t had a great last few years, and on Wednesday he arguably hit a new nadir. That’s the day the former “America’s Mayor,” not to mention star prosecutor, turned himself to jail and got a mugshot. It’s worse than the day black goo dripped down his head, worse than the day he did a presser at a landscaping joint, worse than the day Donald Trump refused to bail him out of the financial hole he dug to help him out. How could it get worse? Well, it did.
— Brendan Keefe – Atlanta News First (@BrendanKeefe) August 23, 2023
As per Mediaite, after Giuliani was arraigned, a CNN camera crew spotted him walking into the “2nd Chance Bail Bonds” in Atlanta, Georgia.
“This this is the former president’s former personal attorney, by the way, former mayor of New York City, former prosecutor himself, who sent many, many folks he prosecuted to bail Bonds offices, bondsman offices like that in the past,” CNN anchor Jim Sciutto said over the footage. “And now he himself is walking through that door.”
Giuliani’s bail was set at a whopping $150,000. It’s not surprising that Giuliani would have to visit a bail bond joint. His finances are, uh, not great these days. It’s not even that shocking that he chose one with such a sad, deflating name.
That news cameras were there to capture the walk of shame only makes his humiliation even worse. Indeed, people couldn’t believe the footage was real.
From feared federal prosecutor and America’s Mayor to criminal defendant at the local 2nd chance bail bonds… English lacks the expressive tools for this level of down bad https://t.co/tCLTXTGleu
A lot of us never thought Rudy would have this bad a day. Some people I loved who hated this man aren’t here to see this. This is for them https://t.co/t3geuCLRpc
Donald Trump is a strong and brave leader, which is why he’s skipping Wednesday night’s GOP debate. Perhaps he sees duking it out with candidates he’s already handily clobbering as a waste of time. Perhaps he’s afraid of Chris Christie. Whatever the reason, he’ll be (mostly) MIA during Fox News’ big show. That doesn’t mean his campaign won’t still try to spin this as some kind of victory.
“President Trump has already won this evening’s debate because everything is going to be about him,” Trump Campaign Senior Adviser Chris LaCivita wrote in a statement. He continued:
“Only President Trump has the policy ideas, the fortitude, and the polling to go head-to-head with Crooked Joe Biden in the general election. Republican voters recognize this, hence President Trump’s 62-16 lead in the GOP primary.
You should also expect the Fox hosts to show an unnatural obsession with President Trump tonight, asking other Republican candidates over and over to react to President Trump’s policy positions. In fact, we will be tallying the number of times President Trump’s name is brought up, and his total ‘speaking time,’ even though he is not in attendance.
LaCivita concluded that “tonight’s Republican undercard event really shouldn’t even be called a debate, but rather an audition to be a part of President Trump’s team in his second term.”
Of course, the GOP debate will probably feature candidates talking about other things. But even when they are, Trump will definitely be the giant orange elephant in the room.
Trump will still be around during the debate. In a fit of eff-you counter-programming, the big guy will be sitting down for a softball chat with one of his fiercest critics, Tucker Carlson.
After dropping two stand-out albums, 2017’s Good Woman and 2020’s The Greatest Part, Nashville-based musician Becca Mancari is leaning away from their alt-country sound to indie-pop territory (while not leaving the slide guitar behind) with the dreamy project Left Hand.
Throughout the album, Mancari unpacks family, identity, and religion on tracks like “I Had A Dream,” the Brittany Howard-featuring “Don’t Even Worry” and the Julien Baker– featuring “Over And Over.” Mancari was raised in a fundamentalist Mennonite community and went to a Evangelical university. But after coming to terms with their upbringing and learning the strength of radical acceptance, Mancari has poured their self-discoveries into song.
The album title itself, Left Hand, is a nod to their family crest from the Italian region of Calabria, which features a left hand holding a dagger. “In many cultures children born with a dominant left hand were taught not to use that hand, and were told that using the right hand was ‘normal’ and ‘correct,’” they said in a statement. “Similarly, queer children are often times told that it’s not ‘normal’ for them to love who they love and that they need to ‘change.’”
To celebrate the release of Left Hand, Mancari sits down with Uproxx to talk Brittany Howard, Frank Ocean, and sleeping at a haunted house in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Truthful. Interesting. Seeking. Sonically Minded.
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
Haha if the world hasn’t ended by then, well I hope I am still touring and playing my music, but if I am gone then I hope they remembered me for my love and for my honesty, and I hope that I can help others feel less lonely by listening maybe even a little understood.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
NYC and Paris.
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Brittany Howard, who I am lucky enough to call my friend. She is just as pure as it gets with music and I want to be as honest in my life and my art as she is.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
I love food so much, but I will have to say it has to be some of the family meals at my old job where I was a line cook. The restaurant is sadly no longer in business, but it was called “Silly Goose”.
What album do you know every word to?
Frank Ocean’s Blonde record.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
Kendrick Lamar (Damn Tour).
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
Kind of depends on my mood! I either like a very nice sleek suit or oversized jeans and t-shirt with vans.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?
The whole record Songs from Adrianne Lenker.
What’s the last thing you Googled?
“Family another word in English.”
What album makes for the perfect gift?
Wede Harer Guzo by Dahlak Band. I would personally love this on vinyl.
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
A farm in Idaho where I slept in the owners bed. They had a haunted house vibe in the basement.
What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?
SZA or Palehound.
What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
My partner loving me everyday.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Take care of yourself and your mental health and forgive yourself!
What’s the last show you went to?
Tegan and Sara.
What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?
Speed.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
I am a pretty good photographer but I don’t do it often and never for others.
Left Hand is out 8/25 via Captured Tracks. Find more information here.
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