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We pick our Top 5 movies, television shows and other cultural happenings each week and keep you up to date n the absolute best ways to waste time at work!
Saviors of Sketch
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele bring some much needed color and energy to the tired world of television sketch shows. These breakout stars bring just enough weirdness to keep things fresh and interesting, without sacrificing solid punchlines and audience enjoyment (ahem Messrs. Tim and Eric.) New episodes on Wednesday nights on Comedy Central and probably also all over the internet.
2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Might be a kid’s book, but kids damn sure know how to have fun
We are bullish on big-budget spectacle films – seems that we are enjoying a renaissance in the popcorn-munching, brain-shutting-down spectacles of yore. Blame Joss Whedon and his blockbuster opus The Avengers. Anyway this week we highly recommend you grab a sweetheart or two and enjoy the second installation of smash hit book and film series The Hunger Games. Coronary-inducing dose of candy and soda is mandatory as well. AS always, watch at whatever Movie theater you can convince to advertise with What Weekly!
3. Mammifer & Circle – Enharmonic Intervals (for Paschen Organ)
Let The Circle be Unbroken
Mammifer and Circle, two highly respected underground outfits have teamed with Aaron Turner (of Isis and Hydra Head Records fame)are here to broaden your concept of music with this dynamic slab of sound. Often beautiful, this ambient/experimental album has just enough discordance to keep you on your toes. For the full highbrow experience listen with a nice glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape while you gaze longingly in to a late period Goya painting.
Old-school Muckraking at it’s finest
No matter your politics, you have to admit that Glenn Greenwald’s furious reporting and commentary is one of the most vibrant things in contemporary journalism. It’s no wonder that Edward Snowden chose this muckraker extraordinaire to break his cache of secrets to the public. We especially love his heated first-person prose that makes no pretense of objectivity – and the dry humor often lurking just below the surface. Follow him on twitter and read his regular column in The Guardian.
5. Sandwich Monday from NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me
Gutbuststingly hilarious and possibly just Gutbusting
Every monday the comedic minds at NPR’s enormously popular “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” radio show produce a blog about the most bizarre and entertaining examples of American capitalistic glee via the noble sandwich. Past reviews include “Pumpkin Spice Eggo Waffles,” “Subway Sriracha Chicken Melt” and “Candy Corn Oreos.”
