Adios California and Hello Kansas

Pac Sun is backing its bags and moving its 300,000 square foot warehouse to Kansas(?). Their warehouse which was located in Anaheim, California sold for $39 million.

Facebook, THE MOVIE?

Yes you heard right. Aaron Sorkin (writer of the The West Wing, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, and A Few Good Men) will write the script to the Facebook Movie. The movie focuses on Mark Zuckerberg and his two pals, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes the creators of Facebook. Anyone else curious?

Gym Class Heroes New Album Sampler

Click the picture below to listen to Gym Class Heroes’ new album The Quilt on their purevolume page.

Live Performance from All Time Low on mtvU Summer Tour

Click here to check out All Time Low perform their songs “Poppin’ “, “The Beach,” and “Coffee Shop Soundtrack” live at Six Flags for the mtvU Summer Tour.

ALSO, on that very site you can find mtvU Summer Tour live performances from the very “I-fucking-hate-you-but-kinda-liked-you-at-one-point” bands Boys Like Girls, Katy Perry, and Metro Station.

Director of Jack’s Mannequin Video

You’ve all heard of Stephanie Meyer author of Twilight well she is making her directorial debut for the new Jack’s Mannequin video “Resolution” 

New (and more badass) Max Payne Trailer

The longer and more in depth trailer for Max Payne can be seen here.

New Gym Class Heroes Song

Check out Gym Class Heroes‘ new song “Catch Me If You Can” on their purevolume page.

Fast & Furious Trailer

The trailer for the third installment for The Fast and the Furious can be seen below.

Fall Out Boy’s New Album

The “I-love-to-hate-hate-to-love-but-still-hate” quartet known as Fall Out Boy will be releasing their next record Folie a Deux (meaning “shared madness of two” in French) on November 4th.

TO LISTEN TO DEMOS OFF THEIR NEW RECORD, download it from their mixtape here (see the blog a couple posts down titled “You Like FOB, Cobra, Tyga…” to find out more about the mixtape).

Tropic Thunder Review

Ok seriously, you get an all-star cast, an ENORMOUS movie budget (I’m sure), and an appealing story line that tickles one’s comedy taste buds and you have yourself a summer hit, right? 

In this case, no, not really.  Unfortunately, Tropic Thunder didn’t really hit my expectations, or even had me rolling up and down the aisles laughing.  Rather, it felt lost and incomplete at times, with only just a couple funny parts here and there.  

The beginning of the movie, though, is quite the attention grabber, making viewers believe they’ve entered comedy heaven.  But as the movie progresses, I begin to get restless, bringing up the thought Where’s this getting to? Predictably, the last bit of good comedy is with its big, explosive, “epoch” ending that salvages whatever comedy writing Stiller may still have up his sleeve (damn, did that sound kinda harsh?). 

Ben Stiller did a pretty bland job with his performance, seeming to have only focused on getting “cut” for his role instead working on character development.  Not much to say about Jack Black, too, as he just plays a character who goes about the movie either fucked up off drugs or looking for it.  To one of my most satisfying amusements though was Robert Downey Jr.‘s performance as he portrays “… a dude playing the dude who’s playing the other dude” (In this case, a black man).  It was a bold and hilarious portrayal by Downey but, like the movie itself, he at one point became dull and boring.            

All in all, Tropic Thunder is just an all right movie.  Maybe I need to see it again but first impressions really do stick to you.