In the better part of the last decade, Paul Scheer has gone from being a live improv comedian with the New York-based troupes UCB Theater and Chicago City Limits to a successful film and television actor. One third of the brains and face behind the hit MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant, Scheer quickly became [...]
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When Christian Lander began indexing the cultural quirks of white people on his blog Stuff White People Like, he imagined it as little more than an inside joke. Cataloging a range of white person curiosities—from hummus, to the Onion, HBO’s The Wire and appearing to enjoy classical music—the popularity of Lander’s project quickly snowballed. By [...]
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Turbofolk sensation Magnifico through some twist of fate hails from the same saturnine city that brought you popular musical groups “Laibach” and “Slavoj Zizek”. Ljubljana, which means “Mountain-scowl” in Slovenian is known for its world class sausage links, soccer, and frenetic turbofolk, thanks to one man. Famous for his provocative music videos and balls to [...]
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Tommy Wiseau is an independent American film-maker. In the last few years he’s become slightly famous (or really internet famous) for his movie “The Room”, which he conceived, scripted, directed, produced and starred in. The movie was entirely self funded, and the figure that gets tossed around online is that upwards of 6 million dollars [...]
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A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to interview Sam Lipsyte over e-mail. Lipsyte is a writer based in New York City and a professor of creative writing at Columbia University. His work has appeared in McSweeneys, the Believer and various collections of contemporary short fiction. He already has two novels under his belt [...]
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By MAX HARTSHORN
Me: Hello can I speak with Mr. Jeffery Goldblum?
G: Who is this?
Me: My name is Max Hartshorn. I spoke with you at that party last weekend about doing an interview with Thendofallthings, like an e-zine blog sort of thing.
G: What party, I don’t remember any party?
Me: We’ll I’m not surprised, you were pretty [...]
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