And now, after weeks of research, I present to you: A full list of Oscar winners playing other Oscar winners:

*Competitive Oscars only. Film or TV roles both acceptable. Real Oscar winners, not fictional. MANK (2020)
* Gary Oldman (Best Actor for DARKEST HOUR, 2017)
* As: Herman L. Mankiewicz (Best Original Screenplay for CITIZEN KANE, 1941)

....am I crazy or did Cole not release anything in 2023 except a handful of guest verses

https://twitter.com/ComplexMusic/status/1749520899902947646

That's a good question. Judging by their history, they give it to the person who's both huge and acclaimed and there's not really a person who meets both those criteria in 2023.

https://twitter.com/7ballcraze/status/1749522390860656830

It is going to take every ounce of my willpower to not spend the next five months pissing on James Somerton’s ashes, but I remembered one last thing that really offended me that I wanted to share. Tl;dr: One of Somerton’s most cherished beliefs was that the post-Trump rise in homophobia/transphobia was proof that the LGBT movement had become weak and ineffectual, through some combination of post-Obergefell complacency and respectability politics.

All right, some year-end self-praise. Here are my Top Ten favorite Todd in the Shadows moments/bits/segments from 2022: Honorable mentions:
The part where I called Trump "America's flop era" (Witness)
"The best allyship..." ('90s Buses)
Houston is where? (This Is Why I'm Hot)
Brandon (Generation Swine)
Euphoria vs. Jax (Worst List)
"brake pads" (Unholy)
Michael Buble's Uptown Funk (Worst list)

Hello? Can I speak to—to Michael?

Oh hey, how you doing?

Uh, I feel kinda silly doing this, but uh... this is the waitress from the coffee house on 39th and Lennox. You know, the one with the braids? Yeah, well I see you on Wednesdays all the time. You come in every Wednesday on your lunch break, I think. And you always order the special, with the hot chocolate, and my manager be tripping and stuff talking 'bout we gotta use water.

Presenting: The Pop Star of the Year (And Only That Year), '90-'19

1990: Vanilla Ice
1991: C+C Music Factory
1992: Arrested Development
1993: Spin Doctors
1994: Ace of Base
1995: Hootie and the Blowfish
1996: Quad City DJ’s
1997: Hanson
1998: Master P
1999: 98° 2000: Sisqo
2001: Mystikal
2002: Cam’ron
2003: Chingy
2004: Lil Flip
2005: Pretty Ricky
2006: Hinder
2007: Daughtry
2008: Leona Lewis
2009: Jay Sean

And here... we... go. "Macarena" One Hit Wonderland, now on YouTube.

I hunted down literally every Macarena clip I could think of and people in the comments are sharing YET MORE that I didn't find

okay, this is concerning. if i try to search for an obscure song on Spotify, I get only the same four popular songs. Is the search function broken for you too? This will get me to switch to Tidal.

Favorites: Finland, Norway, Moldova, Iceland, Ukraine, Greece

Least favorites: Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Germany, Poland, UK

This is no order and I may not even remember which is which correctly I didn't really get it

https://twitter.com/Unidentifiabl/status/1525593704190312448

To those asking, yes, I am watching Eurovision, yes we will be podcasting it for @SongVsSongPod I tuned in late so I started with "Give Peace a Chance," someone give me context for this opening song mix, is this anybody

I think I'm in a small minority of people who think that James Cameron's "Avatar" wasn't "forgettable," or Good Actually, but genuinely actively terrible. Putrid dialogue, implicitly racist, and just horrifically acted (Sigourney Weaver excepted) The dialogue isn't great in Cameron's "Titanic" either, or the characterization any less thin, but man it still goes hard. Everyone is selling it. I just do not see any of that in "Avatar." I don't like the characters, I don't like the story, any of it.

The movie "Doctor Strange 2" reminds me most of is the 2019 "Hellboy." I liked both those movies a lot, and I hesitate to admit that because I don't think that's a remotely justifiable opinion. I guess this proves I don't really care about Marvel characters as characters because if I did I'd be very upset right now.

Ho boy.

So, with all this anti-Amber Heard stuff floating around, I got to wondering: If Amber Heard has so definitively proven to be the abuser not the victim, how did Depp lose his first case so bad?

So I read the actual ruling. And it is DAMNING.

bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/… I was suspicious of the Twitter narrative because the only real evidence I heard was the call where she admitted hitting him. But he admitted to striking her too; they both claim self-defense. So I started looking in the ruling for corroborating evidence

theblast.com/c/amber-heard-…

This is news from last month, but I have just learned that '90s r&b singer Deborah Cox is this year's inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

I have no objections to this but it continues to drive me insane that Celine Dion has yet to be inducted. The last few inductees -- Deborah Cox, Jann Arden, Andy Kim, Corey Hart -- are all, at least to my American understanding, flashes in the pan with a couple hits here and there, nowhere near Celine's level of fame. She should've been in a long time ago.

I did not really like "King Richard," but after reading Will Smith's memoir it became more interesting to me, as Will was clearly dealing with his own conflicted feelings about being an overbearing stage dad who pushed his kids too hard/didn't push them hard enough. After Willow had her big hit "Whip My Hair," she decided that music had been fun but she was done. Will wanted her to be the biggest child star in the world and wouldn't let her quit. Willow literally shaved her head so she would have no hair to whip. (Badass for an 11-year-old)

Some people have told me that they appreciate Will going hard on organized religion, and I get that that's a rare and underexplored topic especially in hip-hop, but I still think it's a reach to connect Will's judgy ex with 9/11 I didn't show this part but Will is not coming at it from an atheist perspective, he repeatedly expresses his religious bonafides, as in, "I'm a real Christian, I live my faith every day, I don't need to flex it like you, a born-again who discovered Christ in her mid-30s"

Now here's a fascinating thing about how YouTube revenue works in regards to copyright. Keep in mind I'm not complaining here; my money has always come mostly from Patreon, anything I make from YouTube ads I've always considered a bonus. Anyway, most of my shit gets copyright-claimed, I used to not dispute it because it takes forever, last year I decided to drill down and challenge all the claims in my massive backlog.

"Encanto" would make a good video game Every room a different level. I imagine it kind of like Psychonauts

what is this pronunciation ????

Angel S1E7: The Bachelor Party

Probably the Buffy-est episode of Angel yet, a goofy villain who talks like a normal guy but is gasp a demon, inching towards a Cordelia/Irish Guy romance. I don't know, I liked the darker Angel episodes a little better Buffy S4E8: Pangs

Hoo boy. "Buffy vs. White Guilt" is a premise whose fundamental awkwardness they do at least attempt to play for intentional laughs. Like ha ha... we're in way over our heads. Still, I would recommend they not try to thread that needle again

Buffy S4E6: Wild at Heart

Breakups on this show are fucking sudden and random!! R.I.P. Willow and Oz, I'm sure new exciting things are on Willow's horizon Angel S1E6: Sense & Sensitivity

First comedy villain of the series? In any case, I agree with its thesis: sharing emotions is a curse, causes problems and is bad