Uncommon Nonsense : Some Internet Highlights From The Past Few Weeks

(alternate title: Things I Thought Were More Important Than Taking The Time To Write A Decent Blog Post)
(alternate alternate title: Obviously Looking Up Proper Capitalization Wasn't One Of Those Things)
(alternate alternate alternate title: Just Call Me Jaden Smith)

Anyway.

The Fault in Our Stars movie trailer. This was released over a month ago, but it's still relevant, and it will continue to be relevant until the actual movie comes out (on June 6...not that I'm counting down or anything). The trailer looks incredibly promising - the actors look perfect, it seems to match the book, and it moved me to tears in two minutes and thirty seconds.

wolf pupy's twitter. I hadn't heard of wolf pupy until he wrote an article for Rookie, but now he's one of my favorite people (animals?) on the interweb.

Alex Turner's acceptance speech at the Brits. There are mixed opinions on this speech, some blasting him for arrogance, pretension, and egotism, others calling it "the speech of the century" and saying it "was everything rock and roll is meant to be." Personally, I loved his speech, and I love how the Monkeys have never hidden their disdain for awards ceremonies. After the ceremony, Alex said "I refuse to put too much importance on these things.... A band or group or an artist's talent is not directly proportional to the size of their trophy cabinet."

Speaking of Arctic Monkeys, the music video for Arabella (one of my favorite songs from their latest album) was released yesterday, and it is completely wonderful. I love how 50's it seems, and - as always - Alex's quiff is immaculate.

This video by one of my favorite vloggers, explaining why she loves the movie Clueless, almost exclusively using Clueless-isms.

And finally, here's another video, this time by the wonderful John Green, explaining that he's grateful that his book is a bestseller but pointing you in the direction of some that aren't. Honestly, I hadn't read any of the books on his list, but they look fantastic and I just bought two of them.

Whoa! My book started with a movie of a book by John Green and ended with a video by John Green about books! FULL CIRCLE BRO.

~Maya

"I refuse to put too much importance on these things. I've got a lot of respect for these ceremonies, but it's not what we do it for and it never was.

A band or a group or an artist's talent is not directly proportional to the size of their trophy cabinet.

"I refuse to put too much importance on these things. I've got a lot of respect for these ceremonies, but it's not what we do it for and it never was.

A band or a group or an artist's talent is not directly proportional to the size of their trophy cabinet.

Uncommon Nonsense

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Monday, March 3, 2014

Some Internet Highlights From The Past Few Weeks

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