We Approve: Your Friday Freebies
Junkee-endorsed bits and bobs, to make your weekend better. Featuring some Coachella gifs, an NPR First Listen with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, and a couple of '60s films.
Each Friday, our contributors send in a bunch of (legally) free stuff that’s come out this week, to help you make the most of your weekend. You’re welcome.
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Gallery: The New Yorker – GIFs From Coachella
Recommended by: Matt Roden (‘Don Draper: Total Perve Since 1941‘)
As a very, very old man with no interest in “delight”, I do not want to go to music festivals anymore. They’re noisy. However, as a young, young man, I love two seconds of video footage played in a loop to create a Hard Day’s Night style of hyped-up, animated ridiculosity. So the New Yorker‘s gallery of Coachella gifs sets my interests and disinterests in direct competition, and now leads me to believe that all things I think are annoying would actually be fantastic if they only existed as flickery repetitions.
Phoenix acting like an ’80s office desk toy is almost as perfect as balloons being their balloony selves.
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Video: Harrison Ford on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Recommended by: Adam Kamien (‘Of Pontiffs And Pedophiles: Silence In The House Of God Reviewed‘)
Even before Jimmy Kimmel fucked Ben Affleck, he was the king of late night’s next gen (before you get all indignant, Conan is on the cusp), even if outstripping Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Fallon isn’t exactly covering one’s self in glory. Further proof of this came in the shape of an interview with Harrison Ford yesterday, in which Kimmel invited Han Solo himself to answer questions from the studio audience. Just don’t mention the war — Star Wars: Episode VII, that is.
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Movies: Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant’s Charade (1963) and George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead (1968), both available on public domain
Recommended by: Caitlin Welsh (‘Game Of Thrones Week 3: Advanced Stealth Feminism, Or Is Everything Just Terrible?‘)
These two classic movies are unexpectedly in the public domain, thanks to some silly admin errors. Charade is a hilarious Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant bizarro Hitchcock caper, and Night Of The Living Dead is the original zombie flick by the master of the genre, George Romero. Good for hitting the couch on a chilly weekend!
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Sports: NBA Playoffs fever!
Recommended by: Rob Moran (‘Who Will Win The Battle For Adam Scott Of Our Hearts‘)
Ok, so if anyone reading this is at all like my girlfriend, you really won’t give a shit about this video. It involves basketballs, big bouncy basketballs. If that’s not your thing, maybe just head back up there to that clip from Charade; I’m pretty sure Cary Grant was on LSD throughout it. For everyone else, NBA PLAYOFFS START THIS WEEKEND! To celebrate (well, and also mourn the fact that my beloved Detroit Pistons are heading for the Lottery Draft yet again), let’s watch the NBA’s officially released video of the 10 best crossovers of the season (easily the slickest move in the game). Oh, how I love these ankle-breakers. But goddamn, Brandon Knight.
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Music: NPR First Listen: Steve Martin & Edie Brickell’s Love Has Come For You
I hate Steve Martin, for reasons we are yet to determine. I hate his goofy dumb grin. I hate his stupid rubber face. Housesitter is the absolute worst. But dude can totally play the banjo — he’s won a Grammy for it and everything.
Love Has Come For You is Martin’s third album, and on it he’s collaborated with Edie Brickell. Edie Brickell also knows a bit about music, on account of her own double platinum debut, and also being married to Paul Simon.
Come for the novelty. Stay for the actually quite sweet tunes.