No-chella?

So I want to go to Coachella.
To be there, the tickets are an understandable $270.

I mean, it's costly, but it's Paul fucking McCartney, Leonard Cohen, (along with a bunch of the best indie bands you don't know) The Black Keys, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Chemical Brothers, even The Crystal Method will be there. Get Busy Child still reverbs my skull from the wake-ups on the first morning of my Frosh Week, when it's sticky bass pulses penetrated the hollow cinderblocks beside my pillow at sunrise. It's a lot of money, but I get it.

What I can't understand is the cost to sleep there.

Our accomodation options:
My friend and I can pay $1100 for 3 nights in a hotel in Palm Springs,

or

we can pay $150 for 3 nights in a condo in Palm Springs, found on the amazingly fecund craigslist.


Also fecund, not buying a hotel room for Coachella


The hotel room as a monopoly on accomodations ?
I'm not buying it.

Couchsurfing.
Craigslist.

It's the future, and it's cheaper than 8 babies.

I bet there aren't even snakes in the car...

So there's a new film from the Fast and Furious franchise opening this weekend. It's been cleverly titled "Fast and Furious" and stars Vin Diesel.

I'm not buying that Hollywood is so entirely out of action flick ideas that this mind-numbing remake is what sells.

Are movie audiences really so bored that they'll go see a fourth installment of plotless car crashing?

What happened to the days of the high-concept action movie?

Where's my Timecop? My Demolition Man? My Judge Dredd? I mean, if you're going to just crank out sequels, at least have the decency to star in all TEN of them (I'm pointing at you, Stallone).

After skipping FF2 and 3 (ya, he cameo'd), Diesel returns for FF4 as a producer, which is about as reassuring as having Paris and Nicole at the helm.

It's time audiences stopped supporting empty movies just because shit blows up. If we boycott, we can get less of Barbie Gone Wild and more movies like The One where the hero fights himself with a motorcycle!























I'm not buying another action movie ticket until we see THIS: