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Trailer: The Bourne Legacy - Aug 3

Directed by Tony Gilroy. Starring Jeremy Renner, achel Weisz, Edward Norton, and Stacy Keach.

Terrible trailers come out every week. Predictable, loud, routine, derivative trailers have developed a language all their own, one that audiences are able to comprehend. And they’ve become a punchline just the same. This spot is one of the rare few that bucks the trend (for the most part) and it does it well. The sliding panels is a clever trick that adds anticipation into the fabric of the trailer. I know Ed Norton’s voice, now let me see his face, damnit. Good stuff. I don’t know that I need to go see this movie anymore than when I did before seeing the trailer, but at least it did something.  

(via Collider)

“Get some rest, The Bourne Legacy. You look awesome.”

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So /mu/ tracked down the original basis for the In The Aeroplane Over The Sea album art. The internet is amazing sometimes.

So /mu/ tracked down the original basis for the In The Aeroplane Over The Sea album art. The internet is amazing sometimes.

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thedailyfeed: Let’s get this party started! Just in time for the game: the history of tailgating.  On Nov. 6, 1869, the two teams met on a field where the [Rutgers] gymnasium now stands in New Brunswick, N.J. There were 50 players — 25 to each team playing a game with rules more akin to rugby than modern football — and 100 spectators. Apparently, the Rutgers supporters, seeking to set themselves apart, wound scarlet-colored scarves around their heads. This may have been the one of the first times that college sports fans adorned themselves with their school colors, but it wouldn’t be the last. Tailgating websites — yes, they exist, along with entire businesses devoted to making products designed for an event that some fans consider to be more important than the game itself — like to presume that spectators at the Princeton-Rutgers game may have tailgated on the back of wagons at that first game. But the official history has them sitting on a low wooden fence. There’s no mention of food or drink, critical elements to modern tailgating. But we can assume that the spectators may at least have brought a flask or two of strong liquor to keep warm on what was likely a chilly fall day. The game started at 3 p.m. and after it was finished the teams had an “amicable feed together,” according to a report in the Rutgers’ college newspaper: “At 8 o’clock our guests went home, in high good spirits, thirsting to beat us next time, if they can.” RUUUUUUUUUUUU

thedailyfeed:

Let’s get this party started! Just in time for the game: the history of tailgating. 

On Nov. 6, 1869, the two teams met on a field where the [Rutgers] gymnasium now stands in New Brunswick, N.J. There were 50 players — 25 to each team playing a game with rules more akin to rugby than modern football — and 100 spectators. Apparently, the Rutgers supporters, seeking to set themselves apart, wound scarlet-colored scarves around their heads. This may have been the one of the first times that college sports fans adorned themselves with their school colors, but it wouldn’t be the last.

Tailgating websites — yes, they exist, along with entire businesses devoted to making products designed for an event that some fans consider to be more important than the game itself — like to presume that spectators at the Princeton-Rutgers game may have tailgated on the back of wagons at that first game. But the official history has them sitting on a low wooden fence. There’s no mention of food or drink, critical elements to modern tailgating. But we can assume that the spectators may at least have brought a flask or two of strong liquor to keep warm on what was likely a chilly fall day. The game started at 3 p.m. and after it was finished the teams had an “amicable feed together,” according to a report in the Rutgers’ college newspaper: “At 8 o’clock our guests went home, in high good spirits, thirsting to beat us next time, if they can.”

RUUUUUUUUUUUU

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Whoever planned today’s menu—specifically those last two options—earned ten gold stars. IT’S A SOUPER BOWL.

Whoever planned today’s menu—specifically those last two options—earned ten gold stars.

IT’S A SOUPER BOWL.

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I would kill to be in the room when someone tells Samuel L. Jackson that Twitter doesn’t have a profanity filter.

I would kill to be in the room when someone tells Samuel L. Jackson that Twitter doesn’t have a profanity filter.