District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff “ruled Monday that no pair of pants is worth $54 million, rejecting a lawsuit that took a dry cleaner’s promise of ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ to its most litigious extreme.” Justice is served!

I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead captured some of the most chill, paranoid rhymes from El-P, an impressive lyricist from the dark side of Brooklyn. With hard-hitting, rock-inflected productions backing him up, El-P pours out his stream of conscious like, “Why should I be sober when god is so clearly dusted out his mind? / With cherubs puffing a bundle trying remember why he even tried?” If mainstream hip-hop bored you to dead with cash, sex, and coke, here is the underground alternative.

Spent my days off watching the entire collection of The Godfather. Something I have been wanting to do for a while but never get to it. By the way, the first film has moved up to the second spot on the new AFI‘s Top 100 American Films List. Citizen Kane still remains the greatest movie of all time. I haven’t seen that film for a while. It’s time for a revisit.

Coudal’s experimental video on cleaning a keyboard using dishwasher. It worked. I might give my keyboard a wash too. It’s pretty dirty.

“I Got a Crush on Obama” from Obama Girl.

Trinh Cong Son’s “Toi Ru Em Ngu” accompanied by Hoang Trong Thuy’s picking guitar on VNCR.

Brazilian ad campaign featured plus-size women with a tagline loosely translates to: “Forget about it. Men’s preferences will never change.”

To answer your question, this is how Viet girls work them booties.

Olivier Dahan’s La Vie en Rose is a biopic of the queen of French pop, Édith Piaf, who was blessed with a sensational voice and cursed with a life full of dramas. In the chopped-up sequence, we get to see Piaf belting out her voice on the street of Paris in her teen, collapsing on stage in her late life, living in the whorehouse in her youth, drinking like a fish throughout her life and shooting up drugs as much as ten times a day after her lover died. In other words, the sequence of the film is as chaotic as her life.

Marion Cotillard as Piaf gave a remarkable performance in both the young and old characters. While drug could corrupt her health and appearance—she looked as if she was in her 70s when she was only in her 40s—it could not take away voice. In fact, what makes her music powerful was that she not just sang but lived the songs. From “La Vie en Rose” to “Milord” to “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” she expressed these ballads with the response of her personal tragedies, and in doing so, she was able to reach the world with her soulful voice.

Even if La Vie en Rose isn’t one of the best musical biopics ever filmed (it isn’t as well done as Ray), it is still worth watching. The life and music of Piaf is too marvelous to pass on, and Cotillard has done the justice of portraying the incredible singer.

Damn! Even the a boring old fart like Duy Quang could scoop up a young girl like that. Respect!