The usually word-enthusiastic Morrissey posted a photo of himself smiling alongside Tom Jones and Mel Gibson yesterday, with no comment attached. Those who've followed Mel and Moz's various rants over the years should be quick to make a connection between them: Mel has gone off on massively anti-Semitic rants, while Morrissey has referred to the Chinese as a "subspecies" because of their treatment of animals. Where does poor, innocent Tom Jones fit into this equation? Does the smooth Welshman even know who he's standing with?

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Sometimes it’s easy to forget that when they’re not created out of thin air with CGI, the places in films are real sets that have to be built and then dismantled—or, in the case of the original Tatooine sets for Star Wars, left to rot in the desert. Sammy Medina at Co. Design details the recent discovery of those neglected sets, which include the Skywalker ranch and Mos Espa by New York photographer Rä Di Martino, who found the sets in Tunisia by accident on Google Earth and eventually tracked them down with the help of locals.

Di Martino has now immortalized the crumbling remains of Tatooine in two series of photographs: “No More Stars,” which focuses on Luke Skywalker’s homestead, and “Every World’s A Stage,” which uses the rest of the sets, including Mos Espa. The sets really do appear to come from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away—they've become visibly run down ...

Last summer, Minnesota kiddie band Y.N. Rich Kids owned ears and the Internet with their single “Hot Cheetos & Takis.” Despite its six million plays on YouTube, though, the members of the group never really saw any money.

Thankfully, the group has released two new songs, both of which are so, so great and will hopefully blow up and pay for college for all these little rugrats. First up is “My Bike,” which has a menacing recorder thing going, but is still pretty young and charming. The kids take their bikes all over Minneapolis, cruising the Target Center and the Vikings practice field. Twins mascot T.C. Bear and rapper Brother Ali even make appearances.

The second song, “Khaki Pants,” is by NSJ Crew, an all-boy group featuring many of the same Y.N. Rich Kids. That song bemoans the burdens of having to wear boring school uniforms while trying to look cool. There’s even a burgeoning dance craze, the “khaki dance,” housed within the song, so watch out. It’s infectious.

While most people know The Bangles’ version of “Manic Monday,” the song was actually written by Prince for the group Apollonia 6. The Purple One wrote it under a pseudonym, Christopher, and originally recorded a demo of the song with Apollonia 6 as a collaboration before deciding their version didn’t really work. Fortunately, the 1984 demo still floats around on the Internet and while the Apollonia 6 gals certainly doesn’t have the pipes to carry the track, Prince’s vocal flourishes help make the cut palatable. Listen below before the track gets yanked from the web forever. [via Doom And Gloom From The Tomb via Buzzfeed]

In the interest of science, creativity, and the science of creativity, we're posting a film or TV still every week, and we're going to ask you to come up with a clever caption. Whoever's caption gets the most likes will win some kind of nonsense prize fromThe A.V. Club office, most likely a Simpsons toy of some sort. I've been terribly lax about posting these in the last few weeks, so my apologies. The winner of the last contest, featuring a very chill Iron Man, was The Artist Formerly Known As Yeah Avatar Right, with the very clever, "No one stopped to think how hard the death of Margaret Thatcher hit Iron Man."

Make sure you post your caption as a new comment, not as a reply, so we can sort out the winner. And though we know you'll be tempted to go for the easy, gross joke, remember that our commenting policy isn't out the window here. This week’s still comes from The Great Gatsby. Here's one to get you started:  

"I told you, I am perfectly happy to pay extra for triple pepperoni. Just make sure it's ...

Anyone who’s heard Marc Maron’s stand-up comedy or his WTF podcast, or read his new book, Attempting Normal, should understand all too well that the guy is a pathological over-sharer. Expect more of that in his new series, Maron, which debuted May 3 at 10 eastern on IFC. In anticipation of it, we looked into some of our favorite over-sharing moments in pop culture.

George Costanza does the opposite, Seinfeld (1994)
Unemployed, living at home, and generally miserable, George Costanza (Jason Alexander) has come to realize that every instinct he’s ever had has been wrong. At his nadir, he decides to go against his natural tendencies, and in the process turns his life around.

Chunk spills his guts, The Goonies (1985)
Captured by the Fratellis and held against his will, Chunk (Jeff Cohen) has only one way to survive: confess. “Tell us everything,” says Joe Pantoliano in his best threatening voice. “Everything.” In a classic comedy trope, Chunk interprets this as an order to cite every bad thing he’s ever done, not simply tell his captors where his friends are hiding.

Tommy explains why he sucks at sales, Tommy Boy (1995)
After yet another humiliating sales ...

Sometimes you've gotta laugh to keep from crying, which is why God or Buddha or Vishnu or Chance delivers guys like Charles Ramsey, who not only helped free four kidnap victims from unspeakable horrors, but also gave an incredibly silly interview about it. And of course, no sooner was that original interview making the rounds than The Gregory Brothers—the group behind Auto-Tune The News—turned it into a song. It's already got damn near four million views, but if you aren't one of those four million, you might want to watch "Dead Giveaway" right now. And then go hug your loved ones.

For those of precisely the right age, there's no better John Cusack movie than Better Off Dead, the absurd 1985 comedy directed by "Savage" Steve Holland. Practically the whole damn movie is ripe for quoting ("and to drink... Peru!"), and it feels like the type of comedy that could never happen again. (Insane paperboy, check. Skiing competition, check. Weird Asian drag racers, check. Claymation burgers, check.) Screen Crush gathered photos of the major characters, then and now—so if you were wondering what the "I want my two dollars!" kid was doing, the answer is in the link above (looking creepy).

Third Man Records might be making LP covers out of laser-cut wood, but software designer Amanda Ghassael has made an actual LP out of the same material. Ghassael used a 3D printer to cut three songs into wood discs—Radiohead’s “Idioteque” into plywood and The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” and “Sunday Morning” into a maple. There are limitations to the process—the grooves have to be about 10 times wider than they are on normal vinyl, for instance—but soon, everyone with a 3D printer or laser etching capabilities should be able to ruin their turntable needles with ease.

Ghassael detailed her whole process for Instructables, and it’s pretty nerdy. She found that the tracks that work best (and work is a relative term here, because the songs just sort of sound okay on wood) are “very full in the lower to mid range, but also very sparse overall.”

With the Community season (series?) finale tonight, there’s no time like the present to listen to Donald Glover talk about what records he likes. Acting in his role as rapper Childish Gambino, Glover stopped by Amoeba Records in LA to buy (or have the store buy him) some stuff, and then tell a video camera why he bought what he bought. Tough job, right? Listen to him extol the virtues of Wreck-It Ralph, Funkadelic, and Italian prog act Goblin in the video below.

After that’s done, poke around some of Amoeba’s other “What’s In My Bag?” videos, including recent chats with The Wire’s Andre Royo (Bubbles!) and 30 Seconds To Mars fanatics Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.

37 years after its initial release, Paul McCartney And Wings’ amazing live album Wings Over America is getting a deluxe reissue. The three CD, one DVD set comes complete with a remastered version of the live set, a bonus disc recorded around the same time at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, a DVD of the TV special Wings Over The World, and four hardbound art books, including a commemorative tour book, a tour diary, a book of the late Linda McCartney’s photography, and a book of sketches of the band by artist Humphrey Ocean.

Wings Over America is one of the best-known live records of all time, having gone platinum and spawning a hit live version of “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Though the original’s been around for a while, The A.V. Club has the premiere of one of the album’s recently remastered heartbreakers, “Blackbird.” Acoustic and intimate, it’s a lovely take on one of McCartney’s best songs.

The A.V. Club also has a copy of the deluxe Wings Over America box set to give away before the album’s May 28 release. Interested parties need only e-mail avcontests@theonion.com with the subject ...

Mark Mulcahy might be most familiar to some A.V. Club readers as the frontman of Polaris, the house band for The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, but the singer-songwriter fronted the band Miracle Legion for years. He’s also got a ton of A-list fans, from Thom Yorke to Michael Stipe, all of who participated in the 2009 tribute record, Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs Of Mark Mulcahy. Now, the “Hey Sandy” singer is back with his first new solo record in eight years, Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You, and The A.V. Club has the premiere of one of the album’s best tracks, “Let The Fireflies Fly Away.” With Mulcahy’s vocals right up front, the track should please fans of Polaris and Miracle Legion, as well as anyone with a penchant for jangly indie pop.

Mulcahy is on tour this summer, and a full list of dates is below.

Mark Mulcahy tour 2013
June 22—Solid Sound Festival—North Adams, Massachusetts
June 26—Johnny Brenda’s—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
June 27—Mercury Lounge—New York, New York
July 12—Spaceland Ballroom—Hamden, Connecticut
July 13—Iron Horse Music Hall—Northampton, Massachusetts
July 25—The ...

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Pieces about how realistic fiction is are always interesting, and there are two today that caught The A.V. Club’s eye. First up is Wired’s investigation of Game Of Thrones’ ice climbing technique. While Game Of Thrones isn’t based entirely in fact (dragons!), this Sunday’s wall scaling scene left mountaineering expert and GOT fan Katie Mills out in the cold. While the Wildings used a running belay, for instance, real ice climbers would never attach themselves to each other, lest one climber’s fall cause everyone to tumble. And while Orell had some trouble cutting Jon Snow and Ygritte free, in real life the rope would be so taut that it would instantly sever if a knife even grazed it. Mills makes a couple other good points in the piece, though she fails to question why the Wildings never wear winter hats.

If worrying about medieval-tinged fantasy scenarios isn’t for you, check out Vulture’s look at Jay Gatsby’s ...

There’s a grand tradition of breaking the fourth wall throughoutanimation, particularly in the Chuck Jones shorts “Duck Amuck” and “Rabbit Rampage.” But stop-motion short “Maker vs. Marker” takes the creator-against-creation battle literally, depicting a standard 2-D fighting game sequence between a Street Fighter-based character and the hand that drew him on a dry-erase board. It’s the stop-motion equivalent of the Master Hand boss battle in the Super Smash Bros. series. Check out the video below.

While Late Night With Jimmy Fallon is a post-midnight haven for televised hijinks most evenings, guest John Krasinski took the show’s tomfoolery to a whole new level last night with a lip-sync battle he suggested. The Office’s Jim went head to head with Fallon acting out dramatic ditties by everyone from Melissa Manchester to Das EFX. The highlight really comes when Krasinski takes on Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love To You,” but his version of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” is pretty great, too. [via Uproxx]

David Bowie’s last music video had him cavorting with Tilda Swinton, but for his new clip, the Thin White Duke has doubled his celebri-quotient. “The New Day” features a robed Bowie crooning to a bar full of clergy and whores, including bishop Gary Oldman and stigmata-prone prostitute Marion Cotillard. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, the clip was written and conceived by Bowie and is just about as dark as that notion suggests. Watch below and repent.

Boldly going where no commercial has gone before, Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy have teamed up for a new Spock-themed Audi ad. After Nimoy beats Quinto in an online 3-D chess game, the two decide to race to the country club (Quinto in a prominently featured Audi) where the loser will buy lunch. Trekkies will appreciate the Wrath Of Khan reference, Nimoy fans will appreciate the “Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins” reference, and everyone will appreciate the Audi’s five–link front suspension. The commercial is pretty charming and even manages to land a nice comedic beat at the end.

Secret Colours’ latest record, Peach, isn’t out until May 28, but The A.V. Club has the premiere of the band’s new video today. Dark and smoky, “Blackhole” aptly visualizes a track that ably bridges ‘60s psychedelia and ‘90s Britpop. Blissed out and full of haircuts, the clip is equal parts Dandy Warhols, Beta Band, and Kula Shaker. Bonus points to the guy in the gas mask.

Catch Secret Colours on tour this spring. Dates are below.

Secret Colours tour 2013
May 22—Melody Inn—Indianapolis, Indiana
May 23—The Smiling Moose—Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 24—Pianos—New York, New York
May 26—Kung Fu Necktie—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 27—Cake Shop—New York, New York
May 28—Black Whiskey—Washington, DC
May 29—Zanzabar—Louisville, Kentucky
June 8—Empty Bottle—Chicago, Illinois

A regular episode of Zach Galifianakis’ web series Between Two Ferns is always cause for excitement, but the latest edition is just ridiculous. Though the four-minute clip starts out with Galifianakis grilling James “Franko” about whether he’d ever “considering hosting the Oscars properly,” and asking which of the actor’s art projects made people roll their eyes the hardest, about halfway through, Galifianakis throws to musical guest The Lonely Island.

Cue “Spring Break Anthem,” the first single from The Lonely Island’s upcoming LP, The Wack Album. At first a song about roofies, beer bongs, beads, and boobs, “Spring Break Anthem” devolves (or evolves?) into a club banger about gay marriage. As the song goes, “let’s get fucked up and then find Mr. Right and get monogamous.” After all, spring break is for “planning the menu, picking out flowers, nailing sluts, and writing our vows.”

Featuring guest appearances from Galifianakis, Franco, and an adorable Ed Norton, the “Spring Break Anthem” clip is borderline not safe for work, but who cares? Let’s trade beads for bras and celebrate two men bound by the law.

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One of the most notable features of classic game Shadow Of The Colossus is the lack of enemies besides the 16 colossi, which leaves the rest of the game world open for exploration without fear of combat. The game is approaching a decade in age, which has given a dedicated group of players time to find every last Easter egg, glitch, and hidden area scattered throughout the world’s Forbidden Lands.

Craig Owens’ fascinating look at the Colossus community went up at Eurogamer this week—it traces the history of the search, from its beginnings as a Sisyphean quest for an additional colossus through current players using hacks to explore leftovers from the beta stages of development. Owens notes, but doesn’t overdo, the religious parallels in the hunt (though one of the players talks about the game’s creators as gods who “meant” for the Easter Eggs to be part of a whole, and another has a grand Theory Of Intersecting Points), as well ...

With Mikal Cronin’s excellent new record out this week, the listening public is getting yet another nudge to remind it that, hey, garage rock is back and it’s pretty great. Weirdly hip Cartoon Network brand Adult Swim is hip to that vibe and, in collaboration with Dr. Pepper, has just put out Garage Swim, a mixtape chock full of grimey riffs and subtle burns. Made up of tracks from acts like the aforementioned Cronin, Black Lips, Thee Oh Sees, King Tuff, and King Khan, Garage Swim would be a solid investment even if it weren’t absolutely free to download. Grab it over on Adult Swim’s page and, while there, check out interviews with King Tuff and Cronin made by the video masterminds over at Yours Truly.

Portland-based Kenny Feinstein has made his musical name as the frontman of Water Tower, a rootsy bluegrass punk outfit. For his solo debut, out this September, he’s stretching out even further, into noise rock. Loveless: Hurts To Love finds Feinstein covering every track from My Bloody Valentine’s 1991 Loveless, plus “Swallow” from the group’s 1991 Tremelo EP. He’s not giving the tracks the full drone treatment, though; rather, he’s folking them up, performing them on acoustic guitar, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, and dulcimer. It sounds beyond strange, but somehow it works.

Feinstein has already released the video for “What You Want,” featuring Richard Buckner, but The A.V. Club has the exclusive premiere of his take on “Loomer.” Listen below and wallow.

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Mad Men viewers are generally supposed to believe that while Don Draper might not be a great human being, he’s an absolutely great ad man. Business Insider has a great (albeit a month old) story about how, in comparison to what was actually running at the time, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s ad concepts were actually pretty terrible. For instance, while SCDP pitched Belle Jolie lipstick a sketchy drawing of a gamine girl, real cosmetics companies were using actual photos at the time. And SCDP’s Mohawk Airlines pitch might have showed a sexy stewardess’ butt, but the real Mohawk was pitching itself using photos of four actual flight attendants, all of whom were just waiting to serve the customer at 30,000 feet.

Business Insider has a number of images from different proposed and actual campaigns for readers to judge for themselves, but the evidence is fairly remarkable. Maybe Don and company really aren’t as great as everyone’s been led to ...

There aren’t enough female-fronted rock groups out there, but at least Houston’s Wild Moccasins are doing their part to contribute to the scene. Fronted by Zahira Gutierrez, Wild Moccasins make exuberant and energetic indie-pop wild enough to have gotten them noticed by Of Montreal, who are taking the quintet out on tour this spring. The band’s got an LP coming later this year for New West Records, but in the meantime, it’s released a single, “Gag Reflections.” The A.V. Club has the exclusive premiere of the clip, which is filled with jangly guitars, blue lipstick, and singsong choruses. Plus Gutierrez drinks a bottle of Windex, so there’s that.

The group’s upcoming tour dates are below.

Wild Moccasins tour 2013
May 7—Tricky Falls—El Paso, Texas*
May 8—Crescent Ballroom—Phoenix, Arizona*
May 9—Echoplex—Los Angeles, California*
May 10—Slim’s—San Francisco, California*
May 11—Wonder Ballroom—Portland, Oregon*
May 15—Cedar Cultural Center—Minneapolis, Minnesota*
May 16—Pabst Theatre—Milwaukee, Wisconsin*
May 17—Lincoln Hall—Chicago, Illinois*
May 18—The Madison Theater—Covington, Kentucky*
May 20—Town Ballroom—Buffalo, New York*
May 21—Paradise—Boston, Massachusetts*
May 22—Music Hall ...

In the past, filmmaking was a process plagued by uncertainty and imagination, a movie’s chances of box-office success as shaky as the screenwriter who was locked in a studio bungalow and denied alcohol until delirium tremens kicked in and they hallucinated their next big picture. Fortunately, we live in an age when there is nothing that cannot be reduced to cold market analysis if you learn to ignore every impulse toward artistic integrity, in this interim before they finally make a pill for that. Relativity Media’s Ryan Kavanaugh has already earned notice for the risk-management simulations that have helped him release films like Movie 43 and not feel horrible about it. Now The New York Times profiles Worldwide Motion Picture Group, whose increasingly popular script evaluation services are giving today’s filmmakers the tools they need to manufacture the product the audience has seen some version of before, and therefore feels secure in purchasing again. 

Led by Vinny Bruzzese—“a chain-smoking former statistics professor” who specializes in “tell it like it is” bluntness, and is somehow not one of Dan Aykroyd's SNL characters—Worldwide will take your screenplay and, for the incredibly low and inconsequential price of ...

Every family has its secrets, and TV shows and movies have gotten a lot of mileage out of them. In the new HBO series Family Tree, Tom Chadwick (Chris O'Dowd) goes on a journey to learn about his family after receiving a mysterious box of stuff from a great aunt he doesn't know. With that in mind, we looked for some other family secrets in TV —we didn't have to go far.

Arrested Development (2005)
The secret: The Bluth family is full of secrets, but they’re not great at hiding them. Consider George Bluth’s brother, Oscar, the long-haired hippie identical twin who thinks and acts like George’s opposite. (Both are played expertly by Jeffrey Tambor.) Almost from the first time Oscar shows up, there are hints that he might be the biological father of Buster Bluth, the most clueless member of an incredibly clueless tribe. It becomes clearer and clearer that not only is Oscar Bluth Buster’s father, but that he’s continuing his affair with Lucille Bluth, George’s wife.

The big reveal: It’s only the mention of a particular popcorn brand that finally makes Buster see the light: “I just ...

Last summer, comedian Kyle Kinane made a pilot for a travel show. It wasn’t picked up by Comedy Central, unfortunately, but that’s probably not a surprise given that it was called Going Nowhere, featured a ton of sexual content right up top, and was about rambling around the country fairly aimlessly. Still, given that it stars Kinane, it’s exceptionally funny and, thankfully, the pilot for Going Nowhere is now streaming online. Watch Kinane road trip up to San Francisco to chat up people he describes as “wingnuts” and “meatballs,” all for the purpose of making good TV. He gets a lesson in leather and latex, wrestles a particularly rough dominatrix, chases Bigfoot with a longtime hunter, and (no shit) meets a real life wizard. Is it too late to start a Kickstarter to get this show made?

KYLE KINANE'S GOING NOWHERE from Toy Plane on Vimeo.

While the late Jeff Hanneman never sang lead on a Slayer album track, he did belt out quite a few demos. Quite a few of Slayer’s best songs began as Hanneman-penned cuts, including “Raining Blood” and “Angel Of Death.” The Internet being the Internet, these demos have been circulating online for a while now, but are only really getting traction following Hanneman’s untimely death late last week.

Check out “Spill The Blood,” "Seeds Of Horror," and “Angel Of Death” below, as well as some of the tracks from Pap Smear, Hanneman’s never-officially launched punk side project with Dave Lombardo and Rocky George.

In this incredible, very Diddy-like public-service announcement, the former Puff declares his distaste for bullying in its many forms—with special attention to after-hours online bullying, which is apparently a big thing with the kids these days. (What will they think of next?) The commercials were produced in conjunction with World Wrestling Entertainment, which is an organization that does not encourage bullying in any of its forms, whether online or fake-hitting somebody on the back with a ladder. Of course because this is Diddy, there is no altruism involved; he happens to be involved in a clothing line called Invisible Bully, which was started by Notorious B.I.G. homeboy Damion "D-Roc" Butler. Butler famously took the fall for Biggie on a gun charge, and he went to jail for his involvement in a shootout between Lil Kim and Foxy Brown's camps. So... Good role model! Here's the video, which is pretty entertaining, though features no gunplay.

Iron Man 3 may have opened this weekend, but one Internet nerd still has Thor on the brain. Caleb Kraft from Hack A Day set out to make his very own version of Mjolnir, Thor’s hammer, and while his doesn’t weigh a metric ton or return to his hand from across the room, it does emit a shocking 80,000 volts of electricity. Kraft charged up his foam replica with the help of Tesla coil builder Staci Elan and says that it can both create 3-inch arcs of visible electricity and power light bulbs that are held nearby. It’s not quite as jazzy as Thor’s real hammer, obviously, but it’s pretty cool all the same.