Tuesday Tunes, July 2, 2013: Here's to (Kind of) Growing Up Edition

It's the second worst day of the week, so you know what that means...Tuesday Tunes!

 This week we give shout-outs to those artists we knew way back who are returning to their roots, as well as those new artists who are all too keen to grow up and leave their childish images behind.

See our five under the cut!

Attention Academy Voters

This trailer for "The Wolf of Wall Street", the new Martin Scorsese/Leonardo DiCaprio movie, has got us all excited. The humour, the dancing, the Kanye track... we can practically taste the Oscar nomination:

Bonus points to you if you can spot Shane from the Walking Dead (R.I.P.), looking like some sort of weird gay beefcake model in the background of a couple shots...

Good luck to you, Leo, in this year's Oscar race. We raise a glass to you!

GOAT?

Last week, Rafa Nadal continued making history at the French Open by winning the tournament for the eighth time. He managed this after coming off a 7 month break from the game, due to knee injuries.

The Spanish Stallion also continues to give Roger Federer, cardigan enthusiast and certified DILF (is our bias showing?) a run for his GOAT title (Greatest of All Time). While the Swiss Maestro holds a commanding lead in Grand Slam titles over his Iberian adversary, Nadal has bested Federer 20-10 while playing head-to-head.

While debates over who is the GOAT (lol) continue, one thing is certain. Nadal definitely has Federer bested in the grunt face category.

This article carries on Buzzfeed's tradition on focusing on the important aspects of Nadal's career.

Keep fighting the good fight, Buzzfeed.

Song of the Summer

Thought "Blurred Lines" couldn't get any sexier?

You thought wrong.

Happy Father's Day, Don Draper

As a special treat for Father's Day, Vulture has given us The Mad Men Guide to Being a Father. It includes this little gem (spoiler alert):

Do leave the back door to your apartment unlocked at all times. That way if a random woman who calls herself Grandma Ida shows up, she can just walk right in while your kids are alone and unsupervised, then make a nice plate of scrambled eggs before she steals a bunch of your stuff. Remember: A nutritious breakfast is important for young bodies, even when it’s served late at night by a home invader.

A father like Don, however, begets a daughter like Sally, who most definitely has some issues of her own. Like what, you ask? Well, let's ask a qualified mental health professional. Actually. This guy is a real psychiatrist who spends his spare time analyzing the problems of television characters. But what the hell, why not? At least it's not fanfiction.

Things That Make Us Feel Old: MuchMusic VJ Edition

Remember when you'd come straight home from school and turn on MuchMusic immediately, because you know that's what all your friends were doing too?

And then you'd go to school the next day and rehash The Countdown minute by minute, and be like "Did you see that Jennifer Lopez is a singer now? I bet that video cost like a hundred thousand dollars. And that's probably not even including that BRAND NEW iMac she threw into the swimming pool..."

(1999, people. 1999.)

In a similar vein, the first MuchMusic Video Awards were held in 2002, and were hosted by the two best VJs MuchMusic ever had: George Stroumboulopoulos and Bradford How (if you disagree, COME AT US.)

Perusing the above wikipedia entry got us to thinking: what are all those former MuchMusic VJs doing these days? You know, now that music television is no longer the cultural zeitgeist it once was...

Luckily for us, omg at Yahoo wondered the same thing. Click on over and reminisce with us!

Blog of the Month, June 2013: The Fobulous Mom

Written with just the right sense of wryness, exasperation, and love, "The Fobulous Mom" hilariously chronicles the childhood and current adventures of a Canadian woman with her Chinese mother.

Even if you're not the child of a FOB, you'll enjoy this blog. Motherly neuroticism truly is a universal language.