For users that want to check Slacker out, we're giving them a free trial of Slacker Radio Plus.
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The Model S comes with a complimentary four-year Slacker music subscription, which is the equivalent of the Slacker Plus subscription.
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Photos courtesy of Total Slacker On a recent Friday—August 20143, to be exact—Tucker Rountree's band Total Slacker released their third album, Parallels.
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What do you think I am — some slacker hippy?
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To be a slacker millennial is to be a loser.
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Big Whoop's fooling around with drones has no slacker component.
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The import weakness was largely ascribed to slacker domestic demand.
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Watch Richard Linklater's 1991 cult film The Slacker, she said.
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What we did not find significant was the "slacker" label.
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At first, she worried that she was just a slacker.
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A young slacker (Aaron Purvis) is interviewed with his mother.
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But this tier of Slacker seems to have its limitations: you can't, for example, play a Slacker song on demand more than once, or use the back button to go back in a playlist.
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We've run a lot of slacker animal comics on this site.
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And you thought showing up to the reunion was enough ... slacker.
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Slacker Rock was grunge and anti-folk and psychedelia mixed together.
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The stoner–slacker tropes commonly associated with cannabis users made Chong angry.
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"Slacker" featured a bunch of 20-something nonactors wandering around Austin, Tex.
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In Great Basin, though, we were like slacker parents: totally winging it.
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AMC's new slacker drama feels like it arrived from some other era.
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Milk Music has always been powered by Slacker Radio, and by switching over to Slacker, music fans can continue to enjoy the same personalized listening experience they've come to love through our unique programming, storytelling and curated stations.
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Just because you have an empty 10th house doesn't mean you're a slacker.
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Both times, the kids were dressed like Veruca Salt and playing slacker rock.
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Take Slacker, a progenitor of indie cinema that kicked off Richard Linklater's career.
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If I take two weeks off, will my coworkers think I'm a slacker?
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His process would make event the most serious sommelier feel like a slacker.
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Bridget appears to be the apathetic slacker familiar from so many breathless blogs.
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And we would never have made the purchase if he was a slacker, honestly.
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This is fine for passive listening, even if you're not a big Slacker user.
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Al Muratsuchi: Well, I think surfing's come a long way from its slacker image.
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From there, circle back to his early work, particularly Slacker and Dazed and Confused.
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Portraying a progressively needy slacker, he delivers the play's ribald asides with laserlike timing.
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A former bandmate describes him as a funny slacker who didn't have many friends.
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But imagine a much slacker "Magic Mike," without the fun or the social commentary.
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It was not just his attire that made him look like a 2500s slacker.
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CANDICE : I'm being driven to the airport by, get this, Francis, my slacker ex.
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"Aaron, it's not 'Me and this slacker are going to be serving some Dos Hombres Mezcal', it's 'This slacker and *I* are going to be serving some Dos Hombres Mezcal,'" he commented on the post, which was captured by Comments By Celebs.
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Right now, I also helped found the Atavist, we do long-form with much slacker deadlines and much slacker constraints and I'm very happy with it, but there is something about the magazine that leads to consistently excellent and terrific long-form.
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While a commercial failure, the Slacker Portable was a necessary step in building the company.
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Just because a colleague works at a different pace, doesn't make the person a slacker.
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Neither of us wants to be the slacker who gives up first, or drops behind.
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She'd been sorted into the slacker-parent category while her baby was still in utero.
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Watch the video below, and read our profile of Total Slacker from earlier this year.
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Others point to "slacktivism," a portmanteau of "slacker" and "activism," as part of the problem.
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Now might be a good time to scoot your desk away from the office slacker.
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That slacker stuff is for people who have the time to be depressed about everything.
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Similar terms were applied to the "slacker" Generation X and before that, the baby boomers.
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To them I come off as the jaded, old fucking slacker at the record store.
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The burning question: Can our tortured slacker forge a sane relationship with someone like Leanna?
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The often too-easy label of "slacker" gets applied to Gen X cuspers like myself.
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In this world there are movers, shakers, and shirkers, it turns out ("shirker" basically means "slacker").
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There's an element of slacker comedy, of art film, of body horror, of indie American cinema.
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Slacker allows you to create radio stations and personalize them by thumbing songs up or down.
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Now 56, Kaelin lives in Los Angeles and has recently started his own clothing line, Slacker Wear.
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Along comes the MTV Movie & TV Awards, sauntering onto the pop culture scene like a teenage slacker.
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It became a lot more lo-fi, and had that sort of slacker-y sound to it.
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In the books, Quentin's posse includes mouthy Janet, sophisticated Eliot, bookish Alice and slacker comic relief Josh.
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Slacker Radio, which launched in 2007, has customizable radio stations based on the listener's personal music tastes.
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If you didn't know better, you'd think Jason Fried is more of a slacker than a CEO.
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Or a friendly, well-liked slacker who constantly comes up with excuses for a lack of productivity.
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To that claim, Beck had his own thoughts: "Slacker my ass," he told Rolling Stone in 1994.
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From harmony-based girl rock to slacker guitar tunes to ultra-happy pop, May's releases didn't disappoint.
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I'm more afraid that my side of the political fence is the slacker end of the fence.
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During the class, a female student asks a question, and a slacker male student incorrectly mansplains the answer.
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Mr Wilson's slacker gun-enthusiast friends, all male, are described reverently ("a practising Buddhist and an urban guerrilla").
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In the "old days" of the Internet this Cluetrain-manifesto-waving post gatekeeper attitude served the slacker well.
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Tameka, a slacker who brought a massive joint to make their shift go by more quickly and enjoyable.
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These formal shifts represent a striking development for a painter who has always embodied a certain slacker chic.
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On the basis of the billboards, we expect him to be a slimeball or a slacker, but no.
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It was strangely cohesive, and the Odelay sound quickly replaced the Slacker Rock label he'd been plastered with.
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"Everyone in Manhattan thinks I'm being a slacker, and everyone here thinks I'm being a workaholic," he said.
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He then plunged into artmaking, living in his parents' basement, in slacker fashion, but he was compulsively productive.
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He's supposed to be a bored slacker philosopher, but in character terms, he's too inconsistent to latch onto.
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He's also set to return the slacker franchise in the recently announced third installment, Bill & Ted Face the Music.
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If the person hasn't made great progress on achieving their dreams, Aquarius will write them off as a slacker.
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Lindsay went on Russian TV and said Egor was a slacker who didn't contribute a dime to the relationship.
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But online "slacktivism", as other critics have called it (combining the words "slacker" and "activism"), can make a difference.
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Wrong town," said Ron Marks, an alum of the old punk rock scene who had a role in "Slacker.
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I feel confident that even if I stop identifying as a stoner, I will always identify as a slacker.
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I'm not sure about all actor-authors, but in "Bucky ____ Dent," his second novel, the TV star David Duchovny so believably brings to life his slacker, pot-smoking, 30-something protagonist, Ted Fullilove, that we feel for Ted the way we feel for most slacker, pot-smoking, 30-somethings: Get a life.
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The show kicked off in 2015 with a strange, spectacular episode starring Forte as slacker Phil Miller — and that's it.
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The clip follows two metalhead/slacker dudes as they're sucked into the increasingly horrific machinations of a "nasal enlightenment" cult.
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Ouija Boards and VHS tapes of Slacker and The Craft are stacked inside a trailer lined with cheap woodgrain paneling.
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Its overriding philosophy might be summed up by that slacker-era cliché: Life's a bitch, and then — well, you know.
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This doesn't mean you have to hunch over your desk like Ebenezer Scrooge, frowning disapprovingly at your cheerful slacker colleagues.
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So maybe "slacker" doesn't apply to his writing, but it applies to every other part of his life, especially relationships.
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" Some Twitter users voiced criticisms of the safety-pin trend, calling it "slacktivism," a word that blends "slacker" and "activism.
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" Variety wrote, "This slacker prince forms a sinkhole at the center of adaptor-helmer Michael Almereyda's otherwise compelling contempo update.
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He is, at his best, a poet of home-brewed koans, threading his philosophical paradoxes into scenes of slacker glamour.
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The many supporting indie performers include the psych-pop slacker Mac DeMarco and the former Vivian Girls singer-guitarist Cassie Ramone.
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Leos love to be spoiled, and while Venus is in hardworking Virgo, you're just not into anyone who is a slacker!
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The Slacker is one of the smallest bags in this roundup, so just know that it doesn't hold a whole lot.
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A lot of people online were thrilled to see the return of their favorite slacker, even just in this short clip.
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In a teaser clip for an upcoming episode of Broad City, the perpetual slacker starts working for the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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Total Slacker—a band once categorized by The New Yorker as "shitgaze"— released their third studio album Parallels back in August.
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Some histories have suggested that the playing standard grew slacker during Bernstein's years as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
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I read about it in the Village Voice, because Richard Linklater had went there with Slacker as a work in progress.
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She makes any number of good decisions, such as stetting the Japanese term "freeter," which essentially means "slacker" or barely employed.
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"If your peers are competitive, working a 'normal workweek' will make you look like a slacker," he wrote in an email.
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The clip set Twitter ablaze as Bridge's fans hoped the iconic slacker was set to make a return to the big screen.
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Just make sure you're modeling yourself on co-workers who you respect and admire; don't use the office slacker as your guide!
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And that leads to more M&A, much like we saw this past year with SiriusXM buying Pandora and LiveXLive buying Slacker.
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An active retirement No slacker in retirement, Stevens wrote books and essays while also appearing often in public for talks and speeches.
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The show follows slacker Buddy Dobbs who escapes from his gambling debt by pretending to be a preacher in a small town.
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Stephen Malkmus, the slacker anti-hero of the 1990s indie scene, is that rare creature: an old man who can still rock.
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Since I've been here, it's gotten a lot harder to pay rent just being an artist/naked guy/slacker/what have you.
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The activist and rapper Boots Riley tackles societal ills in this comic, unpredictable and sometimes unsettling dystopian tale about a young slacker.
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I just didn't expect that I'd be dealing with my state government endorsing — if not encouraging — my kids' stoner-skater-slacker lifestyle.
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In this quintessential Hughes film, Matthew Broderick stars as a slacker high school student eager to enjoy one last day of freedom.
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So if you're cool watching two slacker white dudes fight to take down a completely competent black woman, then you'll love Vice Principals.
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He plays Sushrut (but everyone called him Susu because his name is apparently unpronounceable), a slacker who shines only on the dance floor.
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Slacker jock bro Chase (Gregg Sulkin) is still an athlete, but he's also sporting perpetually concerned puppy eyes and some serious scientific smarts.
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He came in, had seen my movie Slacker, we started talking about a part, so I worked up a little part for him.
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In the episode, Lars Barriga — the show's resident high-school slacker and Steven's BFF — decides to bring an ube cake to a potluck.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Slacker demand for baby food in China and a consumer boycott in Morocco slowed third-quarter sales growth at Danone (DANO.
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He paired up with musicians such as Zachary Cole Smith, now of DIIV, who was briefly one of the first Total Slacker drummers.
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Linklater's Slacker had its launch here a quarter century ago; his Oscar-nominated Boyhood also found its first rapturous audiences in Park City.
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In Bordeaux, protesters chanted: "Macron you're screwed, the slackers are in the streets" while in Paris others carried placards reading: "Slacker on strike".
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Under the deal, Dash channels will be available across Slacker Radio, a move meant to bring more live radio to the streaming service.
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Everyone plays to type: the scold, the flirt, the prankster, the nice boss, the mean boss, the slacker, the dummy, the straight arrow.
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Mr. Bridges played Jeffrey Lebowski, a California slacker known as "The Dude," in Joel and Ethan Coen's cult movie "The Big Lebowski" (1998).
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But her regular hookup, a slacker with a podcast, makes her leave out the back door, and her boss mockingly disparages her weight.
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Also forced is a running gag about Todd (Aaron Paul), BoJack's accidentally entrepreneurial slacker friend, creating a pediatric dental service staffed by clowns.
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Their schemes involve a battle for control over Piety and Absalom's slacker son Jonah (Arty Froushan) who is easily the show's blandest character.
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The canonical Pepe was a guileless slacker who hung out with three other anthropomorphic animals, all loosely inspired by Furie and his friends.
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"A Slacker of Jakarta," a 2015 essay from the Lives column, by Eka Kurniawan ''Don't forget the five times,'' my mother always said.
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Your slacker roommates might be cool with a brief power outage due to a late bill, but letting their cell phone get shut off?
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The online radio service Slacker Radio has been acquired by LiveXLive, a music streaming service focused on live music streaming, the company announced today.
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Moreover, because its owner is the biggest player in the terrestrial radio business, it doesn't have the same financial issues as Slacker or Pandora.
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It's not clear what Samsung's plans are to replace the service, other than to direct users to Slacker, an ad-supported music streaming service.
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A glycolic peel here, a few rigorous facials there, and a slacker-style Retin-A practice were about as fancy as I would get.
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PARELES Somewhere between the aerobic slacker punches of the Ramones and the rambling internal monologues of the Streets sits Rat Boy, born Jordan Cardy.
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The show combines a winning slacker charm with a detail-perfect sense of life as lived, right now, in its slice of the city.
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But in the early 1980s, he was ordering a double cheese and sausage pizza in class as the slacker high-school surfer Jeff Spicoli.
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He didn't want to be a pasota —the word of the time for a slacker—or an experimental filmmaker in the Andy Warhol mode.
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A young woman lives in a crumbling apartment with a paranoid boyfriend, a wannabe actor, who lurks and speaks like a demented slacker prophet.
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All the scare stories about family farms and third-generation businesses going under have been proved to be as mythic as the subsidized slacker.
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But in the early 1980s, he was ordering a double cheese and sausage pizza in class as the slacker high-school surfer Jeff Spicoli.
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In 26, she dived into a book idea that germinated years earlier involving a young slacker who inadvertently becomes mayor of a Pennsylvania town.
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The Slacker Portable may not have set the world on fire, but it was ahead of its time and internet radio is better for it.
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There Joe McBeth, an affable slacker known to everyone as Mac (Ryan McCartan), is wading into his 30s content to work the Fry-O-Lator.
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"If you get someone who's a laid-back slacker with someone who's really uptight and disciplined, sparks are going to fly between them," he said.
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Caffe Medici: Medici's five locations across Austin run the gamut stylistically, from a charming Clarksville craftsman to a former location used in the film Slacker.
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"Apple Music's many features make this service a strong contender in its category, one that challenges our Editors' Choices, Slacker Radio and Spotify," we wrote.
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Slacker was acquired in 2017 for $50 million in cash and stock by LiveXLive, an entertainment and streaming service that focused on live music performances.
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Because the car is internet-connected to provide software updates, Tesla was also able to bundle in audio-streaming services such as Slacker and TuneIn.
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Avan Jogia (TV's "Caprica") plays Uly, a 20-something slacker who can't tell if doomsday is upon us or he just smoked too much pot.
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According to Avast, 55 percent of all programs are currently out of date, so there's no need to feel like you're a slacker; you're just normal.
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The price of being a little bit of a slacker is not very high in the United States, though the rewards for success can be staggering.
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Dylan Maxwell (Jimmy Tatro) becomes more than a slack-jawed slacker; other characters evolve past just being the snooty rich girl or the ambitious goody-goody.
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On Blonde, he reinvents Pavement's slacker rock with the compulsion of a born overachiever who is desperate to figure out a way he can just chill.
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To put it another way, Pratt and Russell, who represent two different generations' paradigms of slacker/dude cool, don't quite ascend to the Skywalker-Vader firmament.
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Instead of leaning into the expected slacker jokes, the special becomes about what makes each time period they visit uniquely great and awful, all at once.
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That said, my job is a bit of a slacker compared to my investments ...Between January and February 2019 alone, my net worth grew by $13,584.
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" Back then, "River of Grass" was overshadowed by the festival's two great crowd-pleasers, Rose Troche's lesbian romance "Go Fish" and Kevin Smith's slacker comedy "Clerks.
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I'm from the slacker generation where you just neurotically sit in a box ruminating about how you can't do it — thinking yourself deeper into the box.
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One of Oni's biggest successes is the Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels, about a slacker in his 20s, written and drawn by Bryan Lee O'Malley.
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"Slacker" was, by all counts, a seminal film, although I don't remember any of my Gen X friends getting through more than 30 minutes of it.
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Movie allusions and Andrew Garfield's hard-working star turn as a Los Angeles slacker is about all that holds together this labyrinthine, wildly self-satisfied mystery.
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Companies trying to lure young recruits have snack pantries that would make a '90s slacker pull up their sagging pants and tighten their fully adjustable belt.
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From this vantage, "Office Space," the Gen-X slacker paean that came out 20 years ago next month, feels like science fiction from a distant realm.
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For viewers living in brutally competitive, increasingly unaffordable, class-stratified New York (or Los Angeles, or San Francisco, or wherever), a throwback slacker offers escapist joy.
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It's a sonically rich record and difficult to totally categorize, as dream-pop choruses mesh with slacker-style riffs and, on some tracks, frill-free acoustic musing.
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If you answered yes, Under the Silver Lake – a surreal and sprawling neo-noir starring Andrew Garfield as a slacker conspiracy theorist – might just be for you.
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Sick Note: NETFLIX ORIGINAL This black comedy series follows a slacker misdiagnosed with cancer whose lies lead him into an absurd web of secrets, blackmail and suspicion.
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Since she's not a slacker, she also has a line of clothing to go with it so people know you travel with hot sauce, just like Bey.
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On the other hand, if you're not a slacker with your tv-watching, you've probably already re-watched the entire series so that your memory is refreshed.
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He's also branching out — sort of — with "Ordinary World," in which he plays a musician-turned-slacker dad who throws himself a last-hurrah 40th birthday party.
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Despite its efforts, Slacker has been overshadowed by Spotify, which had 232 million monthly active users and 108 million paying subscribers at the end of June 2019.
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As a typical member of the creative middle classes — that is, a full-time media slacker — I have found my income shrinking over the last few years.
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Frontwoman Eva Hendricks is one of the best-sounding singers in rock right now, her sugary tone elevating the record's hooky songwriting and introspective, slacker-ish lyrics.
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"I felt like it was sort of funny to wait 10 years and do another cover album, like I'm the biggest slacker of all time," he said.
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After two seasons of wearily enduring the antics of Homeless Earn, Absentee Dad Earn and Punching Bag Earn, a reprieve from the slacker spiel was long overdue.
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Way before he was Neo, John Wick or even Hamlet, Keanu Reeves was Ted, an affable high school slacker with a best friend named Bill (Alex Winter).
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The films of Joel Potrykus have been described as slacker comedies, featuring, as they often do, shambolic losers barely surviving somewhere between working poor and utter destitution.
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In that form, the Slacker Portable launched in February 2008, 11 months into the company's existence, retailing for $199.99 (2 GB), $249.99 (4 GB), and $299.99 (8 GB).
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Granted, aside from O'Dowd (whose slaphappy, "whatever, man!" attitude vaguely recalls his beloved slacker role in The IT Crowd), the cast is more suited for drama than comedy.
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Created in 2005 by cartoonist Matt Furie, who had no racist intent, the original Pepe was a slacker amphibian, a low-key dude at peace with the universe.
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His spring/summer 1993 grunge collection for former employer Perry Ellis nailed an emerging cultural moment, coupled to fashion but also encompassing music and a general "slacker" feel.
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He played Ted Logan, a slacker who finds himself in excellent adventures with his buddy Bill, in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) and "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" (1991).
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Verizon apps one may want to disable include the football app NFL Mobile, the music app Slacker Radio, the mapping app Verizon Navigator and the messaging app Message+.
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From their Dunedin home, brothers Jeremy and Louis Potts produce brilliantly off-kilter slacker rock, crafted from GarageBand and accompanied by a video about creating your own fun.
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For slacker-bro Jason (Manny Jacinto), it's having to spend eternity as Jianyu, the pious, silent monk whose identity he's been given in a switch-up Michael engineered.
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In 1993, he asked the actress Kim Krizan, who had appeared in his Texas-set films "Slacker" and "Dazed and Confused," if she would help write the screenplay.
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His relaxed slacker affect (a shaggy beard and trucker cap are constants) is such a strange fit for his egomania that it can't help but make you laugh.
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I'm not calling you a slacker, but tonight you'll see how you've been shooting yourself in the foot by not being on top of your to-do list.
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If you would rather not sign up, you can still find free ad-supported streaming music services for desktop and mobile playback, like iHeartRadio, Pandora, Slacker Radio and TuneIn.
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With a much lower price point, ($49.99 and up), a more savvy customer base, and an improved product, Sasse says Woot is where the Slacker Portable found its audience.
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To create her first animated sculpture, "Slacker" (2019), Hendry worked with Parik Goswami, a professor of technical textiles at Huddersfield University who studies the development of new scientific materials.
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Although structurally simpler than "Slacker," the show's centerpiece, these two works illuminate Hendry's process, and highlight her interest in the tension between surfaces and interiors, both corporeal and geological.
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Instead, The Golden Circle picks up an indeterminate amount of time later, with Eggsy leading an effortless double life as a Kingsman intelligence-agency operative and working-class slacker.
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This pristine white palette gets a laid-back twist with round sunnies and a true slacker-style waist-tied shirt, which can totally work as a lawn blanket, too.
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The party's efforts to paint O'Rourke as an untrustworthy, no-good slacker backfired spectacularly, especially when his supporters began tweeting photos of his opponent from the same time period.
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A close listen to his music, however—looking past the Viceroys and slacker sensibility—reveals a sensitivity that's often masked by his onstage antics and general fun guy demeanor.
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Ali Fazal plays the wide-eyed slacker boyfriend to the hilt, and Jimmy Sheirgill can probably sleepwalk through the "tough guy-who-doesn't-get-the-girl" role by now.
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One of its earliest spots starred Madonna and was apparently brought to you by the letter C (for cocaine) and the self-aware slacker aesthetic of the early 90s.
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The actors' chemistry is what makes their onscreen friendship worth watching: Ms. Glazer plays an outgoing, pot-smoking slacker whose exuberance loosens up the uptight and timid Ms. Jacobson.
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He's the kind of soul who could figure things out later in life—but for now, he can settle on being a stoned slacker barely muddling through high school.
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They were wise to pursue other projects, let indie music cycle through a lo-fi 90s slacker rock revival phase, and allow Expo 86's distorted, overlooked melodies to percolate.
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It's a slacker film that wears a drug rug to its cushy marketing job—the Steve Buscemi-in-a-"Music Band"-shirt-asking-"How do you do, fellow kids?" meme.
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According to Variety, Samsung will be shutting down Milk Music on September 22nd, urging its Galaxy and Note smartphone users to switch over to Slacker Radio, which powered the system.
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I remember I was doing the film before "Dazed" ["Slacker," from 1991] and I thought, the next film I want to make is a high school rock 'n' roll ensemble.
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On the big screen in "Barbershop: The Next Cut," he was a light-touch quick-wit barber, and in "Brittany Runs a Marathon," he played a slacker turned romantic hero.
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Sharing information with a friend or colleague you trust, however, is not the same as involuntarily learning that the slacker you share a cubicle with makes more than you do.
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His 1991 breakthrough Slacker, 1993's Dazed and Confused, 1998's The Newton Boys, 2001's Waking Life, 2011's Bernie, 2014's Boyhood, and 2015's Everybody Wants Some!!
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These slacker gestures, aggrandized with an eye-rolling statement from the artist that the "artworks are finished when they have been returned," undercut the ambition of the other three participants.
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" Lonergan's work often has at its center a vulnerable slacker—or, as Smith-Cameron puts it, "a character who is a very appealing, funny, interesting, tortured fuckup who means well.
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The sometimes trophy-hunter in me wanted to open Horizon Zero Dawn, the slacker in me wanted to finally start Nier: Automata, but the sick, (usually) level-headed me opened Minecraft.
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The (very, very funny) original series starred Mitchell as Mark Corrigan, a conservative, anxious rule-follower, and Webb as Jeremy, a sensitive slacker who never really seemed to have a job.
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"Reaper," from 2007, is about a slacker college dropout who discovers his parents sold his soul to the Devil, and now he has to work as one of Satan's bounty hunters.
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Spotify has a large selection of podcasts and some fun videos sprinkled throughout the service, Tidal lets you watch music videos, and Slacker Radio has a selection of hilarious stand-up.
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In "Tribulation: The Musical" (through Tuesday at the Flamboyan Theater at the Clemente), hapless young insurance company employees try to fight off the apocalypse with the help of a slacker Jesus.
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It's been almost 20 years since The Big Lebowski graced us with its slacker bible in film form, but even now, The Dude still abides, as Jeff Bridges proved on Friday.
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The show, whose eight episodes become available Thursday, is a low-key slacker comedy set in the Venice section of Los Angeles, presented here as a sort of West Coast Neverland.
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" The slacker genius has worked out a formula for gaming the SAT essay: "Any question they're gonna ask, you can answer it using World War II and fuckin' Martin Luther King.
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The 10-episode series was recently renewed for a second season and follows the 27-year-old slacker on her quest to figure out what she wants to do in life.
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The movie includes several familiar types — the budding couple; the slacker; the stern boss; the annoying, too-flirty co-worker — and pits them against one another in a grisly death match.
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"Crash Pad" follows a millennial slacker and self-professed romantic, Stensland (Domhnall Gleeson), in the depths of heartbreak after the end of his fling with a married woman, Morgan (Christina Applegate).
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She was a relentlessly optimistic crafting fan who would rather sing her words than speak them; he was a grouchy slacker who assumed everyone and everything was garbage until proven otherwise.
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There's introspective pop star Kali Uchis, slacker rocker Courtney Barnett, and lo-fi singer/songwriter Angel Olsen, who really speaks to Annie's inner monologue since it pops up on the show twice.
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At a slacker point along the arc of income is Costume National, a label whose designer, Ennio Capasa, termed himself in a backstage chat as the "victim of vampires" of Main Street.
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Rather, he just accepted his tardiness casually, as if he were the secretly smart slacker who strolled into class five minutes late every day but still got into a surprisingly decent school.
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Offset's no slacker -- less than 24 hours after wrecking his car, he was showing off his injuries and making it clear they wouldn't stop him from recording ... or puffing on a joint.
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By the time their first album, Thrashin' was released in 2011, Total Slacker had a solidified lineup of Rountree, Emily Oppenheimer on bass, and Ross Condon (brother of Zach Condon of Beirut).
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But if you're too slacker to even sit still for an hour of TV docu-history, one YouTube user promises to give you the entire history of Japan in just nine minutes.
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"Um, well: I manage the Twitter accounts for a lot of brands," and you look at him, because you've never seen a blank expression somehow go blanker, a jaw somehow go slacker.
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A Word With Abbi Jacobson — who, with her enabler, Ilana Glazer, mines stoner-slacker millennial angst in Comedy Central's "Broad City" — can usually feel the unmistakable rhythm that means things are working.
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"Blade," released in 1998, featured Wesley Snipes as a Marvel vampire hunter, and "Hancock" (2008) depicted Will Smith as a slacker antihero, but in each case the actor's blackness seemed somewhat incidental.
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Sports, often ignored in "fine" art, is also a favored theme; Mr. Wood conjures the image of the slacker artist sitting on his couch, watching basketball, tennis or gymnastics, if he must.
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"How using it during the workday is perceived (either instantly labeling that employee as a slacker or seeing it as a smart break from screen time) is a reflection of the culture."
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One of her best to date, Ms. Missoni's collection was filled with lushly hued, slouchy, rich-slacker clothing easy to imagine on a Trustafarian playing hacky sack in Paepcke Park in Aspen.
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He sheds some of the snark, humor, and lo-fi sludge that peppered the first two Total Slacker albums, Thrashin' and Slip Away, and harps on the humanness in longing, loneliness, and adversity.
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This is all extremely convenient for a slacker like me, because I can scour those lists for the stuff that seems like it'll actually be worth my while, and share it with you!
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Apple Music, Google Play, Microsoft Groove, Slacker Radio, Spotify and TIDAL are among those services with "offline listening" options, although you may have to pay for a premium membership to get that perk.
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In 2011, the "television for stoners, but let's keep that between us" baton was passed to the slacker bros of Workaholics, which then gave up its reign when Broad City debuted in 2014.
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Since his 1991 debut Slacker (which helped culturally define both Austin, Texas, and the titular Gen-X term), Richard Linklater has proven to be a great creator of relaxed, pleasurably rewatchable time capsules.
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Here's what we know about Willie J Healey: He's 22, he's from Oxford, England, he will definitely need a high SPF in direct sunlight, and his vibe is lo-fi indie slacker pop.
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Peacock&aposs "Saved by the Bell" revival has cast relative newcomer Mitchell Hoog ("Roswell, New Mexico") as Mac Morris, "the handsome, charming, privileged son" of Mark-Paul Gosselaar&aposs beloved slacker, Variety reports.
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Within a few months, though, after the bugs were fixed and Slacker was readying an improved second generation device, the original was offloaded to Woot, a daily deal website that's now owned by Amazon.
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The Oscar-winning actress, who played slacker Romy in the cult-favorite 1997 film opposite Lisa Kudrow as Michele, was joined at Cinespia's screening at the Palace Theatre by the film's screenwriter, Robin Schiff.
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In the large-scale work "Slacker," this layering is hinted at through the imagery embedded into the loop of artificial "skin," and through small objects, such as a plaster bone nestling under the mechanism.
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I was studying psychology at the University of Texas in 1991 when Richard Linklater premiered his homemade movie Slacker in a fuckin' movie theater in Austin, and it was playing there for a year.
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The 106-minute film focuses on siblings Pari and Chotu, who live in a village in Rajasthan with their slacker of an uncle and a wicked aunt — a staple character in old Bollywood movies.
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"Before I met her, I was in a snotty, sort of slacker Largo scene," he said, referring to the Los Angeles club that became a major launching pad of comedy talent in the 1990s.
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And Matthew McConaughey stars in Harmony Korine's comedy "The Beach Bum" (March 29), as a Miami slacker who's also a novelist; it co-stars Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Jonah Hill, and Martin Lawrence. ♦
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While many language learning apps try to address this issue, they can still feel like a bit of a chore — especially when they send notifications every 10 minutes reminding you that you're a slacker.
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"We always rent an apartment in Paris, and the first thing we ask is if there's a washer-dryer," said Mr. Kessler, whose personal style might be characterized as that of a natty slacker.
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This taste for the missed connections that make us human came out most clearly in his 2011 novel "Luminous Airplanes," in which a slacker computer programmer falls in love with a troubled young woman.
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An injury-hampered Kyrgios bowed out of the opening round of the U.S. Open with an assortment of fines, a smashed racket and a tantrum, while burnishing his reputation as the tour's most talented slacker.
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It might be because of a spineless or out-of-touch boss, but whatever the reason it's sure to drive the high-performing workers (who carry their weight and that of the slacker) totally nuts.
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Linklater is one of the most important Texan filmmakers of our time, and one of the first people to capture the laid-back vibe of old Austin with his films Slacker and Dazed and Confused.
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Shot in black-and-white, this low-budget movie mostly takes place in a convenience store where a slacker clerk, Dante (Brian O'Halloran), is forced to work (or rather, hang around) on his day off.
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Her point of departure this season, she said, was the youth of the artist and gallery owner Todd Alden, a friend whose late '80s style might best be characterized as New Wave-renegade-slacker-preppy.
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One political-science paper from 2006 found that "alienation and indifference each motivated significant amounts of voter abstention in the 1980–1988 US presidential elections," which affirms every Gen X slacker stereotype in the book.
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Unless, as I confess I did, you found yourself imagining Trump opening fire on Fifth Avenue on some slacker not wielding a shovel and staining the snow red with blood — to the roar of the "Trumpeters."
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And there, as in his second film (and first narrative feature) Slacker, which brought him to national prominence, the focus seems clear: What's important in life aren't the big, dramatic moments or even the major changes.
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"Hamilton" is no slacker there, either: Its songs were streamed 16 million times that first week, and the album -- which is more than two hours long -- was still in iTunes' top 25 as of February 10.
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Her morose father misplaces his gun; it's found by a neighborhood slacker who gives it to an even more shambolic character, Lee (the filmmaker Larry Fessenden), a 30-ish ne'er-do-well living with his grandmother.
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A 23-year-old slacker who never grew up, Zeke spends his time smoking weed and being a bad influence on his fawning minion, the 16-year-old Mo (Griffin Gluck), his ex-girlfriend's younger brother.
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As the years have passed, the myth of the pot-smoking slacker has grown thanks to the Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA), the organization behind the notorious "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" ads.
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But on 100% Fresh, he's managed to take the anarchic nature and slacker approach of his early movies and albums and retrofit the humor for modern times, usually by trimming it down to the bare essentials.
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Of course there's a structural reason for making Gabe's colleagues, who also include his slacker buddy, Tony (Jacob Vargas), and Abby, a statuesque, risibly naïve young white woman from South Dakota (Maggie Geha), so one-dimensional.
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Waking Life defies categorization, resembling no film so closely as Linklater's Slacker, a live-action tour of an Austin populated by colorful characters with a lot on their mind and a willingness to share their thoughts.
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In the course of his transition from slacker goof to hate symbol, he's taught us a lot about symbols — not just how the internet works — but he's also maybe revealed something deeper about how symbols work.
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Instead, the measurement firm looked at a variety of both audio and video services, including AOL, Beats (now owned by Apple), Cricket, Google Play, Medianet, Rdio (now acquired by Pandora), Rhapsody, Slacker, Xbox Music, YouTube, and VEVO.
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The acquisition of Slacker Radio gives it an opportunity to increase its usage time beyond the nightly concert or festival stream, but the music streaming market isn't exactly easy to break into, despite still being somewhat nascent.
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"They are unruly slackers roaming around and the antithesis of the young generation the Party tries to cultivate," the publication said, adding that Peppa Pig is now associated with the Chinese slacker or "gangster" subculture called shehuiren.
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With the exception of the more shoegazey Pure X, synthesizers took center stage, with the music seeming to embody the idyllic Austin slacker lifestyle—loose, reverb-soaked, and melancholy, with a hint of schwag in the air.
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You can't change hearts and minds overnight, but if you find a consistent work groove that helps you deliver real results, eventually your slacker reputation (and that rumor you might be let go) will begin to fade.
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"They are unruly slackers roaming around and the antithesis of the young generation the Party tries to cultivate," the publication said, adding that Peppa Pig is now associated with the Chinese slacker or "gangster" subculture called shehuiren.
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With more than a decade of acting experience under her (probably designer, most definitely stylish) belt, Chloë Grace Moretz has the kind of résumé that could make a 20-year-old Meryl Streep seem like a slacker.
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Next, there were the Texas GOP's weird tweets recently that sought to portray O'Rourke as maybe a slacker loser who wouldn't debate Cruz but ended up making the Democrat look very handsome and maybe kind of cool?
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From "Slacker" (1990) onward, Linklater has been at his most fruitful when hanging out in his native Texas, so it's disorienting, to say the least, that his latest film should begin at the bottom of the world.
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Like the quizzical slackers in "Slacker," the boy in "Boyhood" and Celine and Jesse in the "Before" trilogy, the guys on the Southeast Texas State University baseball team are aware of the riddles and paradoxes of time.
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Tutored by decades of the genre, we wait for the class goddess to pal up with the slacker (as in "Say Anything," from 1987), or with the dweeb (as in "I Love You, Beth Cooper," from 2009).
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An intense personal trainer (Cobie Smulders) and her equally intense boss (Guy Pearce) find themselves in a peculiar love triangle when a wealthy and depressed slacker (Kevin Corrigan) shows up at their gym looking to get fit.
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At the beginning of "Girlfriend on Mars," a pot-dealing slacker couple, Kevin and Amber, are living like a cooped-up Adam and Eve in their humid, mulchy Vancouver apartment, surrounded by a garden of homegrown weed.
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While Tesla drivers in Europe have enjoyed Spotify support for years now, Tesla has a deal with the internet-radio service Slacker in North America, so drivers in the US and Canada must contend with that service instead.
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Despite some funny moments, the show falls into a broad category of TV comedy -- the 20-something slacker, fumbling her way through life in the big city -- that can't help but feel a little stale at this point.
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Over the past few years, the crudely drawn amphibian has transformed from benign underground comic character to everyman slacker meme to political movement mascot to officially-recognized-by-the-ADL hate symbol being discussed on the evening news.
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The upbeat, oft-cis-straight-traditionally-feminine part of the internet insisted it was totally a snap to fix your slacker starter by following these quick and easy tips, all of which I tried: Feed the starter more often.
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Owners: Two Austin music scene stalwarts, John French and Chad Allen, who ran the label Answering Machine Recordings and played in bands ranging from '90s experimental outfits featured in the film Slacker to early aughts zolo revivalists Zom Zoms.
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I mean, sure, pop punk's link to films like the American Pie series and Grind made the most sense; pop punk and slacker storylines made a perfectly cargo-shorted pair given their mutual interest in fart jokes and boobs.
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"Euphoria" centers on Rue (the former Disney Channel star Zendaya), a 17-year-old with a drug problem that encompasses coke, her mother's Xanax and whatever her noble-slacker drug dealer, Fezco (a charming Angus Cloud), has on hand.
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Reeves, sporting some "I'm-between-roles" facial hair, talked up the stunts and how he was set to reprise his role as world-saving slacker Theodore "Ted" Logan in a third Bill & Ted movie, nearly three decades after the last one.
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I don't understand why you can remove some of the crap like all the Candy Crush knockoffs (Cookie Jam, Sugar Smash and Panda Pop), but not the other junk like all the Verizon apps, Audible, NFL Mobile, IMDb, Slacker Radio, etc.
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Slacker, which has been around since 2007, has radio stations curated by DJs (something Dash Radio does better), customizable radio stations based on your taste (something Pandora does better), and at one point sold portable music players (something Apple did better).
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Written by McCaughan in an effort to call out a lazy co-worker, the song is one of a few cultural moments in time that helped popularize slacker culture, which would later run rampant as a stereotype in indie rock.
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A survey of more than 5,000 workers conducted by U.S. Travel Association in 2015 found that 28 percent of workers did not take vacation because they were afraid of being seen as a slacker or wanted to prove their dedication.
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But I didn't like slacker Anne (she felt too much like a wannabe rebel from a bad sitcom), and I eventually got my act together, went to college, made the dean's list, and dropped out at 24 to write full-time.
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Ian lives with his mom (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and his older brother, Barley (Chris Pratt), a slacker whose only interest is a Dungeons and Dragons-type game that Barley insists is based on real events of magical times gone by.
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The show is created by Mike Scully and Julie Thacker (of "The Simpsons") and Amy Poehler, who also voices the lead, a slacker teenager named Duncan, and his mother, Annie, a parking enforcement officer with dreams of becoming a detective.
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Even on Saturday Night Live, a show that delights in pushing its actors into ever-stranger scenarios, he tends to play variations on a type: the young slacker who meets all of life's complications with an indifferent shrug and an oblivious smile.
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Both are at incredibly different stages of their lives: Matt's working a mind-numbing job to support his pregnant wife Sherri (Cash), while Jeff's living the slacker dream, working at a coffee shop while having uncomplicated fun with his girlfriend, Noelle (Zazie Beetz).
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Suffice it to say that it's the result of a failed interrogation of an unmoved high school student by "The Dude," an aging hippie slacker played by Jeff Bridges; his high-strung friend, Vietnam veteran Walter (John Goodman); and chill Donny (Steve Buscemi).
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John Fletcher, a popular and gifted playwright, once hooked up with some old slacker named Shakespeare to bring us " Henry VIII ," which was first performed in 1613, and linguistic analysis can propose, scene by scene, who delivered which slices of the cake.
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She is afraid to eat away from her desk for fear of looking like a slacker and she won't discuss any of her personal interests outside of work out of concern that her colleagues won't think that she is working hard enough.
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Think Luke Wilson's everyman transformed into a genius in a planet of morons in Idiocracy, or Ron Livingston's slacker in Office Space, who discovers that hard work has nothing to do with success, and that neither have anything to do with happiness.
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Opinion Columnist When the history of this terrible moment in American life is written, I suspect the surreal and deeply radical indie film "Sorry to Bother You" will be a major cultural marker, like "Easy Rider" in 1969 or "Slacker" in 1990.
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But the result is one of those unbearable "quirky mental hospital" scenarios, an odiously cutesy aesthetic made worse by the glib slacker sarcasm of Plaza's manic witchy nightmare girl, Lenny, and Stevens's unconvincingly twitchy handling of the conflicting signals in David's brain.
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Among them: the laid-back, androgynous skater girl Ryan, whom Amy has a crush on; the goofy slacker Nick (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.'s son Mason Gooding), whom Molly has a crush on; the overly dramatic theater nerds George and Alan.
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Previously, the only songs you could stream by the gruff-voiced Detroit legend were a pair of little-known Christmas tunes from early in his career, but now 13 of Seger's albums are available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Napster and Slacker Radio.
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While she's always thought of herself as more serious-minded and success-bound than her hard-partying classmates, on the last day of school, she finds out that plenty of cool, popular, and / or slacker-ish students are also attending elite colleges in the fall.
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The series, about two college students who team up to dish out vigilante justice on their campus, is a candy-colored vision of university life, complete with ultra-bubbly sorority girls and a green-haired slacker who sells weed from the local record store.
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MORE has done is bring the nation back from economic chaos, save the American auto industry, deliver near-universal healthcare, end the war in Iraq, re-establish normal relations with Cuba and prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon for at least 85033 years. Slacker!
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Batman Forever OST had bouncy pop-punk (The Offspring's cover of "Smash It Up"), trippy slacker alt-rock (Flaming Lips' "Bad Days"), heart-on-sleeve emo (Sunny Day Real Estate), moody slowcore (Mazzy Star), East-Coast hip-hop (Method Man), and slick R&B (Brandy).
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Oddly enough, one of the few things Rick admits didn't play Doom were arcades, despite a memorable convenience store shootout in the Grosse Point Blank where a true-blue baseball capped 90s slacker plays Doom 2, oblivious to the actual hyper-violence surrounding him.
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Aziz Ansari and Jesse Eisenberg starred in 2011's 30 Minutes or Less, a movie in which Eisenberg plays a slacker pizza delivery man who gets a bomb strapped to his chest and told it will detonate if he doesn't rob a bank in 10 hours.
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They're all traits that add to that aforementioned familiarity of the characters — establishing that Kevin is an elitist outsider, that DeMarcus is the kind of kid who seems, at least, to be soaring through life, and that Dylan is a slacker going through a tough time.
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I'm not a big Star Wars fan, so I could be off here, but it seems to me that Han Solo doesn't try to be cool, he just is cool — by virtue of being a slacker and a scoundrel, not by rushing into impressive, high-risk adventures.
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The Kiev Exchange will be a spinoff of director Peter Berg's upcoming action film Mile 22, while the comedy New Tricks — to be directed and produced by The Hangover's Ed Helms — will follow a slacker who discovers he is fated to become an all-powerful wizard.
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After a back injury leaves him unable to continue working at the factory, Jacky is branded a "slacker" by townspeople who, Louis argues, have come to routinely use others—poor people, queer people, ethnic minorities—to shore up their own endangered position on the social ladder.
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"Once you start dreaming, we'll be able to guide you directly to where your issue is hiding and rewire it," Dr. Roberts (Jon Gries) explains in the opening episode to Patient 88 (Nicholas Rutherford), who has apparently come in to be treated for general slacker-ness.
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Historically known as Bran Van 3000's first international hit, and more colloquially known as one of the greatest comedown songs of all time, "Drinking in LA" is a trippy slacker anthem that has refused to die in the 20 full years since its release in 1997.
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From a box.) The naturally likable Ms. Kunis, who has a screwball heroine's springiness and the eyes of Bambi under fire, helps humanize the story's mechanical turns, as do her gal pals, the neurotic, overachieving Kiki (Kristen Bell) and the sexed-up slacker Carla (Kathryn Hahn).
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The program includes shorts by Sadie Benning (on Friday); multiple works by Michael Almereyda, including his 28 black-and-white vampire movie "Nadja" (screening on Sunday), in which Pixelvision, interspersed with film, augments the eerie ambience; and Richard Linklater's "Slacker" (on Thursday), which features a Pixelvision sequence.
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Heather Graham is that star, playing Mary, a slacker of a woman who is drifting through life in New York in 1999 when she comes home one day to find her boyfriend, Primo (John Corbett), dead in front of the television, apparently of a heart attack.
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Instead, it created humanely rendered portrayals of his support system: the depressed writer Diane (Alison Brie); his on-again, off-again girlfriend, manager, and agent Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris); the overly optimistic actor Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins); and his asexual slacker friend Todd (Aaron Paul).
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It started, very likely, before he was born, with two peasants in Eastern Europe getting horny at the exact right moment so that generations later, their great-great-great-great-grandson would come of age as America was yearning for a soft-edged Gen X slacker.
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His arc on The Office was one big journey from lovelorn "slacker-loser-wiseass" to family man, he and costar Jenna Fischer going from one of TV's best will-they-or-won't-they romances to creating a portrait of a functioning relationship and the communication and compromises it entails.
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Read More: 3 Ways to Get Your Slacker Co-worker to Meet a Deadline Without Nagging Them to Death But sometimes, it's best just to follow the dog on Instagram rather than hurt a co-worker's feelings (and your long-term relationship—you have to work together, after all).
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Early in the first episode of Hulu's new tongue-in-cheek time-travel adventure Future Man, the show's slacker hero, Josh Futturman (played by Josh Hutcherson), drops by his local video game store, where he and the employees have a long conversation about Ms. Pac-Man's sexual appetites.
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She pities arrogant anons over jangly verses one minute ("I'm real sorry / 'Bout whatever happened to you"), and brutalizing them with a slacker grunge chorus borrowed from Margaret Atwood the next ("Men are scared that women will laugh at them / Women are scared that men will kill them").
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Created by Mindy Kaling and fellow "The Mindy Project" alum Charlie Grandy, the show focuses on an adult slacker, Vince (Anders Holm), who runs a Brooklyn gym, discovering he has a 15-year-old son who moves in with him so he can attend drama school in New York.
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And, apart from some satire of "snowflakes" and one episode that shifts the story's perspective to that of a slacker student with no interest in the election, there's not much sense of social media or modern pop culture — of young lives lived in the streaming, texting, posting, sharing moment.
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At the beginning of season four, the regular cast of characters around BoJack — including eternally chipper neighbor Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins), restless writer Diane (Alison Brie), slacker roommate Todd (Aaron Paul), and ambitious agent turned manager Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris) — seem to be getting their collective shit together.
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From Amy Poehler crashing a party in full-on Madonna cosplay to Christopher Meloni tying on that musty pink bandana (and meeting a kid with a suspiciously similar one) to Paul Rudd playing beautiful slacker Bobby after 10 years of living hard, the cast is back and ready to play.
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BAFTA Cymru chose Terry Jones — a Welsh comedian known for his Python characters like a doting mother of a coal worker son criticized for being a slacker by his playwright father and an everyday Superman who needs his bicycle repaired — to receive its award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and Television.
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The festival returns to New York City on Thursday and Friday with events celebrating the Dude, "a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker" played by Jeff Bridges, and the rest of the cast (including David Huddleston, who played the title role opposite Mr. Bridges and died one year ago this week).
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Daniel Johnston's famous "Hi How Are You?" graffiti has been religiously preserved, although it and the Hole in the Wall are about the only things left of the golden age of UT, that time when Richard Linklater made Slacker and the likes of Matthew McConnaughey and the Wilson brothers roamed the campus. Whatever.
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Yet as the film progresses, its gratuitous peppering mostly recalls the hideous scene in Pulp Fiction in which Tarantino cast himself as a slacker with a black wife just so he could repeatedly say, "Do you see a sign in my house that says dead-nigger storage?" to a cowed Samuel L. Jackson.
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Her attempt at Bad News Bears–style redemption seems futile in the mind-melting footage so far, but we do get to see the different ways her slacker teammates are mutilated and quickly healed thanks to googly-eyed amoebas—making Ballmastrz: 9009 a near-infinite canvas for the Walt Disney of ultraviolence.
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There's the football star (Jason London) who isn't sure he can give up drugs and booze for sports; the freshman (Wiley Wiggins) who evades a hazing campaign and winds up hanging with the seniors; and the 20-something slacker (Matthew McConaughey) who still hangs around high school students to meet younger girls.
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Nevertheless, Walker and Turner made many slacker records, and from beginning to end the material is either straight down the middle (Walker on "Every Day I Have the Blues," live Big Mama Thornton "Hound Dog") or so far off the plate it gets driven the other way (Turner's "Plastic Man," Walker's "Sail On").
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But it's not just Stiles: The whole cast gets their moment to shine, from Lilli Cooper's co-star-turned-love-interest Julie Nichols and her understated remarks about Being A Woman Today to Dorothy's bemused, seen-it-all slacker roommate, Jeff (Andy Grotelueschen), who has always got the perfect quip at the ready.
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His use of animated interludes featuring Pepe and his pals from Boy's Club (the series where Pepe originated) feels like a small effort to help Furie take back Pepe, recasting him in our minds as the lovable slacker he was always meant to be instead of as the hateful meme he's become.
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With "Praying," produced by Macklemore's former partner Ryan Lewis, Kesha ditches the slacker party-girl persona that made her a star and returns as a wronged, righteous survivor, overcoming psychological abuse and suicidal depression: "Please just let me die/Being alive hurts too much," she says in the video's minute-long spoken introduction.
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Miss Lint (Yara Martinez) — the Terror's former right-hand woman whose electric hands tend to leave her with a halo of static lint — grits her teeth in frustration while facing down everyone from culturally appropriative local crime boss Ramses (Michael Cerveris) to her slacker ex-husband Derek (Bryan Greenberg) to the Tick and Arthur themselves.
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Rating But to compare and contrast it with Slacker and Dazed (the two films in Linklater's canon that have the most in common with it) is to see a filmmaker who's gone from being a young man to an older one, whose life is as subject to the pressures of time as anyone else's.
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On March 6, The Last Man on Earth's third midseason premiere, "Got Milk," became an instant series standout by tapping Forte's old co-worker Wiig to anchor an episode that evoked the one that kicked off the show, flashing back to a far different apocalyptic experience than the one slacker Phil went through in Tucson.
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Jarillo-Herrero has never been a slacker, but his activity has jumped several levels since his dramatic announcement in March 250 that his lab at MIT had found superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon crystal dropped on another one, and then rotated to leave the two layers slightly askew.
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It's easy to wonder why Linklater hasn't directed more sports movies, at least until you remember that dark period in the mid-2000's, when Linklater was pegged as "the guy that brought you School Of Rock," instead of the understated auteur behind more personal work such as Slacker, Before Sunrise and Waking Life.
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Playful and silly, "Future Man" recycles the oldest of premises: A 20-something slacker, Josh Futturman ("The Hunger Games'" Josh Hutcherson), discovers that the unbeatable video game he's mastered is actually a test placed in our time by denizens from the future, identifying him as the one person with the skills to save the world.
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That's the remarkably fat-free plot of John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the 1986 comedy that became one of the biggest hits of the year, turned its titular hero—played by Matthew Broderick—into a proto-slacker hero for the ages, and made "Danke Schoen" one of the biggest semi-ironic hit songs of the decade.
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Kendall is a drug addict with dreams of Zuckerbergian disruption; Roman (Kieran Culkin) is a hedonist slacker; Shiv (Sarah Snook) is a cynical political consultant engaged to a weirdo social climber who works for her dad; and Connor (Alan Ruck), the eldest, is a dippy egotist who has retreated to Santa Fe, to revel in libertarian hauteur.
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Even his latter-day counterpart Pepe the Frog was originally a good-natured slacker, first drawn in a 2005 comic strip by Matt Furie, before being co-opted as a symbol of the alt-right movement, whose members seem to have conflated Pepe with Kek, the frog-headed Egyptian god representing the darkness before the world was born.
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Starring Paul Rudd as the straight-laced Peter Klaven and Jason Seigel as unintentional sleazecore icon Sydney Fife, it's a tale as old as time: a guy realizes he has very few guy friends, so latches onto the first slacker who can tolerate his personality in the hopes that he will eventually be the best man at his wedding.
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Certainly it helps that the whole cast is giving some kind of kooky performance in a different movie: DeVito's playing a carnival barker; Farrell's playing a romantic hero in a Western; Green is playing a French witch of some kind; Arkin is practically in a slacker flick; and Keaton is in a lathering frenzy by the end, more Joker than entertainment mogul.
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Based loosely on the life of Taiwanese-American chef and TV personality Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat is set in the mid-'90s, and it addresses the ways the Americanized values of a hip-hop-loving slacker teen (Hudson Yang) conflict with the values of his hard-working entrepreneurial father Louis (Randall Park) and his intense, demanding mother Jessica (Constance Wu).
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Brendan (Luke Bracey) is a macho television star who wants to come out of the closet; his best friend, Cory (Dustin Milligan), is a slacker idiot who may want to grow up; Gabbi (Emily Meade), whom Cory meets in a gay bar, is a lesbian who discovers to her horror that she enjoys sex with men, or at least with Cory.
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David Steinberg is back, and he tells us quite a bit about his puzzle in the notes below, so just a few points today: I love how a phrase that has not been used in a very long time (TRY HARD, last seen in 1968) can be brought back and used in "modern lingo" as the opposite of a slacker.
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Born in Banga, India, he is an unshorn and unshaven Punjabi Hindu who styles himself a "wannabe Sikh"; a self-described former "slacker" now blissfully married to a Russian-Indian woman, Svetlana Dhir, who manages the business; a creative talent eager to compete on the global stage, and yet one who shares his small studio office with his elderly father.
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As a band they have a great instinct for when to let loose ("They're Cheap" is a bonafide rockstar level thrash) and when to pull back – closer "Don't Leave Me Gravity" is pretty, piano-led, and fairly subdued, while the delightfully slacker-ish "Hollywood Factory" (an album highlight) finds all its appeal in the tightness of its guitar playing, and its cool, easy hook.
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Most of my favourite bands and artists deal in high-stakes stuff—life, love, and what-have-you—but as a true scumbag slacker at heart, sometimes all that can sate me is a song about the time-honoured tradition of ordering in a curry and getting high as all shit, which I heartily consume with abandon in my heart and ketchup down my shirt.
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But your little quirk might not seem so charming when you see it manifested in Dan, the dispirited journalist in Helen Schulman's new novel, "Come With Me." Having slid down the greasy newspaper pole into joblessness, Dan has become a self-loathing middle-aged slacker who whiles away his days e-chatting with other underemployed writers and using Google to settle the picayune disputes anxiously raging in his brain.
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It's the sort of book David Foster Wallace, Frank McCourt and Tom Wolfe might have written together if Mr. Wallace had never heard of Thomas Pynchon, if Mr. McCourt didn't grow up poor in Ireland but middle-class in the suburbs of Chicago, if Tom Wolfe weren't the sort of writer who wears white suits and ice-cream-colored shirts but were a 20-something slacker with a taste for shorts and T-shirts and lots of postmodern pyrotechnics.
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Now, more than 19883 years later, this slacker-perfectionist not only finds himself a part-billionaire, but he also enjoys newfound cultural currency as the husband and father in a genetically blessed family of supermodels who can be seen everywhere these days, including a Pepsi commercial to be aired during the Super Bowl (starring his wife and son), the current cover of French Vogue (daughter), the global advertising campaign for Calvin Klein Jeans (daughter and son) and, of course, Omega watches (entire family).
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When the argument about who "deserves" financial assistance in order to eat — something we must all do to live — is framed as "lazy slacker living off the system" versus the "deserving poor," we forget all the invisible people in the middle of this spectrum of stereotypes: the teacher who has a second job just to make ends meet, the newspaper reporter with an overdrawn bank account, or the social work intern who only got a decent winter coat because her friends and synagogue raised the money.
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In the story of Paul English, he gives us such details in a succession of scenes: in the tensions within English's large Irish Catholic family; in the humid air of English's cellar bedroom, where he discovers as a teenager the miracles of computing on a primitive PC; in the view of English as a slacker student who finds purpose in the grim fluorescence of the computer-science classrooms at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; and eventually, in the account of English as the whiz-kid coder who learns he also has a knack for management as he rises up the ranks of a local tech company called Interleaf.
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