While You Were Sleeping, Trudy From Mad Men Was Recreating Memes With Her Brilliant Face

The National Documentary:

Set to screen at Tribeca Film Festival later this week, The National’s documentary, Mistaken For Strangers, looks kind of incredible. What began as a mockumentary, set during the biggest tour the band had embarked on to date, instead changed direction to focus on the difficult relationship between The National frontman Matt Berninger and his overshadowed younger brother, Tom.

Tom is a budding horror filmmaker and a metalhead who, when asked to tour with the band as assistant tour manager (read: roadie), took a camera along, partied a little too hard, and almost gave up on the project — and, it seems, himself.

“I feel like the only reason why [your manager] thinks I’m on tour is because I’m your brother.”

“The only reason you are here is because you’re my brother.”

Ugh. This will be heartbreaking. (via P4k)

Game Of Thrones Went Electric Last Night:

In what The AV Club’s Todd VanDerWerff called “the greatest cut to credits IN AMERICAN HISTORY”, last night’s Game Of Thrones closed with ‘The Bear And The Maiden Fair’, a faux traditional song penned by George R.R. Martin in A Song Of Ice And Fire – and sung here by none other than The Hold Steady, your favourite bawdy pub-rock stomping band.

The song is getting a Record Store Day release on April 20; until then, relive the magic here:

(For those of you who, for whatever reason, want to mash up the first news item with the second, you can listen to The National’s season two take on another R.R. Martin song, ‘The Rains Of Castamere‘.)

Ew.

Each week, a thousand of these huge disgusting shell-covered slime pockets wake up from hibernation all over South Florida, start reproducing faster than rabbits, and rip up concrete, stucco, and the plastic siding of houses. “They’re huge, they move around, they look like they’re looking at you … communicating with you,” said Denise Fieber, a spokesperson for the Florida Department Of Agriculture who had no idea how truly terrifying that description was when she spoke to NBC News.

They are called Giant African Land Snails and they are gross.

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Alison Brie Recreates Memes, Wins:

Here is Alison Brie (Trudy from Mad Men; Annie from Community) recreating the world’s most famous memes with everybody’s favourite Paul F. Tompkins. You crazy for this one, internet.

And here’s a follow-up of her creating some un-sexy gifs, to undo the damage of Tumblrs like this one. (via Gawker/Made Man)