“TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.”

The first of three trailers featuring the “beer crazy hardware fanatic,” TiAMO:

-via Zeropaid

Of his mixtape, My Sick Uncle says: “This is not a mashup album, this is an album about Wayne.” Yes, that quote sounds ridiculous, that is until you hear how snippets of Weezy interviews have been interlaced with Zooey Deschanel’s dialogue from the film. At which point you realize all bets are off.

The point is that this is a hilariously unanticipated combination, and a perplexing soundtrack to the demise of the summer of 2010. Lil Wayne, in the meantime, is approaching the end of his prison bid and rumor has it that Wayne may have big plans for the day he gets out of the big house: releasing Tha Carter IV, and playing a show at Madison Square Garden that night. The man certainly knows how to make an exit.

Tickets for Friday’s premiere event with Sasha Grey, Danny Trejo, Mark Borchardt, and director Frankie Latina are moving fast. So run — don’t walk — and purchase advance tickets here!

Now, without further ado, the new & improved trailer for the film:

Here’s the synopsis:

ÍSLAND is a thriller that follows the harrowing plight of blind, 14-year-old THOM and his caretaker GRACE, (Allison Pill). The pair is abducted during their stay in Iceland by twin brothers HALDOR and LARUS (Ingvar Sigurdsson) desperate to fetch a ransom for the affluent Thom. However, when captors and captives alike become trapped underground by an avalanche, the group must work together to escape. This becomes an increasingly impossible task as one of the brothers gradually descends into violent and claustrophobic madness.

The LA Times reports that the study “found that not having enough money definitely causes emotional pain and unhappiness.” Honestly didn’t need the crack team of scientists to deduce that. Expanding on that, the researchers did go on to say that “What the data suggest is that above a certain level of stable income, individuals’ emotional well-being is constrained by other factors in their temperament and life circumstances.”

So if these Princeton Tigers are correct, we’ve got a little number to keep in our heads going forward: 75 G’s will take care of your basic financial anxieties. After that, you’ll have full license to start blaming your problems on something other than money.

New Yorkers know it’s important to keep your options open. In a town so full of possibility, the only true answer to an invitation has to be…Maybe.

This Wednesday night, Greenpoint bookstore Word will be hosting the launch party for the paperback edition of Stephen Elliott’s acclaimed memoir, The Adderall Diaries. This book’s got it all: drugs, a murder trial, masochism, introspection. And not only is this book beloved by critics far and wide, but some of the people involved with this here online mag happen to be devotees of it. Word’s website recommends a Facebook RSVP for the event, so do so if you plan on attending.

Elliott will be on-hand, as well as Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart, a memoir of a college-student-turned-dominatrix that TTH fave Rob Sheffield says is “remarkably honest, brave and provocative about growing up.” Adderall, masochism, murder, and S&M — all at a small independent neighborhood bookstore. This looks to be a can’t-miss.

September 8th/Word Books/126 Franklin St./7:30pm – 9pm/Free

Friends,

This Friday, September 10th, Take the Handle and The Zoo are hosting the New York premiere of Modus Operandi. It all goes down at midnight at the IFC Center (323 6th Ave. at West Third Street). Sasha Grey will be on-hand to present the film, and stars Danny Trejo (Machete) and Mark Borchardt (American Movie) will be partaking in a Q&A alongside director Frankie Latina.

 
As with any good party, there will be an after party to follow at Black Market, 110 Ave. A (near 7th St.), with music provided by your ever-faithful editors. Click here to buy tickets in advance, so you’re not shut out of this magical affair. Check out the trailer below for a taste of what’s in store: