The Best Things To Do on the Internet This Weekend

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On any film director's list of favorite films, classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Citizen Kane are mainstays, but have you ever sat down with Luchino Visconti's The Leopard or Jean Renoir's The River? We didn't think so. Check out all the films deemed essential by one of film's most essential, and only remaining auteurs, at Open Culture.

Have you ever felt like you needed to hear more yodelling in a song? Or maybe just some gibberish? The team at Pigeons & Planes knows how you feel, so they put together a list of the Most Underappreciated Skills in Music. Finally, someone recognizes the importance of slapping da bass!

The meteoric rise of Chicago young gun, Chance the Rapper, continues with this video for "Everybody's Something", a crooning, feel-good track off of his spectacular mixtape, Acid Rap. Taking you everywhere while also staying in the same place, the video lets Chance act as a simple silhouette, reflecting images of his hometown Chicago, key moments in American history, and just some generally cool visuals. It's just as trippy as what you'd expect from someone who named his album, Acid Rap, and equally good. Watch it above. 

Trying to step your fashion game up? Lucky for you, our Style channel is here to help. Among their many tips, they say that, "It's not just about the clothes. Style is mostly about the attitude you wear them with." As well as cautioning against following others' trends too blindly. Makes sense to us! Find out the rest here and start looking good.

It's rare that you get to see something like this that just so perfectly encapsulates the entire 2013 season for the Miami Marlins. Honestly, I'd go so far as to say that this sums up the entire history of the franchise. A moment of triumph, squandered by the club falling completely on its face. Yeah, that sounds like the Marlins. 

Backed by 2 Chainz, and a particularly on-point Big Sean, Drake dropped another track for his upcoming album, Nothing Was the Same, this past Wednesday with the goth-trap banger, "All Me." With what we've heard from this record already, it seems like a good bet that it could very wll challenge Yeezus for Album of the Year-status. Get that free Randy while you still can on Drake's SoundCloud.

Centered around the Bronx heroin trade in the 1990's, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's anthropological story, Random Family uncovered a number of compelling characters in poverty through LeBlanc's 11 years spent with her subjects. Released in 2003, the book is a crucial telling for any of those hoping to understand the gritty, real-life mechanics of living in the ghetto, and now, on the book's 10-year anniversary, the New Yorker sat down with LeBlanc herself to recall the difficult and time-consuming process of relaying such an uncompromising tale. LeBlanc touches on anything from crime to death to teen pregnancy and sexuality in her recollection of the work and further enriches her already indispensable text. Check out the interview on the New Yorker's website.

What would you do if you found yourself receiving a phone call from none other than Jay Z himself? If you're anything like James Harris, then you probably wouldn't remember it. Like, at all. As in, you completely blacked it out. Read Harris' fuzzy--but hilarious--account of his fateful conversation with Hov here.

In the wake of the George Zimmerman ruling, Cord Jefferson wrote a poignant and thoughtful essay on the difficulties of being a black man in America that, if you haven't had the chance read yet, you should make time to do so immediately. Now, the Gawker West Coast editor looks at the other side of the die, examining the violent side of white culture that can cause so much turmoil in America. With all the discussion taking place in our country right now about racial inequality, this video certainly qualifies as must-see TV. Watch it now on Gawker.

2012 Heisman winner, Johnny Manziel, has had something of a busy off-season, making headlines on numerous occasions for anything from failing to show up as a camp counselor at the Manning family football camp, to trolling his haters on Twitter. Surrounded by all this controversy, ESPN's Wright Thompson spent some time with Manziel and his family to get a closer understanding of the Texas A&M redshirt sophomore, uncovering a kid who not only has to deal with the trappings of his new-found fame, but also the heightened expectations and admiration of those already around him. Thompson's take shows just how difficult it can be for 20 year old when he's expected to not only be leading his teammates on the field, but his family off of it. Read the piece here.