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Links for January 19th

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Seanathan

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• You know all those “Hitler Finds Out About…” YouTube clips? The director of Downfall (the movie that clip comes from) loves them.
• Kurt Sutter, creator of Sons of Anarchy, wrote an open letter on his blog offering Conan O’Brien a role
• Death Cab For Cutie covered “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” at The Critics Choice Movie Awards
• The Best Jack Bauer Quotes To Use In Conversation” that somehow forgets “Damnit!”
• Sorry, guys but, accoring to ONN, The Final Season Of ‘Lost’ Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever
• A dream come true. Neil Patrick Harris is going to guest star on Glee in the episode Joss Whedon is directing!!
• Taking it one step further, Conan O’Brien puts himself on Craigslist in the “Casual Encounters” section.
• This MISA digital guitar is kinda cool but what do I know about guitars?
• The New York Times reports that pedestrians are just as distracted by cellphones as drivers. Really?  Ya think? I’m writing this now while I’m walking to CVS.
• Joss Whedon might finally be ready to give cable television a shot.
• The New York Times also reports that more men are marrying wealthier wives. Tom Arnold was a trailblazer.
• I don’t know how I feel about this but FOX is preparing to make a U.S. version of Torchwood.
• They are going to make Paranormal Activity 2. Apparently, everyone has forgotten Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.
• Jeff Bridges’ new personal website is pretty cool.
• Jay-Z? Gorillaz? Thom Yorke? Would it be weird to fly back to Los Angeles a month later for Coachella?
• Los Campesinos! new music video for “Romance Is Boring”
• Is ESPN coming to XBOX Live? They don’t ever want you to have to turn your XBOX off.
• Redband trailer for MacGruber! (NSFW)

Links for January 15th

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Seanathan

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• Kids Reenact MTV’s Hit Series “Jersey Shore” but aren’t douche enough
• NBCs Dick Ebersol defends Jay Leno in The New York Times ignoring the factors that allowed Leno to become a hit in the first place
• How to Make a Michael Cera movie.
• Jimmy Kimmel destroys Leno on The Jay Leno Show. I would have loved to have been in the audience for this one but then I’d be watching The Jay Leno Show
• Conan O’Brien puts The Tonight Show on sale on Craigslist
• Will Michael Scott and David Brent finally cross paths?
• Iron Man 2 is coming to IMAX only to be unfavorably compared to Avatar.
• SCI FI Wire posts the “20 crazy things that nearly happened on Lost (but fortunately didn’t)“
• Why is Jim Halpert so unpopular?
• Matthew Morrison (Will from Glee) is releasing album
• I ALREADY WORK AROUND THE CLOCK!!!
• Don’t plan on watching the winter Olympics on NBC’s website. At least the events you want to watch.
• Nice to see that the Slumdog Millionaire kids are making money but they are still living in shantys

Links for January 14th

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Seanathan

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• NY Magazine’s Vulture thinks Simon Cowell is making the right choice going with The X-Factor over American Idol.  I saw The X-Factor when i was in England last month and found it more interesting than I ever did American Idol.
• Jonah Weiner of Slate Magazine (over)analyzes Jay-Z’s video for “On To The Next One”
• A math genius in England put together a formula to figure our why he’s single
• Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins) is leaving Friday Night Lights
• The Ack! Attack lists Lost’s Top 10 Go-To Moves
• Wes Anderson accepted his Special Achievement Award from the National Board of Review for Fantastic Mr. Fox via stop-motion video
• I probably won’t buy it but this trailer for video game, Transformers: War For Cyberton, looks pretty awesome
• Check out the set for the new Pee-wee Herman Show.I wish I was out in LA to go to this.
• GQ reveals NBC’s new television line-up. Stop dissing, Chuck!
• Michael Ausiello says Greek might be in danger of being canceled.  Maybe if more people heard “The Greek Rap”, they’d watch.
• Someone at The Onion’s AV Club watched G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra on purpose. Poor bastard.
• Jack Bauer hate Tom Brady
• Dave Letterman’s “Top Ten Messages On Jeff Zucker’s Answering Machine.”
• I never get tired of these. Hitler Learns Leno Is Moving Back To Late Night
• Judy Greer is going to guest-star on Modern Family as Phil’s ex-girlfriend. I love her.
• TV Squad previews 24 Season Eight.  I’m curious to see how Agent Freckles has been corrupted by Bauer
• Jeff Fuc..Zucker is threatening to keep Conan off the year for the length of his contract according to Nikki Finke

Links for January 13th

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Seanathan

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• Apparently a new study says that watching TV is linked to a greater risk of death.  I just hope I live long enough to see the finale of Lost.
• ?uestlove presents “Parks and Recreation are the Wu-Tang of Comedy” (NSFW Language)
• Valet posted part two of their The Female Perspective: A Modern Guide to Dating
• Jose Canseco says Tony LaRussa and Mark McGwire are still lying about PEDs.  Has he been wrong yet?
• Dave Letterman has a suggestion for what NBC could fill it’s soon to be vacant 10 PM slot
• Conan O’Brien’s awesome monologue last night. Is it his last?
• Here are the vulgar outtakes from last night’s hilarious “The Impertence Of Communicationizing” episode on Better Off Ted (REALLY NSFW Language)
• Jimmy Kimmel did his entire show dressed up as Jay Leno.  Here’s a sample.
• Netflix streaming is coming to Wii in the spring.
• This may or may not be Urban Meyer’s reaction to finding out Lane Kiffin got the USC job
• A great piece on The House Next Door about two of my favorite movies of all-time, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
• Peter Sarsgaard is negotiating to play bad guy Dr. Hector Hammond in Green Lantern. So Sinestro isn’t the villain? I don’t know how I feel about that.
• Ivan Reitman to going to direct Ghostbusters 3

As Far As Late Night Goes…

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Seanathan

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Links for January 12th

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Seanathan

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• Part one of Valet’s The Female Perspective.  I’m curious to see what my female reader(s) thinks.
• Skins is coming back on January 28th.  Here’s a trailer. This news comes out of nowhere.
• Comics Should Be Good covers Paul Pope’s Batman 100 in their Year of Cool Comics
• Ignore what I wrote about John Malkovich being the Vulture in Spider-Man 4.  The whole movie has been scrapped and now Sony’s going to reboot the Spider-Man franchise in 2012.  Sigh.  Maybe, we can finally get a hot Mary Jane Watson (Sorry, Kirsten)
• New York Times wonders if this is the year Pixar doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature
• Breaking Bad comes back on March 21st.  I need to re-do my TV watch list
• A nice video summary of Leno, Conan and Letterman discussing NBC’s late night drama.
• A brief teaser trailer for David Simon’s new HBO drama, Treme
• Sam Rockwell makes a video appeal to Academy Award voters to nominate him for Moon
• EA is allowing players to vote for who they think should be the three players representing each team in the new NBA Jam roster.
• Jersey Shore‘s The Situation on Leno’s 10@10. Is Jersey Shore the best thing that’s happened to The Jay Leno Show?
• Chicago Tribune‘s Maureen Ryan writes the first of many (I hope) pleas to watch/save Better Off Ted.
• There was a Star Wars-themed burlesque show at the Los Angeles club Bordello. Clearly I didn’t plan my March trip to LA very well (A little NSFW)
• UPDATE: Conan says he won’t do The Tonight Show at 12:05 AM.  Your move, NBC