Late Night Charades

If I was a writer for a Late Night talk show and someone proposed to me that they were going to have a "Charades" segment, I'd smile politely and wait for the police to arrive and drag that person to a sanitarium using one of those giant nets. It sounds crazy but somehow it works as a fun mixture of comedy and game show.

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CLASH OF THE TITANS.

Olivia Munn: Apathetic Dancing

We're going to keep this on a professional level. We're all adults here - there's no reason to devolve into "laddish", bawdy language or any types of ribald innuendo. One can express admiration without blue language or prurient, coarse suggestions or even any type of libidinous sentiment. We don't need to resort to salaciousness. There's just no call for it....

Olivia Munn is nice.

With that out of the way, she recently appeared on Jimmy Fallon to promote her new book, the tv show "Attack of the Show", the movie "Date Night" and "Iron Man 2". In addition to another funny interview she also unveils a new style of dancing which I'm calling "Apathetic Dancing". I like it. I hope it catches on.

See the interview here (embedding disabled, waah waaah). Be warned: this is not an Alan Thicke-Free discussion.

The C.O.B. on TBS?! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday?!

It's official: Conan is not going to Fox, like most expected, and instead going to cable station TBS. WHAT?!

Read the article here.

I'm not a fan of any network nor do I really hate any (oh, MTV is an exception) so I don't care as far as that goes but this is particularly tragic to me in that he's going to cable and I don't have cable. My only hope would be that the episodes would be available online (like the previous hulu deal) but I can't see that possibility as very likely as they want people to have to subscribe to cable to watch the cable content.

The other weird thing is that it's going to only be 4 shows a week. Huh?! That doesn't really make any sense.

Conan? 4 shows a week on a cable channel? I don't like it. Do it over.

Japanese Train

The brochure for this train reads (in Japanese): "Your day is stressful but your commute shouldn't be. This spacious, luxurious train includes full-size leather seats and adjustable foot rests. It's an oasis of comfort in the middle of your day. If half the magic work you do, step away with loud report."

Avatar II Trailer

I wasn't a huge fan of "Avatar" - I found it to be a good movie but not quite as amazing or revolutionary as a lot of other people found it to be.

But judging by the early teaser trailer, "Avatar II" is looking like something to get excited about.

Spring! Music!

The following songs are all songs that I emotionally and psychologically associate with Spring. The change of seasons, the warmer weather, the idea that there's still plenty of the school year left but the end is in sight - it's all here. ROCK.

If it's nice out listen to these songs whilst enjoying the sunshine. If it's not, listen and pretend it is.

Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers

(The above takes me right back to my senior year in high school. I had ordered the Best of the Talking Heads CD online and listened to it a lot while making an entire website for a school project using Frontpage. Those were the days.)

Passenger - Walk You Home

(The above takes me straight back to 2007. That's probably to recent to reminisce.)

The Lemonheads - If I Could Talk I'd Tell You

(The above takes me right back to 1997 or thereabouts... it takes me there but whilst there I don't have access to a calendar. Ah, to be back in the '90s.)

Elbow - Scattered Black and Whites

(Takes me back to 2001. Working a summer job by day (I say "working" though it was really more like "surfing the internet and then leaving after 8 hours") and hanging with friends in the evenings.)

Radiohead - Maquiladora

(It's oft been said that Radiohead's B-Sides are better than other bands' A-Sides. S'truth. Takes me back to 1998. In those days there was a webpage with every Radiohead B-Side listed and each had a link to download the song right off the webpage. Those days are gone, eh? I went through the B-Sides endlessly while exploring the new "internet" and trying out new Winamp "skins".)

The fact that 3/5 bands have the word "head" in the title is completely coincidental. A different 3/5 are British. Also coincidence.