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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Wow, two of our favorite things to talk about, combined! It's like a McGriddle or something!

"Written in Reverse":

Ultimate music festival Bonnaroo begins today. This year's standouts include Passion Pit, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, TV on the Radio, Beastie Boys, Phoenix, Public Enemy, Girl Talk, Bon Iver, Neko Case, and Band of Horses, amongst others. Pitchfork has a pretty nice rundown here, including where you can watch live performances and a complete schedule.
Dave Letterman has gotten into a bit of controversy for making jokes about everyone's favorite idiot, Sara Palin, and her family; he wound up sort of apologizing for it last night.
Apparently, things are otherwise going well for Dave, as he has closed the ratings gap with Conan over the course of the first week, and actually beat out The Tonight Show for the first time in quite a while on Monday Night. It will be interesting to see how things play out amongst the viewers now that we have two hosts who are more similar in style. Obvious statement of the day: DVRs are good.
Sounds like the new G.I. Joe movie has had some serious issues. Man, this thing is gonna bomb.

EW has an article on the phenomenon that is getting sucked into watching terrible movies on television, kinda like last weekend when I came home and found my wife watching Honey on MTV.
Futurama is being resurrected. Well done, Comedy Central.

Mos Def performed a track from his new album, The Ecstatic, on Letterman last night:

According to this report by the Onion News Network, President Obama is planning on drastically scaling back his goals for the nation after an eye-opening visit to a Denny's:

Conan ran another new installment last night of the best bit they've started up since moving to The Tonight Show, "Twitter Tracker". ~~It's not up anywhere yet, but~~ and they've actually put together a "Twitter Tracker" website:

Will Ferrell made his next stop on the late night merry-go-round last night, this time on Late Night:

Another EW list: TV's Top Kitchens.
A CNN article on the slow, agonizing death of Myspace.
A crazy report on Idol runner-up Adam Lambert that discusses, amongst other things, his crush on Idol champion Kris Allen, the fact that he decided to try out for the show while high on shrooms at the "Burning Man" festival, and a possible rivalry with the other gay Idol runner-up, Clay Aiken:

Stephen Colbert is doing The Colbert Report from Iraq all week. Pretty good stuff; here's last night's episode: