Track of the Week: Royksopp's "Happy Up Here"
"Happy Up Here" isn't exactly hot off the presses (Junior was released a couple months ago), but if you haven't heard it yet, you should:
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Fikaked: Daily!
- 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, butand 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:
Fikaked: Daily!
- A list of today's notable releases on DVD, including Gran Torino, from The A.V. Club.
- Surprise! Adam Lambert is gay! If nothing else, maybe this revelation will lead people to STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.
- New Built To Spill on the way! It's called There Is No Enemy, and it's due out in October. Lead singer Doug Martsch talks about it with Pitchfork here.
- One of the most awesome things I've seen this year happened last night when Mark-Paul Gosselaar did an entire interview on Late Night as "Zack Morris":
That's it for today; busy, busy...
Fikaked: Daily!
- Weekend Box Office: Seems The Hangover did fantastic, the marketing gurus couldn't make Land of the Lost look anything but really stupid, and
neither one of them could take out Up as #1. Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that the final weekend tally actually has Hangover taking the top slot. - Chris Nashawaty is taking this opportunity to kick Ferrell while he's down. What, exactly, was not hilarious about Step Brothers?
- Jay-Z just released a new track called "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)". Evidently, like a lot of people, HOVA isn't a fan of of the pitch-correcting software, which is interesting since his boy Kanye just released an album full of Auto-Tuned tracks about 6 months ago.
Not sure if this will be on The Blueprint 3According to Pitchfork, it will in fact be on The Blueprint 3, which is due out in September:
- In the summer's biggest train-wreck so far, I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, "Speidi" have managed to create a pretty impressive spectacle, and it's kinda hard to turn away. According to EW, Heidi has actually been checked into a Costa Rican hospital after spending the night in some sort of torture chamber, a punishment for trying to leave the show (and then begging to be brought back).
- Over @ The A.V. Club: 27 Ridiculous Yet Entertaining Pop Culture Fights. Does anything else need to be said?
- Surprise! Idol winner Kris Allen has signed to Jive Records. You can't tell me that Adam Lambert isn't breathing a sigh of relief right now.
- Half-Blood Prince might be delayed in IMAX theaters for a couple weeks because of an exclusive deal featuring Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, which will feature several IMAX-only action sequences. Booyah! I can wait an extra two weeks for another installment of Potter-mania.
- Some general possibly-in-the-works excitement: Anchorman 2 & possibly two new 'Sherlock Holmes' flicks, a new 'Robin Hood' franchise that involves Ridley Scott & Russell Crowe, Ghostbusters 3, and a Short-Circuit remake.
- Tonight: The season premiere of Weeds, I'm a Celebrity... and Jon & Kate Plus 8 overkill continues, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives does "American Classics" and "Family Favorites" on the Food Network, The History Channel is running a special on the history of 'hillbillies', Conan has David Duchovny & comedian Bill Burr on the Tonight Show, and Jimmy Fallon's got Kelly Ripa & Mark-Paul Gosselaar coming on Late Night.
Pardon the mess; this thing is a work in progress...
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