Trailer music that is totally effective

• Salsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel (Rom Coms)
• Where Do I Begin? - The Chemical Brothers (Quirky/Weird films)
• Rousing Operatic Vocals - Mozart? (Disaster films, Michael Bay)

Things I like about Futurama

• Nerd jokes galore.
• Hypno-Toad. All hail Hypno-Toad.
• Not afraid to do sappy/emotionally moving episodes.
• Dr. Zoidberg, the Jewish doctor who is neither Jewish nor a doctor.
• Science-fiction plots that are just as good as any other sci-fi being made today.
• Excellent animation, combining CGI with hand-drawn animation artfully.
• Al Gore guest stars.... TWICE! And is emperor of the moon.

Parts of Harry Potter that Rip Off Star Wars/LotR

Highlight below to see.

• All the house-elves attacking is like Return of the Jedi when the Ewoks defeat the stormtroopers.
• Horcrux = the one ring = soul inside
• In the end, Voldemort says Harry will come to him like in Return of the Jedi when the emperor says the same thing about Luke.

What's the deal?

Dane Cook? Seriously? Stop showing up in trailers of movies I want to see!

3 Best Flight of the Conchords Songs

1. If You're Into It
2. She's So Hot (Boom)
3. Most Beautiful Girl in the Room

How GOB sunk his yacht on Girls with Low Self-Esteem

Moving Moments in Television

Some emotionally touching moments from my favorite television shows... all comedies.

• Futurama: When Fry's dog waits outside the pizza parlor for him, when Leela meets her real parents, when Fry discovers his brother cared about him.
• The Simpsons: When Homer puts up pictures of Maggie around his office
• Arrested Development: When George Michael hugs Lindsay in the pilot, when they canceled the show
• The Office: When Michael tears up at the bird's funeral

Darjeeling Limited pop quiz

The most surprising thing about The Darjeeling Limited, the new film by Wes Anderson, is:
a. the casting of Diet Coke fan Adrien Brody.
b. that the trailer features two Kinks songs instead of just one.
c. the lack of Futura.

The least surprising thing about The Darjeeling Limited is:
a. a series of montages with Bill Murray and a Wilson brother centered in the frame...
b. ...set to music from the British Invasion...
c. ...that critics will call "quirky."

Radiohead Ranked

1. OK Computer
2. The Bends
3. Kid A
4. Hail to the Thief
5. Pablo Honey
6. Amnesiac

Past Top 10 Films

Here are the top 10 rankings I gave to films in the past few years. Keep an eye out for glaring mistakes, omissions and outright embarrasing choices (Hero, really, 2004 Ben?).

2004
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Life Aquatic
3. I Heart Huckabees
4. Sideways
5. Fahrenheit 9/11
6. The Incredibles
7. Spiderman 2
8. Tarnation
9. Hero
10. Team America

2003
1. Return of the King
2. Finding Nemo
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1
4. House of Sand and Fog
5. Master and Commander
6. A Mighty Wind
7. American Splendor
8. School of Rock
9. Whale Rider
10. X2
11. Lost in Translation
12. Girl with a Pearl Earring

2002
1. Adaptation
2. Minority Report
3. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
4. Two Towers
5. Y Tu Mama Tambien
6. Catch Me if You Can
7. Chicago
8. About Schmidt
9. Insomnia
10. Punch-Drunk Love

Meta Television

So, in the season opener of Monk called "Monk and His Biggest Fan" Sarah Silverman plays an obsessive follower of Monk. The meta-moment is when she keeps referring to different cases Monk solved as titles of former episodes like "Monk and the Astronaut" and Monk keeps asking, "Why are you giving them titles?"
Monk I have noticed is a more-meta-than-average show. They constantly have self-references to Monk and did the episode where they are making a movie about Monk with Stanly Tucci playing Monk (The X-Files did it better with Tea Leoni and Gary Shandling, I believe, playing agents Mulder and Skully).
Anyway, I am going to try and gradually shifted the focus of my blog from Arrested Development commentary to meta-entertainment.

Best Films of 2006

1. Children of Men
2. The Prestige
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. The Departed
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. Borat
7. Casino Royale
8. The Queen
9. Notes on a Scandal
10. An Inconvenient Truth

Why 30 Rock is the Best Sitcom on TV

• Tina Fey Rules.
• Tracy Morgan is suprisingly very funny.
• Cameos by SNL alum, specifically Rachel Draetch playing random characters (Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Taylor, Cat Lady)
• Constant jokes about NBC (Simpsons style). Jack is head of television and microwave programming.
• And most importantly, Alex Baldwin.

Best Arrested Development Character Names

• Bob Loblaw
• Gene Parmesan
• Lucille 2
• GOB
• George Michael
• Barry Zuckercorn

Public Relations

Watched "Public Relations" from A.D. season 1. Noticed it has a meta-scene, where the public relations woman describes each character.
Also, noticed a joke at the end when Lindsay and Lucille attack the public relations woman, someone in the background yells, "Bluth Fight." I love picking up on jokes despite it being the 6-8th time I have seen the episode.

Picture Book I

 

 

 

 

Russians playing Tetris

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/clips/russian-dorm-tetris-284988.php?autoplay=true

The sad thing is their dorms are nicer than mine were.