Why Try To Change Me Now - Fiona Apple (Originally by Cy Coleman)

I didn’t know this song existed until about twelve hours ago, when I heard it on the most recent episode of House, and since then it has reached a play count of 10 on my iTunes.

Wait— make that 11.

Currently watching: Kouhaku Uta Gassen

On the evening of New Year’s Eve every year Japan’s biggest music stars gather in one concert hall to participate in a boys-versus-girls singing competition called “Uta Gassen.”  The Japanese TV network NHK has been showing “Uta Gassen” for the past 60 years and it is one of the biggest TV events of the year in Japan.  I’ve heard a ton about it, and I’m excited to finally be watching it for the first time.

William Shatner read some passages from Sarah Palin’s autobiography on Conan O’Brien on Friday, and then Palin showed up to read from Shatner’s book, too.

(via inothernews)

Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino showed up on Japanese TV earlier this week, on a show in which they were interviewed while one of Japan’s most popular boy bands (called SMAP) cooked dinner for them.

Obviously, the above video is in Japanese, so most or all of you will probably be bored by it, but the situation was so amusing that I had to share it.

kl7:

thedailywhat:

TV Promo of the Day: HBO recently announced a new detective comedy set to air this fall called Bored to Death, which stars every person you’d ever want starring in a show together (Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, Parker Posey, and Ted Danson to name a few).

Check out the teaser above while I go outside and make the most of this dream I am presently having, in which Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis are starring in a TV show together, by attempting to fly on wings of spaghetti.

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I wanted to post this a while ago but couldn’t find an embeddable player. Just why did he have to be a Brooklyn writer? Otherwise cool.

HELLO how did this one slip under my radar until now?!  Unbelievable.  I want to know who’s writing/directing/producing this.  brb.

UPDATE: looks like the pilot director has done more than a few Mad Men episodes, but other than that, the creators seem to be relatively unknowns.  Interesting.

Mad Men season 3 promo!

amyyy:

Conan’s new set.

!!!!!!!

(via imkevin & willw)

I’m so excited to go there (less than 3 weeks!!)