Zach Galifianakis interview from The Comic’s Comic

Talkshow roundup 3/4

Tom Hanks, Spoon on Letterman
Brett Favre, Matthew McConaughey, Jason Reitman on Leno
Queen Latifah, Jake Pavelka, Galactic on Kimmel
Garry Shandling, Sonya Walger on Ferguson
Zach Galifianakis, Mia Wasikowska, Silversun Pickups on Fallon
Joel David Moore, Fanfarlo on Carson Daly
Shaun White, Seann William Scott, Andrew Dice Clay on Lopez Tonight

March 3 birthdays

Happy 51st birthday to Ira Glass, host of This American Life

Happy 40th birthday to Julie Bowen

B-day wishes also go out to Santonio Holmes, Jessica Biel, Lil Flip, Tone Loc, Laura Harring, Herschel Walker, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Miranda Richardson, George Miller, Will Eisner.

What to watch 3/1

How I Met Your Mother (8pm on CBS)
Now that the Olympics are over, most of my favorite shows will begin to air new episodes again. Tonight’s episode of HIMYM is the first new one since early February.

CSI: Miami (10pm on CBS)
Rob Zombie directs tonight’s episode. I’m pretty sure I’ve never watched this show before, and I’m not sure if Rob Zombie is enough to get me to tune in, but it is notable.

College basketball (7pm on ESPN)
Tonight’s games include #20 Georgetown at #8 West Virginia at 7pm, and Oklahoma at #25 Texas at 9pm.

MOVIES (various)
X-Men: The Last Stand 8pm on FX, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 8pm on IFC

Links that I didn’t post this week

I look at and read many things on the internet every day. Many of those things I never get around to mentioning on the site, even though I mean to. Here’s a bunch of links that piled up over the last week.

Esquire’s 2010 alternative Oscars
GQ’s Jeff Bridges profile
Vanity Fair on the making of Raging Bull
Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire with Martin Scorsese
The numbers behind the Academy Awards
The AV Club’s interview with Alison Brie (Community,  Mad Men)
The AV Club’s interview with Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development)
The Guardian’s interview with David Simon
Vulture’s interview with Rick Rubin
How to politely refuse a plastic bag
Alan Sepinwall’s spring tv preview
2010: Living In The Future (from 1972)
Which health supplements are backed by science?

What to watch 2/28

United States vs. Canada Olympic hockey gold medal game (3:15pm et on NBC)
Since I am not a hockey fan, this is probably one of the few times that I will mention hockey on what to watch. I’m sure that more Americans probably watched hockey or had an interest in it than at any other recent time.

Stephen King tv movie mini-marathon (9am on Syfy)
The Syfy channel is playing three of Stephen King’s tv movies/miniseries today, starting at 9am with The Langoliers. Following it up will be The Tommyknockers at 1pm. The Stand will finish the day at 5pm, and it will run until 1am.

MOVIES (various)
The one movie that I would strongly recommend checking out is Primer on IFC at 2:05pm. It’s a 2004 indie sci fi film about time travel that was shot on a budget of about $7,000. Anyhow, here’s the full list of anything somewhat worthwhile, in case you get bored today.

The Green Mile 12:30pm A&E
Jarhead 1pm FX
Pink Floyd: The Wall 1pm VH1 Classics
Primer 2:05pm IFC
Escape From L.A. 3pm AMC
Idiocracy 3pm Comedy Central
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 5pm AMC
Office Space 5pm Comedy Central
Crooklyn 6:30pm BET
Gangs of New York 7:05pm IFC
Uncle Buck 8pm Nickelodeon
Factotum 11pm IFC

Higglety Pigglety Pop clips

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More To Life is a short film based on the book by Maurice Sendak. The short, which was produced by Spike Jonze, will be featured on the blu-ray release of Where The Wild Things Are. The film was directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, and features the voice talents of Meryl Streep and Forrest Whitaker.
(clips via Drawn)

What to watch 2/26

The Life and Times of Tim (9:30 pm on HBO)
I thoroughly enjoyed last Friday’s season premiere, so I look forward to tonight’s new episode. Also, there’s a new episode of Funny or Die Presents at midnight. I thought last week’s premiere episode was hit or miss, which is exactly what I would anticipate with a show of this nature.

Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (10pm on BBC America)
featuring Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sade

MOVIES (various)
Blades of Glory 8pm ABC, A League of Their Own 10pm Bravo, Seven 8pm IFC, Top Gun 8 & 10pm Oxygen, Ordinary People 10:30pm TCM,

V.V. Brown on Kimmel

V.V. Brown performed “Shark In The Water” on Jimmy Kimmel Live
from Travelling Like The Light, out March 30 in the US

February 26 birthdays

Happy birthday to Johnny Cash (RIP)

Happy 39th birthday to Erykah Badu

Also b-day wishes to Corinne Bailey Rae, Marshall Faulk, Michael Bolton, Bill Duke, Fats Domino, Jackie Gleason, Tex Avery, Levi Strauss, Victor Hugo, Christopher Marlowe.