Archive for July, 2008

David Duchovny on Letterman 7/24/08 (video)

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David drops by Letterman to promote the X-Files and talk about his kids. Especially about how his son’s penis got stun by a bee. And hilarity ensues. X-Files: I Want To Believe releases Friday, July 25th. Can it top The Dark Knight over the weekend?

Gillian Anderson on Jay Leno 7/22/08 (video)

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From wikipedia: Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy-, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak House. She currently hosts Masterpiece on PBS.

Sara Bareilles performs on Early Show 7/22/08

Download video here (30.7MB). Please wait until the file is finished uploading (wait for download dialog to state the correct size file). Sara Bareilles drops by to perform ‘Love Song’ on Early Show. Nice green dress, nice hair.

Biography: As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, in pursuit of the big city lights of Los Angeles. Although she attended UCLA’s Communication Studies program, Bareilles spent the majority of her spare time studying her new environment and writing poetry and songs about the busy surroundings. After graduating, she spent the next three years performing those songs at open-mike nights, slowly building her confidence as a musician before playing local venues and festivals. In 2003, she co-produced her first demo, Careful Confessions, and became enthralled with recording techniques…read more.

John McCain on Conan O’Brien 7/18/08 (video)

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From wikipedia: John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presumptive Republican Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election.

Both McCain’s grandfather and father were admirals in the United States Navy. McCain graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1958 and became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. Later that year while on a bombing mission over North Vietnam, he was shot down, badly injured, and captured as a prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese. He was held from 1967 to 1973, experiencing episodes of torture and refusing an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer; his war wounds would leave him with lifelong physical limitations.

Conan O’Brien works for UPS (video download)

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Conan goes to work for UPS, and hilarity follows! He drives around a UPS truck, makes deliveries, etc. Wears traditional brown UPS clothing, with UPS underwear and a shirt that says “Here’s your package, ladies.” From wikipedia: Conan Christopher O’Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and comedian, best known as host of NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. He has been announced as replacing Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show in 2009.

Maggie Gyllenhaal on Letterman 7/16/08 (video)

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From wikipedia: Margaret “Maggie” Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress. She is the daughter of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, and the older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal began her acting career in a film directed by her father, and later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real-life brother’s on-screen sister in the cult hit Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal made her breakthrough in the sadomasochistic romance, Secretary, for which she received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination.[1]

Heidi Klum on Conan O’Brien 7/15/08 (video)

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From wikipedia: Heidi Klum (pronounced [ˈklʊm]; born June 1, 1973[1]) is a German supermodel, actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and occasional singer. She is also the hostess of Project Runway and Germany’s Next Topmodel, and is known for her modeling work with Victoria’s Secret.

Aaron Eckhart on Letterman 7/15/08 (video)

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From wikipedia: Aaron Edward Eckhart (born March 12, 1968) is a Golden Globe-nominated American film actor. He has played both leading and supporting roles in a variety of movies, and has won awards for his role as a sociopathic ladies’ man in the independent Neil LaBute film In the Company of Men (1997).

David Duchovny on Jay Leno 7/15/08 (video)

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From wikipedia: David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is a two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor, best known for his roles as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.

Getting Out of the Beaten Path

The image on the left describes most of you. Yes, MOST. See all those little red dots cramped up on the left side? That’s YOU. And the problem is that most people are too brainwashed by conventional wisdom to realize where they really are. The beaten path, exemplified as the corporate ladder, is just a horrible existence. Say you start off at the bottom. In order to elevate yourself, you have to somehow manage to get around others, which means curving left and right, attempting to find some wiggle room to elevate yourself. And at the same time, you’re competing with people on your same level while the people just above your level are trying to supress your kind and the people above them are trying to supress the people trying to supress you. This is why despite a person’s talents, he or she may not be able to climb the ladder.

However, the outside-the-box thinker, exemplified as a entrepreneur, has no one (or very few) above him, so during the climb, there are no obstructions. If you imagine using a piece of yarn and starting at the bottom of one of the 4 red dots on the right, and moving upward, a straight line is all that is needed. However, if you do the same with a dot within the corporate ladder, it’s just one sinuous mess. And when you stretch out that piece of yarn after you made it to the top, it can be 2-3 times as long as the other piece of yarn, which is more or less analogous to the length of time it will take the two people to get to their respective destinations.

So with the Point A to Point B approach, there are different ways of getting there. Sure, the beaten path ways may seem the most secure and tested, and maybe you’re satisfied with where you are, but eventually you’ll realize that you’ve fallen into a comfort zone that you can’t get out of, or you’re just coasting through a mediocre position that is a complete waste of your skills and talents. Try to envision a different path of getting to the goal point. A path that most people are too risk-adverse to go on or that most people never thought of in the first place. And although it might be scary to realize that you may be alone in attempting a different path, you will feel a sense of freedom and urgency that you will never feel within the confines of a box, and within the vicinity of millions of other peers.

Gary Oldman on Conan O’Brien 7/14/08 (video)

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Gary Oldman stopped by Conan O’Brien to promote The Dark Knight. There’s two really funny parts: 1) One with him doing something with his hands that looks like jacking off, and 2) when he impersonates James Brown. Fucking awesome, and Conan loves film too. Everyone fucking does! From wikipedia: Gary Leonard Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is an English actor, writer, director, producer, voice-over artist and occasional musician who has garnered critical acclaim for his chameleonic performances and mastery of accents.[2][3] He is noted for his avoidance of the Hollywood celebrity scene,[2][4] often being referred to as an “actor’s actor”.[5][6][7]

Will Ferrell on Jay Leno 7/14/08 (video)

See the video here (Part 1 (24.4MB) (Part 2 (27.2MB). They are direct downloads, save as. Will stopped by to promote Step Brothers. Really great clip at the end of the interview. From wikipedia: John William “Will” Ferrell (born July 16, 1967)[1] is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career, starring in the comedies A Night at the Roxbury (1998), Old School, Elf (both 2003), Anchorman (2004), Kicking & Screaming (2005), Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction (both 2006), Blades of Glory (2007) and Semi-Pro (2008). He is considered a member of the frat pack, a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors of the late 1990s and 2000s including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson.

Build your own shit. Save money.

If you’ve got a problem and can solve it without spending money, by all means do so. People are too damn lazy and buy more stuff to solve the problems of existing stuff. There’s just too much money spent on crap these days. So here’s an example of how I solved one of my little problems. I have this desk drawer that I put little things in. Well the problem is that after a while these things get shifted around too much and end up in the back or get mixed up with other items. But I took some junk cardboard, cut that shit into rectangles, and then glued it all together to form a partition slot for my drawer. Now all the smaller things stay in the front and I can also lift the slot out onto the desktop if I need to.

Gary Oldman on The View 7/14/08 (video)

See the VIDEO HERE (direct download, save as). He’s Gary fucking Oldman. Enough said. Starring as James Gordon in ‘The Dark Knight.’ It’s a little funny seeing the women interact with him. My ears were bleeding from all that high-screeching. I don’t know how he could stand it from just inches and feet away from them. Amazing! From wikipedia: Gary Leonard Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is an English actor, writer, director, producer, voice-over artist and occasional musician who has garnered critical acclaim for his chameleonic performances and mastery of accents.[2][3] He is noted for his avoidance of the Hollywood celebrity scene,[2][4] often being referred to as an “actor’s actor”.[5][6][7]

Check out the other two interviews: Christian Bale on Today Show (July 14), and Michael Caine on Jay Leno (July 11).

Christian Bale on Today Show 7/14/08 (video)

Yup, SEE IT HERE. Thanks to popcrunch for the video. Damn, he’s the ultimate man-crush. Christian Bale stars in The Dark Knight, arriving July 18th. So much Dark Knight coverage lately. From wikipedia: Christian Charles Philip Bale (also known professionally as Christian Morgan Bale; born 30 January 1974) is a Welsh-born British actor[2] whose film credits include Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, Equilibrium, The Machinist, Batman Begins and the upcoming films The Dark Knight and Terminator Salvation, where he will play the role of John Connor. Bale is known for his mastery of accents and harsh regimens of shedding and gaining weight (particularly for The Machinist, Batman Begins and, most recently, Rescue Dawn). Before he found success in playing Batman, he was heavily involved in independent films.

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