This will make you shut up.

This will make you stop what you’re doing.

There’s a part 2:

shhhhhhhhhh

(play in HD!)

After “Night Terrors,” what really did it for me was the preview for the next episode: “The Girl Who Waited.” It has butt-kicking cougar-Amy in itttt. So far, this series has a lot of replication/duplication tech: the flesh, time-displaced versions and the Teselecta. Will they bring all this up in the finale?

So yeah, let’s screencap like tumblr:

The last one, while not terribly focused, shows Amy in the background after just decapitating a robot. The glasses are bound to generate “Hipster Amy” posts on the tumblrs. Or hashtags like #hipstercougeramy.

This is probably the strongest holiday special The Simpsons have had in recent memory.  Also, this screencap below makes me look forward to growing old like Mr. Burns:

From an email:

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Partial proceeds will benefit  TKO HELPING HANDS, Gina’s non-profit charity of choice founded by Maui-born, Mandy Yamauchi-Ellen. (a former Raiderette cheerleader!) TKO (Turn Kindness On) was founded  in 2001, with the goal of awakening a child’s passion for giving at an early age. TKO believes that the best way to teach a child about the power of service is to engage them in meaningful projects – traveling the world visiting orphanges
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I was at the Fit ‘n Right thing last night, so here’s a coupla things that I didn’t get to see:  )

Katwo rawkin’ out.

Kim Chiu eating sum Sebastian’s

Valerie Tan hosting Voice for a Better Life Music Festival

Then again, if I was anywhere near where the-things-that-I-missed-last-night were, I would’nt have gotten to hang out with my blogger friends!   (Or, okay, I wouldn’t have gotten to see the very pretty lady with the same watch as me :p )

I mean, after their battles, the Joes and Cobra do stuff … for fun … and stuff, right? Spot the cameos!  (Also, Vinnie Jones, bitch!)

From FunnyorDie:

Here’s the video for her latest single, “The Fear:”

If you were a fan of the late-90s The Screensavers or Call for Help, then you probably know Tekzilla already.

— and, and — if you know about Tekzilla, then you probably know about the awesome Veronica Belmont!

Here are some beautiful shots of her from The Bui Brothers.  (The photos were released under CC, so I do hope it’s okay to put this one here.)  Also, if you subscribe to the newsletter, you’ll be getting updates on some behind-the-scenes stuff, which should be pretty cool.  Check it!

To keep up with her wired lifestyle, check out her blog.  To keep updated with Tekzilla and other cool shows from Revision3, check out their YouTube channel.

P.S.

In the last few months that I’ve been glued to Tekzilla, I’ve never seen nor heard anything about a creature that’s called ‘the’ Tekzilla.  I’m hungry.  :p

Imagine being a person who has to say YES to everything.  How would it feel?  (Incidentally, isn’t “why not?” the same as YES?)

In “Yes Man”, we are introduced to Carl Allen, (and you know this part already — but in case you didn’t:) a self-loathing, middle-aged, loan approval officer-slash-divorcé whose idea of a “parteh” night is renting out DVDs, while dismissing his friends’ offers to do ANYTHING — even to the point of dropping their calls.  (Why bring a phone in the first place?)

The audience is immediately given a sense that Carl’s negation to everything is what’s making him miserable.  (Rephrased: was he miserable because he said “no” to everything, or did he say “no” to everything because he was miserable?)  That is, until his old friend Nick tells him about the cult of Y-E-S.

A nightmare (that shows off a goofy dead-face that only Carrey can pull off) provides him the wake-up call to attend the cult of Y-E-S seminar.  (Hesitant at first.)  Terrence Bundley, the Y-E-S guru, ably played by Terence Stamp (whose roles always vary from the wise/retired/always-right sage — also, he’s in that Valkyrie movie too) then breaks down his walls of “NO” — and forms a covenant with him to say Y-E-S to everything.  He (with A LOT of push from the overzealous Nick) embraces the idea.

An observation into causal responsibility: If he said “no” to that bum ride, would he have gotten to meet Allison?  (Zooey Deschanel’s character) Of course that COULD have been the case, but it’d have made for a much shorter, none-too-interesting movie.

What follows is Carl developing this motivation into a complete lifestyle philosophy — no matter how dangerous (agreeing to a bar fight), educational (taking up lessons in guitar, speaking Korean, flight lessons) or downright bizarre/abusive (Sexual favors from an elderly neighbor, giving bums a ride, that Persian bride thing) the situation gets.

Let’s backtrack a bit — agreeing (with A LOT of nudging from Nick) to give a bum a ride causes his car to lose gas, making him walk to the gas station, where he meets the irresistably-adorkable Allison.  When offered a ride back, Y-E-S train!

Agreeing to everything seemingly has its perks for Carl — and turning his back on the covenant brings him misery.  (Which reminds me of My Name is Earl’s “karma.”)

(By now you’re getting it, so…)

The movie turns into a cutesy romance — Deschanel’s bright-eyed, impulsive, the-world-is-a-playground-and-I’m-an-indie-rock-chick-slash-photo-jogger (whatever that is) Allison goes along with Carrey’s Y-E-S train ride.  (Insert Zero 7’s “Pageant of the Bizarre” here.  Also, who shall console those of us who are bereft of some Zooey-lovin’?  (AS IF the bereft have a chance of getting her — Cheekie!  Let’s break up Ben and Zooey already!  And yes, this is a parenthesis-within-a-parenthesis.  And YES, I just started this and the last sentence with a conjunction.))

The conflict arises when the FBI detain Carl and Allison at the airport after an impromptu impulsive trip — at which point Allison finds out about the motivational program and questions Carl if ANY of his decisions with her were made under its influence.

It’s a fun(ny) ride — with a slightly-less-manic Jim Carrey and adorkable-without-hardly-even-trying Zooey Deschanel.  The jokes and the funnies may not always work (“I’m gone-a-ree-ya!,” or that elderly sexual favor thing.) — it’s okay, because it’s distributed in a way that tickles the audience through most of the 104-minute running time.  (Some of the best ones happen early on, like when Carl was evading invitations by feigning an active life.  — Fun fact: in the bar scene where Carl slips on ice cubes?  He really did slip, hit the floor hard and he broke 3 ribs!)

Performances to watch out for are Rhys Darby (that’s Murray to you!  If you don’t get that, better catch up, season 2 of the Conchords start … this week!) as Carl’s awkward/eager manager, and Terrence Stamp as the enigmatic-and-knows-that-his-YES-thing-is-flawed-but-still-believes-it guru.

A scene to watch out for is the “Jumper” scene — because it utilizes that song in the most-obvious way possible, and then you wonder why no one’s done it before.  Hey-larious!

Give “Yes Man” a try?  Why not?

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Have some Munchausen By Proxy w/ Zooey Deschanel:

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Many thanks to Azrael for the invites!

After seeing Yes Man, had some coffee with Dang + Drei + Ven.