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Link Time! 7/29

BuzzSugar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:31:17 -0700

The TV Addict just found this 90210 iPod and is curious to know if it comes pre-loaded with Color Me Badd, among other things.
Office Tally has video of the intro from The Office writers panel at Comic-Con, which recast the opening credits with writers in place of actors.
MTV Movies Blog wonders what you would ask a Twilight star if one were standing right next to you.
Citing a certain scene from this week's Weeds, Popwatch asks about the TV sex scenes that left you breathless.
Stereogum has video of Gnarls Barkley covering Radiohead's "Reckoner."
TV With MeeVee watched all of The X-Files in about two months and has some thoughts on the end of the experiment.
Cinematical has the seven most overly used lines in movie trailers (including "In a
world. . .").
Who do you think should win Design Star? Head over to CasaSugar to vote.

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Buzz News Roundup, 3/10

BuzzSugar — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:31:58 -0700

Zap2It reports that Showtime has picked up The L Word for a sixth and final season.
A Ponds ad featuring Chinese actress Tang Wei has been banned in China - not because of the content of the advertisement, but because of "official displeasure" at Wei's involvement in the Ang Lee film Lust, Caution, Variety reports.
Justin Chadwick, director of The Other Boleyn Girl, is in talks to direct a contemporary London thriller titled The Property, writes ComingSoon.
According to Variety, Cate Blanchett will play Blanche DuBois in an Australian production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Gnarls Barkley's video for "Run" has been re-edited to pass the Harding Test - guidelines intended to prevent TV images from triggering epileptic seizures - and can now air in the U.K., Billboard reports.
According to Hollywood Reporter, the Warner Bros. Television Group will resurrect The WB network in the form of a new website that will feature video of old WB favorites, like Gilmore Girls and Everwood.

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The Video for Gnarls Barkley's "Run" Is So. Much. Fun.

BuzzSugar — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:59:25 -0800

The video for Gnarls Barkley's "Run" actually makes me want to, well, run. And dance. And stomp around. And wave my arms all crazy. The video features Justin Timberlake as an uber-geeky, wannabe "fresh" host of City Vibin', a hyper-frenetic dance show with '80s effects and a costume designer straight off the set of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The song itself is so frantic and urgent, and in this video that energy is channeled into dance.

You just have to watch this - but you might want to be sure there's nothing breakable around first, because the urge to move might overtake you. To check it out and start doing dweeby dance moves similar to Timberlake's in this video, read more.

Link Time! 2/22

BuzzSugar — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:09:07 -0800

Stereogum presents the winners of its bald Britney Photoshopping contest.
While Best Week Ever posts a pitch-perfect Spears music-video parody.
And Popwatch tells us that Craig Ferguson refuses kick Britney while she's down.
Mourning "The OC"? The TV Addict rounds up "OCbituaries" from around the Web.
My Old Kentucky Blog posts an astounding number of covers of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy."
I can't stop laughing at this "Heroes" parody called "Zeroes" on GiggleSugar, while TV Squad imagines how the cast's "Larry King Live" interview will go.
Film Rotation ponders the possibility of Casino Royale beauty Eva Green playing Wonder Woman.
PopCandy asks: Which TV characters drive you nuts?
Film Experience thinks Pan’s Labyrinth has a shot at sweeping its Oscar nominations. Fingers crossed!
TV with MeeVee has the scoop on auditions for a new reality show about celebrity impersonators.
I Guess I'm Floating features a Rosie Thomas duet with Sufjan Stevens.
StinkyLuLu perfectly sums up my conflicted feelings about Jennifer Hudson’s Dreamgirls performance and Oscar nomination.

Link Time! 2/6

BuzzSugar — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:24:46 -0800

Popwatch wishes Rick Astley a happy birthday with the classic video for "Never Gonna Give You Up."
GeekSugar tells us how to play the Nintendo Wii as a character from "The Office."
The Movie Blog puzzles over the rumor about a Hardy Boys movie starring ... Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise?
Idolator alerts us to the sad fact that the Goo Goo Dolls will appear on QVC.
The TV Addict highlights the under-watched TV shows you should check out.
Defamer speculates about the TV-movie potential of the kidnapped astronaut story.
BuddyTV wonders if an "American Idol" hopeful got axed for refusing to cut his hair.
Best Week Ever reveals its entry for the Gnarls Barkley haiku contest.
Reeling speculates that Sony Pictures is afraid of what big bad critics (like us!) will say about Ghost Rider.
TV with MeeVee chats with star Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin on "Lost."
TV Squad thinks CBS might have made a mistake made by showing "Criminal Minds" after the Super Bowl.
I Guess I'm Floating celebrates the return of Maximo Park by posting a hot new track.
Pop Candy has the scoop on tryouts for VH1's "World Series of Pop Culture".
Stereogum shows us where to find the new Junior Boys video.

Band Interview: Cold War Kids

BuzzSugar — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:31:51 -0800

No band in 2006 benefited from the power of the Internet like Cold War Kids. On Downtown Records, the same label that brought us breakout hit Gnarls Barkley, the band got so much praiseworthy press early on that it was playing Lollapalooza before its first album even hit stores.

Remarkably, the album, Robbers & Cowards, totally lives up to the hype, with a collection of storytelling songs that blend rock and roll with noise collages. The guys-including frontman and piano man Nathan Willett, drummer Matt Aveiro, bassist Matt Maust, and guitarist Jonnie Russell-recently stopped by the Sugar Publishing offices on their way back home to Long Beach, Calif., for an interview.

I talked to the band about everything from the music they're digging now - including the new Tom Waits album and Cat Power - to the authors they love (David Foster Wallace is a group fave). To see what the Cold War Kids had to say about their newfound fame and what comes next, read more

First, how did you guys come up with the band name?

Maust: I was traveling through eastern Europe with my bro, and when I was outside Budapest, they had taken out all these statues and just dumped them outside of cities. You could visit them and climb on them and kick ‘em, and my brother and I had like a picnic on Stalin’s foot. I thought, we couldn’t have done this in the '70s.

How did you get hooked up with Downtown Records?

Maust: They took us to a really nice breakfast and wooed us with omelets.

Willett: They had the right balance of small and new enough, but they also had the gusto enough to do the things we wanted to do.

Tell me a bit about how the album caught fire online.

Willett: About eight months ago, our friend Matt O’Brien, who is a big blog guy, was talking to us about bloggers, and he showed us how we had a review on a blog of our EP. When we put out the second and third EPs, we decided to send them out to some blogs, like Stereogum and My Old Kentucky Blog.

Maust: At first, I was a little scared getting all this press; I was like, we gotta get an album out, guys.

Willett: The more you don’t have music that’s available to buy and people are talking about it, the more that you’re really living up to expectations. You’d rather let the music speak for your band than the hype.

How do you come up with ideas for songs?

Nathan: We just write music together. We’ll all be together in a room, and someone comes up with an idea they like and everyone else just grabs onto it.

Maust: Matt (Aveiro) might come with more of a hip-hop beat, and I come to the table from more of a punk-rock standpoint, and when those things mesh, you get a song like “Saint John.”

Aveiro: Sometimes we don’t have the biggest space that we play in, so we’ll have things laying around that we can pick up and bang on.

Most: Wine bottles, fishing reels, chairs being scooted around ...

Now that you're done with touring for a while, what's up next for you guys?

Nathan: We did some recording at the BBC a few weeks ago, including a John Lennon/Yoko Ono song called “Well Well Well.” It was in Peel Studios, a 4-hour session, and they set up lots of pianos and keys in big room, and you just get to play a bit.

Aveiro: It’s pretty much the modern equivalent of the Peel Sessions.

I can't wait to hear the band's new songs, but for now, I'll just sustain myself on Robbers & Cowards. Tune in later today to hear one of my favorite Cold War Kids tracks.