Episode 7: “You can retire and then unretire?”

Great, funny video from Bill Gates’ final CES keynote speech about his last day at Microsoft. Appearances by Matthew McConaughey, Jay-Z, no I won’t spoil the rest, just watch it:

Episode 6: “Trill a cheery tune in the tub as we scrub a stubborn mildew stain.” 

Here’s a clip from Enchanted called the Happy Working Song. If you hadn’t heard of the movie, it’s a bit of a mix of homage and parody to the old Disney cartoon musicals. It’s about a cartoon fairy tale princess that gets pushed into “the world where there are no happy endings” aka New York. I knew I would love the movie when I saw it, because of the Disney nut I am, but I was surprised to find a lot of people loving it. Even my brother was recommending it to all of his friends, claiming it was more worth going to than I Am Legend (I haven’t seen I Am Legend yet, so I can’t say if that’s true or not).

The Happy Working Song is a tribute to the old Disney cleaning songs like Whistle While You Work and Just A Spoonful of Sugar. I especially love how they manage to rhyme toilet with spoil it.

Interesting links for January 5th through January 6th:

• Big TREK update! Footage seen! Script read! Tidbits galore! – – Rumours about the plot of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek.
• High Heels and the Body – How wearing high heels can damage your body.
• Jack Black Spills Year One Details – First details about Judd Apatow’s religious comedy “Year One”. Sounds like dangerous material to pull off, but I think Apatow (Knocked Up, Superbad) has the skills to handle it well.
• Michel Gondry’s Next Film – Return of the Ice Kings « FirstShowing.net – I loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind seems pretty awesome too. Quite interested to see where Michel Gondry goes next. If it is this idea “about kids who invent a water that makes you hear music when you drink it.” Wow.
• Kitty Wigs! – Pink is the color of fantasy. Our model, Chicken, looks like her mind is elsewhere when she wears this wig — somewhere in a land of cotton candy and pinwheels where the air smells like sugar kisses. The world we live in is a very weird place indeed: “Pi