I gotta say, if you need this for some of these words, you've got bigger problems than getting through a thousand-page novel, but I'll admit I didn't know what "espadrilles" were, and I do appreciate the picture of the Pooh pajamas.

What Tom and co. at Schulze & Webb have been building in there. In top 'i can has data' form, it searches blog/twitter buzz around BBC tv/radio programs, sucks it all back in, and "offers a range of different ways into the data, from the 'fresh buzz' chart on the homepage, to the schedule heatmap which shades the 'hottest' programmes on each of the BBC's TV channels / radio stations (which also have their own pages). There is also a Catch up on iPlayer page, enabling you to filter programmes available to watch on demand by channel, genre and time of day. The genre cuts are particularly compelling, enabling you to see, for example, which Comedy programmes are generating the most buzz. There's also the blueprint, which provides full access to all of the data, including permalinks, so I can tell you that the most buzzed about factual TV programme at midday on Monday 22nd June was BBC Two's James May on the Moon."

Yeah, I'm still not sure about this: "Reeves has finished a second draft of the script, now titled Let Me In. The film will be set in Reagan-era Colorado. He is scouting locations, looking to maintain the original story's chilly, snow-swept environs. The production is also looking for the two leads, which Reeves vows will not be aged-up to make the film more of a smoldering Twilight-style romance. "

Well this is a shame: "One of the key qualities missing from footage at SXSW is the sheer relentlessness. When simply previewing scenes, Baron Cohen and co. could eschew story and simply bombard the audience with scathing humor. In their truncated forms, the same scenes feel hurried and less effective. Plus that element of uncompromising humor that goes on for too long is jettisoned. It's as if the filmmakers fell in love with each little scene and decided to give them all screen time rather than pummel the viewer with one particularly uncomfortable moment."

'Persepolis 2.0': following the events of Iran's election in the style of Marjane Satrapi's original.

Attn. Montreal friends: "We are building a life-size Nufonia robot out of tin for the new Nufonia Must Fall live action series which will begin shooting in Montreal in August. Those of you in the area please stay tuned. We will be disclosing shot locations whenever we need extras for the outdoor scenes. You will be paid in cookies, juice, and high fives."

It's posts like this that make TV's Twin Peaks Deputy Andy Brennan — otherwise known as Harry Goaz — one of my favorite bloggers on the internet.

Everything you need, all at once.

IannucciWatch, part the latest = yes, yes, yes, yes: "5 eps of Thick of It in the can. Big edit over the summer, and then shoot final 3 later in the year. Everyone in politics is good this time."

I think I want to see a new Robin Williams movie.

Part the latest of Edgar Wright's video blog, here focused on Pilgrim's band, introduced by none other than Chris Murphy of Sloan.

Middling review from the Playlist on Woody Allen/Larry David's latest, but I have to say, you go into a Woody Allen movie the same way you go into a Legend of Zelda game. You know what you're going to get, and shouldn't be surprised when that's what you find.

Here is part of Adam Curtis's The Trap, anyway, available as a free download (in case you didn't get the Wholphin bonus DVDs). DO IT.

Here is Adam Curtis' Century of the Self, as a free download. Do it!

Here is Adam Curtis' Power of Nightmares, as a free download. Do it!

Hooray, Adam Curtis (Power of Nightmares, Century of the Self, The Trap) has a blog (via Tom).

And here's where you can find out more.

"In every definition of the word 'missed', America missed it." This looks good!

And then WFMU posted an entire new live set (minus one song) from The Vaselines!

And then Polvo let slip their first new song in ages.

Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit, backed by Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, and it's pretty alright.

This cast lineup is too good to make this true, right? I don't think I believe in this. As much as I want to. This is probably just another deep meta Funny People viral, right?

Tall Dwarf, NZ music legend, and very, very all around kind person Chris Knox is currently recovering from a stroke: the family's setup this blog to keep up with how he's doing. Wish him well!

I am wicked monstrously skeptical about this whole damn thing, especially the quotes, but calling your attention to it anyway: "He says, "I have a crazy idea to bring back Twin Peaks on the net as five minute webisodes." But the star admits the show's creator, David Lynch, won't be involved with the new version as he is too busy focusing on his initiatives to publicise meditation techniques. MACLachlan adds, "David's focus is more on transcendental meditation now.""

Peter and Sarah Alexander bump into Will Arnett and Amy Poehler. Hilarity ensues.

'"This is what I call 'modern '50s' music," says David Lynch about the exclusive track EW is streaming here from a new, Lynch-lyric'd album called Fox Bat Strategy. The director of Blue Velvet, Inland Empire, and so many other dream-nightmares told EW, "I produced this music and wrote these lyrics, and these songs sat on the shelf since about 2006 until now."'

"Prefuse 73 mastermind Guillermo Scott Herren… recruited… Hella's Zach Hill, Tortoise's John McEntire, Battles' Tyondai Braxton, School of Seven Bells' Alejandra Deheza and Benjamin Curtis, and Savath & Savalas' Eva Puyuelo Muns [for a 'sort of super-collective called Risil'.]

And this is the reason we're excited: still my favorite Pulse song, which still, 6 or 8 howevermany years later has the power to make me near instantly deeply melancholy, but in a pretty way.

The hearts of four people in the world just skipped a beat: "The new pulseprogramming record (yet to be titled) will be released by the wonderful folks at Audraglint records. We are happy and excited to get the new material out into the world!"