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Monday, May 12, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

GNARLS BARKLEY got it "Going On" in their latest video.

BRITISH SEA POWER played the World Cafe on Friday; you can stream the gig on demand via NPR.

CLOUD CULT concerts don't end with the encore; they end with a bidding war. After every performance by this rising Minneapolis rock band, fans vie in a silent auction for one-of-a-kind souvenirs from the show: pictures painted to the music by the group's two on-stage artists.  Video at the Wall Street Journal.

DR. DOG stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

JACK WHITE talks to the Times of London about how The Raconteurs differ from the White Stripes, along with anecdotes from his days in the upholstery business.

AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB scores Grace Zabriskie for the video for "All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco."

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT tells the Telegraph about the soap opera of her family life, while the Times of London has free downloads from her new album, I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too.

MISSION OF BURMA frontman Roger Miller talks to Drowned In Sound about the band's reformation: "As for the present, we still pay for the van, eat better than we did before, and generally drink higher quality beer than we used to. The whole thing's a bit of a trip, but we still enjoy each other's company in the van, and our amusement factor has not diminished."

SYD STRAW talks to LAist about about songwriting, her amazing long list of collaborators, officiating at weddings, and starting her career singing backup for Pat Benatar.

CHARLIE LOUVIN talks to the Charlotte News & Observer about making music at 80: "I'm often asked, 'When you and your brother were recording these songs, did you think they'd still be viable 50 years down the road?' My answer is, absolutely not..."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Iron Man dominates the cineplex for a second weekend, making another 50 million.  that's a 48 percent drop from its opening, but for a 100 million+ opening, a 50-60 percent drop would have been typical. Worldwide, the Golden Avenger has pulled in over 276 million in two weekends. Meanwhile, Speed Racer spun out massively and may not beat the low-rated rom-com What Happens In Vegas for second place when the actual receipts come in.  The otherstudios claims the WB is inflating the estimates.  Even a 20 million take is far below even the tepid tracking numbers oif 30-35 million last week.  Even worse, Speed Racer seems to be tanking overseas , where anime is a bigger draw than in the US.  Prince Caspian arrives Friday, which gives Speed little hope of pulling out of this tailspin.  Everything else in the Top ten dropped a few slots, though Forgetting Sarah Marshall only dropped from fifth to sixth, while Harold & Kumar dropped from fourth to seventh.  Notably, with the exception of Made of Honor, the mid-budget pics are generally proving profitable.

THE 50 MOST MEMORABLE MOVIE CARS, courtesy of RottenTomatoes, just to take the edge off that bad Speed Racer news.

INDIANA JONES and the LONG KNIVES of the INTERNET:  The New York Times looks at the efforts of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to keep you from seeing advance reviews of the upcoming Indy 4, especially bad ones like the one linked here last week.  Indeed, the NYT investigated and finds reason to believe it was a legit review.

R. KELLY allegedly paid off a woman to get her to return an incriminating sex tape featuring the R&B singer, a judge was told in closed-door hearings last month.  Jury selection in the long-delayed trial began Friday.

JEN & JOHN:  Singer John Mayer flew to Miami Wednesday to re-connect with Jennifer Ansiton, just five days after he was caught canoodling a blonde.

KATE HUDSON & OWEN WILSON are rumored to be engaged, after the actress was spotted sporting a diamond ring on her wedding finger on Thursday.

JESSICA BIEL & JAKE GYLLENHAAL are among the big names sidelined when David O. Russell's indie political comedy Nailed was shut down by the Screen Actors Guild on Friday because of insufficient funds on deposit with the guild.

ALEC BALDWIN told 60 Minutes that he might run for political office someday.  He might want to start with the presidency of the Film Actors Guild.

JAMES PACKER, who had ranked as Scientology's wealthiest member in the world, has left the sect to which he was introduced by Tom Cruise.

JAYDE NICOLE has been crowned Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 2008.  More SFW pics at the link, along with the obligatory turn-ons and turn-offs.  Not that there are not NSFW pics floating around the net.  She reminds me more than a little of Hugh Hefner's ex-gf Barbi Benton.

LEBANON: Hezbollah and its allies began withdrawing their gunmen from Beirut Saturday evening, and it is pretty clear the government lost.  The army offered to broker a face-saving solution by promising to "investigate" Hezbollah's controversial private telephone network without damaging the group's defenses. It also proposed to retain the current chief of airport security, a Hezbollah ally whom the government had tried to fire.  Some believe that the government may have won a moral victory by abstaining from large-scale violence in response to Hezbollah's aggression, while the terror group its promise to use its weapons only against Israel.  But moral victories won't accomplish anything against a terror army which was able to seize about 75 percent of Beirut in a couple of days.

IRAQ: Followers of Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad's Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.  The deal was reportedly brokered with help from Iran. It is not clear who won, though the political establishment appears to have turned against the Sadrists, at least for now.  Blogger Bill Ardolino was able to make a day trip into Sadr City on Saturday.  And -- as I suspected -- a man detained Thursday in northern Iraq is not the leader of AQI.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A green puppy. This is CNN.

COW gives instant media criticism in Sacramento.  Let's go to the video (unless it's near meal time).

PYTHON vs CAT ends all too predictably. X-Ray at the link.  Extra sad: "Three other kittens from the same litter and five adult cats were looking on."

GRIZZLY BEAR VICTIM drives 25 km through the wilderness to safety.  Man vs. Nature.

THE BIRDS: Debbie Shoemaker was wading in waist-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico when she felt something like "a big hard punch in my face."  A pelican had just flown into her, its beak piercing her cheek.

GIANT CHICKEN on the loose in Holland.

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