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Richard Wright RIP, New Releases, Tegan & Sara, Cat vs Printer   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

RICHARD WRIGHT, the founding member of Pink Floyd whose piano and synthesizer work played a critical part in the pioneering British psychedelic rock band's ethereal sound, died Monday after a short battle with cancer at 65.  Wright co-wrote songs including "Atom Heart Mother," "Echoes," "The Great Gig in the Sky," "Us and Them," and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." Include his vocals on "Comfortably Numb" with David Gilmour via Spinner for your Twofer Tuesday Tribute. 

NEW RELEASES: Dressy Bessy, Mother Mother and Raphael Saadiq are among the albums streaming in this week full via Spinner.  Lisa Loeb has released a kid's album, Lisa's Camp.

KINGS OF LEON are advance streaming their upcoming Only By The Night album.

BOB MOULD inks a deal to write an auto-biography with journalist Michael Azerrad, author of the fabulous Our Band Could Be Your Life.  Plus, he's got a "guitar album" coming in March.

THE BEATLES: Sir Paul rubbishes rumors that John wanted to have a sexual relationship with him. Audio at the link.

TEGAN & SARA premiere the new video for the lovely "Call It Off" at Spinner.

AKRON/FAMILY talks to Pitchfork about self-definition, the need to keep changing and the long, strange road between being a hipster and a hippie.

JULIANA HATFIELD talks to the AP about her new memoir and returning to music after a year-long hiatus.

EMMYLOU HARRIS diaries a week for the Telegraph.

TV on the RADIO is profiled by Jon Pareles for the Scotsman on Sunday.

MEGAN FOX was a teenage lesbian, with a major crush on a stripper. I mention this to point out that I didn't just look at the pictures from the new GQ feature.

LINDSAY LOHAN popped a paparazzi in the nose.

BRITNEY SPEARS will release her next album on December 2nd. Consider yourself warned.

AMY WINEHOUSE refused to go to her own birthday party after realising how drugs have ravaged her looks.

SARAH SILVERMAN took home a Creative Arts Emmy for her video, "I'm F****** Matt Damon," but thanked her ex, Jimmy Kimmel.

GEORGE TAKEI, best known as Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, boldly walked down the aisle with his long-time boyfriend, as stars of the classic sci-fi TV series looked on, including best man Walter Koenig who played Chekhov and matron of honour Nichelle Nichols who starred as Uhura.  The Daily Mail has the pics, but the AP has the details, including that the couple entered to the strains of "One Singular Sensation" from the Broadway musical "A Chorus Line."

THE DARK KNIGHT will return to IMAX in January -- the height of Academy Awards voting season. BONUS: Batgirl has much more of a pottymouth than I remember from reading comics.

ISLAMISM in the UK: Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS: Sheikh Muhammad Munajid, a cleric,and former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, claimed Mickey Mouse is "one of Satan's soldiers" and must die.

IRAN: The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has repeatedly blocked their investigation into allegations it tried to make nuclear arms and the probe is now deadlocked. Elements in the Iranian state are sending weapons across the border to the Taliban in Afghanistan, a BBC investigation has uncovered.

IRAQ: Defense Minister al-Ubaidi affirmed that more than 6000 officers and 20000 recruits of the former army were enrolled into security forces. Iraq's parliament lifted the immunity of a Sunni lawmaker for visiting Israel last week to attend an international conference to fight terrorism.  US SecDef Gates expects the US combat role to keep shrinking.

CAT VS. PRINTER: Let's go to the video.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Walruses with musical instruments.  Goo goo goo joob.

A LION rode out Hurricane Ike in Houston. Rescue workers aren't keen to check in on it.

BUDDY the GERMAN SHEPHERD: "What's that you say Buddy?" *Woof! Woof!* "Your owner has had a seizure? We'll be right there..."

FRANK MUNDUS, legendary shark fisherman said to have inspired the Captain Quint character in the movie "Jaws," died at 82 after a heart attack. Show him the way to go home.

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