THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

...with THE TOP 40 MUSIC MOMENTS IN FILM HISTORY, according to Bullz-Eye, though they are really listing rock music moments. The self-imposed rules barred some I would list, like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' o­n My Head" from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. It's not clear whether the rules exclude "Everybody's Talkin'" from Midnight Cowboy. Other omissions are more puzzling, such as the opening of American Graffiti, which invented the wall-to-wall rock soundtrack. Nothing from The Blues Brothers? No Wes Anderson moments from Rushmore (x2), The Royal Tenenbaums, or The Life Aquatic? No Big Lebowski? No "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" from Full Metal Jacket? No "Born to be Wild" from Easy Rider? Pictured above is "Tiny Dancer" from Almost Famous, which certainly does make the list.

THE PITCHFORK DRINKING GAME: It is Friday, after all... (via Stereogum.)

GRIZZLY BEAR did a short World Cafe set now streaming from NPR. Ed Droste and Dan Rossen were interviewed by Pitchfork about making a coherent album. Droste also spoke recently to the San Francisco Bay Guardian about recording in his mother's home, the Yellow House of the disc's title, but refuse to dish about his straight bandmates' tour antics. When NOW asked about the Brian Wilson comparisons, Droste demurred in favor of his East Coast upbringing: "We'd be the Cape Cod Beach Boys, drinking Bloody Marys and freezing in the Atlantic Ocean."

JOHN PEEL DAY was yesterday, so London's Telegraph looks at the legacy of the legendary BBC Radio o­ne DJ.

PAOLO NUTINI: Heather Browne brought my attention to this live set of soulful rock you can jukebox via the Hype Machine. Paolo sounds much older and much less Scottish than you might expect.

SEEN YOUR VIDEO: Actor Hal Sparks was joined by Dennis De Young o­n "Come Sail Away" for Celebrity Duets. I know. I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me.

WILCO: Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest, a live DVD by Jeff Tweedy, is coming October 24th. The audio tracks of all the songs featured o­n the DVD also will be available for anyone who purchases Sunken Treasure to download for free. A piece in the Portland Mercury argues that Nels Cline saved the guitar: "His name is like a 40-point Scrabble word if ever dropped in the middle of an 'interesting musical conversation.'"

JOLIE HOLLAND is still touring behind her recent third album, Springtime Can Kill You, full of music the New York Press describes as "steeped in haunting American Gothic imagery... conveyed with her bittersweet gin-soaked amalgam of folk, jazz and blues." At the moment, you can still stream the title track and more via the Hype Machine.

CAT POWER is the new face of Chanel jewelry. No, really.

DAVID BOWIE is teaming up with SpongeBob SquarePants. No, really.

THE CUTOUT BIN: This Friday's fortuitous finds from the Hype Machine include: Soul Brothers Six - Some Kind Of Wonderful; The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations; The Cars - Moving In Stereo; The Beatles - Hey Bulldog; Hoodoo Gurus - Tojo; Okkervil River - For Real (live); The Louvin Brothers - The Christian Life; Rolling Stones - Time is o­n My Side; The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail; Weezer - Uptown Girl; Zombies - Tell Her No; Lou Reed - Walk o­n the Wild Side; and The Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times.

BRADGELINA: Jolie slams Western countries for trying to shut out migrants and refugees from Africa and other hotspots. Jolie's SUV driver slams a cyclist, who nevertheless pointed out that the actress' driver was looking to escape some enthusiastic paparazzi. I don't know whether the cyclist meant X17 which was o­n the scene.

NOW SHOWING: This week's wide releases include The Grudge 2 and WWE wrestler John Cena's The Marine, neither of which seems to have been screened for critics. The Robin Williams political "comedy" Man of the Year is currently scoring a whopping 19 percent o­n the Tomatometer. One Night with the King has not been widely reviewed either, though I wonder if that's because it appears to be a telling of the story of Ester. Anyway, The Departed is really good, and may take the weekend unless teenagers flood The Grudge 2.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson was not sounding all that contrite with Diane Sawyer o­n GMA.

MADONNA and husband Guy Ritchie filed adoption papers for o­ne-year-old Davie Banda in Malawi -- and promised his dad they would often bring him back to visit.

VAUGHNISTON: Jennifer Aniston is still denying a break-up with Vince Vaughn, this time o­n The Oprah Winfrey Show.

BRITNEY SPEARS: For some reason, hubby Spenderline reportedly is forbidding his wife from using male dancers in her new video. Spenderline, who was a back-up dancer for Spears, is said to be "surprisingly insecure and secretly terrified" that Spears will dump him if her career takes off again. The o­nly part of that I doubt is the "surprisingly."

ALEC BALDWIN lets nothing stand in his way. Not an airplane crashing into a building. Not a condom. Nothing. Got that!?

KATE HUDSON and CHRIS ROBINSON BREAK-UPDATE: Although their separation began with little animosity, Robinson has grown "increasingly irate" as Hudson has been spotted in public with Owen Wilson, according to Star magazine.

SCREECH is cashing in o­n his leaked sex tape: "We could spend a fortune fighting it in court, with little bits already being leaked out o­n the Internet or we could suck it up and say you know what, it could be a losing battle, we'll make money if we just side with it." This may be his best acting ever.

ELLEN De GENERES AND PORTIA de ROSSI are planning a summer "wedding," according to the National Enquirer.

RACHEL BILSON: The O.C. cutie has slammed girls who pose semi-nude for men's magazines, insisting o­nly her boyfriend Adam Brody sees her naked. Bilson is constantly approached to pose in skimpy underwear for the saucy publications, but always refuses. Tight tops and panties? Sure. A see-through top? Maybe. But skimpy underwear? No way.

MICKEY, MINNIE and GOOFY have their own smutty video. Needless to say, it's been yanked from YouTube. UPDATE: At the moment, some video can be found at DailyMotion.

NORTH KOREA: There were as many as 10 failures related to intelligence reporting o­n North Korean missile tests and the suspected nuclear test that harmed US givernment efforts to deal with the issue. I'm shocked. Past stumbles have included missing chances to detect or stop the 9/11 attacks, faulty assessments of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs both before the Gulf War and before the 2003 invasion, the failure to predict the 1998 round of nuclear tests by India and Pakistan, and overly optimistic predictions of the Iraqi reaction to a US invasion. Not to mention the failure to discern the internal weakness of the former USSR in the 1980s.

IRAQ: The Counterterrorism Blog has translated jihadist website messages calling for Baghdad residents to prepare for an upcoming "Big Battle of Baghdad." The L.A. Times has a look at improvements and obstacles in the Amariya neighborhood of Baghdad. Although 25 of the 31 tribes in Anbar province have decided to back the Iraqi government and join forces to hunt al-Qaeda, Bill Roggio notes an AQ alliance with the remaining six tribes. He also links to a Financial Times story reporting that the leaders of influential Sunni and Shia religious groups will "meet in the holy city of Mecca next week to endorse a call for an end to all sectarian bloodshed."

ISLAM IN EUROPE: The New York Times reports that centrists and progressives across Europe are becoming disturbed that any criticism of Islam or Muslim immigration provokes threats of violence. An example given is the violent reaction to Pope Benedict XVI's speech that contained quotations critical of Islam. Another example not mentioned would be the radical Muslims in France's housing estates waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day, causing the Interior Ministry to ask for armored cars.

BASIL, an 18-year-old Welsh cob, unlocked his paddock, jumped a fence and made his way back, in the dark, to the farm where he was raised more than three miles away.

ELEPHANTS and a six-member mariachi band cross the Rio Grande for an immigration stunt.

WORMS: California is encouraging public and private-sector employees to bring worms to work so that the creatures can chew up apple cores, sandwich scraps and other lunch leftovers and produce compost. Aren't they concerned about workplace stress?

DOGS scream for ice cream. The Good Humor Man is there.

A 100-LB. EMU gave police in a St. Louis suburb a mighty run, confounding them all six times someone reported the ostrich-like beast bugging motorists last weekend along busy Illinois Route 3. The operative word there is "gave."

A PYTHON was caught near York in the UK, cruising the toilets at a motorway rest area.