THE GUILLEMOTS have a video for their new single, "Get Over It."  As good a Monday motto as any.

THE HOLD STEADY: At Pitchfork, frontman Craig Finn and guitarist Tad Kubler dish some details on the band's just-completed fourth album.  You can stream a live take on the title track, "Stay Positive," via the ol' HM.

WILCO:  Heather Browne is streaming the fifth and final show of the band's Chicago residency.  You can stream last Tuesday's show from Captain's Dead via the ol' HM.  BTW, Captain's Dead has a Husker Du gig on tap as well.

GARY LOURIS & MARK OLSON have finished a new album together, their first since the 1995 Jayhawks classic Tomorrow the Green Grass.  "Ready for the Flood" was recorded in Los Angeles in January 2007, but Louris and Olson decided to delay its release, to prevent it detracting from their respective new solo releases.

RAY DAVIES is still hoping for that Kinks reunion in an interview about his new album with the Canadian Press.

BON SCOTT, the late AC/DC singer, was immortalized in bronze in front of thousands of fans at the Aussie Rock Concert on Sunday night.  The statue will be placed permanently on Fisherman's Wharf in Fremantle, where the cheeky Scottish-born rocker grew up.  No photo with that story (yet), but you can get a pretty good idea of of it via Flickr.

MIKE DOUGHTY:  The former Soul Coughing frontman stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.  Or you might prefer to start with the video for "27 Jennifers."

DUFFY is profiled by London's Independent on Sunday.  She talks about (among other things) co-writer/producer Bernard Butler (ex-Suede) bosltering her iPod with tracks from his record collection, which she would listen to on the five-hour trip between her home in Wales and his London pad.

PRINCE is having a secret hip replacement operation, after being crippled by years of sexy dancing, according to the uber-reliable News of the World.

BRYAN FERRY has been dumped by his 27-year-old girlfriend Katie Turner, as the former Roxy Music singer was unwilling to become a father again at the age of 62.

AMY WINEHOUSE is ditching some of her best friends in a final attempt to beat her drink and drugs demons, on the order of her record label, Universal.  Together with her family they have launched an operation dubbed "Team Amy" to set up a safe house where she will live under constant surveillance, according to the Daily Mail.

THE OSCARS went to these folks.  It was no surprise that "No Country for Old Men" won for Best Picture, the Coen Bros for Direction, and Javier Berdem for Best Supporting Actor.  The adorable Juno won for Best Original Screenplay, which went to former exotic dancer Diablo Cody in her leopard print gown.  The NYT has a slideshow for more Red Carpet fashions, including Best Actress Marion Cotillard and her mermaid dress.  Daniel Day-Lewis drank everyone's milkshake as Best Actor, as expected.  Brad Bird won for Ratatouille, which was cool.  The Bourne Ultimatum won a number of the more technical awards.  Roger Deakins should have won Best Cinematography (or whatever Cameron Diaz called it) for the Jesse James movie, but had to compete against himself on No Country, so Robert Elswit wins There Will Be Blood, which looked good, but nowhere near the Jesse James movie.  During the pre-show I learned that Tom Wilkinson is fanatical about Friends TV reruns and was tongue-tied meeting Lisa Kudrow at the Independent Spirit Awards.  Anne Hathaway called her Get Smart co-star Steve Carrell a "bitter little man," though I'm pretty sure she was kidding.  Jason Bateman commented that George Clooney's hair looks so real until you see it up close (kidding again, I think).  Tilda Swinton claimed she had never seen the Oscars, and may not have been kidding.  Then she won Best Supporting Actress.  Your must-watch Oscar video however, is Gary Busey accosting Laura Linney, Jennifer Garner and Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet..

THE RAZZIES:  Lindsay Lohan swept the anti-Oscars with her twin roles in the absymal I Know Who Killed Me.

THE TOP TEN MOVIE QUOTES of 2007, as nominated by the Washington Post.  I totally agree with number one, though the linked video there is potentially a spoiler.

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, director of There Will Be Blood, has some fun goofing on the NYT's David Carr.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  The weekend's biggest release, Vantage Point, took the top slot with 24 million dollars on over 3000 screens.  Last weekend's top five all dropped down a notch.  Be Kind, Rewind debuted in seventh place, but with the second highest per-screen average, just over 5K for each of about 800 screens.  The adorable Juno dropped from seventh to eighth and has cleared 130 million to date.  Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins dropped from sixth to ninth, while There Will Be Blood rounded out the Top Ten.  No Country For Old Men benefitted from the Oscar odds, moving up from 14th to 12th place.  New releases Witless Protection and Charlie Bartlett debuted in 13th and 14th place, respectively (ouch).

THE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS were largely swept by the adorable Juno.  The official website has plenty of pics and video to see.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie did seem to be sporting a baby bump in a curve-hugging black dress at the Independent Spirit Awards.  A female production assistant on the remake of Gone in 60 Seconds claims she was seduced by Jolie.  Pics of the pair at the link.

BRITNEY SPEARS was reunited with her sons for three hours on Saturday.  People magazine reports that dad Jamie and Britney's psychiatrist were present for the visit.

JENNIFER LOPEZ got a personal visit in the maternity ward from actress Leah Remini, which I'm sure was totally unrelated to Scientology.

KATE HUDSON has been secretly seeing Justin Timberlake for over a year?  Reps for both deny it.  But if we see JT with a black eye this week, we'll know Jessica Biel kicked his butt.

JENNA FISCHER a/k/a Pam from The Office, blogs her first stalking by a paparazzi.

DREW BARRYMORE was... wait for it... caught canoodling boyfriend Justin Long in the front seat of his car while celebrating her 33rd birthday at Mr Chows restaurant in Beverly Hills.

ISLAMISM in the UK:  Furious Muslims are now upset over Doritos Chilli Heat Wave.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS:  Prosecutors in the Kingdom have begun investigating 57 young men arrested for flirting with girls at shopping centers in Mecca.

IRAN:  The latest report from UN nuclear watchdogs makes it clear that Iran has no intention of addressing the most sensitive of the outstanding questions, namely those that are most closely associated with a nuclear weapons development program.

ANTHONY CORDESMAN has an op-ed in the WaPo: "No one can return from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, as I recently did, without believing that these are wars that can still be won. They are also clearly wars that can still be lost, but visits to the battlefield show that these conflicts are very different from the wars being described in American political campaigns and most of the debates outside the United States."

IRAQ:  As thought, Moqtada al-Sadr renewed the Mahdi Army's cease-fire - a dramatic step likely to hold down US and Iraqi casualties while bolstering Sadr's importance as a political player in the Iraqi scramble for power.  An Iraqi intelligence official claims that the recently slain senior Hezbollah military commander Imad Mugniyah helped form the Mahdi Army, though I would take that with a grain of salt.  The Army Times reports on the difficult second phase of the "surge" that started just about a year ago.  And there are still clashes among competing militias in Basra.

HERE WE SEE THE PANTOMIME ZEBRA, engaged in a life or death struggle for a job at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.

EXOTIC PET AMNESTY DAY at Miami MetroZoo brought in over 150 pets, including a rhino iguana, a spotted African serval cat and a coatmundi -- a racoon-looking mammal found in South America.

400 CROCODILES fought over one hawt crock chick; one of the brawlers had to have radical jaw surgery.

CHEWIE the SHIH TZU saved his owner's life by inadvertently performing the Heimlich maneuver.

A SINGLE NEWT has halted work on a £15million bypass for the Leicestershire village of Earl Shilton.