THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with TALKING HEADS!  To maintain a low profile, I won't mention the title of this set, which should be known to some of you.  I saw this tour and it remains one of the more impressive shows I have seen. This selection includes "Psycho Killer," "Heaven," "Thank You For Sending Me An Angel," "Found A Job," "Slippery People," "Burning Down The House," "Life During Wartime," "Making Flippy Floppy," "Swamp," "What A Day That Was," "This Must be the Place (Naïve Melody)," "Once In A Lifetime," "Genius Of Love" (as Tom Tom Club), "Girlfriend Is Better," Pate staple "Take Me To The River" and "Cross-eyed and Painless."

GARY LOURIS: The former Jayhawk stopped by WFUV for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via NPR.

SWEDES! Lykke Li, El Perro del Mar, and Anna Ternheim are touring together and featured at the World Cafe via NPR. Peter Moren of Peter Bjorn and John also visited the Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

BEACH HOUSE write a song on a Norwegian train. Let's go to the video.

DESTROYER frontman Dan Bejar tells Canada's Metro that people spend too much time interpreting his lyrics, when he is more interested in the placement of lyrics than the lyrics themselves.

THE RASCALS' frenetic take on Smokey Robinson's "Mickey's Monkey" resurfaces online, and just in time for Friday!

SOLOMON BURKE, best known for his songs "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" and "Cry to Me," but enjoying a resurgence in the 21st century, answers five questions for the Detroit Free Press.

GNARLS BARKLEY: Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse talk with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about their craft and their new album, The Odd Couple. You can also stream two album tracks at the link.

THE 100 GREATEST GUITAR SONGS of ALL TIME, as compiled by Rolling Stone, includes legends like Hendrix, Clapton, Page and Santana... but Husker Du, too.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Jamies to Husker Du, from Guadalcanal Diary to Shirley Bassey, from the Monkees to Suicide, from the Jesus & Mary Chain to Belle & Sebastian, and Martha Wainwright covering Pink Floyd, the Fridays fortuitous finds overfloweth, and can be jukeboxed or streamed separately via the Pate page at the ol' HM.

BILL MURRAY is being sued for divorce; Jennifer Butler Murray, his wife of more than 10 years, accuses Bill of drug addiction, abandonment, adultery and physical abuse.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's two wide releases are the Sex & the City movie, currently scoring 59 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, and the house thriller The Strangers, currently scoring 47 percent.

CLAY AIKEN has reportedly impregnated record producer Jaymes Foster, apparently artificially.

OWEN WILSON isn't taking his Kate Hudson's rebound relationship with Lance Armstrong too well, according to clubgoers who spotted him at club G in Philadelphia.  Meanwhile, Hudson was spotted sans Armstrong having a late dinner with her girlfriends in New York's SoHo neighborhood.

KIRSTEN DUNST is saying her recent stint in rehab was for depression, not booze or drugs - but the actress was "wobbly" over the weekend at Bar on A, a spy tells the NYDN. Her rep confirms she was at the bar, but says "she was certainly not intoxicated or wobbly." If booze isn't a problem, then maybe it was the fun kind of wobbly.

LINDSAY LOHAN & SAMANTHA RONSON are "together," a source says in the new issue of People magazine -- enough so to be spotted lunching with Ronson's writer-mom and Lohan's sister Ali.

BRITNEY SPEARS is still unable to participate "in any meaningful way" in legal proceedings and may need further tests, a court commissioner presiding over Spears's conservatorship said Thursday.

SHANIA TWAIN's close friend and longtime assistant is finally speaking out - and denying reports she's behind the singer's surprise split from her husband of 14 years, People reports in its new issue.

NAOMI CAMPBELL has been charged with a string of offenses after allegedly assaulting a police officer at London's Heathrow airport, her lawyer said Thursday.

CELINE DION & TIGER WOODS use a lot of water.

HARVEY KORMAN, the legendary comedic actor possibly best known for his stint on the "The Carol Burnett Show" and in the film "Blazing Saddles," died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago.  He was 81.

SYRIA: The Bush administration is pressing UN inspectors to broaden their search for possible secret nuclear facilities in Syria, hinting that Damascus's nuclear program might be bigger than the single alleged reactor destroyed by Israeli warplanes last year. At least three sites have been identified by US officials and passed along to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is negotiating with Syria for permission to conduct inspections in the country, according to US govt officials and Western diplomats.

IRAN: A ranking International Atomic Energy Agency official called Tehran's possession of a drawing showing how to make part of an atomic warhead " alarming" Thursday and said the onus is on Iran to prove it had not tried to develop nuclear arms, said diplomats attending a closed briefing. The documents are dated from early 2004; last year's US National Intelligence Estimate claimed with moderate confidence that the Iranians had ceased work on a nuclear bomb by 2003. Oops.  Senior US officials tell ABC News that in recent months there have been secret contacts between the Iranian government and the leadership of al Qaeda on the status of high-level AQ operatives, including two of Osama Bin Laden's sons, who have been under house arrest in Iran since 2003.

IRAQ and the MEDIA: The American Journalism Review discusses "Whatever Happened to Iraq?" in news coverage: "During the first 10 weeks of 2007, Iraq accounted for 23 percent of the newshole for network TV news. In 2008, it plummeted to 3 percent during that period. On cable networks it fell from 24 percent to 1 percent, according to a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism..."

GIN the BORDER COLLIE, previously featured here, is now poised to win Britain's Got Talent with her canine freestyle dancing; the Daily Mail reports that she barely escaped death by poisoning two years ago.

LET'S GO SURFIN' NOW, every hippo's learnin' how, come on a safari with me...

RARE RHINOS don't care much for the paparazzi of the World Wildlife Fund. Video at the link.

AN ENGLISH BUMBLEBEE, otoh, smiles for the camera, Peg.

A SNAKE, a toilet, an unlucky dude.