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FoW, More New Releases, Cat Power covers, and a Piggy Wedding   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

SPIKE JONZE: Bloggers Dave & Thomas list their "Top 10 Spike Jonze Music Videos." But I think you would find that this "Weapon of Choice" has better sync than the o­ne embedded at the first link.

FOUNTAINS of WAYNE: At PopMatters, George Reisch writes that his favorite band is in danger of driving into the musical ditch by constantly putting down their protagonists. Didn't stop PM from embedding the "Stacy's Mom" video.

TWO MORE NEW RELEASES: The Postmarks released an eponymous debut that should appeal to fans of twee stuff like Camera Obscura. The Parson Redheads are doing a West Coast folk-pop thing o­n King Giraffe.

CAT POWER: Stereogum and Rolling Stone both posted raves o­n her intimate solo show at the Hiro Ballroom got me checking the ol' HM for Chan Marshall's covers. I found different versions of Smokey Robinson's "Tears Of A Clown," Moby Grape's "Naked, If I Want To," an odd, perhaps NSFW take o­n Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," and The Nerves' "Hanging o­n the Telephone," which Cat recorded for a commercial.

DAVID BYRNE gets some encouragement from Time magazine for selections from his Imelda Marcos musical.

ARTHUR BROWN is the god of hellfire... and he brings you "Fire!"

SxSW: Do they come from a land Down Under? The Age writes up the herd of Aussies headed to Austin next month.

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE is o­n hiatus from touring, but the band has created the score for The Tracey Fragments, an independent picture premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Feist's new album is due May 1st in the US.

APPLES IN STEREO get a good audio review at NPR. Remember, you can stream all of New Magnetic Wonder this week via Spinner.

DON HENLEY, champion of the downtrodden, has the unenviable job of explaining to the L.A. Times why The Eagles' first studio album since in 1979 will be sold o­nly through Wal-Mart for a year.

ASTRONUT Lisa Marie Nowak was charged with attempted first-degree murder, not to mention attempted kidnapping, attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. You probably already heard she drove a 900 miles from Houston to Orlando in a a wig, a trench coat and a diaper to confront a woman she believed was a romantic rival, carrying a BB gun and pepper spray. But when ABCNews reports Nowak was in a "bizarre love triangle" with a fellow astronaut, you know someone was thinking of New Order.

BRITNEY SPEARS has asked R&B singer Ne-Yo to pen tracks for her comeback album, but Ne-Yo been told to avoid Fed-Ex, as the pop tart has written enough tunes about him herself.

THE FRENCH HOTEL is getting pressure from gay rights leaders in L.A. to explain the series of anti-gay and racial slurs in a video that began circulating o­n the Internet last week.

BAD GIRLS: Newsweek asks whether the influence of people like Britney Spears, the French Hotel, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie o­n young girls is creating a generation of prosti-tots.

BRANDY: The 50 million dollar lawsuit filed by the parents of the woman killed in the Brandy car crash may get thrown out of court, but the woman's husband may yet file a wrongful death suit.

JESSICA SIMSPON claims she decided to divorce Nick Lachey after watching The Notebook. And I would guess she decided to go out in public looking like this after watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

EMINIEM is reportedly engaged to Kim Mathers. Yet again. You know what they say... third time's an even bigger train wreck. UPDATE: Em's rep denies the story.

REESE & RYAN BREAK-UPDATE: Three months after his split from Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe says, "This is the most difficult time in my life." In an interview airing this week, Phillippe, 32, tells TV's Extra: "I must stay focused o­n my kids." Apparently, o­ne way to do that is to go out with a new girl, who turns out to be 18-year-old Nikki Reed, who had a recurring role o­n The O.C. last season.

SIENNA MILLER was caught conspicuously canoodling with musician-swordsman Jamie Burke in the lobby of the Gramercy Park Hotel. But my favorite part of this item is when NYDN gossip Ben Widdicombe writes: "In addition to ex-fiance Jude Law, Miller has been linked to former co-stars including Daniel Craig and heterosexual actor Hayden Christensen." NTTAWWT.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON was apparently talking, dancing, holding hands with Justin Timberlake -- and grinding her body into his -- at that Super Bowl party mentioned here yesterday. Have I mentioned that it's good to be JT?

THANDIE NEWTON teamed up with Greenpeace to write letters to Madonna, Robin Williams, Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson and her Mission Impossible II co-star Tom Cruise, urging them to drive environmentally friendly cars. She got zero response. I'm shocked.

TARA REID: The perennial party girl fell back into old habits over the SuperBowl weekend.

SOMALIA: The US will take "strong measures" to prevent Islamic terrorists from strengthening their foothold in Somalia, according to the State Dept. Heavy fighting was reported in central Somalia between residential militias and troops that left Mogadishu and are heading to the semi-autonomous regional government of Puntland. Ethiopian soldiers paraded o­n Tuesday a wounded senior cleric captured in south Somalia. Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Madobe told reporters he suffered more than a dozen bullet wounds after US planes fired o­n his forest hideout in attack that he said killed eight Islamist colleagues.

WHO IS WILLIAM M. ARKIN? The Washington Post's "National and Homeland Security" blogger, who argued that US troops in Iraq are pampered mercenaries -- and ended up apologizing for the "mercenary" part, is now playing the victim in yet another response to his critics. Arkin also writes that the "many e-mails I've gotten privately from people serving in the military are, not surprisingly, the most respectful and reflective," without realizing that these are largely the people he wanted to silence in his original piece. The other funny part is that he appears to be getting attacked with a version of the "chickenhawk" argument (that o­nly soldiers have the authority to speak o­n war), but has no idea what the flaws in that criticism are... probably because it's an attack usually lobbed by anti-war activists.

IRAQ: At ITM, Omar relayed local reports that Baghdad's security operation had just started in Azamiyah in the northeastern part of the city. An AFP photographer embedded with US forces said soldiers searched dozens of houses and that "a large number of weapons were seized and more than a dozen people detained." OTOH, a man sentenced to death for the 1983 bombings of the US and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament, according to U.S. military intelligence. In Fallujah, Bill Ardolino blogs a late night raid with the Iraqi Army and discusses the unit's strengths and weaknesses. The Iraqi Army US Marines wrapped up an intell-driven mission which resulted in nabbing 77 detainees near Habbaniyah. At Slate, Christopher Hitchens argues that Iraq's sectarian strife was unavoidable, in more than o­ne sense of the word.

IRAN: Bill Roggio notes that the "diplomatic track for compelling Iran to comply with its international obligations over its nuclear ambitions appears to be coming to a crashing end," probably between Feb 11th and Feb 21st.

IRAN and IRAQ: A couple of weeks ago, Newsweek had a "web exclusive" about "mounting intelligence indicating Tehran has been supplying insurgents with electronic sensors that trigger roadside bombs used against US troops." Now the mag reports that the intell is "ambiguous." A US official suggested a briefing o­n Iranian meddling had been put off because intell officials couldn't agree about the info. Of course, another reason might be that if you put evidence o­n the table that is convincing, the press would ask what the Bush admin. plans to do about it... and they may not have an answer.

TWO PIGS wearing tailor-made wedding outfits "tied the knot" in a lavish ceremony attracting hundreds of well-wishers at a small town in northeastern Taiwan.

DOGS interface with their owner from anywhere in the world over the Internet. The Human Computer Dog Interface includes an automatic dog feeder, a ball-throwing device, stereo speakers and a computer video camera.

SNAKE CONTROL goes DIY Down Under when the local snake catcher was unable to return a housewife's calls for almost six hours.

PIKO the GORILLA didn't know what hit her when crowds of humans gathered around the ape cage at Tokyo's zoo to shout incantations and throw roasted soya beans But she soon learned the beans were tasty.

CAMPUS SQUIRREL attacks coed, steals her strawberry Nutri-Grain bar.

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