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Superfantastics, Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent, Feist, Gator Wrasslin'   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, September 17, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

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THE SUPERFANTASTICS' video for "Tonight, Tonite" has much more to do with Sesame Street's Teeny Little Super Guy than the similarly titled Smashing Pumpkins tune.  If you find it as charming as I do, you may want to stream a few more from the band.

PAUL WESTERBERG... DOT NET:  a new website that looks to be a trove for Westernerds and old skool 'Mats fans as well.

PAUL WESTERBERG vs. RYAN ADAMS:  Crawdaddy compares and contrasts two shaggy dogs.

GRIZZLY BEAR brought in the Dirty Projectors and Biruit to beef up a new version of "Alligator" (from their 2004 debut Horn Of Plenty) for Friend, a new 10-track collection of new material, covers, collaborations, and "reworked & re-recorded" material.  Stereogum is streaming both versions for your A/B Boss Comparison.

NEIL YOUNG:  You can hear Young's 18-minute "Ordinary People" in advance of the release of Chrome Dreams II (along with an album preview) via Rolling Stone.

CONTROL:  London's Observer talks to the cast of the Ian Curtis biopic and the surviving members of Joy Division.  ICYMI, here's a re-link to the trailer for the movie.

ST. VINCENT:  Annie Clark covers The Beatles' "I Dig A Pony" in a Black Cab session occurring exactly wher you would guess.

FEIST gets a piece in London's Guardan/Observer, in which she reveals she's been asked to back the Police for an MTV Unplugged session and having her photo taken by Annie Leibovitz.  And you can check out a more rockin' take on "1 2 3 4," plus two more, at VH1 (which says it's Unplugged, but is lying).

STING:  I hope that someone gets my...  I hope that someone gets my... massage in a brothel?

RILO KILEY stopped by The Current for a chat and miniset you can stream on demand via MPR.

ARETHA FRANKLIN talks to People magazine about dropping pounds on the treadmill and a possible biopic.

AMY WINEHOUSE, otoh, having lost weight as an addict, is piling the on pounds with a junk food diet.

OJ SIMPSON was arrested on Sunday amid an investigation into an alleged armed robbery at a hotel in Las Vegas.  He could face felony charges including robbery with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary with a firearm.  The killer and former running back had been questioned by Las Vegas police in relation to  a Thursday night break-in of a Palace Station hotel room, in which Simpson and five other men alllegedly and took various memorabilia once owned by Simpson -- at gunpoint.  Sports memorabilia collector Alfred Beardsley, the alleged victim, told TMZ Saturday that OJ apologized to him and said that police advised him to "work it out amongst themselves" in order to resolve the property issue.  Guess it didn't get worked out.  Co-arrestee Walter Alexander has about a week to roll on The Juice.  TMZ has video of OJ's new perp walk, while The Smoking Gun has OJ's new mugshot.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  In another slow weekend at the cinema, The Brave One was good enough for the top spot with about 14 million.   3:10 To Yuma placed with 9.2 million, dropping a respectable 35%, but still underperforming.  Mr. Woodcock debuted in third with 9.1 million, but rumor has it that the budget here crept as high as 45 million, so ouch.  South Korea's Dragon Wars came in fourth with 5.4 million, better than it likely deserves, but with about 55 million in overseas receipts, it's gravy.  Suprebad rounds out the Top Five with another 5.2 million.  Rob Zombie's Halloween dropped another 47% and four slots with 5 million.  The Bourne Ultimatum took in another 4.1 million in its seventh weekend.  Balls of Fury adds another 3.3 million as it lands in eighth place, edgeing out Rush Hour 3.  Mr. Bean's Holiday clung to the bottom of the Top Ten with 2.6 million.

THE EMMYS were last night.  The Envelope has your complete list of winners, as well as some odd moments from the proceedings.  So does AOL.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  Her "brain trust" was supposedly going to have a strategy meeting/ intervention over the weekend.  It would seem that the pop tart has been talking to the folks at Maxim magazine about doing a photo shoot, where she can be Photoshopped back into an object of desire.  The Manolo points us to a "Truther" video purporting to explain the VMAs disaster.  The uber-reliable News of the World claims that Spears plans to offer Fed-Ex a multi-million dollar cash-for-kids deal to get joint custody of her sons.  Roger Friedman claims that Spears could lose custody of her two little kids as early as this morning.  This is based on Gloria Allred's "secret witness," in whom the judge did not seem interested before, but it would gibe with prior reports of Spears meeting with Fed-Ex in an attempt to head off this morning's hearing.  We'll know soon enough.

MADONNA, while in Israel for the high holidays, declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism."  Oy vey!

OWEN WILSON has shown for the first time the scars from his suicide bid.  The Daily Mail has the pics.

JESSICA SIMPSON is reportedly planning to have a baby by her gay hairdresser Ken Paves within the next six months.  Probably untrue, but definitely too funny to pass up.

LINDSAY LOHAN will continue her stay at the Cirque Lodge rehab facility for the foreseeable future.

SIENNA MILLER is pretty much naked in the movie Hippie Hippie Shake, based on the 60s-era hedonistic memoirs of the Australian journalist Richard Neville.  Pics at the link, some of which are liekly nsfw.

COURTNEY LOVE:  The Daily Mail wants to know what happened to her lips... and the pics at the link are pretty bad.

PAMELA ANDERSON has admitted she paid off a £125,000 poker debt with sexual favors.

RYAN PHILLIPPE claims that he contemplated suicide following the breakdown of his six-year marriage to Reese Witherspoon.

JAMES BROLIN came down with a huge case of foot-in-mouth disease when he cheerfully wished everybody "Happy 9/11!" on a radio show, in NYC no less.  Breitbart has the audio.  Of course, we sorta knew he was crazy when he married Barbra Streisand.

MIDEAST MYSTERY:  London's Observer claims that the Israeli airstrike on Syria can be seen as a dry run for a strike on Iran, a raid using the same heavily modified long-range aircraft, procured specifically from the US with Iran's nuclear sites in mind.  Speculation abounded about nuclear material being bound for Hezbollah or Iran, mounted on a Syrian Scud missile or being hidden for North Korea.  What leaps out to me is that the rest of the Middle East, which would normally howl over an Israeli attack, has been as silent as the Hound of the Baskervilles.

CARTOON JIHAD:  The Washington Post's ombudsman thinks the Post editors overreacted in killing two "Opus" strips with a Muslim theme; not even the Council on American-Islamic Relations (an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror-finance trial ongoing in TX) had an objection to them.  Meanwhile, the head of an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq has offered 100K for the killing of a Swedish cartoonist for his drawing of Islam's Prophet Mohammed.

FORMER JIHADIS Maajid Nawaz and Ahmad al Shayea explain how they came to leave the ranks of the terrorists.

IRAQ:  An al-Qaida front group threatened to assassinate Sunni leaders who support American troops in Iraq, but Sunni Arab tribesmen have vowed revenge for the killing of Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a leader of the Anbar Salvation Council.  At the Sheikh's funeral, mourners chanted "There is no God but Allah and al-Qaeda is the enemy of Allah."  US commanders in southern Iraq say Shiite sheiks are showing interest in joining forces with the US military against extremists, in much the same way that Sunni clansmen have in the western part of the country.  Sheik Majid Tahir al-Magsousi, the leader of the Migasees tribe, said last week's assassination of Sheikh Risha only made the Shiite tribal leaders more resolute.  The US military said it captured an insurgent believed linked to the assassination and said he had also been involved in a plot to kill tribal leaders in Anbar.  Iraqi Special Ops Forces, advised by US Special Forces, killed an extremist company commander during an intelligence driven operation two days ago in Diwaniyah.  Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc quit Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance again, leaving Prime Minister al-Maliki's coalition in a precarious position in parliament.  US SecDef Gates hopes to drop US troop levels to 100K by Jan '09... news sorta leaked by Iraq's NSA last week.  Bloggers Bill Roggio and Bill Ardolino were among those who got to question Pres. Bush last week via a videoconference from Iraq.

GATOR WRASSLIN:  Two Altamonte Springs, FL police officers were ordered to attend counseling sessions after wrestling an alligator at a Seminole County apartment complex.  Let's go to the video.

A HEDGEHOG is recovering after surviving a spin in a 40-degree washing machine cycle near West Sussex, Britain.

A RABID FOX was choked to death by a 16-year-old boy was attacked and bitten by the crazy creature.

A DONKEY had to be rescued from a well by Underwood, MN, Fire Department personnel.  Sorta like the Jessica McClure story, but with a donkey.

A YOUNG IGUANA is enjoying its new home at the Blackpool Zoo after being smuggled into Britain in a bra.  As if the lizard did not enjoy its old home...

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