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THE PERNICE BROTHERS are re-offering their limited edition The Sandwich EP if you give more than five bucks to the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund. Wilco is offering signed posters for 60 bucks, personalized for 100 bucks, with proceeds also going to the Red Cross.
THE BUZZCOCKS are readying an album for next year. You can get a preview of the disc at the Buzzcocks' fansite, Secretpublic.com, which is streaming exclusive video from the band's studio sessions.
REVIEWS on THE PITCHFORK: Noise pop from Serena Mansheesh. The latest in the Bob Dylan bootleg series (also a soundtrack). The reissue of Shake Some Action by The Flamin' Groovies And the first-ever career retrospective of June Carter Cash!
THE STONE ROSES' Ian Brown has turned down an offer of £1 million to reform the band, according to reports.
IGGY POP will be the subject of a biopic starring Frodo Baggins? Wouldn't it have been better to cast Gollum?
ROGER DALTREY decides to slam the quality of digital downloads on the day Who's Left's re-recording of “My Genereation” is used to launch HMV's download service.
COURTNEY LOVE is nicely dissed by… Robbie Williams? Ouch!
FRANCES BEAN COBAIN gives her first interview, telling Teen Vogue of Courtney Love's look: “I prefer when she's more 'classy starlet.'”
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN AND CRACKER announce their 1st Annual Campout for this weekend, near Pioneertown, CA.
BUMBERSHOOT: the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a few reviews from Seattle's Labor Day weekend festival.
PETE DOHERTY UPDATE: Art Brut urged one of its audiences to “Steer clear of crack, and steer clear of Pete Doherty, he’s a very bad man.” Meanwhile, on-again, off-again galpal Kate Moss has reportedly set her sights on Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs, after seeing the band in Ibiza.
WWOZ is listing New Orleans-area musicians who are safe, including Peter Holsapple and Susan Cowsill.
SEAN PENN proves he's a big liar. Penn is claiming to the foreign press that he was assisting with rescue efforts in New Orleans and that “There are people dying and (the US government are) not putting the boats in the water, I think that's criminal negligence.” Meanwhile, the AP reported on Monday's activity in N.O.: “Pleading and threatening, cajoling and frightening, rescue boat crews are sweeping through New Orleans trying to get the holdouts to leave before disease, stench and mosquitoes become unbearable.” Efforts to evacuate holdouts were stepping up Monday, with boat rescue crews from around the country searching for people to rescue. The Coast Guard has rescued more than 18,000 people from the flooded areas of New Orleans since Aug. 29th, using helicopters, boats and cutters. But maybe Penn missed all of those boats while he was bailing out his with a plastic cup and paddling back to the dock because his engine wouldn't start. Indeed, his boat was already filled with his entourage, so it's unclear where he stacked up all those drowning people. Or, as Spicoli himself might say, “You dick!”
GILLIGAN IS DEAD: Bob Denver died Friday of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer. He was 70 years old.
JOE PESCI joins the cast of The Good Shepherd to play a mobster. You think that's funny? Funny how? Like a clown?
XTINA AGUILERA was paid over a million bucks to sing two songs at the wedding of a Russian billionaire.
BRITNEY SPEARS snubs a rumored deal to play Vegas., leaving more room for Michael Jackson. ALSO: The Bride of Federline “is really into Kabbalah — even though she doesn’t, like, really understand it all.”
STACY'S MOM wants to have another baby. And her biological clock is TICKING LIKE THIS…
J-LO: Pregnancy rumors.
KIRSTEN DUNST has furiously denied she had a fling with Orlando Bloom, presumably much to his relief.
THE PASSION OF… C-3PO?
FORMER FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH said that many of the people housed at the Astrodome following the hurricane “were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.” So maybe Page Six was right, after all…
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY has mixed feelings about the magic of Photoshop. And she's trying to keep her new rocker boyfriend on the QT. And isn't everybody glad I bumped Barbara Bush up a notch so we didn't have to look at her mug instead of Ms. Knightley? Even Photoshop has it's limits.
HURRICANE OF BLAME: on Tuesday, the White House Press Corps repeatedly demanded accountability… from President Bush. The only example cited in the press gaggle is this:
“Q But, Scott, more concretely, an officer of the Northern Command is quoted as saying that as early as the time Hurricane Katrina went through Florida and worked its way up to the Gulf, there was a massive military response ready to go, but that the President did not order it. It could have been ordered on Sunday, on Monday, on Tuesday — the call didn't come. Why not?”
This was one of the concerns I raised yesterday, but the reporter's question is based on a story that may not be accurate. As for the reporter's gloss about ordering the military response on Sunday and Monday, it should occur to people that you can't do damage assessments before the hurricane actually strikes. And that you're not going to be flying around in the middle of the storm, either. Meanwhile, no one is asking for accountability from Lousiana Gov. Blanco, who still has control of the LA National Guard. on CNN, Soledad O'Brien sought accountability from N.O. Mayor Nagin regarding his failure to evacuate the poor, which I noted yesterday. Now Nagin wants to send the N.O. police on paid vacations to Vegas right now. Why didn't Rudy Giuliani think of that?
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE from New Orleans: “To whom it may concern: Please send with immediately, (one) ice cold chest of Coors Light. I'm out at this time. Down to wine. Some shrimp and oysters would also be appreciated. Thank you.”
IS FEMA OUT OF WHACK? This is just so wrong. Your tax dollars at “work.”
LANCE ARMSTRONG mount a comeback at the French Grand Tour 2006, just to annoy the French. And he proposed to that Sheryl Crow woman, so he may need to leave the country after a while.
IRAQ: U.S. jets struck targets Tuesday near the Syrian border, about six miles east of the border city of Qaim, major parts of which have fallen under control of al-Qaida-linked foreign fighters. Shiite and Sunni negotiators abandoned efforts to amend the draft constitution on Tuesday. Saddam fesses up. The U.S. Army handed over its base in Najaf to the Iraqi Army.
AFGHANISTAN: Arthur Chrenkoff posts one of his final round-ups of under-reported news. Quite a bit about the upcoming election, including that 328 of the parliamentary candidates are women.
TECHNORATI: The Washington Post has inked deal with blog search engine Technorati that will make it easy for readers to find blog entries about Post stories.
GENTLEMEN NO LONGER PREFER BLONDES, according to a new study commissioned by a hair products company.
GIRL CAPTURES GATOR, having learned how by watching Crocodile Hunter. The gator's owner said neighborhood cats opened the fence in her backyard, enabling the reptile to escape.
ALBINO PYTHON caught in a tree in a Spanish resort town. Can you blame it? Summer's almost over, and no tan…
WIENER DOGS will parade at the annual Belfast Wienerfest in Maine this Sunday.
BEAVERS given implants to prevent theft.
