Karl Bade 
SEE THE REPLACEMENTS circa September 5, 1981, in glorious Quicktime, courtesy of Twin/Tone Records. There's even a clip of “Hey, Good Lookin',” which was on the flipside of the “I Will Dare” 12-incher.
ON THE PITCHFORK: Steve Burns (Blue's Clues) contributes to the They Might Be Giants tribute disc, along with Frank Black, the Wrens, etc.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Basically, rock music in America still sounds pretty much the same, that low baritone style of singing and whining about your upbringing. So there's still work to be done.” — Hives vocalist Pelle Almqvist.
THE CHRIS STAMEY EXPERIENCE drops A Question of Temperature on January 25th. Given the title, the cover of “Politician” linked previously, and what Ken King rightly calls a mighty version of the Yardbirds' “Shapes of Things,” with assists from Yo La Tengo and ex-dB Gene Holder, it may be quite the trip.
LOHAN GONE WILD: Gawker has the photos and a link to an official denial worthy of Claude Rains in Casablanca.
PLAYBOY PLAYMATE OF THE YEAR Carmella DeCesare, galpal of Cleveland Browns QB Jeff Garcia, accused of grabbing a dance pole and karate-kicking Garcia's ex-galpal in the head, was found not guilty of assaulting the woman. The big surprise to me was Garcia having two girlfriends.
DAVE BARRY “is—was—the most heroic newspaper columnist in America,” according to Bryan Curtis in Slate
BOB DYLAN: The so-called “Minnesota Party Tape,” believed to be some of the earliest recordings by Bob Dylan, can now be listened to in the library at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.
CLINT EASTWOOD TO MICHAEL MOORE: “Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera – I'll kill you.” Moore laughed; Jeff Goldstein translates.
BRAD AND JEN, DAY FIVE devolves into psychobabble, as the New York Daily News examines the Angelina Factor, asking: “Is your man's best (female) friend ruining your relationship?” If she's Angelina Jolie, probably yes. After all, if Brad and Jen had freebie lists, wouldn’t Jolie be on both of them?
THE ONION has a MLK Day theme.
GLOBAL DIMMING: Cutting some types of pollution may accelerate global warming, as detailed in a BBC documentary.
OUTGOING HHS SECRETARY TOMMY THOMPSON wants TV viewers to drop and give him twenty!
SPENCER DRYDEN, drummer for the Jefferson Airplane when it was good, dead at 66.
KGSR (107.1 Austin, TX) lists its Top 107 (that's so radio) songs and CDs of 2004.
WHAT GOES on is cataloging “anomalies” in the Beatles' albums.
MUSIC (AND MOVIE) DOWNLOADING: Have you read any of my stuff about BitTorrent, podcasting, etc., and said “What?” Marc Eisenstadt explains it all in detail at Corante. The Vancouver Sun looks at the impact of peer-to-peer file sharing on the entertainment industry. Newsday covers audioblogs, including SoulSides, which I linked to recently.
STEVE ALBINI brings his unique perspective to food.
THE BLACK AND BLUE ALBUM: following in the mash-up tradition of The Grey Album, Jay-Zeezer combines Jay-Z's Black Album with Weezer's blue one.
BLOGOLA: Zephyr Teachout notes that Markos Zuniga (of the Daily Kos) and Jerome Anderson (at MyDD) were paid by Howard Dean's campaign. Zuniga posted a disclosure in June 2003. Jeff Jarvis notes that the campaign believed it was buying something other than what Zuniga thought he was selling.
BLOGGER-JOURNO CHRIS ALLBRITTON raised 15,000 dollars from his readers to go to Iraq, which then turned into a gig with Time magazine.
MAMMALS ATE DINOSAURS: It's the Jurassic version of “Man bites Dog.”
E! AND SKY NEWS, their cameras barred from the courtroom, plan to stage nightly reenactments of the Michael Jackson trial.
HUMAN CELLS USE MORSE CODE — or something like it — to switch genes on and off, posing new challenges for drug designers.
VAN GORDON SAUTER, former president of CBS News, explains why he stopped watching it some time ago.
