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CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH: You Ain't No Picasso is killing music with four live tracks of unreleased CYHSY songs.
PAUL AND YOKO are still fighting after all these years.
MISSION OF BURMA has finished a new album for release early next year.
THE MANY MOODS OF MURRY WILSON: If you ever wondered how Brian Wilson got messed up, a good place to start would be with Bran's abusive father. WFMU has MP3s of a classic Murry tirade and related Flash animations by the wonderful indie cartoonist Peter Bagge.
FOO FIGHTERS and QUEEN: For this surprise pairing, the Foos' drummer (not Dave Grohl) gets promoted to vocalist. It must have been like Foo Fighters squared.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE did the medicinal marijuana thing as part of her cancer treatment. Otherwise, she doesn't touch the stuff.
BLACK MOUNTAIN a band that a Pitchfork profile has drawing upon Zeppelin, the Stones, the Velvet Underground and even E-Street Shuffle-era Springsteen, is one of several interrelated bands. *Sixeyes hooks you up to multiple streams and legal downloads.
INDIE METAL: PopMatters reports on the resurgence of the genre.
RYAN ADAMS and THE STROKES play together — chess, that is. No, really.
WOXY, the indie internet station long touted by Ken King (which also has a vintage channel) has posted photo sets of some of the bands that have visited to a Flickr account.
101 THINGS You Didn't Know About Rock N' Roll. Actually, I knew more than a few of them, but I am a music geek. Some of them are even true.
WYCLEF JEAN is a fan of Saddam Hussein?
SLY STONE'S FOUR-WHEELED HARLEY ROAD KING is up for auction on eBay at what seems like a very reasonable price right now. Actually, it's one of two such cycles; this one is owned by Sly's daughter, which makes it a family affair.
PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE: Her coke habit has cost her some contracts, but Moss appears in a new press release from Yves Saint Laurent and will still appear in the exclusive Pirelli tire calendar. Doherty plans to visit Moss in rehab — like that's a good idea. And Doherty's plans to get into fashion design coincide nicely with a new poll picking him as the worst dressed celebrity.
SHARON STONE showed up to the opening of the new Louis Vuitton flagship store wearing something from the Basic Instinct collection.
MADONNA doesn't let her children watch TV, look at magazines, drink milk or eat ice cream. If nine-year-old Lourdes leaves dirty clothes on the floor, she is forced to wear the same outfit every day to school “until she learns her lesson.” I'll bet she doesn't like wire hangers, either. And FWIW, Matt Drudge reports that Madge wants to warn us that people “are going to go to hell, if they don't turn from their wicked behavior.” None of which stops Madge from dressing like a hooker.
THE SEXIEST MEN ALIVE are avoiding People magazine. Apparently, that cover is almost as jinxed as the cover of Sports Illustrated.
BONO is the ultimate ubersexual. But if ubers treat and respect women as equals, how did former President Clinton make the Top Ten?
TOM-KAT UPDATE: The Church of Scientology is not amused by ScienTOMogy.info, which mercilessly ridicules Cruise, his engagement, and his devotion to the controversial religion.
BRADGELINA UPDATE: The producers of Casino Royale would love Jolie as a Bond girl, but click for the sheer genius of the headline writer for London's Sun. Jolie may be busy with other things, like turning up on the home page of the Holocaust Museum and collecting English beer coasters. OTOH, she may want to kick it up a notch with Vaughniston going semi-public…
GEORGE CLOONEY has a “real problem with artists attacking other artists. Unless it's Clooney himself, attacking Russell Crowe.
ZACH BRAFF: The Garden Stater, who has been dating Mandy Moore for months, was caught canoodling with Rachel Bilson, who has been with O.C. co-star Adam Brody for some time now.
ALEC BALDWIN in the latest bit of nastiness of his bitter child custody battle with ex-wife Kim Basinger, argues that Kim is inflexible, given that she “has dramatically fewer professional and non-professional commitments” as compared to him. She will probably respond that if he's so busy, it argues against giving him more custody.
THE FRENCH HOTEL says her TV show will begin shooting Nov. 1st. She also says, “All the networks are fighting over it,” despite the fact that Fox took a pass on it.
THE MANOLO, he has joined Pajamas Media as a contributor. And even screenwriter Roger L. Simon, who did not know the Manolo, he finds he must write like the Manolo when writing about the Manolo.
JESSICA ALBA is standing up for women with curves, because everyone goes for women on the Skeletor diet. And she reveals that the secret of success with her is to treat her like a lady. If you make her feel that she's for real, she'll give you happiness.
CULT OF THE iPod: The Scotsman argues that your iPOd may be obsolete within a year. In the meantime, the Writers Guild of America West is arguing over the residuals for video on iPods.
BIT TORRENT: Fortune magazine writes about the filesharing software and its creator, Bram Cohen, noting that Hollywood may embrace both.
IRAQ: The election commission will investigate alleged voting irregularities, though two provinces with mixed population that are crucial to the results were not among those that appeared unusual. Iraqi blogger Sooni speculates about why there were so few attacks on the referendum day. Newsweek reports from Mosul on the US military role in the referendum, falling somewhere between the prior reports from the WaPo and the NYT Major K got to watch dismissive coverage of the referendum on CNN International. Major K would probably not like the way newspapers like the Miami Herald did its best to ignore the story altogether.
IRAQ II: Gen. David Patraeus is interviewed about the status of Iraqi forces. Retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, a military historian and former commandant of the Army’s War College (who has criticized the post-invasion planning and supported a recent bill regarding standards for interrogating detainees) finally did an op-ed on his recent visit to review an Iraqi unit. As I noted earlier, Scales seems to think there has been progress in the past months. A Knight-Ridder story notes that the real estate market in Baghdad is booming, despite it remaining a locus of insurgent attacks. Usually, Knight-Ridder writes stories like “Saddam rose from squalor to become a defiant, destructive leader.” Bill Roggio writes about the military operations around Ramadi, which may follow the pattern of Tal Afar.
KING MIDAS, a 300 lb green sea turtle, returned to his home tank in New Orleans.
PANDA CUB is finally named Tai Shan, which means “peaceful mountain.” Pics that make you go 'Awwww…” at the link, natch.
MOOSE attacks moose statue in a coastal town in Norway.
CAT hitchhikes with a man deathly afraid of cats.
BRITISH POLICE DOG takes early retirement after bosses at South Yorkshire Police noted his poor motivation – and a fondness for making friends with rowdy drunkards. Now Buster the German Shepherd just hangs out at the donut shop. Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh.
