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Monday, June 15, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE has released an official video for "Summertime Clothes."

MEAT PUPPETS played the World Cafe on Friday; you can stream the gig on demand via NPR.

ELVIS COSTELLO has an interview+tracks with NPR's Weekend Edition.

DIANE BIRCH also has an interview+tracks with NPR's Weekend Edition.

SOLID GOLD stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming on demand via MPR.

THE POSIES do a little bit of "Black Night" before covering Chris Bell's "I Am the Cosmos."

THE MONSTERS OF FOLK: Conor Oberst, Jim James and M Ward are making an album.

SONIC YOUTH is profiled in Newsweek.

BLUR: The story of their supposed re-formation is ultimately about Graham Coxon's exit and reconnection after battling the bottle.

YO LA TENGO: Ira Kaplan talks to Drowned in Sound about playing a gig curated by Ornette Coleman.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Hangover occupied the No 1. slot with 33.4 million, actually repeating, as it snuck past UP for No. 1 last weekend, once the actual receipts were all counted.  Indeed, The Hangover has also had boffo weekday receipts; with over 105 million so far, it could end up being the biggest R-rated comedy evah. PIxar's Up came in second (again) with 30.5 million on a modest 31 percent drop and has already outgrossed its large 175 million production budget.  It's on track to make 250 million domestically.  The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 debuted at No. 3, with 25 million, which is right in the range of a Denzel Washington movie (Travolta is less predictable).  Night at the Museum 2 is No.4 with 9.6 million; it has now grossed 143.4 million - still less than its production budget, but it has earned close to 300 million worldwide.  Land of the Lost rounds out the Top Five making only 9.2 million on a steep drop. That's a bomb you here, but an even bigger bomb may be the No.6 debut for Eddie Murphy's Imagine that, which opened with 5.7 million against a 55 million budget.

DAVID CARRADINE: Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lucy Liu, and hundreds of other friends and family members turned out for the late actor's funeral in Los Angeles Saturday evening.

BRADGELINA gave a million bucks to St. John's Hospital in Pitt's hometown of Springfield Saturday.

JENNIFER ANISTON made light of her love life at the Women in Film Awards.

CHRISTOPER LEE is among those knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Dude was a spy before he was an actor.

THE TIME-TRAVELER'S WIFE, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, has a trailer online.

IRAN, as you may have heard, had an election naming Pres. Ahmadinejad the winner, which most believe was  either the mullahs flipping the bird at the rest of the world (at best) or Ahmadinejad staging a coup with the aid of his base supporters in the Revolutionary Guard.  I write "may have heard" because so many news outlets covered it so badly.  The Guardian did a nice backgrounder, and the NYT and HuffPo did alright trying to keep up with breaking news, while CNN blew it.  Many people turned to Twitter, one of the few outlets still accessible to Iranian disssidents.  Services like Twazzup became handy for aggregating news (and rumors and speculation) from inside the crackdown in real-time.  Bloggers like Michael J. Totten have also been excellent. Although all of the candidates were ultimately approved by the mullahs, the result here should be a wake-up call to those who have been pretending that Iran is capable of even allowing a so-called "reformer" to put a happier face on nature of the regime.

NORTH KOREA said it was enriching uranium and would weaponize all plutonium, in a defiant protest against the UN Security Council's move to tighten sanctions against it.

PAKISTAN: Progress in Pakistan's two-month-old military campaign against insurgents in the Swat Valley has provoked Pentagon optimism that government forces will soon move decisively into the more rugged frontier region where al-Qaeda's leaders are based. The leader of Taliban tribesmen who has turned on al-Qaeda's most ruthless ally in Pakistan has vowed to help rescue his country from a reign of terror that has pushed it close to collapse.

A BABOON carjacks French tourists in South Africa.

TWO TORTOISES have been fitted with pink plaster casts to help repair their shells after they were attacked by a dog.

A VIXEN FOX has stolen more than 120 shoes from doorsteps in the German town of Föhren over the last year. Little bite marks on the laces suggest they're intended as toys for her cubs.

RADIOACTIVE WASPS NESTS at the Hanford nuclear reservation. No word on how big the wasps are.

SNAKES in a police station.

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