THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE TOP 100 ALBUMS OF THE DECADE, according to NME, with scads and scads of essays, streams and videos. Also, Largehearted Boy can hook you up with more "Best of the Decade" music lists than you can shake a stick at, albums, songs, compilations, genres, etc.

CORY CHISEL and the WANDERING SONS did four free songs for Daytrotter, plus a chat and mini-set at The Current, with no overlap.

ROSEANNE CASH stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a chat and mini-set streaming via KCRW.

BECK has posted a new 10-minute tribute composer Harry Partch.  It's likely a dig at Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger, and "veering from hip-hop to country to psych to R&B, the brand new song is a one-stop-shop that covers Beck's entire career."

COLIN HAY: Who can he be now? A man at work with a mini-set streaming via NPR. 

FIVE BANDS THAT RIP OFF WES ANDERSON, via Kid Pretentious.

JASON SEGEL (Freaks and Geeks, HIMYM, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) joins THE SWELL SEASON for an original song at The Wiltern Wednesday night. There's no profanity, but it might still be NSFW.

THE DECEMBERISTS' Colin Meloy explains how Husker Du changed his life.

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS frontman Gruff Rhys talks to The Guardian about his new, genealogical movie.

THE FIERY FURNACES survey their career so far with Drowned In Sound.

NEON INDIAN frontman Alan Palomo shares a few of his favorite things for a Pitchfork Guest List.

CUTOUT BIN: From Shirley Bassey to The Clash, from David Bowie to the Turtles, from Los Bravos to the Go! Team, plus CCR, the Jayhawks, Sambassadeur, Mudhoney, the Replacements, the Starland Vocal Band and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds can be jukeboxed or streamed separately via the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This week's wide releases include The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which I haven't heard much about, but apparently involves teenage vampires or something.  It's currently scoring 30 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, yet I have this strange hunch that it will do alright at the box office.  There's also The Blind Side, a based on true-life sports drama scoring 59 percent.  And the animated Planet 51, which is scoring 21 percent on thin reviews.

TILA TEQUILA stripped down naked to go on a bizarre, rambling rant - live on her Ustream page.  Her lawyer blames her BF Shawne Merriman.

MICHAEL JACKSON is spotted in an ultrasound of a fetus, though no one raises the obvious Omen question.

AMY WINEHOUSE went to the hospital because her breasts have burst. 

ANNE HATHAWAY is the newest actress rumored for casting as the Black Cat in Spider-Man 4 (Rachel McAdams having denied it).

WILL FERRELL is Hollywood's Most Overpaid Star, according to Forbes.  You stay classy, Mr. Ferrell!

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY: Streaming in full this month on YouTube.

CARMEN ELECTRA home video leaks, just in time for Gratuitous Friday. This SFW extract still fearures her in her underwear, kissing another woman.

PAM ANDERSON: Those poor kids.

DEMI MOORE: Worst Photoshop Evah?

WHAT'S IN THE BOX? An alternate ending for "Seven."

IRAN: UN experts were to visit a controversial uranium enrichment plant south of Tehran on Thursday, as Pres. Obama warned of "consequences" after Iran dismissed a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal.

AFGHANISTAN: Two and a half years after it was started, the European Union's police training mission in Afghanistan is understaffed, lacks adequate security and transportation, and has yet to develop a uniform training program, according to diplomats and security experts involved in the mission.

A GOAT RIDES THE SCHOOL BUS: Let's go to the video. It followed them to school one day.

A COW stares unamazed from an Anderson County swimming pool. Moo 911.

KOALA BEARS are dying of stress from humans.

A PRIDE OF LIONS is not where you want your jeep overturning.

CATS FOR GOLD: Turn your pretty to kitty!