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Friday, November 01, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE BYRDS! The turning of the seasons had me in the mood for this rare live threefer of "Turn! Turn! Turn!", "Bells of Rhymney" and "Mr. Tambourine Man", introduced by... David McCallum? There are more screaming girls, plus go-go dancers when they hit Shivaree for "All I Really Want to Do" and "Feel A Whole Lot Better."  There are even more dancers when they cover "Long Tall Sally" and "Not Fade Away" for Shindig! on June 23, 1965, while I'm pretty sure that's Ed Wynn introducing "Chimes of Freedom."

OKKERVIL RIVER palyed a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

NEKO CASE, along with Eric Bachmann and Kelly Hogan, played a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in costume.She's also profiled by Under the Radar.

THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN played live at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival.

MATT POND played live at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival.

EASYBEATS: The fish, the barrel, the smoking gun!

JAMES BLAKE won the Mercury Prize, even if the presenter called him James Blunt.

LOU REED's obituary, placed in the local paper by his widow, Laurie Anderson.

FATHER JOHN MISTY: Josh Tillman talks to Rolling Stone about his score for The History of Caves, and his next LP.

GOTH IS DEAD, Long Live Goth.

CUTOUT BIN: This Friday, a tribute to the late Lou Reed is streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are: Free Birds, currently scoring 13 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Ender's Game, currently scoring 62 percent; and Last Vegas, scoring 42 percent.

ENDERS GAME: Part popcorn sci-fi epic, part meditation on the morality of war and the nature of leadership, with the latter improving the former. I've seens ome reviewers mention the movie doesn't grapple with the big issues as well as the novel on which the movie is based, which is often the case, though perhaps more notable here, given that visual media tends to glamorize even that which it seeks to dissect. Not having read the book, my problems are more with the plotting (which may or may not come from the book).  The inevitable compression lessens the notion of Ender -- a boy being groomed for combat against an alien race which once attacked Earth -- as a born leader.  The film does a decent job of showing Ender as strategist, but I didn't buy his ultimate solution as one that would have been unique to him.  Moreover, while the film overtly argues for the importance of empathy as a quality of military leadership, Ender has it in the final sequence to a degree foreshadowed, but requiring a hefty suspension of disbelief.  Those issues aside, Asa Butterfield (Hugo) is convincing in the lead role and gets good support from other young actors (notably Hailee Steinfeld of True Grit and Abigail Breslin) as well as the marquee roles from Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis.

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON are indeed meeting five months after their split.

ASHTON KUTCHER & DEMI MOORE have settled their protracted divorce beef; he won't be paying support.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN & LAMAR ODOM are reportedly working out their marital problems after all.

DAVID ARQUETTE had a lot to say when he drunk dialed Howard Stern.

MILEY CYRUS went as Lil Kim for Halloween.

TORI SPELLING: I told you Wednesday where this was headed. Still headed that way.

MICHAEL FASSBENDER feels a little harrassed by all the jokes about his equipment. Poor man.

SWEDEN: Haytham Rahmeh, the Syrian-born former leader of a Stockholm mosque, is said to have smuggled large quantities of weapons to Syrian rebels for the past 18 months. Rahmeh reportedly purchased the weapons primarily in Libya, but also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with the help of an organization called the Commission for Civilian Protection transported them through Turkey to Syria. He is a member of the Syrian National Council and a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

EGYPT: Muslim Brotherhood supporters called for daily protests in the lead-up to the trial of former president Morsi. His detention was extended for 15 days due to a pending investigation related to espionage charges.

PAKISTAN: Prime Minister Sharif said talks with the Pakistani Taliban have begun.

IRAQ: Five car bombs north of Baghdad killed 19 people and wounded scores more; police blamed al Qaeda.

GRAHAM THE CAT is a regular visitor to the pet shop.

A 6-FT GATOR visits the Wal-Mart.

MICRO-PIGS fail to stay micro.

HEY, ARE THOSE PUPPIES in your pants, or... oh.

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