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Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE play "Hanging Around The Day" at the blogger-curated Hot Freaks show during SxSW (via Stereogum).  It really picks up at about the 1:45 mark.  Here's their best-known track, "Light and Day," as a bonus.

WOXY, the reborn internet indie station, has started a blog called The Futurist.

TED LEO gets a lengthy feature in the New York Observer, covering the usual politics but also touching on his love for R&B music.  And that new WOXY blog can hook you up with free MP3s and live video.

THE 50 TOP ONE-HIT WONDERS countdown continues at Stylus.

NELLIE McKAY played the Birchmere music hall in Alexandria, VA, the other night, so you can stream the gig via NPR now, but be warned: "This unedited concert recording contains language that is not suitable for all audiences. Opinions expressed are solely those of the artist."

PAUL WELLER talks to Harp magazine about his career-spanning 4-disc box set, Hit Parade... while chatting upa ladyfriend on another line.

FEIST is premiering her third video "webisode," featuring "The Park," from her upcoming album, The Reminder, due out May 1st.

MAXIMO PARK:  The band's sophomore album comes out next week, but it's streaming in full from NME now.  Registration required, but I haven't noticed any junk e-mail coming from it.

TINA TURNER is coming out of retirement after seven years to be a private dancer for a charity gig in London.

AN AQUARIUM DRUNKARD has a new podcast posted including The Raincoats, The JBs, GbV, The Meters, Of Montreal and much more.  If you want to stream it, it may be easier to use the ol' HM.

SCOTT WEILAND UPDATE:  His wife Mary claims her bipolar disorder is mostly to blame for the couple's bloody fight at the Graciela Hotel in Burbank last weekend.

RYAN ADAMS, in contrast, has just plain gone b-a-n-a-n-a-s.  As if there had been any doubt.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie is taking heat from US Weekly for filp-flopping from her declared stay-at-home motherhood and short-lived wish to keep new son Pax away from the cameras.  US Weekly somehow fails to mention the role Jolie's cozy relationship with its main competitor, People magazine, has to do with this story.  Meanwhile, this week's Life & Style magazine is claiming that Jolie and Pax narrowly escaped a 100-million-dollar kidnap plot.

LINDSAY LOHAN, finally speaking to her estranged, felonious father, is still telling him to stay away form her mother.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Cruise may be starring in the planned movie on the man who tried to kill Adolf Hitler -- but the descendants of the would-be assassin are concerned that the movie will be financed by the Church of Scientology and be used to get across its propaganda.

NICOLE KIDMAN is getting another round of pregnancy rumors.

HALLE BERRY, otoh, is looking to become a mother.

JERRY HALL has revealed that she and all four of her children with Sir Mick Jagger suffer from dyslexia.

GRINDHOUSE:  Page Six claims that Rose McGowan had her co-stars warned not to wear red to the movie's premiere because she didn't want her own red dress upstaged... and that it backfired.  And what better reason to link to Egotastic's gallery of premiere pics?

DREW BARRYMORE got it on with ex-Jane magazine editrix Jane Pratt?  Page Six could not get a comment from Barrymore.

SPEAKING OF JANE -- the magazine, that is -- there's a funny gallery of celebrity mugshots and confessions taken at the Sundance Film Festival posted at the mag's website.

THE SOPRANOS have a photo spread in the new Vanity Fair magazine that caused Joe Pantoliano to blow his top.

THE SIMPSONS want to turn 7-Elevens into Kwik-E Marts, even selling KrustyO's cereal, Buzz Cola and iced Squishees.

JENNA FISHER:  Thursday brings us The Office, so it's a good day to note that Pam is the cover girl for the current issue of Wired magazine, which has a piece on how Dunder Mifflin takes on Staples and Office Depot with "radical transparency." (get it?)  Ms. Fischer is also looking good in the new Will Ferrell flick, Blades of Glory, which (iirc) opens Friday.

IRAN:  Britain has released evidence its sailors and marines were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters when the Revolutionary Guard naval force intercepted and captured them.  The captives have been paraded on TV, including an apparent forced "confession" from Leading Seaman Faye Tunney, who was dressed in Shiite garb instead of her uniform.  While Prime Minister Tony Blair denounced the Iranian actions as illegal, and British officials fumed over the tape, calling it a violation of the Geneva convention, AP reporter Nassir Karimi -- without citing any source or authority -- states flat out that it does not violate the GC (though I found one defense analyst who agrees). It seems to me that if the British sailors were seized in Iraqi waters (which even the first Iranian coordinates showed to be the case), Iran may well have committed an act of war, or what is now generally called an act of aggression -- and that the only basis for arguing that there is no "armed conflict" under the GC is that the Brits chose not to risk being accused of starting the war by firing on the Iranians.  I would suggest that reading would only encourage the rapid outbreak and escalation of armed conflict, which is not the intent of the GC.  I would also suggest that if the US or UK had seized the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Iranian waters, the usual suspects would most certainly be loudly accusing them of violating the GC.  But there is almost complete silence on the issue now, because we do not insist that rogue regimes live up to the agreements they sign.

IRAQ:  As you might imagine, the residents of Basra are very concerned over the UK-Iran standoff.  Al Qaeda conducted another chlorine gas suicide bombing, this time directed at the Fallujah government center, in the very heart of the city.  In Baghdad, Prime Minister al-Maliki and Pres. Talabani announced plans to introduce a proposal that would allow thousands more former Baathists to serve in the government, in hopes of advancing sectarian reconciliation.  Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who has been skeptical of US efforts to date, recently returned from a trip to Iraq, and has written a lengthy analysis that paints a bleak picture, but expressed confidence in Gen. Petraeus, and concluded that "we can still achieve our objective of: a stable Iraq, at peace with its neighbors, not producing weapons of mass destruction, and fully committed to a law-based government."

CHUANG CHUANG the panda has been spending his days in front of a big screen television watching panda pr0n, but it hasn't done anything for him, according to the Chiang Mai Zoo's chief veterinarian.  Video at the link.

BRUNO was the first brown bear to have been spotted in Germany for 170 years before being shot by Bavarian hunters.  Rome is demanding the caracass be returned, claiming he is Italian state property, but despite a request from the German government, the Bavarian state environment minister is refusing.

WILD KINGDOM: Simon King, who presents the BBC's Big Cat Diary program, was attacked by a rabid cheetah while filming in Kenya.

PET HOARDING:  After receiving complaints from neighbors, Seattle Animal Shelter staffers found 110 parakeets in a cage in the living room of a one-bedroom apartment.

TRAINED ATTACK SHEEP are guarding the Gloucestershire village of Leighterton.  Time to relink the trailer for Black Sheep.

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