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Warren Zevon, Cutout Bin(s), Grindhouse, Stumpy the Duck   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 06, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with WARREN ZEVON!  I was remiss in failing to mention that some of Zevon's best known albums were re-issued last week, along with the fine live LP, Stand In The Fire.  So I'm making up for it with live video, starting with an excitable rendition of "Excitable Boy," followed by "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," "Jeannie Needs A Shooter" and his signature "Werewolves of London" (some of which you may need to preload for a few minutes, but worth it)-- all from Passaic, NJ, circa 1982.  BONUS:  An uncensored live take on "Lawyers, Guns & Money" from the ol' Nightmusic series, and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" from the Late Show in 2002.  TRIPLE-BONUS:  Jackson Browne joins Zevon for "Mohammed's Radio" on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1976.

JOY DIVISION has a tribute sneaker from New Balance?  The story date is April 2nd, so maybe.  Sure looks cool!

NINE INCH NAILS is not one of my favorites, but I note that Trent Reznor's upcoming effort is already streaming from the Year Zero website.

DEAN & BRITTA talk about songwriting, working with producer Tony Visconti and more with Stylus.  They have a short set at the World Cafe streaming from NPR. (Thanks, Chromewaves.)

THE 25 BEST ROCK RUMORS EVER, according to Rolling Stone's blog.  Keith Richards makes the list, but I think he would have scored higher after the thing about snorting his father's ashes.  BTW, I don't think all of these are false; Roger Daltrey recently insisted that Keith Moon did indeed drive a car into the swimming pool at the Holiday Inn in Flint, MI.

CUTOUT BIN, Pt. 1:  This Friday's first batch of fortuitous finds from the ol' HM include: Harry Caray - Take Me Out to the Ballgame; Easybeats -  Friday on My Mind; Hoodoo Gurus - Death Ship; The Lemonheads - Different Drum; Calexico - Alone Again Or; Apollo Sunshine - I Was on the Moon; Black Lips - Not A Problem; Big Black - He's A Whore; T.Rex - 20th Century Boy; Sniff 'n the Tears - Driver's Seat; We Are Scientists - It's A Hit; Yo La Tengo - Dreaming (Blondie cover live); Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945; The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!; Jefferson Airplane -Today; Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth; 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me; and Tommy Shaw & James Blades - Time of the Season.

TEMPLE of the DOG:  The grunge supergroup plays "Hunger Strike," just because Winter is clinging to April.

KEITH RICHARDS, LORD of the UNDEAD, reportedly will not promote Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End after saying he snorted his dead dad's ashes.  Concerned Disney studio bosses have decided the Rolling Stones guitarist is too unpredictable.  Or, as the kids like to say, "D-uh!"

REUNIONS:  Given the current rash, Jim Farber of the NYDN writes about the real reasons why bickering bands reunite.

THE NEW PORNGRAPHERS' frontman A.C. Newman spills all sorts of details about their upcoming album to Pitchfork, starting with the likely title, Challengers.  He also talks about the odd feeling he gets from the current nolstalgia for the period in which he grew up -- something to which original Pate fans probably relate.  Other good stuff in there, too.

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH:  An Aquarium Drunkard has posted a two-parter of CSN demos from 1969.  And you can jukebox 'em via the ol' HM.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS say they plan to take it easy in 2007 -- which by DBT standards includes recording a new album, releasing long-awaited solo releases from Jefferson Hood and Jason Isbell, and a short "semi-acoustic, kind of turned-down tour" that Hood says will emphasize the storytelling that gets lost behind the "wall of guitars."

CUTOUT BIN, Pt. 2:  This Friday's second batch of fortuitous finds from the ol' HM include: Harry Caray - White Sox Color Commentary; Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - I Fought the Law; Rockpile -  Teacher, Teacher; Buddy Holly - That'll Be the Day; The Raveonettes - Red Tan; Sam Cooke - Chain Gang; Jonathan Richman - Velvet Underground; The Drifters - There Goes My Baby; U2 - Everlasting Love; Dobie Gray - The "In" Crowd; Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools; Wilson Pickett - 634-5789; R.E.M. - Tighten-Up; Dionne Warwick - I'll Never Fall In Love Again; Billy Bragg - Saturday Boy; Graham Parker & The Rumour - Local Girls; They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul; Mark Mothersbaugh - Margaret Yang's Theme; Yonder Mountain String Band - Ooh La La; and Mott The Hopple - All The Young Dudes.

GRINDHOUSE:  So I went to the Thursday night opening, purely as a service to you, the Pate visitor.  And as I have about seven minutes to deadline, this will necessarily be about first impressions.  To sum up:  Oh. My! ICYDK, the concept here is a Robert Rodriguez - Quentin Tarantino "double feature," complete with trailers (directed by folks like Rob Zombie and Eli Roth, and featuring at least one totally wacky cameo).  This effort is definitely more of an homage to the fromage of exploitation flicks than a reinvention of the genre -- closer to From Dusk 'Till Dawn than Pulp Fiction, though certainly kicked up several notches in the gore department.  Folks will differ as to which half they prefer.  Most advance reviews seem to think less of Rodriguez's Planet Terror, but zombies and a go-go dancer with a machine gun leg is at the very least not a bad opening act.  And I did hear a few people liking it better than Tarantino's Death Proof -- which is a mix of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Duel and (of course) Vanishing Point. The usual excellent soundtrack throughout, too.  A good time was had by all, laughing and grimacing simultaneously, with absolutlely no redeeming social value.

ROSE McGOWAN and ROSARIO DAWSON, btw, are wearing nothing but ammo on the cover of the latest Rolling Stone to promote the "double feature."  US Weekly has excerpts from their chat with RS.  McGowan is asked about some of her past relationships (including Marilyn Manson), but apparently was not asked about her reported relationship with long-married-with-five-kids Grindhouse director Robert Rodriguez. Maybe the mag saved that part for itself.

NOW SHOWING:  In addition to Grindhouse, which is currently scoring 88 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, three flicks went wide on Wed and Thurs ahead of the holiday weekend, including: the family comedy Are We Done Yet?, which is scoring 10 percent; Hilary Swank with the quasi-Biblical horror of The Reaping (06 percent); and another family comedy, Firehouse Dog (37 percent).

BRADGELINA:  The New York Post has noticed (as Gawker and I already did) that US Weekly, Star and other celebrity weeklies are so fed up with Jolie's cozy relationship with People magazine that they've turned on Jolie and Pitt with a vengeance.  Page Six relays some of the digs, including this one: "When Jolie is in L.A., even though she has four full-time nannies, she leaves her three eldest kids at the $931-per-month preschool/day-care center on the Warner Bros. lot, Star reports, where other parents are upset with the special treatment Jolie gets. One flashpoint is a ban on cellphones because Jolie fears parents will take pictures of her kids."

ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS STILL DEAD, and we now officially learn that Smith's friend and psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich prescribed all 11 medications found in the former Playmate's hotel room at the time of her death.  Entertainment Tonight, who frequently used Dr. Eroshevich as a source (and reportedly paid her for interviews as part of a complex deal cooked up by Howard K. Stern), reports that the shrink is being investigated by the medical board of California.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  On March 23, after Cruise told Holmes she hadn't been cheerful enough in public, Katie "ran out of the house," says an insider close to the couple in the uber-reliable In Touch Weekly.

REESE & RYAN BREAK-UPDATE:  People picks up on the persistent rumor that Reese Witherspoon has waded back into the dating pool with Jake Gyllenhaal, her costar in the upcoming CIA thriller Rendition.  A newer, and less reliable rumor is that Ryan Phillipe is dating Scarlett Johansson.

WHITNEY & BOBBY BREAK-UPDATE:  Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's divorce has been approved in court and will become final on April 24th.

JENNIFER LOPEZ:  The massive attempts to save her singing career -- and even her acting pursuits -- aren't going too well; Roger Friedman picks through the wreckage for you.  TMZ has what looks like the spin from the J-Lo camp, but Shakira's Spanish-language LP sold more than three times as many copies in its first week.  The last J-Lo album sold more than five times as many copies.  And J-Lo sales have been declining since 2001.

SIENNA MILLER was among those evacuated from London's fashionable Cuckoo Club early Thursday after reports that an air gun had been fired by one of its revellers.

WHY IS THIS SATURDAY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER DAYS?  Because ABC has its annual showing of The Ten Commandments, a grand spectacle featuring acting from Edward G. Robinson and Anne Baxter that is so over-the-top that Yul Brenner starts to look good by comparison.  And while Robinson's Dathan never actually spoke the line "Where's your Messiah now?" in the movie, it  -- like "Play It Again, Sam" (not spoken in Casablanca) -- has become part of a part of our culture. The line actually comes from Billy Crystal (sample), originally a bit from the Oscars, iirc. It later turned up o­n The Simpsons, with Chief Wiggum playing Dathan to Ned Flanders' Moses.

IRAN:  Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted no deal was done to free 15 Royal Navy crew members, as they arrived in the UK after being held in Iran for 13 days.  The New York Sun claims that a White House decision to release an Iranian diplomat on Tuesday may have been part of a deal.  London's Guardian cites a source close to Iran's Revolutionary Guards as saying the detention of five Quds force members in Iraq was not a motive for the capture of the Brits, but became a negotiating point afterward.  The Christian Science Monitor reports that the hostage release probably does not mean that Tehran now will be more flexible in its ongoing standoff with the West over its nuclear program.  In the Washington Post, Robin Wright reports that experts think Tehran is likely to pay a long-term price for the detention drama, again appearing to undertake rogue actions in violation of international law and coming under pressure even from allies like Syria and other Islamic countries.  Much of the rest of Wright's piece, however, is as Mullah-friendly as her track record would have predicted.

IRAQ:  Iraqi paper Al-Mada is reporting on a possible parliamentary reform plan that would create a "troika" whereby the president, prime minister and speaker of the parliament would equally share the governing of the country, perhaps with a sectarian formula in mind, whereby a Kurd, a Shia Arab and a Sunni Arab would respectively occupy the top three spots.  Bill Roggio looks at US and Iraqi forces preparing the battlefield in Diyala province, with an eye toward kicking into full gear in late May or early June.  It looks like the Anbar tribes fighting Al Qaeda are meeting in Baghdad this month as a step toward greater political and security cooperation.  Bing and Owen West have background and a current dispatch from Anbar.  Blogger Michael J. Totten is in Northern Iraq, where he filed a picture filled dispatch detailing his meeting with the Kurdish Peshmerga.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:  Stumpy, the four-legged duck, who was not expected to live for very long after his birth on February 2nd.

SUICIDE SQUIRREL disrupts an election in Eau Claire, WI.  In Gwinett County, GA, the Daily Post has awakened to the squirrel threat.

SUICIDE SNAKE takes down the power grid in North Queensland, Australia.  Are we seeing the beginning on a Squirrel-Snake Axis?

MICKEY the BOSTON TERRIER, who disappeared four years ago from his suburban Kansas City backyard was found in Montana and reunited with his owners this week.

THE OBLIGATORY PEEPS ITEM:  I coud not let the season pass by without pointing to this rich roundup of  Marshmallow Peep links, including games and Peeps suffering the ten plagues in Egypt.  The Arizona Republic has the scoop on the new Splenda-based, sugar-free Peeps.  The Charleston Daily Mail has a recipe for Gourmet Peeps.  And manufacturer Just Born, Inc. has the results of the annual Peeps survey, showing (among other things) that the third favorite way to enjoy Peeps is by microwaving them.

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