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Later's 200th, MacArthur Parks, Cutout Bin, Nessie in Tokyo   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, February 08, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOOLS HOLLAND!  His 200th "Later" show features Radiohead playing "Bodysnatchers," "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi," "15 Step," and "House Of Cards," Feist playing "My Moon, My Man," "1 2 3 4," and "Sealion," Cat Power covering "New York, New York" and "Lost Someone," interviews with Dionne Warwick and Mary J. Blige, who sings "Just Fine," "Feel Like A Woman" and "Work That," plus Robyn Hitchcock playing "Sounds Great When You're Dead."

CAT POWER:  Keboardist Gregg Foreman talks to the Philly City Paper about the formation of Chan Marshall's Dirty Delta Blues band, and the recording of the Jukebox album.

BOB MOULD stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

ARCTIC MONKEYS frontman Alex Turner's side album with Rascals' Miles Kane is set to have a "60s" sound to it, according to producer James Ford.

MACARTHUR PARK:  The sweet green icing is melting in a dozen videos and three audio tracks compiled at WFMU's blog.

SXSW 2008 has announced its list of showcasing artists.

THE BUDDYREVELLES -- from Chicago -- tell the story of a determined man preparing for the opportunity of a lifetime in "I Dream of Rodney."

GRIZZLY BEAR frontman Ed Drozte shuffles his iPod for The A.V. Club's Random Rules feature.

FAT FRIDAY:  I slighted Fat Tuesday, so if anyone still wants to aurally transplant themselves to the bayou, you can stream a 2006 gig from the Dixie Hummingbirds with Dirty Dozen Brass Band, as well as the Cajun stylings of the Pine Leaf Boys via NPR.

THE TOP TEN ALBUMS Every Music Snob Name Checks, courtesy of IGN.  The VU & Nico wuz robbed!

AMY WINEHOUSE has been denied a US visa, but will perform at this Sunday's Grammy Awards show via satellite.  She may also get to write the new James Bond theme as well as croon it - but only if she stays off drugs for two months.

CUTOUT BIN:  From Tom Petty to Devo, from Otis Redding to Television, from Cat Stevens to the Beastie Boys, this Friday's fortuitous finds overfloweth and can be jukeboxed or streamed individually on the Pate page at the ol' HM.

BRITNEY SPEARS is a free woman and her parents are clearly frustrated; they will likely return to court -- perhaps today -- to have the court put teeth into the conservatorship, so that they can stop the pop wreck from shacking up at the Beverly Hills Hotel with her married boyfriend, photographer Adnan Ghalib.

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's wide releases are the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson action comedy Fool's Gold, which is currently scoring six percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Martin Lawrence's Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, currently scoring 39 percent; and Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show, which is scoring 54 percent.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie gave an exclusive interview with CNN while visiting Iraq to draw attention to the refugee crisis in the wartorn country, while begging off Hollywood questions.  Transcript and video at the link.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON & PENELOPE CRUZ reportedly have a steamy lesbian scene in Woody Allen's upcoming "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."

TYRA BANKS may have had an "unfortunate accident" at Fashion Week, according to former New York "It" boy and Paper magazine blogger Fabian Basabe.  This is not a wardrobe malfunction, it's more like the kind of accident usually the province of small children.

MADONNA & GUCCI held a fundraiser for UNICEF and Raising Malawi on the lawns of the United Nations, under tight security.  That it was cross-promoted as a Gucci store opening was pure coincidence.  PopSugar has scads of pictures of all the other crazy people attending including Tom-Kat with J-Lo and Marc Antony, who are on the Scientology recruitment list.

VAL KILMER will replace Will Arnett as the voice of KITT on its "Knight Rider" revival, because Arnett has done voice-over work for General Motors, while KITT is a Ford Mustang.

CHARLIZE THERON danced to disco music, struck modeling poses, wooed someone wearing an elephant suit and a pink sparkly bra, and led a parade flanked by drag queens to pick up her Hasty Pudding pot from Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals -- the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe.  According to Theon, "the only challenge was keeping down all the alcohol they fed me."  In accepting the award, which is presented to a performer who made a "lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment," she said she had no idea why she was being honored. "After all, I don't have a great rack,"  And we have parade video.

GLOBAL COOLING:  Ken Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, oversees the operation of a 60-year-old radio telescope that he calls a "stethoscope for the sun." Recent magnetic field readings are as low as he's ever seen, he says, and he's worked with the instrument for more than 25 years. If the sun remains this quiet for another a year or two, it may indicate the star has entered a downturn that, if history is any precedent, could trigger a planetary cold spell that could bring massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.

ISLAMISM in the UK:   The Archbishop of Canterbury says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK "seems unavoidable."  Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4's World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS:  A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three was thrown in jail by religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh.  The woman was bruised and crying when she was freed from a day in prison after she was strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions.

IRAN is establishing a deep-water shipping port in Nicaragua and can can now project a threat close to America's borders and Mexico's petroleum infrastructure in the event of severe enough sanctions or even war.  While Iranian money has yet to materialize, the embassy that national security experts most fear as cover for terrorist plots is up and running.  Meanwhile, Iran is testing an advanced centrifuge at its Natanz nuclear complex, a move that could lead to enriching uranium much faster and gaining the means to build atom bombs.

IRAQ:  Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army to maintain its six-month ceasefire as members of the militia clashed with US and Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad.  Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has sharply reduced his workload in recent months, raising new questions about the health of the aged leader and the prospect of a dangerous power vacuum.  The number of Iraqis returning to their homes from refuge elsewhere in the country has slowed markedly as fears over security remain.  A long-term "relationship" being negotiated between the US and Iraq will include "security assurances and commitments... to deter foreign aggression against Iraq that violates its sovereignty and integrity of its territories, waters, or airspace," but will not contain a commitment to defend Iraq.  Dozens of Iraqi legislators walked out of parliament to protest parts of a draft law that would lay out rules for provincial elections later this year.  Attacks by Iranian-backed groups have increased in recent months, a senior US official said on Thursday.  The US military has changed the name for neighborhood militia groups frrom "concerned local citizens" to "Sons of Iraq," as the former did not translate well in Arabic, leading Iraqis to mislabel them as part of the Anbar Awakening.

LOCH NESS MONSTER surfaces in Tokyo.

DOGS get to go to the movies at the Admiral cinema in Vienna, Austria.  Visitors pay £4 for a ticket while their pet pooch can go in for free and are given a blanket to snuggle up on in their seats, as well as water and popcorn.  Pic at the link.

PET HOARDING:  In Vero Beach, FL, it's 233 animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, mice, guinea pigs, chickens, pigs, turtles, tortoises, lizards, fish, a duck, ferret, sugar glider, chinchilla and a peacock.  Pics at the link.  Near Fond du lac. WI, it's a repeat offender with 26 cats.

A KOMODO DRAGON gave virgin birth to two males at the at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas -- the first in North America known to have hatched without the fertilization of a male.

A RUNAWAY EMU made drivers gawk and clogged traffic on Interstate 20 before it was finally caught in Appling, GA.

ARE SHARKS WITH FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS ON THEIR HEADS responsible for five undersea communications cables in the Middle East being damaged in less than a week?  The Wall Street Journal is on the case!

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