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Ryan Adams, The Head and The Heart, Michael Chapman, Pugs vs Zombie   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, September 26, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

BILLY CORGAN joins PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT on Joy Division's "Transmission" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in Chicago.

RYAN ADAMS is advance streaming Ashes And Fire.

THE HEAD AND THE HEART stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

MICHAEL CHAPMAN did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

NEIL YOUNG: Acoustic at the Elysée Montmartre, Paris, Dec. 11, 1989.

RADIOHEAD played "Lotus Flower" and "Staricase" on SNL, for ICYMI Monday. BONUS: Live at the Corn Exchange, Nov. 6, 1995.

IT'S PINK FLOYD WEEK on Fallon, featuring The Shins, Foo Fighters (w/ Roger Waters), MGMT, Dierks Bentley, and Pearl Jam.

A.A. BONDY talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his new album, Believers, experiences since his first solo records, discomfort with his own work, liminal states and how, whether autumn or summer, it's all about perspective.

LAURA MARLING talks to the SF Examiner about singledom and the L.A. Times about ideas of femininity. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

SLY STONE -- one of the greatest figures in soul-music history -- is homeless, his fortune stolen by a lethal combination of excess, substance abuse and financial mismanagement. He lays his head inside a white camper van ironically stamped with the words "Pleasure Way" on the side.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The 3-D Lion King rules the cinema for a second week, taking in 22.1 million.  The rest of the Top 5 are debuts.  Moneyball is money with 20.6 million against a 50 million budget, almost exactly what gurus predicted and another in a long line of Brad Pitt successes.  Nipping at Pitt's heels was Dolphin Tale, with 20.3 million -- all the more impressive against a 37 million budget and competition from Hakuna Matata.  Twihards opened Taylor Lautner's Abduction at 11 million against a 35 million budget, but I suspect few ransom payments next weekend. Star power was also enough to open Killer Elite at 9.5 million -- but with a 70 million budget, DeNiro, Jason Statham and Clive Owen can be glad the Aussie government picked up a share of the tab. Below the fold, Drive plunged almost 50 percent, so maybe I am more in tune with the public than most movie critics; even so, it's over 21 million against a mere 15 million budget.  Last weekend's other debuts, Straw Dogs and I Don't Know How She Does It, fared even worse, plunging 59 and 53.4 percent, respectively.

MONEYBALL:  I read and liked the Michael Lewis book, but was dubious about adaptating a work that is really more about basesball statistics and business than sport.  The project's long and winding road in development was not encouraging.  However, the screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian punches up the humor and stresses the theme of the book that sucked me in: the way in which an establishment (here, major league baseball) can operate for an eon based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what is valuable.  As such, the Oakland A's under Billy Beane is a classic underdog story -- or near-classic, as the movie gropes a bit for a Hollywood ending.  Indeed, it's only at the end that you start to notice the 2 hr, 20 min running time, which means it's pretty good.

JONAH HILL talked to New York magazine about Moneyball, Goodfellas, his upcoming animated show Allen Gregory, and growing up.

LINDSAY LOHAN got her claws out in a confrontation with the Indian model wife of millionaire hotelier Vikram Chatwal, just days after the troubled starlet and Chatwal were spotted kissing at his home in New York.

JUSTIN BIEBER rented the entire Staples Center in L.A. for a screening of the movie, "Titanic" for himself and galpal Selena Gomez.

JESSE JAMES & KAT VON D have split again.

KIM DELANEY looked disoriented and disheveled at the Liberty Medal Award ceremony.

KATE WINSLET is dating Richard Branson's nephew Ned Abel Smith.

MELISSA ETHERIDGE and her ex, Tammy Lynn Michaels, are fighting over everything, including whether they were married.

RYAN GOSLING was arrested for a DUI back in 2005, according to the ever reliable Star magazine.

ISLAM in the UK: Thousands of Muslims gathered for a televised rally in London Saturday to fight extremism and promote a moderate, inclusive version of Islam.

IRAN vs SAUDI ARABIA: How they view their roles in the Middle East, each other, and the current "Arab Spring" unrest.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS announced on Sunday women would be given the right to vote and stand in elections, a bold shift in the Islamic monarchy as pressure for social and democratic reform sweeps the Middle East.

PAKISTAN: The public assault by the Obama administration on the Pakistani intelligence agency as a facilitator of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan has been met with scorn in Pakistan, a signal that the country has little intention of changing its ways, even perhaps at the price of the crumpled alliance.  The US said "the lines of communication with our Pakistani counterparts remain open" despite the ISI's support of the Haqqani Network.

PUGS vs ZOMBIE: Who you got?

A NEW (AND VERY CREEPY) WORM is looking for a name.

ALBINO FAWN captured on camera in Montana.

CATS IN HATS: The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.

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