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Quarto de Mayo, Cutout Bin, The Avengers, Dog vs Baby Goat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, May 04, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: 

...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too.

PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvs.

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967.

CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender."

JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs.

LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvs.

JACK WHITE talks to The A.V. Club about about Blunderbuss, the prevalence of troublesome women in his new songs, and what the oft-unpredictable star is going to do next.

JONSI talks to Drowned In Sound about the Sigur Ros hiatus, the new album, the press and more...

RICHARD HELL talks about a documentary titled The Devil, Probably.

HERE WE GO MAGIC's Luke Temple talks to PopMatters about the human element in art and more...

CUTOUT BIN: From Squeeze to Dolly Parton, from the Cure to the Chi-Lites, from the Beach Boys to the Jesus & Mary Chain, plus the dB's, the J. Geils Band, the Hombres, Of Montreal, Dusty Springfield and more  -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

THE AVENGERS is this weekend's sole wide release, currently scoring 92 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.  I went to the midnight showing, purely as a public service to Pate readers.  I suppose I could say that this movie lacks the depth of character development you get in the best Marvel films (Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man), but we presumably got character development in the movies which intoduced these characters (and we do get a bit even in this one).  I could comment on whether CGI action scenes ever truly satisfy in the way that traditional stunt work does.  I could even suggest that The Avengers lacks the deeper thematic elements Christopher Nolan has brought to the Batman franchise.  But instead, what I will say is that Joss Whedon & Co. have delivered a phenomenal popcorn/action movie, filled with scene after scene of pure awesome, punctuated by moments of pure hilarity.  Of the movie's 2 hr, 22 minute running time, there are probably fewer than 10 minutes that are not awesome, comic-book goodness.  And as with almost all Marvel films, be sure to stay all the way to the very end of the credits for perhaps my favorite moment of the entire movie.

COURTNEY LOVE loses Kurt Cobain's publicity rights to daughter Frances Bean Cobain.

ASHTON KUTCHER's Popchips ad has been swiftly pulled - and an apology issued - following a grim reaction from Indian Americans.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Cops are sending the case involving an alleged hit-and-run by the actress to prosecutors.

KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN will marry Scott Disick in Mexico. The wedding will be televised, natch.

KATE UPTON will be gracing next week's highly anticipated Costume Institute gala - but she's going on her own dime.

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT is developing a remake of Little Shop of Horrors.

DENMARK: An axe-wielding Somali citizen who broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist and tried to kill him has been given a 10-year sentence followed by deportation.

GERMANY: A group of Salafists used stones and poles to attack police in Solingen, injuring three policemen and a bystander; approximately 30 of the attackers were arrested.

YEMEN: In the latest release of Inspire magazine, slain al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al Awlaki called for chemical and biological attacks against the US. Fmr Pres Saleh's son stepped down from commanding the 3rd Brigade of the Republican Guard.

EGYPT: A bill to allow girls as young as 14 to marry should not be rejected out of hand, as girls in some areas of the country mature earlier, according to a Salafite member of Egypt's parliament.

DOG vs BABY GOAT: Who you got?

A 50-LB TURTLE run over by a car is going to be alright, Little Tommy.

DOLPHINS aid fishermen in Laguna, Braxil.

A PET PARAKEET was returned to its owner Wednesday after the brainy bird told police its home address near Tokyo.

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