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Monday, April 23, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

RYAN ADAMS was forced to cancel his gig at Stonehenge.  It was feared that non-ticket holders might try to watch the show from the nearby road, forcing English Heritage to change the venue for public safety reasons.  For now, you'll have to make do with this clip of "Goodnight Rose," a folky, Grateful Dead-influenced number from his upcoming LP.

THE POLICE are playing Havana; Uncommon Sense wonders what happened to Sting's commitment to human rights.

PETER and the WOLF have a SxSW interview at Daytrotter, along with the usual free song downloads.

WOLF EYES play "Either/Or" with Drowned in Sound, including, "Black albums: Jay-Z or Metallica?"

HOPEWELL makes Song of the Day at NPR with "The Notbirds," which John Edwards clls '70s-style psychedelic rock, but which I say owes more than a little to The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" and early U2.

SPOON frontman Britt Daniel doesn't mind being called indie, so long as it's not being used as a ghetto term.  Which is agood excuse to post this clip of Keepon -- a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children (with some success, apparently) -- dancing to Spoon's "I Turn My Camera On."

SHERYL CROW has come up with a partial solution to global warming -- a limitation on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting: "I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required."

TED LEO played in-studio for KEXP Thursday; you can jukebox the gig via the ol' HM.

AMY WINEHOUSE is engaged, though she made her fella wait 24 hours for an answer to his proposal.

SMOOSH:  Fifteen-year-old Asya is interviewed by LAist about songwriting, touring and is asked whether she has advice for other young bands.  Her advice is sound, but I have to mention that she and her sister just require candy in their contract rider.  Though their new album has been out awhile, you can still stream a few via the ol' HM.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Folks took a little breather from the cineplex, with Spider-Man 3 only two weeks away.  Disturbia repeated at number one with $13.5 million, followed by Fracture, which debuted with $11.2 million.  Blades of Glory took the bronze, earned $7.8 million and crossed the $100 million mark.  Vacancy landed in fourth place with a relatively self-descriptive $7.6 million opening.  Meet The Robinsons dropped to fifth, with a larger-than-expected 43% drop.  Hot Fuzz earned about six million this weekend, but had the highest per-screen average by far -- and justifiably so.  Thumbs up from me; if you waited for the DVD to find out how good Shaun of the Dead was, you want to see what the same guys do with a half-mystery, half-Michael Bay-esque action flick.  Are We Done Yet? isn't quite, but close with a 42% drop.  In the eighth slot, In the Land of Women earned $4.9 million and wasn't well-marketed or well-reviewed.  Perfect Stranger plummeted to ninth, earned a mere $4.1 million.  Wild Hogs clung to the bottom of the Top Ten.

SIMON PEGG of Hot Fuzz confesses he likes to wave his lightsaber around from time to time.

ALEC BALDWIN apolgized for calling his his 11-year-old daughter a "thoughtless little pig," claiming he was "driven to the edge by parental alienation."  He also filed legal papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court to determine who gave TMZ the vile voice mail message.  His apology would ring a little more true if he had not been imitating his daughter's dance moves on The Late Show with David Letterman a few hours before his tirade.  Video at that last link.

BRITNEY SPEARS is dumping her kids off on her Fed-Ex and only sees them every other weekend, according to OK! magazine.  The pop tart has no one to blame but herself if she loses custody of her two sons and ruins her career, according to her father.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Heather Mills was on a flight from L.A. to London when the entertainment system broke down, so she did an impromptu dance routine... which was greeted with silence from her fellow passengers.

JESSICA ALBA is back on the singles market, at least until she gets the lovely note I wrote her (kidding, obvs).   At least she will have another five million bucks from Revlon to go on a shopping binge to compensate.  For not getting that note.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Holmes reportedly wants to enroll the Tom-Kitten into "kiddie Catholicism" classes, which probably won't go down well with Xenu.

KATE HUDSON-CHRIS ROBINSON BREAK-UPDATE:  Owen "the Butterscotch Stallion" Wilson dropped in for Hudson's birthday dinner at La Esquina, where the pair were caught canoodling in the corner.

NATALIE PORTMAN talks to London's Guardian about how some of her early roles as a pedophile's dream have affected her later career choices.

THE FRENCH HOTEL was caught canoodling with cringe-inducing singer-songwriter James Blunt.  And that's a big step down for him from Petra Nemcova.

CODE GUARDIAN:  If you liked Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, you will definitely want to watch this short film.  Even if you didn't, you may be amazed at what one person can make with his computer.

AYAAN HIRSI ALI, a Dutch feminist author, has lived under the threat of death for denouncing her Muslim upbringing.  Imam Fouad ElBayly, president of the Johnstown Islamic Center in Pennsylvania, thinks she should be tried and judged for her apostasy in a Muslim country.

IRAN:  Federal authorities are accusing a former engineer at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station of illegally taking software codes to Iran and downloading details of control rooms, reactors and designs of the nation's largest nuclear plant.

IRAQ:  Prime Minister al-Maliki announced that he had ordered a halt to a barrier being built by the US military that would separate the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad.  The barrier was apparently an unpopular idea with locals and the press, even as the neighborhood came under regular mortar and rocket attacks thought to be fired by Shiite militiamen in surrounding districts, often in retaliation to car bombings by Sunni insurgents against Shi'ite districts and marketplaces.  A group of Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province -- some 200 sheiks said to represent 50 tribes -- intend to form a national party to oppose insurgents such as Al Qaeda in Iraq and reengage with Iraq's political process.  The driving force behind the new party, Sheik Abdul-Sattar abu Risha, said that one purpose of the party is to promote a better image of US-led forces and to support a US-backed effort to reestablish a court system in Ramadi.  A detainee gave up names, and showed Coalition forces insurgent safe houses, weapons and bomb caches and more -- after being beaten by Iraqi troops (without US knowledge, apparently):  "If the Americans used this way, the way we use, nobody would shoot the Americans at all," Bassim Hassan said. "But they are easy with them, and they have made it easy for the terrorists."  Perhaps the story's lede sums it up: "Out here in what the soldiers call Baghdad's wild west, sometimes the choices are all bad."

THIS CAT and MOUSE are good friends; should they break up, it will robably be ugly.  More awww...some pics at the link.

A SUICIDE SUIRREL in training survived a 60ft plunge to concrete from the top of a towering sycamore tree... and a cat attack.

STUMPY UPDATE:  The intrepid four-legged duck is now an intrepid three-legged duck.  The silver lining is that Stumpy can roam the farm free with the other ducks because it is no longer at risk of being caught in hedges.

NARWHALS -- marine mammals with unicorn-like tusks that live in arctic seas --  are studying global warming.  It's only a matter of time before Bikini Whales get involved.

DIDN'T NEED A BIGGER BOAT?  A sturgeon jumped out of a river and hit a woman riding a personal watercraft, the latest such injury involving the flying fish along the Suwannee River in FL.  Meanwhile, off the FL panhandle, the crews of the The Sea Ya Later II and The Mother Lode reeled in a 1,063-pound mako shark.

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