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Fountains of Sedaka, Bjork, Replacements, a 6-Legged Calf   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, May 07, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

NEIL SEDAKA is backed by the Fountains of Wayne on "Calendar Girl" at Joes Pub in NYC, so you'll have to watch the original Scopitone to see the chicks.

WILCO frontman Jeff Tweedy talks about this summer's festival gigs with SPIN; there's even linked video.

BJORK played NYC's United Palace Saturday night, with African collective Konono No. 1 both opening for and backing her.  You can stream their sets via NPR on demand.

OKKERVIL RIVER frontman Will Scheff talks about a recent knife fight, "literary bands" and more with The Believer.  Welcome to the Working Week has also reprinted Scheff's essay on file-sharing, icymi last year.

JOE JACKSON, an early Pate influence, was a recent "vault" selection at Idolator, so you can stream "It's Different for Girls" and "I'm the Man" via the ol' HM at the moment.

THE REPLACEMENTS: By chance, three interviews turned up last week.  The first is the entirely appropos "Drinking with the Replacements" from ther old Creem magazine. (Thanks LHB and Waved Rumor)  The second is on video from 1984, conducted by DJ Mike Eck of Real George's Back Room. Finally, there's a segment from the Cutting Edge show sponsored by IRS Records; about halfway thorugh, the interviewer finally asks why the band shaved its eyebrows.

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC:  Seed magazine has posted a conversation between David Byrne and Daniel Levitin, neuroscientist and author of This is Your Brain on Music. Or, if you prefer, you can watch it on video.

AN AQUARIUM DRUNKARD has posted his latest podcast, which ranges from Link Wray to Captain Beefheart to Dwight Yoakum to Guided by Voices to the Beatles.

THE TOP 50 INDIE ANTHEMS, according to NME, lean in a British direction, as you might imagine.  From this side of the pond, the lack of Replacements, Huskers, Minutemen, etc. is rather glaring.

MONDO DIAO talks to Straight about trying to stay out of the touring rut on tour.  And while they are on tour, you can stream a bunch of tracks via the ol' HM.

THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE IS SPIDER-MAN 3, which took in an estimated 148 million in its first weekend, surpassing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest by about $12 million.  Its Friday-Saturday total of $109.8 million would be the third largest opening of all-time, beating Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.  The original Spider-Man took a week to make that much money.  Indeed, Spidey 3 scored the biggest worldwide opening ever with 375 million, upsetting the previous record of $254 mil by Star Wars Episode III. Spider-Man 3 is already the third largest movie of the year behind Wild Hogs and 300.  The per screen average was over 34,000, despite having the widest release ever..  Whether it will have legs in the face of the third Shrek and Pirates movies remains to be seen, but will probably own the next two weeks.

Second place at the cineplex was Disturbia which made 5.7 million on a 36.6% drop.  Everything else in the Top Ten dropped at least 49%.  Fracture and The Invisible earned in the low threee million range.  Rounding out the Top Five, Next dropped 61% to make 2.7 million.  Lucky You debuted in the unlucky sixth slot, making 2.5 million.  Meet the Robinsons was close behind with 2.4 million, while Blades of Glory skated in with 2.3 million.  Hot Fuzz made another 2 million, while Are We Done Yet? clung tenaciously to the bottom of the Top Ten with 1.7 million.  Another way to put this is that Spider-Man 3 made more each day than the rest did all weekend.

THE FRENCH HOTEL arrived ten minutes late to the hearing on her probation violation and was sentenced to 45 days in county jail; the judge's ruling excluded her from paying to serve time in a jail of her choice, as some violators are allowed to do.  TMZ has the rundown on what the heirhead can expect at the Century Regional Detention Facility in beautiful Lynwood,Calif. -- just minutes from nearby Compton!

DAVID HASSELHOFF:  The release of that videotape showing the former Baywatch star intoxicated and incoherent -- shot by his 16-year-old daughter -- has turned the actor into a mean, lean, damage-control machine.

BRITNEY SPEARS is reportedly furious about those topless pictures of her leaking online.  They really aren't much worse than other real photo shoots the pop tart has done, but I'm sure she thinks they set back her image rehab.

LINDSAY LOHAN is spiralling out of control since rehab, according to the uber-reliable News of the World, which has sordid snaps purporting to show Li-Lo on a cocaine binge.

SASHA BARON COHEN, contrary to prior rumors, will not be playing Freddie Mercury in a musical biopic.

PAMELA ANDERSON wants to see movie beauty SCARLETT JOHANSSON disrobe for Playboy, but does not think she would agree to it.  But would it kill Pam to try to convince Scar-Jo?

RICHARD GERE and actress Shilpa Shetty seem to be in better shape, now that the judge who issued obscenity charges against them was reportedly transferred from his post in Jaipur to the small town of Kishangarh several hours away.  High Court Commissioner C. P. Singh said the transfer was "routine" - but noted the order came from a state chief justice.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Cruise has his friends out trying to convince People that Holmes is not a prisoner on the crazy train.

BRUCE WILLIS tells Vanity Fair that "it's hard for people to understand," but he goes on family vacations with ex-wife Demi Moore and her new husband Ashton Kutcher.

FRANCE:  Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won the presidential election on Sunday, defeating Socialist Ségolène Royal by a comfortable margin.  Even women voters were shunning Royal.  Thousands of riot police were deployed in Paris after warnings that victory for Sarkozy could spark violent protests.

IRAN:  South Africa proposed a compromise to prevent global talks on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty from collapsing over Iranian objections to the agenda, and Tehran said it would consider the idea.  OTOH, Pres. Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Iran is entitled to make complete use of all of its nuclear capacity and will never give up its inalienable right.  Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.

IRAQ:  Az-Zaman reported that the two main Shi'a militias - the Badr brigades, affiliated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army - have been engaged in open confrontations in Baghdad, Diwaniya, Najaf and other Iraqi cities.  The newspaper also said that US forces have participated in the battles, on SCIRI's side, by using helicopters to bombard the Sadrist positions.  Iraq's foreign minister has an op-ed in the Washington Post begging the US not to abandon them.

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:  A calf with six legs.  "He's a real freak," said Brian Slocum, who said the calf was born Sunday to one of his cows on acentral Nebraska farm. "I've never seen anything like this before."

RINGLING BROS. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is threatening to bypass P.T. Barnum's home state if Connecticut's legislature passes a bill prohibiting the use of an elephant-herding tool known as a bullhook.

DOGS will be pooping in luxury at the The Austonian, the swank 55-story luxury condo tower that will be going up at Second Street and Congress Avenue in Austin, TX.

A BRITISH WOMAN has applied to become the legal guardian of a chimp to fight for its human rights.

A PUPPY and a DUCK have become fast friends in China.  Let's go to the video.

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