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David Byrne & Thom Yorke, White Stripes, The Boss, Squirrel Threat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE BLACK LIPS are uncharacteristically laid-back in their new video for "Veni Vidi Vici."

DAVID BYRNE & THOM YORKE talk about the true value of music, carbon footprints, how much Radiohead made from the downloading experiment and more at Wired magazine's site.  Plenty of bonus A/V included.

THE WHITE STRIPES:  NPR's Morning Edition talks with Jack White about the "Conquest" single and collaborating with Beck on its various B-sides.  Bonus A/V at that link also, including the "Conquest" video and Jack on how the White Stripes came up with their peppermint candy color scheme, and about playing Elvis in the new movie Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

BEST of 2007:  Harp magazine's Top 50 Albums includes reax from Okkervil River frontman Will Scheff on topping the list.

BETTYE LaVETTE:  The soul vet was featured on WHYY's Fresh Air, which is streaming on demand via NPR.  You can also stream songs from The Scene of the Crime, which was recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala., with the Drive-By Truckers and the legendary session musician and songwriter Spooner Oldham.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & the E STREET BAND told Paris Monday night that "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town."  But I still like the vintage video from Passaic, NJ in 1978.

INDIE BANDS have filed a class action lawsuit against RJ Reynolds and Wenner Media, alleging the unauthorized use of artists' names, unauthorized use of artist names for commercial advantage (right of publicity), and unfair business practices, arising out of a multi-page ad called 'Indie Rock Universe' that appeared in the 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone magazine.

ANDREW BIRD's performance on KEXP's Secret Stage at the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival is streaming on demand via NPR, under the heading "Favorite Sessions."

LILY ALLEN announced Wednesday that she is "thrilled" to be pregnant with her first child.  The father is Ed Simons of The Chemical Brothers.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  The supposedly sober supermodel plans to sue to stop the troubled singer from spilling the beans about their former tumultuous relationship for a Brit TV documentary.

AMY WINEHOUSE:  Psychiatrists were called in to calm a 'screaming and sobbing' Amy Winehouse before she was arrested last night over an alleged £200,000 plot to fix her husband's assault trial.

JAMIE LYNN SPEARS, the pregnant 16-year-old sister of Britney, reportedly will be paid a million bucks by OK! magazine for a photo shoot when the child is born.  And her dad is "furious" with Jamie Lynn and ex-wife Lynne for selling the story.  Fed-Ex knew before Britney that Jamie Lynn is pregnant. 

BRITNEY SPEARS has been ordered to appear for a January deposition by the court hearing her custody dispute with Fed-Ex.  The pop tart has ducked four prior dates.  One of the requests Fed-Ex's lawyer reportedly made to the judge is that Spears not be allowed to make any requests to change the current custody status until she has been deposed.

LINDSAY LOHAN has a new best friend (and roommate?) -- Courtenay Semel, the daughter of Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel.  Meanwhile, her ex-con dad played the role of Joseph the other night in a far-out street-scene Nativity recreation in Times Square.

ORLANDO BLOOM has disturbed his neighbors -- including Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johansson -- by painting his £1.35million mansion black.  Black as coal.  Black as night.

EWAN MacGREGOR will play the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy based on the story of Steven Russell, a married father who fell in love with cellmate in a Texas prison.  NTTAWWT.

EVA LONGORIA & TONY PARKER continue to deny he had an affair with French model Alexandra Paressant.  This time, Tony's lawyer issued a statement that Tony has never even met her.  So it's not a shocker that Parker has filed suit against against X17, the photo agency that published the model's claims and text messages.

JESSICA SIMPSON:  Her films may be going direct-to-DVD, but creepy dad-manager Joe is pitching the pneumatic blonde in a remake of Pretty Woman.  And after the poor performance of her new boyfriend, Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo at the game she attended last Sunday, wide receiver Terrell Owens told the media, "Right now, Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite - in this locker room or in Texas Stadium."

TARA REID, on top of the plastic surgery disasters, is looking scary skinny in Bali.  Reid has admitted to suffering from anorexia nervosa in the past.

CHER, otoh, fears she may have to take daughter Chastity to the squeezing room.

AWARDS SEASON:  The People's Choice Awards will undergo a last-minute format change, courtesy of the writers strike.  Instead of handing out awards before a studio audience, the show will consist of magazine-style videos in which celebrities accept awards, thank fans and answer questions submitted to the People's Choice website.

STAR TREK RE-BOOT:  Sci-Fi wire has a piece on the problems plaguing any cameo by William Shatner.

THE HOBBIT:  Peter Jackson will not be directing the two Hobbit movies, but will have approval over all creative elements of both films.  Despite rumors that Sam Raimi, Alfonso Cuarón, or Guillermo del Toro will be taking over directing duties, sources say that no decisions have been made on that subject, nor has a writer been chosen.  John Scalzi theorizes that New Line settled its feud with Jackson beacuse The Golden Compass is cratering at the box office.

MEGAN FOX from the Transformers movie is looking rather hot in the Japanese version of Rolling Stone magazine.  I would normally save that for Gratuitous Friday, but I'm going to try to be holiday-themed then.

WALL*E:  Next summer's Pixar pic has an exclusive trailer running at WallSpace.

TERROR in FRANCE:  A French court Wednesday convicted five former inmates from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of having links to terrorist groups, while acquitting a sixth man.

PAKISTAN's election commission upheld the decision to ban ex-PM Nawaz Sharif from January's general elections, eliminating a key opposition leader and a main rival to Pres. Musharraf.  Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies have quietly set free nearly 100 men suspected of links to terrorism.  Human rights groups and lawyers say it is to try to avoid acknowledging an elaborate secret detention system, but I would not rule out that it could be part of yesterday's hypothesized deal with militants to chill before the elections.  A former senior US official said that Pakistan was the "real front line in the war against Al Qaeda", but the "most frightening concern" is AQ's pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

IRAN:  A top Muslim cleric said on Wednesday that women who do not wear the Muslim headscarf should die.  Iran's growing relations with Nicaragua's Sandinista Pres. Ortega and Venezuela's Pres. Chavez are causing state department officials, former national security officials and counterterrorism researchers to worry that that, if attacked, Iran could stage strikes on American or allied interests from Nicaragua, deploying the Iranian terrorist group Hezbollah and Revolutionary Guard operatives already in Latin America.

IRAQ:  Though they are still dominated by Sunnis, the "concerned local citizens" patrols' make-up in Baghdad increasingly reflects the ethnic and sectarian community they are guarding. An increasing number of Shia are now joining their ranks, some in a bid to counter the influence of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in their area.

IRAQ and the MEDIA:  According to a new study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the portrait of Iraq that Americans received from the news media from Jan-Oct was in considerable measure a grim one. Roughly half of the reporting has consisted of accounts of daily violence. And stories that explicitly assessed the direction of the war have tended toward pessimism.  As the year went on, the narrative from Iraq in some ways brightened. The drumbeat of reports about daily attacks declined in late summer and fall, and with that came a decline in the amount of coverage from Iraq overall.  Because good news is not news, even when the status quo was bad news.  Go figure.

PETA is trying to wreck Christmas for Japanese whales.

DIESEL, a nine stone Great Dane/Alsatian cross, is just as good as a car alarm.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  Icanhascheezburger.com -- home of the LOLCats -- has a picture of a Secret Squirrel Training Facility.  It was submitted by someone named "karl," but I swear it wasn't me.

A WOLF walks into a bar...

FEMALE MONKEYS take a hint from When Harry Met Sally.

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