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Mystery Jets, Bob Mould, Neko Case, Duffy, Nubs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, February 18, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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MYSTERY JETS have video for the upcoming single "Young Love," which features Laura marling and is sure to help get your week off on the good foot.

WILCO:  Chicago Tribune scribe Greg Kot is blogging the band's five-night, career-spanning stand at the Riviera Theater, including set lists for Friday and Saturday nights.

GREG LOURIS, of Jayhawks and Golden Smog fame, got a lengthy piece on his new album and tour in the Mpls. Star-Tribune, which is a good excuse to relink his mini-set for The Current.

BOB MOULD talks to the Guardian about his efforts to struggle to accommodate his burgeoning gay consciousness with his musical self over the past decade or so: "I think music is universal. I guess that's the difference between a gay musician and a musician who's gay."

MOUNTAIN GOATS mastermind John Darnielle talks to the Guardian about Heretic Pride. "'a much more fun record than I've made in a long time,' full of songs about Prince Far I, cheap motels, religious cults and swamp creatures."

NEKO CASE seems to be trying out new songs like "Blue Blue Baby" on tour, if this bootleg video is an indicator.

DUFFY is top of the pops in the UK, which is a good excuse to relink a prior blurb about the Lulu-esque Welsh chanteuse.

NADA SURF, unfortunately best known for their 1996 novelty hit "Popular," stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via NPR. 

LILY ALLEN and her trendy-ite crew went on a 15-hour bender Friday night.  Before and after pics at the link.

AMY WINEHOUSE's junkie husband narrowly cheated death after a drug overdose in prison.  At least he sent her a Valentine's Day gift basket from prison.  Again, it should be a big red flag when you are getting grandfatherly advice from the Rolling Stones.

BRITNEY SPEARS gets an offer of help from neighbor Heidi Klum: "She can call me and come live in our house with us for a couple of months. I would help set her straight,"  Attorney John Eardley filed papers in federal court last Thursday, alleging the California courts have railroaded Britney by imposing a conservatorship, paralyzing the California courts from issuing more orders in the conservatorship case unless and until the Federal judge tells Eardley to take a hike.  It appears that Sam Lutfi is behind this maneuver, though he is evading service of a protective order and is reportedly under investigation by the LAPD for allegedly drugging the pop wreck.  Spears was not looking like a hostage on the town with her dad-conservator.  BTW, Saturday was the one-year anniversary of the her bizzare head-shaving incident.

JAMIE LYNN SPEARS apparently drank and slept around a bit before getting knocked up, according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.  Indeed, the tab claims that in December, she shocked a boy at a party by asking him for sex. "It's cool, I'm pregnant," she said. "I can't get pregnant again!"

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  The overall box office is probably the biggest winner of the long Valentine's Day-President's Day weekend.  New releases captured four of the top five slots, led by Jumper which did 33 million since Thursday -- probably more than okay, given its lousy reviews.  Step Up 2 also did alright, just a little less than the original's opening in August 2006.  The Spiderwick Chronicles had a fairly soft 21.3 million since Thursday; its main hope of recouping its 90 million budget rests in a dearth of family films until Horton Hears a Who next month.  Fool's Gold dropped about 40 percent from first to fourth.  Definitely, Maybe rounded out the Top Five with about 12 million on a relatively small 2,200 screens.  The adorable Juno marked its ninth weekend in the Top Ten as it closed in on 125 million in sales.  An Oscar next weekend could put the little film at 150 million.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Two years after their highly publicized plans for a divorce were announced, Sir Paul has agreed to give Heather Mills more than 108 million dollars - a tidy 27 million for every year of their marriage.  Mills, 40, will pocket a nearly $40 million lump sum, with $5 million annual payments until their 4-year-old daughter Beatrice reaches 18.  Mills apparently spent the weekend writing a check-list for her perfect man... and gold-diggers need not apply!

LINDSAY LOHAN was working both Entourage star Adrian Grenier and Leonardo DiCaprio Tuesday night at a West Hollywood club, to no apparent effect -- other than falling off the wagon again with vodka and Champagne.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON & NATALIE PORTMAN kissing would be a reason to go see The Other Boleyn Girl, but they apparently do not make out in the movie, which is getting bad advance buzz.  So really, I have just saved you about ten bucks.

DENISE RICHARDS & CHARLIE SHEEN UPDATE:  After a much publicized court battle with ex-husband Sheen over allowing their children to participate, Richards, daughters Sam,3, and Lola, 2, their 10 dogs, two guinea pigs, and two pot-bellied pigs will start filming their as-yet-untitled reality show for the E! channel, scheduled to air this summer.

THE FRENCH HOTEL got a visit from the L.A. Dept. of Animal Services to investigate a complaint about her 17 dogs.  In L.A., regulations state that a non-breeder is only allowed three dogs per address.  The French Hotel may be practicing a lot, but she's not breeding yet.

KIRSTEN DUNST:  Regret over her breakup with three-year beau Jake Gyllenhaal (partially due to her partying) led her to party more, and ultimately to the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah.

ORLANDO BLOOM seems stuck on Victoria's Secret supermodel Miranda Kerr.  Pics of the pair -- and of Ms. Kerr on the job -- at the link.

THE OSCARS are less than a week away.  The New York Times Magazine is all over it, including video interviews with the year's breakout performers, including Ellen Page from Juno.

PRESIDENTS DAY is recognized now instead of Washington's birthday, But in 1776, David McCullough notes that when Washington took command in July 1775, he thought he would be home at Mount Vernon by Christmas. McCullough catalogs Washington's blunders -- many of them nearly fatal to the Cause -- but concludes: "He was not a brilliant strategist or tactician, nor a gifted orator, not an intellectual... He had made serious mistakes in judgment. But experience had been his great teacher from boyhood... and above all, Washington never forgot what was at stake, and he never gave up." That, as much as anything, is why Washington is usually ranked among the greatest of US presidents.

ZOMBIE WATCH:  Staff at a Bitish sewage works have called in a ghostbuster because they are being stalked by a zombie-like figure who roams the underground tunnels.

KOSOVO: Revelers fired guns into the air and fireworks lit up the skies over Kosovo on Sunday after parliament proclaimed independence, defying Serbia and Russia with a historic declaration as the world's newest nation.

ISLAMISM in the UK:  A new sharia law controversy erupted Saturday night over Government plans to issue special "Islamic bonds" to pay for Gordon Brown's public-spending programme by raising money from the Middle East.

CARTOON JIHAD:  A group of Danish lawmakers has canceled a trip to Iran because Tehran demanded they condemn the reprinting of Prophet Mohammed cartoons in newspapers.  Iran has also urged the Netherlands to prevent the screening of a film in which a right-wing populist lawmaker plans to lay out his view of the Koran, a news agency in the Islamic Republic said on Saturday.

IRAQ:  Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital could soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday.  For the first time, Gen. David Petraeus is cautiously optimistic.  Similarly, for the first time, skeptic Anthony Cordesman says "there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state."  Major challenges remain, however, including reforming Iraqi law enforcement and the judiciary.  Former CIA officer Reuel Marc Gerecht has a piece in the WaPo challenging the conventional wisdom that the war in Iraq brought huge numbers of holy warriors to the anti-American cause.

NUBS, a German shepherd-border collie mix befreiended by Marine unit, followed them 70 miles through a war zone.

AN ARMY OF VORACIOUS GIANT CRABS is on the brink of invading the shallow seas off Antarctica, where an array of unique, almost prehistoric sealife has evolved for millions of years without any predators.

CARNIVOROUS TREES grabbing humans and cattle and gobbling them up is not just Indian village folklore?  It's on the Internet, so it must be true.

A JACK RUSSELL TERRIER and a BADGER were rescued from a 30-meter mineshaft in Cornwall.  It's like the Jessica McClure story, but with a terrier and a badger.

A SKITTISH KITTY that scampered out of its carrier on a NYC subway platform has been found after 25 days in the underground tunnels.

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