MUSIC:
Franz Ferdinand are streaming their album. Impressions forthcoming.
Not only is Paste's Lovefest column a fantastic idea, but they kick it off with a quick little Antony Hegarty paragraph? My birthday came half a year early, apparently.
Big day for album covers via Pitchfork. If you liked the Rake's Song single art, you should be satisfied with the cover for the Decemberists album. If you like living in the matrix, you should be satisfied with the cover for the PB&J album. Oh, and if you like Colbert, this is for you.
DiS namechecked this truly obscure but rad-sounding group, Urgent Talk.
MTV's got a nice sprinkling of info on Jay-Z's forthcoming.
TMT plays the industry watch-dog once again, calling out Sony's drastic layoffs.
FILM:
First Pheonix goes all jiggy on our asses, and now 50 Cent has a film studio. Prediction: Neither trans-media effort will be even vaguely memorable. Just when I was kind of enjoying 5o's verse on Crack a Bottle, too...
Fun little Sundance write-up.
Oh, and no Sundance is complete unless two key elements are on screens AND in seats: drama and violence.
Collider has some Dead Snow trailers and clips. Not sure how I feel about this one... I'll put it in the could-be-fun category, but this could really go either way, since it looks pointlessly, stupidly grotesque from what I've seen.
I'm curious about the Lil Wayne doc.
RT interviews Van Sant and Dustin Lance Black. Holy shit, Dustin Lance Black is from San Antonio? My hometown just got cooler. Y'know, having raised the writer of the best picture of 2008. Oops, I said it out loud.
This should practically go in the weird section. Word is, Dakota Fanning's gonna be in the new Twilight as, I shit you not, a "seductive young Italian vampire." Uh... what?
My Chemical Romance song in Watchmen? Do not want!
I need a Coraline chaser to that for sure. What a great new trailer.
Weird-ass Sundance film with a weird-ass premise. Sounds perfect.
The National Film Board of Canada has put its full vault online!
WEIRD:
This kind-of-Weezer-knockoff straddles the line between hilarious and nightmarish.
Hell yeah, Roc Boys in the high school tonight.
The co-inventor of spandex-clad crusaders of justice has fetishes? No!
WORLD:
Caroline Kennedy withdrew from the Senate, so, things went a bit nuts.
Sorry, yeah, here's the New York Times article. I guess I'm just really excited that Obama is making good on his promise to close Gitmo.
PERSONAL:
Personal filmmaking epiphanes, the Lost premiere at last, two incredible albums to look forward to on Saturday, Che at the Drafthouse tomorrow... This has been a good day. I served as babysitter for one of the professors I've worked with at the department; a six year old and a four year old, both boys, and me realizing that being a parent someday is going to be difficult. But don't think I'm talking trash, the kids were rad; they were very involved with excavating around the Burdine building.
Oh, and that Lost premiere? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I dropped the f-bomb aloud no fewer than ten times.
2009 FILMS SEEN: 1
2009 SONGS ON MY ITUNES: 86
Current Computer Situation: MacBook Pro, no longer cold!
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OK, so to be fair, I still haven't seen "Milk." Thus, I won't fight you too hard on this. . .yet. HOWEVER. Have you SEEN Frost/Nixon??? It's one of the most intense films I've ever seen. If you haven't, I'd say give it a shot before you lay your money down. If you have, well, there you go:-P Then I will shut my mouth.
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