MUSIC:
Kanye's blog has Bon Iver covering Feist live. I'll be straight with you: it's so cold and shitty everywhere on this globe that you really, really need this warm and snugglable song right now. Fireplace optional.
The last Black Lips single really did nothing for me, but this new one is really pretty good. Maybe a little too throw-backy, but pretty good.
DiS writes up ATP. ...OMG?
New Jay-Z leak! Is it from the new album? I like it enough to hope it is. It sounds like Jigga scoring a teen melodrama from the eighties. Lyrically, it's not his best, but it's still stellar. It's streaming here, but yeah, if you want to download it, you guys can find it.
The producers behind Weezy's new single felt pretty much exactly the same as we did. Okay, comment here: Is Weezy versatile enough to pull off something like this? Yes. Tha Carter III was the most diverse album (well, most diverse good album) of 2008. But this isn't rock. This is pop-punk-emo, and nobody makes pop-punk-emo good. And even if he could, if this track is any indication, he isn't.
Even though Hussle samples Kris Kross, watching the video, he sounds oddly fresh.
Also on Fader, Gun Outfit has a concise and old-school indie rock track bein' freeloaded. If you don't have time to listen to it, you are in too much of a hurry.
FILM:
The Sci Fi Wire has a reasonable look at TDK's snub.
/Film has got me all excited over Mr. Nobody. Props to the film for abiding by the Leto rule. (In every Leto role, something terrible happens to him. Here, he is the only person who will ever die. Rule: satisfied. Cinema is hungry for Jared Leto's blood!) Oh, and The Damned United looks good.
If you make the same joke for three films, doesn't it stop being funny? God I hope I am wrong about this.
IFC's Indie Eye writes up the Weezy doc.
WEIRD:
You know what needs to be a musical? Michael Jackson's Thriller.
WORLD:
Our new envoy to the U.N. sounds, well, really great.
A U.N. hospital in Sri Lanka was shelled, killing many U.N. workers.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed by a Palestinian bomb on the border.
PERSONAL:
Today was really, really cold. Also, wet and muggy. It was a good day to own a hoodie, 'sall I'm saying. Also, I was exhausted enough to take a nap, which yielded a weird-ass dream about Shia LaBeouf in a conspiracy theory movie.
2009 FILMS SEEN: 1.5
2009 SONGS ON MY ITUNES: 123
Current Computer Situation: MacBook Pro, worried for the first time about underheating.
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