Happy Birthday, Björk
Auntie Fashion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Björk Happy birthday, Björk. My astrologer tells me that there are many similarities between our charts. I can see it.
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OMG, music video round-up: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Valley Lodge, Patrick Wolf & Grizzly Bear
!! omg blog !! (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
We interrupt this lazy Sunday for another round-up of indie music video wackiness featuring naked man furniture, a passionate pastoral romance, an astronaut with pancakes for a head and some stunning stop-motion animation. First up is the Charlotte Gainsbourg/Beck duet "Heaven Can Wait" in which the French songstress and her impresario producer are inserted into a series of obscure Internet...
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Cult acts cash in with MySpace deal
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
MYSPACE has defused a year-long row with independent record labels, allowing artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Basement Jaxx and Bjork to sell songs on the social networking site’s music service when it launches shortly in Britain.
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Mystery VGA teaser revealed as Spec Ops
Joystiq (Free subscription) | yesterday
It appears as though yesterday's mystery teaser for the upcoming Spike TV Video Game Awards , featuring a CGI scene of a war in Dubai, is actually not the newest teaser in the world. Revealed back in August, the clip is said to be from upcoming 2K Games franchise reboot Spec Ops . Originally, the title was claimed by EGM rumor mill "Quartermann" to be in development in the shuttered magazine's...
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Birthday Suits, That Girl Those Girls
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
1694 Voltaire , Enlightment philosopher, writer, progressive. Candide is his work that's most familiar to modern audiences having been filmed, adapted, and put on lists like this one as well as being adapted into a popular and oft-revived comic operetta. Kristin Chenoweth doing "Glitter and Be Gay" is theater heaven. 1912 Eleanor Powell , queen of tap. Broadway Rhythm it's got me Everybody...
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Daily Chat 21/11/09
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | yesterday
Judas Maccabeus restored the temple in Jerusalem in 164 BC. The Mayflower Compact, setting out the rules by which Plymouth Colony would be governed, was signed by 41 men in 1620. The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened in 1964. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world at the time. Bombs exploded in two pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 people, in 1974. Born today: Voltaire (1694-1778), René...
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Celebrity birthdays on Nov. 21
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Marlo Thomas is 72. Actress Juliet Mills (Nanny and the Professor) is 68. Actor-director Harold Ramis is 65. Goldie Hawn is 64. Actress-singer Lorna Luft is 57. Actress Cherry Jones (24) is 53. Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 46. Singer Bjork is 44. Rapper Pretty Lou of Lost Boyz is 38. Actress Jena Malone (Saved) is 25.
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Who Is More Famous: Jesus Luz or Christian Siriano?
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Last week we received an invite to an event that promised free Grey Goose vodka for two hours while Jesus Luz D.J.-ed in the penthouse of the Hotel on Rivington. Since he's hot and we like free vodka, house music, and the scant possibility of Madonna showing up, we signed up. The crowd was a mix of horrible meatpacking nighttime people and desperate faux hipsters. When we arrived, Jesus was sitting...
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Make A Bid On Slick Rick's Diamond Encrusted Camouflage Eye Patch...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Slick Rick’s Eye Patch : Phillips de Pury’s Music Auction : Phillips de Pury is an esteemed auction house dating back to 1796. Its clientele includes Marie Antoinette, Beau Brummell and Napoleon. A different ilk of bidders, however, will be raising their paddles this Saturday as the firm holds its inaugural Music sale. The auction’s 231 lots are a constellation of music-inspired...
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New Fan Death Video - "Cannibal"
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Fan Death don't skimp on the video treatments: The clip for " Reuinited " featured a number of roadside cameos (Axl Rose, Marilyn Manson, Björk, others) via excellently unconvincing, often creepy lookalikes. This time, taking a turn into the white trash, we find an overweight dude in sweats and wife beater (and fairly hip hair) cuing up a Fan Death aerobics-style VHS video, seemingly...
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Mamma Gogo trailer
Twitch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A trailer for Fridrik Thor Fridriksson's new film, Mamma Gogo , has hit the web, unfortunately un subtitled for all you out there. It seems that Fridrik is returning to a subject that got him an Oscar nomination a few years back and at the same time riffing on his own career. The story is about a director who has just released a new film, Children of Nature , the same title as Fridrik's own Oscar...
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Decade's end: The Year 2004
XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Early morning view from my room in Shanghai. 2004. Brilliant year! This blog is born! Back in London! Good year. My favorite song was, without a doubt, Keane's swoony epic, Your Eyes Open , which reminded me of Ultravox and hits like Reap The Wild Wind . This was the return of the romantic male singing voice after years in the growling butch wilderness. My other favorite song was unlikely: Nancy Sinatra's...
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Björk records song for 'Moomins' movie
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Björk records a new track for the upcoming Moomins movie.
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Lights :: Kool Haus :: Thu. Nov. 26
Toronto Hot Events (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Would you like to go and see a barely gown up, little Canadian girl wail on a keytar for an evening? Well then I'm sure that Lights can help fill that craving. After coming out with a few subsequent EP's in 2008 and then the full blown album, The Listening , in 2009, Lights has managed to snatch up her little piece of the synth pop seen in a hurry. The Timmins born singer-songwriter sights her main...
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New Moomin Movie In 3D, With Music From Bjork
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This is one for fans of Calvin and Hobbes or Studio Ghibli, and if you found Where the Wild Things Are's sweet melancholy too much to resist, then there's a good sprinkling of that feeling to be found here too. The Moomins were the creation of Finnish novelist and comic strip author Tove Jansson and, according to legend, she drew the first one to scare her brother. That cute thing? Scary? Maybe it...