I spent all MLK day fretting about Coachella. Now I can go outside and maybe nonviolently hassle some racists.

PARTIAL LIST!

Roger Waters (trippin’ balls alert)
The Verve
Portishead (SWEET)
The Raconteurs
My Morning Jacket
Rilo Kiley
Jack Johnson (UGH gross)
Death Cab for Cutie (hug yourself and sway alert)
Kraftwerk (the first time I saw them they inadvertently made me laugh)
Justice
M.I.A. (”It’s a bamboo burner!”)
Love & Rockets
The Breeders (OOOOH!)
Sasha & Digweed
Cafe Tacuba
Fatboy Slim (he’s alive?)

Pals over at Superblast have this list up:

Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, Madness, Animal Collective, Tegan and Sara, Mum, Fatboy Slim, Sharon Jones, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, Portishead, Busy P, Les Savy Fav, Kid Sister, The Black Kids, The Cool Kids, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Mountain, Man Man, I’m From Barcelona, Horrors, Shout Out Louds, Luckyiam, Rogue Wave, The Bees, Datarock, Cut Copy, Kraftwerk (on the mainstage!!!!!!), Death Cab For Cutie, Roger Waters, Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Diplo, Jens Lekman, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Sasha and Digweed, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Chromeo, Metric, The Streets, Simian Mobile Disco, Murs, Dmitri From Paris, The Field, Autolux, Justice, Breeders, Spiritualized, Cafe Tacuba, Austin TV, VHS or Beta… 125 bands in all.

 URB has this link too!

As many of you out in cube land must know, you’ve got your work computer (always clean out those cookies) and probably one at home (why hello illegally downloaded music and strangely suspect websites in history folder probably due to a BF). I just happened to notice today that my one of my Firefoxes has way too many bookmarks but HEY, some of them are kind of neat. And mostly involve shopping. Because I am a girl. I must adhere to the gender roles assigned to me.


Anyhow – what’s in this horribly unorganized bookmarks folder?



Super 8 Movie Spool Clock by IMOTIME
I was probably among the last kids in a particular generation of film school students to actually use a Super-8 camera to learn how to edit and shoot my very first short films. Clearly I want this out of pure nostalgia. Kids today! They don’t know shit! With their Canon DV this and thats and their YourToobs and such. Pfft.



“No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford” by Brandon Bird
I have no idea where I may have stumbled upon Brandon Bird’s art but you must visit his site to see more of his work. His paintings have this strange affect on you: first you are comforted by a recognizable pop culture reference, and then you are disoriented when it’s turned on its head, usually in a joyous and surreal twist. You might see Christopher Walken working on a robot or Noam Chomsky walking in a parking lot towards his sweet, sweet ride. Buy something too, contribute to the arts, you person that is probably super excited watching American Gladiators. (Insta-Disclaimer: I have been watching American Gladiators.)



Bertman’s Ball Park Mustard
Recommended to me by my boss after I had described to him how I wanted to steal the mustard from Phillipe’s by simply pouring it into my pockets.

Guys With Guns – a Flickr photoset by peter-noster
Yeah, I was probably looking for pictures of Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz to set as my desktop background and I came across all kinds of actors brandishing firearms in this excellent little collection. Click further. You’ve got to see Sean Connery in Zardoz.



Polish Movie Poster for Mulholland Drive by Swava Harasymowicz
This is just plain old sweet.

I Got Wood – Ed’s t-shirt from Shaun of the Dead
Well, come on. Every slacker male on the planet should have this to go along with his unique odor of video game sweat, oily foods, and the musky touch of bong smoke.

Banksy rules. There’s so much to-doodle about how he’s a sell out now that people like Angelina Jolie show up to his art openings to buy $150,000 statues. Since when is it a bad thing when an artiste manages to make a living from his or her work? In 1857 Paris, Banksy would have been king of the world! Drinking Krug out of the bosoms of young whorish models and such. Something Delacroix-ish like that.

Anyhow, here’s Shep Fairey (another “sell out” because he can feed his family) (or is he a sell out because they simply sell out of his t shirts at Urban Outfitters) interviewing Banksy in the newest Swindle. Which I rarely buy because it’s like $15 or something. Sheesh. Sell outs! Anyhow, Bansky comes off as a cocky badass, which is badass.

I never go to the openings of my shows, and I don’t read chat rooms or go on MySpace. All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants to borrow money, so I’m not sure how reliable he is.

Fairey & Banksy @ Swindle

David Tennant’s good Doctor gets not one, not two, but three “companions” in upcoming season 4 which we Americanos won’t see until the apocalypse, or sometime later in 2008, whichever comes first and doesn’t end in nuclear holocaust.

Mmmmmm movies. And a great director. They go together like bacon and bacon. Here’s a piece of the big spiel from the New Beverly Myspace page.

THE WRIGHT STUFF @ The New Beverly – Dec 2nd – 17th

Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more excited about Edgar Wright’s festival at the New Beverly, we’ve come to blow your mind. The line up of Edgar’s special guests are so incredibly awesome, you are going to thank us profusely for the best Christmas present you have ever received.

The Wright Stuff.
The New Beverly Cinema.
December 2-17, 2007.

Dec 2-4 Bugsy Malone and Phantom of the Paradise – 12/2 guest Paul Williams, composer & star of POTP

Dec 5-6 Flash Gordon and Danger Diabolik – 12/5 guests Timothy Dalton & Joe Dante

Dec 7-8 Last Boy Scout and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – 12/7 guest Shane Black

Dec 14-15 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (TBC) and Head – 12/14 guest Mickey Dolenz

Dec 16-17 Raising Arizona & Evil Dead 2 – guests TBD!

7165 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036.
(between La Brea and Fairfax)

$7 general admission
$6 students
$4 seniors/children

No advance tickets will be sold.

Questions to: newbeverlyforever@yahoo.com

Myspace.com/edgarwright
Myspace.com/newbeverlycinema
Newbevcinema.com

Most of these screenings have special guests, some so special they won’t even tell us yet…**cough cough**BruceCampbell???**cough cough** so please visit them URLS for more information.

David Tennant and Peter Davison. This is the 8 minute Christmas special we stinkin’ Americans never get to see because the BBC doesn’t seem to realize that passionate Whovians live in the States and are dying for even 8 more minutes of the Doctor. Watch it now before the corporate Big Brother jerks yank down the video. BRILLIANT! (Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey.)

Alright, if you don’t know (and this means you are a very bad Anglophile), David Tennant IS Doctor Who (no, I mean really, like in real life too I think) and Jessica Hynes was one of the stars of the now-cult-classic TV show Spaced. Together they make a TV formula rich in nutrients that I will drink down like a hungry baby abandoned in a greasy back alley dumpster.

Learners @ BBC | Learners @ IMDB

Paramount Pictures is beaming up Simon Pegg to play Scotty in J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek.”

Pegg joins Eric Bana, Anton Yelchin, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Leonard Nimoy in the latest bigscreen incarnation of the classic TV series.

Penned by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the story chronicles the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members during their time at Starfleet Academy. Chris Pine has been offered the role of Kirk.

Paramount has set a November start date for the film, which will bow on Christmas Day 2008.

Abrams and Stratton Leopold are producing, while Kurtzman and Orci will exec produce alongside Bryan Burk and Damon Lindelof.

Pegg, whose recent credits include “Hot Fuzz,” will star in the upcoming satire “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.”

It’s the darndest thing, but shortly after reading this set of words I suddenly became a Star Trek fan?

THIS JUST IN: JOHN CHO TO PLAY SULU.

Holy jeeze, it has Clive Owen AND David Tennant, AKA DOCTOR WHO in it?

The Anglophile center of my brain just imploded.

Gary found some big happy news for fans of funny British people! Looks like the Little Britain guys are developing a show for HBO, featuring some of their most famous creations (Vicky Pollard 08!) but probably throwing in a fair amount of new American characters.

Finally. Something on American TV that doesn’t have Doogie Howser or Anne Heche in it. Do not write to me and tell me that How I Met Your Mother is funny. I do not care. CBS doesn’t even work on my TV.