April 09, 2005

Daily Digest

From the USD (Unnecessary Sequels Department) comes this news: Garfield Returns! (Via ComingSoon.net.)

Dave Matthews Band news: the new album is coming out soon and Billboard has news including the track listing

Adelaide's Rip It Up magazine has a nice feature story this week on Aussie Ben Lee

Rip It Up again, this time with a great interview with R.E.M.'s Mike Mills (via mumurs.com)

Flagpole Magazine's Paul Butchart looks back at the early days of R.E.M.

Lifehacker shares some fun examples of Google's kickin' new Q&A feature

April 07, 2005

Daily Digest: Lucky Us

Coldplay album news: NME has the tracklist and Stereogum reports the cover art (pictured) reveals some wacky hidden message.

Now that the Newlyweds is off the air, we need some new young celebrity marriage to make fun of. Lucky us: Kevin Federline agrees.

Introducing the soon to be shut down one-stop-shopping web search engine: Yagoohoogle

MTV has a new online, on-demand initiative entitled Overdrive. Not surprisingly, it (like the rest of MTV.com's media content) will only be compatible with Windows and Windows Media. I thought we were past the days of catering to only one set of customers. MTV, you suck.

Comic scribe Jeph Loeb will write the script for a movie based on the legendary Will Eisner's The Spirit. Also, check out the Spirit/Escapist crossover in this month's Dark Horse comic based on the Michael Chabon creation.

Despite the departure of Bryan Singer, it appears the third X-Men installment probably won't suck

Emmys to cut back on acceptance speeches to bring back viewers...here's a tip: how about not giving out any awards and just televising a party with all the winners? Reality TV!! That's what the viewers want!

The Dodgers' Eric Gagne ejected from tonight's game...while on the DL!! Dude, simmer down...you're in LA for god's sake.

Fluxblog has a nice live version of what might be my favorite R.E.M. song, "Life and How to Live It" in celebration of R.E.M.'s 25th Birthday.

Mike Davidson, who doesn't need the free press provided by such a stunt, is giving away free iPod shuffles all year long. First contest: play with your food and win.

Finally, here's the fantastic song from the commercial everyone is talking about (thanks to Stereogum)

April 03, 2005

Daily Digest: Sin Is In

Shockingly, I am posting this before your Uncle Grambo: here's wishing very happy 19th birthday to the lovely miss Amanda Bynes.

How they figure these things out by midday Sunday is beyond me...'Sin City' No.1 at Weekend Box Office (AP)

Elsewhere in Sin City news, Roger Ebert gets it and the Seattle P-I's William Arnold does not

One more...Rocky Mountain News on graphic novels finally finally getting their due

The New York Times calls Fiona Apple's unreleased Extraordinary Machine "an oddball gem" (free reg req'd) Meanwhile, Time magazine calls it "Extraordinary Machines." I thought a lack of fact checking was NYT's thing?

In response to Yahoo's recent 1GB email storage announcment, Gmail is upping the ante with a whopping 2GB. Technology is crazy.

The house from my favorite Christmas movie, A Christmas Story was recently sold on eBay for a steal at 150 grand

Flagpole picks the 25 Best Ever R.E.M. Songs and it's actually a good list

The Seattle P-I's Melanie McFarland apparently doesn't care much for "Boston" Rob and Amber from Survivor/Amazing Race fame. Personally, I find Rob quite hilarious (if not garrulous) and Amber quite fetching (in a bland, anonymous way)