It's Christmas eve today in the southern hemisphere, the weather is slightly overcast, humidity is within bearable limits and yet I still feel like Christmas isn't set to come for a couple more months. Gimme some of that Christmas cheer, Steve Carell.
I love when batshit crazy people play batshit crazy people on film. Case in point Mel Gibson. His latest film is called The Beaver. It is about a guy who has severe problems with functioning normally in society kinda like Mel Gibson in real life. Then it starts getting all kinds of weird when he starts talking through a derelict looking beaver he finds in a dumpster. I find this actually to be really hilarious which I don't think was the actual intention behind the film but either way it is lol-inducing.
Pete Doherty and Charlotte Gainsbourg are set to star in a french film about the 19th Century poet and dramatist Alfred de Musset. Although Pete Doherty is most commonly associated with substance dependency, I am actually genuinely excited to see this. He has started blogging about his preparation for the film on his new blog Albion Rooms and writes "My character must display natural grace and poise – as was expected of a young aristocrat and dandy of 1830s French society". I personally think Doherty would be really well suited for this role. The film will be based upon de Musset's autobiographical writing The Confession of a Child of the Century also known as Confession d'un Enfant du Siecle.
Ronnie Spector was asked by Spin mag to rate some modern bands. Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls and Noisettes were among those chosen and rated by the living legend. You can catch the whole article here.
Tom Waits will be inducted in 2011 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Awesome! This is what it says on the Hall of Fame website "Beginning with his first album in 1973, Tom Waits has carved out a unique place in rock and roll. His music mixes Chicago blues, parlor ballads, beat poetry, pulp-fiction parlance and – when you least expect it – heart-breaking tenderness. His enormously influential live shows combine elements of German cabaret, vaudeville and roadhouse rock. After establishing a successful early style as a wry singer-songwriter, Waits went through a dramatic expansion with Swordfishtrombones (1983). Disregarding musical borders and commercial considerations, he set off in wild pursuit of the Muse. Waits has composed film scores, musical theatre and an operetta. He has co-written with Keith Richards and William Burroughs." About freaking time this happened.
No Doubt - I'm Just a Girl
