Electricity & Lust

Link Gun

Posted in Links, Sam by Sam Unsted on March 7, 2008
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The creators of The Wire contribute an editorial piece to Time about the drug war in America.

Steve Wiebe has again missed out on beating Billy Mitchell to be the King of Kong.

The AV Club has a primer for newcomers to the work of Alan Moore. My tip: don’t read Watchmen first. Everything else pales.

Pitchfork has a new MP3 from The Breeders.

I never do links on Liev Schreiber, even though he is a chameleon. Here he is training for Wolverine.

Slate reviews 10,000 B.C.

The above also provides nine ways to truly achieve fakery in literature.

Sebastian Tellier is to represent France at Eurovision.

I also never blog about Andrew WK. So here you go.

Paranoid Park has finally reached the US and the NY Times gives its opinion here.

Rambo vs. Odeon.

Larry David discusses the Hillary scare-ad on The Huffington Post.

Krasinski, Mendes, Eggers. Yes.

Detroit Link City

Posted in Links, Sam by Sam Unsted on March 4, 2008

 

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Remember Carson Kressley from Queer Eye? Here he is in most of his glory.

Jason Isaacs has joined Paul Greengrass’ adaptation of Imperial Life in the Emerald City.

Pitchfork interviews St Vincent.

A Desperate Housewives musical? Eww…

What’s your opinion on the Irish Eurovision entry?

The new Nine Inch Nails record will be partly free.

Van Halen sick. When will they come to the UK?

The Coens’ Burn After Reading is coming September.

The AV Club digs the groovy doom rock of Earth.

New Line is being absorbed by Warner. Like a sponge.

Here’s a list of great rock books. (Thank you to PopCandy for this one)

Here’s another list of the all-time worst nude scenes. Harvey Keitel…

It’s the big one. Texas and Ohio. Reports everywhere.