Pop Life
We’re going back to all-encompassing pop culture and politics links posts now. The pop culture ones will be every day and the politics ones on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. As I’ve got a new gig writing film reviews for Screenjabber, I don’t need to devote the blog to film. Enjoy the change back, folks.
The AV Club pays tribute to Alien.
The Hold Steady’s new record has a release date.
Uwe Boll is suing Billy Zane.
Everyone seems a little middling on the new Boris record. Pitchfork also has an interview with the guys from earlier in the week.
Not so with the new Portishead, greeted with almost universal acclaim.
PopMatters has a piece exploring the work of John Cage.
Vanity Fair talks to James Frey.
Esquire interviews Tina Fey.
The Guardian goes on the road with Dolly.
Andrew Kuo charts his enjoyments of gigs by The Dodos, Dirty Projectors and Hot Chip.
Roseanne Cash discusses her songcraft.
Slate briefs on Spring Books.
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan talk to The Independent.
The 2008 List of Time’s Most Influential People is out. Colbert loses to Rain again.
Finally, here’s the High School Musical 3 press conference. Those eyebrows…
Winter Link
Bergman puns off the top of the head… not easy.
High School Musical 4 has been confirmed.
Indie Queen Alert! Deschanel and Sevigny to star in Divorce Ranch.
Daniel Radcliffe is going to wap it out on Broadway. In the name of art, obviously.
Disney and Pixar are going 3D.
Battlestar’s Tricia Helfer has signed a talent deal with Fox.
Could Lauren Graham be in the Office spin-off?
Tropic Thunder trailer.
Sex on film with Brian De Palma. As best in films made by Brian De Palma. Not a sex tape. Phew, huh?
Nightlinking
REM songs this week folks.
Pitchfork reviews the new REM. Doesn’t hate it.
The AV Club has a list of fictional drugs.
Viral marketing is hurting girls who are actually called Sarah Marshall.
Take a tour of Scranton’s office.
James Wood comments on the art of Richard Price’s prose.
The BBC interviewed Goodfellas-basis Henry Hill recently.
Entertainment Weekly list the twenty scariest movies ever.
Liz Phair is reissuing Exile In Guyville.
The Hold Steady are profiled on PopMatters.
Jezebel asks what the least mood-inducing books are?
The debate on Michael Haneke continues.
The Guardian comments on ‘Rickrolling’.
Nickelodeon is gearing up to challenge High School Musical.
Diablo Cody’s comedy pilot is moving closer to probable.
The final trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV is available.
The Killers will headline Reading and Leeds.
Portishead are planning another record after Third.
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin play a session for Daytrotter.
Kiefer Sutherland is to direct the new Feeling video.
I Was Made For Linking You
The ’24’ prequel will explain all.
The AV Club talks to author Carl Wilson.
It also digs Human Giant.
Check out the stills from Watchmen. The Comedian is looking good.
What is the punishment for death? (Thanks Tom)
Another loved Warp release today. This time Clark.
A selection of art, doom and glitch luminaries are contributing to the Table of the Elements single series.
HUDGEWATCH! It’s been a while. She making a movie.
The Flaming Lips are playing Lovebox.
What’s with all the lack of decisions, Democrats?
Janet Malcolm discusses the Gossip Girl world.
Sasha Frere-Jones has some love for Sigur Ros.
Howard Dean is proposing a redoing of the primaries in Florida and Michigan.
So Obama still won more delegates in Texas? Explain, Wall Street Journal.
Chuck Klosterman contributes a piece on road movies to The Believer.
And that wonderful magazine also has a conversation between Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.
News on the new Death Cab.
The blog on Cracked isn’t too chuffed with these upcoming adaptations.
Here’s a profile of the lovely Zooey Deschanel and M Ward collaboration, She & Him.
Behind the scenes on Sex and the City.
John McCain must be loving all the Democratic procrastination.
Here’s a piece by Jeff Tweedy for The NY Times on migraines.
New trailer for Wanted.
Pennsylvania is a should-win for Hillary.
Joe Klein says the pressure is all on Obama now.
Ken Starr tactics? Handbags me thinks?
Where Did Our Link Go?
The AV Club has a glowing review of No Country For Old Men. On the subject, PopMatters has an interview with the Coens.
You can choose your friends. But not your family.
Garrison Keillor talks Halloween on Salon.
Hirsuite genius Guillermo Del Toro is to remake UK series Champions. For those who don’t know, here’s what that is.
The Village Voice reviews Sufjan Stevens.
Ellen has pissed off some writers.
The Pringles Ad of Brad Pitt’s past is back to haunt him.
The Office‘s John Krasinski is looking yummy in this sports-related spread from Men’s Health.
This evening Beth has mostly been playing High School Musical: Sing It! and marvelling at how complicated the harmonies are.
And Sam enjoyed Glengarry Glen Ross at The Apollo Theatre in London, starring Aiden Gillen and Jonathan Pryce.
There be some women out there who truly hate Observer Woman magazine…
And finally – here’s the Rashida Jones (Karen in The Office) starring Foo Fighters video for Long Road To Ruin
Invasion of the Body Linkers!!
Paula Radcliffe trained through her pregnancy to win the New York Marathon women’s race today.
The Guardian be hatin’ on actor-director hyphenated types.
ZEFRON WATCH!! Like Britney Watch, but you know, less stuff hanging out. Zefron using valet service here.
Place with the above, to compliment it’s aromas, HUDGE WATCH!! The squeaky teeny tiny is definitely on for HSM3.
The San Francisco Chronicle serves up a dish on Twin Peaks‘ spanking new boxset edition. Ten discs of mind-bending detective fiction.
Salon knows that second is nowhere. Unfortunately, Oprah doesn’t believe you.
Aaron ‘West Wing’ Sorkin is going back to The Theatre. The New York Times discusses such a move with the man himself.
The Washington Post says Americans are a little down right now.
Check out The Independent’s list of the 101 greatest inventions. Notice one of them is not The Independent.
Just like us, The Observer freakin’ LOVED Hairspray in the West End!
Barack Obama checks into SNL. Probably not to cover ‘Dick In A Box’ though, huh? Time discusses.
Could Jeremy Kyle really not be the stand up guy he claims to be???? Shock. Horror.
I love that designer Roberto Cavalli went to a Halloween party as fellow designer Karl Lagerfeld…
You Can’t Hurry Link
Stephen Colbert is the latest dude to enter the Presidential race. Come on; Jon Stewart next!
E!’s Kristin talks to Penn Badgley about his Gossip Girl alter-ego, questioning whether the story arc will follow the novels.
Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen’s sister Lizzie makes a bid for fame in this video for Carlotta’s The Queen.
Don’t worry, Vanessa ‘the Hudge’ Hudgens has definitely not been dropped from High School Musical 3, she’s still in negotiations.
Wow, the new Rent sucks, huh?
Anna Pickard works her magic looking over the new Britney Spears video – Gimme More. Pickard is a genius.
Donny Osmond (yes, of The Osmonds) talks us through a day of his life. And the well-meaning crazies comment on it… Dear Donny…
The AV Club urges reconsideration of Hulk (good) and Rick Moranis (not good) among others.
PopMatters celebrates a decade of Swedish indie-pop label Labrador.
Gerard Way (plump blondie from My Chemical Romance) has finished his second comic.
Slate discusses the bankability of The Clooney and begins full-on, hardcore election coverage (yeaaahh!!!)
Tess Gallagher talks to The New York Times about publishing unedited stories from her late, genius husband, Raymond Carver.
Kristen Bell talks about her imminent arrival on Heroes (please make it better KB, please!)
R Kelly Continues To Put The World To Rights…
There’s no midgets in the closet this time, just a hell of a lot of swearing, and the most sincere performance of a song since Bet On It.
Link Me Baby One More Time
Zac Efron talks Tyra, fans, crying, musicals and his Mom in Observer Woman‘s What I Know About Women.
New Paramount Vantage movie The Kite Runner is causing life-changing problems for its young stars.
Read an extract from Eric Clapton’s new autobiography here.
Following on from our Dove Advert post yesterday, The Independent discusses their latest.
Elizabeth Day asks “Can anyone save Britney?”
A publicist on their hands and knees stops The Times’ Christopher Goodwin in full swing as he interviews Reese Witherspoon.
Stevie Nicks talks to Andrew Gumbel about her life and career so far.
EW has heard Jay-Z’s new album in progress, American Gangster, and kindly sums it up for us.
New York Magazine discusses Peter Krause’s new show Dirty Sexy Money and has an extract of new comic Parade (With Fireworks) by Mike Cavallero.
Get the Gossip Girl look (if you’re confident it’s not going to be cancelled) at InStyle.
Wondering what that song is from that episode of that show? Try TV.com for answers.
Bat Link
The trailer has been released for the star-studded Extras Xmas special. George Michael, David Tennant, Barry from Eastenders, Lisa Scott-Lee, Clive Owen, Gordon Ramsay, Ashley Jensen are starring alongside Ricky Gervais!
Steve Carell and other The Office stars are filmed behind the scenes of a photo shoot for Entertainment Weekly.
The Guardian debates who should play George W. Bush as Peter Morgan decides yet again to avoid making up a story.
Ron Paul, everyman Republican, is discussed on Slate.
Tony Kaye may be a shamless self-publicist, but he’s made a documentary about abortion in America and it should be seen. That’s what the New York Times thinks at least.
More importantly though, the only sequel anyone cares about has been greenlit. No one is breakin’ free just yet.
Electricity & Lust 
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