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New Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron And Fred Squire - ''Flaming Home'' & Lost Wisdom Album Art Lately we've heard Phil Elverum unearthing "Black Wooden" music with "In Moonlight," playing fragile solo pieces in Poland, and being covered beautifully by Damien Jurado. On "Flaming Home," Elverum's teamed up with Julie Doiron and guitarist/Doiron bandmate Fred Squire. It's from Lost Wisdom, a 10-track collaborative album between the three. This song at least is quiet, pretty, and deals with ashes, a burning house, obliteration, and a shadow. It's good to look at the album art because it illustrates the themes. Stereogum.com Friday, July 18, 2008 Consumers Bored With This Whole 'Save The Earth' Thing [Advertising] Well, it's been a year or two since the corporate world started its "green" advertising revolution, and it's worked. The problem is solved! The problem being the fickle consumer's desire to hear companies talk about how "green" they are. "After 18 months, levels of concern on any issue tend to drop off," explains one marketing wizard. Now we can all sit back and feel good about what we've accomplished! The earth is still destined for environmental ruin, but at least we'll be subjected to less marketing bastardization like this: [Bloggers] and other Internet critics have already started to expose what they see as greenwash advertising. A French group called l'Alliance Pour la Plančte, for example, cites an ad for a Japanese sport utility vehicle that was billed as having been "conceived and developed in the homeland of the Kyoto accords," the international emissions-reduction agreement. The Times' advice: "avoid vague and unsubstantiated claims - the kind that bloggers and other criti Gawker Friday, July 18, 2008 Like many government programs, Fannie and Freddie?s objective is noble, but at the same time inappropriate for government to undertake.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the quintessential federal government boondoggles. Created in 1938 by FDR, the two institutions’ function is to buy mortgages and provide guarantees for the same in order to make homeownership more likely for more Americans. Like many government programs, Fannie and Freddie’s objective is noble, but at... Blogcritics.org Friday, July 18, 2008 'Post' on 'Mamma Mia': ''[?]'' [Corrections] We got tipped on this an hour ago and happily it still hasn't been corrected. The new york Post's review of Mamma Mia comes with bracketed editor's notes asking the reviewer to clarify vague passages! At no extra charge! Anyone want to check the print version for us? In case they fix it, click to see the screengrabs. [NYP] Gawker Friday, July 18, 2008 Britney Spears Gives Up Custody Of Kids [Gossip Roundup] Britney Spears gave up custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline, retaining only visitation rights. The singer had been showing signs of steady mental and physical improvement, so it seemed odd she'd give up her custody battle so readily. Meanwhile, Spears' handlers keep trying to nudge her into making some more money for them, already. Sad. Amy Poehler is leaving Saturday Night Live for a spinoff of the Office. I think it's safe to blame Chris Matthews. [AP] After admitting she was stung by Maxim magazine calling her the "unsexiest woman in the world," Sarah Jessica Parker had her trademark mole removed. Or maybe it had nothing to do with the stupid magazine thing and everything to do with the mole having to be digitally edited out of the Sex And The City movie, which would make anyone a touch self-conscious. [LA Times] The Who bandmates Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are supposed to do a $100 million tour but are already fighting over song selection and insisting on s Gawker Friday, July 18, 2008 Perfection: How I Got to Go to the World Premiere of The Dark Knight From obsession to ovation, the wholly lucky journey to the premiere of The Dark Knight is a story of perfection.
You want to know a secret? My life is perfect.I’ve got family, friends, health, and comfort. I’ve got a university that loves me, an ample supply of medium-sized t-shirts, and all the peanut butter and jelly a growing boy could ask for. Sure, my favorite sports teams make it a point to underachieve, but at least I never became a Boston... Blogcritics.org Friday, July 18, 2008 Netroots Nation: A Fly on the Wall In which a square-peg Republican makes a visit to the beating heart of the progressive left and comes out alive.
Living just outside of the Peoples Republic of Austin I'm in a unique position to observe and study the world of the American left, while at enough of a distance to maintain some objectivity. That proximity sometimes brings with it unique opportunities. This week that means that I have a chance to attend Netroots Nation, the nationwide gathering... Blogcritics.org Friday, July 18, 2008 AP's Celebrity Bumbler Now Covering Ethnicity [Jobs] You might remember Jesse Washington: He's the Associated Press editor who last year issued an ill-conceived ban on Paris Hilton news that, after much to-do, was lifted in less than two weeks. Within a year, the AP went entirely in the other direction, telling staffers "everything involving [celebrity] Britney [Spears] is a big deal," a reversal Washington awkwardly, and overenthusiastically, joined, again making waves with the announcement that the wire had already written Spears' obituary amid the singer's psychiatric breakdowns. He also rather rashly said in a video interview that "if you want to know that it really happened [in celebrity news], then you're going to have to go to AP... If we put it out, you can bet the house on it that it really happened." That hyperbolic claim was undermined a few months later, when a source claimed "the AP misquoted me" as saying actor Paul Newman had cancer. Having displayed such a nuanced touch, what might Washington's future be at the wire serv Gawker Friday, July 18, 2008 Does Brett Favre Know When to Say When? Packers management is afraid that Brett Favre will thrive elsewhere. They shouldn't be.
The melancholy drama playing out in Green Bay between Brett Favre and Packers management is a painful reminder that, at its core, professional sports is far more about the business than the game. One doesn't survive without the other but never forget, as Favre certainly won't now, that when business imperatives crash head on with personal issues,... Blogcritics.org Friday, July 18, 2008 Videoblogger Ze Frank Lands Movie Deal [The Cinema] Ze Frank, whose awesome series of daily two-minute Web videos ended last year, told a new york audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater he landed a movie deal with Universal. As NewTeeVee points out, Frank follows in the footsteps of the Ask A Nina guys, who are remaking Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and the co-founder of HomestarRunner, home to the series "Strong Bad Email," who just landed a deal to direct a movie with the guy from Napoleon Dynamite. It's great to see entrepreneurial videobloggers crossing over into mainstream media, but you have to figure that the blowback from struggling screenwriters and low-level TV and movie producers is going to make all the bitching about blogger book contracts sound positively celebratory. After the jump, two of my favorite Frank videos. Gawker Friday, July 18, 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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