If you want to hear the new Arcade Fire song you will have to go here. It is from the Hunger Games soundtrack, a story which I persist in assuming is about some kind of televised obesity contest. Please do not disabuse me of that notion. Anyway, the song's pretty good. [Via]
"The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), the Arizona-based anti-illegal-immigration group whose members keep watch on the border, is disbanding as a national organization, after its leader asked for volunteers to come 'locked, loaded, and ready,' then got more than she bargained for." LOL… eh. The group had trouble fundraising recently, mostly, it seems, because vigilante citizens were required to report suspected illegal immigrants to the authorities instead of hunting them down like this was Liberty City. Just wait. There's a lot of hungry reality TV producers out there…
Lenny Kravitz. My word. He went directly from The Rugrats Movie to Precious and now is supposed to be in Selma and The Blind Bastard Club AND he is going to be playing the helpful hairdresser/wardrobe designer Cinna in The Hunger Games which… well, since people say the main character has been whitefaced, I guess we can say the supporting cast is being straightfaced. Because that character was gay gay gay gay gay. (I also pictured the character as being about twenty years younger but I'm in favor of age-blind casting.) Also they cast Dobby the elf from Harry Potter as the hunger games announcer and I [...]
I would not ever have been caught dead with a copy of Harry Potter in public. When I'd see my fellow adults, some of whom may have been kidults actually, toting those books around, I'd feel a very real horror. I think it is embarrassing for them! And so I didn't ever even read it. It wasn't just the squeamishness about the popular and mass market, even though I'm a little bit of a snob, sure-it's really just a fear of being someone who reads books that don't require advanced reading skills. Even in a world where there's lists like The Best YA for Adults 2009, and where [...]
