tidbits

does anybody read this?  i don't think i would.  i think i mostly post about stuff of interest to me, and it's very random and not very reliable and i don't post very often.  yeah, i probably wouldn't read it.  but if you do, that's awesome and i hope someone does.  or else why is this on the internet taking up precious bandwidth?

here is some news:

-according to darkhorizons, tom cruise and john travolta want to remake butch cassidy and the sundance kid with cruise as sundance and travolta as butch.  WHAT.  please stop it you guys.  the original movie is one in which i wouldn't change a frame, a work of great beauty and originality and something that shall not be fucked with.  when is someone like me going to make it to hollywood and get some original ideas flowing into town?  why so many remakes?  i know, i've made this argument before.  so this post is sorta a remake, with butch cassidy in place of last house on the left/rashomon/etc/etc/etc.

-tuesday is tomorrow and so is my birthday.  music comes out from: neil young, bat for lashes, the thermals, lady sovereign, and VERY EXCITING is the crystal antlers.  allegedly the last touch & go release in the foreseeable future?  they don't have anything else listed (although there is that jesus lizard box set for record store day) so i hope we get some announcements of new stuff from them soon.  from enon, how about.  or ted leo or the ex.  or another exciting new band.  someone.

-home video comes out tomorrow too: doubt, mirror noir (arcade fire concert film), and some other stuff.  i dunno. i just got lazy.

hey remember last year when i wasn't lazy?  i made this post about my birthday and those with whom i share a birthday.  but i missed a few.  here are some additions to the list:

-Spencer Dryden, drummer for Jefferson Airplane.  Not The Greatest Drummer, but great nonetheless.

-David Frost: the famous David Frost, subject of one of The Greatest Films of 2008, Frost/Nixon.  The Greatest Nixon Interviewer, that's for sure.

-Florian Schneider: founding member of The Greatest Pioneering Electronic Band, Kraftwerk.

more bests

del the funky homosapien is nice.  he must like me.  he's giving me a present on my birthday!

actually he's giving it to everybody.  a free album to download!  it is called Funk Man (The Stimulus Package).  

go to delthefunkyhomosapien.bandcamp.com and say what version you want (i went with vbr high myself) (hey! also there are two other "leak pack" eps worth of other free stuff!) and you have to put in your email address.  then you get sent a link back to the site but the download starts.  

and um...the download starts.  even though it says available april 7th 2009.  so ummmm...hmm, you get it now.  

so get it now!!

(still waiting on that new deltron album...but this is very much appreciated.)

via pitchfork (so i hope i can trust that they're not lying this time!)

OTHER NEWS:

*new danger mouse project coming this summer.  mysterious! (stereogum)

*booker t is teaming up with the drive by truckers for a new album.  on anti-.  it seems like it should be surprising but it sounds about perfect to me.  (billboard)

*that's all the recent music related newsworthy news.  ta.