MEDIA MONDAY
What have you been listening to, watching, reading?

Super Creepy--Be on the Lookout
Just so you know, if your young kids show up with a CD of the newest wholesome-looking little girl group, 2 cute blond 13-year-old twins named Lamb and Lynx Gaede, you might need to have that we're-not-white-supremacists talk with them earlier than you expected. It's not just bad-music fun. It's recruitment.

Songs like "Sacrifice" — a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer — clearly show the effect of the girls' upbringing. The lyrics praise Hess as a "man of peace who wouldn't give up."

So, what's creepier, the fact that they call themselves "Prussian Blue"? Or the smiley Hitler face t-shirts they wear in promo pictures?

Seriously though, is today some kind of autumn version of April Fool's Day I don't know about? This can't be for true.

Top 100 Films, Again
Another useless best-ever list, but it's interesting. Total Film magazine "surveyed UK film experts" to compile the rankings for their next issue. Here's the top ten:
10. His Girl Friday
9. The Lord Of The Rings
8. The Empire Strikes Back
7. Tokyo Story
6. Citizen Kane
5. The Godfather Part II
4. Fight Club
3. Jaws
2. Vertigo
1. GoodFellas

I've got no beef with Goodfellas being #1. It's a great movie. And I liked Fight Club alot, but not sure about #4 of all time....

We're old!
This December 3, The Beatles' Rubber Soul will be 40 years old. That means that today we're farther away from events in 1984 than 1984 was from Rubber Soul. This Tuesday an inevitable tribute album is released. It may be a decent listen, I don't know. But I'm already pissed at one of the contributors, Rhett Miller:

Miller, for instance, didn't do much to alter "Girl," though he was sure to monitor his breathing.

"I got to correct what I saw as one of the only flaws on the record," he says. "After John sings 'girrrrrl,' there's this sharp intake of breath and it sounds like he's taking a bong hit. That's always bothered me, having to hear his respiratory. So I didn't do that."

A flaw??? Are you kidding me, dude?? Sure, don't do the breathy part, but only because you're not worthy....when he said it that way, they should have kicked him right out of the project.

a flaw...please. that's one of the most beautiful parts of the album.

Other contributors include Ben Harper, Sufjan Stevens, Dar Williams, Low, Ted Leo, Ben Kweller, The Donnas, Cowboy Junkies, Fiery Furnaces, Mindy Smith.

Nerd Beauty
Math as art

Weekend Box Office
1. Doom (seriously?)
2. Dreamer
3. Wallace and Gromit
4. The Fog
5. North Country

Anne Rice
Who knows, it may be great, but this strikes me as a little weird

In two weeks, Anne Rice, the chronicler of vampires, witches and—under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure—of soft-core S&M encounters, will publish "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. "I promised," she says, "that from now on I would write only for the Lord." It's the most startling public turnaround since Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" announced that he'd been born again.