Peter O'Toole: Still Strangely Attractive

Before Jeremy Irons cornered the market on British actors both hot and creepy, there was Peter O'Toole. The original Shakespearean perv.

I was rooting for O'Toole to win the Oscar this past Sunday even though I just saw Venus today. Why? Because every other nominee has at least another 40 years in them (I'm pretty sure), his legacy of work is astounding and an honorary Oscar just isn't good enough. Having seen Venus now, I can safely say my intuition was on point by supporting him for the Oscar. And sadly, I don't know if he'll get another shot.

The movie was amazingly dynamic, hilarious and existentially thought provoking. Should I be disturbed that I was actually empathizing with the chemistry between him and his twenty-something co-star? I'm not sure. But I was finding myself strangely attracted to him and that blows all you fools on your "Helen Mirren is hot" bandwagon out of the water by at least three decades.

There's something about O'Toole that reminds me of old Hollywood and living in L.A., it's easy to yearn for those days. Oh well, at least I have the double features at the New Beverly to console myself with.

Go see Venus at the Laemmle on Sunset while you can.

Tibet House Benefit in NYC

Michael Stipe, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, and Ben Harper were among the star studded cast of performers who enraptured the crowd at the Tibet House benefit concert at Carnegie Hall.

The two-and-a-half hour celebration of Tibetan culture consisted of awe-inspiring, once in a lifetime musical performances, charming anecdotes, and no mention whatsoever of Tibetan culture.

Rolling Stone correspondents were there to provide congratulatory hand jobs to anyone within reach.

iamnottryingtobelieve.

www.ijustwanttohearthefuckingsongs.com


For more info on the NIN craze that's sweeping the nation, go here.
















Though certainly the front runners, NIN fans aren't the only ones with too much free time on their hands.

Somehow lost in the shuffle of cryptic internet marketing du jour, The Arcade Fire is also keeping fans and overeducated rock journalists up late at night doing tedious and ultimately pointless research with their site, www.neonbible.com.


As a result of the NIN and Arcade fire campaigns, unpaid interns with mad web skills everywhere are anxiously refreshing their inboxes.

27 Million Americans Held Captive By Possible Red-Neck, Definite Fifth Grader

26.6 million TV viewers last night proved that they were indeed dumber than a fifth grader by continuing to support Jeff Foxworthy's post-YMBARNI... career. This puts the show in place to follow the tradition of other top series premieres such as "The George Carlin Show", "Jesse", and "Inside Schwartz". If ratings fall next week Fox's marketing executives have promised to change the shows premise to have all contestants losing to the fifth graders immediately placed on the cast of Fox's new reality show "Are you faster than this hungry cheetah?"

You Had Me At Colon Movie

“Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters”
is the name of the film...

And they obviously consulted either Borat or my brother for title grammar.
(Those who know my brother are laughing pretty hard right now.
Those who don't, probably aren't.)

Here's the deets:

Movie Soundtrack Debuts April 10, 2007
Movie Opens Nationwide April 13, 2007

The soundtrack features: "new, original music from Mastodon, Killer Mike and Unearth. The score also includes recordings from old school rap legend Schooly D, who contributed a new version of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Theme for the film, as well as The Hold Steady, Nine Pound Hammer and others".

The movie is about this: "an action-adventure epic that reveals the mysterious origins of Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. When an immortal piece of exercise equipment threatens the balance of galactic peace, it is up to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force to run away from it. Peril escalates when Plutonians team up with the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past to strive for ultimate control of the sinister, deadly device."

Unfortunately, I notice no Mooninite references in that blurb, which is really a shame after all the hard work they did protecting Boston from the Gorgatron.

Ice Cream Is Coming To Save The Day

I'm calling this out as the jam of the summer, it's like Alan Astor had a baby with TV On The Radio. Check out his website for more songs, his first release is coming out in April through Bang Bang 12 Inches.
Muscles - Ice Cream
Bang Gang 12 inches