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- Want to write the next great rock book on that totally amazing album by that one guy? Shoot your idea at music blog 33 1/3 and see if it sticks. (Via Editor Jill)
- Those end of year sum-up lists aren't all done yet, folks! Just check out Idolator's 2006 Jackin' Pop Critics Poll! They surveyed critics and writers all over the world (including some folks in our own home town), tallied the results, and came up with some pretty cool lists of the best albums, tracks, artists, etc. from last year. We love these Rotten Tomatoes type of critics' surveys because they feel more definitive and meaningful than just one random person's opinions. In this case we do like a number of the albums in the top 20 (go Crane Wife!), are a little underwhelmed by one or two (c'mon, people, Modern Times really isn't that great), but are unfamiliar with many others, so we'd better get to listening... (Via Editor Jill)
- We may have spoken too soon when we trashed the 2007 CES yesterday for being too boring. Sure, Wired has the photos of a ton of butt-ugly devices on display there, but Shiny Shiny has videos of a bunch of cool things, like a real exercise bike add-on for your video games, handy Wii carrying cases, and, best of all, the R2-D2 mobile entertainment system, which looks and moves like everybody's favorite droid, plays radio, CDs, and tons of audio file formats, and can act as a projector for DVDs, games, and photos! That's hot.
- We've got two bits of news about completely unrelated movies both called Avatar this afternoon. First up, M. Night Shyamalan is going to write, direct, and produce a live action film version of the Nickelodeon fantasy action cartoon, "Avatar: The Last Airbender." Hey, that's pretty awesome! Next, James Cameron's jumping back in the director's chair for a sci fi film called Avatar about an ex-marine sent to a faraway planet to exploit it, but who ends up getting caught in a battle for survival by the planet's inhabitants.
- Roger Waters is doing a song for a kids' sci fi movie. Cool!
- Flaming Lips is very hit-and-miss as far as we're concerned, but we are a pretty big fan of their album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, especially the track "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21." So we were pretty pleased when we discovered this cool music video for that very song. We only wish the video quality was better. (Via)
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- How had we not heard about the gay Cthulhu move starring Tori Spelling before?! Well, sounds like it would have been just as well if we'd never heard about it, as Table of Malcontents has found strong evidence that it will totally suck.
- Speaking of Cthulhu, we can't resist putting in a little plug for our favorite Cthulhu-themed band, the Canadian Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. They just opened up their very own eBay store, and put up a special charity auction for a super-sweet prize pack that will include an autographed copy of their upcoming new album, The Shadow Out of Tim!! Man, we can't wait for that thing to come out. (Via)
- Fun iPod news for today: budding filmmakers could enter the 2007 iPod Film Festival (via) and possibly win the device, amongst other prizes. Also, some enterprising hackers have figured out a way to merge the iPod with one of our other favorite devices: the DS. God bless you, hackers.
- We give you a lot of lists here at the Whiz, and a lot of them are pretty pointless. But brace yourself, because this may be the most meaningless, most useless list we've ever found: it's every book Art Garfunkel has read since 1968. Brilliant! (Via)
- We know you don't need voice actors until post production, but we're still a little surprised that they're only now casting some of the parts for the Transformers movie. But anyway, we're pleased with both of the rumored two final possibilities for the voice of Megatron: Hugo Weaving and Frank Welker (the guy who played Megatron in the original cartoon).
- First of all, we can't resist saying for the thousandth time, "Why in God's name would you remake a Hitchcock film?!" We know the answer is easy and obvious ("To make lots of money"), but...gah! It's Hitchcock! He's the master! You cannot improve upon him! Anyway, that being said, we're still vaguely curious about this Birds remake, especially since they're now talking about casting Naomi Watts, which seems like a pretty inspired choice.
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