Wednesday News

Good morning all! Happy St. Patty’s Day and beginning of SXSW’s music conference. Woohoo! Some odd items I thought I’d pass on:

• Phish has announced summer tour dates

• Watch Zach Galifinakis interview Ben Stiller

• Devendra Banhart’s new trippy video for ‘Baby‘

• Dessa’s new album is a book?

• You can now pre-order Elliot Smith’s debut album ‘Roman Candle‘

• Tool’s Maynard James Keenan’s documentary on making wine

• And Jimmy Fallon announced he will have a week-long celebration for the Rolling Stones

DVDs released today

I feel like listing the dvd picks this week:

• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – Based on David Foster Wallace’s book of the same name, a grad student writes her dissertation on men after being dumped

• Gogol Bordello Non-Stop –  This documentary gives us a look behind the band of the same name

• The Cool School – This documentary examines the rise of the Los Angelos art scene

• Astro Boy – animated movie based on Osamu Tezuka’s classic anime story

• Twilight in Forks: The Saga of the Real Town – Sure Twilight: New Moon is out on DVD on March 20, but also out is a documentary about the Washington state town made famous by the books

• Veiled Voices – This documentary follows 3 Islamic female leaders whose divorces cause many to question their legitimacy as leaders

• Paris – Juliet Binoche stars as the sister of a dancer that is warned his job could kill him, so he reinvents his life

• The Princess and The Frog – Disney’s first African-American heroine about, well, princesses kissing frogs

• Wonderful World – A pessimistic pot head has to examine his cynicism after his roomate becomes ill

Also out: Did you Hear about the Morgans, White Strips Doc: Under Great White Northern Lights, Broken Embraces

I’ve never done this pretty much all on my own. How’d I do?

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