Ben Folds, Nick Hornsby and Levi Johnston

Weird news of the day, Ben Folds and Author Nick Hornsby are collaboratting on a album out later this year and have released a single about Levi Johnston of the Palin baby daddy fiasco. Here it is:

News Roundup 4.28.10

Hey! How about a news post? Yay!!!

• Conan O’Brien will appear on 60 minutes on Sunday

• Comic Book author Alan Moore’s various music projects

• A Wrinkle in Time graphic novel is in the works

• Stream the new Flying Lotus album

• The New York Times profiled the band The National

• What are the 80 best workout songs?

• Penguin Books asks tattoo artists give book covers tattoos‘

• And finally, NPR wonders does Marmite have a bad name?

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

Random News for the sick girl

I’m not feeling well and getting worse by the moment irrespective of OJ guzzling. So I don’t have enough energy to think about which of these items I want to post about, therefore, I’m putting them all in one.

Here we go:

• A book about Record Stores

• Here’s a trailer for the Pride ad Prejudice and Zombies book prequel ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Quirk Classics: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)‘ out next Tuesday.

• Would you subscribe to get books?

• PBS doc ‘Earth Days‘ will premiere on Facebook on April 11

• Florida band Surfer Blood talks to Paste

• NPR has an article about Peter Gabriel‘s cover album

• and finally, Mike Tyson and his pigeons

Welcome back to me Newsie Post

I’m back and glad to be. There’s so much you miss by going offline for a couple of days huh…

• Roger Ebert sat down with Oprah

• Is Madonna coming to Macy’s?

• Speaking of comebacks, Courtney Love’s Hole has returned. Her first single is “Skinny Bitch“…sigh

• NPR profiles the band Lightspeed Champion

• The Bird and The Bee with Livestream their concert on this Friday, March 5!

• Neil Patrick Harris is going to be in the Smurfs Movie

• Oscar Shorts are now avaliable on demand and news that the Oscars will honor horror films…finally!

• Alice In Wonderland movie review

• And finally, good news for the Gaza Strip, Israli has (I’m sure) temporarily called off an air raid because of Facebook

Random News Post

Let’s do a random news post for your Tuesday:

• David Byrne’s tour documentary will debut at SXSW. Hopefully it will include lots of Byrne on a bike footage

• New trailer for the upcoming oscar nominated film ‘The Secret of Kells‘

• Look for author James Patterson‘s foray into comics in May 2010

• Straight from His Holiness’s twitter page here’s video from his Larry King Interview

• Because I love him, here’s Zach Galifinakis interviewing John Wray

• 17 Amazing Lego Structures

• Oprah unveiled a set completely made of chocolate

• Sign the Charles Bukowski stamp petition

• Have you heard the new New Pornographers song?

• Porn for girls

• and finally, what are Satan‘s top 10 favorite albums?

Almost Weekend Items UPDATED

So here’s some items of note I thought I’d pass on:

• If you haven’t already, watch the entire Oscar nominated animated short Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

• The Underwire wonders if this devo ad makes you feel funny

• Chickens in Love is a full-length album of original songs with lyrics written by 826LA students and recorded by Los Angeles recording artists. This album will feature recordings by She & Him, Fiona Apple, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, among others. The album will benefit 826LA

• If you are a regular reader of my blog you know how into music videos I am. Here’s one for a really good song from Meghan Smith

• UPDATE: Here’s the Toy Story 3 trailer and here’s some new characters in the film. So head to MySpace at 8am (PST) for a trailer for Toy Story 3, but for now, here’s the trailer for M. Night Shamalan’s The Last Airbender

• Hear the She and Him performance for BBC

• Catch up on The Life and Times of Tim before it returns on Feb.19

• Reminder that Feb. 23 is Free Pancake Day at IHOP

• Tracklisting for and new song from Joanna Newsom‘s new album out Feb. 23…and here’s a new book of about her

National Hangover Day Newspost

Since it’s way late, I’ve titled today’s regular newspost in honor of the day after the Superbowl and I feel a little hungover, even though I didn’t drink last night. Anywho, here’s the news from over the weekend and today:

• A documentary on DC comics is on the way

• Trailer for Luc Besson’s The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec

• People are really into this new documentary on Babies, where most of the movie is without dialogue

• If I had an Iphone I would totally need to take this Iphone programming college course

• Flaming Lips drummer is teaching a college course

• Neil Gaiman is writing a Doctor Who special

• Missed SNL this week. Here’s some of the best videos from the show

• And finally, Why does Vampire Weekend make people so angry?

Newsy post for Friday

Not really news, just a hodge-podge of interesting items to note floating around on the internet today:

• What if Wes Anderson directed a Spiderman movie

• Dreamworks is turning a blog into a movie

• All about Amanda Palmer’s new Evelyn Evelyn project…including who’s singing on it

• How are vinyl records made? (via DodgeMOKB)

• Basia Bulat has NPR’s song of the day

• Ricky Gervais has a new animated show coming to HBO!

• If you’d like to hear the soundtrack to the upcoming movie Alice in Wonderland, you can listen here

• Or, listen to Coachella artists

• Here’s a trailer for the new Magnetic Fields’ documentary Strange Powers

• Small Wonder dvd review (via PopCandy)…so bad, it’s good

• And I’m feeling very feminist this week. Here’s a story on Disney’s female animators

• And finally, Neil Gaiman plus 10 reasons Arthur is a geeklet icon

News for your Tuesday

• Check out the Rock n’ Roll auction to help Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls

• What’s on Angela Gossow of the death metal band Arch Enemy’s Ipod

• More info on Dengue Fever‘s Cambodian music collection

• Had the best tv watching night last night. I really enjoyed myself…especially RuPaul’s DragRace. Here’s a recap with Project Runway’s favorite drag queen (and mine)  Chris March

• Rare interview with Calvin and Hobbes Creator (via The Underwire)

• Watch The Griswolds during the Super Bowl

• A new ABBA album on the way?

• Ricky Gervais trailer for Cemetary Junction

• ANd finally, so freaking excited – Daria is finally coming to dvd. Here’s a trailer