Achtung Baby!

and &: a miscellany

+ Lost Season 4 & Blu-ray ( When the hell are they going to release season 1?)
+ Santogold and Mark Ronson
+ Call of Duty 4 and Death Cab for Cutie
+ Nintedo and Wiiware
+ Jon Favreau & Iron Man Comic = Sell Out
+ Zune and Steve Niles
+ Classic Disney & Blu-ray = Sleeping Beauty (::Yawn::)
+ IGN fools & Singstar PS3 
+ Elvis Costello And The Imposters: Go Away 
+ Coldplay: Lost
+ Robin Danar + Rachael Yamagata: 2000 Light Years from Home
+ Dark City + Blu-Ray = Fucking Fantastic

Japanese Culture and Nabokov meet the DC Universe

from the FINAL CRISIS: SKETCHBOOK

Of course Grant Morrison would create a character called "Shy Crazy Lolita Canary" who is part of "Japan's number one pop culture heroes, the Super Young Team" (Final Crisis #2). Nabokov via Japanese Culture say hello to the DC Universe.

"Frank never did like Rock and Roll"

May 14th, 1998. Ol' Blue Eyes passes away.

+Bono introducing Frank Sinatra at the Grammy Awards 1994

    Frank never did like Rock and Roll
    And he's not crazy about guys wearing earrings either
    But he doesn't hold it against me
    And anyway, the feeling is not mutual

    Rock and Roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank has got what we want:
    swagger and attitude
    he's big on attitude
    Serious attitude, bad attitude
    Frank's the Chairman of the bad
    Rock and Roll plays at being tough but this guy, well, he's the boss
    The boss of bosses
    The man
    The big bang of pop
    I'm not gonna mess with him, are you?

+Bono & The Edge: TWO SHOTS OF HAPPY, ONE SHOT OF SAD
+Sinatra & Bono - I've got you under my skin

+ 10 years after Frank Sinatra's death, daughter Nancy helps keep the legend alive
+ This American Life: Sinatra

VV & Hotel cover the VU

'Sup Magazine Issue 18: 10 Questions with The Kills and Interviews with Santogold, Lightspeed Champion, Tigercity [via]

+ The Kills - Live on The Current: being a broadcast in which they cover VU's "Venus in Furs".
+ The Kills - Last Day of Magic Video
+ The Kills live at Antone's SXSW '08

I thought you were Special ten years ago

Version 2.0  by Garbage, Released on May 12, 1998 in the U.S. This is my favorite Garbage album.

"Special" (brothers in rhythym) remix

+ "You Look So Fine" (live) - Epic!
+ "Push it" (live)
+ "Medication" (live)

How long can I guy go on dreaming

Text: Charles Bukowski

[ Maude Maggart - Deep In A Dream/I Had The Craziest Dream ]

Under the Sea, Under the Sea....Bioshock: The Film

+ Verbinski to Direct BioShock Film

Gore Verbinski's next film will take us back to Davy Jones' locker -- but this time, into the undersea world of BioShock.

Variety reports that the Pirates of the Carribean director has been tapped to direct and produce a film based on the critically acclaimed world of the Xbox 360 game for Universal.

+ Gore Verbinski talks about directing the Bioshock movie

Gore Verbsinski: Of all the games out there, I think "Bioshock" is the one that's the most engaging. I think the whole utopia-gone-wrong story that's cleverly unveiled to players is brimming with cinematic potential.

+ BIOSHOCK: BREAKING THE MOLD PDF Art Book

Criterion + Blu-Ray

A Criterion "Chungking Express" Blu-Ray? Yes, please!

Let's break the walls down And find how to live 'Cause you and I have So much to give

Dear You,

I am getting nowhere with you.

where are you tonight, And how’d we get here?

I’ve been chasing ghosts and I don’t like it

Could I be possibly insane To think you and I have life figured out?

If you try the best you can, The best you can is good enough

The crumbs of love that you offer me, They're the crumbs I've left behind.

I'm in a garden of remembering your fingers in my hand, were like a book made of sand

Just when you feel it
You don't
It's gone forever

Finally it all makes sense
I could keep this all from you

Go away, go away
And leave me on my own

Talking only makes me feel more alone

Adorote by *complejo

Teddy Thompson: I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone

“Talking only makes me feel more alone,”
you said once in the car outside the clinic.
Two years later, you spoke the same sentence
word for word one night after friends had gone.
Within a month, you’d erased yourself    . . .
Erased? “To absent oneself,” I found scribbled on
a wrapper a year later    . . .
   Now sunlight and tree
shadow rush over the windshield of  the car:
I’m talking with my new wife — then gone, absented.
“Sometimes I feel almost too much joy,”
you wrote from the balcony of  your cheap
hotel in Paris. “What are you thinking?” she asks.
Light shutters across us. Wherever you are
in me I’m there, though it’s not what you wanted.
Infidelity by Philip White

The Supremes: Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (2000 Box Set Version)