Just got back into Songkick, which scans your music library and then tells you when your favorite artists are on tour. Already found too many in LA for me to afford!

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This week’s DLC for Rock Band includes another Yeah Yeah Yeahs song. Yay! It’s been a LONG time since there was something I wanted.

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I just posted a new article on my other site. It’s a postcolonial reading of I Walked With a Zombie, part of a presentation a friend and I did in LitCrit this week.

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It’s been rumored for a while, but Guillermo Del Toro is now definitely signed to direct The Hobbit! It is going to be awesome.

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Roger Ebert has started blogging! Lots of major film critics are now, and I’m glad he’s joining them. His health still isn’t good; send good vibes his way.

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The Austin City Limits lineup is posted. LOTS of tempting bands there. Nearly tempting enough to come back for.

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Film at 11 is hosting a blog-a-thon honoring the 40th Anniversary of Andrew Sarris’s landmark book The American Cinema, which brought auteurism to America in 1968. Film bloggers are contributing entries for filmmakers since the book’s publication.

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This review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days says everything I feel about the film, but better than I can say it.

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