Before we close out the weekend, a few links worthy of your clicking / browsing:
• Axe-slinging Idolator fave Mary Timony has a new band called Soft Power, which, based on the two songs that are streaming from its MySpace right now, sounds like what would happen if her solo efforts got Krautrock remixes. Needless to say, I love this. [MySpace via Jessica Hopper]
• Pete Wentz is imagineering a comic book around the Folie A Deux track “Tiffany Blews.” Also, it’s his 30th birthday today. Also, this Sunday’s episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent is called “Folie A Deux,” although I suspect that is just a coincidence. [Fall Out Toy Works / Buzznet]
• Jeremy Barnes, who’s performed with some of my favorite indie outfits and is currently working with the Balkan-inspired outfit A Hawk & A Hacksaw, has put together a list of his 20 favorite Romanian albums. [FACT via Matos]
• In case your Twitter feed is missing a certain… something, the “Ultimate Follow List” put together by UK rock rag Kerrang! provides a gigantic list of musicians on the microblogging service. Now, you can follow Jared Leto, Sebastian Bach, and pretty much everyone who played at Bamboozle last month! [Kerrang via The Daily Swarm]
• The first time Elvis Costello heard “Black Dog”? At a Robert Plant/Alison Krauss show. So, you know, recently. [eMusic]
[Photo via Drake LeLane]
What’s up with the Law & Order franchises having some decently written episodes this season? Even SVU had some good ones towards the end.
@righteousmaelstrom: i’m telling you, getting rid of fred thompson was the best thing to happen to the show. he was leaden and awful and half his monologues sounded like they were the result of his contract mandating that he reiterate things he’d said on the senate floor while in ‘character’. i refer to the farina/rohm/thompson period as l & o’s dark age — pity, too, because i still really like jesse l. martin, s. epatha merkerson, and of course sam waterston. but the scripts were way too ‘ripped from the gawker headlines’ and everything was just totally awkward.
also criminal intent is just AWESOME. jeff goldblum!!
You know, we’ve talked about the Fred Thompson-era before and I fully agree with you. The final Rohm episode was all sorts of WTF. This last season with Sisto and Bernard has been very good. Even the stupid throwaway joke one of them always says right before the opening credits is something to look forward to.
I was sad to see Noth leave CI since I liked him in the original Law & Order with George Dzundza, but yes, Goldblum is awesome.