You know, with the Internet, you can blink and miss out on important stuff. While I was on vacation — seeing the premiere of The Flaming Lips' musical of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, in fact — NEW news appears from the Lips camp. This came from their Facebook page:
Or so it seems as labels and retailers extend their groovy deals post Thanksgiving and into the December holiday season. Here are a couple cool ones we’ve heard about:
Tarantino XX contains eight films chosen by writer-director Quentin Tarantino to illustrate the first 20 years of his career from 1992-2009 — pretty much his entire auteur oeuvre — that has brought joy to lovers of cinema and inspiration to filmmakers everywhere.
After having his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, screenwriter-on-the-skids Joe Gillis (William Holden), chased by a pair of repo men, pulls into an open garage in what seems to be an abandoned, run-down mansion.
The 15 films from 1942-1976 gathered here — Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble with Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), The Birds (
What a musical treat 2012 has been so far : new music from XTC's Andy Partridge (via Mike Keneally and Peter Blegvad), three new Guided By Voices albums and now a second new Neil Young album — out today — called Psychedelic Pill.