Scenestars has three songs from Neko’s new one: Fox Confessor Brings The Flood. Check them out here. We all love Neko, let us know what you think about her new songs in comments.

Friday January 27
Lez Zeppelin
The all-lesbian Led Zeppelin cover band
Bowery Ballroom – $15
Jonny Lives! will be opening. Read all about them here and be sure to check out this MP3.
and

Saturday January 28
Idiotarod 06
Absurd shopping cart race where a bunch of drunk
hipsters nearly kill themselves
2pm; $5 per person
jstark@nonsensenyc.com – email him for location/details
The Iditarod is the famous long-distance race in which yelping dogs tow a sled across Alaska. This Idiotarod is pretty much the same thing, except that instead of dogs, it’s people, instead of sleds, it’s shopping carts, and instead of Alaska it’s New York City. Tonic hosts a free after-party at 6pm.

This video of Britney’s hubby, Keven Federline, jamming in the studio is too wonderful to not share. Check it out here.

It’s available at Scenestars. Check it out here,

This is disgusting. Another victory for Dobson and the American Family Association

The last chapter of the controversial religious drama “The Book of Daniel” has been written at NBC. Although the network stopped short of saying the low-rated show was canceled, a spokeswoman said Tuesday it has been dropped from the schedule.
The series, which starred Aidan Quinn as an Episcopalian priest with a pill habit who holds regular conversations with Jesus, has a promiscuous son and a daughter who deals marijuana, proved better at drawing criticism than viewers.
Conservative Christian groups condemned the depiction of Jesus as blasphemous, accusing the writers of portraying Christ as tolerant of sin in talks with the priest. Seven NBC affiliates refused to air it.

Who knew there was a difference between cancelled and dropped from the schedule?
And here’s the AFA statement:

‚”NBC didn’t want to eat their economic losses,” said AFA Chairman Donald E. Wildmon. ‚”Had NBC not had to eat millions of dollars each time it aired, NBC would have kept ‘Daniel’ alive. But when the sponsors dropped the program, NBC decided it didn’t want to continue the fight.”
‚”This shows the average American that he doesn’t have to simply sit back and take the trash being offered on TV, but he can get involved and fight back with his pocketbook,” Wildmon said. ‚”We want to thank the 678,394 individuals who sent emails to NBC and the thousands who called and emailed their local affiliates.”

No wonder NBC is in last place in the ratings. Pussies. You can read the article here.

The new novel by Ned Vizzini
A non-review by J. Stefan-Cole

I read page one of Ned Vizzini’s, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, and took a downbeat turn at the thought of reading another kid-on-the-ropes novel. I’d just finished Jonathan Safran Foer’s, Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud, which I’d found extremely irritating and loudly unbelievable. That kid got on my nerves, a know it all whose grief over his Dad, lost in the World Trade attack, left me unconvinced. And what’s with all the graphic aids? This comes right out of the Dave Eggers School of Staggering Genius; punching up the words with gimmicks, like words don’t have strength anymore to carry meaning on their own. When I saw the little doodad diagrams at the chapter heads in Vizzini’s teenage novel, I was ready to revolt: I didn’t think I could take another pubescent view on life and death.
I was wrong.
Vizzini’s Craig Gilner is not another Oskar Schell. He’s closer to Holden Caulfield, and the dialogue is kid snappy without being nihilistically dark. Craig spends a full year of his barely begun life cramming to get into an elite Manhattan school, Executive Pre-Professional High. “That first semester, in addition to the book list, I had this class called Intro to Wall Street that required me to pick up the New York Times and Wall Street Journal everyday…to create a portfolio of current events articles and show how they related to stock prices…” Phew, that would send me into a Republican-inspired corporate-ruled panic attack. We don’t quite learn why Craig wants to join ranks with the powerbrokers except for a vague idea of becoming president some day. Yes, of the United States.

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We stumbled across the Bauer Blog this weekend. We’d wondered what Gary Bauer, former evangelical Right golden boy, had been up to. Evidently, when’s he’s not in DuPont Circle, hiding behind the big oak tree, throwing pebbles at gay men, he’s blogging. His latest entry reads “Bin Laden Joins the Anti-War Movement.” We’re glad to see he’s as creepy as ever. It brings stability to our lives.

by Dave Thomas

From Why We Fight

This month’s movie preview is coming a tad late because, well, we’re retarded and forgot to post it. So sorry, Dave. We’ve kept your public waiting. We’re still in a post-holiday haze, even though it’s almost February. Without further ado, here’s the truncated January Movie Preview.

LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD

WHAT’S THE PITCH?
Albert Brooks is hired by the government to be the title.

WILL IT SUCK?
Early buzz is not so great. Apparently, he doesn’t find it.

HOW WELL WILL IT DO?
The return of Steven Soderbergh next week will overshadow this. This week, bad
buzz might move people to the more serious "Why We Fight." $1mil.

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UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION

WHAT’S THE PITCH?
More fun with that guy who looks like the lead singer of Creed and Kate Beckinsale
as a werewolf/vampire hybrid and straight-up vampire, respectively.

WILL IT SUCK?
They have pretty much the same crew in front of and behind the camera again
so expect the same level of quality as the original. Which is to say, yes, it
will suck, but not terribly so.

HOW WELL WILL IT DO?
I think this will pull a "Saw II" and outdo the original thanks to
DVD sales expanding the audience for the franchise. $87mil.

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WHY WE FIGHT

WHAT’S THE PITCH?
Remember when Eisenhower warned us against the military/industrial complex?
This doc looks out how that all worked out for us.

WILL IT SUCK?
Early buzz is quite good, claiming this is even better than the documentarian’s
previous effort, "The Trials of Henry Kissinger."

HOW WELL WILL IT DO?
Higher profile indies the following week, and it’s unclear whether or not audiences
are ready for a head-on discussion of war, though "Syriana" returns
indicate they’re at least ready to hear about oil. $2mil.

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January 27
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ANNAPOLIS

WHAT’S THE PITCH?
"An Officer and a Gentleman." Really, there’s no twist. That’s basically
what it is.

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Evidently there is a Goth Eucharist at a church in Cambridge. We didn’t even know there was such thing as a Cambridge Goth, much less a church. [From Ananova (Thanks JR)]

The candlelit Goth Eucharist services feature a specially written liturgy and music from bands like Depeche Mode, Joy Division and the Sisters of Mercy.
Rev Ramshaw said: “As Goths there is a broad sense of an outlook of life that focuses on the bad things.
“The point of the service is that we all get desperate at times. We all get knocks and sometimes life seems hopeless.

Those are the words of Walter Cronkite, not Cindy Sheehan. Of course, now we want to ask Bill O’Reilly, is Cronkite being “run by far-left elements” who are using him. And is he “dumb enough to allow it to happen.” After all, those were the accusations he tossed at Sheehan.
What mud can Bill sling at Cronkite, he’s probably wondering. How about trashing Cronkite’s credibility? Probably not a good idea Bill, since you started out on “Inside Edition.” How about saying his statement will dangerously undercut troop morale? Eh — not so great either since you’re already using that line of reasoning on Murtha. You could call him crazy. Nah — you’re already using that one on Gore, Clinton, Kennedy, Dean, and Moore.
How’s this one, Bill, just says he’s old. Yeah, that’ll work.