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Week of December 12 - 16

Beckinsale's Private Dancing
This has nothing to do with music or anime. But, it caught my attention because the quotes from the Playboy interview just kept begging me to read them. And plus, sex does sell.

NY Film Critics Circle Awards
The New York Film Critics Circle has awarded Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle Best Animated Feature. That should be a good indicator on the Oscar radar.

...And While We're on Miyazaki...

Nausicaa.net announced this week that their next effort will be Gedo Senki (Gedo War History) and will be directed by Goro Miyazaki, Hayao's son. This would be his directorial debut. Gedo Senki is adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea from the Earthsea book series. But don't think Goro's father was pleased with this project. Apparently, Hayao has expressed displeasure over the fact that his son is directing.
Here's an excerpt from Goro's blog:

2005 December 13th Introductory message - "My father was against this"

This may sound abrupt , but my father (Hayao Miyazaki) was against me directing Gedo Senki. However, first I would like to make something clear. To be honest I never desired to open a diary on the Internet and come out in front of everybody. If I had something that I wanted to tell with my own voice, it would be, "I want you to watch the work I have completed", that's all. My desire as a director is to "have people watch Gedo Senki with direct feelings and no idle thoughts", that's all.

Click here to read more about the saga of father versus son.

Cat Power The Greatest
I'm pretty damn excited about Chan's newest effort The Greatest. I didn't realize it until last night that almost 10 years ago, Chan made her debut at SxSW at Liberty Lunch. I can never forget that night. She hardly got through her set. She tried to get through one song and couldn't. She freaked out and ran off the stage. All the while, everyone in the club was asking her to come back. She tried, but then couldn't manage to step back on stage - the fright was too much at that time. Today, she's better but you can still get a glimpse of that fright every now and then.

SxSW Music Short List
This came straight outta blogmate's Matt Dentler's blog. Here are some of the confirmed acts: The Adored, Annie, Arctic Monkeys, Belle and Sebastian, Calexico, Neko Case, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dashboard Confessional, Death In Vegas, Destroyer, Die! Die! Die!, Dirty Pretty Things, Jorge Drexler, Dr. Spock, The Duke Spirit, The Earlies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Editors, The Eighteenth Day Of May, Elbow, Empire Dogs, Flogging Molly, The Go! Team, Headphones, The Hellacopters, The Like, The Magic Numbers, Magnolia Electric Company, Beth Orton, Peaches, The Plimsouls, Robert Pollard, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Saves the Day, The Secret Machines, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, Tarantula A.D., Susan Tedeschi, Towers of London, KT Tunstall, Two Gallants, Tom Verlaine.
Matt got the list off of Pitchfork's site. Hot list, huh?

...Speaking of Which...

Britt Daniel of Spoon will be on an episode of Veronica Mars scheduled to air February 1. And apparently, Stephen King totally loves Spoon. Go here for the lowdown.

Duncan Sheik's White Limousine
I know there are Duncan Sheik fans out there. And I know that you're pretty excited about that two-disc release of White Limousine. Here's the lowdown from livedaily.com:

"White Limousine," Sheik's fifth album of original material, is slated for release on Jan. 24. In a somewhat novel move, the album will be released with two discs; one, labeled "Mine," will include the basic album tracks as Sheik intended them, while the second disc, a DVD labeled "Yours," will include mixable versions of the album's songs, and an installable version of Live software to enable purchasers to make their own remixes of Sheik's songs.

And he hits the road starting Dec 31, 2005 (ringing the New Year with the Sheik!).

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