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What’s up with Albert Hammond, Jr?

• Previewing new tracks from 2nd solo album ¿Cómo Te Llama? (out July 8 ) to friends & family in NYC
• Dating Brit model-of-the-moment Agyness Deyn
• Giving mono-syllabic answers 3 months late to interviews with DC’s BrightestYoungThings.com
• Smoking

Big Screen Little Screen, a Seattle-based film and television blog, has graciously asked YESORNODC to guest blog while away on vacation in Japan.

KYLETM explores the upcoming Criterion release of Jacques Tati’s 1971 film Trafic.

rachels previews the traveling film festival Muppets™, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy.

Thanks, BSLS!

• Robots’ reboot features the Apple computer start-up sound (and WALL-E uses a relic of an ipod)
• Auto Pilot robot is a homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Close Encounters theme music plays when WALL-E meets Eve
• WALL-E passes the Sputnik satellite in Earth’s orbit
• Fred Willard, frequent Tim and Eric Awesome Show (Adult Swim) guest star, plays BnL CEO

Furthermore, Eve is definitely what robots will look like when Apple finally takes over the world.

Sen. McCain released a broader energy policy yesterday, followed by Sen. Obama’s retort. As gas prices rise, the energy crisis is (finally) brought to the forefront of national attention. Who knew it would only take a few bucks more spent at the pump to incite America’s quest to go green? Will the ‘08 election offer anything more than “the greenest convention in the history of the planet.” Let’s take a look… (more…)

Are you tired of listening to Sigur Rós croon in Icelandic and/or invented languages? Well, you’re in luck. New album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (out today), features their first-ever English language song, “All Alright.” Listen to the album online here.

Candace Breitz, whose two-part video installation piece “Mother + Father” is currently on display as part of “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image” exhibit at the Hirshhorn, will speak in the museums’ Ring Auditorium this Thursday at 7 p.m.

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“As part of the deal, 50 Cent would also have to make an appearance at any Taco Bell location around the country he chooses and rap his order in the drive thru with his new name.”

(AllHipHop)

Daria Werbowy, Kate Moss, Lara Stone in this month’s W. Click for more (NSFW) (more…)

Senator Warner?

Former Governor Mark Warner will not be Obama’s VP, but he will be running for the US Senate in Virginia. Although Warner has graciously removed himself from the pool potential Obama running-mates, current Governor Tim Kaine and Senator Jim Webb are still in the mix. VA dems can be proud that their unique brand of politics is getting noticed by the whole country, and that the state may finally be considered a swing state in the upcoming general election.

Kaine and Webb are politically diverse from Obama and his core supporters (Kaine is pro-life, Webb served as Reagan’s Navy secretary), but this may be just the kind of “gap-filling” he needs to seal the deal.