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A rare interview with Bjork and Matthew Barney about their relationship, their art, and their first ever collaboration, the new film Drawing Restraint 9. While the Cremaster films were fascinating, they left me feeling rather unresolved. I've heard great things about this new one, and look forward to seeing it someday.

Behind the scenes on Tina Fey's new sitcom pilot, which people fear may be too similar to Aaron Sorkin's new drama "Studio 60". I'm committed to watching Studio 60 already, but Kevin Reilly, president of NBC, makes a good point: "Why is it any different than when there have been three or four cop shows on any schedule, or 'Scrubs' and 'ER,' which are tonally very different?"

According to Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik, both baking soda and baking powder are kosher, and can be consumed on Passover. That noise you hear outside is the sound of hundreds of New York Orthodox Jews scrambling for a recipe for devil's food cake that meets these new guidelines.

What a surprise! More critics love "Guitar Hero" for the PlayStation2, which I've enjoyed and is deceptively realistic (yes, you actually have to "strum" each note, and you even get to rock the whammy bar on long solos!).

When Malcolm In The Middle ends this year, Frankie Muniz will be taking a few years off to become a professional racecar driver. My respect for racecar driving? Pretty much the same. My respect for Frankie Muniz? Well...down, but not that much because he's always struck me as not that great a guy anyway.

The United Kingdom has a new "integrated" music chart that combines both record sales and downloads. Big shocker, the Brits love Morrissey, Massive Attack, and Gnarls Barkley. What, no Arctic Monkeys?

The biggest shocker of the week (well, two weeks) had nothing to do with political scandal or anything of the sort. Rather, everyone's favorite label to wear the logo of on your t-shirt, messenger bag, locker door, or iPod, Sup Pop Records (home of the Postal Service, Iron & Wine, the Shins, Wolf Parade, David Cross, the Thermals, Sleater-Kinney, Low, and Rogue Wave) have signed blogosphere faves and Brazilian party-hoppers Cansei De Ser Sexy. More exciting news, CSS will be touring with wildly popular disc jockey Diplo this summer, playing Avalon and the Warsaw in NYC on July 19th and 20th, respectively. Unfortunately, having an American distribution deal will probably mean that their album and EP, which magically appeared on iTunes back in September, will be removed post-haste and eventually replaced by the American release in July, just like what happened with the Go! Team.
EDIT: yup, they were deleted from the iTunes Music Store. damn it all.