Welcome to the working week… December begins and holiday spending is up!
Monday-Vampire Weekend @ 930 Club (sold out)
Tuesday-Stella @ Sixth and I Synagogue
Wednesday-Yeasayer & Chairlift @ Sixth and I Synagogue
Thursday-The Office?
Friday- Lupe Fiasco @ UMD
-Home Visit: Soup With Prince TNY
-Salon offers it’s 2008 gift guide! Each day a different person will be covered, ranging from the foodie to the gadget-guru. Check it out Here
-How Axl Rose Spent All That Time.. NYT
Mr. Rose, 46, the only remaining original member of Guns N’ Roses, needed 17 years, more than $13 million (as of 2005) and a battalion of musicians, producers and advisers to deliver “Chinese Democracy,” the first album of new Guns N’ Roses songs since 1991.
-Chuck Klosterman reviews the new Guns N’ Roses album for A.V Club
-Sufjan Stevens: Songs for Christmas at AD
-When Right is Left! Rachel Maddow comes out on top. NW
It’s not despite her differences from other talking heads, but because of them. A funny, cerebral and likable young woman who reads graphic novels and hungers for political change is more representative of the times than the older, angrier male pundits who’ve dominated the debate for so long. Maddow is not angry—her fans find her adorable, often confessing to crushes on her—but she is anxious, driven and determined. She did not stumble into a boys’ club. She elbowed her way in, smiling.
The 2008 Rolling Stone Hot List:
Because instant gratification and the celebration of mediocrity are such important values to today’s Rolling Stone Readers.
The 2008 Hot List
Hot Actor | Robert Pattinson
Hot Band Everyone Wants to Be In | MGMT
Hot Gossip Girl | Leighton Meester
Hot Beatle Progeny | Dhani Harrison
Hot Bombshell | Odette Yustman
Hot Rock Gods in Training | The Answer
Hot Production Duo | S*A*M and Sluggo
Hot Scary Sport | Scary Sport
Hot New Winona Ryders | Olivia Thirlby, Emma Stone, Hannah Bailey, Ellen Page, Kat Dennings
Hot Cast | Sean Penn and the Actors of Milk
Hot Rock Scene | Laurel Canyon
Hot Movie Drama | Where The Wild Things Are
Hot Biopic | Notorious
Hot Male Mood | Beta Macho
Hot Bedroom Trend | Green Sex Toys
Hot Comeback | Mickey Rourke
Hot International Crisis | U.S. Stars Losing Gossip Battle to Shameless Brit Girls
Hot Job | Denim Butler
Hot Multipurpose Drug | Ambien
Hot Scene-Stealer | Danny McBride of HBO’s Eastbound and Down
Hot Sci-Fi Beyoncé | Janelle Monáe
Hot “Safe” Drug | 2C-B
Hot Sort-Of Sequel | Russell Brand’s Aldous Snow
Hot Rocker Job | Bimbos Cantina
Hot Backlash | Michael Cera, Funny or Die, Auto-Tune
Hot Cultural Barometer | Drew Barrymore’s Lusty Heart
Hot Porn Star | Sasha Grey
Hot Creature | Werewolf
Hot Geek Angst | Watchmen Worry
Hot Folkie | Bon Iver
Hot Box | Death by Audio
Hot Revival | Drum Circles
Hot Star Magnet | Sam Spiegel
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