This Is What An Owl Looks Like?

Watching this adorable video of an owl grooming his dog buddy is making me feel as though either the owl is animatronic or I have never seen an owl walking before. Now I just want one – especially one that I can put on Bravo’s Shear Genius.

Am I dreaming or does it seem like the owl is basically saying, “Oh what can we do with this hair? There is so much going on here I don’t even know where to start.”

New Sharon Van Etten “Serpents”

There are very few women I really want – or I should say hope are gay (of course excluding the ones who are already out). Sharon Van Etten is one of those ladies that I look at and say, “Pretty please – can we have this one?” And it’s not that I want to get tied up to the bedpost with her guitar strap or anything, it’s just that she’s so talented and…I’m going to shoot myself in the foot here…she just looks like she would make a great lesbian. Like, I bet she owns a giant mug devoted to drinking tea out of and a fern she was keeping an eye on for a friend but then it ended up staying at her place because she took great care of it.

Actually, now that I think about it – a friend of mine IMed me the other day with just this, “Hi! watch this. How can she not be gay!?” And of course my response was, “I LOVE HER”. But yeah, not gay – just loved by the lesbians.

Here is her new single, “Serpents” from her upcoming release, Tramps. She’ll be playing two shows at Lincoln Hall Feb. 16th & 17th – get your tickets now.

“Call Your Girlfriend” Cover with Unique Percussion

English: Robyn

Image via Wikipedia

Call your girlfriend and then call up the makers of Gladware because they are missing out on an awesome advertising campaign opportunity. The girls of Erato combine three-part harmonies and the percussion from hitting plastic things (I can’t really tell what they are but it looks like my pasta from last night might be in it) on a table. Love it!

Karen O, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross “Immigrant Song”

Does anyone else feel like it has taken forever for the American version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to finally come out? The build-up is pretty much making me expect the worst – particularly because I’ve already seen the incredible (but graphic & disturbing) version from Denmark and if it’s anything similar, I fear that American audiences will find it too disturbing. Of course, if it’s too different, it will lose vital parts of the story. Also making me worry? A badass soundtrack. It seems as though ad execs and the Hollywood elite have caught on to the fact that a great soundtrack will bring audiences in to see terrible movies.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have already proven their ability to take their craft from sold-out concert arenas to small dark film editing rooms and have an Oscar to prove it. Add Karen O to the mix and you have a team that is about as close to perfection as one can get.

With any luck, I’ll be able to sit through the film for a longer amount of time than I was able to sit through the book before happily adding it to my donation pile.