Supergrass' Danny Goffey talks about the use of Alright in an American ad. "We have a history of not really doing that (licensing songs). It is a bit sad to make loads of money and just have your music plastered around products that have nothing to do with your life." However, he completely forgets to mention that Seen the Light was used in ads for Orange months before Life on Other Planets came out.

Mr. Chandler goes to Washington. Matthew Perry will join the cast of The West Wing in an attempt to get the people who left with Rob Lowe to come back. I have a bit of a hard time seeing him fit into that cast mainly because he does a lot of physical comedy. But hopefully they'll be able to write him a character, which will allow him to be really funny but also serious on the show.

24 hottie gets bitten. Not by Kiefer as you might expect, but by an actual mountain lion. Wasn't there a story about Jodie Foster or some other child star, who also got attacked on a set by a lion? Someone told a story like that on Letterman once.

Where are the protest songs? This article talks about how few artists have spoken out against the war. And that the ones who have spoken out are old-timers like Neil Young and Chrissie Hynde and not the hot, young stars. Obviously, we can't expect Christina, Britney, and the rest of them to write protest songs, because they don't know anything about anything and they can't write songs anyway. But there's got to somebody out there who can do it (other than the Beasties).

Popmatters reviews the 1972 movie Ciao! Manhattan, which is a documentary about Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick. I was made available on DVD last year, but I haven't seen it yet. However, if you're interested in the Warhol scene it sounds like it's worth checking out.

One of my peeps (I do too have peeps) sent me the Fischerspooner CD today. I'm not sure it's "the best thing to happen to music since electricity" as the NME put it, but there are some hot tracks on it. There's also a DVD and some other stuff on it I haven't checked out yet. Nothing like getting value for money.