I haven't done anything this week, so there's really no good reason I've been AWOL on the blogging front. The only interesting thing that happen was that I hooked up with some guys Saturday to draft players for our Madden NFL tournament. The deal is each guy has a team and then you play the games your team is supposed to play that season. So most of the games are against the machine, but on occasion we'll play against each other. And if people make it to the playoffs it'll be every man for himself on the way to the Superbowl. I'm playing my first game today (each player has to play a game every week), so it'll be interesting to see how well I do considering I've never played the 2003 version before.

According to Hello Magazine Duran Duran has signed a £30 million deal with Arista records. However, the buzz is that this isn't true and so far it hasn't been confirmed on the official site. Supposedly, the record is just about ready and they want to tour this summer, so hopefully this'll get sorted out quickly.

And speaking of summer tours The Cardigans, The Sounds, and The Hellacopters have been confirmed for Roskilde, while Doves, Tori Amos, The Raveonettes, Wire, Calexico, Beth Gibbons, and Sigur Ros are still on the rumour tip.

I mentioned the 2 Many DJs record recently, so I thought I'd pass along this excellent interview with the Soulwax guys. It's mostly about DJing and how the project came about, but thankfully they also mention being in the studio with Flood recording material for a new album [via Modern Age].

The only concert (for now) I'm going to this month is Stephen Malkmus on Tuesday. I'm considering checking Devics out later this month, but I'll have to listen to some of their stuff first. So since it's a slow month for music here I'm considering cruising to Copenhagen again to see Turin Brakes and then Kathleen Edwards the next day. I'm pretty broke, so it might not happen, but right now I'm thinking about it.

Another thing that might put a strain on the budget is the annual Nightfilm Festival. Last year I saw a truckload of cool movies, but this year I'll probably only go see a couple. I haven't really looked at the program yet, but I'm considering Ken Park, Lost in La Mancha, Love Liza, The Slaughter Rule, Sunshine State, Out of Control, and Tadpole.

These days you can't go out anywhere without seeing a poster of Razz. He's this 13-year-old kid, who won a music contest with a rap track called Kickflipper and now he's back with a record called Kast dine hænder op (which is a very direct translation of Throw your hands up). Unfortunately, I couldn't find the poster anywhere online, but on it you see his name written in graffiti (like on the website) and him and his homies all tricked out. He's got the rows and the blang and if I'm not mistaked he's flipping some kind of gang sign as well. He's like a midget version of that guy from 2GE+HER. And in case you were wondering the music ain't so hot, either.

Mew's Frengers gets four stars at DiS.

The new Dandy Warhols video is available on their website (make sure you have QT6). It's for the song Used to be Friends and the video is gorgeous, but the song is a real departure for them, so I'll wait a bit to say what I think of it (it is catchy, though). And if you haven't downloaded the song Retarded yet, you definitely should. It's as good as any song off 13 Tales.

I received a phone call from a guy, who was doing research for a segment for Danish national radio on people blogging from Iraq the other day. But unfortunately I was so busy turning down my stereo, when I answered the phone, I never caught his name. But he had found out that I'm writing about blogging in my thesis, so he wanted some input about what these blogs could mean for the way we get information about the war. We talked about Salem Pax and the CNN article about soldiers blogging from the trenches. But I never found out when the segment would air, so if you hear a bit about blogs on P3 please let me know.