links for 2009-03-03

Nice little interview with David O'Reilly on the eve of winning the Golden Bear Award.

Look, I know this is actually apparently supposed to follow the book more than/more closely than LTROI, but I still find it basically completely irrelevant, sry to all involved: "After his successful bout with the giant creature in Cloverfield, director Matt Reeves is ready to take on young vampires in Let Me In, his remake of Tomas Alfredson's vampire film Let the Right One In… filming is scheduled to begin this May… slated it for release on January 15, 2010."

"It's possible we misheard, Gondry's Gallic accent is thiiiiiick, but we're fairly certain we heard the director say Steve Buscemi would be one of the actors involved. He didn’t offer any further details so we'll leave the speculating to others on what his role might be (ok, we can't resist? taking Black's spot?), but either way, it was nice to hear Gondry confirm that he's still working on this exciting-sounding project."

Ah, Chicago, I'll admit it, I'm missing you a little. This is what it was always like at the Hideout, wasn't it.

More decent listening: a new Height remix by Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco, as well as a BMSR remix of Laura Burhenn.

"Jel and Doseone, aka Themselves, are sharing a 15-minute or so excerpt from their upcoming free online mixtape." The Aesop and Why? stuff is just as fantastic as the new Thems.

La Blogotheque is maybe one of the best things to ever happen to music on the world wide web. Many very good Lambchop videos within.

The Wire's David Simon briefly returns to his old crime beat to cover a police-involved shooting the press couldn't/wasn't adequately covering: "I didn't trip over a herd of hungry Sun reporters… but that's the point. In an American city, a police officer with the authority to take human life can now do so in the shadows, while his higher-ups can claim that this is necessary not to avoid public accountability, but to mitigate against a nonexistent wave of threats. And the last remaining daily newspaper in town no longer has the manpower, the expertise or the institutional memory to challenge any of it."