You're Not Privy To All The New Shit, So Uh, You Know, But That's What You Pay Me For - 3/3

Music

Lifehouse/ Smoke & Mirrors - Look, I like Lifehouse as much as the average person. They're perfectly inoffensive rock and some of their songs are rather catchy, but when their new record is the most notable release of the week... it's a bad week. Luckily, next week makes up for it in spades as Frightened Rabbit, Gorillaz, Broken Bells (James Mercer from The Shins and Danger Mouse's collaboration), Pavement (greatest hits collection), and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club among others glut the market in the heaviest release week of the young year. It's gonna take the rest of the month to catch up with that stack. Until then, we have... Lifehouse. Yay.


Other Releases:
Citizen Cope/ The Rainwater LP 
The Ruby Suns/ Fight Softly 
Jaguar Love/ Hologram Jams 
Raheem DeVaughn/ The Love & War MasterPeace 
Peter Gabriel/ Scratch My Back
Jamie Cullum/ The Pursuit 


DVD

Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze brings the beloved children's classic to life. Jonze is one of film's most imaginative directors and on paper is the perfect choice for this project. Should be interesting to see how he's able to stretch a book that can be read in two minutes into a complete feature. (Note: Not available on Netflix/Redbox until 3/29)

2012 - Disaster porn, plain and simple. Roland Emmerich knows how to blow stuff up real nice like, though.

Gentlemen Broncos - Jared Hess's wonderfully weird film about a washed up sci-fi writer played by Jemaine Clement (Flight Of The Conchords) who steals a manuscript from one of his teenaged fans is either going to be a riot or an incomprehensible mess. Let's hope for the sake of Clement's post-FOTC career that it's the former and not the latter.