Just Let Tom Scharpling Write a 33 1/3 Book Already

Not real ... yet.

"I'm sick of being passed over in life," WFMU's "The Best Show" host Tom Scharpling complained on last week's show. "Is this about 33 1/3?" his caller asked. Scharpling has been waging a campaign for weeks on his show, trying to get Continuum Press to allow him to write a book for their 33 1/3 series of music criticism, in which each book addresses a seminal album in rock-and-roll history. According to Scharpling, 33 1/3 has rejected his proposals for books on albums as diverse as Styx's Cornerstone, Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saints, and Kris Kross's Totally Krossed Out. "You should see the people writing these 33 1/3 books," he griped the other week. "It makes me ill." (He claims that Andy Milonakis is writing a book for 33 1/3 about an album by MTV sock-puppet comedian Liam Lynch.) 33 1/3 series editor David Barker is on vacation, but when he gets back, we're going to demand that he let Scharpling write a book about whatever album he wants. If they'll let idiots like us write for the series, why not a mad genius like Tom Scharpling?

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Nobody makes films that even remotely resemble those of Guy Maddin. Over the past 20 years, the Canadian director has created a pictorial language of stuttery, distressed, halated imagery — the vintage atmosphere of silent movies — that summons waves of memory and obscure longing. In the new "My Winnipeg," his tenth feature, he brings this technique to bear on his snowy hometown, a provincial metropolis about which he has wildly mixed feelings, and which he can't seem to escape, at least in his head. As always, his head is an exotic place to visit.

In voiceover, Maddin tells us that he has returned to "snowy, sleepwalking Winnipeg" in order to exorcise its hold on him. "We sleep as we walk, walk as we dream," he says, reaching back into his childhood and his imagination to show us a profusion of local wonders: children tobogganing down a snow-blanketed garbage mound ("the only hill in board-flat Winnipeg"); the Ballet Club, site of séances back in the 1920s, where the founder danced out messages from beyond; a bridge originally built for Egypt, but which "wouldn't fit the river there"; a surreal field of dead horses, their heads rearing up through the snow as local folk stroll among them.

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Throughout the film, Maddin cuts away to a train compartment where traveling men sway woozily to the lurching rhythms of their conveyance. It's a dark, mesmerizing image. But are the men on their way to Winnipeg, or are they making their escape? Is Maddin among them? Given his final silence on the subject, he may never be able to say.

Don't miss Kurt Loder's reviews of "WALL-E" and "Wanted," also new in theaters this week.

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Weiland is out of Velvet Revolver

Velvet Revolver have parted company with singer Scott Weiland.
In a statement, guitarist Slash said: "This band is all about its fans and its music and Scott Weiland isn't 100% committed to either."
He continued: "Among other things, his increasingly erratic onstage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on."
Billboard reports that relations between the parties had become strained in recent weeks.
Velvet Revolver played two nights at Dublin's Ambassador Theatre last month.
Stone Temple Pilots, the band with which Weiland found fame, are due to announce a reunion tour in the US next week.

Paramore announce mammoth North American tour

Paramore have unveiled the details of a mammoth US tour.

'The Final RIOT!' tour is set to begin on July 28 in Reno, before finishing in Wallingford, Connecticut on August 30.

Prior to the tour, the band will play some rescheduled UK dates, which were originally cancelled due to personal problems within the band.

Bands set to support Paramore on their US jaunt include Jack's Mannequin, and Paper Route.

Paramore will play:

Dublin RDS Simmions Court - rescheduled (June 2)
Portsmouth Guildhall - rescheduled (4)
Nottingham Rock City - rescheduled (5)
Reno Grand Sierra Theatre (July 28)
Costa Mesa Pacific Amphitheatre (30)
San Diego Concerts On The Green (August 1)
Mesa Amphitheatre (2)
Little Rock Riverfest Amphitheatre (5)
New Orleans Sugarmill (6)
Memphis Mud Island Amphitheatre (7)
Chicago Congress Theatre (12)
Sterling Hts Freedom Hill (13)
Philadelphia Festival Pier @ Penn's Landing (15)
Asbury Park Convention Hall (16)
Providence Piers (17)
Montreal Metropolis (22)
Toronto Kool Haus (23)
Cleveland Time Warner Cable Ampitheatre (24)
Portsmouth NTelos Wireless Pavilion (29)
Wallingford Chevrolet Theatre (30)

Tickets for the US shows go onsale on May 30, with fan club members able to purchase them two days before.

To check the availability of Paramore UK tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.




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Trespasser scare at Brad Pitt's house

According to police reports a 25-year-old man was arrested yesterday at the Los Angeles home of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their four children.
Officer Karen Smith said a housekeeper called police around midday after she saw a silver car blocking the actor's driveway.
The housekeeper told officers that the man, who described himself as a freelance reporter, got out of the car and asked: "Which one is Brad Pitt's house?"
The man, identified as Eric Ray Mitchell, was arrested for investigation of trespassing.
Smith said Mitchell was taken into custody on a "private person's arrest" and it would be up to the housekeeper to decide whether to press charges.
Smith said neither Pitt nor Jolie, who is rumoured to be pregnant with the couple's second biological child, were at home at the time.