M.I.A. performs “Bucky Done Gun” on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (exclamation theirs). Download the performance and let’s see who can spot the most audience members faking enthusiasm (without hitting pause):
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!”: M.I.A. (Quicktime, 12 MB, 5 mins.)
Requires a BitTorrent downloader — PC, Mac
I just got used to calling it K3G, I am not calling it CSCD.
The life of a Californian is stressful to say the least! Not only do I have to worry about random freeway shootings, but now I have to worry about some megalomaniacal dictator dropping the bomb on my ass simply because I am within range.
Asked by Senator Hillary Clinton whether North Korea had the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear warhead, [Vice Admiral Lowell] Jacoby responded:
“The assessment is that they have the capability to do that, yes, ma’am.”
He said North Korea also had the ability to deploy a two-stage intercontinental missile that could successfully hit US territory. [Yahoo News]
To stress me out even further, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said this morning that we are overstretched in case we have to fight another war. The LA times reports:
The strains imposed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made it far more difficult for the U.S. military to beat back new acts of aggression, launch a pre-emptive strike or prevent conflict in another part of the world, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff concluded in a classified analysis presented to Congress today.
Feeling rather afraid and hopeless, I made my way over to the website of the ONE institution that I can always rely on to make me feel safer. I wanted to know what I should do in case of a nuclear attack. This is what my government advises me:
Alert Mutineers, set your Tivo’s – M.I.A. will be performing on tonight’s Jimmy Kimmel show @ Midnight PT. 
Didn’t know that Kimmel had his own show? Neither did I. But I can’t be the only one who finds Kimmel’s pasty, overweight, dude-next-door schtick an odd place for the national broadcast debut of MIA’s edgy, ethnic, conflict-inspired tunes. Pray she doesn’t inspire Jimmy to dance.
[previous SM coverage – too, numerous, to mention]
UPDATE – Apul’s got the torrent / video clip. Continue reading
A reader of Defamer, an L.A. gossip blog, sends them a Jay Chandrasekhar-sighting:
Saw Broken Lizard’s Jay Chandrasekhar & Paul Soter (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD) dining at Sushi Katsu Ya with three lovely ladies (two of which seemed to be sig others of Jay and Paul). Relatively uneventful sighting until the bill arrived and I saw them start to divy it up. Well, Fox Searchlight must not pay very well because when the waiter came to collect they asked to split the ~$200 bill between three cards (one belonging to Jay, one to Paul and the third to the third woman). Now maybe it’s just me but you would think that A.) they would be doing well enough to treat the group to a sushi dinner and B.) that since they were talking business it was easily expensed….right? Regardless, seems like their next project will be a sequel, “Broke Lizard’s Super Cheapers”. I guess no one eats for free in this town. Last note, both the guys looked a bit chubby, I guess they let themselves go after getting buffed out for CLUB DREAD. [Defamer]
Traditionally, the Pakistani economy has been based in agriculture, so I was surprised to learn that Pakistan has made a leap into the new economy. Pakistan is now one of the top 10 sources of pirated recordings and movies. The quality of the material and the packaging is apparently as good as the original source, and (according to the International Federation for Phonographic Industries) “illegal replication facilities in Pakistan were doubling their copying capacity every 18 months“
Here’s how it all breaks down:
This is a serious problem for the recording industry:
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has published a report claiming that 35% of all CDs sold around the world are illegal copies – that’s 1.1 billion pirate disks. …Clearly the biggest threat to the record industry today is not P2P networks but the more traditional CD copying seen in the the IFPI’s ten priority countries where anti-piracy offensives are most needed
Vivek Oberoi tells a television show that he plans to wed Aishwarya Rai next year:
“I will marry Aishwarya Rai,” Bollywood star Vivek Oberoi said today confessing his love for the former Miss World. “She has been very lucky for me. A right girl brings stability in one’s life,” Oberoi told “Seedhi Baat” programme on Aaj Tak. [Chennai Online]
Then something, or someone (smart Rs. on the latter), compels Oberoi to backtrack:
As news broke out of Vivek Oberoi’s 2006 marriage plans with his green-eyed girlfriend, the actor clarified that his remarks had been taken out of context…“My intentions are honourable, but there are no such impending plans,” Oberoi clarified through an SMS sent to Sunday Mid Day about his throwaway remark. [Mid-Day]
It’s not a magic show for May sweeps:
A study of Asian Americans in prime-time television, released Monday, shows that Asians, who make up 5 percent of the U.S. population, play 2.7 percent of regular characters. It also shows virtually no Asian actors are on situation comedies, and the characters they play in dramas tend to have less depth than most regulars, with minimal on-screen time and few romantic roles. [AP/Yahoo!]
One of the few bright spots:
…the study’s authors particularly lauded ABC’s “Lost,” which has a South Asian character and a Korean married couple who speak Korean on-screen — with English subtitles, something almost never seen on prime-time shows. [AP/Yahoo!]
The long-awaited debut of “Spider-Man India”:
Gotham Entertainment Group (GEG), based in Bangalore and New York, has launched four issues of the comic in the United States and will introduce the first of the four-part series in India next month, in a deal with Marvel Enterprises Inc. [Reuters/Yahoo!]
The first issue is available directly from the publisher. Possible drinking game: Take a shot every time you catch a peek up Pavitr Prabhakar’s dhoti.
You’re walking in the park and spot a pair of dogs shamelessly getting down. You probably figured, “those mutts are living in sin.” Thankfully, a guy with too much money puts an end to this most egregious of canine transgressions:
Shamsher and Diana married in a huge tent bedecked with jasmine flowers in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Jaipur. Shamsher, owned by wealthy businessman, was escorted to the venue by musicians, dancing eunuchs, 350 human guests and dozens of the couple’s canine friends…The only interruption in the ceremony came when the groom went on a barking spree but he stopped after a nip from his bride. The bride, dressed in traditional red, was reluctant to complete the customary seven rounds of the holy fire and had to be lured with doggy treats for the last two rounds. [Ananova]